ideas for improving CM9 stability and performance - Motorola Droid X2

I wanted to start a thread to source some ideas for improving the stability of CM9 that would be easy for anyone to implement. Please feel free to share yours. I'll try to update the OP semi-regularly with your suggestions.
Not necessarily arranged in order of effectiveness.
1) Fix permissions in recovery. I'm not sure what this technically does, but it seems to have helped with responsiveness and stability.
2) Modify read/write speed of SD card. This can be done easily with a variety of apps, but the one i chose to use was SD speed increase. I used the suggested value of 2048. Its really easy and seems to have made a difference in when I am playing music.
3) Changed media apps that I use frequently (apollo and beyondpod) to system apps with titanium backup. I cannot confirm if this has made a substantial difference, so I may remove this within the next couple of days.
4) Turned off surface dithering (settings--->performance) - not sure I noticed any difference in visual appearance or responsiveness.
5) Enabled 16 bit transparency (settings--->performance) - again, not sure if it actually did anything.
6) Using an app such as system tuner, disable unnecessary apps from automatically launching at startup.
7) Long press the back button to kill the foreground app. I do this for apps that I feel don't need to be running constantly, such as the browser, xda app, etc. This function can be enabled under settings--->development.

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I haven't tried fixing permission yet but it may work. Has anyone tried format system. Some roms say format some don't.
Sent using my Droid x2 running cm7 dx2 rc1

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scotty1825 said:
I haven't tried fixing permission yet but it may work. Has anyone tried format system. Some roms say format some don't.
Sent using my Droid x2 running cm7 dx2 rc1
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I'm coming from a fresh install of CM9 beta1 (wiped cache, system, data and dalvik) and so far I have had 1 random reboot and just a few force closes. Haven't tried doing fix permissions, might do that later today and see what happens.

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if a ROM says not to format system, it is likely because it automatically does it.
Sent from my MB870 using xda premium

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In the past I would wipe my entire card and it helped with clearing up roms :/
From My Leaned Out SuperCharged Blur

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I have noticed that apex seems to be a much more fluid launcher than trebuchet.
Sent from my MB870 using xda app-developers app

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Amazing. Simply amazing. My battery says bam. I'm here to stay- korn reference......
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I would like a "remove all" apps in the "recent apps" menu. Kinda like on the s3. Probably not going to happen, but if someone gets bored and thinks this can be solved by a zip file or something, I'd sure appreciate it
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You can map the back button so that when its long pressed it kills the foreground app. That seems to help from having tons of apps running.
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I have that set up, but I never really think to use it.