[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Oh you are right, Drewski. I had to go and check the Droid Razr Maxx Specifications Page to be sure. Man, I thought it was 1 GHz was it and 300 MHz bottom. I was wrong. Thanks for pointing that out.

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I used to use the stock messaging app all the time for text messages. But once I found out you could send pictures, videos, sound, emoticons, and even attach files to SMS messages, I had to try it. Stock SMS won't do it. There is a word or acronym for this type of messaging, but I forget what it is called. (MMS, that's it!) Someone right here on xda (This is where all "the good stuff" comes from anyway.) suggested an alternate text messaging program like Go SMS Pro. It is free and there is a pay version I believe, I use free. Go SMS Pro has a permanent blog here.

Wow, you could do a LOT with this thing and I was really surprised. You can customize nearly anything, it has themes (I prefer the dark ones.), you can pick the text message ringtone, even different ringtones for different people so if someone important messages you, like your GF or wife, you can get a custom sound for notification and answer it because "wifey" will not be too happy if you ignore her or whatever. There are emoticon packs free to download as well so you get stock smilies and really nice ones too like diamond ring, different hearts, different types of people, shoes, just about anything. They encourage you to "Go Pro" and pay for it, but the free version is really good. I mistakenly installed "Go Launcher" before I knew what a launcher was and it changed my entire desktop and buttons so much I hated it and quickly took it out. It might have been cool if I customized it but I like the stock launchers from stock and CyanogenMod. The CM10.2 launcher was great, Trebuchet v1.0. Wow, never could I customize so much stuff before! You could have multiple docks, however many desktops you want, change the animation between desktops, how many rows and columns of icons, how big they are, the notification bar, everything! I was SO happy with it.

Then in CM11 they took away that neat Trebuche Launcher and gave us a crappy, not very customizable one. Or, the gapps gave you another Laucher to choose from. Only had two desktops, could not find how to customize it, but better than stock CM11. I just installed Apex Launcher Pro, it is pretty good and close to Trebuche. Hakarune was a gold mine of a friend and posted not one but a 2nd how to guide for CM11, responding to mine and other people's posted issues. He said that the Google Launcher called "Launcher" is great and you get more desktops by "swyping" them in or something like that. I already bought the Apex Launcher and like it, more customization than you can ever use. I now have multiple docks and my favorite 5 desktops and much, much more.

I am getting off topic for your post. I made Go SMS my stock SMS program but kept the original message app because I found that to truly delete conversations, I had to do it from within the stock messaging program, Go SMS did not really delete them. But many times when I reboot my phone, the stock messaging app is fully open on screen to a blank message. Not sure why, don't need it anyway, so I froze it in Titanium Backup. Did not want to remove it and Go SMS gives the option to remove it so that Go SMS will always be your choice SMS. Yeah I like that but froze instead of removed stock messaging. I Wonder if I can delete conversations now that stock is no longer available? (That is one reason I did not remove it.) Looks like it, there is now a "Delete All" option in individual conversations when Go SMS is your only SMS program.

This is my preference anyway. Go SMS is so feature rich, customizable, will send almost anything via SMS, that I want and will keep it. Oh, when you send stuff like pictures, sound, video, etc., in SMS, it is called "MMS". Regular messaging won't do that. Google Hangouts can and will do this if you enable it and become your SMS program if you don't like Go SMS or do not want to install more apps. Had I known this, I might have given it a try. Certain really cheap phones like Metro PCS does not do a great job with sending and receiving pictures and other things. You receive a download button in a message that often fails to download the picture or whatever it was you sent. Apparently cheap Metro PCS phones do not support MMS so everything is "a download" that mostly fails.

Up to you dude, but if you want MMS so you can send binary files like pictures, recorded sound, anything really, get/use something better than the stock messenger app. It is pretty cool to send your S.O. a text message where your own voice talks and says "You know I really love you baby and wish you were here right now". Beats the pants off stock messenger.

If you ask me, Go SMS Pro for Messaging and Dolphin Browser are the way to go in Android, period. (Oh wow, Dolphin has really nice wallpaper now! Even runs Flash video. Sweet.) Dolphin Browser has SO many useful plugins and extensions for free that it is like Firefox in Windows. It is SO good that I never even use Firefox in Android because it is a resource hog, Dolphin loads much faster and is every bit as good. At least in my opinion, anyway.

I swear I am having so much fun with CyanogenMod ROM 11 that I cannot leave it alone. It is like being an adult, bah humbug for Christmas, and then getting the best present of all under the tree, CM11! Thank you Santa Clause! (And Hakarune, and Caleb, and, oh gosh, so many of you helped. Thank you all, really!)