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Laggy Phone

My phones lately been acting funny
programs have been fore closing and its been laggy and idk why i did put any new apps..
dont know what iv did different i never did anything i have dxtop but it never did anything before
my phones moded and rooted and all the other stuff JF released

If you have a lot of apps or if you're running low on internal phone memory, it would cause your phone to lag. There is also a couple more reasons, I just can't think of em at the moment. =/

You ned task manager. Look which programs you've got running, may be you don't need some of them. I know for sure that "phonebook" app and "mybackup" app are some serious memory hogs, my phone was acting all goofy, uninstalled those two-problems are gone and forgotten.

borodin1 said:
You ned task manager. Look which programs you've got running, may be you don't need some of them. I know for sure that "phonebook" app and "mybackup" app are some serious memory hogs, my phone was acting all goofy, uninstalled those two-problems are gone and forgotten.
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And i happen to have both of them..........well how do I check my internal memory..I have dxtop memory widget and always says around 24 to 26 mb free of memory..so u think i should remove those 2 apps? i mean my back up i can always reinstall but i have that nadroid backup thing when i got my phone rooted to do a full system backup to my sd card

tanner2007 said:
And i happen to have both of them..........well how do I check my internal memory..I have dxtop memory widget and always says around 24 to 26 mb free of memory..so u think i should remove those 2 apps? i mean my back up i can always reinstall but i have that nadroid backup thing when i got my phone rooted to do a full system backup to my sd card
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Don't quote me on that but....
24-26 mb of memory is probably available for app installs (that would be system/data/data part of your phone). Running programs occupying different part of the memory, think of it as a RAM memory on the computer. Android has it's own program to decide which processes will run in the background and which wont but it's too immature at the moment. It'll get better with time.
With that said, phonebook, mybackup and in your case dxtop are all running constantly on your phone along with gmail, myfaves (whether you like it or not), maps, messaging, and bunches of others. Something is coded in them to prevent android to shut them down. Lock 2.0 is another one that runs in the backround all the time but it's not that memory hungry and doing just fine by itself.
The best way to check what's running is to download "Task Manager for root users" from the market (it's free). It will show which programs are running at the time. Click on any program and it will show the option to shut that program down. but if you shut down phonebook and hit refresh you'll see that it will restart itsef.
I suggest that you get rid of the phonebook, it looks very very nice but can't make it default so what's the point? Backup is waste of space too, you can back up all the info other ways so again, what's the point?
Good luck, I'm sure you can figure it out and reclaim the speed that G1 is capable of. Sorry for taking so long to get to the point.

Oh yeah, Imeem will run in the background indefenately as well.

borodin1 said:
Don't quote me on that but....
24-26 mb of memory is probably available for app installs (that would be system/data/data part of your phone). Running programs occupying different part of the memory, think of it as a RAM memory on the computer. Android has it's own program to decide which processes will run in the background and which wont but it's too immature at the moment. It'll get better with time.
With that said, phonebook, mybackup and in your case dxtop are all running constantly on your phone along with gmail, myfaves (whether you like it or not), maps, messaging, and bunches of others. Something is coded in them to prevent android to shut them down. Lock 2.0 is another one that runs in the backround all the time but it's not that memory hungry and doing just fine by itself.
The best way to check what's running is to download "Task Manager for root users" from the market (it's free). It will show which programs are running at the time. Click on any program and it will show the option to shut that program down. but if you shut down phonebook and hit refresh you'll see that it will restart itsef.
I suggest that you get rid of the phonebook, it looks very very nice but can't make it default so what's the point? Backup is waste of space too, you can back up all the info other ways so again, what's the point?
Good luck, I'm sure you can figure it out and reclaim the speed that G1 is capable of. Sorry for taking so long to get to the point.
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Well got rid of phone book and my backup since i can always back up my full system
and I already have advance task manager and i can close all the applicatiosn running but not proccess or services with that said I always have close everything app and run that once in a while

I noticed that with dxtop(trial) that every time I went to the home screen, either by hitting home button or backing out of an app, there was a lot of lag. And this is before the little countdown timer the trial has in it.
Uninstalled and am in the process of trying out the other two home replacement apps. Dont have that problem with them. If you are still having issues might try unistalling dxtop.

I probably shouldn't even ask because it was covered many times but.... do you have your caches on sd and if not do you clear them often?

how do i close programs running in the background. i know i have to hold home, but wat do i do to close them.

borodin1 said:
I probably shouldn't even ask because it was covered many times but.... do you have your caches on sd and if not do you clear them often?
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I have not heard this..where and how?
kay11224 said:
how do i close programs running in the background. i know i have to hold home, but wat do i do to close them.
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Same here I can close applications in backgrounmd but not services or processes

tanner2007 said:
I have not heard this..where and how?
Same here I can close applications in backgrounmd but not services or processes
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1) Anyone?
2) would anyone happen to know which home alternative uses more memory?
dxTop
http://dxtop.wikidot.com/
or
Open Home Lite
http://betterandroid.wordpress.com/
(scroll down to second post)

[Q] How to Remove Junk and Startup Apps

These junk apps run in the background when I take my phone out of standby. This is killing my battery life.
How can I remove these boot up items like Amazon MP3 and Skype mobile.
Hell I can't even delete Amazon MP3 trash.

juryben said:
These junk apps run in the background when I take my phone out of standby. This is killing my battery life.
How can I remove these boot up items like Amazon MP3 and Skype mobile.
Hell I can't even delete Amazon MP3 trash.
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In the android dev forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765750

Coderedpl said:
In the android dev forum:
That is a great link. I used Titanium to uninstall the bloat, but I can not figure out (have not studied hard enough, yet) to re install apps that I backed up first.
Renaming the apx's seems more cumbersome, but it would be easy to get them reinstalled by just renaming them back to original.
I am thinking about just flashing the original sbf, and doing the rename thing.
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Yea I would definately recomend not uninstalling the apps. It is a real hassle searching for them again when your phone needs to be sent back to verizon. I would recomend using root explorer and just renaming them. It causes them to not start, and are always there just incase something isnt working.

[Q] [Q?] can i remove samsung task manager

hi, does anyone know the root files involved so i can remove the samsung task manager, or at least permanently disable it
my problem is that my tab used to force close every time i tried to use it
so i use ATKfroyo, have it set to kill my unwanted apps on screen lock/unlock
but that stops working after a few minutes, (ATKpro does the same)
ive noticed that if i 'force stop' the samsung task manager, and providing i get no force close crashes
the ATKfroyo kill on lock/unlock keeps working for many hours
my RAM can drop to 40mb or less just from apps opening in the background when i dont need them to, and thats when i get the force close buzz.....buzz buzz buzz problems
i could even try replacing some of the samsung task manager files with the files from ATK and rename them so the device thinks its opening the samsung TK when its actually opening ATK, but im not sure how many files make the total app

leetut said:
hi, does anyone know the root files involved so i can remove the samsung task manager, or at least permanently disable it
my problem is that my tab used to force close every time i tried to use it
so i use ATKfroyo, have it set to kill my unwanted apps on screen lock/unlock
but that stops working after a few minutes, (ATKpro does the same)
ive noticed that if i 'force stop' the samsung task manager, and providing i get no force close crashes
the ATKfroyo kill on lock/unlock keeps working for many hours
my RAM can drop to 40mb or less just from apps opening in the background when i dont need them to, and thats when i get the force close buzz.....buzz buzz buzz problems
i could even try replacing some of the samsung task manager files with the files from ATK and rename them so the device thinks its opening the samsung TK when its actually opening ATK, but im not sure how many files make the total app
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You can use Titanium Backup to uninstall system apps

and will that let me reinstall it if something goes wrong?
i would rather know where all the files are that make the program
so i can replace them manually with the ATK files but renamed so the device thinks its still there and runs AKT instead
anyone?

leetut said:
and will that let me reinstall it if something goes wrong?
i would rather know where all the files are that make the program
so i can replace them manually with the ATK files but renamed so the device thinks its still there and runs AKT instead
anyone?
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then install "root explorer" from the market, and search for the associated files of Task Manager (or other apps) and copy/paste & back up manually.
if it's a system app, it will probably be in /system/app; if it is a non-system app, it's probably in /app
if it's an odexed system, many *.apk's have *.odex; and they will not run without the *.odex file, if the system hasn't been deodexed yet
some have files associated to them in system/lib (e.g. such as SWYPE)
if you say "ATK or AKT"? do you mean APK instead?

NB Question

I got the tablet today, I can't find where to close programs, I have 10 programs open, where can I close the programs and not have them all open

There is no need to close apps, Android does this for you (if needed), so don't worry about this.

bklynfire said:
I got the tablet today, I can't find where to close programs, I have 10 programs open, where can I close the programs and not have them all open
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theres a widget for active programmes, add this to your home screen. Android doesnt close all apps automatically.

Long press the home button to open the task manager. Android will close the apps automatically when it needs the space in ram. Leaving them running shouldn't affect battery life.
Sent from my HTC Vision

You will make things worse by force closing apps, there is no point in doing so. Apps that you don't use are leaved in memory for faster loading next time you open them. They are not actually running, they don't use CPU, so they don't use battery. They are automatically removed from memory when needed.
Only if the app is not written correctly, it can cause problems.

Will deleting most of the apps on my phone make it any quicker

I have an S8 Plus where I have proceeded to install a multitude of Apps when I initially got it and now have over 300 on the handset. It is correct to say that this will actually slow the phone down? or is the performance difference negligible? Should I perhaps go through and put my apps all the 'sleep' so that they don't run in the background and take up resources until I use them? I want to try and get a Antututu score similar to what I see on YouTube but at the moment even if a reboot I am not getting anywhere close. I am thinking of backing up the apps and doing a factory reset and then seeing if it improves and then gradually installing the 300 apps from the backup.

300 apps?!
Why?..

bbegg said:
I have an S8 Plus where I have proceeded to install a multitude of Apps when I initially got it and now have over 300 on the handset. It is correct to say that this will actually slow the phone down? or is the performance difference negligible? Should I perhaps go through and put my apps all the 'sleep' so that they don't run in the background and take up resources until I use them? I want to try and get a Antututu score similar to what I see on YouTube but at the moment even if a reboot I am not getting anywhere close. I am thinking of backing up the apps and doing a factory reset and then seeing if it improves and then gradually installing the 300 apps from the backup.
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Do you need these apps? If not, leave the once that you need and other you can uninstall or disable if uninstall isn't an option. Apps that are loaded into memory, do take a portion of it.

Wow
Yeah delete all the apps you don't actually use. Seriously there's no way you need that many. Apps take up ram and actual storage. Along with resources as the OS indexes and checks those apps are still there. Not to mention any push notifications those all's have and try to push.
Literally only keep apps you regularly use and even then keep your OS running light.