[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
CM11 Nightly Build 01/05 Report

Currently testing CM11 Nightly Build 01/05 and this is my Build Report. I will follow the format provided by [MENTION=3313632]ChungHung.Chen[/MENTION] up to a certain point as Mr. Chen does use a very nice, informative format.

Basic Info: XT912 Spyder cm-11-20150105-NIGHTLY-spyder.zip with pa-gapps Mini-Modular already on phone from the December 12 release.

Method: OTA update from /Settings/About Phone/CyanogenMod Updates over the CM11 01/01 Nightly Build.

Test Period: 2 Days

Test Parameters: Wake up phone, use Dialer to make calls, receive calls, and do things I would normally do on a smartphone, testing for stability, performance, and issues present. Bluetooth Streaming Audio to CarConnect Receiver in car. Streaming music with apps like Pandora, Slacker Radio, TuneIn Radio, Public Radio, and Google Play Music. Use GPS for Maps and Navigation while streaming music and use phone for calls at same time. The 01/05 Nightly Build passed this test quite well with no errors and little lag. Morning after install this rom required a reboot to regain performance and there was considerable lag present and streaming music would only stutter. One vanilla reboot solved this issue. Unlike the 01/01 build, this rom did not need another reboot to restore performance.

NOTE: For the past 2 months, CM11 has been considered "

Final

" with no new features added and all apps and features are considered to be in working condition. Therefore I do not test individual services and apps on the rom anymore. My main reason for testing is to find roms that exhibit good performance with little to no lag or bugs in system. I give the phone "a workout" by doing several things at once that I would normally do on any day while driving for some amount of time. I Multitask on this phone by using Bluetooth, streaming music, use Maps, GPS, and Navigation, and of course use the phone or any individual apps such as a calculator. I look for and report the following issues and conditions:

Lag

"Tap and Wait"

Black screen for prolonged periods

Any FC issues

Self Reboots

Unusually long app launch times

Anything irregular about the device

Criteria for a New Nightly Build or Update: The new rom must be equal to or better than the rom it replaces.

Results: Good, Positive! None of the above mentioned issues present for me in this build. Performance is good. Only one reboot required so far to restore performance. This rom is certainly equal to and better than the 01/01 rom it replaced.

I do use Greenify to put everything not essential to the system to sleep with the Greenify Donation Pack app. I also use Titanium Backup to freeze any services or apps built into the rom that I do not need or use such as Exchange Mail and Services, Apollo, and the built in SMS app. Without taking these measures, I find that many apps, particularly the Social ones, tend to never go to sleep, and consider themselves the most important thing on the device. I do not put any measure of importance on such messages like Facebook will send such as "

Someone you barely know and do not care about has invited you to play Farmville".

...really??? This is "important news" that I need so badly delivered on my phone? I could not think of anything more insignificant if I tried! And this is typical of what the social media apps deliver to your device when not put to sleep. They go so far as to put "taking heads" on your screen with every message that do not go away until you acknowledge them. That is why I use Greenify to put Facebook and all the other social media apps to sleep, until I need them. With this measure of control on my device, I get a standard of performance that I can live with on an aging device like a Motorola Droid phone. :)

Attachments: Attached are two screenshots of the Greenify Donation Pack Experimental menu. To get the most out of Greenify, one must purchase and install the $2.99 Donation Pack. This upgrade to Greenify allows you to hibernate system apps and services such as Google+, Google Search, Google Play "anything", CM Updater, and anything else you can think of that is not essential to running the phone. The Donation Pack also gives you the Experimental menu of features that greatly enhance the Greenify app.

Putting system apps and services into hibernation must be done with Caution

as certain services are vital to the proper operation of the rom itself. But Greenifying apps and services does not "disable" them from working. They do wake up occasionally to perform such things as sync and message retrieval and perform as expected when tapped to use them. One nice feature in the Experimental menu (Donation Pack) is the "Wakeup Timer Coalescing" option. This allows apps to wake the phone in "batch mode" and get all the sync and message retrieval done at once, instead of constantly waking the phone to perform this operation. Running the Greenify app in "Boost Mode" yields a slightly better performance mode than just "Root" mode. I personally use ALL of the features in the Experimental menu and love it!

The two most essential "Pay Apps" you can have on your Android device are Titanium Backup $6.58 and Greenify $2.99. Both of these apps are available as "Free" versions but the Pay version of each is what you need. Titanium Backup and Greenify can be used on every Android device you have. Both of which will last a lifetime and are "Must Have" apps for any Android device, IMHO. :good:

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