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sorry guys just trying to be helpful to thoes seeking more information about the phone... someone on that site has there hands on the phone already! and is willing to answer any questions you guys might have!
who vincent?. who has it
I have one if anyone has any questions..
Memory leak
The person who has the G1 phone on androidcommunity says it has a bad memory leak and he has to reboot often. Have you seen the same thing?
He also said there was no file folder system and it was hard to find files. Is this true?
Thanks,
Tim
and they have more everything
2 different app stores for android?
there is the android market..and maybe im crazy , but isnt there another app store for android?
can sum1 provide info ?
thanx
yeah they do have alot of stuff there. but ill be coming here for my apps and OS upgrades/ roms
cookzitall said:
there is the android market..and maybe im crazy , but isnt there another app store for android?
can sum1 provide info ?
thanx
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lol no its the android market goto http://androidcommunity.com you will find everything android there have fun.
There's also http://www.trackdroid.com and http://android-freeware.org
I've noticed that using Android Market on different ROM versions, different apps show up in the Android Market.
i dont have all the apps on my market app, really sucks
Found new app site!
GlobalM3 said:
i dont have all the apps on my market app, really sucks
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Guys i found a new site with apps...and it seemd very well designed and have some short of application that u install and then u download what u need.
Nice to see some other places ecxept google market
www.slideme.org
wizzo65 said:
Guys i found a new site with apps...and it seemd very well designed and have some short of application that u install and then u download what u need.
Nice to see some other places ecxept google market
www.slideme.org
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I'm going to wait to read reviews on some of these non-google sponsored android marketplaces as I think that's where the malware is going to show up. The user is always the biggest hole in any security plan.
http://www.android-freeware.org/ Do Not attempt
DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FREEWARE ON OTHER SITES. Thier is a reason that it is not in the android app store. I downloaded a program from http://www.android-freeware.org/ and it crashed my device and since T-Mobile will not support it yet, its useless at the moment.
Be patient wait for all the apps to load in the market.
Hope this saves someones device
Ok so I tried:
Took sim out and booted up in Safe mode. Was able to actually open the menu and go into settings. I went into applications and the error came up again.
So I had to master reset the device and it is now working back to normal
It's a bit blanket to say to not download any apps from a site just because a beta app crashed your device.. There are many apps there from many different developers, and while some may be quite unstable, some may also be fairly good..
It was my understanding that the Android Market would be similarly unregulated, so I honestly think you'd have the same chance of finding a app that has some issues there as you would at another site.
It would help to know which app you were trying to use that crashed, so we know which app to avoid.
chorca said:
It's a bit blanket to say to not download any apps from a site just because a beta app crashed your device.. There are many apps there from many different developers, and while some may be quite unstable, some may also be fairly good..
It was my understanding that the Android Market would be similarly unregulated, so I honestly think you'd have the same chance of finding a app that has some issues there as you would at another site.
It would help to know which app you were trying to use that crashed, so we know which app to avoid.
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Here is my take on this. Google has never said that the Android Market would be unregulated. They would be idiots to say that and even bigger idiots to actually follow through on that. They've made a huge investment in Android and intend for it to grow. To protect their investment I am positive that there is a team of android employees who's job it will be to regularly download and test new apps, especially from new/untested developers to make sure that 1. it's not malware 2. it doesn't crash the OS or cause any other problems. This is protecting their investment.
What I have heard as regards to the android market is that it will not be heavily regulated like the apple market. For example Apple refuses to let you sell apps that compete with one of their own products, or a product they have in development.
Thus my thought is this. The most amount of regulation that Android apps on google's Android Market will undergo will be minimal. Most legit developers will not have a problem setting up space on the market, and getting their apps out to users. So, given that, what are you likely to find elsewhere? Apps that don't even meet the basic requirements of the Android Market. Apps that are malware, or will crash the OS, or snake oil salesmen trying to make a quick buck, and thus can't/won't be allowed on the Android Market (or will be removed quickly) That equals problems in my book, and there is no way I'm going to download anything that's not at the Android Market, at least not for a very long time. If it's legit, it should be at the Android Market where I can trust it.
thanks for the tip, will trust your experience and leave apps that aren't in the market alone. Thank god you got yours working again!!!
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DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FREEWARE ON OTHER SITES. Thier is a reason that it is not in the android app store. I downloaded a program from http://www.android-freeware.org/ and it crashed my device and since T-Mobile will not support it yet, its useless at the moment.
Be patient wait for all the apps to load in the market.
Hope this saves someones device
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Which app did this?
thanks,
jason
yeah, i was looking at that site and some of those apps look pretty cool, what app was it that crashed your phone?
Just wondering if anyone is using Droid Swap and has seen any increase in speed on their device ?
I have tried it out intermittently, but am not sure if it is adding to past reboot issues.
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Just wondering if anyone is using Droid Swap and has seen any increase in speed on their device ?
I have tried it out intermittently, but am not sure if it is adding to past reboot issues.
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Honestly, I have never used Droid Swap.
However, I got a new SD card this week and didn't partition it for Apps2SD. I have found that my phone is a million times for reliable. That thing where the phone goes to sleep and END won't wake it back up? Gone away.
After all of the initial force closes from apps not being there any more, i had to wipe and reflash my rom, but everything is SO much better with out Apps2SD.
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Honestly, I have never used Droid Swap.
However, I got a new SD card this week and didn't partition it for Apps2SD. I have found that my phone is a million times for reliable. That thing where the phone goes to sleep and END won't wake it back up? Gone away.
After all of the initial force closes from apps not being there any more, i had to wipe and reflash my rom, but everything is SO much better with out Apps2SD.
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QFT.
My phone is 1000 times more stable without apps2sd
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QFT.
My phone is 1000 times more stable without apps2sd
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*Shows his forum ignorance*
What the heck is QFT? lol.
Sorry this is the only forum I regular.
QFT = Quite F****** True
So is that why my phone keeps acting flaky? Apps2SD ... I knew some people had expressed concerns about it but I never associated my issues with it. I'm not overly worried about it I guess. I'd rather have all the apps I have on my phone and deal with the occasional reboot or FC.
I personally have not had any problems with FC or reboots with app2sd running
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QFT = Quite F****** True
So is that why my phone keeps acting flaky? Apps2SD ... I knew some people had expressed concerns about it but I never associated my issues with it. I'm not overly worried about it I guess. I'd rather have all the apps I have on my phone and deal with the occasional reboot or FC.
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I don't carry around enough apps to bother with it. Thought it was cool at first though.
I have discovered if I don't need it very often I can go to the market just as easy and get it quick.
I do keep the life or death apps on my phone..Facebook. MiKandi, those things.
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QFT = Quite F****** True
So is that why my phone keeps acting flaky? Apps2SD ... I knew some people had expressed concerns about it but I never associated my issues with it. I'm not overly worried about it I guess. I'd rather have all the apps I have on my phone and deal with the occasional reboot or FC.
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QFT - Quoted for Truth
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QFT - Quoted for Truth
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hehe, years ago in my forum noobness, I always thought it meant "quit f**king talking." Sometimes it made sense, but other times I was just wondering "wtf did he say that was so bad?"
Forums are so much more interesting when you have to make up your own definitions for acronyms.
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QFT - Quoted for Truth
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Heh, I guess that says something about the circles we run in. Fortunately, we all end up at the same place ... XDA.
grifforama said:
Just wondering if anyone is using Droid Swap and has seen any increase in speed on their device ?
I have tried it out intermittently, but am not sure if it is adding to past reboot issues.
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I use Swapper (same as DroidSwap for all intensive purposes...except that someone took Swapper off the Marketplace). I have a 64MB linux swap partition.
It doesn't work that great if you let it create a swap file on your SD Card, but if you let it initialize your swap partition, it works great. Swap file size is the key. 32MB for casual use, 64MB for heavy use. Anything above 64MB is too much swap space and your phone will slow down alot.
afazel said:
hehe, years ago in my forum noobness, I always thought it meant "quit f**king talking." Sometimes it made sense, but other times I was just wondering "wtf did he say that was so bad?"
Forums are so much more interesting when you have to make up your own definitions for acronyms.
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lol.that made me laugh man
I was fairly annoyed with the whole app issue for awhile, but even now, I barely use all of the apps I have.
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32MB for casual use, 64MB for heavy use. Anything above 64MB is too much swap space and your phone will slow down alot.
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Why would it slow down with more memory?
recently done
I rooted and themed droid 1 with a pl3x theme and it allowed me to move any app2sd and i did not have any lag problems.
I found that the theme installer actually had a .apk folder that it pulled all the apps to install during "instal zip from sd" on clockwork recovey. So i simply found all the .apks for every app i wanted and added them to the app folder in the update zip. When i installed the update and booted droid, every app was installed through the android system and no mb internal storage was used. My phone booted up with 260mb free of internal storage. Pretty sick. Instead of having to download every app from market and reduce myself to 190mb's again, this went nice with the 1.25ghz over clock.
But does anyone know of the app called swapper? Im trying to see if its worth messing with on a spare sd card? I dont know if apps are smart enough to know how to use the memory , or is the swapper smart enough to tell the apps its available. I say "tell" the apps because i dont know a better word.
Any chance to set up swap on non rooted phone? (for exmaple set up all things on card from pc, and then just mount it on the phone)
:/ getting sick of opening taskkiller, and there are a dozen things up and running that i never started. ever. why is amazon mp3 always on? why is pandora starting up w/o my tacit approval? why are a bunch of other applications starting up w/o me saying so? how do i stop it w/o rooting the machine?
why in god's name is amazon mp3 even on this thing? i hate it.
and, to any lurking google employees, i simply hate admob. adfree will be the first thing i put on if (more like 'when') i root this thing
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:/ getting sick of opening taskkiller, and there are a dozen things up and running that i never started. ever. why is amazon mp3 always on? why is pandora starting up w/o my tacit approval? why are a bunch of other applications starting up w/o me saying so? how do i stop it w/o rooting the machine?
why in god's name is amazon mp3 even on this thing? i hate it.
and, to any lurking google employees, i simply hate admob. adfree will be the first thing i put on if (more like 'when') i root this thing
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Just because you see it listed in a task manager doesn't mean it's running. You should check your task manager's documentation for details.
If you, and the others that are so OCD about this, are so adamantly opposed, then uninstall all of your apps and reinstall them only when you use them. That's the only way to get around it. Otherwise, deal with it. It's normal and isn't such a drain on your phone.
uansari1 said:
If you, and the others that are so OCD about this, are so adamantly opposed, then uninstall all of your apps and reinstall them only when you use them. That's the only way to get around it. Otherwise, deal with it. It's normal and isn't such a drain on your phone.
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it isn't normal on any other OS. i can set up my starting apps on windows, windows mobile, and ubuntu. and, nothing that i shut just auto goes on any of those. doesn't make sense that these things just start by themselves.
btw, couldja turn down the 'tone'? 'deal w it' isn't very helpful
Get the app called Startup Auditor, it's like .99 cents or something, not sure.
This allows you to disable any apps that auto start.
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Get the app called Startup Auditor, it's like .99 cents or something, not sure.
This allows you to disable any apps that auto start.
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It's called AutoStart but it won't prevent apps from showing up in task managers after startup.
timothydonohue said:
it isn't normal on any other OS. i can set up my starting apps on windows, windows mobile, and ubuntu. and, nothing that i shut just auto goes on any of those. doesn't make sense that these things just start by themselves.
btw, couldja turn down the 'tone'? 'deal w it' isn't very helpful
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The tone needs to be turned up when people keep *****ing about the same thing day in and day out. This is normal for Android. This isn't Windows, Windows Mobile or Ubuntu. Again... if you don't like it, get a Windows Mobile phone. Otherwise, deal with it.
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The tone needs to be turned up when people keep *****ing about the same thing day in and day out. This is normal for Android. This isn't Windows, Windows Mobile or Ubuntu. Again... if you don't like it, get a Windows Mobile phone. Otherwise, deal with it.
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no man, you reaaly need to chill.
you didnt have to post, you didnt have to read.
and definitely you dont have to be rude.
then your argument.. uninstall. yeah right, its not always possible if you're not rooted.
and im curious too. there doesnt seem to be a 'standard' when an app gets installed. sometimes they all get started at reboot, sometimes only some of them. I would be interested to know why as well.
Some of you guys are straight rude about this.
This drive me nutz too, the apps starting, so does the negativity on this forum.
# free before and after task killer:
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# free
free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 395068 349336 45732 0 4964
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 395068 349336 45732
# free
free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 395068 259224 135844 0 4964
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 395068 259224 135844
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uansari1
If you, and the others that are so OCD about this, are so adamantly opposed, then uninstall all of your apps and reinstall them only when you use them. That's the only way to get around it. Otherwise, deal with it. It's normal and isn't such a drain on your phone.
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The tone needs to be turned up when people keep *****ing about the same thing day in and day out. This is normal for Android. This isn't Windows, Windows Mobile or Ubuntu. Again... if you don't like it, get a Windows Mobile phone. Otherwise, deal with it.
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Not everybody is a computer expert dude. You should keep your negativity to yourself because other people might find the discussion on this interesting. Youu answers are weak and rude and you do not contribute to this discussion.
It is annoying, but it wont matter so much once we get the full 512MB of RAM available for use.
Until then you can use "Startup Auditor" (unfortunately not free) to find and disable startup apps. It works about 90% of the time...some disabled(and "keep disabled") apps still manage to start anyway.
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Not everybody is a computer expert dude. You should keep your negativity to yourself because other people might find the discussion on this interesting. Youu answers are weak and rude and you do not contribute to this discussion.
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Look man, I'm not a computer expert either... I have two degrees in business and am in law school. But I do have an Android fetish. My point was only that this is normal for Android.
You had 45mb free before the task killer. That's plenty of free memory. As I said in another thread about this very topic, Android will automatically kill apps when free memory reaches a certain threshold. What's the point of leaving memory free anyway? If you're not using it, it's just sitting there going to waste when it could be caching an app to open faster when I tap on it.
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Look man, I'm not a computer expert either... I have two degrees in business and am in law school. But I do have an Android fetish. My point was only that this is normal for Android.
You had 45mb free before the task killer. That's plenty of free memory. As I said in another thread about this very topic, Android will automatically kill apps when free memory reaches a certain threshold. What's the point of leaving memory free anyway? If you're not using it, it's just sitting there going to waste when it could be caching an app to open faster when I tap on it.
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And you see bro, that is a much more productive answer, my android addiction has me checking everything I can. Killing apps did make a difference on my G1. Not as much on this one, but with my new ram patch it is running even faster.
uansari1 said:
Look man, I'm not a computer expert either... I have two degrees in business and am in law school. But I do have an Android fetish. My point was only that this is normal for Android.
You had 45mb free before the task killer. That's plenty of free memory. As I said in another thread about this very topic, Android will automatically kill apps when free memory reaches a certain threshold. What's the point of leaving memory free anyway? If you're not using it, it's just sitting there going to waste when it could be caching an app to open faster when I tap on it.
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man, how is it you dont understand I would like to know the reason why this happens? i m not interested in the fact that i have enough memory. I would like to know why some of the apps I install autostart and some others dont.
as for the caching... it doesnt really work like that. the apps you kill free the memory, which THEN can be used for caching. if you dont task-kill them, android will do it on its own, but that adds another step before your new app can be loaded. there is a point in killing tasks. its just not everyone benefits from it.
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And you see bro, that is a much more productive answer, my android addiction has me checking everything I can. Killing apps did make a difference on my G1. Not as much on this one, but with my new ram patch it is running even faster.
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I'm glad you think the answer is productive bro... but it's not anything that hasn't been said before in this forum and numerous others. I'm sure you can understand that it becomes tiring when people ask the same questions over and over, and don't bother searching or doing their own research to find the answers. Everyone, it seems, wants to be spoonfed the information without doing much, if any, work to find it themselves.
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man, how is it you dont understand I would like to know the reason why this happens? i m not interested in the fact that i have enough memory. I would like to know why some of the apps I install autostart and some others dont.
as for the caching... it doesnt really work like that. the apps you kill free the memory, which THEN can be used for caching. if you dont task-kill them, android will do it on its own, but that adds another step before your new app can be loaded. there is a point in killing tasks. its just not everyone benefits from it.
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I totally understand that you want, and a few others, want to know why all this works the way it does. Again, this has all been covered ad nauseum in this forum, as well as the Dream, Magic, and Hero forums. The apps themselves have been written by the developers to automatically open. That's why when you start up any Android phone, some apps will be running. So again, one last time, this is normal behavior for Android.
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I'm glad you think the answer is productive bro... but it's not anything that hasn't been said before in this forum and numerous others. I'm sure you can understand that it becomes tiring when people ask the same questions over and over, and don't bother searching or doing their own research to find the answers. Everyone, it seems, wants to be spoonfed the information without doing much, if any, work to find it themselves.
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uansari, i DO search, thank you very much, but i'm not going to troll the forums for 70 other phones looking for an answer to my questions. do you insult everyone this much, or are you just feeling like a jerk today?
i get why apps would stay open. but, it makes absolutely no sense for an app like amazon mp3 to autostart after i have closed it. and, you're answer of 'it is just what android does' means you actually have no clue, and are no help, and have given up finding a solution. i don't care about whether you're in law school. i also have 2 undergrads, mathematics and biochem, with a concentration in engineering (ce and ee to be exact), and am currently working on both my phd and my md, 6 years into an 8 year program. so, you can take your piddly 3 year graduate program, and your inane unhelpful responses, and cram them. maybe you can impress some waitress at ihop with your credentials, but i've taken dumps that impress me more.
if you can't help, leave.
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uansari, i DO search, thank you very much, but i'm not going to troll the forums for 70 other phones looking for an answer to my questions. do you insult everyone this much, or are you just feeling like a jerk today?
i get why apps would stay open. but, it makes absolutely no sense for an app like amazon mp3 to autostart after i have closed it. and, you're answer of 'it is just what android does' means you actually have no clue, and are no help, and have given up finding a solution. i don't care about whether you're in law school. i also have 2 undergrads, mathematics and biochem, with a concentration in engineering (ce and ee to be exact), and am currently working on both my phd and my md, 6 years into an 8 year program. so, you can take your piddly 3 year graduate program, and your inane unhelpful responses, and cram them. maybe you can impress some waitress at ihop with your credentials, but i've taken dumps that impress me more.
if you can't help, leave.
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I do feel like a jerk today, yes. As for why the apps open... I said it's normal for Android... not "that's what Android does". If you read my posts, you'll see that I said that the application developer writes the program that way. That being the case, take it up with the Amazon app dev.
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I do feel like a jerk today, yes. As for why the apps open... I said it's normal for Android... not "that's what Android does". If you read my posts, you'll see that I said that the application developer writes the program that way. That being the case, take it up with the Amazon app dev.
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I don't think the Amazon app has a developer lol, well not that anyone can contact. Don't know for sure though, ~.~.
And I thought the Nexus one didn't close apps now because it has more free RAM, or something (I'm only 14 here, not yet very educated in this), unlike previous Android phones that had to conserve their resources in order to stay stable. Apps will not close until the phone reaches a limit in which it cannot handle caching the apps. I'm just repeating, but isn't this to answer to the question?
It has been said quite much, especially if I remember it.. (and if I'm correct, that is)
Incorrect. Android, regardless of how much RAM it has, will keep applications in memory until an active process requires more memory than is available. This can be a new application being launched or an active application/service that needs more memory.
Freeing memory by killing applications is not likely to speed up the phone. You may get a slight boost in launch speed if memory is full to the point that applications need to be deallocated from memory but not otherwise.
To actually understand why I say this you need to understand a bit about how an android application really works. This is an over generalization but an android application is basically made up of 2 components Activities and Services. The principal activity for an application is what you would see in the "applications" tab. An activity that is not in the foreground is not using CPU. If an application wants to do any work when the activity is not in the foreground it needs to spawn a service. A service can continue to use CPU and potentially allocate more memory while the main activity is not in the foreground. Services would be listed in the "processes" tab of Advanced Task Manager.
So if you kill an "application" without killing any services associated with it then you in reality have not done much. Taking as an example if you kill the "Amazon MP3" application without also killing the "MP3 store" you have in actuality accomplished very little. The google IM application actually spawns multiple services "IM" and "Google Talk Service". I want to stress this. If an application that has not gone rogue is using CPU it is not likely to be the Activity but an underlying service. It gets a little more complicated since not all applications behave as they should but everything in the stock install is safe from this standpoint.
Now onto the second half, and if you are still reading at this point thanks. Any application can request permission to recieve the event of boot completion. Typically this is done to start some background service. So if an application other than the default set starts at bootup it is because you clicked ok to its permission to do so. You are sort of limited in what you can do about the default applications, about the only way I could think of to "prevent" start up would be to create an application to let it all start up then kill whichever apps you deem objectionable. At a guess that is how your start up application works. It might be possible to intercept the boot up complete broadcast but if you can I am not aware of how. A broadcast by definition is supposed to go to all broadcast receivers configured to listen for it. The default set of applications were chosen to start with deliberation and are unlikely to cause any problems. If you launch sufficient apps to necessitate their closing they will close and not cause problems.
The TLDR version. So many apps start at boot up because they asked to be, and in the case of any app you install, because you gave permission for them to start.
@JanetPanic
Thank you TREMENDOUSLY for your post.
It was/is very insightful, productive, informative and worth bookmarking (for me at least).
You've singehandedly taken a thread that has been jacked, and redirected it towards it's original purpose.
I hope everyone takes not.
This is HOW A FORUM WORKS.
Contribute. Participate. Discuss.
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@JanetPanic
Thank you TREMENDOUSLY for your post.
It was/is very insightful, productive, informative and worth bookmarking (for me at least).
You've singehandedly taken a thread that has been jacked, and redirected it towards it's original purpose.
I hope everyone takes not.
This is HOW A FORUM WORKS.
Contribute. Participate. Discuss.
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+1 thanks Janet.
I knew the first part (which I tried to explain to uansari1 with no success), but I didnt know the details of the boot process.
very much appreciated!
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Got a Vibrant yesterday to "try out" the android world for the first time. Must say I'm impressed by the phones performance out of the box even with all the bloatware and crap on it. I've been a windows mobile guy for quite some time now, so the people that know both platforms well, know they are two completely different monsters. My two options were the hd2 (since i know the WM world pretty well) or learn a whole new platform with the vibrant.
I like it so far, but also miss some of the things from WM (or rather miss knowing my phone well). I guess i just have to start from zero and get acquainted with it first.
Any suggestions on getting the bare down scoop of the platform and such as far as learning it from the ground up? The sticky explains how to do these things, but I need something more basic...I just wanna become proficient in the android world as I am in the WM world starting from zero.
Its hard to say where to start, the best thing about android is the customization. Playing with phone is the only way you are gonna learn, I have been an android owner since day one and am still learning new things everyday. If there is something I don't know I simply come here since this is the best android community on the web. Hope you enjoy IMO the best android phone on the market.
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Yeah, really not that much to help with...everything seems pretty intuitive to me. When in doubt, long press or press menu.
My first questions were always like:
Sweet I have Avatar on here, what else Can I put on?
Oh damn, there's only a 2GB Card, and if I remove it, I lose Avatar.
WTF is amazon kindle for? I don't need this? How can I remove Bloats?
That's where I started off, you're most likely going to want to root it. Search the forums around. There's some great stickies to follow by and just go with that.
Can't wait for CM? Learn to make your own APP to have fun with ;p
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My first questions were always like:
Sweet I have Avatar on here, what else Can I put on?
Oh damn, there's only a 2GB Card, and if I remove it, I lose Avatar.
WTF is amazon kindle for? I don't need this? How can I remove Bloats?
That's where I started off, you're most likely going to want to root it. Search the forums around. There's some great stickies to follow by and just go with that.
Can't wait for CM? Learn to make your own APP to have fun with ;p
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Well, kindle isn't that bad considering you can get a ton of free books for it.
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phragg said:
My first questions were always like:
Sweet I have Avatar on here, what else Can I put on?
Oh damn, there's only a 2GB Card, and if I remove it, I lose Avatar.
WTF is amazon kindle for? I don't need this? How can I remove Bloats?
That's where I started off, you're most likely going to want to root it. Search the forums around. There's some great stickies to follow by and just go with that.
Can't wait for CM? Learn to make your own APP to have fun with ;p
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Well, you could always copy Avatar onto a larger card and then go wild! That's what I did, it will play lots of 720p mkv's that you might have laying around no problem!
Long press and menu are your friends. Other than that look here on xda and use the search function. The stickies typically have the most current info.
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phragg said:
My first questions were always like:
Sweet I have Avatar on here, what else Can I put on?
Oh damn, there's only a 2GB Card, and if I remove it, I lose Avatar.
WTF is amazon kindle for? I don't need this? How can I remove Bloats?
That's where I started off, you're most likely going to want to root it. Search the forums around. There's some great stickies to follow by and just go with that.
Can't wait for CM? Learn to make your own APP to have fun with ;p
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what is CM?
I am a programmer by profession. Maybe I could look into the world of android programming too while im at it
phragg said:
My first questions were always like:
Sweet I have Avatar on here, what else Can I put on?
Oh damn, there's only a 2GB Card, and if I remove it, I lose Avatar.
WTF is amazon kindle for? I don't need this? How can I remove Bloats?
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I didn't have those questions. I mean the first thing i did was move avatar to my 16gb msdhc into it and go wild with my music, photo, and videos...which I'm amazed how good of sound/video quality i get on this.
I thought more of like where do how do I view flash websites, how do i stream live .pls live music streams, or smaller things like hiding apps from the notification area at the top left when they are running, or resizing certain widgets, removing some of the applications that came with the phone from t mobile, mapping buttons to do different things based on holding them down or tapping a certain amount of times, things like that that aren't explained in the user manual. Or even like right now, I'm trying to make a call and it says: "Call not sent"...well? whyyyyyyyyy? so many questions!
I don't know, I guess all this is just part of the familiarization process and will sooner or later find them out whether by experience or hunting down resources why certain behaviors and actions happen.
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Long press and menu are your friends. Other than that look here on xda and use the search function. The stickies typically have the most current info.
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what is long press?
^ you should read the sticky. A lot of the things you mentioned, are addressed in the sticky.
Also, flash is only on Android 2.2, which we do not have yet.
achild said:
Got a Vibrant yesterday to "try out" the android world for the first time. Must say I'm impressed by the phones performance out of the box even with all the bloatware and crap on it. I've been a windows mobile guy for quite some time now, so the people that know both platforms well, know they are two completely different monsters. My two options were the hd2 (since i know the WM world pretty well) or learn a whole new platform with the vibrant.
I like it so far, but also miss some of the things from WM (or rather miss knowing my phone well). I guess i just have to start from zero and get acquainted with it first.
Any suggestions on getting the bare down scoop of the platform and such as far as learning it from the ground up? The sticky explains how to do these things, but I need something more basic...I just wanna become proficient in the android world as I am in the WM world starting from zero.
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Congrats on your new phone. Let us know how your GPS works, since that seems to be a hot issue. you can test using google maps, google navigation and GPS Test downloadable from the Android Market.
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Congrats on your new phone. Let us know how your GPS works, since that seems to be a hot issue. you can test using google maps, google navigation and GPS Test downloadable from the Android Market.
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haha that seems to be a problem with any gps enabled phone nowadays. Happened with the fuze and after months and months of tweaking and tweaking we got a hang of it. I tried the GPS yesterday on my way home from work yesterday and did not get a lock, i went ahead and downloaded gps test today to see if that will unlock it before using the gps software. We shall see! Thanks for the heads up tho!
edit: I guess gps test on android works differently than on WM. On WM it scans through your COM ports and gets a fix for you to then use your gps navigation software.
achild said:
what is CM?
I am a programmer by profession. Maybe I could look into the world of android programming too while im at it
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please do!
we could always use more programmers.
achild said:
what is long press?
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Instead of tapping on something you hold your finger down for a few seconds. A menu will pop up giving you options like copy and paste.
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If your phone won't play a video format, try RockPlayer
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I would recommend the market as the first place to go. Just start searching and downloading apps and play with your phone. You'll get accustomed to it very quickly!
Droidicus said:
I would recommend the market as the first place to go. Just start searching and downloading apps and pay with your phone. You'll get accustomed to it very quickly!
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Yeah thats what ive been doing. Thats another thing that amazes me about android, soooo many apps, and they are all centralized into one easy, convenient location. In wm you would find a few in the marketplace, and the rest u had to hunt down either on the forum or the web. This is slowly growing on me
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Coming from WM myself, (and just recently and very reticently turned over my beloved Wizard to my mom) the fun and unfun I have with Android:
Apps are so dratted cheap. Have at it.
Cloud connectivity. I use Picasa all the time now. It took me a while to get used to Google contacts, especially first name alphabetization, but I like it now.
You might want to look at subscribing to CompanionLink. It reliably syncs everything Outlook with your Google account (thus your phone).
Almost nothing was built into Android 1.0. Not much was added through 1.5. Some stuff has been added since, like Facebook sync, but custom ROMs don't add stuff. There's an app for everything. There has to be.
The app drawer is a hassle. I use FolderOrganizer (and ADW Launcher) to quell my addiction to organization beyond alphabetical.
It's fun to watch a few things catch up with WinMo and hear all the Android users brag about how great it is. Like app-specific auto-rotation. There's an app for it out now, but it actually costs something you'll think about, and it eats a hunk of RAM. They're just getting into animated GIFs. Lists and their apps aren't anywhere near ListPro, but they almost all have some way to sync to the cloud.
Office documents created on a PC don't always work with the Office apps that are out there. Don't bother with DocumentsToGo, but Sheadspreet is good (you have to convert first) and I'm trying OfficeSuite, and it seems the best. 30-day trial, $15. It's still not WinMo, though.
For those things you don't sync with the cloud, you can't just throw stuff in your My Documents Folder and rely on that backup. DropBox is a good app/service, and GoogleDocs is your friend. Most apps back up thier specific data to your SD, but on this phone, it's on the internal SD. You have to manually handle your backups, or do Nandroid backups (another worthwhile Google).
You have to install an app to install apps not from Market. Instead of exes their apks.
There's no Total Commander. I like Root Explorer. Astro is feature-filled. There are a million file explorers, and every one of them will have its advocates.
Flashing ROMs is tons easier, but you have to root first.
The Android world moves a lot faster. If you're off the forums for a week you'll feel like you've been in a coma for months. On the flip side, if you're waiting for something to get developed, waiting a few days feel like eternity.
Android devs work harder for a lot less, or no money; it's truly inspiring.
Before you go buying the first app that does what you want, check Market for more that do the same thing. I've found that there's a free alternative to almost everything. The paid versions/apps are more luxurious in one way or another, usually, but a little research can save you a bunch of regret.
Widgets suck RAM. Before you know it you've got 25 and you're wondering why your Home screen is lagging. Phones are finite. Even these.
CM is CyanogenMod. Google it, it's worth it. They started on XDA and it got out of control, so they have their own site now, although the threads still hanging on XDA re CM are a much more interesting read. It seems to be the most popular set of ROMS for a variety of devices. I follow and flash them (the ROMs, that is. I dont want the devs to hate me).
Double entendres are rampant. It's Google.
Once you get your apps organized, you'll be surprised at how smoothly your phone useage goes. Frankly, it's just more fun, and much cheaper, to play with.
SamsungGalaxySVibrant said:
Congrats on your new phone. Let us know how your GPS works, since that seems to be a hot issue. you can test using google maps, google navigation and GPS Test downloadable from the Android Market.
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Tested it. Google maps got no lock. However, gps test gave me 3 satellites, when I held it in front, under the windshiels it jumped to five satellites, but it wasn't enough for google maps to lock or get my location.
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Hey everyone, some people are claiming that the latest update (the one after Lollipop) either fixed or drastically improved the memory management problems. If you recieved the update, can you share your experience with us?
I saw some threads about the RAM issue, but none regarding the update, so I decided to create this one. Looking forward for the answers.
I updated vía OTA file. It does improve memory management in my opinion, but i think it's not fully fixed. It closes apps sometimes. But its way better thsn before the update
feligoni said:
I updated vía OTA file. It does improve memory management in my opinion, but i think it's not fully fixed. It closes apps sometimes. But its way better thsn before the update
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Did you perform a factory reset after the update like some users recommend?
Yes it has been Improved,even after installing a lots of apps including Facebook,messenger,whatsapp,battery doctor,truecaller,gravity screen etc i am getting around 400-350 MB ram free...
Apps installed in Internet or external memory not in ram main point is when you get 350+ram this these are running in background?
ishubhamsingh said:
Yes it has been Improved,even after installing a lots of apps including Facebook,messenger,whatsapp,battery doctor,truecaller,gravity screen etc i am getting around 400-350 MB ram free...
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At what point do apps start getting killed? Can you post a screenshot to show us your RAM usage?
mpeL said:
At what point do apps start getting killed? Can you post a screenshot to show us your RAM usage?
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Only one app is there which I have seen automatically killed i.e. Google play music. Even on KitKat only this app was getting killed automatically, on any other app I didn't faced this kind of problem.I am also using KitKat developed by android x86 project on my dell laptop which has 3GB ram, even on that play music gets killed automatically.
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At what point do apps start getting killed? Can you post a screenshot to show us your RAM usage?
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Here's the screenshot
Memory management is much improved, but it still isn't entirely fixed.
I don't understand why people want so much free memory though. Do you guys realize that excessive free memory had a direct correlation to your apps to closing? You want as much memory used as possible while leaving just enough free to load new applications.
mcnutty said:
Memory management is much improved, but it still isn't entirely fixed.
I don't understand why people want so much free memory though.
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Yes, you do. What I don't understand is how Motorola sift through all the bull**** from people who have no idea how memory managent works under linux/android in order to decide whether the thresholds really are too aggressive or not.
mcnutty said:
Memory management is much improved, but it still isn't entirely fixed.
I don't understand why people want so much free memory though. Do you guys realize that excessive free memory had a direct correlation to your apps to closing? You want as much memory used as possible while leaving just enough free to load new applications.
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I don't think people really want tons of free RAM, they were just trying to avoid reaching the threshold (before the update). Apps on the foreground were simply getting killed even though there was a good amount of free RAM left, therefore people were leaving more free RAM available to avoid things like this, even though free RAM is useless.
By the way, thanks everyone for their replies so far
mpeL said:
I don't think people really want tons of free RAM, they were just trying to avoid reaching the threshold (before the update). Apps on the foreground were simply getting killed even though there was a good amount of free RAM left, therefore people were leaving more free RAM available to avoid things like this, even though free RAM is useless.
By the way, thanks everyone for their replies so far
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Free RAM is "headroom", it is not useless. Imagine trying to prepare a multi-course meal on a kitchen worktop with no free space to spread out and work (the worktop is an analogy to RAM) - having room to move is a MUST. That's basic programming knowledge - always dealloc (release RAM) when you're done with it.
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Free RAM is "headroom", it is not useless. Imagine trying to prepare a multi-course meal on a kitchen worktop with no free space to spread out and work (the worktop is an analogy to RAM) - having room to move is a MUST. That's basic programming knowledge - always dealloc (release RAM) when you're done with it.
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And at the application level, Android decides which app you're most done with and kills the process, yeah... But caching when possible obviously improves performance and reduces power usage. People complaining that they only have 300MB of RAM free instead of 400MB should just go and buy a phone that is excessively powerful for their needs, lol.
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And at the application level, Android decides which app you're most done with and kills the process, yeah... But caching when possible obviously improves performance and reduces power usage. People complaining that they only have 300MB of RAM free instead of 400MB should just go and buy a phone that is excessively powerful for their needs, lol.
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I think Google need to investigate RAM compression, such as Apple do in Mac OS X now.
Memory management has definitely improved IMO. Less apps get killed, plus little or no reloading on chrome, so all in all, I'm reasonably satisfied with the update. But I think Motorola can even do better
Btw here's an article on the free RAM is wasted RAM issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20163493&postcount=6695
Pretty insightful, to say the least.
mahendru1992 said:
Memory management has definitely improved IMO. Less apps get killed, plus little or no reloading on chrome, so all in all, I'm reasonably satisfied with the update. But I think Motorola can even do better
Btw here's an article on the free RAM is wasted RAM issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20163493&postcount=6695
Pretty insightful, to say the least.
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That "article" is just another XDA link. With respect, I'd like to see a credible article, not one from XDA itself. The author isn't even capable of basic, coherent grammar; if he can make mistakes at such a primitive level, SO early in the "article", I'll pass, thanks.
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That "article" is just another XDA link. With respect, I'd like to see a credible article, not one from XDA itself. The author isn't even capable of basic, coherent grammar; if he can make mistakes at such a primitive level, SO early in the "article", I'll pass, thanks.
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Judgmental much, and that too based on the level of english. Way to go.
lol, dude this guy is a respectable developer here on XDA. He sure know more than you do.
Oh and how about you answer my question on your troll post first.
mahendru1992 said:
Judgmental much, and that too based on the level of english. Way to go.
lol, dude this guy is a respectable developer here on XDA. He sure know more than you do.
Oh and how about you answer my question on your troll post first.
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"He sure know more than you do"
How can any one person know who "knows more" than another person, least of all a stranger? We all have different and unique levels of knowledge, over hugely vast and varying fields of interest.
I come to XDA to grab things I need, not for intelligent discussion, and you're serving to further affirm that decision is a rational one.
Bah, you're probably 15 years old... why am I trying to reason with you? :laugh:
mahendru1992 said:
Judgmental much, and that too based on the level of english. Way to go.
lol, dude this guy is a respectable developer here on XDA. He sure know more than you do.
Oh and how about you answer my question on your troll post first.
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Jeeeez dude
Simmer down. The escalation in the tone of your opinion is way too steep :silly:
Try to maintain a level of tolerance before blarting out
Sorry if I didn't make myself clear, I was just pointing out that users wanted to have more free RAM because apps were getting killed when RAM was below ~150MB.
Also, please stop this useless argument you guys are having, ofending which other won't help at all.