[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
You are welcome and thanks for the feedback. I ran out of "Thanks" tokens so I will have to get you back tomorrow.

Yeah, the slow wake ups give me "the shakeups". I have been plagued really bad with black screens and have lost so many calls because of it. Cannot get the screen lit to answer, cannot get it lit to hang up. So, anything "black" freaks me out now. WiFi/Cell/Bluetooth? Hmm, something for me to pay attention to. I do not use WiFi a lot w/unlimited data, unless I upload or download something big, do it at home, and usually at night. Example, a full Titanium Backup to cloud drive. I will turn on WiFi for that and let it run because it takes quite a while to do that. I do have a really cool hands free Bluetooth receiver for the car stereo and use that all the time. Next time I get in car, I will "call myself" w/phone sleeping from house phone to see if it wakes up right away.

...I just did it. Got in car, Bluetooth connected, put phone into full sleep, and called it w/house phone. The Razr work right up, screen lit, took the call right away. All good on that test.

My 10/02 ran great, no issues or screen lag. 10/03 introduced a slight, noticeable, annoying, but not paralyzing screen lag. I put up with it for a couple of days, was going to revert back to 02, but gave 06 a try. No one had installed and reported on it, so I might as well give it a try. Screen lag gone. :)

You should not have to wipe cache/wipe dalvik, although that does help jump start some rom issues. But if it is continuous, then it is no fix at all and the rom is bad. I think that 2¢ had a complaint about 10/05. Said he is losing connectivity with Verizon and showed his battery/connection graph. Over a 3 hour period, his mobile network signal bar was almost 50% red. He reported it on Sunday at 11:06 PM and said the issue for the past couple of weeks. He thinks he just might have to go clean again and he is probably right, that is how I fixed my phone and it has ran very well ever since. But my habits have changed and I keep an eye on the system, removed all non-essential apps from the rom, put everything to sleep with Greenify, an turned off auto update from Play Store. Since doing this, the device is very snappy, fast, and responsive. I backup all good updates, avoid bad ones, and restore good backups when an update is not good. This is really paying off, my Razr has never ran this good except when I first got it, years ago.

So rgerrans, 10/06 is working very well for me so far. It should work for you. I will keep you updated if anything bad shows up. Thanks for the update and information. :highfive:

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[MENTION=2774395]my2cents[/MENTION], I have been giving your issue a bit of thought. The two of us have practically run on a parallel course for almost the length of this thread. You with the signal issues, orange bars, and APN. Chinkster was in your boat too but he seemed to fade away. Over the past year, I would say my experience with cm11 and phone in general was 60% of the time bad. That is not a good record at all. And the thing that really irked me bad were the same individuals that "never have an issue with their phone, ever". Either they are lying or they tear the phone to pieces and install fresh every night. :mad:

I complained a lot and I know a lot. I got the same advice over and over. Go clean. But that is a hassle and somehow, that "wasn't enough" for me to believe in. I got more Senior members who are usually quiet to give up some of their secrets. What do you install, what do you remove, how bare is your system, how do you manage apps that run all the time whether you want them or not like Facebook? I got bits and pieces, valuable rare nuggets of experience and tips from the pros and started to put it all together. Yes I have to go clean, I know that. But what I really learned was "how to use this phone". That was something new and very promising. My phone lost LTE and 4G so I got an insurance replacement. Good a time as ever to go clean and use all the valuable nuggets I have collected. And it paid off like a Jackpot! The phone is smooth, fast, responsive, and always ready to go. No lag, no black screen, no issues.

I have posted about this a few times but for you, I will put it all into a nutshell. If it worked for me, it should work for you or at the very least, improve things. You are a Senior Member like I am and may already know this stuff, but to actually put into practice what I already know now is different.

Here is what I did different, this time:

I started clean. Very clean. I backed up everything in Safe Strap and Titanium Backup and also backed up my /pds folder, Then I mounted my internal 8GB internal sd-card in Safe Strap, copied the entire thing to Windows, and formatted the internal sd-card while mounted in Windows, I let Windows format the internal card. I had just gotten a replacement phone from insurance but would have formatted the internal card anyway as described to start fresh.

Backing up the /pds folder is imperative before doing this!

I took out my 64Gb ext-sdcard and inserted a blank, freshly formatted FAT32 16Gb sdcard. I backed up my fresh rooted stock and turned off all auto-updates. Went back to Safe Strap, created a fresh slot 1 (Or delete the existing slot and then create it.) and set the Data partition to 2,000MB and left the other two partitions alone at 300MB Cache and 700MB System. I then installed a tested, proven, known good nightly cm11 rom and pa-gapps, mini-modular. Booted to System and finished the Setup Wizard. Then I immediately put a stop to Play Store restoring all of my stuff by stopping the downloads and turning off auto-updates. Phone is working quite well now, nice and snappy.

Made a backup of this fresh, spanking new install and labeled it "Base". I then went back to Play Store and selected the installs I needed and installed not all the Xposed modules I had, but the ones I really needed and that would not tax the system like Cool Tool or Android Tuner. Got Greenify up and installed the Xposed module from the donation pack of Greenify. I then Greenified everything that was not necessary to run the phone. I finally beat Facebook into submission! I took Sherri's advice and used Titanium Backup to freeze and remove stupid stuff like Apollo, Exchange Services and mail, and anything else that I do not need. Sweet. I needed a very, very light footprint system monitor of some kind and installed CPUFreq in Statusbar. This gem does only one thing and does it well. Reports the CPU frequency in the status bar and updates every second. I set my Settings/Performance governor to ONDEMAND and now I see that the phone is not busy at all and always ready. I see the green 300M in the status bar and it shows me that the phone is idle almost all the time when not touching or using it. I only installed the apps I need and want, and I made sure Greenify put them all to sleep when not in use.

It is like having a new phone, man. Fast, snappy, always ready. And I keep it that way. I install known good builds by OTA and backup the ones that test good after day 2. If I test a new build or install one that makes the phone worse, I restore the backup. I also setup Titanium Backup to do cloud backups to Dropbox and Google Drive. Must do it manual the first time to log in. The phone is fast as hell, always connects, no orange bars, no interruption of service, nothing at all to complain about.

So for me, it was a 2 part process. Going very clean and learning "how to use" the phone conservatively. Not installing everything and anything and when I do install something and notice I no longer have that green 300M or the phone is slowing down, I get right on it, Greenify is my best friend with this. Will this solve all of your problems? I don't know. Will your phone work a LOT better by doing this, you bet. You are a Senior Member, 2¢ so I may be preaching to the choir this time. But this is the first time in well over a year that I can now say, I really like my phone and can depend on it.

I hope this helps, man. Ask any questions you have and I/we will answer it. I really want to see your phone improve and "just going clean" was NOT enough. Good luck and let us know how it goes. :fingers-crossed: