[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
...really? I am all set to green light this build. Initial install went smooth, upon boot it took the typical 2 minutes to "settle down" and what this means is:

Google Calendar fills in events and dates.

Transparent clock & weather fills in date, time, and weather.

CPUFreq in Statusbar settles down to a smooth, green, 300MHz purr in statusbar.

Phone is now fast, smooth as "butta", and is waiting for input from me. Dialpad up in ½ a second. Contact to Maps to Navigation in about one minute.

I personally need some sort of very lightweight system monitor so I can see if my phone is chugging, working hard when it should not be, or is stuck. The best one I found so far that is not impacting the system with it's own lag is CPUFreq in Statusbar. Every second it updates the CPU speed and is color coded. Green for low 300MHz, Yellow for intermediate load 800MHz, and red for full blast 1200MHz. I like it because almost all the time, when I have the phone adjusted right, I see the comforting green 300M purr in the statusbar. Not only the number helps but how it behaves as well. If the number seem stuck, then the phone may very well be stuck or under such a high load it cannot even update. You get "a feel for it" after using it for a short time. Others do not need helpers like this and I have tried many. Almost all of them would put such a load on the system with all the information they gather that they themselves put my system under strain. This one only reports what is already in the system files that are a part of Android anyway. This one does not have to gather it's own stats, it reports what the system already knows.

* Custom Setting: /Settings/Performance/Processor/CPU Governor/ONDEMAND

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* A few members have reported issues with late builds and this governor setting made it right. I use it because I like the performance it give and does not affect the battery very much. This is the most commonly used governor that cellphone manufacturers and providers use because it is fast and a good balance between performance and battery consumption.

* I cannot speak for MyBackupPro. Everyone here is serious about their roms and ALL of us use Titanium Backup. It costs $1.59 more, lifetime license, and install on as many devices as you like. This is "The Tool" to have. Restoring all apps or apps and data haphazardly is what screws up your phone faster than almost anything else. The options in TiBu are vast and suited to all of your needs.

* Don't use th 10/07 rom for your initial install. It really has not been fully tested yet. Use the link down below to get the 10/02 build install. It really does not matter what build you install, as long as it is not "ancient". The idea here is to get a good running, up to speed rom where you tame and beat all those apps back into submission and the phone waits for you, not the other way around.

I wrote so many How-To files for individuals here and there that none of them are complete, concise, and easy to read. I am getting ready to write another one, complete this time with credits for all of the people that helped me over the past 6-9 months. I heard "Go Clean" over and over and even tried it once, but within a couple of days, I am back to stuck in the pan, tap and wait, screen lag, black screen, and everything else. Clearly, "Go Clean" was only ½ the puzzle and that last ½ took me a long time to gather from bits and pieces. I will get to the new guide soon enough. Right now you need help.

I know a few basic facts:

Install CLEAN: Delete rom slot, recreate, adjust SS DATA partition down to 2GB

Install fresh pa-gapps and a known good build of cm11

Reboot and finish Startup Wizard

Go immediately to Play Store and stop Google from putting every app you ever had back on your phone! STOP the download!

While in Play Store/Settings, do not permit automatic updates

Test your phone now for functionality, performance, and speed

If all checks good, immediatly boot to Safe Strap and backup this new install, give it label such as "BASE" as in "install base"

Boot back to cm11. Use Titanium Backup to fine tune your install by freezing and uninstalling apps you never use like Apollo, Google Play News, Exchange, anything else

Open Greenify and put to sleep all running apps that are not essential to a typical phone

Recheck performance and speed

Slowly, as needed, restore your apps from Titanium Backup (No Data) or Play Store

Recheck performance and speed

Restore Xposed Framework and ONLY install the few modules you really need. Be very careful not to install big modules that do "many things" to or with the system. Not so much for decorative items.

Recheck performance and speed

Periodically recheck performance and speed

Anytime your performance, speed, and stability fails, go back to Safe Strap and restore that good base install and try again

This time, go more slowly and check performance more often in an effort to see what apps you are restoring that are slowing down the system

When you make significant progress on rebuilding the phone you want and performance checks out, make a new backup

Run Greenify every time you install apps or every once in a while to see if any non-essential apps are running and tap the + button to see if there are anymore apps you can put to sleep

Always backup good installs before updating from OTA /Settings/About Phone/CyanogenMod Updates

Anytime a new update is worse than the build you had, restore your backup and wait for a good one

Ask or look in group for recent confirmed good builds for updating

That's it in a nutshell. Two essential apps that are a must have for every serious rommer are:

Titanium Backup Pro (Paid Version), comes with lifetime registration and can install on numerous devices. Cost $6.58.

Greenify W/Donation Pack. The donation version is good because you can put system apps to sleep like Google Play Books and things like that. Donation is very inexpensive, $2.99.

By reading this stuff, where did you differ, Tom? Those instructions, especially the part of flashing only fresh pa-gapps and a known good version of cm11 only are paramount. Recent known good version: cm-11-20141002-NIGHTLY-spyder.zip

Yeah, there is more to this, especially the maintenance of the system, how to use Titanium Backup, and I will write a complete guide once and for all. But what is written here is sure to give any user with a good phone a perfectly working cm11 system. 10/07 so far for me is a good build. But I have not tried it for a complete day yet nor have I used it for a fresh install. The 10/02 file above should be fine. Look man, spend the $9.57 on the two mandatory apps and get it over with. You will use those two apps more than any other but for Safe Strap when you rom your own phone.

So where are you at? Are you far into this new install? Did it ever work fine initially? Did it slow down once you put your stuff back? Did you make a backup of the initial base install if it checked good? Can you restore it? If no, do it again, use the 10/02 file, and the mini-modular pa-gapps package. Let me know where you are at and I will help you further. :good: