[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Trebuchet and battery/wake stats

Man, I am getting super good stats with Trebuchet and my wakelock detector. Look at these beautiful stats I am getting for deep sleep in Wakelock Detector. I just love this.

I also love my Transparent Weather widget. Battery Doctor constantly complains that this widget is a battery hog, but the stats really do not back it up. That shot of my home screen in Trebuchet with the nice colored clock, Location, wind speed, icon for cloudy, is really neat. Updates are set for every ½ hour although you can change it. Tap the clouds to get the 5 day forecast, tap the clock to get the alarm clock settings, and the colors, fonts, icons, are all things you can pick. This is something I have to have. If you installed the Alarm Clock Plus Xposed module, you can have the alarm clock speak to you to wake up and tell you the time. I use it with SVOX Victoria UK female voice. That woman is amazing and she does all the talking for me. :D

These late July and August build really rock and are solid. Someone mentioned that I am skittish about installing new updates willy-nilly and they are right, I am. I do not want to chance ruining my phone on an untested rom. But since testing and reporting since Jake/Shaun died all but stopped, someone had to set an example and begin testing and reporting again. Besides, I had the green light from Stargo, we are friends and talk when we can. With that kind of support, let the testing begin and I am so pleased about it. This seemed to jump start the group about testing and reporting again so we all can update with confidence. I am now on 08/05 and love it. I may go for 08/06 since I backup all good installations. Then I delete the older ones or move them to my PC with AirDroid, ES File Manager (Does WiFi, local files, rooted, and even cloud drives like dropbox and gdrive) or USB cable.

ES File Explorer File Manager is probably THE BEST tool you can have for file management, although the cm11 file manager is quite good for rooted local files. Because it can transfer files just about anywhere. Local files, root files, LAN files over WiFi, and cloud drives. Files go between my phone, tablet, and PC with ease, every time. You just cannot imagine how big of a time saver it is to be able to put and take files to gdrive and dropbox this way. AirDroid is quite good but nothing so far is as versatile as ES File Manager. Jake used AirDroid almost exclusively. No Android device should be without it, and, it is free. :D

What makes me nervous about updates are the ones with tons of stuff in the changelog. More things to go wrong or more features added that will have to be debugged. That is not always the case so if you make a good Safe Strap backup, it is really nothing to worry about.

Just wanted to report on how things are going, 08/05 is very good. I did have the oppertunity to drive up the local highway for about a mile and watched the signal strength. It varied widely in such a short drive, anywhere from 5 bars to 1 bar or less. Always maintaining that 4G signal. I did look at Settings/Stats to get a more accurate idea of signal strength. -76 dBm right now at 5 full bars, -80-97 during the ride and that is where I went from 5 bars to 1 or less. Negative numbers means lower numbers give higher strength. -70 dBm is a very strong signal, -80-85 is also very strong.

Well, I cannot sleep just yet so I am installing 08/06 as it does not appear to be so scary. Will let you all know if there is anything bad about it. 08/06 is not showing in the online changelog yet, but it does show in CM Updates on the phone. The changelog is not very scary. ;)

I have chatted enough and shared what I could. Now if I could only get tired somehow. Probably not, will snack, watch TV, and go to Social Security tomorrow to straighten out some things and take a nap. Night guys! :cowboy: