I need to freeze some of this VZW bloatware. My Droid 3 is dog slow when I am trying to take pictures and move around the phone. The memory is being sucked up by apps such as VZW Navigator... even when I never launch it.
You could add them to the task manager "auto end list" so they shutdown 2 mins after starting.
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somemadcaaant said:
You could add them to the task manager "auto end list" so they shutdown 2 mins after starting.
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This.
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I'be had fairly poor battery performance. When i went into running services i saw that quite a few were running that i didn't start up myself. Like Facebook. Tripit, hootsuite. I've made sure that notifications have been turned off but these apps are still loading up. Any way of making sure they don't load unless i manually load them?
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I've been using watchdog. It lets me know when an app is running in the background and lets me kill it. If there's an automatic solution, I'd like to know about it too.
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Don't use task killers/managers. It's like shutting your computer off repeatedly without shutting it down properly and has the ability to screw **** up.
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Don't use task killers/managers. It's like shutting your computer off repeatedly without shutting it down properly and has the ability to screw **** up.
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Agreed, task killers... kill batteries.
Honestly, having it run in the background doesn't kill your battery. Its the syncing. I'm assuming you are NOT rooted? If so, then there are a number of apps to help you, primarily Titanium Backup so you can FREEZE the app.
If you want to have a quick free fix, go under accounts, and turn off sync for those apps. Saves battery life like you wouldn't believe.
There's also an app called "LTE Switch" that brings you to the LTE Menu so you can switch to CDMA (Also a HUGE battery saver)
Good luck!
I am rooted and running UNL3ASH3D V2.0. And yes I understand it's the syncing that kills the battery. I've turned off syncing on these apps but they're still loading which makes me think they are still using at least some battery. None of these programs (like Facebook) are listed in Accounts.
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I am rooted and running UNL3ASH3D V2.0. And yes I understand it's the syncing that kills the battery. I've turned off syncing on these apps but they're still loading which makes me think they are still using at least some battery. None of these programs (like Facebook) are listed in Accounts.
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None are showing under Accounts? Hmm, thats odd. Usually, when you first get your phone, it asks to set these up. What all apps start up upon reboot? And you are NOT rooted, correct? I'll do some research
I'm not using the Social Networking app. Standalone versions of Facebook, Hoot Suite, etc.
What I'm using is a program that is a part of my file explorer, ES Task Manager. Instead of KILLING the apps, I can force them at startup to not run. So I stopped Gun Bros and Contract Killer from running at startup because they had these annoying notifications they would send me about buying in-game stuff and really didn't need to be run at all. And I couldn't find a way to turn them off lol, so this works out well for me. If you don't want something running at startup, you can do it this way, and it could potentially help battery life because it would only run when you tell it to. And you need root access to do this.
Great suggestion
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Look for program called "Startup Manager" in market - works great!
hello...i used a auto start manager, works great..but i also want that when i close facebook from recent app that it kills the process...in rom tools task manager i see that facebook is a hidden app (like whatsapp) so the built-in task manager doesn't kill it when i close the app..any ideas how to make the facebook app "visible" so that the task manager auto kills it like other apps and games?
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Don't use task killers/managers. It's like shutting your computer off repeatedly without shutting it down properly and has the ability to screw **** up.
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People say that but whenever I haven't used one, I can notice the difference in performance. My bionic runs better with ATK.
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Since last two days many apps started updating auto how's that being done/?the verizons stuff apps , flash, skype mob and those which I had from market does thse updates tkes more memory?coz each time if all apps starts updatin then wud it have effect on memory..
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Not sure if this answers your question but anyways you can turn off automatic updating on the apps market page.
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Open Market app, hit Menu, select Settings and uncheck the "Auto-update apps" box.
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Open Market app, hit Menu, select Settings and uncheck the "Auto-update apps" box.
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I suggest doing this. I got sick of apps always wanting to update at the worst possible time.
Ya finally did that thx
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A lot of games turned to gray and can't play, did those games be uninstalled automatically? If not, how to remove them to avoid wasting space?
Also after press main key to exit some apps, they will keep running in the background and consuming battery. I can't go to task manager each time to close it.
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I don't see why they would be uninstalled automatically, but why don't you just look under "My Apps" in the Play Store?
Hit the "back" button, not the home button.
Also after press main key to exit some apps, they will keep running in the background and consuming battery. I can't go to task manager each time to close it.
This is how android was designed It closes the programes in the background by it self when certain criteria are fullfilled...
Sometimes you can even damage the programe if you force-close it they say...
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Also after press main key to exit some apps, they will keep running in the background and consuming battery. I can't go to task manager each time to close it.
This is how android was designed It closes the programes in the background by it self when certain criteria are fullfilled...
Sometimes you can even damage the programe if you force-close it they say...
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Some apps don't close after 24 hours. This is the problem.
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andreww88 said:
I don't see why they would be uninstalled automatically, but why don't you just look under "My Apps" in the Play Store?
Hit the "back" button, not the home button.
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Those apps not in "my apps", I suspect they left 'dead body' on 'sd card'.
Some app needs to hit several times of 'back' to exit.
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Does restarting phone helps
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they are left also possibly cached services, but you dont want to go in running applications everytime to kill those.
uninstall reinstall,
if that doesnt work, painful clear data of app, uninstal reinstal.
You can also experiment copying folder with saved games from sdcard to external, doing the clear data, uninstal and then reinstal and copy data back. Android can be oddly buggy with that.
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truelies1 said:
A lot of games turned to gray and can't play, did those games be uninstalled automatically? If not, how to remove them to avoid wasting space?
Also after press main key to exit some apps, they will keep running in the background and consuming battery. I can't go to task manager each time to close it.
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happens to the apps moved to SD. Try a reboot.(fixes most of the time for me). if not then try a dalvik cache clean.. these can be unistalled from the app manager of the phone
Today I tried to install an app I installed by myself but disappeared after 4.0.4 update.it says 'replace'. So during update, they deleted some app and left dead body on sd card. That sucks.
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Do I need to keep advanced task killer on my bionic running ics or is it unnecessary?
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You can kill runaway apps in settings, apps, running which should be sufficient. Using task killers that autostart and continuously kill apps will do more harm than good.
Haven't needed a task killer since my devices were on Gingerbread here. Hold the Home button to bring up the recent apps and swipe them away in there to kill them. Any other rogue apps can be shutdown like other poster said by just hitting settings>apps and Force closing them from there.
ICS certainly makes it easier. Quite frankly I haven't bothered with a task killer since Android is supposed to handle all that pretty much automatically (at least we read about it everywhere).
Thanks, I'm going to give it a try and remove the app.
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Don't need them
SC-Claim said:
Thanks, I'm going to give it a try and remove the app.
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Good idea -- vestige of very early versions of Android.
+1 to what you have already been told.
Don't kill tasks unless you know you absolutely don't want the program open, or maybe opened it by accident.
Android will stack a list of apps you have used. When resources are getting near low, it will start to empty. I hope I am not giving misinformation on the exact process, seems to me what my phone does. Any apps you use more than once a day should not be killed, they will switch faster next time you access them. That's just how Android works.
After every call ended, S-Health pops up, after unplugging headphones S-Health pops up, and sometimes varies with other apps when exiting them or doing whatever... wtf. Thought it was me but two buddies with new S5 as well said the same thing. Any way to disable this, I don't even use it and not signed into it. Useless to me, I keep my workout sched for different days in Evernote anway. Praying to the root gods something is figured out to get rid of this bloatware.
Go to settings/application manager and find s health in the All tab. Uninstall updates first, and then hit "turn off".
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Go to settings/application manager and find s health in the All tab. Uninstall updates first, and then hit "turn off".
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Thanks. Went through and pretty much did the same for every AT&T and Sammy app showing.
It doesn't remove the apps, but at least it prevents them from running services in the background.
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I've had this same problem on my S7. I 'Disable' the app and it asks me if I would like to restore it to the factory version to which I say 'yes'. Then at the next update it reinstalls the latest updates and it all happens again. I'm not very tech-savvy so am hoping someone can help. I've now removed all permissions and blocked notifications on the app settings so fingers crossed it stops happening.