[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
So Far, So Good

I can't man. Factory Reset puts my Mobil Data at "Global". I have "No Connection" with this mode of network type. So I have the choice, connect wireless and allow repopulation at the snail snot pace that would take days, meaning I would be stuck in the house forever with this phone, or blow it off, change to CDMA+LTE/EVDO, and then I have rocket speed data, 15-30 Mbps.

But most google apps I use came in Gapps and when I did enter my google email account, the stuff worked. I downloaded what I needed from the market. I had to use Titanium Backup to restore my System ID. My paid for apps will not acknowledge the device and insist I "Buy" rather than say "Purchased". Once ID changed, my paid for apps were available. I paid money for such things as UK Victoria svox because I want and use it all the time as well as a few other paid apps. I also installed the xposed framwork apk and that gave me a lot of customization. I got a good feeling about this, gravity box would never run before, now it works like a champ. It has been running since last night, stayed on charge all night, and everything works, 100% (knock on wood). No reboot or cache flushing necessary. I only installed cm-11-20140127-NIGHTLY-spyder.zip and pa_gapps-modular-mini-4.4.2-20140117-signed.zip. I flashed nothing else.

All of my previous updates were based upon early backups because I hate having to setup all accounts, desktops, and every little thing all over again. But my early installs all used patches for various things like camera, wifi, and whatever patches were necessary, plus jbx kernel. This time there was NONE of that, I installed by hand, flashed only the two zips, and so far, have no problems. Even though updates beyond to those backups contained no such patched, they and the jbx kernel were there and cannot be removed. Smooth as silk. I don't think you can "unflash" something like a WiFi patch or jbx kernel, so I never installed on this new setup. If this is not froze up or showing problems by tomorrow, I will make a backup. Hmmm, since previous two backups are really useless, worked at the time, but who needs two of them, I should make a backup anyway.

Funny, the stock rom from Matt's Utility does use webtop. This cm11 does not appear to use webtop. So far, I think this is a good build. You may be right somehow, but really, I did this a LOT differently than all previous attempts so I should be good to go. Thanks for the tips. :good:

UPDATE:

I wanted to share some screenshots. Yep, camera saves to ext-SDcard. Real cam is High Definition. I gave pep talks to others but found it hard to take my own medicine. Start from scratch and get it right. Battery is next. I got 47% at 4:30 PM and plugged it into car charger and house charger a couple times. JBX offered a lot of good features like Battery Friend and CPU speeds. I am finding things close in xposed, but have not hit the nail on the head yet. This is working too good, don't want to screw it up. I will probably delete a previous backup now and back this up. It is not completely "virgin" as I did some restoration like Device ID (Had to.) and only a couple apps with data from the same version of CM11, earlier build but from when all the patches were no longer necessary or used. If it fails, I know how to proceed. I took what little liberty I dared, nothing major that could corrupt, IMHO, this rom. :angel: