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kill tasks n battery saving

hi all,
i m new user for Nexus one, i wonder what is the best task apps to auto kill when the phone in sleep mode in order to save battery. My phone havent ROOT yet, shall i do it? After i have update the Android 2.1 i found it very good compare with iphone.
thank you very much

Killing tasks won't help to save battery... don't buy the hype. Android will manage your apps for you.

No killing tasks can help your battery. There are many apps on the market that are poorly written and drain battery.

McFroger3 said:
No killing tasks can help your battery. There are many apps on the market that are poorly written and drain battery.
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Well that makes sense... but I don't run any poorly written apps. And neither should you.
If you absolutely have to have a task killer, just download Astro File Manager. You'll need a file manager on this phone anyway, and Astro has a built in configurable task killer and can also back up apps to SD.

uansari1 said:
Well that makes sense... but I don't run any poorly written apps. And neither should you.
If you absolutely have to have a task killer, just download Astro File Manager. You'll need a file manager on this phone anyway, and Astro has a built in configurable task killer and can also back up apps to SD.
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I try not to. But sometimes I get curious and download some random apps haha.
I use Advance Task Manager since I bought it when I had a Cliq.
It works good when I need to kill something to restart it or if I need to do a batch uninstall.
Astro is amazing and no one should have an android phone without it.

Thks all,
If so, i shall just leave as it is and not install any of those task killer or auto task etc......
But anyway to min the battery drain since there are so much apps running on RAM when the phone is in sleep mode. My battery can only last for 8 hrs from 9am till 5pm (i am so distracted, i do turn on my BT and talk on phone for at least 100mins-150mins a day.)
Thank you

chocodip said:
Thks all,
If so, i shall just leave as it is and not install any of those task killer or auto task etc......
But anyway to min the battery drain since there are so much apps running on RAM when the phone is in sleep mode. My battery can only last for 8 hrs from 9am till 5pm (i am so distracted, i do turn on my BT and talk on phone for at least 100mins-150mins a day.)
Thank you
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Keep the screen brightness as low as you can. Also having a lot of widgets can contribute to battery drain.

uansari1 said:
Killing tasks won't help to save battery... don't buy the hype. Android will manage your apps for you.
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while this is true, I notice that android's threshold for closing programs is lower than I prefer. It seems to start closing programs at around 25 mb free (on stock kernel and rom) as reported by ES strong's task manager. At this level there is a noticeable amount of sluggishness on my N1. Of course this only lasts for perhaps 10 seconds or so as I am switching apps or whatever until android closes the processes to free up some ram.
I've read comments like yours many times, and I go back to not using one for a while thinking I must just be paranoid. Each time I return to the task manager because I get ticked about sluggishness.
If you manage your ignore list carefully to avoid closing stuff you actually want running in the background you lose nothing. The phone is fast enough that it loads apps quickly even if they're not sitting in the ram, so I prefer to hit the autokill widget once in a while or after using something like the youtube app or other resource hogging apps that I don't use on a regular basis.
I haven't noticed a difference in battery life, but the task manager improves my experience with the phone. It seems that as long as the free memory stays around 40+ I don't see the sluggishness.

Which task killer you use?
rossiscatch said:
while this is true, I notice that android's threshold for closing programs is lower than I prefer. It seems to start closing programs at around 25 mb free (on stock kernel and rom) as reported by ES strong's task manager. At this level there is a noticeable amount of sluggishness on my N1. Of course this only lasts for perhaps 10 seconds or so as I am switching apps or whatever until android closes the processes to free up some ram.
I've read comments like yours many times, and I go back to not using one for a while thinking I must just be paranoid. Each time I return to the task manager because I get ticked about sluggishness.
If you manage your ignore list carefully to avoid closing stuff you actually want running in the background you lose nothing. The phone is fast enough that it loads apps quickly even if they're not sitting in the ram, so I prefer to hit the autokill widget once in a while or after using something like the youtube app or other resource hogging apps that I don't use on a regular basis.
I haven't noticed a difference in battery life, but the task manager improves my experience with the phone. It seems that as long as the free memory stays around 40+ I don't see the sluggishness.
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My screen always in lowest light mode......i will try to install the advance task....hope it deos help abit.
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Keep the screen brightness as low as you can. Also having a lot of widgets can contribute to battery drain.
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chocodip said:
My screen always in lowest light mode......i will try to install the advance task....hope it deos help abit.
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Advance task manager also lets you set a timer for auto closing all open apps except for the ones you have on your exception list.

chocodip said:
hi all,
i m new user for Nexus one, i wonder what is the best task apps to auto kill when the phone in sleep mode in order to save battery. My phone havent ROOT yet, shall i do it? After i have update the Android 2.1 i found it very good compare with iphone.
thank you very much
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Try Juice Defender,is free on the market and everytime you turn the screen to sleep it kills the background data to save battery and @ wake-up its normal again.Read the reviews.

rossiscatch said:
while this is true, I notice that android's threshold for closing programs is lower than I prefer. It seems to start closing programs at around 25 mb free (on stock kernel and rom) as reported by ES strong's task manager. At this level there is a noticeable amount of sluggishness on my N1. Of course this only lasts for perhaps 10 seconds or so as I am switching apps or whatever until android closes the processes to free up some ram.
I've read comments like yours many times, and I go back to not using one for a while thinking I must just be paranoid. Each time I return to the task manager because I get ticked about sluggishness.
If you manage your ignore list carefully to avoid closing stuff you actually want running in the background you lose nothing. The phone is fast enough that it loads apps quickly even if they're not sitting in the ram, so I prefer to hit the autokill widget once in a while or after using something like the youtube app or other resource hogging apps that I don't use on a regular basis.
I haven't noticed a difference in battery life, but the task manager improves my experience with the phone. It seems that as long as the free memory stays around 40+ I don't see the sluggishness.
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I've got over 400 hours of uptime without closing ANY apps with a task killer, and haven't had ANY sluggishness. So if you're really noticing your phone slowing down (and be honest), then I'd exchange it. Frankly, I think a lot of people just "think" their phone is slowing down...

Cyanogen says don't use a Task killer!

Paul22000 said:
Cyanogen says don't use a Task killer!
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So if cyanogen says jump of a bridge you would? lol
Just messing with you.

I ve installed the Juicedefender and advance task manger......hope meanwhile there will be sthg better. Battery usage is killing me....

uansari1 said:
I've got over 400 hours of uptime without closing ANY apps with a task killer, and haven't had ANY sluggishness. So if you're really noticing your phone slowing down (and be honest), then I'd exchange it. Frankly, I think a lot of people just "think" their phone is slowing down...
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Yeah, I'm sure you're right.. it's all in my head.

Couple of things OP:
1. Bluetooth is a battery hog!
2. How frequent do you have email update, weather update, et al set to?
3. Did you properly calibrate your battery meter when you got your N1? (Two ways to do it, 1) follow the in box guide and charge the phone before using or 2) run down the battery until the phone shuts itself off, pull battery out, put it back in. Now, without turning it back on, put it on the charger and leave it on for a couple hours past the green light coming on, take off charge, finally turn back on)
4. Do you have WiFi running? GPS? Streaming anything?
Have you downloaded any apps from the market just on a quim? There are some pretty bad apps that will never close until you uninstall and do a soft reset, and sometimes uninstall again.
Killing apps is actually going to hurt your battery. It takes more juice to power up the CPU to open an app then it does to hold it in the RAM, unless it is a crap written app that keeps running, and running, and running... but you shouldn't be using those apps anyways.

rossiscatch said:
Yeah, I'm sure you're right.. it's all in my head.
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It most likely is... even when apps sit idle in RAM, the CPU usage for them is 0% in almost every case. Like I said... I don't have those issues at all, so it's either in your head or you have a dud.

uansari1 said:
It most likely is... even when apps sit idle in RAM, the CPU usage for them is 0% in almost every case. Like I said... I don't have those issues at all, so it's either in your head or you have a dud.
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I don't think it's a problem with my phone. If you don't notice then good for you. I notice it and it bothers me. Your finger pointing is neither helpful or needed.

Android.process.acore draining EVO battery fast

I've got two HTC Evo's. One lasts for 24+ hours on a single charge, the other lasts 3-4 hours tops. They are both have been running Fresh 0.3 until yesterday. I upgraded one to 0.5 and the other will remain at 0.3 until today. The one still running 0.3 has terrible battery life. I've been running system panel on both and saw that Android.process.acore has kept the CPU ramped up for hours on end, the battery is always 40C+ and when I checked on it this morning it had been streaming 200kbps of data nonstop through the night. There are no market apps installed on this phone except for Advanced Task Killer, GScript Lite, and System Panel. There are no apps installed from untrusted sources.
Anyone know what Android.process.acore does exactly, and why it would be streaming data all night long? System and System Processes also have much higher CPU utilization on this phone as well. I've tried reinstalling Fresh, rebooting the phone, killing absolutely every task ATK will let me, etc and nothing seems to stop the flow of current. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This happened with the stock software as well. One phone always lasted longer than the other. However, I'll let you know if Fresh 0.5 changes anything.
Thanks everyone.

I upgraded 2 days ago. My phone was always stock. Yesterday I took lots of video, like 15 mins or more, and battery, and GPS, and Google sky. A friend of mine invited me to his boat and we were on the river for almost an hour. The battery was still on the green side. I definitely noticed some battery improvement after the software upgrade. When I watched the video on the computer I learned the hard way that there are not vertical HDTVs.

Streaming data all night?
We may just have the first Android Trojan lol.
Sent from my Evo 4G

ejittles I think what you're seeing is a sync-loop, likely with facebook or exchange. This was supposedly one of the things addressed in the recent OTA update.
Try removing and re-adding any accounts you're synced with, disabling background data, etc.

scriptx said:
ejittles I think what you're seeing is a sync-loop, likely with facebook or exchange. This was supposedly one of the things addressed in the recent OTA update.
Try removing and re-adding any accounts you're synced with, disabling background data, etc.
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Brilliant Scriptx, I'll bet that is exactly what it is. I'm guessing its the exchange server. I will give that a try when I get access to that phone tonight. Will keep you posted. Thanks a ton.

HELLO
scriptx said:
ejittles I think what you're seeing is a sync-loop, likely with facebook or exchange. This was supposedly one of the things addressed in the recent OTA update.
Try removing and re-adding any accounts you're synced with, disabling background data, etc.
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im with Him i also use shortcuts to turn on and off the internet (mobile) and i also use airplane mode when i don't what any one to call me my battery lasted MORE than 19hr and 31 min and i was using it downloding app, giving files, i saw some videos well you know the thing that you do when you brag about your phone. i am in the ARMY, so alot of people were looking at my iphonekiller (EVO) and wile some friends with evo battery already gone.... mine lasted 19:31 y lasted 24 before some sleep XD ( i have no ATK not needed for battery life)

Do you have a lot of contacts? On my Evo I have my personal gmail which only has a few hundred. On my Hero I have my developer account linked up which has thousands. During sync it isn't uncommon to see:
Code:
SyncManager(): canceling and rescheduling sync because it ran too long.
It will do this over and over and over again non-stop until it finally goes through. Secondly as was already mentioned is something like Facebook/Twitter/Friendstream. I personally only have twitter setup (and I use the official Twitter app for that) but again while testing on the Hero I found that the way Friendstream (and possibly facebook overall, and peep too but I'm not sure) gets updates is it checks the current status on EVERY SINGLE contact of yours. This of course is a huge battery drain.
The reason that I make the comparison with the Hero by the way is the software is basically identical. They are definitely forked off the same branch at HTC. So any problems on the Hero are likely the same on the Evo. The reason I don't have answers for you from the Evo side is because I use it as my personal phone and I don't have much on it.
You may also want to see this post: http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/
There is a chance that your phone keeps killing off background processes while they are trying to do stuff, so then they turn around and run again, then get killed again, and again. Automated task killers are the devil. The only way I recommend using a task killer is the same way you would use task manager or top in linux. Just to kill off the random zombie process that may be causing you issues.

flipzmode said:
You may also want to see this post: http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/
There is a chance that your phone keeps killing off background processes while they are trying to do stuff, so then they turn around and run again, then get killed again, and again. Automated task killers are the devil. The only way I recommend using a task killer is the same way you would use task manager or top in linux. Just to kill off the random zombie process that may be causing you issues.
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Flipz,
First of all thanks for the great work on Fresh Evo. Secondly, I only use ATK at startup to kill any processes that are set to start on boot that I don't care about. It's not set to autokill or to start automatically. I kill ATK when I kill everything else.
I think it has to be friendstream because I only have a handful of facebook contacts and the other phone has over 300 facebook contacts to deal with. Thanks for pointing me in this direction. I'll have facebook turned off on that phone and see if that makes the difference.
That particular phone is only set to receive email via exchange while mine syncs all of my work stuff via exchange so I don't think that is the problem. That just makes me suspect friendstream even more.
*EDIT* Also, I hope that ATK sends a sigterm to these processes and not a sigkill? Or is that not an option w/ the VM? I'm not too familiar with the internals on android atm. Haven't had time to play with anything due to work.

ejittles said:
I only use ATK at startup to kill any processes that are set to start on boot that I don't care about.
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Do yourself a favor and go grab Autostarts (autostarts not autostart) from the market instead. It will be the best $0.85 you've ever spent on an app. It lets you control every single onEvent trigger in Android, preventing the applications from starting in the first place.

flipzmode said:
Do yourself a favor and go grab Autostarts (autostarts not autostart) from the market instead. It will be the best $0.85 you've ever spent on an app. It lets you control every single onEvent trigger in Android, preventing the applications from starting in the first place.
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haha did you do that conversion for me from EUR to $ or is there a way to set a currency in the market app? Downloading it now. Thank you sir! The Evo has a great community here on XDA and I look forward to contributing when things settle down at work in the next few months.

ejittles said:
haha did you do that conversion for me from EUR to $ or is there a way to set a currency in the market app? Downloading it now. Thank you sir! The Evo has a great community here on XDA and I look forward to contributing when things settle down at work in the next few months.
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I'm just smart. haha j/p. When you actually click on buy in the app it will show you the USD price. That's where I grabbed it from. I did buy it for my Hero over 6 months ago just so I could deconstruct it though and I knew it was under $1. lol

Fresh 0.5.3 and the disabling of friendstream has the second phone performing great. Battery lasts 24+ hours now. I suspect it was friendstream. Thanks for the help.

I had this exact same issue and with system panel's help I was able to determine that Facebook for Sense was causing the problem. I turned off FB's auto-update and the problem went away completely. After the OTA, I am able to turn auto-update back on without issue.

Which apps I can kill?

I'm newbe to android. I have problem my x10a ruuning out of juice in 12 hours. I'm using Advance Task Killer to kill the apps when screen is off but not sure which I need to put in Ignore List and which one I can kill safely. Here list of apps currently running and Ignore list
Currently Running Apps
com.Sonyericcson.larningclient
com.qualcomm.wiper
com.sonyericsson.android.contentmanager.service.facerecognition
com.sonyericsson.android.timeescape.pluginmanager.framework.application
com.sonyericsson.android.accountprovider
com.google.android.partnersetup
com.sonyericsson.android.contentmanager.service.timescape
com.sonyericsson.android.fota
com.sonyericsson.android.bootinfo
com.google.android.googleapps
com.sonyericsson.android.mediascape.pluginmanager.framework.application
DocumentToGoFullVersionKey
Maps
Pure Calender widget
com.sonyericsson.android.timescape.pluginmanager.framework.application
com.android.providers.calendar
com.sony.uwlop.launcher
eBay
com.google.android.apps.uploader
com.android.providers.downloads
com.billyfrancisco.photogallerywidget
voice dialer
com.sonyericsson.android.pccompanioninstaller
com.sonyericsson.android.digitalclock
3G Watchdog
Superuser Permissions
Barnacle wifi Tether
com.levelup.beautifulwidgets
settings
Ignore List
setting profiles
Advance task Killer
Timescape
Battery Status Ultimate
Gmail
Smart Keyboard Pro
Moxier Mail
Email
MyBackup Pro
Thanks is advance

I've had started a collection over here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=707878

Have you tried not running Advanced Task Killer??? I'm running on f/w R2BA020 with no task killer and no startup auditor etc... and after a day of average use I down to about 40% after c.15 hours... I tried ATK and various others and in the end ditched them cos they were making the battery slightly worse, and making the phone slower cos it had to keep restarting app/ background processes that it uses..
Your power consumption will very much depend on what your running etc.. do you have any widgets that are updating regularly, or possibly faulty and preventing your phone from sleeping.. try using juice plotter for a while to see what your discharge profile looks like - you should see it going almost flat when you have a period of non use..
PS.. I've had bluetooth on (but not connected), wifi on, and 3G/ GPRS on all day today and after 11 hours I'm now on 52%.. have used the phone a reasonable amount.. maybe 20 texts, email syncing hourly, contacts and calendar on auto sync with google... no widgets on my home screen which sync, and no use of timescape.. used mediascape for about 30 mins, internet for about 20 mins, XDA app for about an hour.. played games for about 30 mins too..

I'm using Task Manager.
It pushed me up to 46hrs Standby, coming from 20hrs, when the battery is fully charged.

Thanks Guys
@McKebapp - It is good thread but need add info like one of the guys sugesting, which are ok to kill and Do NOT Kill
@ im_iceman - The problem is if you don't have ATK or other Task Manager, most application keep running once you clicked on them. I was looking Battery Use, this tell me its and Display and Standby but detail which program was using during standby

Hi - Yes some apps will sit in the background, but they should be sleeping and not actually doing anything, unless they've been badly written.. Android, based on Linux, manages the memory so that it's running on almost full most of the time and therefore is quicker to resume something which you were previously running, or is stored in memory awaiting use.. killing these things will mean that the processor has to work harder reloading them into memory all the time..
@Mckebapp - That may well be because it's killing a dodgy app that you've got running which isn't/ wasn't sleeping properly.. trouble is it may well be killing other stuff you need too..
Each to their own though..

GPdhillon said:
Thanks Guys
@McKebapp - It is good thread but need add info like one of the guys sugesting, which are ok to kill and Do NOT Kill
@ im_iceman - The problem is if you don't have ATK or other Task Manager, most application keep running once you clicked on them. I was looking Battery Use, this tell me its and Display and Standby but detail which program was using during standby
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The absolute "NOT TO KILL" ones are written.
All other ones depend on the individual usage.
To me: I kill each one, that is killable
What about continuing my collection and making it more precise?

McKebapp said:
The absolute "NOT TO KILL" ones are written.
All other ones depend on the individual usage.
To me: I kill each one, that is killable
What about continuing my collection and making it more precise?
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Sure, I'm glad to help but I'm newbe just tell me what to do

started to get laggy

When I loaded my phone up like my N1 it started to get really laggy so I download minfree and setcpu and now it's a bit better
the stock linpack for me was 5.9 and when used setcpu and put it on ondemand it went up to 9.1
Samsung hurry up with Android 2.2 PLZ

are you using any profiles or special set of rules that you could share?

SetCPU will constantly crash and restart the phone, not completely it seems but I uninstalled and got a refund.

siberslug said:
When I loaded my phone up like my N1 it started to get really laggy so I download minfree and setcpu and now it's a bit better
the stock linpack for me was 5.9 and when used setcpu and put it on ondemand it went up to 9.1
Samsung hurry up with Android 2.2 PLZ
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My Vibrant is stock with all my apps loaded, and my linpack scores are in the 8's.

same here linpack in 8.1-8.4 and quadrant around 890.
Not yet rooted, two widgets, live wallpaper, 20 additional apps.

heygrl said:
SetCPU will constantly crash and restart the phone, not completely it seems but I uninstalled and got a refund.
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Did you have it set to ondemand? The dev has stated that it works on the Galaxy phones if it's set to conservative. I've had it running on conservative for at least 4 hours now with no reboots. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=727006

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I had it on ondemand but every time the screen was off for more than 10 min the screen would not come back on.
I uninstalled it and everything was fine, then I reinstalled it and left it on conservative but adjusted the speed to 400 min -1000 Max 20-100% and 100 min -400 Max 0-20% and it works fine.
I also notice that this phone runs way more apps in the background than a N1, the N1 runs 28-35 apps in the background before the system starts shutting things down and this phone runs 50+, the last time I counted after bootup it was at 59.
So I started using an app I bought like 1 year ago, Taskiller Pro and set it up for autokill when screen is turn off and my phone works great.

SykesAT said:
same here linpack in 8.1-8.4 and quadrant around 890.
Not yet rooted, two widgets, live wallpaper, 20 additional apps.
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Linpack 8.4
Quadrant 806

siberslug said:
I had it on ondemand but every time the screen was off for more than 10 min the screen would not come back on.
I uninstalled it and everything was fine, then I reinstalled it and left it on conservative but adjusted the speed to 400 min -1000 Max 20-100% and 100 min -400 Max 0-20% and it works fine.
I also notice that this phone runs way more apps in the background than a N1, the N1 runs 28-35 apps in the background before the system starts shutting things down and this phone runs 50+, the last time I counted after bootup it was at 59.
So I started using an app I bought like 1 year ago, Taskiller Pro and set it up for autokill when screen is turn off and my phone works great.
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great, thanks for the advice!

Yesterday and continuing to today my Vibrant has really started struggling. I have tried a couple of different task manager's and task killers and it is still very slow. I have also uninstalled setCPU and still nothing has changed...

jblade1000 said:
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No problem

zenlakin said:
Yesterday and continuing to today my Vibrant has really started struggling. I have tried a couple of different task manager's and task killers and it is still very slow. I have also uninstalled setCPU and still nothing has changed...
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Find out how many apps are running after a reboot and find out what services each of those apps are accessing.
If you see a game or say a pic editor that is accessing a service it does not need like gps or anything like that delete it and find something similar.
I'm finding that these apps that are accessing parts of the phone they do not need and sending your personal info to the developer and when you get a bunch of these types of apps it puts a huge strain on your phone.
Also download a task manager that kills your selected apps when the screen turns off, just remember to setup an ignore list and include all the systems services and launcher in that list or your phone will freak out.

heygrl said:
SetCPU will constantly crash and restart the phone, not completely it seems but I uninstalled and got a refund.
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You know SetCPU is a free download on the XDA forums right lol
The one on the market is the Donate version so you basically donated to Iforgethisnamewhomadesetcpu and then took back your donation heh.

It wouldn't install for me so I decided to try it. It's only $2

I'm on day 3 and haven't gotten any lag yet....

Started seeing lags as well
The G1 was very laggy. This phone has no reason to be. It started out great as stock. But once I loaded up my normal apps, it's just started getting very sluggish. It does it in fits and starts - except for certain actions like going to the settings page of the Dolphin browser and exiting the Dolphin browser, or getting the task list of . Those are always sluggish. I also switched the 2GB Micro SD card to a 4GB class 4 MicroSD card and transferred Avatar to it. It has nothing else on it.
I'm going to start deleting software one by one and see what's causing this. But I'm not sure if it's any one software or just the fact that I have some 37 apps loaded.

i am having lag specifically with the stock email app for my exchange account.
my inbox will take sometimes about 5 to 10 seconds to load (shows black screen) and then many messages will be blank for them to load which is typically about 5 seconds.
randomly, some messages load fine. big or small.
in a related issue, i have had various events on this phone completely crash it and the os started over/home screen reloaded.

I stopped using a task killer and I've stopped having issues.

os2baba said:
The G1 was very laggy. This phone has no reason to be. It started out great as stock. But once I loaded up my normal apps, it's just started getting very sluggish. It does it in fits and starts - except for certain actions like going to the settings page of the Dolphin browser and exiting the Dolphin browser, or getting the task list of . Those are always sluggish. I also switched the 2GB Micro SD card to a 4GB class 4 MicroSD card and transferred Avatar to it. It has nothing else on it.
I'm going to start deleting software one by one and see what's causing this. But I'm not sure if it's any one software or just the fact that I have some 37 apps loaded.
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My G1 (albeit with a custom rom and no bloat) was actually more responsive than the Vibrant I used in a T-Mobile store. Which is kinda funny because the guy working there was like "Hey how come your G1 is faster".
And then I went into the internet browser and my G1 performance fell to **** when scrolling through pages.
On topic: Try clearing your cache with the likes of CacheCleaner. It usually helps my G1's performance, dunno what it'll do to the Vibrant.

heygrl said:
I stopped using a task killer and I've stopped having issues.
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What task killer were you talking about ?
I use Taskiller and Minfree and my phone will not even work without them.
If you don't set Taskiller up properly it will cause more problems than you have, YOU HAVE TO setup the ignore list on ALL system apps and services or your phone will go nuts.

AWEFUL BATTERY LIFE...WHAT APPS CAN I SAFELY DISABLE on ICS??

SINCE the upgrade, I went from an average of 12-15 hours battery, to 6-7 hours battery.. I was hoping that disabling some of the pre-installed apps, widgets & systems might help??

kramdens said:
SINCE the upgrade, I went from an average of 12-15 hours battery, to 6-7 hours battery.. I was hoping that disabling some of the pre-installed apps, widgets & systems might help??
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First off download CPU spy and batterystats see what is using your battery up cause it might be an app you have installed as I'm on cm9 and battery is OK
There is also in the themes and apps a list of things safe to stop running for gb but most will be the same for ics

kramdens said:
SINCE the upgrade, I went from an average of 12-15 hours battery, to 6-7 hours battery.. I was hoping that disabling some of the pre-installed apps, widgets & systems might help??
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I have frozen the following:
Accuweather daemon (I don't care about the weather
accuweather.com
ap mobile
crashnotifier
days 1.0
digital clock
drm protected content
mobile tracker
music hub
readers hub
s choice
samsung account
samsung apps
sns 1.5
sns disclaimer
snsaccountfb
snsaccountli
snsaccounttw
snsimage cache
social hub 2.000...
social hub 1.0
software update 1.0
software update v3
talkback
voice talk 2.10.00
yahoo finance
Zinio
all the above apps and system files I do not use, I am very happy with the battery life, I got 4 hours screen on with 8% battery left ofter 26 hours,
I had screen brightness on 10% and I have black as my desktop background.
I use the following:
Exchange constant syncing
Skype
whatsapp
draw something
and many other programs.
I had no Fc's or SOD's what's so ever since I upgraded to LPY official rom. I was on CM9 before, I reckon I am getting better battery life with LPY, I miss CM9 active dictation though as the samsung LPY one SUX.
Hope this helps.