[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
3 ROMS, Safe Strap, and Partitions

3 ROMS, Safe Strap, and Partitions Sizes

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Alright guys, it seems we have a very active discussion going on here about various roms, what works good, how many roms you have installed, and how you got them all to fit on your Razr device and still have room to work with. The good thing is that everybody here is very civil, polite, and respectful of one another. Now THAT is something I can respect. Yeah, I am starting to feel bad again (Back Pain, Disability) so I may not make it here every day, but I will get the ball rolling.

This is a rather lengthy survey and discussion. You don't have to participate but if no one does, then we will not get accurate information that would indeed help everyone. Please reply in anyway that you are comfortable with. You need not follow my instructions to the letter, do what you are comfortable with. I am not an expert on Safe Strap, roms, or Partition Sizes. Anyone is welcome to correct me, provide more accurate information, or clarify anything discussed. Your input is welcome. Thanks Guys!

To get anywhere with this discussion, we must address a few points here and I need input from those who comfortably run 3 roms on their phones, those with Safe Strap partition experience, and anyone interested that wants to participate.

First Issue: Installed ROMS

What ROMs do you have installed and running on your device?

Ohmster Installed ROMs: Stock - Verizon Stock JB, Slot 1 - CM11

What roms are you running? For me, I am using the stock Verizon JB rom that came with the phone. The very same rom you get when you use Matt's Utility to get a rooted, working rom on your Razr if you brick it or just want to start over. Note: I do follow the instructions on the aforementioned Matt's Utility page, but use the Utility provided by Brian Hughes, [MENTION=1807728]brkahughes[/MENTION] because it is updated.

Brian Hughes All-In-One XT912 Utility to:

Reflash Stock ROM/Root Stock ROM/Install SafeStrap

UPDATED!​

My 2nd rom, installed on slot1, is of course, my favorite, CyanogenMod ROM #11. Work in progress, very much beta software, but extremely well done, if you get a good nightly installed, IMHO.

Third rom I currently do not have installed, although I did install PA in slot2. It did work and work quite well, but internal storage was near nill (100Mb) thus I had to dump it and delete the slot as the lack of internal storage now affected every rom on the phone. No space to download, install, or update anything. When I had this issue before in cm11, I would got to Settings/About Phone/CyanogenMod Updates. From there, I would hold a finger on any downloaded rom and choose Delete. Each deleted downloaded rom would free up about 200Mb of Internal Storage. Sometimes I would gain a Gig of space this way.

Second Issue: Safe Strap partition sizes

What are your current Safe Strap Slot Partition Sizes?

I will publish my current Safe Strap partition sizes and will ask that you do the same, please.

Ohmster's Current Safe Strap Partition Sizes

Stock Slot - Stock

System: 636Mb - 24Mb Free

Data: 3078Mb - 2064 Free

Cache: 1007Mb - 974Mb Free

Slot 1 - CM11

System: 688Mb - 102Mb Free

Data: 2952Mb - 2695Mb Free

Cache: 295Mb - 279Mb Free

Please boot to recovery, tap Boot Options, and tap each installed rom to read the current partition sizes. Write them down on paper and reboot to use a Mobil App to publish here, or,

post on a PC and enter your current partition sizes in your post. Copy and Paste this template and fill in your sizes. Replace the question marks ? with your rom version, replace the asterisks * with your current sizes in Safe Strap, please.

You do not have to do this, but to make this work, your information and data are crucial to make this work and provide useful information for everyone that wants to install several roms on their Razr Devices.

NOTE: After seeing my own partition sizes published here, I went back to Safe Strap, backed up my current cm11 rom, deleted slot1, and then recreated it with my DATA partition set to 2Gb instead of 3GB since I am only using 1Gb of DATA currently with this rom. These are the Default Safe Strap settings. Now if only I could do the same for stock. :(

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Stock Slot - Stock

System: * Mb - * Mb Free

Data: * Mb - * Free

Cache: * Mb - * Free

Slot 1 - ?

System: * Mb - * Free

Data: * Mb - * Free

Cache: * Mb - * Free

Slot 2 - ?

System: * Mb - * Free

Data: * Mb - * Free

Cache: * Mb - * Free

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Third and Final Issue and Closing: Your Comments and Evaluation of Installed ROMs

How do you like your installed roms and what do you like/dislike about them? Comments?

* I wanted to address storage here but the post is already getting pretty long. My Storage/Internal Storage (8Gb) shows that I have 3.23Gb free. What do you have?

I really do not like my stock Verizon rom very much. It is Jellybean and thus, very slow by today's standards. It bogs down quickly, is rather large for a rom, is bloated, and I cannot easily remove all of the bloat. Since I do not boot to it often, I usually have many, many Play Store updates due for install. I have turned off "Automatic Updates" but still do like to keep my apps up to date. I cannot trim or alter the stock rom slot partitions, I have 2Gb free in my Data partition and this annoys me very much. :(

I love CM11 and I make sure to keep a good build installed to use everyday, for day to day use. I always use Safe Strap to backup my "good roms" and revert back to them when any update is unsatisfactory in the cm11 NIGHTLIES line of updates. I create new backups of "good roms" when I update them.

From the results of my own published data, it appears I could easily reduce the Data partition for CM11 comfortably by 500Mb-1000Gb.

Even I am learning something from this discussion right now! :D

Thanks for reading this and special thanks if you are able to participate and will volunteer your personal data for this survey/discussion. 'night guys! :fingers-crossed: :cowboy: