[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Everyone with experience replacing stock rom with CM11 please reply!

Right. fstrim is included in Android but it is not scheduled to run nor does it run automatically by itself. fstrim is a command line program much like chkdsk in DOS and Windows. If you wanted to check your C drive in Windows and do it from the command prompt or "black window", you would run the command like this:

chkdsk c: /f

Which is pretty much telling Windows through it's command line to "Check disk drive C and fix the errors".

fstrim is just like that but the parameters you must enter are much more difficult. Let me see if I can pull up my Linux fstrim help screen so you can see what I mean. Then you will be grateful for that LagFix front end to run it instead.

By the way, TRIM speeds up the internal sdcard by finding which blocks are available for writing and then the kernel marks them to keep the card running fast. I doubt it could fix a "bad rom". So try to pick any November to December CM11 Nightly rom that runs well for you and does not get severe "Lag Creep" by the next day that almost cripples it. Although I did install M12 per Michael's recommendation, by the next morning, it lagged so bad I had to dump it. Not sure that fstrim could help that situation out much. Maybe, but I doubt it. I just put back 11/07 again, same rom that always makes me happy, same rom where nothing is broken and everything works. Same rom I have run for weeks and I might have gotten a "little" Lag Creep, it was not much at all. Even Micheal said if 11/07 works best for you, use it. It is just as "complete" as all the other ones.

I am not telling you what rom to use, Dwillian, just trying to get you to keep an open mind and if any November or December Nightly seems to run better than any other one, THAT is your CM11 FINAL.

Hmmmm... Here is the fstrim help screen, see what all the switches are and all the numbers you need to know in order to use it? This is why I would let the app front end do it for me, I would never figure it out and get the fstrim to work properly and I don't have to. There is a free app that does it for me! But to get the most out of fstrim, you would want to run it often. Maybe every day. You could hassle to remember to do it all the time or get the scheduler version and put it on auto-pilot. :)

[paul@paulspcworks ~]$ fstrim --help

Usage: fstrim [options] <mount point>

Options:

-h, --help this help

-o, --offset <num> offset in bytes to discard from

-l, --length <num> length of bytes to discard from the offset

-m, --minimum <num> minimum extent length to discard

-v, --verbose print number of discarded bytes

For more information see fstrim(1).

[paul@paulspcworks ~]$

---------- Post added 27th December 2014 at 12:01 AM ---------- Previous post was 26th December 2014 at 11:45 PM ----------

Oh gosh, I am really sorry, Daniel. I have been so busy over the holidays that I might have missed it. At first, I thought that maybe LagFix was some kind of gimmick app but no, it is only a front end for the Android build in command line program, fstrim. Now I have a solid state hard drive on my PC. Before I bought that SSD, my PC took 5 full minutes to boot up. And over ten full minutes to reboot. (I have a lot of stuff.) You know, Update installed, you must reboot your computer to take effect. Reboot now?

Man I hated that stuff because it took like "forever" to reboot the PC. With the SSD installed, the PC boots or reboots in

twenty seconds.

NOT kidding. And you can bet I use TRIM on that solid state drive.

Our phones also use a solid state drive. It is called an sdcard. All solid state and it is the system's "hard drive". So for sure I want to run fstrim on it if I can. I just posted to Dwillian the fstrim help screen and you see how hard it is to know how to run? You have to know what switches to use (Letters following the command) and then fill in the required or desired numbers for block info. I don't know that stuff! So the free LagFix is just what I want. And to keep it running fast, I want to run fstrim every day. The 99¢ pay version includes a scheduler. fstrim only works on the stock partition for us and only on the stock data partition. I tested it on cm11 slot 1 and it would not work. I tested it on stock Jellybean and it did work! But who wants Jellybean anymore? We don't need that stock rom anymore but nice to back it up in Safe Strap in case you have to exchange the phone or something. We now have solid, dependable super fast Kit Kat roms to choose from and that is going to replace the Jellybean stock rom.

I have not put cm11 FINAL on my stock slot yet but will very soon. But hey, if you have any stories to tell or experience with LagFix or fstrim, do tell my friend. Do tell. I am listining bra! :D

---------- Post added at 12:09 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:01 AM ----------

Everyone with experience replacing stock rom with CM11 please reply!

Hey Guys,

Now that CM11 is final and I am *very* satisfied with the build I love, I for sure want to dump that raggedy slow Jellybean stock rom and replace it with something I will actually use like CM11 for stock.

I have not ever replaced the stock rom before and for sure do not want to mess this up! Bobcus Leper was really nice and gave me his instructions for replacing Safe Strap Stock ROM with CM11 and I appreciate it, but there are a couple of areas I am not sure on. Besides, the more help I get from more people, the better instructions I get in case something happens I did not expect or was ready for.

Can a few of you that have replaced Safe Strap stock rom successfully please give me a quick run down on the procedure? One question I got is if I wipe all the stock roms slots, then I have to install safe strap in stock again, right?

See, it is not just me wanting to do this, there are more and more members who now want to dump Jellybean and get "something good" in their stock slots. Sherri also wants to do this so we need all the help we can get.

Thank you. Thank you very much! :D