[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Oh dude, I am SO glad you checked back here before flashing that kernel. If you have Safe Strap installed and a recent backup, it would not have been a disastor. You could easily restore your backup in Safe Strap and happily move on. That is why I was so carefree about "trying it out". I am meticulous about backing up every good build, then I find that Mass Storage actually works a LOT better in Safe Strap than cm11, so I boot to recovery and then use the Mount Button with USB cable attached to PC and move all the older backups to PC for safekeeping, only keep the last few "good ones", and delete backups that are not marked as "good" by me. When I make a backup, I use a custom name as follows:

Build Date_Comment_Backup Date

E.g.:

10-26-14_SMOOTH_10-29-14

10-06-14_GREAT_10-08-14

10-19-14_LAG_10-22-14

These are the backup names I create so I know what the build date is, how the rom is, and when I made the backup. This makes it easy to find a nice backup to restore and which ones to delete when cleanup time comes. Why would I backup a "lag rom"? Because that is what I currently have, it is not great, and before I update, I want insurance to "go back" if it is worse and not better.

You know, JBX is a very good kernel, but cm11 now has an awful lot going for it. I really do not need all the extra frills of JBX and having to restore it on every update, plus settings in the kernel can conflict with cm11 settings. One has to be

very careful

when changing system settings in Trickster, JBX, and original cm11 Settings because they overlap and conflicts like this can really mess up your phone. So, if I don't really need it or want it, I do not install or use it. Unless I am sure it will do no harm and want some "window dressing", then I would install that module.

Alright, you are all good, Tom. Sorry for the bad advice, that will teach me NOT to "teach when I am too tired to read everything I am recommending". I used up all my Thanks tokens, I give them out freely now because we really are a tight knit community, but I will get you on my next batch. Take care, Tom. ;)

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This is awesome advice. GravityBox is a very good example as well as Trickster of "overlapping system settings" that can really screw up your system if these settings are not in agreement "across the board". You set GravityBox for one type of CPU Governor, CM11 for a different one, change sleep or battery modes, in one module that conflicts with settings or another module, and this is a huge recipe for disaster. Brian is giving us a really good heads up here and we should pay attention to what he is saying.

Essentially what he is advising, and quite wisely is "If you don't really need it, don't install it", OR, to make it a more common slogan, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Excellent advice, Mr. Hughes.

I find that GravityBox can have a very heavy footprint if you get carried away with it. But if you only use if for a particular setting, tweak, or window dressing, it is safe to use. I use GravityBox to allow my pretty icon colors to turn orange if I lose the Google Server connection. I also use it to color my status bar text a nice blue color. I don't do system configs in GravityBox or Trickster (Trickster not installed because I do not need it.) because they overlap system settings, as Brian advised.

I actually do use a fixed IP address for my WiFi because I use port forwarding in my home for things like Remote Desktop, my Apache server, Vuze P2P client, etc. The phone does not require it but it does allow me to create shortcuts to the phone over WiFi if I care to use them. One issue to be careful of when using a fixed IP for WiFi is not to pick a fixed IP for that particular network, say a hospital waiting room that is not on their network. E.g.: use 192.168.0.xxx on a 192.168.1.xxx network! LOL!

You know I didn't even think about that. Many public networks do refresh the settings to keep alive clients and to flush old ones off the net. This will constantly wake the phone and cause battery drain. Now I am bummed out. I am very generous with my Thanks tokens and used up all 8 of them, and right now, Brian's post should get a Thanks. I will wait until midnight and come back for you, Buddy.

One comment I would like to make. I am so generous with Thanks tokens because this group has evolved SO MUCH since day one. I am here on page one, my credits are on the original Harkune Guide to CM11. This group was very difficult to "break the ice" in, ask a question, and actually get an answer. Everyone had obscure avatars and individual cliques. Either you were one of them or your were "an outsider". Once I got my foot in the door, I really tried hard to change that culture and I cannot really claim credit for it, but the culture really did change. We now use our own photos in our avatars. We are all friends here. We compliment each other and are respectful, courteous, and polite. When someone is that sincere, he does not have to be "Linus Torvalds" to get a Thanks from me. Just being part of the group and making a sincere effort to help, report, befriend someone, make a newbie feel welcome, is all ground for Thanks in my book. You don't even have to agree with me. If I say or advise something and another member catches my mistake and corrects me or has a different opinion, that is all good, they get their Thanks for participating. That is how it should be. And you all have been very generous and open to each other. This is really a terrific group man. I almost don't even want a new phone because I would miss this group too much. ..."almost". ;)

Thanks for the great advice Brian, catch up with you at midnight buddy. :good:

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You know, I really want to help this member kayyappan, but I really don't know what the question is. I feel kind of "dumb" now. :p

The Safe Strap screen at boot is necessary, how else would you enter recovery other than a hard button combo press, I guess.

You cannot get into Factory Reset from power off with button combo? I keep notes and let me see if I have button combos for factory menus for you fellow. Okay, I have several saved posts for power button mode selections and will post them for you here, I hope this helps. I think that item #3 is what you are looking for. I don't want to try this because a Factory Reset is NOT something I want to do right now. But so far as I know, these power off button combos really work and I *do* use many of them myself when I get into a jam. HTH

These are posts and notes that I have come across in the past and I save them as my own personal reference guide. I do try to retain credit from the OP if I have that information available with URLs to the original post when I have them.

[MENTION=3782246]kayyappan[/MENTION] if you have a particular question, could you just ask in plain English and I as well as others will try to help you. The tech talk is very good, but I find it distracting as to what your particular question is, no offense intended. I hope these power combos help you, if you need some help with something else, just ask. Everyone is welcome here and we have a lot of collective brain power in this group. Pleased to meet you friend. :cowboy:

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I found this in /Settings/WiFi/3 dot menu/Advanced/ Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep. Tap to change options such as default "Always". Choose "Never" and ignore warning this will increase data usage. There are a couple of other options in this Advanced menu that you might care to look over. HTH. :good:

EDIT:

Folks, there are a lot of you that I want to give Thanks tokens to but I ran out of my 8 for the day. [MENTION=5711114]Bobcus Leper[/MENTION] I wanted to give you one and another for Brian's excellent advice. If anyone here posts something helpful, makes a new member feel welcome, shares their own personal story or configs, is polite and asks reasonable questions and is grateful for it, any of these are good reasons to give Thanks. And be sure I will get to you when my tokens are refreshed at midnight. This is a good group. You participate, you get Thanks. Yes, it really is that simple. :)

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