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Oxios developed a very useful tool for Windows Mobile (WM2003/5/6/6.1) called “Oxios Memory” sometime ago. On running it, it’ll flush your RAM (kind of) and recover substantial amounts of memory that can be used by the currently program. It is so good at this that many people run it regularly on their phones, and most of them want to run it in an automated mode (through a scheduler or a script). But the problem (so far) was that it generates a Message Box at the end for which the user has to press “OK” button to make it go away. There is no known way of disabling this message box and many attempts to work around it by scripting the “press OK” action have been very unreliable at best. Hence, it took it upon me today to remove this nagging problem and 5 minutes later we have a “clean” Oxios Memory.
Yes, no more nagging prompts
Download it from here: http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2008/0...-box-in-oxios-memory-apps-windows-mobile.html
If you like it, then DIGG IT by clicking here
i waited for this...
Thanks nothin.
Do provide your comments on the site as well
And please do spread the word
Can you do the same to oxios hibernate instead of just closeapps?
Great job! Could you do the same for Oxios Hibernate as well?
OK, request accepted
Will modify the hibernate app as well tonight.
In the meanwhile, If you like it, then DIGG IT by clicking here
I did the same for Oxios app using MORTSCRIPT....
With your app is there a way to select the time after the program runs or we have to do a mortscript program which launches your app at a specific time?
An other question...
To push the "Ok" button what did you do?
I used mortscript to press "CR" after the script run....
flaviopac: Its different from what you did. I've not made any "app". I've modified the original oxios executable file so that it does not display the message box at all, hence there is no need of "clicking" ok anymore.
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flaviopac: Its different from what you did. I've not made any "app". I've modified the original oxios executable file so that it does not display the message box at all, hence there is no need of "clicking" ok anymore.
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Ok.....
And what about HIBERNATE??
flaviopac: I'll modify the hibernate app as well tonight and will post at that same location.
Good job Shantz.
WB
Nice work, thanks!
Cool Job done
that's awesome !!! eager to download
On Popular demand I've modified the Oxios Hibernate app as well. Please redownload the file given at my site again. The zip file now has both the apps Oxios Close as well as Oxios Hibernate.
shantzg001 said:
On Popular demand I've modified the Oxios Hibernate app as well. Please redownload the file given at my site again. The zip file now has both the apps Oxios Close as well as Oxios Hibernate.
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Many thanks man!
These files are very usefull!
Thank you Shantz. This is just great.
Excellent Shantz! I have Oxios scheduled daily with "Run Everyday" app, now no more OK's to look at!
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Excellent Shantz! I have Oxios scheduled daily with "Run Everyday" app, now no more OK's to look at!
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Hmm can you tell me where you found this "run everyday" app and does anyone know easiest way to schedule oxios hibernate to run hourly?
*nevermind...found the run everyday app here on this forum [ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294575 ] but still interested in way to run more often than that.
For running the app at set interval of time, i will put in this shameless plug
You can also use my app ShantzTodayChanger
It is a app runner/scheduler plus a theme/wallpaper cycler. Moreover, it has a masking functionality. So if you dont want to change ur themes etc, you can just configure it to run as a pure exe scheduler. so, using it you can run the app after every, say 5 minutes to after any number of years and any other interval in between
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Hmm can you tell me where you found this "run everyday" app and does anyone know easiest way to schedule oxios hibernate to run hourly?
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I'll shut down all apps in the task manager and then a little later I'll open it again and there will be a bunch of apps that just started themselves and ran in the background (apps that I didn't open myself). Dildroid would open itself every few minutes so I uninstalled it. "HTC Checkin Service" opens itself all the time too. I think there are a couple more that do it but I can't remember off the top of my head. Why is this happening and is there any way to stop it?
It is part of the design of Android.
When you install an app, it registers itself with the system and one of the options it has is to automatically start. There are several apps in the market (one is called AutoStarts IIRC) which can override this behaviour.
Note that Android is quite adept at managing resources, and will start kill unnecessary processes/tasks when it needs to. Some people (myself included!), believe that it is better to allow Android to manage itself, rather than using a task killer, but others absolutely swear by the efficacy of task killers.
Regards,
Dave
Is there any benefit to allowing apps to auto start? I don't understand why they would need to, or why they would even want to start by themselves?
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It is part of the design of Android.
When you install an app, it registers itself with the system and one of the options it has is to automatically start. There are several apps in the market (one is called AutoStarts IIRC) which can override this behaviour.
Dave
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Is "AutoStarts IIRC" a paid application? Because I can't find it on my HTC Hero in Europe. Are there any alternatives? I would very much like to be able to manage the autostarts, since I have 3-4 applications that I haven't even launched yet, that always run in the background and hog about 50MB of RAM. Thanks
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Is "AutoStarts IIRC" a paid application?
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It's just called AutoStarts.
"IIRC" is short for "If I Recall Correctly"
Regards,
Dave.
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It's just called AutoStarts.
"IIRC" is short for "If I Recall Correctly"
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That makes it clearer Thought it was an acronym, even though I didn't recognize it, so I excluded it from my Market search. So I still can't find it there, I'm afraid. And the QR code on Androlib led to an invalid Market address... Hmm. Do you know of any alternatives?
Well, it is in fact a paid application like I asked. No wonder it didn't show up
you also need to be Root so you can disable/enable components!
Hey guys, T-Mobile is implementing a new program with their My Device program for Android devices called Device Tune-up, in beta form. From reading everything, I guess it's essentially another task-killer. I'm going to give it a shot. Anybody else willing to try?
From T-Mo:
Background:
T-Mobile is continually looking for ways to bring new innovation to our customers. Within the My Account application, we are adding new functionality in the My Device section called Device Tune-up. Device Tune-up is built to run in the background at all times and ‘tune-up’ the device by closing unused services that are running.
Device Tune-up is different from most task killers because it does not require you to do anything. Device Tune-up will default to 'on'. While on, Device Tune-up proactively closes services to help the device and battery perform at their best. Most pre-loaded applications will not be affected by Device Tune-up. For our non-technical users, this may mean you never even realize Device Tune-up is running; your device may simply run better.
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Download & instructions here
I installed as soon as I saw them tweet it, and I must say I'm pretty impressed, it works very well. More people should try it though, I would like to see what others think of it.
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well they pulled the link before i got a chance to dl. says it'll be up again tomorrow.
are you seeing any of the said improvements?
Does anyone have the APK? They pulled the download for the night.
http://www.4shared.com/file/lhr3ePUm/My_Account___Beta.html
how can i run this in a non TM devices?and also not a t-mobile user........?
I downloaded this, but it does not allow you to turn off pre-installed apps. That's a major loss and pretty much renders the thing useless. Advanced Task Killer works much better in this department.
I'm going to give it a shot and see if it works okay. I don't use a lot of the apps that are req to stay on and not kill so it may work great for me. I'll see in a day or two.
That's weird I installed it but I don't see the device tune up part anywhere and I'm not on wifi. Also I read this on the download page:
If, after installing the beta, you do not see Device Tune-up on the Quick Tools menu, it means that your device was placed into a control group experience. To opt out of the control group experience and be able to see Device Tune-up, long click on the Phone Info line under Quick Tools tab and choose to ‘opt-out’ of the control group. You will then see Device Tune-up.
I followed the instructions and I long press on the phone info part under quick tools and nothing happens or I don't get any option to opt-out. Anyone else having this issue? Does this app work on nexus one running froyo?
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That's weird I installed it but I don't see the device tune up part anywhere and I'm not on wifi. Also I read this on the download page:
If, after installing the beta, you do not see Device Tune-up on the Quick Tools menu, it means that your device was placed into a control group experience. To opt out of the control group experience and be able to see Device Tune-up, long click on the Phone Info line under Quick Tools tab and choose to ‘opt-out’ of the control group. You will then see Device Tune-up.
I followed the instructions and I long press on the phone info part under quick tools and nothing happens or I don't get any option to opt-out. Anyone else having this issue? Does this app work on nexus one running froyo?
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try installing apk manager from the market then install it from there thats what i had to do to get mine to work
gmonterrosa82 said:
That's weird I installed it but I don't see the device tune up part anywhere and I'm not on wifi. Also I read this on the download page:
If, after installing the beta, you do not see Device Tune-up on the Quick Tools menu, it means that your device was placed into a control group experience. To opt out of the control group experience and be able to see Device Tune-up, long click on the Phone Info line under Quick Tools tab and choose to ‘opt-out’ of the control group. You will then see Device Tune-up.
I followed the instructions and I long press on the phone info part under quick tools and nothing happens or I don't get any option to opt-out. Anyone else having this issue? Does this app work on nexus one running froyo?
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try installing apk manager from the market then install it from there thats what i had to do to get mine to work
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What do you mean? I installed apk manager and all it does is show me all my apps installed. And I do see the myaccount app in installed but there's nothing else to do....did I miss a step?...... Thanks
I got it and installed it through the apk manager as you stated and installed the app but it still doesn't show device tune up or holding long pressing the phone info doesn't give me the option to opt-out....
after you install it open up my device go to quick tools and press and hold on phone info then you get a pop up asking about the control group thing
Yeah I've tried this like 100 times today, nothing happens I hold "phone info" it highlights green I hold it nothings pop ups asking me to opt out. I've installed and reinstalled the app through the apk manager and without it and it just isn't working. I have nexus one running froyo (latest update) am I missing something????
Its for 2.1 devices only
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Ah....well then there you go. Thanks
This app is so completely pointless. Except for the percentage meter, which I am testing to see if I get battery battery life with no percentage widget running. I don't like the 1-10 scale the settings menu has.
This is basically how it works for me. Since I know how to end programs using the back button method , I go to my "My device beta", go to end tasks, and every task I would like to kill says "cannot kill pre-installed app".
Facebook, twitter, all sorts of dumb S*** has to be left running. Personally I hate the mail app because it lags and the gmail app is better, so I would like to close mail along with FB and many others. Would it be so terrible if T-mobile made these things optional.
Any one agree/disagree? care to argue?
I agree that this is useless. I have tried it for a few days now and it has done nothing. I still (out of habbit) go and click my task killer and it constantly is still killing apps that this beta is missing. I purposely opened some and let them run in the background for several hours unused and it still did not kill them and they were not stock apps so it should kill them just fine. Anyway, I still use my task killer to save battery so nothing has changed except I lost a few min of my life tinkering with this. Not worth the time.
I've gotten about 2 extra hours (from 10 to 12 hours) of battery life after installing this. There are plenty of articles explaining how advanced task killer is actually a battery drain, and is really only used by people with a microsoft windows mindset. TMOs app runs a bit differently and actually kills tasks that are running in the background, not just holding memory (I'm not going to explain the differnce, as its been done 100x already).
I give the app a good rating.
hey guys,
I'm writing an android app which is going to be, as the title suggests, the ultimate to do app. Aside from the obvious to do app things like adding/deleting/being notified of tasks etc... the main feature of the app is it is going to sync with EVERYTHING!!! And when I say everything I mean the following:
- Remember the Milk
- Simplenote
- Toodledo
- Evernote
- Google Tasks
- Google Calendar
- Outlook
- Dropbox (as todo.txt file)
- Windows Live Skydrive (as todo.txt file)
- Sugar Sync (as todo.txt file)
Feel free to suggest any others I may have missed.
The other main feature of this app is it will be fully customisable, you aren't required to fill in any fields and you can choose to hide fields you never use.
I will compile a list of all of the features I have completed and have left to do.
In the meantime I'm hoping you guys will be able to suggest features they would like to see in the app to make it the definitive to do app for them. Also if there's any services you'd like it to sync to then feel free to suggest them.
Thanks.
Evernote?
It's gonna be daunting if youre gonna sync from the services directly from servers, maybe it's easier to do natively from data from the apps installed in the phone?
Then again you would needto monitor all the supported apps updates... Well that's what I think.
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that's some ambitious ****, son!
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Evernote?
It's gonna be daunting if youre gonna sync from the services directly from servers, maybe it's easier to do natively from data from the apps installed in the phone?
Then again you would needto monitor all the supported apps updates... Well that's what I think.
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Added evernote, thanks. The app itself will use a todo.txt file locally and then periodically or on demand sync the tasks with the selected server.
dolby71 said:
that's some ambitious ****, son!
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haha if you gonna do something might as well do it big
More ideas are welcome...
I was going to suggest windows live skydrive but I guess that's what you mean by "live space"
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I was going to suggest windows live skydrive but I guess that's what you mean by "live space"
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lol yh, i forgot what it was called for a minute there
If you need some help with the UI, I'll be happy to help.
check out my new app on the market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.fima.episodes
hope you do it ........... but wow a big task to take on..............
dolby71 said:
If you need some help with the UI, I'll be happy to help.
check out my new app on the market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.fima.episodes
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looks good but I think i'll be alright, thanks for the offer tho
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hope you do it ........... but wow a big task to take on..............
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yh lol, right now i've got pretty much everything working for the app except for the syncing parts which i'll be starting on next week
is it possible to takes "tasks" from exchange?
I've been using Astrid for a while now and love it.
This sounds very promising. One feature that I suggested to the Astrid team that they have not implemented would be the following:
I open an email in Gmail on my desktop. I decide that I should make a task out of this and click on that function there. When I then look at my google tasks, it has a link to the relevant email so I can refresh my memory when I have the time to take care of the task. I suggested to Astrid that they include this link when it syncs with your google tasks so that I can have the email open up in the android gmail app. So far they have not done anything with this. I would LOVE to see this in a To Do app.
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I've been using Astrid for a while now and love it.
This sounds very promising. One feature that I suggested to the Astrid team that they have not implemented would be the following:
I open an email in Gmail on my desktop. I decide that I should make a task out of this and click on that function there. When I then look at my google tasks, it has a link to the relevant email so I can refresh my memory when I have the time to take care of the task. I suggested to Astrid that they include this link when it syncs with your google tasks so that I can have the email open up in the android gmail app. So far they have not done anything with this. I would LOVE to see this in a To Do app.
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I will have a look into that when i look at implementing google tasks. A feature I do mean to add though is to be able attach files to tasks much like you would do in an email, which is similar to what you mean just a bit simpler to implement and I don't think any other to do app does this. Although obviously this would only be local attatchments as I can't sync them with rtm etc... maybe with dropbox tho... thanks for the idea, keep em coming
try my ToDo app from here ToDoid
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try my ToDo app from here ToDoid
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nice plug lol
I think, that you shouldn't write just another todo implementation. Maybe something more like "Best Android" David's Allen GTD implementation with ability to sync with any of those mostly popular webapps like Toodledo, Tracks, Nozbe and so on.
Maybe with plug-in architecture? It would be simpler to maintain and expand.
But if you want to stay just with "customizable todo list app", there should be some presets available from the start (after install), like:
- GTD,
- ZTD,
- Basic todo list,
- and so on....
Currently I'm using Toodledo (paid option) + Due Today (paid) for my GTD lists and Springpad for notes and bookmarks. It's not perfect, lacks some features... but I couldn't find anything better.
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I think, that you shouldn't write just another todo implementation. Maybe something more like "Best Android" David's Allen GTD implementation with ability to sync with any of those mostly popular webapps like Toodledo, Tracks, Nozbe and so on.
Maybe with plug-in architecture? It would be simpler to maintain and expand.
But if you want to stay just with "customizable todo list app", there should be some presets available from the start (after install), like:
- GTD,
- ZTD,
- Basic todo list,
- and so on....
Currently I'm using Toodledo (paid option) + Due Today (paid) for my GTD lists and Springpad for notes and bookmarks. It's not perfect, lacks some features... but I couldn't find anything better.
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Could you expand a little by what you mean GTD lists? How does this differ from normal todo lists?
I'm using Gtasks by Dato that is pretty good and I'm looking forward to test your application.
Here's a list of features that I would like to have (besides the basic ones) :
- repeated tasks (when for a monthly task I mark it done, it would automatically create the same task for next month)
- pop up window that would show when it's reminder time and would detail task content (in Gtasks I have an icon in the status bar and a sound alert when it's reminder time but I still have to open the icon to read the task)
- nice widget (with scrolling or paging)
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I'm using Gtasks by Dato that is pretty good and I'm looking forward to test your application.
Here's a list of features that I would like to have (besides the basic ones) :
- repeated tasks (when for a monthly task I mark it done, it would automatically create the same task for next month)
- pop up window that would show when it's reminder time and would detail task content (in Gtasks I have an icon in the status bar and a sound alert when it's reminder time but I still have to open the icon to read the task)
- nice widget (with scrolling or paging)
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Recurring tasks is already implemented (user specified time period)
I'll have a look into that kind of notification.
I'm planning a widget in future releases
Ok guys I'm about a week away from completion of the app minus the syncing which is about 2 weeks away from completion. I will be releasing a lite and a paid version initially so I'm not sure of the rules of releasing it to the forum for testing if it isn't free.
I was just wondering though how many, if any, people would be interesting in doing some initial testing for me?
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Ok guys I'm about a week away from completion of the app minus the syncing which is about 2 weeks away from completion. I will be releasing a lite and a paid version initially so I'm not sure of the rules of releasing it to the forum for testing if it isn't free.
I was just wondering though how many, if any, people would be interesting in doing some initial testing for me?
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ill be happy to test the lit version.
I believe that by using Tasker, we can set up multiple task executions ata set time or situation. I haven't tried it myself but I'm planning to now. I just need some info on how to make it work. Most importantly, if it can do THIS:
LEGEND:
A = An App
B = Titanium Backup
C = Another app
IF - LAUNCH - A - THEN - LAUNCH - B - COMMAND - B - FREEZE - C.
In simple terms, is it possible to have Tasker run Titanium Backup and freeze an app whenever a designated app is launched? Basically, launching a specified app will 'trigger' Titanium Backup to be launched and freeze another app.
I hope I'm not confusing anyone.
Thanks, XDA! I'm so proud to be a part of this community.
It looks like you might be able to. I'm unfamiliar with tasker... But the dev does have something of a user manual on the site. You may want to start there.
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/userguide/en/index.html
Tried tinkering around. Couldn't get anywhere with this. Is there an existing guide somewhere in these forums that I might have missed? Can anyone please point me at the right direction? :'(
Well, I'm fairly new to Tasker myself, but there's no easy "tap, tap, scroll, tap, done" way to do it as far as I can tell. Post #3 here gives a suggested way forward (same question as yours only with a time context instead of an app) but it is quite technical and certainly beyond my understanding at this point.
Otherwise you could ask on the Tasker forum. The developer seems to answer most threads, even if only to say something's not possible.
Can I ask why you need to freeze an app on the fly like that? Maybe if you explain it a little, there could be a workaround.
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Well, I'm fairly new to Tasker myself, but there's no easy "tap, tap, scroll, tap, done" way to do it as far as I can tell. Post #3 here gives a suggested way forward (same question as yours only with a time context instead of an app) but it is quite technical and certainly beyond my understanding at this point.
Otherwise you could ask on the Tasker forum. The developer seems to answer most threads, even if only to say something's not possible.
Can I ask why you need to freeze an app on the fly like that? Maybe if you explain it a little, there could be a workaround.
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Well I found out that one of my apps doesn't work when the other app is installed or active. I really liked the app in question, so I made an experiment to freeze all apps until I found the culprit. I did found it. That's why I'm trying to check if it can be achieved.
Have you tried just killing the app?
Context: Application > App A
Task: App > Kill App > App C (and most likely check "Use Root")
You may want to add an exit task to restart App C after you're done with App A.
If it works, that would stop it running in the background. The problem is that Android 2.2 and upwards have changes to stop an app being able to kill another app. It's inconsistent though - I've tested it on about 6 apps and it has worked on 2, so it's maybe worth a shot if you haven't tried.
If you or anyone else is still interested, this is easy to do. Just use the Secure Settings plugin, specifically it's Package Manager option, and disable or enable to have the same effect as freeze/unfreeze. TB isn't required.
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If you or anyone else is still interested, this is easy to do. Just use the Secure Settings plugin, specifically it's Package Manager option, and disable or enable to have the same effect as freeze/unfreeze. TB isn't required.
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Thank you very much!!!
I downloaded the sample tasker app that expires in 7 days from their website and installed it. I can run tasker, enter code and save, and the icon shows it as running when I quit out to test my code. I can't get anything to work using code examples from the wiki for simple items such as action at preset time. I am running CyanogenMod 7.2.0 is this causing my problem?