[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Oh, this is certainly a new approach and I am very interested. This is a new one for my library. Let me get this straight:

Although this appears to be a "clean install", you are not wiping Data or Android Secure partition, or, the entire slot. What does this do? Totally clean system, yes, but you retain your installed apps, data, accounts, launcher, and desktop layout, yes? This is really important. What stops people from going clean is having to restore their individual apps and desktops. So you do not have to do the setup again and you retain your apps, data, launcher, settings, and desktop layout, yes?

NOTE: Some of us have edited our platform.xml file to allow writing to the ext-sdcard as mentioned in this Titanium Backup support ticket. The "Protect this backup" feature still fails and it is still not known if this addition helps open up the ext-sdcard for apps to write. But it does no harm and wiping system will remove this change unless restored afterwards.

This point may be moot, however. I think all updates wipe the system partition and replaces it with the new build system.

If you retain your apps, desktop, and settings, then this is not a bad idea. This Play Services / Play Games Update Module Module is interesting. I had not seen it previously although that pa-gapps page is where I always go to get my gapps. Initially, my goal was/is to simplify the cm11 installation process. Make it short, sweet, easy, and good. More files to flash means more complications for newbies. But for experienced users, this is not hard to digest at all. I have downloaded the Play Update Module and will flash it to see what it does. Thanks for this tip, Dwillian. :highfive:

On 11th October 2014, [MENTION=2895830]rgerrans[/MENTION] has reported:

I am starting to see that myself now. I am actually on 10/12 and at boot-up, I lost data connectivity and it took a little longer to get icon lock. Today I have orange bars this afternoon and using contact to maps to navigation, Maps had an FC. The entire phone seems to "chug" just a little bit more. Not a lot, but some. Often a rom installs and initial tests are well, but after a night on the charger, bugs show up the next day. On build 10/07 I had NO such issues. I am thinking about restoring my 10/07 backup because the idea is to go forward on each new build and not to take builds that have issues or are worse in any way.

CM11 Build 10/12 mostly good but has some signal issues, orange bars, but seems to be minor.

I am "still on the fence" about restoring 10/07 but probably will. I do not want to introduce issues into the rom if I can avoid it. Even small ones.

[MENTION=2895830]rgerrans[/MENTION], I am not sure about the 10/12 build at all. Getting orange bars in the day, phone seems "a bit strained", had a Maps FC, and updating Greenify at play store, screen went black and update stopped. Not happy with 10/12. If you try it, will you give us your take on it, initially AND how it keeps working the next day please? Thnx.

Dwillian, I want to try your method but do not want to wipe out my desktop and start over again. Will your exact method allow me to avoid this?

Thanks buddy! :cowboy: