Hey guys, i was looking for an application which could show me how much i use which app. What i mean to say is that i want to know which application i use the most and which i use the least and what do i not use at all. I tried searching on xda as well as on the play store. No luck, All the apps that came up in the result were these data monitoring apps and battery or ram managing apps. Nothing that i am interested in.
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Hello all,
I recently bought my N1 about 4 days ago. So far its been great. Easily one of the best phones I've ever owned. However, I am having this problem where apps in android seem to startup by themselves. I'm using Advanced Task killer to kill em but ill kill them and then like a minute later they're back up and running without me starting them. Its quite annoying as my battery is taking a beating from it having to close and open apps and repeat. The biggest offenders of this are the voice apps such as voice search, voice dialer, Google voice (which isn't even setup), and the amazon mp3 store. A few third party apps I downloaded tend to do this as well.
Have any of you guys experienced this? Is there any way to fix it? Thanks in advance! XD
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decoyjoe said:
Hello all,
I recently bought my N1 about 4 days ago. So far its been great. Easily one of the best phones I've ever owned. However, I am having this problem where apps in android seem to startup by themselves. I'm using Advanced Task killer to kill em but ill kill them and then like a minute later they're back up and running without me starting them. Its quite annoying as my battery is taking a beating from it having to close and open apps and repeat. The biggest offenders of this are the voice apps such as voice search, voice dialer, Google voice (which isn't even setup), and the amazon mp3 store. A few third party apps I downloaded tend to do this as well.
Have any of you guys experienced this? Is there any way to fix it? Thanks in advance! XD
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Do not worry about app running in the background, what you are probably seeing is the list of what was run, Android is verry good at managing memory, in fact I do not even use a task manager and I am fine with it.
Well that's the thing. Some of these apps that startup I have never run such as the mp3 store. So I close it and I get an additional 10megs of memory. But then it just starts back up. So I don't know how to stop it all together.
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There are apps that automatically run in the background but don't effect performance like Google voice voice dialer etc..what I did was add them to the ignore list. Trust me those apps are always running no matter how many times you close them
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Like has already been said, stop worrying about it. Those apps are NOT stealing memory, they're NOT using battery.
Free memory does not benefit you. Android will automatically load apps in to memory so that they are available to switch to fast as possible.
You should not kill apps unless they are bisbehaving. Killing off apps forces Android to load them back into memory if its algorithm thinks you are likely to use it. The act of loading data into memory uses power and Android tries hard to avoid it.
I was obsessed with managing my memory and running apps when I bought my nexus one. Everyone at that time suggested task killers so I got one of those. I had crappy performance with random sluggishness. I figured I just needed to kill off more apps. Eventually I read an article from an Android dev explaining this stuff and I backed off and have had a much better experience since.
I wish Google was more vocal on this subject. Everyone thinking auto task killing is a necessity on Android really gives it a black eye.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712352
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2) App that loses focus goes to background. That's the way OS is built. If you want apps to be killed on losing focus, get iOS 3 to run on your device.
3) The market has task killers because they can be written for multitasking OS, and because they help dealing with bad apps. Not for any other reason.
4) The OS loads some of your most used tasks when it runs, even if you don't know about it. Just loads in the memory, and allocates no CPU time. If you leave your phone unattended, your free memory goes down by itself. Why? Because free memory is wasted memory. You can check the "EMPTY" processes in Astro, for example.
5) The best task killer is careful selection of your apps. You see hangups? Find out the app that's doing it and remove it, or kill it specifically after running if it's necessary.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=678205
Remove your task killer (or, if you insist, just clear the auto-kill list), erase all you think you know about memory management - because you don't know - and stop worrying.
Hello All,
I got my captivate recently and love it so far. I have read several articles on whether the background apps/tasks consume battery or not. I guess the Android community is split between whether background tasks should be killed or left alone for the OS to handle.
But, I have noticed that my data usage has gone up since I got the captivate (I had HTC Tilt 2 before). My question is does background apps consume data? I am not talking about the email sync and other necessary apps that are running in the background but specifically asking about apps that we have installed from market that are supported by Ads. Do they consume data in the background? Should I kill them? Can anyone recommend a good task killer? Is there a security risk if these background apps keeping sending back and forth data?
Any insights in much appreciated.
Any help please?
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Apps that are not running should not use data; but there are other things that do.
Widgets use data - do you have a weather widget? News, social networks, contacts or calendar?
Gmail, Exchange, AT&T - all have address book and calendar sync that is going on and constantly checking for changes. 3rd party apps with ads should not be a concern - they should not be using data when not running.
As for security risk - it depends as i don't know what apps you have installed. When you install an app it indicates what it has access too. If a checkers app has access to contacts, phone, and gps then i would be concerned.
Using the free version of Juice Defender I was able to configure which apps could use data when in background and which ones would only be able to use data if they were in the foreground.
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Hi.
Im using android mate and I see that I have 12 apps running on startup – google maps, Navigator, Locations and that other app which sends your location to other.
All are google apps.
I have this autostart killer app but these apps are still running and I'm sure they consume battery power and eat up some RAM.
Someone has an idea?
P.S. – I don't want to uninstall them.
So being a somewhat compulsive about Flashing new ROMs and having the same problem for testing apps my list of apps in the play store has become impossible to navigate.
It was great at first as it had a list of apps I could easily use to update my phone should I be moving between different versions of Android without using titanium backup.
The issue is now I have so many apps in there, most of which I hardly use, or in same cases have used only once which I don't want. This makes it a waste of time as I need to scroll through a lot of unwanted apps to track down the ones i actually want.
Anyone got a way to remove these apps from the list? That way I can just keep my purchased apps and ones I need in the list.
I have attempted a search on XDA and Google without much luck so just wondering if someone has a solution.
Hello to you all
I need help with finding a good app . (the phone is't rot)
This is about the keeping ram memory clean
When I look at the running apps i notices that there are a few apps that keep on running even though I didn't used them for t while for example: Shazam , 9GAG , Facebook messenger, GetTaxi and some others.
thus apps takes some ram space and use battery I wondered if there is an app that block them from keep opening from themselves.
Will appreciate your help
try greenify,can run without root
CCleaner just came out with a mobile app. It's pretty slick, check it out.
ori.amuday said:
Hello to you all
I need help with finding a good app . (the phone is't rot)
This is about the keeping ram memory clean
When I look at the running apps i notices that there are a few apps that keep on running even though I didn't used them for t while for example: Shazam , 9GAG , Facebook messenger, GetTaxi and some others.
thus apps takes some ram space and use battery I wondered if there is an app that block them from keep opening from themselves.
Will appreciate your help
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Applications are held in RAM for easier access to load again when you open the app at later date. RAM cleaners/task killers can (though it sounds strange) make your battery life worse,*as your phone has to use cpu power to reopen the apps again and place it in memory