Is there any way to stop having random apps load by them self in the background
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ttieder said:
Is there any way to stop having random apps load by them self in the background
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I know there are programs, such as autostarts, that will do that. However, they do require root access. I'm not sure if you'd have to reconfigure every time you reboot/re-root.
If they're applications you never want to use, you could disable/remove them after/during the root process.
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My wife and I both have Rezounds. I went to show her the Usage Monitor so she could track her minutes, and its not in her App Drawer. Titanium Backup shows it as installed though. I've tried to freeze and defrost it in an effort to make it come back, but it didn't work. Any suggestions?
Look at settings - power - battery usage.
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EmerikL said:
Look at settings - power - battery usage.
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Appreciate the reply, but I think you misunderstood. The Rezound comes with an app that lets you track your minutes/text/data usage so you don't go over your monthly allowance. I'm not looking to track battery usage.
Go to your widgets its not an app.
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No, what the op is referring to is an app, not a widget.
Op try clearing cache and restarting. If that doesn't work...try a different launcher and see if that gets the app to show up in the app drawer. If that doesn't work, I'd look at getting adb running and shell in to the system to see if u can see the app listed in /system/app, if so copy it to the sdcard and try installing it on the phone from there.
Otherwise, worst case scenario, a restore.
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I had this issue on my incredible 2 running sense 3.5 roms. If you have Verizon my mobile app installed it overwrites or hides the usage monitor app.
If you uninstall Verizon my mobile and restart the rezound usage monitor will show up.
I just tried it and it worked. The one Dev I mentioned it to back on the inc2 hypothesized that the apks are similar and thus causes the stock usage app to disappear.
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ericsignals said:
I had this issue on my incredible 2 running sense 3.5 roms. If you have Verizon my mobile app installed it overwrites or hides the usage monitor app.
If you uninstall Verizon my mobile and restart the rezound usage monitor will show up.
I just tried it and it worked. The one Dev I mentioned it to back on the inc2 hypothesized that the apks are similar and thus causes the stock usage app to disappear.
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You da man!! Thanks! I had frozen the My Verizon app, which is why I had it. As soon as I froze it on her phone and rebooted, there it was!
riot1031 said:
You da man!! Thanks! I had frozen the My Verizon app, which is why I had it. As soon as I froze it on her phone and rebooted, there it was!
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I've gotten so much help and guidance here on xda...good to hear I could return the favor for a change.
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Glad u got it figured out...I would have never thought another .apk would hide others, that's just weird!!!
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riot1031 said:
My wife and I both have Rezounds. I went to show her the Usage Monitor so she could track her minutes, and its not in her App Drawer. Titanium Backup shows it as installed though. I've tried to freeze and defrost it in an effort to make it come back, but it didn't work. Any suggestions?
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Hi, I am bit confuse. Do you install Verizon my mobile app youself? I think it do come with the Rezound by default. Do you root the device or all stock?
Is there an app that can start and stop a task/service?
I want to stop using Whatsapp at certain time of the day and get it up running on certain type of the day.
Is there such a thing?
chong67 said:
Is there an app that can start and stop a task/service?
I want to stop using Whatsapp at certain time of the day and get it up running on certain type of the day.
Is there such a thing?
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I think tasker in the play storebwill do that.
Naters
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Yes, Tasker let's you do anything... And I mean anything.
Ok guys I need see help. I have been recently having some battery drain issues and I don't know why. My phone is forcing the cpu to stay active while it should be in sleep mode. My battery usage looks like this...
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take a look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
install it and report back :cyclops:
I have tried different roms. I have superwiped my sd card and formatted my external card. I have flashed the stock ICS firmware and then tried flashing from that. I have tried to use System Tuner from the market to freeze or disable some of the responsibilities of downloads, downloads, sec.android.providers.downloads, drm content manager and it just seems to make other things not work like the market or downloading files.
I don't know what else to do but I cannot seem to shake this battery drain...please help!!!
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erto90 said:
take a look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
install it and report back :cyclops:
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Checking now.
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erto90 said:
take a look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
install it and report back :cyclops:
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Better Battery Stats is installed. I plugged and unplugged and now I'm letting it gather its stats. I have to go to work and so that will allow the 1-4 hours to compile a proper dump and I will attempt to post it here. Thank you again for taking the time to help me.
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My worst is network location locator that drains my battery, only just installed bbs yesterday so not sure what all the wakelocks mean or alarms or anything else.
I know media is your downloads and you probably have your apps on auto update.
Doesn't have many instructions.
You must have a very low screen setting for 20% mine is at least at 70 and that's when I have it on auto brightness
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You have the media scanner bug. There is no real cure but formatting the external sd card can help.
The simplest solution is just to force close it. It should not return until you reboot .
It's a Samsung issue so until they fix it we just have to live with it
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Samsungnooby said:
My worst is network location locator that drains my battery, only just installed bbs yesterday so not sure what all the wakelocks mean or alarms or anything else.
I know media is your downloads and you probably have your apps on auto update.
Doesn't have many instructions.
You must have a very low screen setting for 20% mine is at least at 70 and that's when I have it on auto brightness
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I do have it on auto update but the thing is that I was having no problems as of 2 - 3 weeks when I was flashing up to a Rom a day trying to find the best jellybean one. Then all of a sudden, BAM!!!
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corrsea said:
You have the media scanner bug. There is no real cure but formatting the external sd card can help.
The simplest solution is just to force close it. It should not return until you reboot .
It's a Samsung issue so until they fix it we just have to live with it
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I did format it and started from scratch but it is still being a *****, lol. However, I installed bbs and after 4 hours of it runnning while at work it reset itself for some reason and doesn't show me a log. But I plugged and unplugged and seem to be having some drain but not as much.
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corrsea said:
You have the media scanner bug. There is no real cure but formatting the external sd card can help.
The simplest solution is just to force close it. It should not return until you reboot .
It's a Samsung issue so until they fix it we just have to live with it
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Grab this https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEwMiwiY29tLmFkZHoubWVkaWFzY2FubmVycm9vdCJd from the play store!
Can probably do it with Tasker as well.
chippyuk said:
Grab this https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEwMiwiY29tLmFkZHoubWVkaWFzY2FubmVycm9vdCJd from the play store!
Can probably do it with Tasker as well.
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Ok, I installed it and rebooted. Any word on what it is supposed to accomplish? Or how it does it?
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I have the Android System problem. It drains a LOT of battery overnight. Really annoying. Any way to resolve that?
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Ok, I installed it and rebooted. Any word on what it is supposed to accomplish? Or how it does it?
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Sorry was late here when I posted, I should have explained.
Run the app from the app drawer, hit the disable Media Scanner button. This will kill the media scanner everytime you reboot (if you are roorted, assume you are). To rescan for media just open the app and then close it.
Check after a reboot to make sure Media is not chewing up the battery. It works for me under JB and also did under GB.
If you use Tasker you should be able to achieve the same thing. So you could just kill that process with Tasker and either run it and kill it at certain times or the author of the above also has an app just called Rescan Media which you could just run via tasker at a given time interval. Personally never found the need but I guess it depends on how much media you actiually hold on your device etc...
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Sorry was late here when I posted, I should have explained.
Run the app from the app drawer, hit the disable Media Scanner button. This will kill the media scanner everytime you reboot (if you are roorted, assume you are). To rescan for media just open the app and then close it.
Check after a reboot to make sure Media is not chewing up the battery. It works for me under JB and also did under GB.
If you use Tasker you should be able to achieve the same thing. So you could just kill that process with Tasker and either run it and kill it at certain times or the author of the above also has an app just called Rescan Media which you could just run via tasker at a given time interval. Personally never found the need but I guess it depends on how much media you actiually hold on your device etc...
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This worked fine. Tyvm.
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I know some people are running into problem trying to delete T-mobile bloatware. It looks like there is another way if you are rooted.
There is a built in script file to disable all the T-mobile crap on the phone. It must have been put in there by the LG people when they were testing the phone.
/system/etc/disable_tmus_packages.sh
So, if you are rooted, you can use a script manager (SManager) to run the script at boot up to disable all the bloatware without having to either freeze or delete the actual apk.
This script will also take out the CarrierQ stuff at the same time.
seems works. Thank you.
nice find...
Has anyone noticed performance improvements after doing this?
how to re-enable?
i'm trying to disable the sound notification for the stock email app and in the email app settings, the sound selection is disabled.
how can i enable the bloatware? i think there might be an app or setting in there that would let me change the sound setting for the stock email app.
i tried using SManager and de-selected the SU and Boot checkboxes and restarted but to no avail.
I use titanium backup to defrost the bloatware.
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Does it work in p760??
adigo said:
I use titanium backup to defrost the bloatware.
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LOL!
titanium backup cannot defrost the bloatware.!!
Great found , everything was already in the phone.
can you explain in detail how to do this?
Can someone explain in detail how to do this plz. I have smanager downloaded
While in smanager, go to /etc and find the disable_tmus_packages.sh. touch it and open as "script/executable" highlight the Su (android with bones) and touch run. Now all the bloatware will be frozen. If you want something to be enabled for example the com.tmobile.pr.mytmobile (which tells you how much messages, minutes, and data you used). Defrost it with titanium backup or and app that freezes/defrost apps. Lol, or just edit the disable_tmus_packages.sh and change disable to enable then run.
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Ty.. i ended up deleting bloatware with root browser
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Yeah, i ended up deleting most of the crap after i made a backup.
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Might be a dumb question, but does this have to be run at every boot, or does it take care of everyone when run just once?
Just once.
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Might be a dumb question, but does this have to be run at every boot, or does it take care of everyone when run just once?
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Edit : My bad. The correct answer is it only has to run once. The disable command will freeze the package.
It does not need to be run at each boot. All it does is save you the time of manually disabling an apk.
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Somairotevoli said:
It does not need to be run at each boot. All it does is save you the time of manually disabling an apk.
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My bad. You are correct.
Nice to see this disables the CIQ!
So I rooted my lg l9, thinking I was going to be able to uninstall the bloatware easily, but what's the point if you can just go into app section in settings and disable the bloatware apps you don't want?
You just cant disable or remove some apps without rooting. For example- playstore app, its keeps running in background even if u stop it. So, use titanium backup or any such software and freeze it, and get more ram free by doin same with other unwanted apps.
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You just cant disable or remove some apps without rooting. For example- playstore app, its keeps running in background even if u stop it. So, use titanium backup or any such software and freeze it, and get more ram free by doin same with other unwanted apps.
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I wonder who will want to freeze playstore? funny example
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cmahendra said:
I wonder who will want to freeze playstore? funny example
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Well I do it...
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Attitude.SSJ said:
Well I do it...
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So do i, well who want that app running always? :good:
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Well I do it...
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So do i, well who want that app running always? :good:
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Actually I use ATK, advanced task killer, which automatically kills any unwanted background apps every half hour. Extends battery backup for many hours.
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Actually I use ATK, advanced task killer, which automatically kills any unwanted background apps every half hour. Extends battery backup for many hours.
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It will also be eating battery... So in the end it may just even out...
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Without root, you can disable around 80% of bloatware in T-mobile version, I remember I could not disable the Identity app. But the plus side of disabling apps is that you don't need root.
And app killers ... I haven't used one for a long time: http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them