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ok, im on stock t-mobile galaxy s2. my stock music app keeps accessing my phone. ive never used it. there is no music on my phone. i notoced because my battery life started draining faster than usual. saw it was running, killed it. it keeps coming back. any ideas how to stop it from accessing the phone at all? thanks!
I froze it using titanium backup because of the same thing. (Must be rooted and only paid version can freeze) otherwise app called quarantine or something can do it for free.
I haven't bothered to look into why it runs because I use poweramp so I don't need it.
Actually there are plenty of apps that run without you wanting them to so freezing bloatware is worth it.
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ok, im on stock t-mobile galaxy s2. my stock music app keeps accessing my phone. ive never used it. there is no music on my phone. i notoced because my battery life started draining faster than usual. saw it was running, killed it. it keeps coming back. any ideas how to stop it from accessing the phone at all? thanks!
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Another option is to download gemini app from market and configure the music apps auto run. If u disable it from auto running it wont open itself. Saves u from freezing and unfreezing if u want to use it some time.
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To save battery what would I freeze?
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xriderx66 said:
To save battery what would I freeze?
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I read that DRM related services suck up a lot of juice.
If you don't use these, freeze two(2) start with DRM* and the MediaHub app.
Or give Axura 2.2 (Search for it) a try, it gives me the best battery life.
Wifi calling if you have it, usually uninstalling wifi calling screws with things so just freeze that if you have it. And usually any other bloatware such as default samsung apps like the Email and Allshare and crap like that.
I only froze a few of apps.
Anything with DRM
Media Hub
All Share
Anything with bluetooth (I don't use them)
Daily briefing
Samsung Keypad
Samsung apps
Swype
Voice Recorder
Voice Search
Anyone know which system apps/processes I can freeze without screwing with the phone too much?
I installed Watchdog Lite on my Tbolt and it constantly tells me that the News app is overstepping its bounds CPU-wise. I tell the monitor to kill the app but it starts back up again of its own accord.
Is there any way to disable this app without rooting my phone? Or even WITH rooting my phone? I'm not even using it anymore.
major_works said:
I installed Watchdog Lite on my Tbolt and it constantly tells me that the News app is overstepping its bounds CPU-wise. I tell the monitor to kill the app but it starts back up again of its own accord.
Is there any way to disable this app without rooting my phone? Or even WITH rooting my phone? I'm not even using it anymore.
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if you are rooted, titanium backup and 'freeze' the app or delete it completely.
but i would also check to make sure under sync settings it isnt set to sync.
You can try startup auditor and disable the app... if its a system app, I wouldnt touch it.
Thanks to you both for the suggestions. I've made sure it isn't syncing, and I installed the free version of Startup Auditor and sicced it on the app. We'll see what happens...
either uninstall it, or root and use titanium back up to freeze it.
Just to follow up, the News app hasn't been an issue since I took those measures earlier today. Thanks to all!
just wondering, what kind of readings were you getting from the app?
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just wondering, what kind of readings were you getting from the app?
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It was basically telling me that the app was exceeding CPU-usage limits. I don't recall noting quantitative information. Didn't really care, I just didn't want it sucking up battery for no reason.
what is the news app called in /system/app/ i cannot find it.
Dunno... I can't find it either.
Htc changed it now... Try htcgreader.apk **backup incase you come across a problem** i remember on my incredible there might be some sense stuff that relies on that apk....just saying..
yeah, like the weather.apk is required to view specific dates in the calander
Hi all...TBolt newbie here. I think the "news" app is bloatware as it was already installed with many other apps on my Verizon TBolt. Like an idiot, I subscribed to several news sources and now cannot remove them and the app continues to ask at numerous random times for more sources. I've tried killing the task with ES Task Manager, but it keeps re-initializing itself. Hopefully there's some way of getting rid of this intrusive piece of crapware, short of rooting or custom ROM, which I have no idea how to do!
I couldn't find anything on this topic so I had to create a new 1 I'm sorry if I repeated.
There are always so many applications running in the background they take ram too.
Is it normal?
Has anyone found a solution if this is a problem?
What makes them running in fact what makes them start in the first place thanks in advance
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use task killers, but AFAIK there is no need for that since android automatically kills unused apps.
just go to settings-application-running services and close the 1 u want to
simple
Thanks
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I would suggest not using a task killer cause they suck but using android assistant its really cool and works well for a lot of things including killing tasks but more important use startup Auditor you can look up programs that are always running and in background and select to kill them at start up as well as keep them killed you can still open and use the apps it just keeps them from opening by them selves
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I couldn't find anything on this topic so I had to create a new 1 I'm sorry if I repeated.
There are always so many applications running in the background they take ram too.
Is it normal?
Has anyone found a solution if this is a problem?
What makes them running in fact what makes them start in the first place thanks in advance
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try smart bar.
I use "autorun manager" to control which stuff works at startup.
i would suggest googling for android task killers and reading the lifehacker article about them, it is pretty well explained (sorry but I can't post links just yet)
Autorun manager isn't a task killer,so you can use it only for monitoring startup apps. This is a good alternative.
Hi every one
I downloaded the applications they are good but I didn't really got my answer.
The thing is that even when I turn the things off even after terminating the threads after a while they get started on their own why does this happens?
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It sounds like you are using an app that is turning something back on. i.e. some app that uses google maps so that service is turned back on.
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It sounds like you are using an app that is turning something back on. i.e. some app that uses google maps so that service is turned back on.
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yeah i guess i'm obviously not sure.
right now there are atleAST 10 to 15 apps running in background.
i didnt even clicked them by any chance.
they all are consuming ram.
You could always use Titanium Backup and freeze Maps. I do this as soon as I am done with Maps - that way it is not able to start up again.
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You could always use Titanium Backup and freeze Maps. I do this as soon as I am done with Maps - that way it is not able to start up again.
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You know any application that provides freezing for free;-)???
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Ok, so i froze few apps through TB to save on battery. (like Buddies now,Wifi sharing, Reading hub, Samsung apps etc.). And then I installed OS monitor from the market to monitor the processes running. To my surprise, I see Buddies now and Samsung apps running at least once every 10-15 seconds. I have uninstalled Buddies now through TB as well. But the process still seems to be running.
Can anybody verify this. ? No wonder I am getting crappy battery life. I am on rooted stock rom.
Is it that i have not frozen some associated apps which is leading to this ?
Cheers
Ashish
Have you rebooted your device?
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You should only freeze those which causes wake from deep sleep. You need to see what apps/processes are running on background with the help of application Better Battery Stats and see under Partial Wakelocks. I, for myself have frozen nothing because I don't have anything which causes any major wakes.
Besides, if you are on KF3 then there shouldn't be any Wifi sharing problem. Also Samsung app also doesn't involve in wake situations.
Regards.
I have pretty much frozen all Samsung bloatware that is ok to freeze and battery life is vastly superior now compared to what it was beforehand, i also froze Maps as i don't use it much and some other apps i don't use much if i need to use them it takes a few seconds to defrost them and there you go.
I am on KF3 and the only battery eating thing has been:
"Software Update Service (com.wssyncmldm)"
So I froze it and presto twice the battery life of what I had before.
I sometimes use MAPS with Lattitude. But when I am done I explicitly log out of lattitude, or out goes the power.... as it will keep running in the background.
BTW I use the FREE Anttek App manager to freeze stuf, works great!
-David
Thanks linux monkey, rebooting solved the issue, didnot know you need to reboot after freezing for it to take effect.
Cheers
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how can i prevent google plus from re installing itself on my phone every few days
its a rotten apple forced onto my device that runs all the time even though i have no google plus account/profile
i use titanium backup to uninstall it but before its gone too long its back...like a virus.
is the best thing just disabling it in the app manager?
id really rather not have this malicious software on my phone at all and short of going to aosp i cant think of any other options.
That's extremely odd. Just freeze it and you should be fine.
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hyphydragon said:
how can i prevent google plus from re installing itself on my phone every few days
its a rotten apple forced onto my device that runs all the time even though i have no google plus account/profile
i use titanium backup to uninstall it but before its gone too long its back...like a virus.
is the best thing just disabling it in the app manager?
id really rather not have this malicious software on my phone at all and short of going to aosp i cant think of any other options.
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Also may be check your play store settings to not let apps update automatically. Wouldn't hurt to clear play store data. Seems something is sticking....never heard of this happening.
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