[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Yeah. yeah, I just never experienced this in the flesh before. I can turn off Google detection until I use in car, turn it on for rides, then turn off again. I only need Google Now for the car as using it normally is just plain stupid. :p

Okay, I will give it a shot. Thanks Bri. :good:

P.S.

I got a replacement phone coming tomorrow so then I have to install Safe Strap all over again. I can redo the partitions at that time. Without numbers as to what to apply, it is trial and error and now that you and Dwillian gave me numbers, I have something to work with.

Nice work, boys! :laugh:

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Alright, that was really helpful. I went and checked my partitions and free space.

Monday, September 22, 2014

Ohmster's Current Safe Strap Partitions for Droid Razr Devices

Stock - Not Adjustable

System: 636Mb - 24Mb Free

Data: 3078Mb - 2064 Free

Cache: 1007Mb - 974Mb Free

CM11

System: 688Mb - 102Mb Free

Data: 3937Mb - 2695 Free

Cache: 984Mb - 966Mb Free

Hmmm, room for trimmings, I see. ;)

Hey, what do you guys have your partition sizes set for your stock and cm11 rom slots?

I/we need some good "standards" for setting up our Safe Strap partition sizes. Mine are way off the map. But you guys seem to have good size settings, what are they?

My intentions are and always will be "To be helpful" and thus, in addition to the valuable build reports I constantly ask and praise for, we need reference standards. Safe Strap partition size references are really not published anywhere because it depends on so many things. Device, rom, card space, etc. But we are setting approximate standards for Safe Strap partitions when used for your typical Verizon stock rom and CyanogenMod Rom 11. Let's get some agreed on standards published, meaning listed right here, for others to find, refer to, and come across when searching. The final sizes can and always be up to the individual user. I will set some basic standards and you guys help me by correcting it, fair deal?

Safe Strap Partition Reference Standards for Droid Razr Devices

Stock Slot - Not Adjustable

System: 700 Mb

Data: 3,000 Mb

Cache: 300 Mb

Slot1 - CM11

System: 700 Mb

Data: 2,000 Mb

Cache: 300 Mb

These are good Safe Strap starter partition sizes with

plenty of room

for apps and data. For lean phones with little additional apps and data, reduce your data partition to:

Data: 2,000 Mb.

Use a slightly larger Data: 2,500 Mb partition for some additional app and app data space or if you choose to install the pa-gapps Full Modular Package and like to add a few extra apps of your own and still save ½ Gigabyte for more storage space.

These are my suggestions based upon personal experience and the valuable input of others with experience. Please by all means correct me if I am wrong of if you have suggestions.

I went wrong because I am not sure how these partitions are used, other than the basic purpose of such things as "cach". I imagined that the "Data" size was all you would get on that rom slot to have and use, meaning storage too. But apparently that assumption is wrong. These are the partition sizes necessary for the roms themselves to work, NOT including user storage space. So since cache is merely system scratchpad area, 300Mb should be fine. For data, I assigned 4Gb and am only using about ½ that amount. And lastly, system, is pretty much the rom by itself, most roms are near 1 full CD in size, about 700MB. My settings are about that and are clearly in the ball park. So it seems that I ran amok with the data partition, this must be what is used for app and app data space. Not for storage or media, as far as I can tell. :silly:

Thanks buddy! :good:

Nice work, guys. :laugh:

EDIT Monday, September 29, 2014:

I amended the "Safe Strap Partition Reference Standards" to change the DATA Partition to 2Gb in size. After further review and testing, I see that I was wasting over one Gigabyte of space on the DATA partition. I backed up CM11, deleted slot2, and recreated it with the aforementioned partition standards. My system runs fine, has close to 200 apps installed, and I am not running out of space. :)

[MENTION=838017]sherri[/MENTION] has also been quite successful with a 1Gb partition for her rom slots, however, Sherri is an experienced member and is very good at managing her "frugal use of partition space" by using Titanium Backup to trim out unwanted bloatware like Apollo and even "Hangouts" if she does not use such apps. She is also a Sorceress at moving apps to the ext-sdcard with the help of Titanium Backup. Once you gain the necessary experience, you too can experiment with such frugal partition sizes. I am experimenting with it now but it takes skill and determination to achieve, and fortunately for us, Sherri has such determination. In the meantime. For some of Sherri's tips, read [URL="http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=55729946&postcount=6058"]HERE[/URL] and HERE. Otherwise,

please use the suggested partition standard recommended above.

:good: