[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=5057697]welder73[/MENTION] I never installed Lollipop on the Razr because that phone was already so taxed out that it could barely run Kit Kat anymore. Yes it ran and everything worked, but it was "Tap and WAIT City"! CM12.1 Lollipop is a more advanced OS and it does not have a single stable snapshot release. I would have installed it once a snapshot came out. It just has not happened yet. This is my ONLY phone and it must be 100% dependable, all of the time.

Now I have a phone with enough power to not only run it, but that is the stock rom on the phone. Welder, you were not kidding man, this thing has horsepower to BURN! Facebook is no problem at all. Because this phone is so powerful, does so much stuff, and I have a LOT of experience with advanced features, many of which come from a custom rom like cm11, I went overboard on this phone. I tried everything I could think of and sort of "blew up my own phone". I had the screen blinking on and off, non-stop, could not fix it, and restored my only backup. This backup had Xposed installed and I really regret not making a clean backup before installing everything.

Now I had to start putting things back and I remember setting the grid size on the launcher to 5x5 and wanted that back. I could not find the settings *anywhere* on the phone. Then I checked Gravity Box and there it was, grid size so I changed it, nothing happened so I rebooted. That freaked out the phone and the blinking started again. I removed the setting from Gravity Box (There is a warning about this setting.) and rebooted, the blinking stopped.

Okay Google is here but I tried the Moto Assistant instead and WOW, it does

Everything

you could possibly want! I then wanted to try OK Google but could not record the wake phrase, could not access the mic. Huh, how come? Because Moto Assist is using it, cannot use both voice commanders at once. Somehow I was asked if I wanted the assist to announce calls and messages, I said yes, and it started announcing every call, every text out loud and I wanted to shut it off! I cannot figure out how so I reset Moto Assist in Apps by clearing the data. When I tried recording the launch phrase, it would not happen. Kept telling me too loud, too soft, cannot record on table, too fast, too slow, etc. It was not THIS difficult to do this so I rebooted and the blinking came back! OMG did I ruin this phone already? Before restoring a backup, I did a cache and dalvik wipe and that cleared it up.

Now I am really starting to miss the features in a custom rom like CM11. I cannot customize the desktop size, no themes, a lot of stuff I cannot do anymore with the stock rom. I did purchase Apex Desktop Pro so I am wondering if I can install it as my launcher with a stock rom.

Does anybody know if you can install a custom launcher like Apex or Nova on a stock Motorola rooted rom?

If I had my Apex desktop, I could at least change the layout, grid size, and backup and restore it.

Man I really want a CM Lollipop rom on this phone but am a little afraid that the CM rom for Lollipop is still Alpha and will bring bugs with it. Is it really stable? I might have to look for the right thread to ask this question in. Maybe a Moto X thread or the CM11 Lollipop thread.

The moto assist is really, really good, but if I push it too hard, it can crash the phone. Especially when you enable the accessibility option like I did with Greenify. You have to enable it to get all the features such as "Play Ace of Base in youtube". When I actually tried that command, I was told I have to enable it in Accessibility like where Greenify is enabled. I did enable it and tried the youtube command again. The whole phone went black and would not come back, could not even reboot it! I did a force power down, wiped dalvik and cache, and booted and it is okay again.

Welder, you are really a good guy. Sometimes I think you are "fighting with me", not often, but I know you are not a mean or malicious person. You are very friendly and like phones and really like to help people. You helped a lot with Lollipop and I will for sure need a lot more help. Thanks buddy! :highfive: