[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
You know what? Your dad sounds like a pretty decent, cool guy. He is not a douche, he is looking out for you to make sure you get the things you *really* need for school and get good grades, don't screw around! (Too much, anyway. LOL!) The Razr will last a year but that is really it. It won't keep up at the end of a year. You might want to take a complete set of installed apps and create a Label for them in Titanium Backup (I hope you have the paid $6 version of Titanium Backup. If not, find a way to make it happen and get it man. You can use the one license for ALL your Android stuff and will need it. Backup all currently installed apps and save this backup set off the device. Like to your external sdcard, then use a cheap $10 card reader to plug into PC and copy that 3 Gb set or less over to PC, dated, for safe keeping. If you don't have the card reader, use Mount in Safe Strap to USB tranfer stuff back and forth to Windows, it works a treat in Safe Strap. MUCH better than in cm11.

Why do this? Because in a year or less, the apps may become so unruly and power hungry that your phone will not even run anymore. At least you have saved a set of working apps for your phone that you can restore and forget about updating, just use it until you can replace it. I do not know if you are paying attention but every 6 months, the phone gets slower, and slower, and slower. And it is NOT the phone or rom causing this as they never change, but the apps do. Shame, isn't it? :(

For a tablet, I have the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, 10.1. The 10" screen is worth it. Get it. This thing I bought new, retail for $400. You can get essentially the same thing, same screen size and horsepower in a Motorola Xoom and they cost as little as $150. Look around. That ten inches makes all the difference in the world. If you find a good deal on a good 10 inch tablet screen and do your homework to present to dad, he will back you up on it. Make him proud of you and really research it out first, to have something to show him. Mine is a WiFi only tablet, no monthly bills. It works fine in my house and anywhere there is free WiFi. In public places with free WiFi, you get really cut down WiFi so no videos and fuggeddaboudit for anything HD on public free WiFi. What I do is tap my Razr hotspot, turn it on, and watch stuff on the tablet in full, glorious high definition at Verizon speed. The amount of data is the same whether you pull it on the phone or tether it off to another device and Verizon never knows the difference. If you have a datacap, use the feature in CM11 to monitor and warn you when you approach your limit. Go to /Settings/Data Usage/ and turn it on. You can see where all the data is being used, set a warning limit, and set an actual limit if you want or have to. With free data, most months I use less than 2 Gb of data.

Since my car is a 2008 Honda Civic, I do not have Bluetooth in the car, but I found the ultimate Bluetooth adapter at Amazon that does phone calls, music, make/take calls, does it all through the great sound in the car stereo. I use this feature all of the time in my car. When mom got sick and I had to take her for emergency care, we had to spend a lot of time waiting, even in the car waiting for the antibiotics. I turned on hotspot, then opened up the 10" tablet and put a popular TV show in HD on the screen for mom to entertain herself. I used the AT&T app but even youtube has full shows and movies, all free. The great sound, the big HD picture, my mom was like a little kid at Christmas and all of the complaining about the wait totally stopped. Now THAT is sweet!

If you have a car and it is new enough to have Bluetooth, you have it made in the shade, brother. If not and you have an AUX jack, you can use a cheap 6' Radio Shack headphone cable to connect but you will wear out the headphone jack pretty quick and it will cut out speakers and sound scratchy all the time. Thus, the Bluetooth is the better choice.

Swappa has tablets. You can find a good 10" tablet that is good and affordable. Do your homework and look at the specs! CPU speed, amount of RAM, how many core CPU if applicable. Here, you can use my Tab 2 10" specs for comparison. This cost me $400 new and you can match these specs for a LOT less than that. Like the Motorola Xoom for $150, you can justify the 10" screen to dad IF you can match the specs and find it cheap enough as not to break the bank.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Specs

Dude, I seriously doubt that I will do Lollipop on the Razr. It is already pushed to it's physical limits and Lollipop will only make that worse. I am really happy with Kit Kat and cm11. I want to save Lollipop for a device that is actually "Lollipop Ready" like the S4. The Razr is SO not Lollipop ready but with enough duct tape and sweat, anything is possible. But putting it on the S4 would be a breeze. Doing it on the Razr will be one, never ending headache. By all means, do it if you want to, if you put cm11 on stock, you have the slots to tinker with. Prove me wrong. I love to be proved wrong because it might open up opportunities that I may have dismissed prematurely. I want to "use the phone" and "enjoy the phone". Not spend every waking hour working on it to get the clock to work, to stop the FC that happens ever time it goes into power saver mode, etc. If you read the CM12 threads, you will find a LOT of that sort of headache going on but these guys LOVE IT. That is what they want to do with their time. if that is you, go for it. But you are a student in school and really need to start forming an idea of what you want to be when you grow up and doing your very best to get in the right classes, become GOOD at this stuff, get Bs or higher marks, and become someone. Starting NOW!

Alright, it is late and I want to do some Netflix before bed.

The animals, the animals

Trapped, trapped, trapped 'til the cage is full

The cage is full, the day is new

And everyone is waiting, waiting on you and you've got

Time!

Yeah yeah, Orange Is The New Black and I am on season 3 now and savoring the shows. 'night! :good:

EDIT:
[MENTION=4551511]Vlasp[/MENTION] you made the sdcard "thicker" with tape to wedge it in so it would connect and not fall out? That is pretty ingenious! I love tips like that, you never know when you might need something like this. Thanks for sharing! :good: