Root Phone Slowing Down

DNick · Jan 24, 2012

So over the past few months, I've been noticing my phone (CDMA) hasn't been running as quickly as it did when I first rooted it. At first I thought it was just MIUI and GO launcher together. So i ditched go, and used the stock MIUI launcher. Still was slow. I've now been back on Oxygen for the past month or so. Was still bad (using Go again). So I wiped, reflashed, and tried the stock launcher. Didn't make a difference. So I went back to GO. Now to give as much info as possible....When I say slow, it's doing thngs like: After being on the internet for a while, when I press the home button, it takes a couple moments to go to the home screen, and then I have to wait 1-3 seconds for the things on my homescreen to appear. This is the thing that annoys me the most. THe other things aren't nearly as bothersom. It also does things like jutter on the lockscreen, and when I do unlock, sometimes I also have to wait for things to appear.

What I have on my phone: My homescreens (3) have nothing but widgets on them. Even the icons are widgets because of folder oranizer. I have beautiful widgets, search bar, calender and espn. I have around 5 thousand text. I have 105 user apps.

Now what can I do to get my desire running well again. I'm contemplating running an RUU, and starting over. Rather not take that time. So I'm coming here.

Rastaman-FB · Jan 24, 2012

do you use titanium backup?
if you do, do you have set-cpu?
if you do have setcpu are you restoring it each time?
if you are restoring it each time are you making sure the settings you have set for the cpu are not too throttled or on a crap governor like conservative or smartass/smartassv2

DNick · Jan 24, 2012

Rastaman-FB said:
do you use titanium backup?

Yes
if you do, do you have set-cpu?

Yes

if you do have setcpu are you restoring it each time?

It's set to restore on boot. Clocked to 1113

if you are restoring it each time are you making sure the settings you have set for the cpu are not too throttled or on a crap governor like conservative or smartass/smartassv2

I use the OnDemand Governor which i was told is the best

^^^

Rastaman-FB · Jan 24, 2012

on demand is generally the best.
do you have screen off profile?
if you do what is it set to and is it the same governor

DNick · Jan 24, 2012

I have no profiles. I bought it because the version of MIUI i was using wasn't overclocked. So i bought, set it to 1.1, left it on ondemand, clicked set on boot. Then left it alone.

Rastaman-FB · Jan 24, 2012

hmm, cpu might be throttling maybe? getting too hot? i dont know
try setting it back to userspace and see if problem remains

DNick · Jan 24, 2012

Rastaman-FB said:
hmm, cpu might be throttling maybe? getting too hot? i dont know
try setting it back to userspace and see if problem remains

userspace? and the cpu doesn't seem to be getting hot. Not saying it never does, but only when you would expect it would.

Rastaman-FB · Jan 24, 2012

DNick said:
userspace? and the cpu doesn't seem to be getting hot. Not saying it never does, but only when you would expect it would.

userspace is the default android governor

DNick · Jan 24, 2012

It's not listed as an option. Only powersave, ondemand, and performance.

I checked both in setcpu and oxygen's cpu settings

SUroot · Jan 24, 2012

Rastaman-FB said:
userspace is the default android governor

Are you sure? I was convinced it was on demand. Or is that just HTC kernels?

Rastaman-FB · Jan 24, 2012

hmm it always used to be userspace on androids in the past
i thought on custom roms the defaults were changed but standard its userspace and thats why battery drain is so messed up.

the kernel wont support userspace if its not there.

Rastaman-FB · Jan 24, 2012

do a clean reinstall and dont install anything but setcpu from titanium and see if its still laggy

what else are you restoring?

DNick · Jan 24, 2012

I basically restore everything from Titanium. But okay. I'm doing a clean install now.

DNick · Jan 24, 2012

It's booting up now. I think I'm just going to install setcpu from the market instead of restoring. Take titanium out of the equation.

DNick · Jan 24, 2012

So it seems really snappy right now. I'm going to start installing apps from the market one by one. See how it goes.

Rastaman-FB · Jan 25, 2012

you can use titanium i just wanted to point out that its probably an app or a series of apps slowing your phone down.
right now ive seen a problem with go launchers new version. after 24hrs it lags out and needs to be restarted. so apps can cause this issue

ducky1979 · Jan 25, 2012

I have the exact same lag as you describe, I've actually had to pull the battery before because I got stuck with just a black screen, my buttons lit up but nothing else, I've noticed it seems faster when I reboot but it doesn't last long, so I'm guessing an app somewhere is using available memory and slowing it down, it's been worse of late, so could well be go launcher, I only have BW widget and my allowance so it's not widgets slowing it down, I think it maybe time for a fresh install, I might go back to custom mtd aswell. I fancy having a look at the newest room offerings, I can't see me leaving dgb for good though. Don't worry Dan ;-)

Xreo · Jan 28, 2012

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24967510/DaemonController.apk
Try using this instead of setcpu, you will have to go over to the options tab and install andrev_oc for it to work though and make sure you dont have any other app like setcpu or they will over ride it.

DNick · Jan 28, 2012

What makes this better?

Rastaman-FB · Jan 28, 2012

DNick said:
What makes this better?

not enough info about it tbh which leeds me to believe its a bit of a fad if anything
if the user can post more info on this andrev_oc demon and why they are better than the axi kernel values then i might be interested

SUroot · Jan 28, 2012

Its no better. Its just different.

I have scripts to change governor (as well as set cpu) so for example, I have another script to run ubuntu on my desire. When I run that script, it runs another script to set performance governor.

Xreo · Jan 28, 2012

Daemon Controller reacts much faster to Screen off/on than any java app will which makes it much more efficient
Heres the XDA page as well
[APP] andrev_oc - an alternative to virtuous_oc - xda-developers

SUroot · Jan 28, 2012

Are you sure its quicker? It says it checks screen status which suggests polling whereas set CPU is a triggered event

Rastaman-FB · Jan 28, 2012

Xreo said:
Daemon Controller reacts much faster to Screen off/on than any java app will which makes it much more efficient
Heres the XDA page as well
[APP] andrev_oc - an alternative to virtuous_oc - xda-developers

yes i read that closely after the 1st time you mentioned it and still all this does is use a similar scaling mechanism what havs axi kernels already use. then has an app that controls screen state by polling which imo is probably slightly quicker to wake but probably less efficient on battery. this certainly wouldnt be affecting real time use once android is awake and trying to perform tasks which is the point of this thread

dont get too caught up in the c++ c# java war. android is built on a java base with linux, just because its built using a certain language it does not mean it is more efficient. that all depends on the dev

out of interest, do you know much about coding?

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