[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Thank you Dwillian and [MENTION=240993]casper[/MENTION] I did go back to 11/03 and my idle CPU frequency is still at 600MHz. I don't get it, makes not sense. It should idle at 300Mhz and is not set in any way to idle above that. I guess I will have to get some tools to dig into it a bit more. The update increasing idle CPU frequency did not make any sense. Now I see it is not the update that caused it. Thanks for your help and I will let you all know what happens.

[MENTION=240993]casper[/MENTION] I have to go to store and make dinner so will answer you in a separate follow up post. :good:

EDIT:

I did get my idle 300MHz back (See screenshot in statusbar and Trickster Mod page.), but I have no idea of what set this off. Remember you and [MENTION=3668995]Meneldur[/MENTION] were having long term performance issues with your phones? I know *exactly* how this feels because I was in your shoes for almost 10 months and had to take drastic measures as outlined in my posted How to install and maintain CM11 for a good running phone post. That was painful, it is a LOT of work, and some of it may not be necessary, but I covered everything and now, my Droid Razr XT912 is very fast and performs quite well. I have no urgent need to update.

But the point is, I removed almost ALL modules and apps that could and did control the system to allow cm11 to manage itself. CM11 is not so terrible that it requires 3rd party system management. I do have the Trickster MOD Kernel Settings, donation version and reinstalled it tonight. What I like about Trickster is that it does not interfere with the system unless the parts you want changed are "Turned ON" from within Trickster itself. The donation version gives a lot of control over the kernel and system, some, all, or none of which can be enabled.

On the General Tab of Trickster, is CPU Frequency Control and this lock was turned OFF. The minimum Frequency setting was 600000, not 300000 as it should be. Turning on the trickster frequency control and setting the minimum to 300000 immediately restored my 300MHz idle frequency, it showed up in my statsbar, at top in green in the attached screenshot. This is nice, all I am using Trickster for right now is enabling my min/max CPU frequency settings, that is all. Now, I have my 300MHz idle back and can update again.

Chances are that I can probably remove the Trickster App and retain my 300Mhz idle frequency as whatever was upset to prevent this, is now reset. But I did pay for Trickster, there are a LOT of helpful tools, and I do not have to use them if I do not need them. Also a lot of very useful information in Trickster and that does not impact the system at all. :D

But really, if your phone is "getting away from you" in performance, taking out almost all settings and controls added is one step in cleaning up the phone. The guide may be excessive, but it should/will restore performance to your phone, if you are willing to go through the entire thing, at least once to try it out. I am experienced like you and Meneldur so if someone gave me an 18 point list like that, I would say "This is stupid, not doing this", "Not really necessary, not doing this", "Too much trouble, not doing this" and it would be no surprise after all is said and done when my phone ends up no better than it was. But the CPU idle frequency is "fixed". Just wish I knew what made it happen. :confused:

That's it, thanks Dwillian! :highfive: