After i turn on my phone i use Taskiller to close all the Apps that are running in the background but when i check a few minutes later some of them are back. Is there a way to stop them from starting by themselves?
miamidade said:
After i turn on my phone i use Taskiller to close all the Apps that are running in the background but when i check a few minutes later some of them are back. Is there a way to stop them from starting by themselves?
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You can use TaskPanel to have it automatically close them when they open
doing this might drain your battery as you said the apps always open after you close it. so if u have an app that keeps closing it everytime it opens, itll just be a constant cycle, drain battery, slow down performance, etc.
some apps that open after you close may be essential to the android process, like dialer, calnedar, gmail storage, im, etc.
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Oops... wrong comment from me. I didn't notice that this is android phone thread because I keep up with xda with RSS reader..
NguyenHuu said:
some apps that open after you close may be essential to the android process, like dialer, calnedar, gmail storage, im, etc.
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Quoted for truth. You are experiencing one of Android OS's features - it will restart essential apps and systems that are necessary for proper phone operation whenever they crash or are manually terminated.
Hi fellow XDA'rs.
As most you probably know, the way android and most os's works, every time you start up your device some/many apps startup with it.
This certainly bogs things down on startup but also in the long run when they stay resident idling in mem.
Android allows apps to register for events that are then started whenever triggered.
For example, on my phone prior to getting this app, everytime I pressed the camera button Camera, SMS commander (WTF), ChompSMS (WTFF), and Snaphotopro ran code. I could even see it happening in a task manager.
Sometimes apps stay in memory indefinitely after doing something irrelevant to their function like clicking camera/downloading something .
So I disabled everything except my main camera and everything still works the same, but ONLY SnapPhoto runs code and uses memory.
The real place i think autostarts shines is that it not only allows you to selectively disable what starts on boot, but also control what happens on every event.
It's on the market for like 98cents or some crap, and I REALLY think we should support the dev for this top-notch app.
It does way more for me than overclocking etc.. and i'm not advertising LOL.
What do you guys think??
Stock Apps that May Be Unsafe To Disable
Messaging (Disabling Is Known To Hinder SMS-Retrieval)
Google Talk (Disabling Is Known To Cause Trouble with the Market)
Stock Apps That Appears to be Safe to Disable
Maps (Disabled on startup without issues)
Clock (Disabled on start without any issues thus far)
Camera (Disabled Stock camera from running when camera button is pressed without issue)
Pico TTS (A text-to-speech thing that runs code every time an app is installed Disabled without issue)
MP3 Store (Runs code whenever an app is replaced, disabled, no issues)
i used it before, but i noticed that if you disable some apps on startup, it will make those apps not function anymore. for example, i remember i disabled the default message app and a bunch of other "normal" apps, and then i would not get any SMS anymore or some of my apps stopped loading. also even after you uninstall the app, it would not return to normal. they listed this as a bug for the version i tried so i couldnt restore the apps i disabled.
right now i just use advance task manager and put the one click widget on my home screen. so after every event i get in the habit of just clickin that widget and it iwll close all apps. and everything works fine.
That's true. Disabling messaging will prevent you from getting sms's even if you have chompsms, chomp's main functionality is as a front-end to the messaging app, not the core. This is not the apps fault
The reason I made this post is so we could compile a list of apps that are okay to disable and aren't. I forget to mention that in the OP .
I will edit the first post with the list but I need input from the community.
So far..
Messaging (Disabling Is Known To Hinder SMS-Retrieval)
Google Talk (Disabling Is Known To Cause Trouble with the Market)
For the most part disabling stock apps isn't the brightest idea.
Autostarts will warn you when you try to disable a stock component.
Also you can view only non-stock apps, if you don't want to mess with the settings.
Some can be disabled without any apparent trouble.
In my case..
Maps (Disabled on startup without issues)
Clock (Disabled on start without any issues thus far)
Camera (Disabled Stock camera from running when camera button is pressed without issue)
Pico TTS (A text-to-speech thing that runs code every time an app is installed Disabled without issue)
MP3 Store (Runs code whenever an app is replaced, disabled, no issues)
There are several more instances of the same apps that are disabled.
So far no FC's or problems. I've reduced the amount of times I need to end all apps by about 90%
Feel free to help add to the list!
I don't disable any stock apps as they seem to die by themselves after a while. Meanwhile I disable pretty much all 3rd party apps (except things like Sim Checker).
This app is amazing!
By the way, if you disable "Widget updating" it also removes unwanted widgets (I tend not to use any).
Glad it's working well for ya Karolis.
Thanks for the tip!
I havent actually tried it, but i'll remember that if I ever have too many widgets in the list.
Another tip is to check out Menu -> View.
You can enable the unknown's and have more options to disable
Is anyone else annoyed by devs who don't allow their apps to be purchased through your T-Mobile account? Something about putting $0.99 on my credit card annoys me. No biggie, but it would be nice if that option was available for this app.
TeeJay3800 said:
Is anyone else annoyed by devs who don't allow their apps to be purchased through your T-Mobile account? Something about putting $0.99 on my credit card annoys me. No biggie, but it would be nice if that option was available for this app.
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Well what can we do except take it
I use Startup Auditor, works pretty well, compared to Autostarts. I also believe it doesn't list anything that would damage your bootup.
tehseano said:
I use Startup Auditor, works pretty well, compared to Autostarts. I also believe it doesn't list anything that would damage your bootup.
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I hadn't heard of Startup Auditor either, but after reading about it, it seems a little more appealing than Autostarts. Especially the part about not disabling anything important from starting. Thanks!
Startup auditor isn't bad.
It doesn't have even a third of the options as autostarts though.
I tried it and although the GUI was nice, and it worked, the lack of choices made me uninstall it in a matter of minutes.
Also, if you're worried about messing up your phone with autostarts just go to Menu -> View -> Hide System Apps and its pretty much the same thing as startup auditor.
I just purchased Startup Auditor and it seems like a nice app. However, I disabled a few apps and then rebooted. When the reboot finished, some of the apps that I had just disabled were still running! I've e-mailed the dev and will post if I get a response. Has anyone else experienced this with Startup Auditor or any other startup app?
I've been using Autostarts for a while and I really notice the difference on boot up time. Before Autostarts it would take forever to boot up the system, then it would be super sluggish. Now since it doesn't start nearly half the apps on boot, it's much faster.
Some apps I question on why it's doing what it's doing. Like Tunewiki for instance. Why does it need to start when an application is replaced or removed? Cleared those out and everything is much speedier!
A lot of them are triggered by strange things.
Like you said, tunewiki when adding or replacing an app.
I think this is their way of staying in the background, which speeds up opening tunewiki but at the cost of slowing everything else down.
I hate developers that do this..
How does the system determine which apps to run at boot?
Whenever i try to disable the amazon mp3 autostart the program tells me to wait and gets stuck on the please wait screen... Any clue if this is normal operation?
amazon mp3 does not seem to want to be disabled.
edit: i think i figured out the problem with amazon mp3. you have to disable it in two places, once in the after startup but also in the connectivity changed section. also i was having trouble with other programs but i forgot i those had widgets. i think for apps that have widgets will cause those apps to load on start up. if you want to disable them you have to do so in the widgets section. just dont do it for widgets you actually have in use.
Does this app not work on latest superd? i get fc everytime on g1.
Anyone know where there are two (2) Messanger apps AND two (2) Handcent apps listed for after startup?
Seems like I should be able to disable messanger, but from these posts perhaps not.... can I disable handcent with no issues... seems like a text received would trigger it to open with no problems.
Why (and can I stop) is Voice Dialer involved with all changes to applications (installed/removed)?
s15274n said:
Anyone know where there are two (2) Messanger apps AND two (2) Handcent apps listed for after startup?
Seems like I should be able to disable messanger, but from these posts perhaps not.... can I disable handcent with no issues... seems like a text received would trigger it to open with no problems.
Why (and can I stop) is Voice Dialer involved with all changes to applications (installed/removed)?
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I was wondering this too. Maybe it starts to read the app names so it can "read" the filename so if you call it through Voice Search it knows what app to call up. Not sure.
Imho, this app is absolutely amazing.
I had the problem, that although i am using Handcent only, still every text was shown as new in the message application as well (and the icon on the homescreen shows one new message). Now i have removed message completely - only my handcent widget shows any test infos
Besides that, i could disable a lot of useless or at least strange applications starts triggered by certain events.
In this point of view, it's very useful, for Galaxy S as well!
I don't know if I'm missing something, but on the iPhone the background notifications were great. For example, on Sportactular I had background notifications for certain games, scores, etc. Even when you are NOT running the app (as in not even in multitasking), you would still get notifications of the events you've set triggers. It was awesome.
How do you do this on Android? It seems you HAVE to have the apps running in background. Am I not understanding something?
macsrock said:
I don't know if I'm missing something, but on the iPhone the background notifications were great. For example, on Sportactular I had background notifications for certain games, scores, etc. Even when you are NOT running the app (as in not even in multitasking), you would still get notifications of the events you've set triggers. It was awesome.
How do you do this on Android? It seems you HAVE to have the apps running in background. Am I not understanding something?
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It depends... some apps have widgets that run and update on the screen - this is what most people do. The iPhone background notification had its own problems - it relies on apples servers to constantly poll the services they are providing notification for and it becomes a single point of failure.
On my phone I pick and choose the services i want real time service for and load widgets for those services. If I don't want real time notification, I don't use a widget and i load the app when i want an update.
The iphone, may not have been running the app, but it had to run the notification service and apps have to be written to subscribe to that service (front end and back end).
there may be a 3rd party app that does something similar, but i am not aware of one and I haven't seen the need, for me anyway.
macsrock said:
I don't know if I'm missing something, but on the iPhone the background notifications were great. For example, on Sportactular I had background notifications for certain games, scores, etc. Even when you are NOT running the app (as in not even in multitasking), you would still get notifications of the events you've set triggers. It was awesome.
How do you do this on Android? It seems you HAVE to have the apps running in background. Am I not understanding something?
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It's all down to how the particular application is designed. Android supports push notifications equally as well as the iPhone does.
Hi guys, i've tried several roms for our Xperia SP, but i've found that debloated Stock is the better for smoothness and velocity loading apps and other, but i've found this bug really annoying, the phone in multitasking closes apps that have to run in background for example maps during navigation or walkman after a call, this is really frustrating.
An example when it happen, when i use Maps with GPS navigation if i answer to a call when i go back to maps is closed and it start to reload, so it lost the route and i have to set it back, this **** happens in other intense multitasking occasions...
Someone know if there is a fix for that?
Maybe in background processes settings?