Help Phone runs slower with Developer options enabled

[lvt]

I noticed that my phone (HTC One SV rooted with original ROM and Sense) runs slower when I activated the "Developer options" menu. Disabling that menu makes the phone run smoother like before.

The only option I selected in this menu was "USB debugging".

Is it just me ?

 

[scary alien]

Hard to imagine that something would start running and subsequently eat/use resources simply from enabling Developer Options or USB Debugging. I've done that countless times on my devices and have never seen any aberrant behavior.

As far as I know, you're really just turning on switches and the ability to do other things, not actually doing anything that launches anything...

That being said, I'm not sure that the adb daemon itself is already running before USB debugging is enabled. I could test that tonight when I get home (LOL, you can't monitor the device directly with a logcat because you'd be turning it (USB debugging) off, so I'd have to write a script).

 

[scary alien]

Okay, test completed!

Well, shiver me timbers, the adb daemon (/sbin/adbd) is indeed NOT active when USB debugging is disabled.

I ran a little script (with "let i=1; while (( i < 120 )); do ps | grep -i adb ; sleep 1; let i=i+1; done" as the contents) in an Android Terminal Emulator window and watched the output while I toggled USB debugging off/on.

The adbd process disappeared when USB debugging is toggled OFF.

So, your next step might be to watch the adbd process with System Panel or some other suitable app and see if it's gone rogue.

My bet is its still unrelated to this process, though...