[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Why does my phone slow down and choke sometimes?

Thanks for checking it out, Casper. The phone chokes mostly the next day, after being on charge all night. And right now, it is not "Terrible", just a little annoying. I see update notices, Titanium Backup reports, mail notices, and Facebook notices in the status bar so the phone has had "a busy night". But, it seems to sleep well. The phone does not have to be awake to choke on an incoming call. I have seen this now and then for several months.

But, it looks like your phone is clean, Casper. I have been trying to get a handle on this for months. I do have a lot of apps and services. The best running phones don't run many apps and services. [MENTION=4977351]DumbleCore[/MENTION] is the perfect example. His phone "Never chokes" and runs smooth, like "Butta". It took some doing but he revealed that he takes "Everything" out of his phone. Google services and updates, no Facebook or sycn on anything, and strips it down to just the basic phone and phone services. I call this "Scorched Earth". Of course the phone runs well, it has nothing else to do but "Be a phone". This is a good strategy but is hard for me to use.

Figuring out what slows down an Android Razr is not easy. The strategies I use with computers don't apply here. Not enough RAM, slow CPU or budget CPU like a Celeron, and malware & toolbars don't work on Android. There must be "something else". The smooth running phones are not running so many apps and especially Sync services. DumbleCore shuts of ALL of them. I use the donation version of Greenify to put everything to sleep, but I do allow them to "phone home" in groups during select periods (Donation feature of Greenify.). I have way too many sync services running. Facebook, contacts, calendar, app update notification, G Drive, dropbox, Amazon Kindle, Amazon drive, Google +, streaming media such as NPR, Slacker, TuneIn, Google Play Services, and Pandora. This is the handful I can think of, from the top of my head. And that is a huge load of services that will tie up the phone. I think I will have to shutoff sync on many but not all of them. I need calendar and contacts. Dropbox uploads my screenshots and photos instantly, Titanium Backup also backs up to cloud drives.

It seems like the phone taxes out and chokes when I run too many sync apps and I have lots. Still not sure why, once something does a job and sleeps, why is the phone still choking? Cannot tell by memory, Android & Linux keep everything in memory, even when the process is done. It simply overwrites memory not currently active with new jobs. I am still working on this issue but all research is pointing to apps and sync services.

My question to the group was to try and find out how widespread this issue is. A lot of members do not talk much. They have good phones and don't have questions. Others deal with it and ask bigger questions. This "Little Bug" has been annoying me for a very long time. I am very close with removing apps and services I don't use, freezing some, and Greenifying everything. But not close enough. My app count is very high, but the running app list is 8 right now. Now you know what I am working on and why. Your reporting helps a lot, thanks buddy. It sounds like you are not running anywhere near the sync app services in Cape Town than I am in the US.

I don't think apps like calculator or WiFi Analyzer are choking the phone while not in use. But all the Facebook, Kindle, sync drives, and multiple Google sync going on might very well be slowing it down. Learning to read and filter logs might be my next step. Thanks for your help, Casper. And thanks to anyone who helps and reports these conditions on their phones. It may help me to crack what it is that slows down these phones so much. Anyone doing similar research are welcome to compare notes! :highfive: