[Motorola Droid X2] clcrawl:
DISCLAIMER

MYSELF, THE GOOD PEOPLE ON THIS FORUM, AND/OR THE DEITY YOU PRAY TO ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BRICK YOUR PHONE. THERE IS ALWAYS A RISK AND FRANKLY IT IS HIGHER FOR MX2 USERS SINCE WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF SBF OPTIONS. TO SUM IT UP, IF YOU BRICK YOUR PHONE I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE, YOU AGREE TO THIS IF YOU CONTINUE BELOW!

UPDATES

02/23/2012

- Thanks to jonb42 who pointed out a typo I made on DataCollectorProvider, I had it listed as DataCollectorService. In addition, because I ended up freezing some other things he mentioned I initially didn't list I have now listed them. There is still plenty more one can freeze as an FYI.

02/17/2012

- It was pointed out by someone that freezing Yahoo Contacts will destroy your contacts app. This was certainly the case with 2.3.5 for me, however it so far has NOT done this in 2.3.6. If I remember correctly even in 2.3.5 you could freeze Yahoo Contacts but you also had to freeze a few other apps for your contacts to function. If anyone else does this please feel free to report back on this.

02/17/2012

- Previously I had various apps that required a battery pull marked as such. A budy of mine used the guide and had totally different results as to what applications required a battery pull so I removed said warnings as they seem to be sporadic.

Why are you doing this?

I am making this thread for anyone with the MX2 running 2.3.6 looking for a way to get more performance out of their phone. To be clear this DOES NOT apply to the Droid X2, you fellows have a few custom ROM options which are far easier to implement, unfortunately most Milestone X2's are now at 2.3.6 and don't have said options since most custom ROMs are based on 2.3.4 or 2.3.5.

Prerequisites

Your phone must be rooted.

You SHOULD have CWR (recovery) on your phone and functioning, and have done a backup of your WORKING phone.

You must have Bloat Freezer or a similar app with the ability to freeze apps. I like Bloat Freezer personally (http://www.bloatfreezer.com/) but many others use Titanium Backup. You can even do it by hand if you like. Regardless thank you to Trey Holland for developing Bloat Freezer.

Explanation of Process

The basis for speeding up your phone by freezing apps is ... well manufactures install a lot of applications that run in the background that you will never, ever, ever use. These said apps eat processor time, RAM, and just in general are annoying to geeks. In the case of Motorola most of these apps are part of "blur", which is part of the "Motorola Experience". By freezing these apps you can return system resources and speed up the phone, or at least it did for me. The down side is YOU CAN BRICK YOUR PHONE ... see above disclaimer!!!.

So how does this work?

Basically, with your program of choice you choose to "freeze" given applications. The thing to remember is these programs (whether it is Bloat Freezer or Titanium Backup) will display ALL running applications on your phone. Some of these applications can, and in fact are ABSOLUTELY necessary for your phone to be useful. If you freeze the wrong application you can literally make your phone useless.

In addition, after freezing some applications your phone will not be usable for a bit until you pull the battery, replace the battery, and power it back on. I personally don't know of a way around this with some apps your phone simply will "freak out" and the battery pull is the only option.

You are wrong about some stuff and I think you are dumb, so there ...

If you know I have something that is inaccurate here, please message me so I can update this HowTo, my goal is to help the community which has been awesome to me. I will accept any feedback that isn't overtly negative.

What I Froze

Ok so this is the list of applications I was able to freeze and still have a functioning phone. As mentioned above I use very few widgets and the like, so it is completely plausible that some of these might wreck some functionality you rely on. Previously I only listed apps that were typically running. I am now listing all apps that I froze. To be blunt, only apps that run on a continuous basis will really affect performance, but I hate stuff being enabled I don't use so this is my complete list.

Accounts Storage

Admin Notifier

AdService

Amazon Kindle

Amazon MP3

Android Live Wallpapers

AtCommandService

Battery & data manage

Battery Manager

Bluetooth Share

BluetoothDun

Bookmarks Widget

Books (x2)

Calendar Service

Certificate Manager Content Provider

com.motorola.* (This means all apps that begin with com.motorola)

Contacts Sync

ContactsData

Corporate Sync Authenticator

Data Collection

Data Collector Service

Data Manager Service

DataCollectorProvider

Desk Home

Device Statistics Services

DLNA

DlnaSystemService

DMService

Downloads

DRM Protected Content Storage

Email

Email Authenticator

Emergency Alerts

Facebook Authenticator

Files (You should have another File Manager if you freeze this, or you may not need a File Manager)

Flicker Authenticator

FM Radio

RMRadioService

FOTA

Global Unplug

Google Backup Transport

Google Partner Setup

Google Search

Help Center

Home (DO NOT DISABLE THIS UNLESS YOU HAVE A REPLACEMENT LAUNCHER)

Home screen tips

InPocket

Kpi Logger Services

LastFM Authenticator

Live Wallpaper Picker

Magic Smoke Wallpapers

Media audio effects

Messages

Messaging

Motorola * (This means all apps that start with Motorola EXCEPT SEE BELOW FOR MOTOROLA SERVICES)

Motorola Services (DO NOT DISABLE THIS IF YOU USE MOTOROLA'S LAUNCHER "HOME")

MS Exchange Service

Music Visualization Wallpapers

My Uploads

Myspace Authenticator

News

News & Weather

OMA Client Provisioning

OMA Download

Orientation Notifier

Orkut Authenticator

Photobucket Authenticator

Picasa Authenticator

Pico TTS

Policy Manager Service (both of these)

Quick Contact

Quickoffice

Rich Clipboard

Rich Location

Setup data encryption

Social * (This means all apps beginning with Social)

Sticky note

Suggestions * (This means all apps beginning with Suggestions or is just Suggestions)

Swype

Task Manager

Tasks

Toggle Widgets

TTS Service

Twitter Authenticator

Universal Inbox

Voice Commands

Voice Search

Weather

Work Contacts

Yahoo Contacts

Yahoo! Mail Authenticator

YouTube

YouTube Authenticator

Credits

I did not come up with the above lists on my own, I reviewed many threads but the following are the two main ones I referenced (please note these don't specifically apply to the MX2):

http://xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-972459.html

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1217134

Other Apps

As I mentioned my list above concentrates mostly on apps that were always running, but I have since updated the list to show some I just froze because I didn't want to see them in my apps list. Regardless there are still many more that you could freeze.

Closing

I hope this is useful to someone, I have received an extreme amount of help from many people in this community and want to try and give something back. If you have comments or suggestions please feel free PM me. Good luck to all!