[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Oh yes, definitely. I am kind of "long winded" when I talk. Many people don't like that. But point well taken. The phone and even Google wants to turn on your WiFi all the time to save data rates and power from local area networks. I do live in a heavily saturated Verizon area. I never even knew what 3G was until I got on it from CM11 and man, that is *really* bad! Switching to LTE cleared that up. Many people like you say in bad reception areas and overseas have issues like this.

Thanks for pointing that out! Ching! You get a thanks for helping me explain battery consumption!

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Meneldur, I love the hell out of Greenify and bought it on the spot. Guess what? I don't even install it in CM11. How come? Because, CM11 has it "built in". The only difference is that Greenify lets you pick what sleeps, CM11 puts *everything* to sleep! If the devs would give us at least "some control" of that in app options, I would be really, really happy. Better yet, allow certain programs to just "keep one finger in the pie, not take a whole slice" as it were. Like Dropbox. Anytime I took a picture at all, I would see my PC screen show a new photo added to Dropbox. It still does that sometimes, but not so much with screenshots. Now I have to open Dropbox and not do anything, just open and close it and the pictures appear. If I could wake that app every so many minutes just to peek around and go back to sleep, I would be happy. Or just stay resident in partial. Some of the Xposed modules come close to this, AppOpsExposed, App Settings, and some others, but nothing like this. You can choose to keep the screen lit, great for maps, the font, screen size, etc. But nothing to keep the app awake or assign priority. That would require a custom kernel, like JBX, although JBX does not have this feature implemented into it. It could be, if the dev who created wanted to try, I think. So either the cm11 kernel devs or a custom kernel dev would have to work on something like that. Since it would be a "frill" and not necessary to complete the rom, they do not have time for stuff like that. The rom is not even stable yet. Battery life may be incorporated to polish the rom when near completion.

In Linux, which is really what Android is, there is a root command called Nice. Here is an exerpt from the page I gave you:

Every running process in Unix has a priority assigned to it.

You can change the process priority using nice and renice utility. Nice command will launch a process with an user defined scheduling priority. Renice command will modify the scheduling priority of a running process.

Linux Kernel schedules the process and allocates CPU time accordingly for each of them. But, when one of your process requires higher priority to get more CPU time, you can use nice and renice command as explained in this tutorial.

Something like that would be awesome but for phone users, you would get a graphic interface and tap buttons instead of typing into a terminal. Like System/Apps, give you more things to adjust and play with. We really need it, but this is how Kit Kat makes the phone so fast again. Opening maps or the dialer no longer requires a huge flush of memory to get Facebook and every other app that was set to stay resident (You could

never

close the graphically intensive game, Let Golf 3", ever!) out of the way to open the app. The lag time before Kit Kat was dreadful as the apps got larger and larger.

I was really shocked to find that many games could not be closed, ever. No exit button, hitting back got you to a desktop, but the app forever ran. Close it and it opened right back up again, with no open screen interface. ...why? That is just plain stupid! I was using automatic task killers before I found Greenify and it was like "shoveling poop against the tide". Every shovel you throw out to sea washed right back on your feet again.

You have an XT910. I do not know the specs on it. Usually a lower model number means less features, power, size, *something*. I really do not know the difference. Maybe looking up the specs would show you have a lower power battery, doubtful, but possible. Most of the people with these phones seem to be overseas. Maybe that is what the 910 is for. Someone will correct me, I hope and am sure.

The new guy, brkahughes, just pointed out in poor service areas people get less battery performance because their phones have to broadcast harder, more power, cell towers are farther away. It makes sense to me. I think a good place to start is this. When you got the phone, it was either new or not rooted with a stock rom. How was battery performance then, compared to now with root and CM11? Do you know the Android version you had originally, the number or name like Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich, or Jellybean? Maybe even Froyo? Because I do not know a darned thing about 910 phones, this would help me a lot. Thanks! :cool: