Root Pre vs Post Update Benchmarks

Anyone brave enough to flash their phone to bring us some update benchmarks?

Use this guide to flash firmware:
http://androidforums.com/motion-4g-...rick-lg-motion-unroot-getting-1-5ghz-kdz.html

 

Well I decided to revive my floppy attempt at a thread here.
This time hopefully I can bring a little bit more to offer. I ran 24 total bench marks, in 4 categories. All benchmarks were performed on the device in an unrooted state. No play store updates were ever made to preinstalled apps.

The categories that I ran benchmarks on were:

1. fresh install with firmware c
2. optimized install with firmware c
3. fresh install with firmware d
4. optimized install with firmware d

Since the phone tests were done on an unrooted phone, I use the word "optimized" to mean all system apps were disabled except for the following:
Download Manager
Downloads
Google Account Manager
Google Services Framework
QuickMemo

To average out abnormalities, multiple benchmarks were run on each category.
3 benchmarks on each category using Quadrant Standard
3 benchmarks on each category using AnTuTu Benchmark

Note: If it is not obvious, I/O benchmarks will be disregarded because that score is much more dependent on the sdcard we have purchased rather than the phone itself.

Code (Text):

1.  
2. Higher Numbers are Better
3. Quadrant Fresh       firmware c
4. tot cpu + tot mem + tot 2d + tot 3d = total
5.   29035 +   23020 +   3026 +   6664 = 61745
6.  
7. Quadrant Optimized   firmware c
8. tot cpu + tot mem + tot 2d + tot 3d = total
9.   28681 +   23235 +   3060 +   6669 = 61645
10.  
11. Quadrant Fresh       firmware d
12. tot cpu + tot mem + tot 2d + tot 3d = total
13.   29149 +   22198 +   3051 +   6706 = 61104
14.  
15. Quadrant Optimized   firmware d
16. tot cpu + tot mem + tot 2d + tot 3d = total
17.   28946 +   22145 +   3060 +   6667 = 60818
18.  
19.  
20. Higher Numbers are Better
21. AnTuTu Fresh       firmware c
22. tot cpu + tot ram + tot gpu = total
23.   10134 +    4958 +   21317 = 36409
24.  
25. AnTuTu Optimized   firmware d
26. tot cpu + tot ram + tot gpu = total
27.   10124 +    4961 +   21418 = 36503
28.  
29. AnTuTu Fresh       firmware c
30. tot cpu + tot ram + tot gpu = total
31.   10112 +    4972 +   21744 = 36828
32.  
33. AnTuTu Optimized   firmware d
34. tot cpu + tot ram + tot gpu = total
35.   10140 +    4991 +   21409 = 36540
36.  

 

The results seemed to very slightly be in favor of leaving all system apps enabled. Other than that, there is no significant difference in performance between firmware c and d.

 

After running those previous benchmarks I decided to try one last round of tests. I wanted to see how benchmarks came out after running the Automated All Bloatware Removal script to remove all unnecessary preinstalled apps.

I rooted my device and ran 3 tests using Quadrant Standard, and the results were as follows:
9139, 9007, 8985 - cpu
7327, 7236, 7579 - mem
1014, 1080, 1014 - 2d
2148, 2194, 2203 - 3d

Code (Text):

1.  
2. Quadrant Rooted UnBloatware firmware d
3. tot cpu + tot mem + tot 2d + tot 3d = total
4.    27131 +   22142 +   3108 +   6545 = 60818
5.  

Conclusion: There appears to be no significant improvement after using the bloatware remover.

 

That's an option, but the full capacities of the phone might not be able to be reached on the throttled MetroPCS network.