Have you ever wondered just what is running in the background, using up all your memory, draining your battery and why/how apps can start themselves back up even after you have stopped them running either through the settings menu or with a task killer............
I did, so I looked into this app and this is what I've figured out so far.
Some apps (Google maps for example, as this is one of the worst culprits I've found so far) have rules built into them which can start the app running in the background whenever a certain parameter is met on your phone, this means that no matter how many times you kill the app it can always find a rule to get going again which is another reason you shouldn't use a task killer as they create an endless cycle app starts task killer kills it app starts again task killer kil........ you get the picture? Which often ends up using more resources which our wildfires are seriously lacking.
Some of the rules are ridiculous too such as Google maps can start itself simply by you plugging in the phones charger.
Well anyway back to the point, this app https://market.android.com/details?id=com.elsdoerfer.android.autostarts&hl=en autostarts can disable those rules (needs root access) and the best way to use it I feel is like this.
Start the app and wait a minute for it to load, then hit your menu button and choose group by application .
Search through the list and disable the parameters for apps you don't want running in the background.
Be very careful with system apps as some can stuff up the phone.
This app increases the speed of my phone big time and allows me to control what us running and when. I'd say its the best app I've ever bought.
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Hi would this effect v6 supercharged script if i used this? this sounds a good app
Not to my knowledge, I'm running v6 too.
All it does is break the rules so an app you don't need in the background can't start until you allow it to by selecting it from the app drawer, then if you close/kill the app when you're done with it it shouldn't start up again by itself.
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Thanks for reply. I will get it now. Can i ask a quick question? How do display your setup on each post? do you write it each time or copy paste? Sorry, its just new to commenting here and only been reading the forum for a year, learning lol.
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sorry, me again could i just ask you what you set Google maps permissions in Autostart? as i can see, Ive turned all off apart from bottom 2. As the permissions seem not needed.
The way I set it up is all or nothing, that way every loophole is closed for apps I don't want running.
You can change your signature by clicking on your username top right, from there I can't remember as I'm not at a PC.
Click around in your profile till you find signature tab or edit signature.
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Thanks for help Ive set one up now. I have found a logo picture from Google images of cm7.
I hope i haven't copied anyone's but if i have please pm me and ill change it.
Interesting app, will definitely try soon.
Feck me sideways!!!
Best app ever. Period.
Thanks for telling me about this app.
So all i have 2 do is to cross out apps that run when i "reboot"?
This is the 1st option of autostarts.
Thats all ?
Kind of but if an app doesn't really need to run, look at this picture and read the labels,
For example Google maps can start itself by plugging in your charger or installing a new app.
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So to me the best way to deal with it would be to cancel everything then it will only start when i want it to and if you close it properly it won't hang about in the background.
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Related
In the market now!!
http://androidapproved.com/item/facebook-finally-gets-chat-and-push-notifications/
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i wonder how would it do with the Battery? is it gonna be battery friendly or a totally drain???
Im hoping it doesn't, because when they updated a little while back, facebook was 15% of my battery use!! now I only use it when i need it!!
Facebook isn't really eating my battery at all and already tried the chat it's great. Now we don't have to find another app just to use chat in Facebook.
Since it supports push notification, it should save battery on froyo.
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Can someone explain the push feature? What's it do. Sorry I'm new to some of this stuff.
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Can someone explain the push feature? What's it do. Sorry I'm new to some of this stuff.
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Check this out. C2DM = Push Notification
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/android-cloud-to-device-messaging.html
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@etichola. Thanks for the info.
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thanks
this post let me know about this before my phone did, awesome.
this FB made my day =D
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Check this out. C2DM = Push Notification
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/android-cloud-to-device-messaging.html
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So does that mean that we will have to have a 2.2 ROM for push notifications to work for the FB app? I'm still on 2.1 but looking to jump to 2.2 soon.
I'm on 2.2 and push notifications aren't working for me. I have them enabled of course and if you notice it has options for "Friend Requests, Messages, and Event Invites."
I have had a couple wall comments and comments on my pictures and got no notifications. How stupid is it that you only get push notifications for those three things and not comments on your stuff?
I can't even download it
Nero+dow1.4+oclf
The new update stopped my widget from working. I'm on Froyo.
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it just keeps saying file was not signed correctly
testing eugenes ginger clone
The app seems to love locking up and freezing my phone. I'm still on JI2. Anyone else having these issues?
How can notifications be PUSH if there is NO option to select PUSH, I only see time intervals ? WTF
mine's working fine, but the push notifications still not there. i'm on macnut.
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this is a big step for android facebook...yet somehow, it is still utter garbage. and now that it has chat (which i will admit is a nice feature, except you cant stay permanently logged in), the only thing holding it back is that it STILL only notifies you of messages, events, and friend requests (no wall, likes, photo tags, i.e. none of the important ones)
i still firmly believe that Bloo 1.5 is the best Facebook app available to android, even though it is no longer on the market. It provides ALL notifications (you can set time frame for how often it checks) and a perfectly functioning chat feature, and birthday reminders, and you can opt to always be logged in to chat unless otherwise specified.
If anyone is interested in the .apk, let me know and ill post it. (it was free, so its not considered warez, right?)
Facebook for blackberry was the best pretty much everything that happened I knew about it very quikly have not enjoyed facebook got android at all hope it gets better
P.s. I finally got it to download and I'm not impressed lol
egc+voodoo jl1
So I figured with all the DEV's in one spot I would start a thread were people just suggest what apps they would like created. Sorry if this has already been done but I didn't find anything in my searches. So any ideas as to apps that you would like to see? Or apps that you want upgraded with certain features?
Like an app that automagicly imputs what song you are listening to into your text signatures. (Not my suggestion, simply an example.)
I'm sure this will sound odd but, how about something along the lines of whats called an EVPmaker like this
Seeing an app with the basic features of this program, using the Speakjet allophones sound file built in, tying it to the phones voice recorder and forcing it into airplane mode could be an interesting experiment.
I have seen discussions about how you should not be using a cell phone as a "ghost hunting tool" however it's an idea for those times when something goes BUMP in the night and all you have is your phone.
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That's my docking station I use d
for my defy. (That's the 1st one that broke on me in the back. She's a good back up battery charger. But as u see I need to have my defy upside down to plug it to the speaker. Which I do but no app can fully rotate my music player completely upside for me. So I don't have to.flip it all the time to read whats on pandora or a text comes in. If I hand any skill/know how I would make that app for myself and share
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I'm sure this will sound odd but, how about something along the lines of whats called an EVPmaker like this
Seeing an app with the basic features of this program, using the Speakjet allophones sound file built in, tying it to the phones voice recorder and forcing it into airplane mode could be an interesting experiment.
I have seen discussions about how you should not be using a cell phone as a "ghost hunting tool" however it's an idea for those times when something goes BUMP in the night and all you have is your phone.
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I was actually thinking of coding an Android app like EVPmaker, but first I have to teach myself Android programming. Meanwhile you can try "ITC Ghost Talker" which is a Flash applet and runs in any (mobile) browser.
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i would like to see an alarm app that would allow you to set alarms (not alerts but a full blown alarm) based on calender events because of my college scheduled i have to set 3 alarms for the week and when i have a day off i normally either forget to turn it off a get woken up early on my day off or turn it off and forget to turn it back on. So since my schedule is in my calender it be nice to just set it based on that and not have to worry about turning then alarms off and back on
Hi There. I'am searching for a way to kill an app after using it. Of course there are tools like advanced task killer, but some application will start automatically again and again after killing them with this tool.
Exactly I'am asking for stopping QQ Messenger. If I force stop this app it will stay stopped, but is there a way to create a shortcut or something simular, so I dont have to go into the whole menue to do this?
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Is your Phone running cm7?Cause in cm7 you can force stop an app holding the back button for 2seconds
Sry for my bad English
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Yes there is CM7 on it and I know this trick. But sometimes the wrong app switch to the front and I kill the wrong one.
A Shortcut or small App to kill other Apps would be great. For example something like the old "stop skype".
Nobody can help?
If you're using ADW that came with cm7. Long press the app icon on the home screen, choose Application infos, that will take you directly to the app's manage application which you can force kill
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How about 'SwipePad'
Giving an app called 'SwipePad' a go which is available in the market. Within the app you can add a shortcut to Context Panel. Basically when you have the app open, trigger Swipepad from within the app and select Context Panel and force close.
also need this kind of app
I'm also looking for an app that can force stop white list apps with a single tap on its widget.
Going to info and hitting force stop is annoying, so this app should have root access to automatically
do it it for me. I use Super Manager and OS Monitor, but they can't force stop apps in the discribed way.
Advanced Task Killer can't do it either, i unistalled it.
So if someone knows about an app with this capability, or if someone has the knowledge to program smth.
like this, please make a thread and post a link here.
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Hi There. I'am searching for a way to kill an app after using it. Of course there are tools like advanced task killer, but some application will start automatically again and again after killing them with this tool.
Exactly I'am asking for stopping QQ Messenger. If I force stop this app it will stay stopped, but is there a way to create a shortcut or something simular, so I dont have to go into the whole menue to do this?
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Use "Autorun Manager" from Play Store. From its settings, check "Prevent Restart" to disable an app which restart automatically.
SachinShekhar said:
Use "Autorun Manager" from Play Store. From its settings, check "Prevent Restart" to disable an app which restart automatically.
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Thanks, tried it out , but this is not what we are looking for, so case not closed.
The app should force stop/kill apps and their widget services with their annoying notifications that can't really be disabled the easy way!
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cumonthepaj said:
Giving an app called 'SwipePad' a go which is available in the market. Within the app you can add a shortcut to Context Panel. Basically when you have the app open, trigger Swipepad from within the app and select Context Panel and force close.
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This worked a charm
multitasking
When you hit the multitask button on your phone and swipe the stop away. That's not really closing the app its still running
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When you hit the multitask button on your phone and swipe the stop away. That's not really closing the app its still running
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I thanked you by mistake instead of quoting. You're talking about the recent apps screen since ICS, but the OP is talking about Gingerbread. Also, in ICS and JB, if you swipe away an app from the recent apps screen, it's really being closed. Not running in the background. You can check your free RAM before and after swiping away an app to see if it's fully closing or not. Also if you open the app again, it'll take a considerable time rather than open instantly. This is because the app needs to be loaded into RAM all over again, which wouldn't happen if it wasn't fully closed.
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I cannot for the life of me kill Google maps. It will start right back up. I have it turned off completely with autostarts and with Gemini app manager.
Can go into expert mode with Gemini app manager, kill it, refresh the list, and it will be running again.
I haven't used maps in two days
EDIT: I want maps to run only when I tell it to. So no freezing or disabling.
This is why I want it to stop:
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HELP
Disable from settings - apps - maps - disable
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or turn off gps... thats the only times maps tries anything, otherwise it just wakes up the phone to check for gps which ends up being only like 0.3% battery eating
Ttt
My maps is usually always running, but never uses any battery. Like others said make sure you have GPS off, and if you keep trying to kill it, it will only automatically relaunch which will consume battery. If you don't like it, freeze the app, thats about the only this.
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Need app to work, but only when I say so
wdkingery said:
I cannot for the life of me kill Google maps. It will start right back up. I have it turned off completely with autostarts and with Gemini app manager.
Can go into expert mode with Gemini app manager, kill it, refresh the list, and it will be running again.
I haven't used maps in two days
EDIT: I want maps to run only when I tell it to. So no freezing or disabling.
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This app is started by a number of intents and receivers. Disabling them will stop it from starting but may also disable features.
You can turn off gps use for location. It will be less accurate but still work using other things like wifi.
Use something like ROM Toolbox, go to app manager and long press maps. Select advanced freeze. Among the many choices look for those containing the word "latitude" or "friends". Uncheck them. Maps should continue to work if you did it right BUT the Latitude & Friends services will probably not work.
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Need app to work, but only when I say so
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Remove Google Maps from any app killer you are using and restart your device. Is it still consuming that much battery power?
Other than freezing it, apps are free to open as they please on Android, something I've never been a fan of.
A simple "kill" will not work...you need to "force stop" it. Settings...Apps...Maps...Force Stop. If you have all autostarts disabled, it won't come back until you open it.
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If you have all autostarts disabled, it won't come back until you open it.
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This was true for about a week.
Then it's like autostarts is just not enough.. It still boots on its own. The photo includes autostarts and Gemini app manager both having it completely disabled
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Freeze it via titanium easy
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No, I don't wanna unfreeze it every time I wanna use it
Hello, My name is Mayank.
I needed your support guys.
Here's my problem.
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See that?? The sudden fall in battery level.
I want to know the problem and the solution guys.
Notice, it's yesterday's pic.
Today I took one more screenshot.
Though it looks good today, but still I feel something wrong and yeah once again there was some slight sudden downfall in the battery level around 60 - 65 %.
PLZ HELP ME.
Give me a logcat
What apps have u installed?
Certainly there is a wakelock by some app
I have logcat extreme. What filters do you want me to apply and for how much time you want me to record the logcat??
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Okay lets do it the easy way
Try this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...utm_medium=organic&utm_term=wakelock+detector
Its free
Done.
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The top app is Facebook in Wakelock Detector. It's the main culprit but I have even disabled the Notifications from the FB app and also disabled it to autostart using AutoRun Manager + Greenify it whenever I don't use it.
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The top app is Facebook in Wakelock Detector. It's the main culprit but I have even disabled the Notifications from the FB app and also disabled it to autostart using AutoRun Manager + Greenify it whenever I don't use it.
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Try deleting it and check if battery drain is still present
A day without fb is okay
Ok. Will do as u have said.
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I've tried Greenify and it doesn't work all that well. Facebook is one of the apps it just can't hibernate and it always starts up again.
I found a workaround though, but it depends on how intensly you depend on Facebook.
I installed an app called App Quarantine. It puts apps (even system ones) down to sleep without any chance of them starting up again without your consent. The thing is it's not as simple as with Greenify, since when you Quarantine an app, it dissappears from the phone. Icon, widgets, shortcuts, everything, it's like you don't have it installed.
The thing is you have to set a widget from App Quarantine for the app you quarantined and then the widget comes out in form on the app's icon, with a lock on it. If you want to use the app, you just click on the widget and then it comes back to life and opens. If you're done using the app, you click the icon-widget again and it locks it, and that's it.
I use it on the Facebook app and it doesn't come back on eating my battery, however the "downside" is that if you rely constantly on FB notifications and such, you won't get them since the app is quarantined. However I set my Facebook account up so that everytime I get a notification it sends me an email, so via email I'm still "getting my notificacions" even though the app is quarantined.
I guess it depends on everyone's usage of a determined app, but FOR ME it has gone well and saved me a lot of battery life since I've quarantined a bunch of apps that I just use or check a couple of times a day and that are major battery drainers if not controlled.
Thanx for ur suggestion. I'll try the app too.
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