[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Prepare for "Monster Update" in next nightly

Please turn off any active wallpaper or them items if you run into trouble. The theme engine is about as stable as a chair with one leg missing. It is a work in progress and touches every UI on the system. I use Apex Pro Launcher, and Nova Launcher is also said to be good. I do not get theme crashes. Yes, one day the Trebuchet launcher will work as it did in cm10.2, but we are a long way off from that happening.

If you want stability, turn off the themes or use another launcher for now. I know you do not want to hear this, I want Trebuchet like it was before, but with so much to do left in cm11, that theme engine is going to be a bomb until one day, near the end of cm11 development, it will be good again.

WARNING, Huge Update in Next Build!

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Updates with MANY items can be really bad and mess up your system pretty good. 06/13 is a great example of it. It took nearly 6 new builds for it to become usable and stable again and everybody remembers that. 06/29 is Heaven for me, but I use my own Launcher. The next update, not released yet, is scheduled for 75 changes. Yeah, as much as I love the current progress, that one scares the pants off me. I may skip it or if I try it out, you can bet your last dime I will make a full Safe Strap recovery of what I have now that works so well and I strongly advise any of you to take this monster update to do the same. See the change log yourself.

* If you are running low on backup space, backups that are two months old are nearly worthless. Dump them all but the one where you installed clean and 1 or 2 "Good Ones" and name them as described below. Keep your stock backup of course. Do not use the backup names provided by Safe Strap. Change name to something that makes sense: install_date--comment--BU_date, like this:

06-07-14--good--06-13-14

Single dash because slashes cannot be used in file-names for dates. Double dashes as separators. BRIEF comment. Truncate 2014 to 14. The names get long and the screen is small. You will not be able to read long file names in Safe Strap.

Other comments I've used: CloudPrint because I got that installed and remember the build well, it was good.

LessOrange because the orange icons were getting much less.

Clean: because it was a clean from scratch install.

NBkScreen because I was getting hardly any (No) black screens.

Who knows, these 75 items might be just what the doctor ordered and the greatest thing to happen to the phone, but I wouldn't count on it judging on past experience. Better to be safe (strap) than sorry Just wanted to get the word out there for people who really need working phones to consider this.

Honestly, this all looks like great stuff and yep, I will try it and report. But NOT without a full backup of what I have working so well right now. I hope it is all good stuff and will affect the theme engine as well. I want it all to work, but experience here with BIG updates has been a mixed bag and usually the phone takes a nose dive while the next 7-15 updates fix these new bugs, a few at a time.

'night guys. I have a backup to make in anticipation of this "monster build" coming at us. :rolleyes: