i hope i don't create a redundant thread, but a preceding search (flip clocks) in the DREAM forum only returned 3 existing threads, which all did not discuss this question.
my weather widget/flip clock (donate version) stops refreshing frequently. it is usually trailing for some time, mostly up to an hour or so, until it wakes up again.
i know the instruction: exclude weather widget from task killer (or add to "ignore list")
HOWEVER....
i don't even have a task killer installed....
Toggle Settings has a task killer embedded, but I haven't even activated it (seemed to cause more problems than solving any...)
so... what else do i have to do, apart from that above, that i can't do.
thanks for any hint.
cheers
Download Advanced Task Manager and exclude it from there. You should have a task manager anyhow.
i tried that (with toggle settings task killer (ignore list)) and estrongs task manager (ignore list)... but both didn't change a thing.
that's why i am so confused
Carloswithac said:
Download Advanced Task Manager and exclude it from there. You should have a task manager anyhow.
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correction... i think it was just that.
i tried Advanced Task Manager, excluded weather widget in that one, and now it works like a charm...
but that means many other task killers are just not doing it right....... because they didn't work.
thanks for the help!
Had this issue, just paid the $0.99 for the app and hope this takes care of it.
Thanks all!
Talderon said:
Had this issue, just paid the $0.99 for the app and hope this takes care of it.
Thanks all!
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yes, all the best! at first it seemed not to work.
i managed it by doing the following:
1. open the weather widget app (not the widget, the app that comes along with it, in which we change settings or themes, etc.)
2. while weather widget app is open, start advanced task manager and add the weather widget app to the exlude list (also to the auto-kill exclude list)
this did it for me. finally the flip clock is on time. ALWAYS
my clock stops working when there is a forcast error and only starts working again when i refresh the weather. I've contacted the dev and told him about it and he said he will look into it.
i just figured out that although adding it to the exclude list of advanced task manager it still "crashes" occasionally.
then the weather app has to be re-started, and then it works again.
something makes weather app crashing, and i believe it's low memory. should extract a log ...
Same problem here. Excluded it from kill list, but still runs consistently behind, when it's not locked up for hours. Quite a disappointment after coming from Beautiful Widgets. Can't exclude from Auto Kill list on free Advanced Task Manager, but shouldn't have to buy an app to make another work properly!
i figured it out, somehow...
i realized that apart from Advanced Task Manager, I had also Toggle Settings, which also kills processes (I find this feature of Toggle Settings is not as intiuitive but it seems impossible to have it deactivated).
so, i have to:
- exclude from Advanced Task Manager
- exclude from Advanced Task Manager autokill
- exclude from Toggle Settings
- exclude from Toggle Settings autokill
... for any new app that has a task manager and autokill function this will have to be done separately
finally i got it working
I've tried excluding it from Taskiller, Advanced Task Manager, Estrongs, etc and it still stops refreshing. After unlocking, it's always wrong, requiring refresh. Hopefully dev can get this app working correctly.
shmigao said:
i figured it out, somehow...
i realized that apart from Advanced Task Manager, I had also Toggle Settings, which also kills processes (I find this feature of Toggle Settings is not as intiuitive but it seems impossible to have it deactivated).
so, i have to:
- exclude from Advanced Task Manager
- exclude from Advanced Task Manager autokill
- exclude from Toggle Settings
- exclude from Toggle Settings autokill
... for any new app that has a task manager and autokill function this will have to be done separately
finally i got it working
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I'm not sure if you are using Cyanogen, but if you go into your apps list open the Spare Parts app. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the list of options. The last one should be 'Home app in memory'. This is where the lesser of two evils comes in, at least from my experience. When checked, the Weather Widget clock will freeze and you will constantly have to refresh to update. When unchecked, no problems with the Weather Widget, BUT you will have a lag(2-5 sec) when returning to your Home screen. The delay may not bother you at first, but it will eventually...especially when you are trying to make a call and have to wait for all your icons to show.
Anyone know where the settings for power/sleep are? I am wondering if some of the settings in there are causing the phone to turn off instead of just go to sleep? maybe set too aggresive on CPU throttling.. or some other stuff.
Anyone every play with these?
I have root explorer and sqleditor + emulator...
I have been getting a pop up message when I open set cpu that says it could not auto detect frequencies....
When I hit auto detect it fixes the slide bars on the main screen...but it doesn't seem to effect performance, because when I hit into all the speeds I've selected show 'activity'
Any thoughts? I keep thinking I should get rid of it and try a battery tweak again...?
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I actually have the same problem. It always resets back to 19.2 and freezes when I get back to lockscreen.
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Whenever I reboot I always open setcpu and I get that message as well. I wait until I see superuser give it permission before opening as well. I always have to hit menu and select the detect freq option. Once this happens setcpu puts my settings right where I had left them. When opening the app after a reboot are we supposed to see this message? With OC widget I dont get any notifications, besides superuser granting permission.
Vandelay007 said:
I have been getting a pop up message when I open set cpu that says it could not auto detect frequencies....
When I hit auto detect it fixes the slide bars on the main screen...but it doesn't seem to effect performance, because when I hit into all the speeds I've selected show 'activity'
Any thoughts? I keep thinking I should get rid of it and try a battery tweak again...?
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It's a known issue, and depending on your kernel, you can attempt to get around it by attempting to disable the kernel's perflock. Your performance WILL be affected if you attempt to adjust the settings before selecting "auto-detect".
When in SetCPU's main screen, hit menu and then select "perflock disabler" and give it a go. If your kernel has perflock, SetCPU will attempt to disable it. The good news is that most of the latest kernels do not include it, so this shouldn't be necessary.
The battery tweaks out there are going to serve the same purpose, more or less, they just take the legwork out of the settings, that's all.
I really like the "Program Monitor" that comes stock with TouchWiz but I see it's nowhere to be found on CM7. Is there any way to install it on CM7 or what would be a good alternative, just Advanced Task Killer?
Go to Settings, got to applications, running services you can kill them from here and also you can make a shortcut to your home screens by making a custom shortcut. And also read this and take it into consideration... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=904023
Why do you want a task killer? 9/10 times they slow your phone down and kill the battery. Linux, not iphone or windows. Do a search, you will find plenty of explanations.
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malicenfz said:
I really like the "Program Monitor" that comes stock with TouchWiz but I see it's nowhere to be found on CM7. Is there any way to install it on CM7 or what would be a good alternative, just Advanced Task Killer?
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this is one of the best features of CM7..
Go into settings> applications> development> check the box "stop app via long press back button"
Its sweet. Kills all your tasks with a simple long-press of the back button. I love it
For some reason com.motorola.blur.home runs with a "niceness" of 6 which means when android is running out of memory this process will be closer to the top of the list of tasks to kill. Which leaves us the problem of the homescreen redraws. This should be something easy to modify once we have root by changing it's nice priority down to zero or even all the way to -19, because there is no real reason for the homescreen to close.
One simple way around this is installing Auto Memory Manager from the Market. AutoKillers are not to be used with Android as it will severely impact battery life and possibly cause data loss among other unwanted side effects. But that is not the point of using this app.
Auto Memory Manager is supposed to control Androids internal memory management but I don't see that it does at all. The whitelist should prevent apps from dying but only does when it runs it's own autokill routines. After installing there isn't much to do but let it run. Just in case it were to kill anything, setting it to the "default" setting and adding Homescreen into it's whitelist would probably be a good idea.
To add a process to the whitelist hit the menu button select running processes and then list. Pressing on anything in the list will pop up a menu with the choice of adding it to the whitelist.
The best test would be to open the browser goto a few sites, open the camera app or any other memory hungry processes and go back to the homescreen.
One thing to note is this will not stop redraws while sliding out the keyboard and in some situations when an app is not in the same orientation that the homescreen was last seen in. Other than that it does seem to work.
Yeah I find it odd that the home screen refereshes itself or releases from memory or what ever it does when u open any app.
-smc