[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Thanks Casper and how to help Tom the chimp

Daniel! Oh you are *such* a good man, you know that? :p

Well, this information does not help Tom, he is beyond that now. We will get back to him at the end. But of course it is helpful. It is helpful to others because it gives a peek inside of another good running phone, XT910, no less, and what the partition use is. That really is valuable information my friend.

Do you remember the Safe Strap Partition size chart we made in here? I asked as many people as I could get to answer to post their Safe Strap partition and usage sizes. I got some really good, older, experienced members like Sherri and Brian to help out and we came up with a reasonable and very good, agreed upon, Safe Strap Partition Size Chart. I labeled it for easy search indexing. Anyway, here is is, check this out, bookmark it, save to file, print it. :cyclops:

Updated Safe Strap Partition Reference Standards for Droid Razr Devices

Man, I was really freaking out when I saw your partition sizes until I realized that they are for your "Stock" partition. There is a LOT of wasted space in your partitions but that is what Safe Strap does for stock. Any slot, once in use, takes the full partition sizes away from the internal sdcard storage. Look at how much space is wasted! (Not your fault!) 2.941 Gb! Man, that is almost 3 Gb removed from internal sdcard storage, there is nothing you can do about it, and well, it sure does teach you a lot. :)

This is CM11, right? If so, it does give us an idea of typical partion space required to run cm11. Let's see how much is really being used and what is really free, wasted space:

Casper CM11 Safe Strap Stock Partion Usage

System: 770MB (539MB Used)

Data: 3834MB (1815MB Used)

Cache: 708MB (17B Used)

Total Used Space: 2,371Mb

Total Free Space: 2,941Mb

Well, thanks for posting. It is useful discussion because it points out how much space can be wasted in the Stock Partition but there is nothing we can do about it.

As for Tom, [MENTION=1128585]SimpTheChimp[/MENTION] I am at an impasse. To make extra money for bills, I repair computers, flat rate, guaranteed satisfaction like new or better, usually overnight service. People do not ordinarily like the slightly higher flat rate, but once they get service like this, they *always* come back again and again. And, they tell their friends. :)

To get a computer completely fixed by the next day, sometimes I have to save their data, format the drive, and completely reinstall Windows and setup the computer for use with all the little things they need like Acrobat reader, Java, Flash, picture viewer and editor, audio and video codecs, alternate browser with plugins, backgrounds, menus, turn on all the nice things, and make it ready. I normally never do this, just get the virus out, check/repair hard drive, perform system file checker on Windows. But when hit with hundreds of viruses or "something is just not right" like I cannot create a new folder, shortcuts don't work, etc., it is faster, easier, and more complete to just reinstall the entire thing. Operating systems like Windows, Linux, and Android are quite complex. When some "little thing" is wrong with it, due to the complexity and "one of a kind files" like the 5 files that make up the system registry on the system, it would take weeks or months to actually "fix it" if I ever could and to do a clean install I could do in one day.

Because none of the obvious worked for Tom, no matter what we do, he cannot install an app, in his case, I would do a clean install. I know how to do it, it always works, and it should work for him. He can make Safe Strap and Titanium backups prior to doing this, and make Safe Strap backups as he proceeds so as not to start all over again when he restores an app and data from Titanium Backup and finds he has the same problem again. So, the idea is to make several Safe Strap backups as he recreates his cm11 install, in steps, so at any time, he can restore and not have to go back to square one. Whether he is going to do this or not is up to him. An issue like the one he has will be a constant source of irritation so sooner or later, he will have to do it. Even if a CLEAN reinstall did not work, it would prove the issue to be with the phone hardware and NOT the cm11 rom. One way or another, he gets an answer.

Thanks for your help, Dan. You are a really good guy my friend. :D