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Task killer question

Just wanted to ask if this phone has a task killer built in or do I have to download one from market? I came from the gs2 where when u pressed the home button it gave u an option to kill certain tasks while leaving others open. All info is greatly appreciated thanks.*** Also on a side note is anyone using setcpu to lower the cpu or is it best to run it stock?
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ns4g4me said:
Just wanted to ask if this phone has a task killer built in or do I have to download one from market? I came from the gs2 where when u pressed the home button it gave u an option to kill certain tasks while leaving others open. All info is greatly appreciated thanks.*** Also on a side note is anyone using setcpu to lower the cpu or is it best to run it stock?
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If you double tap home it will bring up your recent apps. You can swipe them away, but task managers are not really needed.
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Thanks a lot lol I would've never guessed that. Appreciate the help .
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ns4g4me said:
Just wanted to ask if this phone has a task killer built in or do I have to download one from market? I came from the gs2 where when u pressed the home button it gave u an option to kill certain tasks while leaving others open. All info is greatly appreciated thanks.*** Also on a side note is anyone using setcpu to lower the cpu or is it best to run it stock?
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I restored the built in task killer from titanium backup from the evo lte
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As usual, the best recommendation for task killers is: DO NOT use one.
Task killers almost always cause more battery usage and slower performance, just because they force your phone to reload an app every single time you open it. Some people seem to believe that just because an app is in RAM, it's using battery, and that's outright false. It's suspended in RAM, doing absolutely nothing, waiting for you to use it again.
The only apps that actually run in the background are apps that have services (Facebook, Spotify, etc), apps that do things in the background. Killing these tasks isn't even a good idea, as Android will attempt to restart killed services.

ns4g4me said:
Just wanted to ask if this phone has a task killer built in or do I have to download one from market?
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Here is a blog post written by a member of the Android team explaining how multi-tasking works on Android and why task killers actually hurt performance and battery life. Don't use them. They're counter productive.

There is an app in the play store called Grennify. It's kinda like a task killer. The short of it is that you select apps to be Greenfied. The selected apps don't run in the background while your phone is in sleep mode. I've been using this app since I had my S3 and IMO, is a must have app for root users.
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Media server

Can some1 tell me about the media server app
How to close it and stop running in background coz its the app which uses my 60% of battery
My phone is not rooted so tell me what to be done wirh reference to this
Thanks
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sanket_naik08 said:
Can some1 tell me about the media server app
How to close it and stop running in background coz its the app which uses my 60% of battery
My phone is not rooted so tell me what to be done wirh reference to this
Thanks
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I don't like it running either but because it's part of the Android system you can't disable it unless rooted. And then any app which uses it to find content (most music and video players, photo album apps etc) won't work properly, although there are folder browsing apps which don't need it.

You need it... root won't help
to reduce its drain switch off keypad tones & vibrate....
anything that uses media files will start media server that is what it does

sanket_naik08 said:
Can some1 tell me about the media server app
How to close it and stop running in background coz its the app which uses my 60% of battery
My phone is not rooted so tell me what to be done wirh reference to this
Thanks
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That is a bug in android 4.1 firmware. Google it for a media scanning bug in 4.1 , u will find many answers.but only solution is 4.2
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For me, I solved the problem largely by using the donate version of Greenify.
I greenified "media storage", "memory" and "storage capability", and this solves the problem. Greenify will allow apps to be frozen when they are not in use, but when they are called via intents, they wake up almost immediately, hence preserving battery without losing any capabilities.
A must have!
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Facebook app uses RIDICULOUSLY large amounts of RAM

Just look how much ram Facebook uses. 120mb?! Wtf? Can someone help me please? Thanks
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It has 4 services running. So open it to see what the services are. And please change the thread title. WTF?? does not indicate your question or problem and it is a very childish title

facebook app is, in my opinion, trash, in respect to both memory usage and battery usage. it disregard your refresh preferences and sync on when they like, much like google app, but useless as it have no deal with the system. if you're rooted, i recommend you burn the facebook and go with other app, or simply open it via web.

papawil01 said:
Just look how much ram Facebook uses. 120mb?! Wtf? Can someone help me please? Thanks
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If you want fb to use less memory you can remove some of the notifications. It will keep less services open to watch for notifications.

Battery tracking app, no root

Is there any battery tracking /wakelock detector apps that don't require root?
I need to find out why my Android System has been killing my battery every single day. So frustrating
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Djapatos said:
Is there any battery tracking /wakelock detector apps that don't require root?
I need to find out why my Android System has been killing my battery every single day. So frustrating
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Im not sure about a wake detector app without root. But you could check out Gsam battery monitor for battery monitoring or even watchdog task manager for rogue apps. The latter is old and hasn't been updated in while, but it still works.

The gsam does show me the Android System is whats killing it but it only shows a list of apps inlcuded in there. So i m unable to see which one specifically thats killing my battery
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Have you tried using Greenify to hibernate most downloaded apps? Tends to help alot with random wakelocks/battery life. You could also give cpu spy a try to see which apps are doing what.

Will try. Thanks
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S6 keeps closing apps automatically!

Is there any way thru system/app to edit the s6 to stop closing apps automatically? When i play a game and go to check my notifications even for a few seconds the phone automatically closes the app and it restart. Anyone knows how to stop that from happening??

This is the problem with the S6 memory management system. It's extremely aggressive and tends to close apps when they go into the background. There is a thread dedicated to trying to improve memory management on this thing, but things look pretty bleak.
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cgalyon said:
This is the problem with the S6 memory management system. It's extremely aggressive and tends to close apps when they go into the background. There is a thread dedicated to trying to improve memory management on this thing, but things look pretty bleak.
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Do you know the link to that thread?

Sure, here's a link to the thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3128229
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