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What are your CPUSCALER Settings?

Hi,
I was just wondering. What are your Battery Status: CPUSCALER settings?
Did it worked well with the battery?? Tell us about your Exeperience and with what device.

I will start off:
HTC Herald Running WM6 with Touch-it v4.4 Rom
CPU Scaler:
Min. 143Mhz
Org. 201Mhz
Max. 273Mhz
Boost 299Mhz
Battery Life: Not really satisfied. But then again my GPRS is turned ON All the time so.
Can't wait to see what your settings are

Min: 143
Org: 201
Max 247
Boost:286
It seems pretty good
My screen goes a bit weird if i go over 247 but at 286 its normal again, so i gotta skip every speed in between lol

Running @ 273 for 3 months straight and not a single bump in the road. According to batterystatus, I'm usually sitting at only a 20-40 mA draw 99% of the time, which seems to increase only when I'm either on the phone or on GPRS/WiFi, then exceeding 200+ mA.

also running 273mhz all time. i did on my wizard for 2 years and now with my herald for 1 year - WITHOUT problems.
don´t like scalar...

Wow Suprised by you non Scaler users
Because everyone was telling me that scaling is the best. Because when you doing nothing, your phone runs at Underclock which saves your battery.
Instead of unneccesarily overclock when you doing nothing... But I diddnt know that when you are doing nothing on overclock that your phone reduces the mA untill you doing something.... (Pretty logical)
On the other hand: I don't think that its healty for the cpu to switch from Mhz every time you touch the phone
Any more reporters? Lets us know!!! We are curious! (well i am curious )
EDIT:
I am going to test the mA draw on different Clock speeds. See if it makes a different. I will post here for updates

286 constant
Battery Life Good
Speed Great

Ayerthon said:
Wow Suprised by you non Scaler users
Because everyone was telling me that scaling is the best. Because when you doing nothing, your phone runs at Underclock which saves your battery.
Instead of unneccesarily overclock when you doing nothing... But I diddnt know that when you are doing nothing on overclock that your phone reduces the mA untill you doing something.... (Pretty logical)
On the other hand: I don't think that its healty for the cpu to switch from Mhz every time you touch the phone
Any more reporters? Lets us know!!! We are curious! (well i am curious )
EDIT:
I am going to test the mA draw on different Clock speeds. See if it makes a different. I will post here for updates
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Ok These are my test results:
(No GPRS/Wifi)
145Mhz
51mA
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(No GPRS/Wifi)
299Mhz
75mA
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(With GPRS/Wifi on and Using a Program that uses GPRS)
145Mhz
+200mA
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(With GPRS/Wifi on and Using a Program that uses GPRS)
299Mhz
+200mA
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(With GPRS/Wifi on with no program that uses GPRS/Wifi)
145Mhz
60mA
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(With GPRS/Wifi on with no program that uses GPRS/Wifi)
299Mhz
88mA
So as we can see. You dont really have to Scale. Because Power Drain is being judged by GPRS/Wifi/Phone use. And it doesnt matter how high your O'C is the power drain will always be +200mA when using the GPRS/WIFI/Phone

when you are using batterystatus to check mA-usage. i should tell you that many threads on wizard-subforum are discussing that Baterrystaus NEVER shows the right cpu usage.....
BUT for me - i releoad my battery every nd day. and there it only felt to 40%....
when device is in standby it is at 201Mhz - as it is supposed to be by default HTC -so why underclock???
and when i´m using it at 273mhz - ALL is acting faster, menue, start programs, wirting sms, .....
so why not overclock after wakup?

papamopps said:
when you are using batterystatus to check mA-usage. i should tell you that many threads on wizard-subforum are discussing that Baterrystaus NEVER shows the right cpu usage.....
BUT for me - i releoad my battery every nd day. and there it only felt to 40%....
when device is in standby it is at 201Mhz - as it is supposed to be by default HTC -so why underclock???
and when i´m using it at 273mhz - ALL is acting faster, menue, start programs, wirting sms, .....
so why not overclock after wakup?
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I guess because some people said that its Dangerous to enable on Wakeup. Something about when you overclock to much and it goes to sleep it wont boot up but will make a loop...
But then again I'm like. Then don't overclock to much xD Right!?
Hahah

Ayerthon said:
I guess because some people said that its Dangerous to enable on Wakeup. Something about when you overclock to much and it goes to sleep it wont boot up but will make a loop...
But then again I'm like. Then don't overclock to much xD Right!?
Hahah
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it is dangorous to OVERCLOCK up to 300 - AND to set it after RESET!!!
so when i get intoo trouble with setting to wakeup - i softreset AND at the FIRST startup it is set to 201. when turning OFF and ON again it is overclock again....
there is a little difference between "afteer wakeup" and "after reset"

Hummm...
@ papamopps: which program are you using to overclock your herald? The others seem to be using cpuscaler, and you?

BRSG said:
Hummm...
@ papamopps: which program are you using to overclock your herald? The others seem to be using cpuscaler, and you?
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i guess they are using Batterystaus (as i do) with the function of cpuscalar!!!

Ok then...

papamopps said:
also running 273mhz all time. i did on my wizard for 2 years and now with my herald for 1 year - WITHOUT problems.
don´t like scalar...
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Same here, I never use scaler.

Is the info from statusbattery accurate?

Hi, I just got a TMO Wing. Thanks for many threads here, I downloaded Statusbattery and overclocked my wing to 247. It works great. I have a question regard the accuracy of batterystatus. I underclocked to 156Mhz just to save battery yesterday so it can last a bit longer until I can recharge it at home. However, I found that the current drain shown in batter status is 177mA. I changed it back to 201 MHz, it show 112 mA, but if I overclocked it to 247mA, it showed 64mA. What just happened? Is something wrong with my phone? I thought that the lower the clock goes, the less current it drains. And all the cases were when Wifi and bluetooth disable. Only the phone option is on. No other background app is running.
Best regards

it's called batterystatus, first of all
anyway. Its possible that the amperage meter refreshes at a different rate than the clock speed. Or it could just be that it's wrong.
Its also possible that the processor is being actively used, even if nothing else is running.
It also could be that a slower clocked processor needs more power to get things done than a faster one because it takes a longer. The faster clockspeed finishes quickly, so it can idle at 64mA.
Your guess is as good as mine. Try setting it low, then waiting a while

HOT battery~!

OK...so MUCH THANKS to Mr. Carlisle for gettin me all squared away with rooting my Hero and upgrading to Froyo 2.2. All back ups complete, apps downloaded and only major bug thus far is the camera...SO....why is my battery running at 105 degrees on average? What should the normal range be? I turn it on @ 6 am after charging to 100% and wiping battery stats and ten hours later recharge it to 100% (Currently @ 50%) and all day the temp has been between 103 and 105. whycome? HELP!

Pauper7 said:
OK...so MUCH THANKS to Mr. Carlisle for gettin me all squared away with rooting my Hero and upgrading to Froyo 2.2. All back ups complete, apps downloaded and only major bug thus far is the camera...SO....why is my battery running at 105 degrees on average? What should the normal range be? I turn it on @ 6 am after charging to 100% and wiping battery stats and ten hours later recharge it to 100% (Currently @ 50%) and all day the temp has been between 103 and 105. whycome? HELP!
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Because on FRF91 on Cyanogen mod (which i assume you are using) is overclocked to 710 mhz, where the hero's processor runs at 528 normally. My suggestion is to download an app called overclock widget from the market, (Obviously, it's a widget and you'll have to add it to your homescreen) and set the minimum and maximum clock (processor) speed to 240mhz(min) and 518mhz [or 534, if you want to, but it won't make much difference] (max).
You can set the max (or minimum) clock speed to be more or less. Lower clock(processor) speed=More lag but better battery life, and potential to freeze your hero because the processor can't operate the system fast enough. Higher clock(processor) speed= Faster and less lag but less battery life and can damage your touch screen (It's happened to me). if you leave it at too high a clock speed for too long, and can also freeze your phone because your processor can't operate at that speed and crashes your phone.
It's up to you if you want to overclock or not, but you should keep it resonable, and if you have heavy phone usage, don't go much further than 613 mhz for your max. There is also another program called set cpu that is avalible for free for xda members, but is a paid app on the market. Using that, you can set your frequencies to the default hero processor, or of other phones. But overclocking over 710mhz could do some harm to your phone, so be careful.
If you say, "I wonder if this will damage my phone," then don't take the chance without asking around first.

If you have any more questions about overclock, pm me, and I can help you out.

That temperature range, ~40C is completely normal when charging and using at the same time (with me, anyway). I'm OC'ed to 710 and using undervolt, too. The highest I've ever seen mine go is 43C, or about 109F. I don't really know where the "danger zone" is, but if I had to guess it would be around 48C or higher.
Edit: I reread your post, and do you mean it's at 40C always, even when it's sitting doing nothing? If that's the case then follow Ryoma Echizen's advice and fine-tune your CPU speed.

Optimus 2x *Underclock* benchmarks

Has anyone underclocked their O2X? I personally think that overclock is a bit of a placebo effect so I just want to know if anyone has underclocked their phone and if they can kindly share the performance of the phone as well as some benchmarks. I've seen people underclock their Galaxy S2 right down to 500mhz and performance is very smooth! Is O2X similar?

I didn't do any benchmarks (speaking of placebo effect ) but I use setcpu with vorkkernel so that my top frequency gets more and more limited with the battery level and overnight. This way I manage to only loose 1-2% during the night and the phone alive for a couple of hours when under 15%.
I noticed a certain UI lag when under 500mhz but not so much in the graphics department, I guess the gpu has it's own clock.

I have underclock/undervolt to 800Mhz/900mV and works very smoothly

just got setcpu... those profiles are awesome

Lg home is a memory hog and seems to be quite cpu intensive compared to most other home apps but if using a dif homescreen then maybe it will still perform smoothly otherwise i doubt it will perform good.

Hi... I have installed cynogenmod 7.1 Stable. In Performance > CPU Settings, it shows 216/1000MHz as the only available frequency. I installed SetCPU, it closes saying some error.
Can you please tell me what I have to do, basically I want to underclock it for battery issues.
Thanks

Just undervolted all default values by 100mV, stress test running perfect. CPU at 52C on a 18ish ambient day.

I have 3 setcpu profiles on stock.
In call : 312/216
Screen off : 216/216
Battery <100% : 760/216
Getting amazing stand by time, 2h 30m since I unplugged the charger and only 1% battery spent.
Getting decent results during use as well, or atleast thats what I call it. Earlier today I went through 400+ google reader articles over wifi and watch accompanying youtube videos and also checked some external links. After about 30 mins I lost 7-10% battery. I think thats good enough, unless someone here is about to blow my mind with their results

3h and 30m now still at 99%.
5 minutes of evernote and battery at 95% now. Sooo unsatisfying.

benchmark @800Mhz

what rom you using and what setting for oc

Kickasskev said:
what rom you using and what setting for oc
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Topogigi v20 SP3.
Andrev OC 800MHz wake.
[email protected]
pretty smooth for daily use.
if play heavy games, I restore it back to 1GHz.

what kernel

Kickasskev said:
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Neoblaze, from SP2.
I need as stable ROM as possible, but fast.
all stock from Topogigi's built.

Do you have google video calling via front cam ? That's all I care about and I cant find the answer anywhere.
My lg might be getting decent battery life but the entire operation/daily use experience is very bad. Last night I used subsonic to stream my home library to my phone and while I listened to it I read stuff on google reader and then everything started to lag. Just setting the max and min isn't working well for me. I ran antutu last night and got 4500ish numbers with setcpu and juicedefender off and You are getting 6500+

quabrant 1580marks on 600mhz
after 3 hrs on 600mhz I'm impressed with the battary live!
3hrs wifi browsing, 2times quadtant test. battary dropped 12%

oleg1981 said:
quabrant 1580marks on 600mhz
after 3 hrs on 600mhz I'm impressed with the battary live!
3hrs wifi browsing, 2times quadtant test. battary dropped 12%
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Post more info, what rom, kernel etc. I set my max to 600 and I get good battery but it takes all the fun out of using it, everything lags. You can still do things sure but I dont like lag.
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miina_tokiha said:
Topogigi v20 SP3.
Andrev OC 800MHz wake.
[email protected]
pretty smooth for daily use.
if play heavy games, I restore it back to 1GHz.
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How is the battery life ? Also the 800mhz wake and undervolt are those part of sp3 or extra steps you did ?

retareq said:
Post more info, what rom, kernel etc. I set my max to 600 and I get good battery but it takes all the fun out of using it, everything lags. You can still do things sure but I dont like lag.
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100% stock rom + over it.
the version is 2.2.2 v20b
nothing lags. the only diference i see is thet lock screen sart to respond about 1second after power button is pressed. before it was instant.

Thanks for the info. I'm on v21b rooted with setcpu max set to 600ish and there is noticeable lag everywhere. Feels like how the phone was when I first got it and had to replace the lg launcher to get rid of the lag.

retareq said:
Do you have google video calling via front cam ? That's all I care about and I cant find the answer anywhere.
My lg might be getting decent battery life but the entire operation/daily use experience is very bad. Last night I used subsonic to stream my home library to my phone and while I listened to it I read stuff on google reader and then everything started to lag. Just setting the max and min isn't working well for me. I ran antutu last night and got 4500ish numbers with setcpu and juicedefender off and You are getting 6500+
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6500+ is when I overclock to 1,4GHz.
it's only for benchmark, and not for daily use.
retareq said:
How is the battery life ? Also the 800mhz wake and undervolt are those part of sp3 or extra steps you did ?
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battery life is about 24h of normal use.
I always connected to wifi.
oh, and I replace LG Home Launcher with Xperia Launcer.
it's lighter, no lag even use lower clock speed.

[Q] Awful Battery Life - 5 Hours and 5% left. OG Droid.

So just inherited my dads OG Droid. Currently rooted and runs Steel Droid (Mod Version 9000) and 2.6.32.9_RZ Kernel.
Phone is overclocked to 1GHz (125/1000 ONDEMAND).
Like the title says, the phone gets about 5 hours and then hit's 5% and keeps asking me to charge. If I charge it overnight and unplug it when it's 100%, it'll hit 90% idling (while I sleep) about 3 hours later.
Running Programs:
DSPManager
Words Free
Facebook
3D Digital Weather Cloc
News & Weather
3G Watchdog
Videos
SoundHound
Pandora
Temp+CPU V2
Now out of all the running apps, Pandora, Soundhound, News & Weather, 3G Watchdog, Temp+CPU, 3D Digital Clock are all widgets. Temp+CPU and 3D Digital clock are the only ones that actually run, the rest are just there in case I want to use them.
These stats today are from using Pandora for about an hour over Wifi.
Any ideas? Phone runs fine most of the time but I have seen the occasional lag where you have to click something 10 times before it opens.

I used to have a pretty big problem with battery life too, but even though I think they are somewhat silly and annoying the Easy Battery Saver app helped me quite a bit.
Wifi and using the speakers are heavy on battery life. Not sure how much difference it will make but try consolidating your widgets and app shortcuts to as few screens as possible.
Also your CPU governor might be set to something that lets the phone hog through anything at the sacrifice of battery. When i set my CPU to Performance my phone runs like a boss, while setting it to battery saver I get a little more lag but more battery, obviously. Not sure how/if your ROM will let you change that but it's something to look into.

I got it set to On Demand which might be the issue. The kernel is a low voltage kernel. How do ultra low voltage kernels run?
I did a battery calibration, downloaded Advanced Task Killer (Battery saver didn't work well, I'd always have an issue with 3G not activating) and got rid of all my widgets. Currently charging it up completely, I'll check it out tomorrow.
So the title is incorrect, it says 5 hours and 5% left. I checked the battery info at 5%. It said 4hr 4x min. About 10 minutes later it shut off so I didn't even get 5 hours to a full charge.
I don't have high expectations but coming from an Alias 2 that had the extended battery (I'd get a week of battery with my use), this is pretty disappointing.

Well I can tell you now, ondemand is NOT good for battery, what that governor does is make it so the CPU will go from MIN to MAX speed slots depending on what the phone needs, AFAIK it doesn't scale with need, it just goes to max. So your phones CPU was running at max most the time which kills battery.
Can't say anything about your ROM, but I use simply stunning 5.6 http://www.droidforums.net/forum/chevyno1/177728-ss-5-6-2-3-7-incl-1-battery-other-goodies.html Which, with his low voltage 1ghz kernel set to the smartass governor, I get anywhere from 8-14 hours of battery life depending on use. Using ultra low voltage kernels depend on your phone, some phones have trouble overclocking to 800mhz mid-voltage (mid-voltage is considered to be the most stable, but use the most battery), others can overclock to 1.25ghz ultra-low voltage, which is very rare. I would say try out all the different voltage kernels and see which one works best with your phone.
Also task killer = MAJOR MAJOR No no! The task killer will kill the apps, and the android OS will restart them, using more CPU time and making the battery actually not last as long, I would recommend learning how to use the supercharger script http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
Can't say much about the majority of programs you have running, but I've found facebook does not like to play nice with the Droid, also, why use the 3D clock when the Droid comes with a built in-clock app? Pandora uses a lot of battery, so running it w/ the ondemand governor is probably what hurt your battery there.
Not many Droid users left out there, but I was and still am an extremely avid Droid user, so if you have any more questions just shoot me a PM and I'll help as much as I can.

Thanks! I got rid of all my widgets and installed Chevy's ultra low voltage 1.1GHz kernel on smartass. I lost 20% battery pretty fast but let's see how long it runs. I've had no force close issues so far. I'm a bit tempted to go to 1.2GHz ulv.
How much does the ROM have to do with battery life? I really love this ROM and it's interface. I thought the battery life really only had to do with kernels.
I also got rid of the clock widget and put a default clock widget. What's the built in Android one? Is that the "Analog Clock"?
Sorry for all these questions, I'm pretty new to Android. Only had this for 2 days (~8-10 recharges...)

Its fine, better to question and learn then to just get mad and over it, and Roms have everything to do with battery, they are just like kernels, some work AMAZING on some phones, while others can destroy battery life.
Like my rom, I found the perfect one for my phone, I get 8- (been thinking about it more) 20 hours of battery life on mine and it has pretty amazing performance too with the occasional hiccup.
And I thought you had the clock app installed for an alarm, not for a widget, my bad. I don't use a clock widget so I wouldn't know.. Also, I've found its not very good to run many widgets on the Droid, as it has limited memory and can only handle so much.

Well I got sick of it and reflashed the entire ROM. CPU governer is set to ONDEMAND 125/1000. Only*widgets I have are a simple clock (like the iPhone lock screen) and power control. Gonna see how it goes. So far so good but I'm saying that because I didn't loose 20% overnight. If I can clear the day, I'm good.
googlelover, what CPU Governer did you find to work the best with your phone?

I have been an Android owner for a while now, with the Droid being my first. Until recently battery life had always been an issue for me. Undervolting has never had an effect over a 20% improvement. And this is only when it's in deep sleep. Otherwise, in very general terms, undervolting can require a higher current aka worse battery life if you use your phone a lot. With undervolting comes the risk of data corruption in your phones memory and SD Card. What really kills your phone is screen on time, wakelocks, CPU overclock, and signal quality.
The last you have no control of. But if you're overclocking 1GHz or higher you have to realize that's almost twice the manufactured clock speed. As far as wakelocks, this is when something keeps your phone from going into a low power state. This can happen because of a rogue app, a buggy ROM, or having too many widgets. I ran into a ROM a while ago on my Fascinate that would stay awake if you had GPS enabled. The best you can do with your display power usage is to keep your brightness down. Hope this explains a few things

have the same issue

core2kid said:
Well I got sick of it and reflashed the entire ROM. CPU governer is set to ONDEMAND 125/1000. Only*widgets I have are a simple clock (like the iPhone lock screen) and power control. Gonna see how it goes. So far so good but I'm saying that because I didn't loose 20% overnight. If I can clear the day, I'm good.
googlelover, what CPU Governer did you find to work the best with your phone?
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I already told you, the smartass governor, and like I said before, ondemand is not a good governor in my opinion. There are way to many factors in battery life to have anyone else be able to truly help you with it, all our phones are different and it really just takes time switching kernels, switching ROMs, etc to find what works with your phone

Sorry googlelover, I forgot you already said that.
So update guys. I've been going a day (so like 18 hours) of use after which it finally hits the 15% warning.
What I did:
Basically I reflashed the ROM and started from scratch. Before reflashing, I wiped the user data/cache/davick cache etc at least twice just to make sure it was really wiped.
I reflashed SteelDroid 9.0 with the default chevyno1 lv 1ghz kernel and gave it a go with just a simple clock widget. Worked well. One by one, I'm starting to install applications until I can figure out what was draining the battery fast. So far, so good. If I can get 18 hours on a 2 year old battery, I'm going to be doing fine with my extended battery.
One thing I did notice was that the phone back by the camera (where CPU is) isn't getting as hot as it used to. Makes me think that the phone was at a high clock speed in sleep. Another issue may have been my CPU temp/speed monitor. It was probably poling the CPU stats every second which made the phone increase the CPU speed because it sensed activity.
Try out the ROM I'm using. I absolutely love it. The interface is phenomenal and it runs very well.
htp://w w w . d r o i d f o r u m s . n e t /forum/steel-droid/148060-release-steel-droid-9-0-gingerbread-11-17-2011-a.html
(remove the spaces to see it, I wasn't able to post links normally because I don't have enough overall posts).
There's probably other ROMS that run better like the one googlelover is using, but I can't use the default Android interface anymore after using this.

core2kid said:
Sorry googlelover, I forgot you already said that.
So update guys. I've been going a day (so like 18 hours) of use after which it finally hits the 15% warning.
What I did:
Basically I reflashed the ROM and started from scratch. Before reflashing, I wiped the user data/cache/davick cache etc at least twice just to make sure it was really wiped.
I reflashed SteelDroid 9.0 with the default chevyno1 lv 1ghz kernel and gave it a go with just a simple clock widget. Worked well. One by one, I'm starting to install applications until I can figure out what was draining the battery fast. So far, so good. If I can get 18 hours on a 2 year old battery, I'm going to be doing fine with my extended battery.
One thing I did notice was that the phone back by the camera (where CPU is) isn't getting as hot as it used to. Makes me think that the phone was at a high clock speed in sleep. Another issue may have been my CPU temp/speed monitor. It was probably poling the CPU stats every second which made the phone increase the CPU speed because it sensed activity.
Try out the ROM I'm using. I absolutely love it. The interface is phenomenal and it runs very well.
htp://w w w . d r o i d f o r u m s . n e t /forum/steel-droid/148060-release-steel-droid-9-0-gingerbread-11-17-2011-a.html
(remove the spaces to see it, I wasn't able to post links normally because I don't have enough overall posts).
There's probably other ROMS that run better like the one googlelover is using, but I can't use the default Android interface anymore after using this.
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Don't forget not many roms have the default android interface, many have themes to completely change the look, if your happy where your phone is, great! But if you ever feel like your phone is slowing down again, I'd still recommend looking around and flashing some different roms.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. I'm only using this phone for another couple months. I'll be getting the Droid 4 when it comes out. Looks like a really nice phone.