Auto start apps - Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1 Questions & Answers

how do i disable auto starting apps to save battery? Any sort of settings available on phone or through any third party app?

Use SD Maid...I believe there is a thread 4 it on XDA....use it to disable startup hooks for system as well as user apps. works on a rooted phone only. Or else try disabling apps I don't use...

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High number of unrelated apps running on boot.

Just noticed on the last couple of Roms that there are a number of unused applications running in the background. No particular builds are better or worse.
Why is this the case?
Eg stock MDJFroyo Streak Lite and with all the widjets deleted and a fresh restart I have
Facebook
Gallery
Google Search
Maps
Music
Search
Twitter
Youtube.
Now I don't normally use any of these and have static wallpaper with wifi and bluetooth disabled. No widgets showing.
Is this normal?
Was going to use a tool to prevent these from auto loading.
i use autorun killer to see what runs on boot up
give it a try and disable those you dont need
Ran autotask killer however none of the apps showed up.
This is perfectly normal...using a Task Killer won't work as the app will just start up again soon after you kill it. task Killers are not recommended.
It just means the apps start faster when you launch them...they don't do any harm sitting idle in the background.
search for "AUTORUN killer"
not auto-TASK

[Q] How can I manage background processes?

Basically, I went into Settings>Apps>Running and realised I don't want Facebook in there ever unless I actually open the app. I opened the Facebook app Settings and disabled Notifications off. Also Messenger Location Services is off too. Each time I try and kill the process or reboot it comes back.
Things that load that I want to permanently disable unless I actually open the specific app:
Facebook
Maps
Google Play Store
I use Titanium to put a widget on my screen where I can freeze and unfreeze that app. I have done it with maps and some other programs that were aggressive in their communications. Unfreeze them, open and use, refreeze when done.
Thanks grubbster.
Any other options available to me?
Other than ignoring it, you can kill the app each time you close it. There's a developmental setting that shuts down the apps (not sure if it's in Cyanogenmod only or just stock) because it doesn't keep anything in the background. This would close ANY app that's not holding forground view however.
I'll just leave it as it is to be honest. Just thought there was a quick way of doing it similar to how the MSCONFIG utility operates in Windows.
MSCONFIG does that for startup, there are apps that block apps from starting up in android too but those apps need to be running as well which defeats the whole purpose of having plenty of RAM in the first place..
The whole point is Android manages the background apps just fine. Having 2GB of RAM but wanting 1.6GB to be free all the time (200MB used by GPU AFAIK so you are left with 1.8GB) is not the smartest way to manage apps. You want them snappy, in and out and done. Apps sitting in memory doesn't use more power because the RAM is active even as long as it's plugged into the the motherboard.

Disable phone system update check/notification?

I'm running a rooted 6P with TWRP and a custom kernel. Just got a notification for an OTA. Obviously, I can't run this update. How can I disable the update check? I have ROM Manager and know how to disable apps, but don't see any obvious update check system app.
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I use disable services for this purpose. Download this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.wq.disableservice
Open and click on the system tab, then Google's play services, then scroll down to bottom and un check system update service and then reboot phone. Just don't go around disabling other things unless you know what you're doing .
Won't this create the dreaded systemupdate wakelock?
EDIT:
The tool doesn't work at all. It may be due to the fact that Amplify is installed and is blocking due to having similar functionality. I tried disabling it in amplify instead and it does remove the notification but adds a wakelock that keeps the phone awake from systemupdate. The only way of getting rid of it right now that I know if is:
A) Hold notification and choose block all notifications from google play framework but this will also block other potentially useful and relevant notifications coming from there. All notifications regarding your watch probably, plus update notifications for the framework when it's outdated etc. Disabling it all is probably not a good idea at all.
B) Using Notifyclean xposed module. Feels like an overkill for this one job but it works I guess.
NOT working methods:
A) Disabling the service: leaves a wakelock that keeps your device awake. Some says it's not "active" but showing up in bbs but that's not right, I've noted the count from screen off to screen on again and it does indeed increase when screen is off. Tried in Amplify, service disable won't work for me when Amplify is installed anyway.
B) Disabling 3 service receivers. First of all autostarts won't work on 6.0, rom toolbox lite says it works although won't show the entries unticked after reboot. It seems to work in the sense that the notification is removed. Same result here though: wakelock.
C) Combining A and B: same result.
Untried methods:
Combining A with also disabling the wakelock in Amplify.
Let me know if anyone has better/other ideas. I went for solution number B. I worry that notifyclean might cause some other issue but I'm trying it out for now. Only thing I've noticed so far is a notification synced by mighttext that is empty from notifyclean which I blocked.

Strange system apps behavior

When I go to the Settings > Apps screen, some preinstalled apps like TripAdvisor, ZenFlash Camera and many others (but not all) cannot be disabled (freezed), but directly "removed".
But the apps are not really removed, as they are still present in /system/[priv-]app directory, and they reappear after a phone reset.
I've never seen this behavior in other Android devices I've had, it should be an Asus customization.
If an app is installed in /system/[priv-]app it should only be disabled, and not falsely "removed".
This way I cannot disable temporarily an app, I can only delete it and re-download it afterward, when I need it (while the app is still present but hidden in the system).
Somebody knows if this behavior can be changed somehow, and how to do this?
Thanks.

force close apps at once

hello.
i have so many apps installed and i don't use lots of them much So i force close them.i used to use hold back button to force close on other roms.but on oos there isn't this option.
now i am searching for an app that can force close a list of apps at once when i tap.
is there any app like this or am wasting time searching ?
my phone is rooted ( with supersu ).on open beta 6 and franco kernel.
thank you.:fingers-crossed:
Use Greenify App
vip57 said:
Use Greenify App
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it doesn't conflict with nougat doze mode or make any problems ? i have root.
i have to forbid access root to greenify ?
Rhodesgod said:
it doesn't conflict with nougat doze mode or make any problems ? i have root.
i have to forbid access root to greenify ?
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No greenify doesn't conflict with it the opposite it is made to be comptabile with doze mode
You have to grant access to greenify to use it properly
And greenify the apps that you see that they must not work in background
Will greenify conflict with nap time?
sakumaxp said:
Will greenify conflict with nap time?
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I think You can use both but the 2 apps have options for aggressive doze you can't enable it in the two apps
You can configure aggressive doze with naptime
And hibernate apps with greenify
Why would you want to do this in the first place? OOS handles it just fine by itself. No need to constantly force close apps...
You have 6GB of ram, force closing apps will only cause the OS to cache all the apps again eating CPU and I/o resources. If you really need more juice I know greenify has a "shallow hibernation" mode that keeps apps in memory but stops apps background activity. I have never needed these apps with this phone as android is getting better with background tasks.
i used greenify,
set on " No root " and it force close list of apps just with one click.
thank you.
Alternatively, you can go to Settings>Advanced>Recent App Management and select "Deep Clear". It may seem like a bit much at first due to its very aggressive behavior but once you get the hang of it, it just might become your native app killer and best friend !
And if you really look into it or if you use it complementarily with others apps (SDMaid, NapTime, ...) You can manage to work around its (sometimes) annoying effects (like forcing to relaunch an app after a Deep Clear) or even make it event more efficient by preventing the killed app to launch again (bootflags and broadcast receivers for instance)!
I believe that apps should complete or expand your OS, but (almost) never substitute for your OS

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