Hi...
Wen using the streak after some period of time the free RAM gets lower and lower...
Is there any reasonable application that optimizes the RAM automatically?
Or is there any application at all for RAM optimization and processes killing?
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Try Free Advanced Task Manager
Protip: after installing it, add home screen "Shortcut" (not widget) of ATMF Press to End
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Hi all.
I am using watchdog task manager and according to this program the max free memory I have are 5mb (15mb are used by this appl). I use just 3 desktop with ADW launcher and I have not installed more than 4 o 5 applications. Is there a better program to see how much free memory I have and what program is consuming it? is it normal the low free memory in x10 mini?
Second, after rooting and delete some standard applications I notice that phone takes a lot time to turn on. Is there any boot log to look for errors or problems?
And finally, as I said I am using ADW Launcher, but every time I turn off and on the phone, watchdog lists the default SE Launcher running iddle in background, I kill it but its start again when I turn on the phone. Is it normal? can i delete the default launcher safely?
In summary I think i need a better task manager
PS: sorry my english.
I'm not sure if the Vibrant had the RAM Manager tab in the built in Task Manager before the 2.2 update (as I was not that observant before I updated) but I see it has it now and I'm wondering if there's an unofficial widget I can get that I can press for a level 1 or level 2 RAM clear that's similar to the Advanced Task Killer kill button widget. Like, just tap it and bam, level 1 or 2 RAM clear. Not like go into the program and then do it.
Ideas, anyone? If this doesn't exist, it really ought to because with 2.2, advanced task killer just don't do justice anymore.
I don't want to hear "but omg froyo can handle task managing now by itself. leave Brittany alone!"
I believe this is my first post. Woo!
launcher pro -shortcuts - or activity - link activity to froyo task killer ram/cleaner ? takes u right to clean ram screen still not one click kill but it works
Still looking for a decent task manager. Everytime i use the task manager widget (the default one) it feels like it doesn't do ****.
And it's pretty annoying to press the 'recent opened applications' button and manually remove everything :/
Any suggestions? there are tons in the market...
autokiller memory optimizer is the best
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Do you NEED to manage your tasks?
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no need for it but try system tuner
If your rooted then autokiller is great (but not needed on devices with 1 gb of ram) it adjusts your ram settings. If your looking for a true task killer they are not needed and cause more harm than good, make sure not to set it to auto kill, only kill apps manually and only if you know they are a problem, if so they should also be uninstalled. If you have it set to auto kill, or you manually kill all apps it will eat up more battery and slow down your device because its working to restore the apps into memory (apps in memory are not using resources or negatively effecting the device unless your down to under 100 MB which should happen mainly on devices with 512 MB or less ram, and occasionally on devices with 768 mb)
As I know the use of task killer on android is kept questioning for a very long time, and I usually set the task killer to auto-kill apps every two hours and my phone is just fine which will not slow down too much after long time usage.
However, I discovered that if you opened an app, go back to home screen by pressing "home" button, and use the task killer to kill the app, and return to that app, it opened with the original screen at the point you exit it by pressing home button - that means the app is not killed!!! I'm sure it is not due to "restart" feature of that app, because I've tried for many times on different apps, which does not carry any services at all. If I'm correct, exiting an app by pressing home button will just leaving the app at the background and eating memory even without any services??
At this point I tried using auto killer optimizer, as I saw a feature which let you set different min-free values when the screen is off. So I set aggressive mode, turn-off the screen, wait for a while and turned on the screen. But the result isn't satisfied: the available memory is still very low, opened apps were not killed (can directly return to the original screen at the point you exit it by pressing home button), even I set the min-free to kill background empty app to 150MB (at that moment the phone only have 45MB free RAM), it does nothing. Is it because it requires a restart? If so, then the feature to change min-free value while screen off is unable to be used.
At last, it seems the best way to free up memory is to : restart the phone OR run a big game After playing big game, the phone usually speeds up a lot and the free RAM goes back to the level similar to what you have after a restart of the phone
Any ideas on this topic??
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Just discovered a mistake made by me /_\ the task killer can't kill app automatically because I set the auto kill level to "safe", after set to "aggressive" or "crazy", it can successfully kill apps
And I saw that some apps still appear after "aggressive" kill, these are apps which can restart itself, so I put them into "ignore list" (as restarting an app cost much battery)
Is it a good idea to constantly long-press home button and swipe the recently opened apps away? Is this the equivalent of "killing" the apps? I'm asking because I read that killing your apps is usually a bad idea because your RAM should always be used and it actually hurts your battery life. Is there a difference between this and going to the process manager and deleting the process?
When should I swipe recently opened apps away? Currently, I do this to free some RAM but I'm not sure if it's necessary.
Does your swipe include killing apps ? or it just removes it from recent apps list ?
if it kills , I'd say that don't swipe away important applications that you constantly use like launcher,browser,whatsapp etc
on the other hand you can swipe off apps you rarely use and which might be open like games , or other apps
you are right about swiping the important apps,it does more harm than good
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mindstormer said:
Is it a good idea to constantly long-press home button and swipe the recently opened apps away? Is this the equivalent of "killing" the apps? I'm asking because I read that killing your apps is usually a bad idea because your RAM should always be used and it actually hurts your battery life. Is there a difference between this and going to the process manager and deleting the process?
When should I swipe recently opened apps away? Currently, I do this to free some RAM but I'm not sure if it's necessary.
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When you swipe away recent apps you are essentially "exiting" the app safely where as when you use a task manger application you are force closing the application on the spot. This is not the same as "killing" the app in a technical sense what is happening is two things. The first thing that is happening when you swipe away a recent app is it kills any background process or empty processes of the application in a safe manner (Check out this section of the Android developer guide for more info on what this is about) unlike a task manger which just kills the entire application process negatively effecting performance. Second what is happening is the new API is used to tell any services of the action that is what removed so that the system can appropriate action such as starting a new process or service (For more on this see this section in the Android developer documentation). In answering you RAM question Android manages it's own memory which is why task killers once again mess this up and hurt rather then help performance. The recent application list shows what apps were recently used and clearing this will tell the applications to exist free some memory but some of their background services and tasks will still always run in the background as part of the app using some memory and battery. To explicitly and completely stop an app from memory you can go to Android built in application manger under System Settings > Application Manger and then go to the running tab and see what applications are running in the background. Overall, removing recent applications will help battery life but as previously mentioned the apps background processes will use some of system's battery and memory resources. If you are interested in learning more about this I would recommend checking out this.
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When you swipe away recent apps you are essentially "exiting" the app safely where as when you use a task manger application you are force closing the application on the spot. This is not the same as "killing" the app in a technical sense what is happening is two things. The first thing that is happening when you swipe away a recent app is it kills any background process or empty processes of the application in a safe manner (Check out this section of the Android developer guide for more info on what this is about) unlike a task manger which just kills the entire application process negatively effecting performance. Second what is happening is the new API is used to tell any services of the action that is what removed so that the system can appropriate action such as starting a new process or service (For more on this see this section in the Android developer documentation). In answering you RAM question Android manages it's own memory which is why task killers once again mess this up and hurt rather then help performance. The recent application list shows what apps were recently used and clearing this will tell the applications to exist free some memory but some of their background services and tasks will still always run in the background as part of the app using some memory and battery. To explicitly and completely stop an app from memory you can go to Android built in application manger under System Settings > Application Manger and then go to the running tab and see what applications are running in the background. Overall, removing recent applications will help battery life but as previously mentioned the apps background processes will use some of system's battery and memory resources. If you are interested in learning more about this I would recommend checking out this.
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soham jambhekar said:
Does your swipe include killing apps ? or it just removes it from recent apps list ?
if it kills , I'd say that don't swipe away important applications that you constantly use like launcher,browser,whatsapp etc
on the other hand you can swipe off apps you rarely use and which might be open like games , or other apps
you are right about swiping the important apps,it does more harm than good
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Awesome, thanks for the informative posts.