My phone is rooted, running stock 2.1 ROM and P3 Droid 1 ghz. kernel.
Yesterday a.m. I switched from GDE (the cute Cube transitions, occasional hangups, and always sloowwww App drawer got old) to ADW Launcher, uninstalled AutoKiller, and replaced Juice Defender and Weather Channel widgets on home screen with shortcuts instead. This is all I did... and this phone sped up dramatically!... and also ran cool all day, under my normal usage.
With ADW, the App Drawer (set to no animation, zoom effect at 300) and Screen transitions (desktop scrolling and overshoot set to 0/0) both seem almost instantaneous. Also, at 4pm when I knocked off work the battery was still at 80% (and only 30C), even tho I ran SetCPU at 1ghz/performance-governor all day... it was ~40% or less before the changes, under similar usage.
I had some extra time this morning, so decided to try Startup Manager. After spending ~15 minutes "unchecking" all the User and System apps I did not want to start, and finding no way to add apps under the Customize tab (both User and System came up blank)... I rebooted, checked, and had only 34m memory free and 11 apps had started I did not want, but were not listed in Startup Mgr.
So I used ATK to kill unwanted apps and ended up with ~70m free memory... almost same as before! (actually a little lower).
Also, yesterday ADW launcher was flying... now noticed just a little lag on App drawer open and home screen transitions.
Apps that "started anyway" (number on left is amount of free mem. after I killed it):
42 The Weather Channel (I need to get rid of this mem. hog anyway)
45 Facebook (don't use it)
46 Music (hangs bad when overclocked)
50 ToDo Task Manager (was listed in SMgr., unchecked, but started anyway)
50 3(cubed) music player (my new fav.)
52 Apps Organizer
54 A online radio
57 MP3 Store (also listed in SMgr, unchecked, but started anyway)
59 Gallery
60 Engadget
62 The Weather Channel (listed twice in ATK)
64 CacheMate
67 News and Weather
69 ROM Manager
70 Startup Manager (have since unstalled)
If I still have to go into ATK after reboot, and kill 10-12 apps anyway, why do I need this?
Maybe "Killers", "Managers", and Widgets just aren't worth it?
ETA: Oh yeah... ADW ROCKS!
ETA2: ummm... derrrrrr
Yesterday a.m. I switched from GDE (the cute Cube transitions, occasional hangups, and always sloowwww App drawer got old) to ADW Launcher, uninstalled AutoKiller, and replaced Juice Defender and Weather Channel widgets on home screen with shortcuts instead. This is all I did... and this phone sped up dramatically!... and also ran cool all day, under my normal usage.
With ADW, the App Drawer (set to no animation, zoom effect at 300) and Screen transitions (desktop scrolling and overshoot set to 0/0) both seem almost instantaneous. Also, at 4pm when I knocked off work the battery was still at 80% (and only 30C), even tho I ran SetCPU at 1ghz/performance-governor all day... it was ~40% or less before the changes, under similar usage.
I had some extra time this morning, so decided to try Startup Manager. After spending ~15 minutes "unchecking" all the User and System apps I did not want to start, and finding no way to add apps under the Customize tab (both User and System came up blank)... I rebooted, checked, and had only 34m memory free and 11 apps had started I did not want, but were not listed in Startup Mgr.
So I used ATK to kill unwanted apps and ended up with ~70m free memory... almost same as before! (actually a little lower).
Also, yesterday ADW launcher was flying... now noticed just a little lag on App drawer open and home screen transitions.
Apps that "started anyway" (number on left is amount of free mem. after I killed it):
42 The Weather Channel (I need to get rid of this mem. hog anyway)
45 Facebook (don't use it)
46 Music (hangs bad when overclocked)
50 ToDo Task Manager (was listed in SMgr., unchecked, but started anyway)
50 3(cubed) music player (my new fav.)
52 Apps Organizer
54 A online radio
57 MP3 Store (also listed in SMgr, unchecked, but started anyway)
59 Gallery
60 Engadget
62 The Weather Channel (listed twice in ATK)
64 CacheMate
67 News and Weather
69 ROM Manager
70 Startup Manager (have since unstalled)
If I still have to go into ATK after reboot, and kill 10-12 apps anyway, why do I need this?
Maybe "Killers", "Managers", and Widgets just aren't worth it?
ETA: Oh yeah... ADW ROCKS!
ETA2: ummm... derrrrrr