[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Wow! Casper, that was a very detailed and most useful report that you gave there. I am impressed as is most of the group. This is the kind of stuff we need in here to make proper decisions and to move on. This is a CM11/Razr thread and the content should be about cm11, but due to the lackluster performance of cm11 during July, it is good to discuss other options. We don't have Jake to forge ahead and many of us are milling around, too spooked to install anymore cm11 builds. I know I was. I spent a great deal of time, watching the build reports and selecting roms that were reported to be good. And I got away with this for a very long time.

Now that the reports have stopped, I am stuck like everyone else, wondering when cm11 will get good again. Lucky for me, I was able to speak to stargo. I mentioned that I did not like the builds, they all have problems like black screen for me. He told me that the theme engine bug was fixed and the roms were good. He gave me troubleshooting tips like disabling the xposed modules. Since I am not on a July build, I have to really install one to see if all he says is true, and of course, I believe Michael. If he tells me something, I believe it. I installed one without too many things in the changelog and the rom is good. Final report will be coming shortly.

I am now doing a mass storage test for you, Casper, because you brought it up. Normally I don't think of mass storage as a test, but yes, there have been reboots so I will test that as well. I am almost done, I need to let the phone sleep on battery and try some wake tests. You did a darned good job with the report, Casper. Thank you. :victory:

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Jake/Shaun is no longer with us. Thanks for the report! :good:

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Wow, this is a hard question. The best advice I can give is to explore the modules to see what they do and pick a few that you want to try. You can find them online in the Module overview.

These modules hook deep into the system so one should not go willy-nilly installing them in groups without checking them out, one at a time. If you experience any problems after installing modules, you can uncheck them and reboot to make them idle. Look at the list, see what they do, if you are interested, install the module and explore it.

[MENTION=4977351]DumbleCore[/MENTION] has given your some good suggestions, go to the Module Overview and see if you like them.

I can tell you the modules I like and have used for a long time:

Advanced Power Menu

Makes power button menu nice with boot options and nice colors, screenshot, and is nice.

Alarm Clock Plus

Makes the clock more useful alarm clock for those few times you need an alarm clock on the go.

Android Tuner Free

This is a huge gathering of tools to check your phone, battery stats, memory and CPU stats, graphs in real time, root explorer, and a huge group of tools. Since the app has root privilege, you must be careful when changing any settings. But the monitoring tools are awesome and neat to check out.

App Settings

Gives you more options than the Apps menu to configure things like keeping the screen on for apps like maps.

AppOpsXposed

Gives more options to the apps in the Apps menu.

Boot Manager

Allows you to control what starts up at boot. Good if you do not want Facebook starting up at boot or any other app or service.

Cool Tool

Very good system monitor that appears in the notification bar and shows anything you want like CPU usage, memory usage, network, power, or anything you wish to keep an eye on with real time graphs, badges, and text.

CrapaLinks

Takes out stupid and useless slinks in various apps.

Enable BatterySTats Permission - Xposed Module

Allows you to get better battery stats in Kit Kat.

Ex-Themer KK

Excellent notification area signal tweaks to give very nice, custom icons and colors.

GoogleOfflineVoice

Enables Google Voice when off line.

Gravity Box KK

More tweaks for icons, lock screen, power, display, and other tweaks and customizations then I can mention.

Greenify

This is the donation version of Greenify and allows lots of apps and services to be put to sleep.

MinMinGuard

Ad Remover

Network Speed Indicator

Puts network speed marks on your statusbar.

Pandora Patcher

Removes ads and limits set in Pandora Radio.

Smooth System Progress Bars

Greatly improves the appearance of download bars.

XUtilities

Lots of nice tweaks for all areas of your phone.

These are the modules that I use. There are a lot of new ones and some of the ones I have I do not use much. So, I will probably review my modules and maybe trade in some of the ones I do not use much to try out some new ones. That does not mean they are all right for you. Pick the ones you wish to try out and play with them. If they suit your needs, keep them. If not, remove them, they uninstall like any other app. You can hurt your phone with all of these tweaks, especially system tweaks so go slow on the system altering modules until you are sure of what you are doing. Don't load up your phone with a lot of modules you do not use. Install 2-3, configure them, see if you like them, and try them out. If your system is stable and you have benefits from the module, keep it. If you see you get FCs or have other problems, disable the module by unchecking it and rebooting. Remove the ones you really do not need or want. Have fun and explore!

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Final Report Build 07/27

This is a good build and I like it. I have tested all of the things I can think of that matter to me and this is the final report.

WakeLock shows the phone is going into deep sleep, 4% awake and the rest deep sleep. This is good for battery life.

Black Screens are not an issue for me on this rom. When incoming call comes, both the hard buttons AND the screen promptly lights up and this is good. Even in deep sleep, I get my incoming calls now without struggling to wake the screen. Hard buttons AND screen light at the same time. Screen lights right up with touch of power button. Black Screen Test passes for me on this rom.

Signal is very good for me in this area. I get I get full signal bars and 4G almost immediately after boot, NO orange icons at all. Signal may be dependent on location, area, and service in that area. This is a Verizon saturated area and I have no signal problems. WiFi works very well and signal icons for normal data and WiFi turn proper color within seconds. No orange icons to speak of. The signal connectivity is awesome.

Casper asked about USB Mass Storage. I never considered to test this but for Casper, it is important. Going into mass storage mode is not an easy thing for the phone to do. You get a warning when you enable mass storage from the pull down menu that apps may stop and not work during mass storage. This is because you are unmounting your SD Cards from the system and are making them available to the PC. So using Facebook, browsing the web, or using apps will probably fail with the SD Cards not available to the system. Tapping mass storage did enable all SD Cards for PC browsing and I was able to transfer files and folders quite easily. Releasing mass storage did put the phone back to boot animation but only for a very short time, < 10 seconds. For me, this is acceptable, the phone did not go into a full reboot. I mostly use AirDroid and WiFi for file transfers.

The phone is not "Speedy Gonzales" but acts like a phone of this vintage should, that is, with a little grease to speed it up. All apps working quite well and no FCs in this build. I was getting about 2 a day in 06/30. One app, Calculator Plus did FC upon closing but I attribute this to the app and not the rom. This app is nice but has always crashed on Kit Kat. Some apps really are not optimized for Kit Kat and do not perform well with it. Power Amp Pro comes to mind as an app that is NOT optimized for Kit Kat and will not run properly.

Camera works great, good sleep, great signal lock, no FCs to speak of, pimped out Trebuchet Home launcher that works, this is a keeper and I am sticking with it. There is room for improvement but this is pretty darned good. I cannot find anything seriously wrong with it to make me not want to use it, and I do look forward to see what changes are ahead to make it better. One tip that seems to help is to try and find a rom without so many items in the changelog. You may get a more stable rom this way.

CM11 07/27 IS A GOOD BUILD

END REPORT FOR 07/27