Alryt, this might be the noobiest question of them all. I just rooted my DX and I cannot seem to find that small little widget which cleared out all the RAM with just one touch. A circular thingy, in which a green bar moved anticlockwise and a cross in the center. Been as searching every nook and cranny for hours now coz I just can't remember from where I got it in the first place, just that its a stock widget. Some help guys?
I dont have stock cleaner optimizer widget.
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Did you installed any task manager? Cause we don't have such widget on stock Rom on ics. Don't know about jb.
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sushant6786 said:
Did you installed any task manager? Cause we don't have such widget on stock Rom on ics. Don't know about jb.
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I did install the GO task manager initially but AFAIR, it was always present and no I am still on ICS. Pretty nifty it was though...
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I did install the GO task manager initially but AFAIR, it was always present and no I am still on ICS. Pretty nifty it was though...
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AFAIR you should have GO Launcher installed to use any GO widgets... Use any other task manager...
Install Speedboost i think its the best
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micu13 said:
Install Speedboost i think its the best
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If you ask me , using task killer to free your RAM is a BAD idea. Android is built in a way as to maximize multitasking. If you must, try supercharger scripts otherwise all these play store apps don't do much except pretty animations.
Even if they do kill process, It's more likely to make your system response slower rather than faster.
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Yes. Unused RAM is wasted RAM.
Flowed from my HTC branded muffin...
All these task killers flourish coz of user ignorance about how android works. It is designed to handle memory efficiently on its own. Task killing will meddle with its internal working and will eventually cause adverse effect.
When an app goes into background, the system, after a while, automatically takes a memory snapshot and freezes it. In this state, the app use no processing power. The app is returned to the old state on resume.
And yes, unused RAM is wasted RAM.
Please correct me if wrong.
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Yeah but lots of games dont quit when i press the exit button so i need task manager. Plus my phone is very slow if i dont press the Speedboost widget after a game or after an hour.
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micu13 said:
Yeah but lots of games dont quit when i press the exit button so i need task manager. Plus my phone is very slow if i dont press the Speedboost widget after a game or after an hour.
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You can kill it from the recent apps.
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Hi, I think there are more features on the advance task killer app, are some of you using that one instead?
There really isn't a need for a task manager. You would have to work to really need one to free up space.
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There really isn't a need for a task manager. You would have to work to really need one to free up space.
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no need? so much in fact htc has gone out of the way to include one with the evo3d. Like samsung has since the galaxy s? I guess these huys are all wrong?
A task manager is not a bad thing. A task killer is.
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no need? so much in fact htc has gone out of the way to include one with the evo3d. Like samsung has since the galaxy s? I guess these huys are all wrong?
A task manager is not a bad thing. A task killer is.
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Ugh... no need for another one. The included one takes care of everything just fine, even without user interaction.
So it will kill apps automatically? If thats the case, then good by adv task killer...less is more
no need? so much in fact htc has gone out of the way to include one with the evo3d. Like samsung has since the galaxy s? I guess these huys are all wrong?
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There's no need to use it honestly. The only thing it's good for is killing **** that's bugging out or frozen. The ~400 or so megs of ram that HTC leaves you for your own stuff is enough for like 20 apps to live in memory. There's no reason to keep the majority of your memory empty, since android will do it for you if it needs it.
Mine after sitting off for about 15 min shows 596MB used and 207MB free in the task manager from the total of 803MB
All are unnecessary.
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All are unnecessary.
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I may be wrong, but I thought the point of a task killer is to conserve battery. Battery seems more important than RAM for this phone since it has so much RAM included.
The legend goes "if you kill apps it saves battery" but when u kill apps they reopen seconds later,, u want to save battery then figure out why they open in the first place,.may be a push notification type app or service
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I may be wrong, but I thought the point of a task killer is to conserve battery. Battery seems more important than RAM for this phone since it has so much RAM included.
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You can't fully close a few apps with the back button alone. Internet being one of them. Once open it will be open until you reset your phone or kill it
It never touches background apps. Only foreground and frees RAM
It improves battery life.
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Task Manager works great for me. I close all programs and the only one that comes back is Launcherpro. Obviously that changes when I open other apps, but when I'm done playing around, I'll kill all apps and pocket the phone.
I like it way more than task killer.
Are any of you using EasyTether with the HTC task manager? I'm worried that some problems I'm having might be caused by it.
On advanced task manager it shows more apps open on HTC its not showing evey app open like spiderman opens a lot by itself
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On advanced task manager it shows more apps open on HTC its not showing evey app open like spiderman opens a lot by itself
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That means the program would just open again.
So it doesn't kill it.
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I'm on the optimus v, using harmonia (love it, amazing battery life) with xionia 10 kernel, but I can't seem to find a good task killer that works. It either closes itself even if I ignore it to kill itself, or it just doesn't kill anything when I push kill.... -.- any suggestions on a nice working talk killer?
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Don't use any, you don't need task killer.
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Dnt use task killer..it drais battery..after using an app..jst go to amanage apps-running apps
Force close the app which u are not using..Bcoz many apps dnt have exit button nd still runs in bg Like opera mobile
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I'm on the optimus v, using harmonia (love it, amazing battery life) with xionia 10 kernel, but I can't seem to find a good task killer that works. It either closes itself even if I ignore it to kill itself, or it just doesn't kill anything when I push kill.... -.- any suggestions on a nice working talk killer?
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if ur so particular use "SUPERMANAGER" from the market
Thank you for the super manager suggestion, I like it: )
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Want task killer? Get iPhone.
Somyab said:
many apps dnt have exit button nd still runs in bg Like opera mobile
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Opera Mobile last version (out yesterday) got the exit button!!!
doktornotor said:
Want task killer? Get iPhone.
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Or you can hire a beautiful lady to do it manually...beside this you can use ATK https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rechild.advancedtaskkiller&hl=en
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Or you can hire a beautiful lady to do it manually...beside this you can use ATK https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rechild.advancedtaskkiller&hl=en
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It's good. But I'm using Bomb that task because it can kill app with root power so it won't start again after some time.
Taskiller - battery killer
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Dont use any as above said..
Goto settings>applications>development>check "stop via long-press"
now whenever u long press the back button the app running in foreground gets KILLED..This is wat i do..when need to close the used app..like opera mini..dont know this right or wrong to do..reply back
Actually... I'm using it only for kill google apps (maps, rss reader, ...) on Mik's Cyanagon and there is not problem at all.
Because I'm using google maps time to time and some time I forget to kill app and killer do it instead of me. When I not kill it, it kill my battery much quickly than killer itself....
I have a shortcut to "Manage Applications" that I created thanks to Launcher Pro. That way I can force close Apps with as few clicks a possible without using a task killer
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Guys how about this script, Mansi has suggested in her post, and i found it impressive....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111145
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Thank you for the super manager suggestion, I like it: )
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Go into setting then developers options. Go all the way down too Apps then background process limit. Choose At Most 4 processes. Even 1 process worked and made the loading thing go away. I don't see it anymore everything is instant.
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What does this limit, apps running in the background?
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Yes it limits the apps in background, so it "multi tasks" even worse.
More importantly, it doesn't solve the problem. Didn't help me at all. Some others report it may help at first, but it comes back.
well I set it back to standard and I still haven't seen that issue yet anymore.
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What exactly is the back to home loading lag?
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What exactly is the back to home loading lag?
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It's actually Sense reloading when you exit from an app. Instead of going right to the home Page, you get a little rotating circle for up to 20 seconds. It's been a problem with Sense for a while on a number of different platforms with different updates. Been reported on both the LTE and the One X.
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It's actually Sense reloading when you exit from an app. Instead of going right to the home Page, you get a little rotating circle for up to 20 seconds. It's been a problem with Sense for a while on a number of different platforms with different updates. Been reported on both the LTE and the One X.
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Ah ok. I haven't run into this problem.
I fixed mine by using GoLauncher ex :lol:
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I fixed mine by using GoLauncher ex :lol:
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This!! I did the same.
shepherdofthedamned said:
I fixed mine by using GoLauncher ex :lol:
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Really if you use almost any alternative launcher it well be better, Rosie is slow and bloated. Still amazed how little free ram this phone has on boot, thought sense 4 was supposed to be lighter...
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Really if you use almost any alternative launcher it well be better, Rosie is slow and bloated. Still amazed how little free ram this phone has on boot, thought sense 4 was supposed to be lighter...
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Maybe they have memory leaks
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Its just cuz of what HTC set the OOM values to, and apparently didn't set Rosie to be locked in memory. Can be modified with root. But I, personally, set Nova as the default launcher.
sent from my Evo LTE, usually.
Apex launcher took care of my problems.
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I have yet to have this happen once by hitting home.
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BrianBaker said:
I have yet to have this happen once by hitting home.
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Same here have not had this happen at all even with about 100mb ram left lol maybe bad processor?
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You should try ram manager app by juwe if your rooted. Works great completely fixes the multi task issue. I paid for it but i think theres a free one with less options. It works like v6 supercharger script, has a nice widget with available ram batt and temp. Give it a go, i always have between 150 and 250 md of available ram and apps don't get killed.
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This was happening to me too. I accidentally put my phone into safe mode. I did a Google search and was able to get out of safe mode by turning off the phone and restarting holding the volume up. The phone doesn't seem to have the problem anymore. I also noticed that some of my widgets(tether and bookmarks) were gone, which might have been the problem in the first place. I hope this helps somehow.
Kinda irritating to load the pages again. Any ideas?
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It's all about ram. If you have 512 mb and running ICS or JB, just forget it..1 gb would be just ok, if you don't open much apps. You can set priority of apps in some tasks manager, maybe system tuner? Never tried... Waiting for the galaxy note with 2 gb!
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Well. My iPad 2 with 512ram doesn't do this.. So I assume it's the os.
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Well. My iPad 2 with 512ram doesn't do this.. So I assume it's the os.
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I cannot see which device the question was for, but it depend MANY things, still ram is first.
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kojinmalia said:
I cannot see which device the question was for, but it depend MANY things, still ram is first.
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For the s3 using dolphin.
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It's kinda weird that my s3 which has twice the ram of my ipad has not enough ram...
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Mine does this also, using s3 with stock browser. My HOX does it too. Annoying
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I assume its the OS just closing inactive background tasks no? Cant be ram issues...
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Kinda irritating to load the pages again. Any ideas?
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Have you tried long pressing on the home button to selecting the browser from there?
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Have you tried long pressing on the home button to selecting the browser from there?
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Ah not yet...
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Still doesn't work. Pages still have to reload after inactive for a while.
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Android is a totally different operating system than iOs (and also requires more Ram for itself)
It runs a lot of tasks in the background unlike iOs, which makes it a lot more adaptable and flexible but also more resource-intensive.
Secondly apps are categorized in groups, which are then consecutively killed based on their OOM (Out of memory) score, the lowest group being "empty app" and regrouping all apps that are no longer being needed. Typically "empty" is killed when there are 90MB left (customizable if rooted).
First off you may want to check what eats your Ram (Java is one of the worst languages for Ram in the entire universe) and kill/freeze/remove those processes.
Then take a look into zRam for extended Ram (swap) and set swappiness to 99
There once were experimental patches that forced selected tasks into swap instead of killing them but since they were hooked right into memory management, that used up lots of Cpu cycles and caused strange behaviours - sadly.
Btw, needing 1Gig for Ics or Jb is just bollocks. Galaxy S1's run awesome under Ics and even such devices as the 256MB Ace get a lot better.
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How do I customize the thing? The part where you say I need to be rooted.
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Its only reload if you closed it on tasks
So dont do it
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when you want to leave the browser in the background do you press back button or home? I have the experience with facebook app that if i press back than when i get back to the app it reloads as if i closed it, but if i press home then come back to the app it's there as i left it. As to the browser can't really say anything as I use maxthon browser and don't usually have reloading problems.
One such app is "Advanced tools".
However it is strictly recommend to leave those values alone unless you REALLY know what you are doing since tweaking these values without any knowledge will only worsen the problem or make your phone more or less unusuable with lag.
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Its only reload if you closed it on tasks
So dont do it
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No it doesn't.. It somehow auto closes. I've read somewhere android auto closes inactive tasks.
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I've read somewhere android auto closes inactive tasks.
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No!!!
I explained a few posts earlier exactly when and how Android kills processes. Inactivity is a LRU factor but certainly not the trigger to kill an app.
Two words: v6supercharger,swap!
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Sorry to bump an old thread, but has anyone actually found a solution to this problem? I've tried supercharger, minfree manager, RAM manager pro, and Galaxy Tuner. None have proven to be an actual solution to the problem that seems to be baked right in to the heart of all versions of Android after eclair (I'm actually on the Epic, not the GS3).
Is this fixable or am I just chasing my tail on this one?
bill
UPDATE: Current list of things tried
- Supercharger/Bulletproof
- MinFree Manager
- RAM Manager Pro
- Galaxy Tuner
- "build.prop" trick
- "local.prop" trick
- Auto memory manager application
Check the task manager widget. Every time I clear ram I'm over 900mb free on GEL. LG was in the 800s and 700s most of the time
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RiverdALIEN said:
Check the task manager widget. Every time I clear ram I'm over 900mb free on GEL. LG was in the 800s and 700s most of the time
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Are you surprised by that?
The only shock to me is that the gap between the two is so small given GEL is coming from a much improved system in terms of system resource usage. I can only hope that once it is integrated with KitKat itself it is somehow lighter.
Seriously..what's the point? Is this HTC wildfire thread or am I missing something..
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Your logic and methodology used to prove your point is irrefutable. Thanks for sharing. I've been really worried about using all 2Gb of RAM on my phone and desperately seeking another launcher.
/s I should have stopped after "task manager widget" and left the thread at "clear ram".
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Your logic and methodology used to prove your point is irrefutable. Thanks for sharing. I've been really worried about using all 2Gb of RAM on my phone and desperately seeking another launcher.
/s I should have stopped after "task manager widget" and left the thread at "clear ram".
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Seriously..what's the point? Is this HTC wildfire thread or am I missing something..
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Are you surprised by that?
The only shock to me is that the gap between the two is so small given GEL is coming from a much improved system in terms of system resource usage. I can only hope that once it is integrated with KitKat itself it is somehow lighter.
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U guys are mean.
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The Google launcher is mostly just placeholders for search. Its bare bones. All pure stock android is always basic. Everybody wants it and says they want the stock experience and then a couple of weeks go by and they are running a 3rd party launcher cause stock has no options. Lg made a launcher with options and therefore uses more resources.
I use nova launcher and I get 1GB to 1.2GB of free ram after I cleared taskmanager. BTW I also disabled a some apps.
It is nice but could really use more screens
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It is nice but could really use more screens
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Then add more screens?
Maybe I have an early release but it see no way to do it
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I'd give the GEL a try if I could disable the LG stock one... but I hate having both running at once. Obviously, I'm not rooted.
Bwangster12 said:
I'd give the GEL a try if I could disable the LG stock one... but I hate having both running at once. Obviously, I'm not rooted.
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Just stop it in the task manager
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There is a reason 3 gigs gonna be next std. Oems are great inventing but carp at optimizing. Well used ram is good use, wasted ram because daemons and launcher tricks you don't use is just a waste of resources.
I'll test the launcher, autokiller is a bit to aggressive when low on memory, imo.
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I figured out how to add screens but I can't use US English. I am using UK. I tried the work around d.
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Just stop it in the task manager
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Even if stopped... does it not still take up system resources?
with stock launcher I am always around 1GB free
Thats what i have