[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=1472623]d.casper.b[/MENTION] try to find out "if your phone is busy" all the time or is just "kicking back and relaxing" when you are not doing anything. If you optimize your phone correctly, it should be doing very little, if anything, when it is just idle. Now getting your phone to do "nothing" when idle is not as easy as it sounds. You need some kind of help. ONE thing I use to gauge my phone's activities is current CPU Frequency. There are two ways to observe this easily. One way is to go into /Settings/Performance/Processor and just stare at the Current CPU Frequency for a while. CPU Governor should be set to Interactive to make this work best, and that is a very good setting to use. Our phones step through 5 preset frequency stages.

300MHz

600MHz

800MHz

1000MHz

1200MHz

So if the phone is doing "nothing", you should see 300MHz most of the time. This "meter" is very sensitive so it fluctuates rapidly. Another way to keep an eye on the current CPU Frequency is to use a very light footprint Xposed Module, CPUFreq in Statusbar. You can set the update interval to whatever you like, I choose 250 Milliseconds. That is 4 times per second. Enough to be meaningful and not so much as to bog down the system. Why doesn't the Green 300M in my Statusbar match the Current CPU Frequency of 1000 MHz like the Settings menu shows? Because the Settings meter has a very fast update interval and my statusbar meter is set to 4 times per second. I could probably bump that up to a higher number, but I do not want to slow down the phone. So the green 300 you see is what my frequency was a few milliseconds before the settings meter updated again. (I just took a screenshot so of course I would need a burst of CPU speed just for that action.)

So why wouldn't the phone "do nothing" when you are not using it for anything? Because the apps and services are unruly as hell. It is "The New Norm" for powerful phones that can run Facebook, Hangouts, sync several different emails settings, and apps, constantly. A Razr really does not have that sort of hardware power so it will slow down and choke quite easily unless something is done to reel in all the unruly apps and services.

When I put the phone down and stare at the CPU Freq, it is at 300M almost all the time with an occasional flicker to higher numbers and back down again. Why? Because I froze just about every service and app in the rom that I do not use or want, and will not tank the phone. Then I Greenify the hell out of just about EVERYTHING! Well, I use the built in app analyzer in Greenify for that. So yeah, for the most part, my phone is pretty much "just sitting around" when I am not using it.

CPU Frequency is not everything, RAM and free RAM is another issue. Although I do not monitor the RAM, I can tell if it is filling up because that is when lag starts to set in. If you actually can get your phone to be really "idle" when it is idle, then Maps should run much better and not give you such issues. I will admit, firing up Maps to Navigation is not an immediate process for me. If I can get from Contacts, to address, to Maps, to Navigation in 2 minutes or less, I am satisfied with that. Then Navigation will run quite well after that.

What I suspect is going on with your phone is that you are really not "killing everything" and putting all the rest of it to sleep. Google apps like Maps should work really well with Google Android. Greenify just added a new checkbox to the Experimental menu, "Deep Hibernation". "Enforce aggressive policies to hibernated apps, stopping them from being woken by other apps."

This is true. If I do a google search or something, it will wake up like 5 other apps, for no apparent reason! Check the mail and 4 other apps wake up, "just because".

Remember, hibernated apps are not "slower" or "dysfunctional" in any way. Quite simply they are NOT running and they are NOT using RAM. Period. If I am not talking on Hangouts, then I do not want it running. Not reading or writing email, don't want it running. Not actually using Facebook, don't want it running, Not using Google Search, don't want it running. (I can keep this up for quite a long time, Daniel. But you get the picture by now, don't you?) :p

If you can really get your phone to do next to nothing when not in use, Maps on Build 04/12 should work perfectly fine for you, Daniel. If there is a difference between XT912 and XT910, then we have to wait for Mr. Chen to weigh in on it. :)

Point Being:

You cannot simply install cm11 and gapps, finish your startup wizard, then pretty up your desktop and load the phone with apps, "and be done with it", If you have an older phone such as a Razr or any other smartphone that is 3 years old.

You could do that with a new Note4 or Turbo, but not a 3 year old phone. You must be *very* conscious of what is running on the phone at all times and keep it to an absolute minimum. Sadly, it took me over ½ a year to believe this, and almost another ½ year to learn how to do this. I tell you what, there is *nothing* more frustrating than installing Kit Kat, seeing your phone take off like a rocket, and then be forever plagued with slowdowns, lag, black screens, FCs, lockups, reboots, and perform like some old AARP $29 "LifeLine" phone. Remember Win98 or even Windows XP? How good your PC ran when you first got it, and a couple of years later, system updates and program updates slowed it to a crawl. We had to limit startup processes because now "every program" must have several startup services, even when they are not in use. Adobe Acutray, Real Player TKbell.exe, Chrome will get you at least 5 or more startup Google services even when you do not use the browser, add on several more startup programs for anything Adobe, Quicktime will load you up with all sorts of Apple services, on a PC! Remember, when you took all that junk out of your startup programs, the computer ran nice again. Nice and fast! Not much different here for the Razr phone.

EDIT 7:52 PM EST:

You know what Casper? Me too. Don't know what it is. Was okay most of the day, things to do here and there. Now done with nice ravioli with Ragu sauce, Italian sausage and meatballs, freshly grated Locatelli Romano cheese, a garden salad with Ranch Dression, croutons, and a Diet Coke and now...

...I'm tired. Not

just tired

. I'm SO Tired.

So for Casper and those members old enough to appreciate it, please, sing along. If you have the energy left. For those members who swear it ain't music without at least 2 Lbs. of precious metals and stones, gold teeth, spastic finger motions, and a rat-a-tat-tat non-stop monolog of dialog, you are excused. :D

"I'm so tired"

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The Beatles​

I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink

I'm so tired, my mind is on the blink

I wonder, should I get up and fix myself a drink?

No no no

I'm so tired, I don't know what to do

I'm so tired, my mind is set on you

I wonder, should I call you? But I know what you would do

You'd say I'm putting you on, but it's no joke

It's doing me harm, you know I can't sleep

I can't stop my brain, you know it's three weeks

I'm going insane

You know I'd give you everything I've got

For a little peace of mind

I'm so tired, I'm feeling so upset

Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette

And curse Sir Walter Raleigh

He was such a stupid git

You'd say I'm putting you on, but it's no joke

It's doing me harm, you know I can't sleep

I can't stop my brain, you know it's three weeks

I'm going insane

You know I'd give you everything I've got

For a little peace of mind

I'll give you everything I've got

For a little peace of mind

I'll give you everything I've got

For a little peace of mind

Final Edit:

LOL Casper! :laugh:

You missed my final witty remark. Reload the page and go back up to EDIT 7:52 PM EST to catch it. ;)

Goodnight my friend. And who says you can't go off topic? Who me?!! :eek: