[Motorola Droid RAZR] Meneldur:
Thank you for your answer (like every post you put your effort answering thoroughly).

I always have the bare minimum of advanced tools since I agree with you in this: the simplest the smoothest. I want, however, to take advantage of being rooted and at least check some important tweaks (using Trickster) or who is waking the phone 25 times per hour (Google Services, as BBS accounted). It's a delicate equilibrium between having a powerhouse that does everything I want and lasts 1 h on battery and having a Nokia 1100 with 3 days between charges and nothing but SMS.

Every time I upgrade nightlies (or see you guys talk about how good a build is) I start clean. Nice and smooth, but on the "powerhouse" extreme: 14%/h consumption.

Always do. I want to know what needs updating, what is new and why.

Indeed. Restoring all data tends to leave some apps in a strange state, so I prefer reconfiguring access keys and settings instead of doing damage control. I have TiBu do daily auto backups at night when I sleep. :)

TiBu is one of the first apps I bought on Android, many years back when I rooted my first Android device, a Samsung Galaxy S.

Second thing I do after upgrade builds and one of the reasons I use PA Gapps Micro instead of Mini. I do use Apollo, however. I like it being simple and doing the job.

I know :angel:

Impossible. I need all accounts syncing: Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Dropbox, etc. I need to have everything automatically put into the cloud, sync'ed with my computers, available wherever I go. I even use Contacts+ to have facebook photos on my contacts and joint accounts between different services.

Another hands down buying. But here I have some issues. Phone feels dizzy with Google Services put to sleep. Search generates many wakelocks but greenifying it shuts down Google Now goodies as reminders (I lost this functionality a couple of weeks ago, though, and can't get it back). WhatsApp notifications stay put after greenifying the app and I have to remove them manually. The device takes an awfully lot of time to wake up when I receive a call and Phone is greenifyed: it rings and rings but screen stays black for 5-7 secs before letting me slide to answer/cancel. Fenix doesn't notify me when greenifyed even with Greenify push-to-wake option on. And neutering Greenify puts me back on square one: Battery Vampire Powerhouse.

Always the minimum. Android Tuner brought me many headaches, for example.

Agree, but CM11 interestingly puts read ahead value back to 128 KB when installing a new build. We all know this is a tiny value and 1024 KB is way better, isn't it?

I prefer not even installing them.

As I said earlier in this post, I need everything to be backed up and synced with the cloud. I 'd love to have more control on some syncers that aren't really critical (like Vine).

I always try not to. But BBS or Amplify show some things eating my battery or using my phone's CPU when they shouldn't. For example, I noticed a persistent wakelock from a service in Google Services. It was done by a couple of services related to wearables, and I could only find them using Amplify and neutered only with Disable Services app (Amplify now manages services). How can I control this without installing these tools?

Nice advice I tend to forget and somewhat don't want to do because I'm lazy enough not to download the whole file back to the computer instead of eating up space on the phone. :silly:

You guys are my masters :good:

I use stock space and have a 2 GB data partition. I always wipe System too in addition to mandatory Dalvik and Cache spaces.

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Thank you a lot, Ohmster and all you guys and girls here, for sharing knowledge.