On the right track here! Breaking things up this way will save a load of headaches. Which cm-11 are you using?



I had not tried making dsp and whisper user apps. Dsp is small enough and I know nothing about using whisper service.

Another candidate would be the filemanager.



Calendar is on Play and should be installed from there. Hangouts2 should also come off Play.

The original sms app is on the ROM unless you removed it. Not everyone want to bother with Hangouts.



Upgrades to Google Search will need to be downloaded from Play and sideloaded because it is technically not compatible for our device.



I (at least used to) need a gmscore on system, even though it is upgraded by the prebuilt and onwards. Just like phonesky needs be on system while Play has given me new ones since then. Waste of space. I will try removing the prebuilt from system and see if it still works.



Main functionality bug is lack of lockscreen widgets option in Settings.apk. Ideas on this?