[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Poll Question: Does your CM11 device lag or run slow?

That is good advice. Never thought to disable Google play battery use to use privacy guard on it. That is a cool idea, I never use privacy guard but maybe it is about time to try it out. Yes, quite a few Xposed modules, I really like them. I can disable them all pretty easily and see if it makes things run smoother or give more battery life.

Can't try another rom w/out trashing cm11. Well, can backup, then trash it, but that would leave me out there for days, strictly dependent on a rom I know nothing about. Makes me nervous because my stock rom is Jellybean and every time I open it. Google goes nuts updating at least 35 things and this ties up the phone pretty bad. I might have to think about a newer stock rom.

Anyone with suggestions for a good, solid, stock, usable rom for the Razr other than Matt's?

Matt's is really good but it is "old". That is really the only problem with it.

Alright, let me go over this advice. Good looking out DC! :D

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Ugh, yeah, this phone really does not have the space to comfortably run a couple of different roms and use the apps we want. Put in cm11, make it nice, take out cm11, try something else, go back and put in cm11 again... Maybe when I was younger and more ambitious, but not now. I really do not have time to get "that far" into phones and roms. I want to actually *use* the thing, every day. And take pictures, and use gps navigation, and listen to music, and do all the cool stuff that a smart phone can do.

You said a couple of really good things:

if you haven't used an app, a single time, in the last couple months you probably don't need it

you probably don't have the time or interest to try it right now

you are already using another app for that particular need out of the 5 or 6 you had planned to run along for comparison. i.e.: PDF reader

I have Acrobat Reader installed and now I found the pay version of ezPDF Reader online for free and this one let's you write on the pdf files. I really do not need both.

This is good stuff here:

As much as I hate it, I am going to have to do this. :mad:

I am not sure what you are talking about with the Samsung stuff. I have a Razr phone and a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Tablet, all running cm11. The tablet is very smooth and fast, but only has internal space of 16Gb, but for some reason Storage lists it at 11.87Gb. I had this issue before in cm10, it took over 6 months to find out "where the heck did all of our internal storage go". The issue was far worse, more than ½ of the internal storage was just "gone". Everybody was posting about it and one guy finally nailed it, but he got no coverage on it so I reposted for him to get the message out.

Installing the new version of cm10.2, I think it was, "some version of cm10", simply installed the OS on free space on the internal SDCard and it did not wipe or format the card first. The answer was to boot to recovery, (I was using CWM on the tablet so this was easy to do.) format the internal SDCard, and allow Google to repopulate your apps, restore anything else from TiBu. It worked! I got all my internal space back. For whatever reason, SS would not allow you to truly format the internal card but would do a "rm --rf" command instead and you could not un-check this option. I did my tablet in CWM and it worked very well. I am really nervous about doing that on the phone, though. I am scared it will wipe all my stuff, and it will unless I backup the entire card to PC first, then restore personal files back to the phone. But, I am afraid it will not even boot if I do this.

Thanks for the advice and great tips. I am trying not to "write another book" that really irks a lot of members. This is already getting pretty long, I have to stop now. Goodnight and Thanks, Krestian. :cool:

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Poll Question: Does your CM11 device lag or run slow?

Ugh, I cannot get this question into a separate post until someone else posts something. There is like no way around this, XDA is going to link all of my posts. In your reply, please find Poll Question: Does your CM11 device lag or run slow? and delete everything above it. Thanks.

Gee, we really do not have a "poll or vote option" in this forum. I am running cm11 build 08/14 and am really happy at how well it works. But really, this thing is starting to lag so bad it is almost like back in the Jellybean days when "The day the apps took over" occurred.

Jellybean did not introduce any new features but it seemed to really "grease the wheels" and make everything run much smoother and better. That did not last too long. Within 6 months, maybe, the apps got so big, and so aggressive, they literally took over the phone. Apps would not quite, they had no "Exit" button. They grew in size so much that space became an issue, and will all of this going on, the phone slowed to a crawl.

It does not seem quite that bad with cm11 now, but it looks like Speedy Gonzales has left town for good. :(

[IMG="Speedy Gonzales from Road Runner cartoon"]http://home.comcast.net/~theohmster/image/SG-Razr.jpg[/IMG]

* Why do I need this information and why should you participate?

Because I want to take this issue to the CM dev team for analysis and to see if anything can be done about it. Before I/we can do that, I/we need a really big sample of how other CM11 users find the experience of cm11 performance. If most users find the rom slow or too slow compared to other roms, this is a serious issue and needs to be addressed. If it only affects me and a few others, then maybe the performance issue is due to my own install and setup.

I have about 240 apps installed and 19 Xposed modules installed. I could really use some help here with some other people's experience with cm11.

How many apps do you have installed? You can check when you wipe the Dalvik cache or flash an update. Watch the number of apps being "installed" as the device boots up.

How many Xposed modules are you running? Check Framworks, Modules and count them.

Are you satisfired with the speed of operation on your phone? Do apps load fast enough to be of use or does it take so long to load something that it is simply not worth the effort anymore? e.g.: load maps to navigation and ready to go.

Any other comments on the current state of cm11 roms?

If using another rom such as Liquid Smooth, have you "pimped out" the rom and desktop with all of your favorite apps or is it rather empty but for core features? Do you find this other rom, name please, runs faster and smoother than cm11?

For me, cm11 is good enough for day to day use, but I really miss the initial speed that Kit Kat and cm11 showed us during the early stages of development. Before themes were introduced and the rom got so loaded with features, the memory management was strict and this made the phone, very fast. Not so much anymore. Have the apps finally found a way around Kit Kat's strict memory management or is something else going on?

Thanks for participating in the survey. Something like this is a group effort. I am pretty sure that others would be as interested to see the results as I am. See you in the results! :fingers-crossed: