[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
WARNING: This is a very long, chatty post. Everyone is excused. Note from guidance counselor not required, you are excused.. :p

Heh, heh. :D

Holy Cow! I never dreamed anyone would read all of this stuff, much less answer ALL of it. I am very impressed, Mr. Krestian. Very impressed. :victory:

I can't help it. I like to talk, at length, ...sometimes. No really, this was a long one but I do really try not to do that often. But these chats give us a chance to bring out issues and things that just do not fit in a "quick question". Some have time for it, others just want a fast answer or to help with a quick answer and then go watch Breaking Bad or whatever.

Like this "phone lag". It is really bugging me and I can't be the only one. But nobody really mentions it. And how many apps is "too much". Yes, you are right Krestian. It does depend on what kind, but we will get into that. Just trying to set the tone for conversation and express appreciation for your generous reply, my friend. ;)

Yep, [MOD][Xposed] Disable Google Location consent IS the one that disables that consent for cell tower permission, every time you use it. It is very annoying. I installed it a long time ago to get rid of that extra step, every time. But to my delight, I reinstalled it and found that it took away that annoying "Use WiFi for Navigation?" question too! Sweet, now when you want maps and navigation, you go directly to the app and not have to stop for Google's interrogation. I didn't do the first link yet, I got too much stuff to do during the day and at night, well, I get tired and also want to play. America's Army on a super rig with dual monitors that I built. Install it man, this *is* what you want. :)

40 step volume control? Now I am an electronic tech, specialized in audio until digital came along and planted it's huge footprint. This is something I would love to see. :...easier / lighter solution?" What do you mean? You feel that Xposed Framework itself and a few light modules will add appreciable lag to the system? Nah, I don't believe that. Although there are *many* modules that have very deep system hooks and are quite bloated. Now *those* kind of modules for sure would slow down the system. I might remove some of mine that I like but do not use much for that reason.

I use Xposed so I will go find that module and test it for you right now. If it does what you say, I want it anyway. Found it, XVolume. You can download/install from inside the framework. Click the Support link for XDA developer discussion thread. Doing it now.

Here is another one, but you have to Flash this file to use it. Seems like a bit more work to make it go but could be interesting project. Bookmark or put in Pocket for later. {Mod & Tuto} 30/45 Steps Volume Project

Oh cool, you can change media and phone volumes from 15 to 30 or 45 steps. Got media to 45, phone to 30. Let's try it out. Hmm, that is only 15 steps, I counted them. Have to reboot to activate many modules, maybe that is it. Oh yeah, check box to activate, "Module will become active on next boot".

Oh man, I forgot to get an 1/8" HP cord from Radio Shack for the PC so I can plug in my phone. I use one in the car but that is becoming history, the jack is clearly wearing out. There must be a Bluetooth to analog audio via 1/8" HP jack cheap adapter out there, somewhere! Probably on Amazon. I will find it and announce it for those with audio problems.

Okay let's try Slacker Radio again. OMG, there is really 45 steps now! Cool, bra, thanks! XVolume really jams! :laugh:

Yeah! Your description of how lousy this lag is is spot on, dude. I dream about the days when cm11 was greased lighting in a small box again... ...sigh! :(

Yes, I heard that Liquid Smooth is all that *and* a bag of chips. Smooth and fast, just like you say. Pretty much everything works, but not as many features as cm11, I believe.

(Oh crud, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on the 2nd monitor is over, need to find another show to watch, BRB...

...Pawn Stars, yeah, I could do that.)

I am really dying to try Liquid Smooth and love the multiple rom slots in Safe Strap. But, I only have enough internal card space to support my stock Jellybean and cm11. There are more slots open, but no storage available to use them. I "could" backup cm11, then install LS for a while, then restore when I need cm11 back, but that is not practical at all. Just the setup and learning curve of LS will take my phone and all the apps I use out of service for days if not longer. So, I am out of the LS game since I really am loyal to CyanogenMod and really love their roms. I cannot run another rom on this phone due to lack of internal card space. :(

I really miss that "Lightning Fast Kit Kat" that I found in cm11, back a ways early on in the development. Or at least usable with a very low to zero frustration quotient again.

... /data/tombstones? OMG, there really is a folder called that. I have wiped /data before and man was that ever a mistake. What exactly does wiping tombstones do? I am in ES File Explorer now and I am intrigued. What are all these files, can I read them? Open as text. NOT. Properties. No clue and I do not have a hex editor. Okay, I will install Hex Editor just to find out. Oh wow, it pops right open in Hex Editor now in ES. Must be binary. OMG, the app does not work at all. Black screen, FC. Reboot? Yeah, it works now. ...checking inner busy box. This thing looks serious, man. App never actually opens, mixed reviews. I give up, uninstall it.

So what is with the tombstones and what will deleting it do? I want to do it but I do not want to do it blind. Late. Tired. Thank you.

No no! Trebuchet is good now. I have Apex Pro, paid version and my desktop is all still there, Apex allows me to save the desktop. Plus I have it in my backups. I *loved* Trebuchet back in cm10 when it was fully developed but would not touch it in cm11 because it was nowhere near stable. The devs put a LOT of work into bringing back Trebuchet and not only making it work, but loading it up with features and themes. Remember back in July when the devs activated the theme engine in Trebuchet? OMG, it totally destroyed the nightly roms for almost a month! Scared me off the cm11 roms so bad I would not touch them again until the very end of July when Stargo told me that was all fixed and there are no more crash UI, black screen, or any other issues in cm11 anymore. I took the plunge, no one else would, and he was right, all fixed now.

Brian Hughes was going on and on about the features and this new "CMHOME" thing so I turned it back on to try it out. I love it so much I kept Trebuchet and started building my desktop again. Rebuilding the desktop is what stopped me from tryinig it out earlier. I am too lazy to want to do it but it is not that hard to do, took me a day or two to get a good desktop back, and now it is 80% complete. Go ahead, try it, it is cool. Just changing home screens does not destroy your Apex desktop. Switch back and it was exactly the way you left it. Try the neat Trebuchet menu, hold the bottom of the screen with finger on the desktop dots and see the Trebuchet menu come up. Swipe up with finger to bring up the entire custom menu. Do the rest in Settings. I really like Brian Hughes. He irks me to the point of getting off my butt and trying things. Heh! :mad:

See? This is why once in a while I do long talks. I have real friends here. :laugh:

Nope. Nothing. Well at the very first times I used a few select features in the stock battery saver, but nothing after that, and stock didn't last too long either... probably 6 months or so :laugh:[/QUOTE]

So what's the deal, krestian? Are you saying you pretty much run a barren phone in cm11 just so it runs smooth? Tell me about deleting this tombstone directory and what it does. Where did you hear this, got a URL? Really nice talking to you. I gave up the entire night for this. But it was fun. Time for some fun. I spent $2K on parts to build this dual monitor SSD gaming rig and want to get my money's worth now. Night night! :highfive:

Tombstones:

Oh, deleting /data/tombstones is safe. This dude got a pretty good description of it:

The tombstone directory is used when an app crashes in Linux. When the crash occurs, a sort of system dump is placed in the tombstone directory. That dump can then be used by a developer to try and determine why the app crashed.

Yes, it is a real Linux crash dump folder. These tombstones can get pretty big and eat up your card space. I got ten of them and the size of them are several hundred meg each! They are good for nothing and harmless to delete. Thank God, card space back. Good looking out, krestian! :highfive: