[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Hey girl!

Wow, for Sherri, this is quite an Epic Novel. LOL! :laugh:

Well, master or not, you know enough about rom partitions in Safe Strap, how to set them up and utilize almost every speck of space. Even space I might consider insignificant to bother with, but it all adds up. So master or not, it is good enough for me. :)

Oh, well looky here, new stuff pops up in the middle of a reply! Get to it in a minute...

Your setup, uninstall, freeze, and what you leave on system all makes perfect sense. That is something I learned from you and still use to this very day. Thank you kindly for that, [MENTION=2971166]Sherri.[/MENTION] :good:

You got me on "Phone Weaver", I had to look that one up. Hmmm, a profile manager and a tad pricy, at that. The built in profile manager is not good enough? I ask because I really don't use profiles much. I don't have a need for it like a work profile and a home profile. You like and use that, huh?

All good and then the phone froze...

TiBu of all things! Ooooh, you are trying to move things in the rom that cannot be moved. Got it.

Shame, no really "good roms" out there. Well, we do run outdated hardware, but the XT910/912 phones never really were "junk" to begin with. A $600 smartphone, even two years ago, is still a pretty good smartphone. We should be able to get some really positive use out of it.

"A good rom on the stock side". Yeah, me too. Too scared to put anything else in stock because

stock does work.

My issue with it is that I don't boot to it for a very long time. Could be 6 months or more. Then when I do boot it in a crunch, it lags like heck, all apps are way out of date, and the rom is just not "ready" to scream and perform the way I need it to, like "right now". Unless I spend time "tuning it back up" and when I am late for an appointment, need navigation and a reliable phone, that is NOT the time to "tune up" my stock rom! :eek:

Aside from the epic novel issue (I use a PC, easy to write long posts. But I forget that people are using this forum on their phones and reading/writing long posts is not very welcome.), I tend to "stack projects" and because of it, nothing gets done. I want to make space for another rom slot, I want to get another dependable rom installed to use and experiment with, now I want to dump stock JB and move CM11, Build 11/07 over to it. Too much stuff, nothing gets done!

This "move something else to stock" issue is a new one. And would need to be done first if I am going to do it at all. What can I put there that I know I can depend on beside Jellybean Stock? I am starting to get a pretty good idea now. CM11 Nightly Build 11/07 has been a real "winner" for me. I liked it when I installed it. I liked it when I posted the build report. I liked it when everything else failed. And I like it "again" because it does what it should, always, every time, never fails, and is lacking for nothing. I already filed 11/07 as a significant "Keeper", but it is slowly working it's way into my "Legendary" shelf. I am going to keep using it and if I cannot find anything to complain about, this may very well *be* my Stock Rom replacement.

I can tell you this with confidence because I have run 11/07 for many, many weeks and have reverted back to it on several occasions. I have enough "run time" on 11/07 to be this confident. You might not. You might have enough run time on a different rom to select it for a stock replacement. But it looks like so far you do not. I am still not "quite there yet". For me, this 11/07 build has beaten every other late release rom every time. I need a "set it and forget it" rom for the stock slot and the stock JB rom is not it, although I can make it work when I need to. And it does work when I update it and get it settled in. This rom so far, in several weeks run time, has never had an FC, never had a black screen, never lagged of it's own accord, and has a 100% reliability rating, so far.

The music apps are another story. Every time they update, they get worse. They wake up Facebook, Messenger, and Google because they want a "Like" or a thumbs up on social media now. They chug and choke loading all of this bloat just to stream music (And shove ads down your throat, and get you to praise it on Google and Facebook, and drop what you are doing and give it a 5 star rating right now, and, and, AND!). A streaming music app is nothing more than a TCP socket to music server with a way to select the desired stream. Nothing more, until they bloat it with insidious adware. And they get worse with every update. :(

Conclusion, I do have and can make another Stock Rom Safe Strap backup and restore it if things do not work out so replacing stock is not as scary as it sounds. I just have to select something that I really, really like to do it with. And I am getting closer to that choice as the weeks go by and I find the same nightly build saving the day, each time I really need it. :)

Thanks for the report and advice, Sherri. I know you are a very organized person and if it works for you, it might work for me. I just wanted to see what you have going over there and it sounds like you are not afraid to try new roms, looking for the one you really like. Shame you have not found it yet. But that is a very difficult thing to find, at least I think so. I copied your post to text file reference, I hope you don't mind. If I do get 11/07 over to stock and it works out, I will let you know. Not that you have to take my recommendations but at least you will know if it works and if it is safe. Goodnight Sherri. :cowboy:

EDIT:

We used to use the platform.xml edit many months ago in here. Then Google did something to Android to pretty much make that near impossible. I think they were gearing up for Android 5.0 and locking us out of our ext-sdards is really stupid, if you ask me. Somehow saving and moving to ext-sdcard works very well in cm11. It could be that Micheal enabled it for us. He is really dedicated and looks out for us, a lot. I guess if tonyt. does not incorporate it into his rom, it will never get done. You "could try" sending him a PM or two of praise and disappointment because you really need and cannot do without the ext-sdcard space to move your apps. Most guys respect and will bend a bit for a pretty lady who is well spoken, and you *do* have that much going for you, Sherri. ;)