[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
CM11 gone forever? Scrapped like an old beatup car?

[MENTION=3313632]ChungHung.Chen[/MENTION]

Thank you Mr. Chen. I was particularly interested in whether or not the 02/02 rom (last one I belive) fixed the built in "Reboot to Recovery" because if that feature is broken in the rom itself, I find it hard to imagine that a module could restore this feature. I see that Morr did jump in and confirm that the build in Reboot to Recovery is fixed in the 02/02 build.

I did end my build report on 02/02 prematurely because the next day, I really needed a working phone and navigation and when I saw the stuttering music, black screen lag on apps, a reboot might have fixed it and probably would have. I have seen this before. But because I had literally minutes between calls and appointments, I just dumped it in favor of a rom I know to be reliable. Since it looks like 02/02 is the very last CM11 build we will get, I will install it again and put it through it's paces.

A bad app count signals trouble. Our devices run on dalvik, which to the best of my knowledge is a virtual machine. The screen says "Updating 23 out of 67 apps..." and I know darned well I have about 212 apps, then that virtual machine will have to be built correctly. So a reboot with wipe of dalvik and cache for good measure is required. I have seen roms that required this and on day 2, required another reboot to run smoothly. That I can put up with. But if the rom needs a reboot every day or for many days, I just cannot put my faith in it. So, I will do this again and let you know how it works out.

I do like Greenify and use it a LOT. I have 212 apps which is bordering on the insane, but if they are not running, they should not consume resources, other than occupy space on the sdcard. But some apps don't play by the rules. Faceboot is notorious for never exiting, constantly using memory, and is always waking the phone. I shudder to think how not Greenifying Facebook would impact my phone's performance. I would rather uninstall the app entirely then "allow it to run wild". I constantly tell people to Greenify everything they can and back off if they Greenify apps and services that are needed to run the phone. So I will take another look at my Greenified apps to see if I got overzealous in my efforts.

[MENTION=3687628]morr22066[/MENTION] thanks for jumping in here, I really wanted to know if the stock Reboot to Recovery is fixed in the 02/02 build and now I know it is. There is a "Facebook Lite"? Now that is something I for sure want. Facebook eats up the phone so I always knock it out with Greenify. Thank you for tha tidbit of information.

Facebook Update:

Oh this Facebook Lite is "da bomb"! You cannot get it on Play Store because they do not want to release it in the US. They made this "lite version" for countries that don't have 4G or high power phones. But I just installed it and it does everything "the big app does" and does not "dog you phone". The link above gives all versions available that you can download as apk files and then install on your phone. I uninstalled Facebook first then installed the v1 version and could not log in. When I found there were newer versions, I took the latest one, Facebook Lite 1.4.0.6.14, it installed perfectly and logged me right in. This is nice! I don't think I need to Greenify this app. You guys want your phones to run nice and still have Facebook on the phone? This is for you! Download that apk and install it, now! Thanks to [MENTION=3687628]morr22066[/MENTION] for this golden nugget! :D

I don't think there is going to be an M13 SNAPSHOT. If you look at the CyanogenMod Download page, ALL of the CM11 downloads are "404 not found" errors. It is like they just wiped cm11 off the map and threw over a year of development down the toilet and scrapped the project when it was 99.2% finished. I cannot believe it man. All of us have CM11 on our phones because we where here all the while. Any newbie that comes and wants to install it is SOL, there are NO longer any downloads available for it.

That is really sad, man. Never in my life would I have ever expected CM to dump CM11 so drastically in favor of the new kid in town, Lollipop. It too well over a year to get cm11 stable, how long will it take for Android 5? What are we supposed to run in the meantime? AKOP or something else? This makes NO SENSE AT ALL and I am pretty pissed about it.

Well, it looks like 02/02 is the last, best(?) version we have so I guess I will install it now and see if I can make work to my satisfaction. I know it will take a few reboots initially to get running. Once to do a manual install, once more to get a correct app count, and once more to enable Xposed, update AdAway, and make BetterBatteryStats a system app. After a night on the charger, it will lag like hell the next day and require another reboot. (I did on previous roms find out if I needed a reboot or full cache/dalvik wipe and it turned out that the reboot was all that was necessary) Now will that pretty much fix it and make it run okay, or will I have to reboot it every day to keep it running smooth. If so, that is not a good rom but from what you guys tell me, I think it is worth my time. At lease I can get the reboot recovery issue fixed. :)

Thank you very much, gentlemen. I do appreciate the information. Hmmm, where do we go from here? No more Changelong, no more downloads at all, nothing to download, nothing to install, is this the end of the thread as well? I hope not as I think we all have plenty to talk about, at least for a little while longer. :rolleyes:

Update:

Installing 02/02 manually with the Dwillian Dump procedure and have what appears to be an accurate app count, first try. This is promising! Manual update to 02/02 with fresh gapps and a system.dalvik, & cache wipe prior to installing 02/02 w/gapps went well. App count accurate. One unusual thing, not necessarily bad, is that it took quite a few minutes for the phone and new rom to settle down. Just watching the Greenify screen showed multiple apps opening, in use by system, will hibernate in so many minutes, and this screen just kept updating in front of my eyes. It was almost like the rom was cycling through almost every app I had but for static apps such as calculator. Rom is running good, now the test begins on what happens tomorrow.

Torch quick tile working w/out priming it by toggling app first. Testing Reboot to Recovery, no modules, just system power menu. Positive, this issue is fixed! Yeah, so far, 02/02 looks like the best rom we are going to get, I will do a "fair writeup" on in in a couple of days. Thanks for the heads up, guys! :D