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.
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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.
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
I downloaded Tasker with the intent of doing one single action - turning my equalizer on whenever I plug in my earphones, as the topic title might suggest.
Is this possible? The app I use has an option to put a shortcut on my home screen that turns it on without actually opening the app. Is there a way that I can set Tasker to perform this same fucntion?
(Additionally: is there a way to set it to ignore the function if the equalizer is already on? And is it possible to set it to turn the equalizer off in the same way (there's a home screen shortcut provided for that too) when I unplug my earphones?)
You can do that, but you need to have "autoShortcut"
Sorry, I can't link to it, but search for it on google play
Or actually, you don't need it, you can do it by running scripts that emulate screen touches, but option one is the easiest by far
(EDIT: You need root to emulate screen touches)
You can launch shortcuts within Tasker by selecting "All" in the launch application task (to show all applications installed) then simply long-press on the app you installed and it will bring up relevant activities that you can directly launch.
I have a notification saying "Android system - now. Rocket Player is using battery. Tap for details on battery and data usage".
I know it's using battery. I'm listening to music. I've played around with some of the options to try and get rid of this but I don't seem to be able to.
I've tried disabling the "power-intensive prompt" for Rocket Player. And under Rocket Player's "App Launch" option I've deselected "auto-launch" and "secondary launch" but left enabled "run in background".
There's a global "power-intensive prompt" setting on the battery page (little cog wheel thing at the top right) which is global (so I don't really want that, as i want notifications for other apps) but that doesn't seem to make any difference anyway.
I never want this app killed, although it has once or twice popped up a notification saying that something is trying to and that i should turn off app killers.
Listening to music is one of the main reasons I have a phone, so i'd like pretty much everything else to get killed before Rocket Player.
I know that yesterday I had more than 5 apps locked in the recent menu app but now I can only pin 1 app. (Running DTH7 and I tried to downgrade to CTF4 this morning but it failed)
They stupidly removed the "lock this app" feature (a feature which only pinned apps and didnt keep them in the ram) in One UI 2.5 and replaced it with "keep open for quick launching" a full keep in ram option that's limited it to 1 app at a time.
What beats me is they could have added that 1 app keep in ram option and still kept the unlimited pin app options (the old lock this app feature) as I the same as many used it to keep Google Maps, and Spotify or the likes immune to being closed automatically accidently by clicking close all apps.
There is a work around is to install Goodlock and the Task Changer mod but then the only bad thing is that once you lock them you are unable to close them at all.
I usually use it for spotify, gmail and linkedin, since I have issue with getting notifications from both gmail and linkedin like the system is killing them or something.
Thanks for the Goodlock heads up!