[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=4161843]ktimque[/MENTION]

...it's alive!

Man, I thought you were up in the Himalayan mountains talking to some little man with a long white beard and a big stick and didn't get back yet. :p

...short and concise? You see the page 1 install guide. Does it appear short and concise or is it detailed with lots of formatting and some pictures? I enjoy writing "How-To" Guides and am one of the few people left that actually take the time to do it. I do not have the authority to edit the page directly so I am not sure how to "give you an updated guide" without replicating it somewhere and making the changes. Unless you feel that I am a bit too "loquacious & garrulous" to do the Guide update. LOL! :laugh:

BTW: The adjectives "garrulous" & "loquacious" do not offend me in the least. Everybody knows it, they initially are annoyed by it, then they come to terms with it. They realize that I am very helpful, polite, courteous, and will go into great detail to help someone, when others tend to just "skim the surface" because they do not like to read or write much. I make it a point when a post is long that anyone is welcome to skip it and move along, go watch TV, or whatever they wish to do. ;)

We have a LOT of people here of few, if any, words that you can request help from. If I am going to write or update a Guide, I am going to do a complete job that for one, others will fine easy to read and most informative, and for two, something I can be proud of. One thing for sure, the page will not be trimmed of the credits given to all of those that made the original guide possible. Taking a fresh look at the page 1 Guide, it is not too far off to be usable, just needs updating. :D

I am an experienced webmaster, designer, and publisher. I could possibly replicate the page on my own server and you can copy it or "pick and choose" from it. OR, I can just give you tips on what is wrong with it. Let start with tips as the original page designed by [MENTION=3469621]harkun[/MENTION] is actually quite good and very well done. :)

Guide Update Tips:

1.)

It is essential

that the user back up his /pds folder and it's contents immediately after the device is rooted and the user has access to the root of the system filesystem, before doing anything else. This very important device folder is often lost in the romming process and there is no way of recovering it once it is gone.

2.) All file lists should be checked, verified, and if necessary, updated.

3.) Safe Strap 3.73 is used and should be referenced instead of 3.65. Download link should be supplied.

3.) There is excessive "wiping" on the page and yes, this would be necessary if overwriting another rom. A more practical and cleaner approach would be to delete the rom slot, recreate it, and then adjusting the partition sizes for the slot while you have the chance. I wrote a handy guide for this that you can find here.

Safe Strap Partition Reference Standards for Droid Razr Devices.

Or, to make it short and simple

, reduce the DATA partition when recreating the Safe Strap rom slot to 2,000Mb. Essentially, that is what my partition standards advise and the community reviewed the settings and concurred with my findings.

4.) Since the rom will now be installed on a "pristine slot", all of that wiping is no longer necessary. Clean slot, install cm11 and pa-gapps, reboot. What is there, really, to wipe?

5.) Note should be made that cm11 is still in development and is not "Officially Stable". A good amount of the NIGHTLIES have some defect in them. User should install a recent snapshot or better yet, inquire within the thread or look near the end for a known stable rom build date, download and install that rom, and it will work quite well. We all take turns installing new builds and report the stability of the rom, performance, and issues, if any. Each month a few nightly builds get a clean bill of health and are thus recommended for install or upgrade. The new users should avoid installing a questionable NIGHTLY BUILD in order to have a pleasant and trouble free cm11 experience.

6.) The only files that should be flashed are the desired build of cm11 nightlies (Or Snapshot) and pa-gapps. Recommended pa-gapps package is mini-modular. Modders and enthusiasts are free to install custom kernels or whatever they want after setting up a successful and dependable cm11 system, and backing up this initial, "base install" to restore in the event further customizations "go wrong" somehow.

7.) Once a clean install of pa-gapps and a confirmed stable rom are installed and one completes the Setup Wizard, one should immediately backup that rom with Safe Strap and label it "Base" as in a stable base install that can be restored in the event that the user updates to an inferior rom and has troubles with the running system such as FCs, black screens, signal issues, cannot access Settings, etc. Take advantage of our experience here.

8.) Update the official guide version number

and date

please.

9.) Updates to the cm11 OS should be done via OTA or "Over The Air" updates. This feature can be found in /Settings/About Phone/CyanogenMod Updates. This is not what people commonly refer to as a "Dirty Flash" but is instead the intended and preferred method to update cm11, as per the developers. It is strongly advised that the user backup his current rom in Safe Strap prior to updating cm11 as many of the nightly release builds contain bugs or defects. This will enable the user to quickly and easily revert to his known good, working system in the event that an update goes sour.

Please bear in mind, [MENTION=4161843]ktimque[/MENTION] that I am not "giving you instructions" although it may appear as such. This is the only way I know of how to give "How To" help and I am not giving orders here. Please feel free to use the tips as you see fit. :D

I am not that good at condensing things down to a small, short list. Anyone here is welcome to edit these tips and if possible, shorten them as necessary. But I think that ktimque gets the general idea.

These are my personal recommendations in a nutshell. Comments, corrections, and additions are welcome. Please reply to this post and add your recommendations for review and inclusion in the Page One Setting up CM11 on the RAZR (Guide v.2) {via Hakarune}. Thanks [MENTION=4161843]ktimque[/MENTION]! :highfive: