[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
...Wow!

I am speechless. I talk a lot but will really try to keep it short. (You know I can't do it, though. :p) You earned this moment and it is a dammed good one, Jake. Most of what you told me I already know, but for the details. Ah, the glorious details that mean so much. I know, love, support, and even pitch in however I can (Write docs if you need the service. Just request help wanted, write the docs for us. I am good at that.) for Open Source Software Development, apps, operating systems, and programs. To love Open Source is to believe in it, live it, work on and for it, do it for free, not even sneak in ONE advertisement, keep it pure and clean. I belong to Source Forge and am pretty proud of it and especially for the people who produce it in any way. Open Source folks are all dammed good people, period. *Anything* that I can get from SourceForge I download and will always donate at least *something*. If I am broke, even a cup of coffee, these men and women are not too proud and mighty as to turn down a cup of fresh Joe and not appreciate the thought that went into it. This is the stuff that makes Steve Jobs and Bill Gates secretly shake with fear and rage with anger because they cannot control it and yes, it is a formidable and invincible adversary to them and the capitalism they crave. This is truly "For the People, By the People" and isn't that what we all believe in? ...yeah, it is that big of a deal. I keep a Linux box running 24/7, right now CentOS 6.4 because the update cycle is reasonable. Red Hat and then Fedora really went over the line with 6 month production cycles. Drove me nuts! I was tempted to pirate Enterprise Linux and admitted it to the Linux community on Usenet and they were kind and just told me to use CentOS. It IS Red Hat Enterprise Linux w/out the customer support. But there is still Usenet to help with any issue. How cool is that?

I am SO HAPPY of you for saying this part:

Now with kit Kat Google has given us the most refined memory efficient and I believe best version of android yet. I was seeing amazing stability that I didn't expect even when we were on unofficial builds still.

Dude, you are SO on target with this. My sentiments exactly. Why do you think I stay and do not drift off to Liquid, not even to test drive? I am sure Liquid is good but I have to commit somewhere and the purple sentences above say it all, man. I will be reading this off and on for the entire night. Sometimes I take really good posts and immortalize them as a pdf or save as a "text tidbit". You can be sure this goes right into my scrapbook. This is so good I have to savor it and soak up the details over time. Thank you. Thank you very much. I mean it, I gave thanks, and I really will review this material a lot until it all soaks in. :good:

Your post has been immortalized as a pdf file with working links. I will want to read this again and again and be able to quickly get back here when I need to. PDF plugin for Firefox rules! Surprisingly, I don't much care for Chrome. I think it is a memory pig, really. I only do pdf for Guides but this point of view is so well done, I have to keep it. TY

Well, this is a good time to sneak in my issue and get some good, experienced personal advice. I am still on build 03/09, had to revert to a backup because the update I got had a bum camera. Now I have "a screen that cannot make up it's mind" and think I might have to wipe and go clean to rid my phone of this disease. It keeps flickering between messages of any kind and it is annoying. Text messages jump up and down on screen when sent. Half the msg, the entire msg, higher on the screen, lower on the screen, settles to normal. Notification bar now shows "seeking GPS satelites", the GPS icon goes of an on rapidly as to flicker then settle down. Overall the screen and any text is stable and still. But any new text seems to flicker on and off until it settles and this is, well, ...unsettling.

You wipe and go clean, A LOT. But anyone testing roms does this and is used to it. Personally, I would rather drill my own teeth w/out Novocain instead of wipe and go clean, AGAIN. But, I know, it goes with the turf. I need advice.

I need a good, stable, everything working recent build. Can you recommend one?

I can try to "update" what I have, OTA, but seriously, I think I might have to wipe and clean to get it right. Do you think so?

I should probably download a new pa-gapps because what I have will cause a long string of updates. Think so?

I miss jbx, OC, and the options. But this will really complicate OTA updates, you think? I mean, you really cannot take full advantage of OTA if you must flash jbx at every update. I can live w/out it for now. I like the OTA stuff and want to just "go with it" for long stretches of time if I can. Life is too hard right now, I cannot tear down my phone a few times a week right now or anytime soon, if I can avoid it. e.g.: Verizon is emailing me about a payment due. I just got my ass kicked on medical and somehow have to come up with the scratch for that. ...sigh.

My phone is good, everything works, but the jumpy screen is now making me jumpy. Only when text changes at times. But I want some of the new stuff, HDMI would be nice and cool to try, I have to buy a cable to try it out. But I don't *think* I would use it much as I have a good PC/HDTV rig w/dual monitors setup. I can sort this out but I want to hear your take on it. What would you do? (Like I don't know... :p)

*APPLAUSE*

Thanks Jake! (Gosh darn it! I ended up talking long anyway, and I really tried not to. :( But, I really do need a bit of help or another point of view on what would be best for my phone right now. I *do* appreciate your patience on this issue. I admit it, I am loquacious.)

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...what? Who is your carrier? Verizon US? I never heard of this issue.

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...uh, no. Kit Kat is NOT the same as Greenify as Greenify lets YOU pick what sleeps and what does not. KK just KO's *everything* that is not essential to the OS at the current moment. Kit Kat does allow sleeping dogs to wake frequently to "do their business" and then knock them out again. Otherwise Facebook would not work, you could not get push messages or updates. So KK is not that terrible about knocking things out and to sleep. I think it handles it very well and I like that, a LOT. Having Greenify on Kit Kat is like having two, really good, "do the same thing", paid antivirus programs on your PC at the same time. They will pretty much "fight for king of the hill" and that is

never

recommended. I see no point to running Greenify because every time Greenify goes to do it's job, the job is already done. Unemployment line for Greenify so far as Kit Kat is concerned, it seems.

I want to see the devs put more into application management for users, especially memory management and sleep. Like in the Apps menu. You get to choose what sleeps and how much, but I would prefer and opt out policy as it is now rather than opt in for going to sleep so much. I strongly feel this is a very much needed function built into an operating system with such aggressive memory management. For people who don't care, they can leave it alone, but for us that want more "hands on" for apps, give it to us!

Oh! I get what you are saying about 910 v.s 912. It is just the radio is different for foreign carriers. Overseas stuff for a US guy like myself. Funny how we tend to view the world through the prism of our own country. I like, "forget" that things are *really* different than the US in other nations. Thanks for the heads up!

No way I will settle for anything less than Kit Kat now that I am accustomed to it. Jake pretty much summed it up very gracefully in his post. None of us ever want to go back to Jellybean after trying Kit Kat. I keep a stock, rooted Jellybean rom in my stock slot from Matt's Utility. I have to have a fallback and well, that is it. But nothing is ever going to be the same again after Kit Kat. It is very welcome and long overdue. I would not doubt that Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, the whole bunch probably really do not like Kit Kat because it vastly extends the working lifespan of any typical cellphone. They

want

us to buy a new $600 phone every two years, they like it that way. So that means many of us get stuck in 2 year contracts to get these phones. Funny how that 2 year contract just about meets the useful lifespan of a cellphone with anything BUT Kit Kat. Hah!

Before KK, I was ready to pitch my phone and go for a new one, even though there is no realistic way I can comfortably afford it right now. But since KK came out, I do not have to buy a new phone. This one

works just fine now

, thank you very much!

Wow, I am tired, worn out, poor, and did I say tired? Oh yeah, I did. I forgot. Time for bed. Goodnight Meneldur and everyone here. I do so consider you all very dear friends. :highfive: