[Droid RAZR M Android Development] osum101:
Hello again :)

PS: it's a long post, you can skip directly to the end for the Short version.

Also posting from my phone so sorry in advance for any typos and bad formatting.

[MENTION=5417899]DiamondJohn[/MENTION] thank you very much for the prompt response, and sorry for getting back very late. I get extremely busy during weekdays and I can't actually have my phone off for installing Roma, andbacking up/restoring data, so I had to do it at night and also I wanted to actually try everything I could think of before posting again.

Here is the long version

>Updated to 3.1 TWRP as per OP

>Tried ALL of the roms, same exact behavior, though other roms took shorter times than RR to boot.

>can't pull down notifications panel, home and recent menu keys don't work, can't enable Dev Options

>landscape mode didn't work, and when I tap the home and recent key the touches do register and I can see the touch animation (since you said I could enable screen touch highlighter). And when I tap build number there is no toast message, nothing

>I'm certain the heat up and usually high battery consumption isn't because of SD cars as removing it had the same results. And I won't think of checking the battery consumption on a first boot I know what to expect :), but it was actually extremely unusually hot I couldn't even hold it in my hands. The battery dropped like crazy too. The charging was EXTREMELY slow too.

Also, it would also heat and charge at the same snail pace even if I plugged it in when powered off.

>tried full wipe, rewipe and resinstall of all Roms, same results. Checked logs, nothing abnormal expect CrDroid has a couple "command unsuccessful" messages at the end (which I kinda recall somebody, or maybe you said is expected in one of the older 7.1 Roms threads. Sorry I'm not 100% sure and I could be remembering wrong)

So as per your advice, I decided to give it a go WITHOUT GApps

>RR first, formated data to F2FS, full wipe, Rom boots up AND ITS WORKING!!!!!!!

>I have Navbar working, notifications panel works and successfully enabled developer options ??

>just to check, I flashed CrDroid without GApps, it works perfectly fine

>Also the phone isn't heating like before, battery drain is a little more than my older LOS 13 rom but it's perfectly explainable by the CPU overclock and nothing that would make the decvice difficult to use.

>battery charging is still slow.

Now I was ready to fully install the rom since I've got it working now :)

DAY 1

>flashed RR again without GApps, everything works.

>used it like that for a bit, with my sim and it works fine.

>reboot to recovery, flashed the same Nano GApps I was trying before and hoped for the best.

>rom boots, everything works fine ?, I copy back my telegram, whatsapp and SMSContactsBackup folders to internal memory and reboot.

>installed Titanium Backup, root access works fine. Resorted only whatsapp, telegram and SMSContactsBackup (but didn't use SMSContactsBackup to restore anything yet) apps . Working :)

>battery drain is there, and charging is still really slow but no abnormal heating at least.

>for some strange reason the downloading is slow when updating apps from playstore (the default GApps stuff, didn't install anything new). It starts around 30-40 KB/s and then every couple seconds goes up 10 KB/s but didn't go above 80 KB/s, my home net has 150 KB/max). And no, nothing else was connected to Wi-Fi, connected my LG V10 to Wi-Fi and confirmed that Wi-Fi was actually working fine.

Strangely, it's just the downloading that's slow, the "wallpapers" app loads wallpapers just as quickly as expected and Also downloads new wallpapers fast enough for my connection speed. Didn't check anything to see Wi-Fi performance.

DAY 2

>used Titanium Backup again, restored much of my apps and also some system data such as time and language settings, accounts but app got stuck on trying to restore sms, probably because I have over 26k sms in over 6k threads (it's my work ?).

>used SMSContactsBackup to restore SMS, painfully slow but it restored everything with correct date and threads intact. Used same for restoring contacts and call logs.

>been making and receiving calls, 3G and WiFi works just as good as before. Haven't gotten around to checking Bluetooth yet.

> a few times when receiving calls, I couldn't hear the other person and also he couldn't hear me, but most probably some network anamoly since made and received a lot of calls that worked fine.

>battery charging is back to normal again :), and the drain is actually much less now compared to Day 1 (but I'd still like to downclock).

>everything i restored from Titanium is working great.

>so far, its been running great for 2 full days now ?. I haven't gotten around to customizing it though.

THE TL DR version

>tried all rooms, same results, home and recent keys don't work, can't pull down notifications panel, and can't enable developer options. Phone gets too hot and battery charging is painfully slow. Tried full wipes and rewipe, no luck.

>flashed CrDroid and then RR WITHOUT GApps, everything worked.

>flashed RR again, it works again ?, reboot to recover and flashed GApps Nano, reboot and all is working good. Battery drain less than before, no abnormal heating, Wi-Fi is slow, battery charging still slow.

>restored a lot of apps, some system data such as time language settings, accounts using Titanium Backup, everything is working fine.

>haven't checked Bluetooth and Camera yet, everything else from Calls, Wi-Fi etc works great.

>Wi-Fi downloading is working fine now, battery performance improved by a lot after 1 day.

Big thanks to [MENTION=5417899]DiamondJohn[/MENTION] for the hard work and thanks everybody here for the posts on threads that helped clear a few confusions.

One last thing, does the RR rom has the "kill app with back button" thing, (maybe it's hidden somewhere in the rom settings that I don't know about). Because that's one of my most used functions on my older roms.