[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Hi yourself. :)

..or Good Morning for me (11:17 AM) and Good Afternoon to you (5:17 PM) Michael.

Yes. Let's clear up any misconceptions about cm11 for OMAP4. That would be "ever so nice".

Man that is an awesome description of the M SNAPSHOT Release Builds. I learned something new here and do appreciate it quite a bit. I had been skipping the snapshots because by the time they hit release, a more recent Nightly Build ends up being better than the older Snapshot. With M12 being officially deemed "Final", then I guess this really would be the time to give it a fair chance and remove my current bias against the Snapshots in this case.

M12 branched off on 11/03, I believe. Now if there are stability fixes added with questionable features removed, then this makes a lot of sense. Final, FINAL means that M12 "is pretty much it". Since I have not given it a fair shake yet, the time has come for me to "get with the program" and install it. Making my backup now and install will commence forthwith.

At this time, CM11 has pretty much fulfilled all of my expectations so there is really not much more to "wait for" or expect from this rom. You have really done a good job with this entire project, Michael. Thank you. :good:

Okay. Thanks for the Github updates. You sure have been a very "busy Santa's Elf", Herr Gernoth. Noteworthy and something to appreciate. And I do. :o

I am not sure why and really, it does not matter much anymore. But on or about November 11, 2014, the cm11 Nightly Builds seemed to "Get a little rough around the edges". I like to multitask somewhat and on an old dog like an XT912, my expectations on this ability might be a little too optimistic. A Razr Max was an expensive, very fast, and very good phone when it was released. It could "fly right through" almost any task one could throw at it and it really *was* an amazing device. That was before the app makers got their "green light" to over pack their apps with bloat, more "features" than the app itself actually required, and of course this "new concept" of becoming a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident, i.e.: The app never quits or actually closes.) program and not "just an app". That change in apps behavior really did and still does irk me quite a bit.

The same issue is now commonplace on modern PCs with oodles of RAM, hard disk space, multi-core, very powerful, and very fast CPUs. My "Startup List" is rather extensive on my PC, a free tool like Autoruns for Windows reveals the entire list. Nice thing is you can remove many of these startup programs easily and safely with Autoruns (Run as Administrator, no need to install.), but almost all of them "come back" anyway. Things like AcroTray, Quicktime, All Things Google, and countless others. Why must Quicktime run at all times on a PC when I might actually use Quicktime itself maybe 3 times in an entire year. Does not matter, cannot fight city hall.

The new devices have the horsepower to spare and can deal with this issue comfortably. For a Droid Device, I find that an awful lot of pruning helps quite a bit to speed things up. Credit goes to all of the Senior Members like yourself, DumbleCore, and Sherri for sharing much of this knowledge.

Ahhh, "TRIM". I did ever so want to use this feature. I have an SSD as my OS and Program Drive and an SSD is not at al much different than an sdcard, in terms of how it works. Yet I am in no way getting the performance of an SSD with my sdcard. ...strange. Perhaps TRIM would be in order, or so I thought. That is a wonderful built in tool in Linux and Android and there is a really nice front end for it, here on XDA:

[APP] LagFix (fstrim) v1.5.1 2013.03.04

Alas, it would not work on my cm11 installed on rom slot 1. I thought this was due to lack of kernel support and did not realize it was due to the file system. I have every intention of installing cm11 in my stock slot as the stock Jellybean rom is not something I ever use. I would really much prefer a working, snappy version of cm11 over stock Jellybean. I have been pretty much set on installing cm11 to stock for at least a month. But since it requires an install from scratch, I am lazy like most other people and have not gotten the fire lit under my butt to get it done. Now that you have clarified that the stock partition in Safe Strap can and does work, this is the final shove that I needed to just get it done. Besides, with tools like Titanium Backup, Google backup, and several other items, this process should not be a dreadful as it once was. I am really hopped up on this idea and if I get enough time today, on Christmas, I will get it done and then use the TRIM utility to make if fast. Thank you, Micheal. That was a really significant contribution of information you gave me there, buddy. :highfive:

If I can get cm11 installed on Stock Slot and run TRIM on it, I will be in "Hog Heaven". What a nice Christmas present this is, Michael! :D

And you should stand by that decision to not encourage people to install Alpha Software to use as a daily driver. It is the intelligent and responsible thing to do. I knew this even before your announcement but the announcement was necessary and quite "on time" as there are many, many serious Droid owners who are SO impressed with having a peek at Android L running on their phones that they are encouraged enough to make it their daily driver. And that is all Alpha Software is supposed to be, a "peek" at things to come or what could be, when finished and NOT a usable, dependable software release. I honestly cannot comprehend the stupidity of doing this, but I am in no position to admonish anyone for doing it. All I can do is remind users and owners of the facts and hope that they realize that this is NOT a good idea unless they have "an extra phone" to experiment with like Bob. Since "extra phones" are costly to activate, they will not be getting service on these devices so it defeats the purpose of having any sort of "Daily Driver" at all. Great for the hobbyist and experimenter, though. :)

As THE DEVELOPER, you words carry a lot more weight than mine or any one else's regarding installing Alpha Releases as a Daily Driver. Hopefully, it will sink in to the die hard enthusiasts

before

they have a car accident and really need the camera. Or must get to a location in a limited time and find that GPS is not quite working well, just yet. Or receive a very important phone call that just will not work because they are currently doing something else with the rom at the time. The reasons are endless and your advice and instructions are very clear on this. Hallelujah!

I am very glad that you took the time to reiterate that statement again, here and now, once and for all. I think it should be in bold but hey, you said it before and you say it again. Perhaps that will encourage individuals to be a bit more cautious with their expensive hardware and service. Thank you for saying this again.

You bet. Thank you Micheal and a very Merry Christmas to you and your family. :)

Oh how nice, I have a friend for "Bunny", Micheal. Does Bunny like to make new friends?

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Oh, I have company for Christmas, now nice! This is "Peter Rabbit". He is one of two domestic bunnies that now run in our neighborhood. I don't know where they came for but myself and my best neighbor take care of them, feed them, and keep them save. Well, as safe as a free range domesticated bunny in the suburbs can be. I found him on my porch this morning and of course, he was hungry. I made the clicking sound to let him know I am friendly and he came right away for a treat. Last night, I had not more carrots and tried a potato. Nyet! Not happening so a nice crisp piece of Iceberg Lettuce did the trick. For Christmas, Peter now gets another carrot and more fresh lettuce. His "friend" is a bit more thin, younger, does not have a floppy ear, and is not comfortable around people. I must leave food for him and back away, he will fine it himself. But Peter is quite friendly and comes when called with a comforting clicking sound. I am pretty afraid that some mean person would harm him or worse, feed him to "the pet snake" so myself and my neighbor Patty feed and watch out for him and his friend. Merry Christmas, Peter!

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