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Why do apps automatically load?

it's the main reason for the major battery drain (every time there's a significant drain, i open up advanced task killer and notice there are 10+ apps running). i'd like to know what the point in this is? some of these apps are useless, and i can't see why the android would want to load them to make anything run more efficient. so is there an app that lets you choose the apps you want to "disable"?
and is it going to be better when froyo comes out?

if you have root, you can uninstall them

Just cause atk shows an app doesnt mean the app is actually running. This ignorance is precisely why task killers suck.
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qtilt112 said:
if you have root, you can uninstall them
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how to uninstall? this is the bloatware that comes with the phones.

mistabeo said:
how to uninstall? this is the bloatware that comes with the phones.
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Get root, get Titanium backup, uninstall.

A program like system panel will show you which apps are actually active (running)
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Disabeling apps. Feature from ICS

Is this the best new feature in ICS:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/112413860260589530492/posts/DDTKFhiDS9U?hl=en
Disabling Apps
ICS adds the ability to disable an app outright. Don't like an app that came preinstalled? Disable it! Its resources never run and its launcher icon is gone until you re-enable it. (This doesn't free up any space -- it can't, since pre-installed apps are included in the read-only system storage. But it does put them "out of sight, out of mind.")
Wonders if this will work in TW too, or if Samsung somehow disables this feature as Android is open source?

If only there were some other ICS threads in the Samsung Galaxy II area of the forums where this kind of stuff might already be!
Instead of speculating about whether an as yet unreleased feature works for your phone, why not just root and freeze/uninstall apps you don't want?

You're free to skip reading the thread... ;-)
No, I won't root yet, therefore I hope this feature will survive to our phones. And, what are the chances for that?

Is this feature available in the betas out now?

borchgrevink said:
Is this feature available in the betas out now?
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Yes it is.
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It is not recommended to disable some of the apps as it might cause your phone to freeze and not updating on the fly.

neo335 said:
It is not recommended to disable some of the apps as it might cause your phone to freeze and not updating on the fly.
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Nice grave dig.
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[TIP] How to easily get 1-2 hours extra battery life

Freezing these apps gave me an average of 2 hours extra battery.

You might as well post how to freeze them in my opinion

djricekcn said:
You might as well post how to freeze them in my opinion
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Titanium backup
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Or AntTek App Manager, free.

You can natively freeze them with ICS, in your app drawer (stock TW Launcher) drag the app icon to app info, and click disable

I removed them. No need to freeze if your plan on not using them. Free up internal space.
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In case anyone is using aftermarket launchers;
Settings>application manager>all>(application to be frozen)>disable
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Bowsa2511 said:
You can natively freeze them with ICS, in your app drawer (stock TW Launcher) drag the app icon to app info, and click disable
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Not sure what you mean by drag the app to app info....

BonesHopkins said:
Not sure what you mean by drag the app to app info....
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From your app drawer, click and hold on the program you want, and it should take you to your home screen....at the top you should see "App Info". Drag the app icon onto that and it'll display the info you need.

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From your app drawer, click and hold on the program you want, and it should take you to your home screen....at the top you should see "App Info". Drag the app icon onto that and it'll display the info you need.
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hrmm...maybe it's because I haven't had my morning tequila shot yet but I don't see any such app info icon when I do what you're saying. I go to the app drawer, click and hold an app, it takes me to the home screen, but there's nothing anywhere that says app info.
Could this be something that's not on the ATT version of the phone?
::edit:: ok...I'm an idiot. I found it....but it's at the bottom of the screen, not at the top.

I just disabled them except for samsung account which I use for Samsung Dive.

Bowsa2511 said:
You can natively freeze them with ICS, in your app drawer (stock TW Launcher) drag the app icon to app info, and click disable
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I don't see any disable option. I see the standard force stop clear data all that jazz

shmag18 said:
I don't see any disable option. I see the standard force stop clear data all that jazz
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I had to uninstall updates and then disable became an option.
Using the app info method works great if you are not rooted.
In the event you are rooted, using TB is easier. both work without any issues for all listed apps in the op.
THANKS!:good:

lopezpm said:
Titanium backup
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whoa whoa whoa! not so many steps at once!

Thanks, already using cpu sleeper.
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Do you need to be rooted to do this?
edit, never mind I figured it out, didn't know ICS could do that.

d1ez3 said:
Do you need to be rooted to do this?
edit, never mind I figured it out, didn't know ICS could do that.
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No sir. You can do this with most of the pre-installed carrier software. I believe the option is "disable". When you see it you'll know what I mean. In fact it was the one thing that made me think that I wouldn't have to root my phone. Then I quickly got annoyed by the T-Mobile startup and shut down sounds. Can someone please tell T-Mobile to leave the standard start up and shut down sequence alone. I mean expect that from Verizon; Have you heard any of their phones start up? They're crazy obnoxious.

Great feature! You can also go to settings-applications-all and do or that way. Just uninstall updates and then you will have the disable button. Thanks for the top all.
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so what exactly is media hub and music hub? also what about s suggest, what is that?

S Suggest shows your popular apps.

Better battery life????

Anybody have tips on how to save some battery on this device? Here are my battery stats. Any suggestions welcomed pleasseeee.
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I wasn't very impressed with the Note 3's battery life at first, then I went into Settings>Application Manager and disabled a whole bunch of bloatware. Also went into each app and turned off any background update and location service if we don't need it. You can do this without root. Just take a look on this board and you'll see someone has compiled a list of apps that you can disable.
The phone now runs cooler, and yesterday, we had 14h usage and 6.5 hours display on time (auto brightness). Very impressive in my book.

oilfighter said:
I wasn't very impressed with the Note 3's battery life at first, then I went into Settings>Application Manager and disabled a whole bunch of bloatware. Also went into each app and turned off any background update and location service if we don't need it. You can do this without root. Just take a look on this board and you'll see someone has compiled a list of apps that you can disable.
The phone now runs cooler, and yesterday, we had 14h usage and 6.5 hours display on time (auto brightness). Very impressive in my book.
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Thanks, I've already debloated it like crazy. Still getting those battery stats. I am rooted
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Turn off all the Samsung features when you're not using them like Smart Stay and Air Gesture. The sensors are always on in certain apps when you have them enabled. Turning them on and off is easily accessible via the notification toggles. But it will only slightly help, your phone should be performing better than that even with those features running. Try a factory reset if it is safe to do with the root method.
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TheodorK11 said:
Turn off all the Samsung features when you're not using them like Smart Stay and Air Gesture. The sensors are always on in certain apps when you have them enabled. Turning them on and off is easily accessible via the notification toggles. But it will only slightly help, your phone should be performing better than that even with those features running. Try a factory reset if it is safe to do with the root method.
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Thanks, i have all features turned off... might try a data reset, also noticing some FCs....

XzxBATTxzX said:
Thanks, I've already debloated it like crazy. Still getting those battery stats. I am rooted
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Have you guys checked out Greenify? (recommend)

greenify
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Have you guys checked out Greenify? (recommend)
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yup. was recommended that app on the s4, great app

Download the app Wakelock Detector from the Play Store.
Open it for the first time right after you unplug your phone
After some deep sleep occurs for awhile, open Wakelock Detector and select the icon in the top right to select "Wakeup Triggers"
This will show you which app waked the device when it was trying to sleep(=screen off) and how many times it waked it. Figuring out Google wakelocks will probably help you the most unless you have some poorly written or rogue app
A good start would be to remove ALL google apps that you don't use, and turn off google ads as well as notifications and scheduled checks within say...Play Store and Youtube and Gmail

MeetFace said:
Have you guys checked out Greenify? (recommend)
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Could you share with me what u hibernate.
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thunderbread said:
Could you share with me what u hibernate.
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I essentially hibernate everything except system apps and widgets, just to be safe. You would also not hibernate apps that you want background notifications from. I also use the donate version, which allows me take advantage of GCM. Which, for apps that use GCM, allows me to hibernate those apps and still receive notifications.
Hope that helps =]

My favorite app is the Snapdragon BatteryGuru. I love it! That will monitor usage and show you which programs are battery hogs and will learn your behaviors with your phone. Only works with the Snapdragon Processor phones as well.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app&hl=en

sebastianraven said:
My favorite app is the Snapdragon BatteryGuru. I love it! That will monitor usage and show you which programs are battery hogs and will learn your behaviors with your phone. Only works with the Snapdragon Processor phones as well.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app&hl=en
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Sorry to ask a stupid question but is the VZW Note 3 snapdragon?
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thunderbread said:
Sorry to ask a stupid question but is the VZW Note 3 snapdragon?
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No worries, yes it is a snapdragon 800
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thunderbread said:
Sorry to ask a stupid question but is the VZW Note 3 snapdragon?
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=does+the+us+verizon+note+3+have+a+snapdragon+processor
Third result...wouldn't even have to click through. Just saying =D

MeetFace said:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=does+the+us+verizon+note+3+have+a+snapdragon+processor
Third result...wouldn't even have to click through. Just saying =D
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Thanks and I did Google it couldn't find a solid answer. Thanks again.
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speedcharge boost a malware of some sort??

i just plugged in my charger right now and noticed this screen... this cant be built in?? anyone else have this??

looks like you have garbage installed

Yep. Likely some app you installed
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I saw something similar with my old phone, it got to do with speedcharge booster from CM Booster, or CM cleaner something like that.

Vanquiz said:
I saw something similar with my old phone, it got to do with speedcharge booster from CM Booster, or CM cleaner something like that.
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Yep. Likely some app you installed
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bloodrain954 said:
looks like you have garbage installed
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thank you guys... im thinking it was from my GO KEYBOARD ... any recommended apps to get this kinda stuff detected and removed??

lawsofpower48 said:
thank you guys... im thinking it was from my GO KEYBOARD ... any recommended apps to get this kinda stuff detected and removed??
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Don't use any of the apps like GO. They are filled with adware and are subpar apps in the first place.
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TheShoxter said:
Don't use any of the apps like GO. They are filled with adware and are subpar apps in the first place.
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thanks for the tip. i never knew that. i use it for the emojis, any other recommendations with NO adware?

lawsofpower48 said:
thanks for the tip. i never knew that. i use it for the emojis, any other recommendations with NO adware?
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For a messenger app with emoji I recommend Textra. It might have a couple adds, but pro version is very cheap. For a keyboard app, they all have emoji. I recommend stock or SwiftKey.
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Some app was updated with this. I do not have any GO products nor any CM ones. Has anyone figured out what this is? Could it be some Samsung 'improvement' forced on us?

TheShoxter said:
For a messenger app with emoji I recommend Textra. It might have a couple adds, but pro version is very cheap. For a keyboard app, they all have emoji. I recommend stock or SwiftKey.
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I've been a paid Swype user for years now, haven't found another keyboard that suits me as well, to be honest. I tried SwiftKey, etc. and didn't care for them.

Chrooma keyboard. Dope. Nuff said. Fleksy is cool too once you get used to it and the way you input keys..its quite different. but I like swiping for words sometimes and fleksy doesn't support that. Chrooma has been my favorite since I can't flash AOSP keyboard with number row.
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I have solved the problem on my device
Hi
I had the same problem.
If you can have access to a terminal in your device, you can see the running processes with ps command.
I use it to see what processes where running when I saw that screen appear once again, what I could see at the output from the command line was that two of the running process where related to a wallpapers app (KittyPlay wallpapers) and had some estrange references to the following namespaces:
com.jiubang.commerce.service.IntelligentPreloadService
com.jiubang.commerce.chargelock
The first thing that come to my mind was the obvious relation of "chargelock" with the kind of screen lock that was appearing on my device and the fact that a few days ago I have installed f-droid and this application offered to update the KittyPlay application, so I updated thinking that there was no problem with the updated app. After the update I started to see the speedcharge lock screen.
The only way for me to know what was causing the problem was to use the command line and trying to identify the processes involved.
I uninstalled the mentioned application (KittyPlay) and the speedcharge lock screen stopped from appearing.
Hope this can be helpful to solve the problem for you.

I've had the same problem for awhile now. Turns out it was GO Weather. I'd used it for years without any real problems but this is it. I just uninstalled, rebooted and the speedcharge lockscreen is gone.

It is also in GO power master but all I did was go to settings and unclick Boost Charge. There is also an option to unclick launch GO power master when charging.

I found it in zcamera.

ES file Explorer has been bundled with the speed charger addware as well.

lawsofpower48 said:
i just plugged in my charger right now and noticed this screen... this cant be built in?? anyone else have this??
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You have CM Locker installed because I used to. Now you can turn that option off or just uninstall CM Locker.
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I have the exact same thing on my LG Stylo. Could it be a coincidence that I have KingRoot installed on that phone?

droid_noobie said:
I have the exact same thing on my LG Stylo. Could it be a coincidence that I have KingRoot installed on that phone?
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King root installs "cleaner" software on your device. Just find it in settings/applications and uninstall it. Just don't uninstall super user or King user
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cuezaireekaa said:
King root installs "cleaner" software on your device. Just find it in settings/applications and uninstall it. Just don't uninstall super user or King user
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By cleaner are you referring to "Purify"?