[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Chatting with Morr. Those needing tech assist please skip this post.

Oh man, thanks for the unbiased review of the current CM12. They guys in the CM12 group are all having a ball, trying to get this thing to work perfectly, so it is not likely I will get a fair review from them. It is like any other hobbyist group, building go carts. So what it if does not have brakes, a seat belt, the front end is a bit loose, ...I CAN RIDE, MAN! And that is the kind of enthusiasm that any hobbyist should have.

I am like you. I cannot afford *Anything*, AT ALL. Comcast was knocking on my door this morning with "a fake repair ticket" he left on the door saying "Sorry we missed you. Service was reconnected on the outside". What baloney, they cut my service almost 2 weeks ago by a computer that did not get payment, and is not going to get payment. You cannot take someone on Social Security who can barely pay $100 a month and then charge them $225 to reconnect every month and toss a $50 reconnect fee on top, every single month! I checked the UPS tracking, they already go their equipment back. They actually sent a fake repair guy to my house to collect money. That is pretty ballsy.

I love CM11 because it really does work quite well on my Droid Razr. I hate to be a "Doubting Thomas" but I really don't think that Lollipop will ever work completely well on the Razr. The phone is 3 years old and Lollipop demands an entirely new set of hardware minimum specifications. Double the RAM, double the CPU speed and toss in a couple more cores for it. Add Selinux. And the bootloader is totally different. Michael is determined to get it to work and he will. But I think if you really want to enjoy Android 5, you need a new phone, one you can root, and throw a cool rom on it. Period. That is just my opinion, I could be wrong and a lot of guys will disagree with it because "they really want for it to work".

I could be totally wrong and CM12 may eventually run very, very well on a Droid Razr. But experience shows me you can only get *so* much out of old hardware. I hope that CM12 does really work out on Razr Phones.

I have been fixing computers for decades and some of the worst are people with old Windows XP computers who want them cleaned up, running fast, and maybe put Windows 7 or 8 on it. I tell these people NO but one lady insisted. I can pay you $100 but I cannot pay for a new computer. You MUST fix it. I got my butt handed to me in spades, dude. The Celeron CPU was so slow and the 1Gb of RAM so low that click and wait was the name of the game. It took almost 25 hours to finish and you click a Google link, go get a cup of coffee, come back, and you could click again. I got about $2.50/Hour on this job. And, the lady had a crash, when XP rebooted and asked if she wanted to go back to a configuration that worked, she said YES and undid everything I spent 25 hours on! She didn't know better so I had to to it again, Twice! Working for 75¢ and hour. :(

I got my back against the wall and am working really hard to get a grip on the household finances. I tell you, it is pretty tough. There is only so much you can cut. We need electric, water, and waste pickup, cannot cut these services. At least one phone, cannot cut that. A car with insurance, cannot cut that. Medicine and doctor, cannot cut that. So what is left? Food? Gas? A pair of socks without holes in them? Dumping Comcast and getting a decent health plan last year helped a LOT. I would not have made it. I hope to have the money to upgrade the phone in a year or so. But Verizon is funny about phone upgrades. They offer really nice, new phones, you pay like $200 for a great smartphone and take a contract. But the phones they are offering cannot be rooted. A developer Edition Turbo can be rooted but it costs $700. If I could get like a Samsung Galaxy or Note and use that on Verizon and root it, I would be in Heaven. But I don't think Verizon offers it. [MENTION=838017]sherri[/MENTION] was talking about sticking your SIM card into another phone and if that would work, I would be in Hog Heaven. But not sure if that is any phone or only phones carried by Verizon. She rotates her SIM cards among phones and does quite well at it. She also has been doing this a LOT longer than I have.

Oh Geezze, I am going on and on too long again. Time to stop. Hey let me know how you do with a different phone when you find one. You don't sound like the kind of guy who will trade his Razr for an unrootable phone, Morr. Nice talking to you, take care my friend. :)

NOTE, GAPPS URL Updated in OP:

PA-GAPPS URL updated on OP Post #1 of this thread by ktimque. All is well. Please report errors to help us keep CM11 alive. Good looking out, [MENTION=3315635]neoramasay[/MENTION]!