Ever since I updated to ei22 my available RAM is virtually gone and its killing my battery. My battery usage meter says 78% of the drainage is due to the android system. I have tried doing a hard reset, using a third party app killer, using a different launcher, nothing helps.
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I recently switched to launcher pro and it has helped battery life signifantly but system ram is still being hogged.
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I'm running the ACS ICS V4 rom. I have the same issue with android system eating up ram... but it has hurt my battery life at least not that i can tell.
You can give Cynanogenmod7 a try, it hardly uses any. It still has minor issues, but well worth a look.
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Im starting to think gingerbread is just larger compared to ec05. Im,getting waay better battery life and performance from launcher pro.
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Get Memory Booster Lite from the Market. It has a great task killer and you can see what apps keep loading so you can freeze or uninstall them. The stock task killer is worthless.
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Full memory doesn't kill battery, but flushing it and refilling it does. If you keep trying to free memory the system will just keep trying to fill it up again. It's how gingerbread works, keeping the most recently run apps in ram so it doesn't waste battery reloading them again. It should clear memory when you need it for something else. As far as the battery meter is concerned, they reworked the code in Gingerbread, so you can't compare usage to Froyo. It's possible your battery usage is coming from some app or widget you installed that's syncing all the time. The app killer is probably wasting more battery than it's saving.
I'm on ei22, with some bloat removed and fuju tweaks I can free up 210mb of ram
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alextjen said:
Ever since I updated to ei22 my available RAM is virtually gone and its killing my battery. My battery usage meter says 78% of the drainage is due to the android system. I have tried doing a hard reset, using a third party app killer, using a different launcher, nothing helps.
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I recently switched to launcher pro and it has helped battery life significantly but system ram is still being hogged.
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If you want to keep more ram free, use the V6 script. The V6 script will lower the ceiling of ram allowed for tasks rather than flushing it constantly and allowing it to refill- like a task killer does. Using a task killer will only kill your battery faster.
Also, this has been said in other words already , keeping tasks in ram does not kill your battery. Once a task is loaded into ram it takes no additional juice to hold it there.
+1 on the v6script I can get my ram down to 125mb. In the task manager & 80mb in the running services.
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If you want to keep more ram free, use the V6 script. The V6 script will lower the ceiling of ram allowed for tasks rather than flushing it constantly and allowing it to refill- like a task killer does. Using a task killer will only kill your battery faster.
Also, this has been said in other words already , keeping tasks in ram does not kill your battery. Once a task is loaded into ram it takes no additional juice to hold it there.
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Where can I find the v6 script, do I need,clockwork mod and be rooted?
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Yeah you'll need root (I think) and you can find it in a search or look for the how to run v6 supercharger on gbking's youtube channel. Its real simple
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Yes, you need Root, and Busybox... Most ROMs have this built in... Adrenaline Shot is nice too... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1236779, you can use both in conjunction(junction whats that function) and your phone runs sweet smooth like butter.
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Is something like Advanced Task Killer good to keep my battery running longer and phone running smoother? I read Task killers actually make computers slower. Is this true?
Simple answer...no. Android allocates by itself. Ending talks might actually waste more time as it will need to relaunch again
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Juice Defender works better for battery life than task killers. I use the free version and get a pretty good extension.
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Yeah I am using Juice Defender, and my better is barely dropping with everything on.
What exactly is different about Juice defender than task killers, how exactly does it work? And how much of an extension can i get?
Hello,
I have a new, stock ROM Aria from AT&T. With a fresh boot, i run the task killer and i have a nice 178mb of free ram. But as the day goes on it gets lower and lower, 150, 115, 80, 25 free. What is eating it up? Cache?
Thanks!
-sp00nix
sp00nix said:
Hello,
I have a new, stock ROM Aria from AT&T. With a fresh boot, i run the task killer and i have a nice 178mb of free ram. But as the day goes on it gets lower and lower, 150, 115, 80, 25 free. What is eating it up? Cache?
Thanks!
-sp00nix
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did you kill the tasks that keep opening by themselves...or ones you've used but arent using at the moment?
i run atk a few times a day
dh4645 said:
did you kill the tasks that keep opening by themselves...or ones you've used but arent using at the moment?
i run atk a few times a day
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i set it to autokill on sleep, theres only 1 app running which is the advanced task killer. When you manually kill them with the widget it reports the memory usage.
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i set it to autokill on sleep, theres only 1 app running which is the advanced task killer. When you manually kill them with the widget it reports the memory usage.
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hey thanks i didnt even know that was a setting.
sorry i dont know the answer to your original Q
dh4645 said:
hey thanks i didnt even know that was a setting.
sorry i dont know the answer to your original Q
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It's cool, you learned something
Something i remembered, on my Archos 5 Advanced task kill reports on value and its built in task manager reports another, usually higher. Maybe this is a similar case. Ill try another piece of software.
Not a good idea to use a task killer as it'll actually wear our battery down faster. Anyways unused RAM is wasted RAM.
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Idk about all that. My battery is much happier keeping apps under control that are data hungry.
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Idk about all that. My battery is much happier keeping apps under control that are data hungry.
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depends on frequency of kill and what you are killing really
Hi I currently use leedroid rom and its great, but I notice that my ram memory gradually goes down either with using advanced task killer or without it.
This is a problem as it gets so low that the sense ui keeps having to restart and the phone becomes really slow and un responsive and I have to reboot everyday to fix it.
Is there any ram cleaner or task killer I should use to maybe fix this problem so I don't have to keep rebooting my phone?
Thanks
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You are using ATK or just letting it sit? Without changing settings it won't auto kill anything.
No I used advanced task killer to auto kill when screen off but the ram still decreases over time
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No I used advanced task killer to auto kill when screen off but the ram still decreases over time
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to be honest, i had this problem with leedroid rom as well, i moved to aurexsense and its so much faster and smoother i never had the slow down issues i had with leedroid. also battery life is much much better.
however you shouldnt be using ATK, as with android 2.2 it dosnt work and will only make your phone slower and battery life worse.
Coming from the cliq rooted with a 2.1 rom, atk was a necessity IMO.But ive hard that task killers are not needed with froyo and that it hurts more than it helps. But ive noticed that even with atk on froyo, apps aren't being killed unless I go to settings/applications/manage apps to force close myself. Ive tried just not force closing or killing apps and ive noticed it being a memory hog and decrease in performance and battery, but thats just my own personal testing.
What's your opinion on task killers and such? do I need it or am I better of without one?
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Coming from the cliq rooted with a 2.1 rom, atk was a necessity IMO.But ive hard that task killers are not needed with froyo and that it hurts more than it helps. But ive noticed that even with atk on froyo, apps aren't being killed unless I go to settings/applications/manage apps to force close myself. Ive tried just not force closing or killing apps and ive noticed it being a memory hog and decrease in performance and battery, but thats just my own personal testing.
What's your opinion on task killers and such? do I need it or am I better of without one?
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I am using "advanced app killer'. A number of stock apps will restart right after, but most others will not.
I use it right after starting up, and after closing some apps (they often keep running in background). I think this is helping materially with my battery life - which is fairly good.
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I am using "advanced app killer'. A number of stock apps will restart right after, but most others will not.
I use it right after starting up, and after closing some apps (they often keep running in background). I think this is helping materially with my battery life - which is fairly good.
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Thanks I will try that out. But yeah my battery life if pretty good when I really try haha. But yeah I've noticed apps just reopen, I guys I have to just get used to the froyo ways
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I couldnt find "advanced app killer" in the market. Is it elsewhere?
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not needed, just like gaww stated
A number of stock apps will restart right after
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is a horrible thing. the second u close an app and it instantly reopens itself your cpu shoots up 100% and you end up killing more battery by doing that.
Haven't seen the need for a task killer. I run System Panel app and what I'm seeing is the majority of the apps listed are on background and not taking up CPU power at all.
If anything, once I root, I'll probably use Autostarts just to minimize the number of apps that run at startup. But right now... not even necessary.
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not needed, just like gaww stated
is a horrible thing. the second u close an app and it instantly reopens itself your cpu shoots up 100% and you end up killing more battery by doing that.
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Total agrement here, ATK do more harm then good, There is really nothing good that it does.
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Total agrement here, ATK do more harm then good, There is really nothing good that it does.
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Iight makes sense to me!
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Questions go in Q&A section!
I'm so tired of this discussion to raise any of the many valid points why task killers are bad.... just don't use them lol.
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Some say it helps some says it does nothing
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No... No.....
I get better battery life without it.
Don't use it for any version. Android has its own management and frees memory as needed. The only way it'll help battery is if you need to close a rogue app causing drain. For this use Samsung task manager or system panel.
Thanks for the info
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Anyone know if it's possible to remove the TouchWiz 2.2 Task Manager via Titanium Backup for example (or another method if possible), without repercussions to the stability of my phone?.. If someone could answer this or direct me elsewhere it would be greatly appreciated. I figured I would use this thread as an opportunity to plug another question as I was also curious about the OP's question too.
I choose to use the advanced task killer on the market on auto kill, while I know it's not necessarily needed for Android with JIT I feel the freed memory launches apps more quickly. It might just be mental but it's always done good by me so I use it
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Some say it helps some says it does nothing
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Unless you're using Android 1.x, there's no reason to use a task killer.
Removed mine, thanks for the info.
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I choose to use the advanced task killer on the market on auto kill, while I know it's not necessarily needed for Android with JIT I feel the freed memory launches apps more quickly. It might just be mental but it's always done good by me so I use it
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I use it too and increased my battery life. Now I use only about 1% battery drain per hour of none use.
you dont need to remove it unless if its like a AUTO killer.
I keep ATK advanced task killer on my app list.
I mean who knows when a apps just gonna go crazy on me?
and the Android Task Manager doesn't see all the apps so... thats lame, i keep mine, but use it when a app is like freezing/slowing me down
Agree while in general task killers are not needed on 2.2+, there are some applications that still missbehave and need a force kill to function properly again. Personally I just use the stock Samsung task manager and widget, which does not mess with any system services.
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I hate atk, but I do use the task manager that is included in the roms I flash. I use the task manager ONLY when an application freezes or doesn't operate correctly.
I've removed mine through Titanium. If you're uncomfortable just freeze it.
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.