[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Yeah, it makes sense now. I want to put this in my library for future use. I love the idea and want to do it but have one issue with it. Not you, Bob. For you this works out great and probably would do the same for me, but I tend to share the same definition of "Stock" that Safe Strap has.

For me, and Safe Strap it seems, "Stock" is meant to be your daily driver, your "100% always works because it came with the phone", rom. The slots are for new roms, experimental roms, roms you want to try and switch out, and roms that are not 100% stable yet and require frequent updating. CM11 fits that last definition because it is not stable, it does require constant updates, and the nightlies are a crap shoot. At any time you can be left with a phone with a screen that will not light for incoming calls, locks up, or has other issues. So, the idea is you can always boot to stock, no matter where you are, and have your fully functional, 100% working phone back.

I love cm11, after cm10 ran it's course and I saw the next "Update" was to a completely new version, I stuck it out. I would put cm10.2 as a stock rom, but it is Jellybean so might as well keep the stock blur rom that came with the phone since I still have it and I have already "de-boated it" with Titanium Backup. I am so used to stock JB being so slow that last time I was in it, I did the same things I do with cm11. De-bloat, remove all nonsense apps and ones I do not use, kill auto updates, and Greenified the hell out of it. Now stock is actually pretty quick and quite useful again. :)

Yeah I could put a good working version of cm11 as stock and "freeze it on build" to keep it stable, but then I would need another cm11 build to update and ride all the way to the finish line. Does not make much sense to install the same rom twice. So I am keeping my tuned up JB blur rom as stock for now. When cm11 reaches stable or final, for sure it becomes Stock. You know, I have yet to hear of *any* Kit Kat rom reaching full, stable, release status. It is so new and so many things to work on that Kit Kat will probably take a very long time to reach final.

I think I know enough now about partitioning, trimming, and moving apps to SD to install another rom to play with. Last time I did it not long ago, I had 100Mb free of total internal storage and that is not going to fly, cannot install or update anything with such little internal space. Now I got 4.2 GB free on internal card. I can install a 2Gb total rom slot and use it to play with another rom. Not bad. But I took bits of advice and tips from close to 50 different members and saved it all so now I am getting good at running cm11 without having to put up with bugs or having it drag like a snail. No more "Tap and Wait" and I can still install most all the apps I had before. Just have to manage them properly so I am on a roll, learning to tame cm11 and make it do what I want, when I want it. :D

I want to write a comprehensive How-To Guide but I got help from SO many people I am still building the credits list. You, Sherri, DumbleCore, Brian Hughs, Decon, the 'Krestian guy", 2¢, Jake/Shawn, Mr-Gass, the list is SO long I am afraid to leave someone out. I took bits from everybody. DumbleCore with his "Scorched Earth" install, Sherri with her de-bloat and app 2 SD, Brain kept pestering me to go clean, on and on and on the list goes! :eek:

But I love your How-To on putting anything you want for stock. That option was initially not available until I got cm11 installed on slot 1 so now I know you can really do it and it would work grand. Still cannot trim the stock slot but it is what it is. 6 of one kind or ½ a dozen of another, no matter what goes there.

Great tip, Bob. Thanks for explaining it! :good:

EDIT:

You know what Bob? I am going to take that replacement stock rom advice and install CM10. I want a stable rom release for Stock where everything works, always, every time. Many people have forgotten CM10.1.2 because now everything is CM11, which, is Kit Kat, and, is unstable and unfinished. There are no stable, release Kit Kat roms. So if stock must be Jellybean, why not use a really good one? CM10 was *awesome*. Trebuchet was all pimped out, everything works, comes rooted, huge barrel O' features, only drawback is Jellybean. And JB roms I learned can be tamed just like CM11. Verizon blur stock is stable and already there, but I am sure that just about anyone would agree that CM10 is better. I have to do it all over again but will still have the tweaked Verizon blur stock rom backed up, so what is to stop me? Yeah, your great tip will not go to waste on me, I want a stable CM rom for stock and cm10.2M Snapshot is it! (CM10.2M snapshot is the last version of cm10 available for download.) That's it for me! Thanks buddy, I learn stuff here everyday! :D