[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Thanks to DumbleCore and what may be a common complaint. Feedback very welcome!

Yes, a lot of reading, I know. I am just "long winded". If you have the attention span of a fruit fly, please skip this post and move along. Thank you for your patience.

Yep, good man, DC. I took your advice and tried the new settings of OnDemand for governor and Noop for I/O scheduler. Yes, the performance is better, but the phone overall sucks. I am now on build 08/13 and this build is really good, the phone, however, is not. Too much lag to get anything done. Like when we had Jellybean and the apps got so aggressive and so large that they brought the phone to it's knees. My Razr is not *that* bad, but it is getting there. :(

Battery life blows! I took it off charger at 10:00 AM. At 1:48 PM I have 46% battery left. Phone is a few years old. Is the battery really dying or does my phone system just suck? Ugh.

* Anybody come across an Xposed Module that will take that stupid Google Maps "WiFi will make GPS work a lot better, should we turn it on now or ignore?" question? I mean that is just plain stupid. I am on the freaking road system, there IS NO Wifi on the highway and roads so exactly how is turning on WiFi going to help with this, other than to drain my battery for no apparent reason at all? It is not like we can say "No Wifi and quit asking me, will ya?". There must be a module for this! Hmmm, this looks promising:

Guide to fixing Google Play Services battery drain

[MOD][Xposed] Disable Google Location consent

NOTE:

Wow! I did install the Xposed module, [MOD][Xposed] Disable Google Location consent, rebooted twice, once to install the module, again to check the box and activate it. I no longer get the stupid "Turn on WiFi?" question anymore and it goes directly to the map location! And, since applying your I/O settings, DC, the entire process took 2 minutes or less. Now THAT'S what I'm talking about! :victory: Man, I hope it stays this way, a LOT more testing is scheduled for me.

What do I mean about "Back to Jellybean"? Like I was telling you the day before, tasks that should take less than a minute are now taking several minutes to get launched and running. e.g.: Tap contact, tap address, choose Maps, tap Navigate, navigation screen up and running.

Now, that sequence of events takes several minutes, sometimes I sit in my driveway doing this for up to 5 minutes. Most of the time about 3-4 minutes. Each new screen tap gives a notification bar and black screen, sometimes circle spinning, sometimes not, waiting for the tap to complete it's function such as launch Maps. It seems like task management and app priority have gone out the window or something. Navigation is pretty serious and has a high priority assigned. I can drive a block maybe and do not see my car move. It is not due to lack of satellite communication, it is that the phone has not updated the Navigation UI yet. That is horrible task management and priority. Yes the phone is old, there are better ones out there, but Kit Kat brought new life to this thing. It was like "night and day" when I first saw Kit Kat. Now, I feel like I am back on Jellybean again. :crying:

I am using Cool Tool to monitor my CPU load while doing this. You can see it in my screenshot. I cannot now reproduce the "wait forever black screen while maps loads" but I do watch the CPU load in near real time while this is happening. The monitor will peg at 600MHz but I do not believe it, the module and UI are stuck. The Cool Tool has a moving CPU load graph behind it, high bars indicate high CPU frequency, low bars will indicate low CPU frequency. 600MHz would show approximately half a bar on the moving graph and it updates at least another bar every second. I do not see the bars moving, thus the entire UI is stuck when this happens.

Anybody else getting lag this bad on their phones?

I do not believe it is the phone, and I am sure it is not the 08/13 rom as all roms do this now. It may be my OTA updates for so long have carried too much baggage for the system to process properly. As much as I hate to do it, I may have to try a completely clean install again, after thoroughly backing up what I have. The pain of all of these accounts to fill in, username password, so many of them. Several at startup wizard, then a whole bunch of them, buried deep down inside the apps as I use them. At a waiting room and want to read a new book on Kindle. Gee, I do not have my Amazon user/pass with me so that's out. I want to use Waze Navigation and to get accurate traffic updates and maintain my score, oops, I forgot my Foursquare user/pass. Better check my bank account before buying new shoes. Oh, I need my Roboform Password Manager, forgot to install it, of course I need my username and master password, plus sync the database, and this goes on and on, for what seems like forever. If only there was a backup to remember all of these accounts and do it for me. There is, Titanium Backup but I would have to restore data. Almost defeats the purpose of a clean install.

Finally have my Trebuchet desktop setup the way I want it. Time/Date/Weather widget in place, Google Calendar in place, very important apps on home screen, launch bar setup with phone and contacts, Dolphin Browser and Camera. Each desktop setup for what is needed. App groups in desktop folders such as Timers, Calculators, Bar Scanners, Video apps and shows, Audio apps, Network, Admin, Cloud folders an apps, GPS tools, Photos and photo apps, Games, each set of apps in one desktop folder to have what I need available without having to dig through the app drawer again. Apex Launcher would allow you to save your desktop layout, Trebuchet does not have such and option. Not even Titanium Backup can help with that.

So you see why I dread "going clean" so much. But it may be necessary, if not for nothing else than to see if it speeds up my system. I have approximately 240 apps. Is this excessive? I read the app count when the Dalvik cache is cleared by update or just wiping it and rebooting. I am now going through apps and am uninstalling ones I rarely or never use.

Thank you for the I/O settings, I was sure to tap your Thanks so you would get the proper thanks and status boost for it. Take care, DC. Feedback on phone lag, battery life, or personal experience is appreciated. :cowboy: