I've been happily running Snapdragon Battery Guru, it has definitely saved me some juice!
Just rooted, so I'm giving Greenify a try. Running both apps at the moment.
Does anyone have experience running Greenify vs. Battery Guru vs. running both?
I used both. Greenify is great for battery savings
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No idea how to use greenify.
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randy hoopes said:
No idea how to use greenify.
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Just hit the add icon at the top right, hit "more apps" towards the bottom and start selecting what ones you want hibernated.
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Yeah that sounds simple except for a lot of the apps they suggest to freeze I want notifications from so what good does it do? lol
randy hoopes said:
Yeah that sounds simple except for a lot of the apps they suggest to freeze I want notifications from so what good does it do? lol
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Well that's the whole point of the app. It disables that background syncing to reduce battery drain.
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Doesn't Snapdragon Battery Guru NEED GPS on to work?
I love Greenify, takes some getting used to but works
Stauf99 said:
Doesn't Snapdragon Battery Guru NEED GPS on to work?
I love Greenify, takes some getting used to but works
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It does need a location service to be on in order to function. I believe it needs network location instead of standalone GPS.
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I've liked greenify. It foes require root, unlike battery guru. But I've found running both is pointless. Greenify enabled catches the apps before battery guru and it shows in the "meter" of effectiveness in that app.
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Wanting to use "Advanced Task Killer" app instead of rooting: Good or Bad idea?
Hi folks,
Since I've decided not to root my phone, I need an alternative.
I noticed the "Advanced Task Killer" app and wondered if this helps to stop bloatware.
Can anyone confirm or deny this?
Thank you kindly,
stefnuts
stefnuts said:
Hi folks,
Since I've decided not to root my phone, I need an alternative.
I noticed the "Advanced Task Killer" app and wondered if this helps to stop bloatware.
Can anyone confirm or deny this?
Thank you kindly,
stefnuts
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definitely not, i think
@stratax,
Thanks man.......Darn it!
Well, maybe with ICS coming out for the Amaze 4G, app/task management will be better??!
Who knows?
Thanks again
I currently use advanced task killer. Is anything wrong with it?
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stefnuts said:
Hi folks,
Since I've decided not to root my phone, I need an alternative.
I noticed the "Advanced Task Killer" app and wondered if this helps to stop bloatware.
Can anyone confirm or deny this?
Thank you kindly,
stefnuts
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Once you kill it the program will restart itself. No matter what every time you kill it, it will restart. which will cause your phone to lag and use more battery than the phone would if everything was running. The way the android operating system is designed is to have every program running in the background. How ever the program isn't actually running. Using task killers can do more harm than good when it comes to things like bloatware. It can cause and has caused my phone crash. Id just use Titanium backup to get rid of what you can. Overall I'd just use the task manager installed in the amaze because I stopped using a task killer and i get better performance as well as the same battery life ect.
I've always stayed away from using task killers unless I'm really desperate to free up some RAM... In general, I always just freeze whatever apps I don't want running at all (eg. bloatware, stock messing app, Sense if I'm using a third party launcher, etc) and never had any noticeable issues with not having enough free RAM
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Once you kill it the program will restart itself. No matter what every time you kill it, it will restart. which will cause your phone to lag and use more battery than the phone would if everything was running. The way the android operating system is designed is to have every program running in the background. How ever the program isn't actually running. Using task killers can do more harm than good when it comes to things like bloatware. It can cause and has caused my phone crash. Id just use Titanium backup to get rid of what you can. Overall I'd just use the task manager installed in the amaze because I stopped using a task killer and i get better performance as well as the same battery life ect.
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exactly my thoughts you said it perfectly.
Well that makes sense to me, ill be getting rid of it and seeing how long my battery lasts
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cndctrdj said:
Well that makes sense to me, ill be getting rid of it and seeing how long my battery lasts
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Have you tried V6 Supercharger.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
juice defender
Most kernel devs (people who really know how stuff like this are handled) will tell you to stay away from task killers.
mikeschevelle said:
juice defender
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The problem with Juice Defender is that most of the power saving settings can be achieved without the app, and the screen off/data off feature sucks for people like me who use and rely heavily on messaging apps. I use Kik and GTalk heavily and even setting the data sync at 5 minute increments is still annoying.
If you don't use your phone this way, then I would definitely recommend juice defender.
MORE SMOOTHNESS, MORE SPEED, LESS LAGS
you don't have to use Task Killer!
Try This: RAM Manager PRO OR RAM Manager FREE
The thread is here
I'm trying to work on and figure out why my battery life on any version of Rage rom is so terrible compared to everyone else. Clearly it's not the rom, so it must be stuff i'm running.
The biggest culprits I always see on my gsam reports is apex launcher and Android System. But I can't understand what apex launcher is doing that its responsible for 30% of my application's battery usage
I've posted a few times in the Rage thread, but haven't had any responses there, so decided I'll check here
Yes they can.
mjones73 said:
Yes they can.
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ahh.. i'm gonna try to get rid of them and we'll see what happens.
bik2101 said:
ahh.. i'm gonna try to get rid of them and we'll see what happens.
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depends on the wiglets and how often the update. stuff like one for music that isnt being used wont take up to much battery but something like system info that updates every 5 sec will
synisterwolf said:
depends on the wiglets and how often the update. stuff like one for music that isnt being used wont take up to much battery but something like system info that updates every 5 sec will
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that's what i thought too.. i have a tasks widgets, calendar, and weather. the weather updates every 4, calendar every 6, and tasks i can't set any intervals. but widgets were the only thing i could think of that would be casuing apex to be using so much battery
Do you have location enabled for the weather widget? Ive always found weather and location type widgets to be very power hungry.
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1Raiders said:
Do you have location enabled for the weather widget? Ive always found weather and location type widgets to be very power hungry.
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yes i do. but if its only updating every 4 hours, that shouldn't be too bad i'd imagine.
Yeah but locations is running non stop. Do a little experiment, disable all locations services and freeze Google maps and HTC locations picker and things like that.
Facebook apps and widgets are really hard on battery life but I don't remember seeing that mentioned.
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Yeah but locations is running non stop. Do a little experiment, disable all locations services and freeze Google maps and HTC locations picker and things like that.
Facebook apps and widgets are really hard on battery life but I don't remember seeing that mentioned.
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yeah i don't use facebook.
by locations, you mean gps? because i do have that disabled. only turn it on when using nav. only thing i leave on is the google location services. but that's never come up anywhere near the top in betterbatterystats so i doubt that's an issue.
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yeah i don't use facebook.
by locations, you mean gps? because i do have that disabled. only turn it on when using nav. only thing i leave on is the google location services. but that's never come up anywhere near the top in betterbatterystats so i doubt that's an issue.
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He wants you to disable the Google location services, but I never have any battery problems with using it...
synisterwolf said:
depends on the wiglets and how often the update. stuff like one for music that isnt being used wont take up to much battery but something like system info that updates every 5 sec will
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Lol, wiglets.
I came across this app while I was looking for something in play store.
it won't freeze your apps, or even kill their processes. But rather, put your background apps (that you select) into HIBERNATION.
"Greenified" apps are automatically hibernated when you're not using them, so you'll always have enough free RAM + Much longer battery life.
I strongly recommend you give it a try. At your own risk of course.
download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify&hl=en
XDA Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155737
UPDATE : Donation version now allow hibernating System apps.
LOL, I guess like 90%+ members should know about this already. It's pretty much the only power saver app I haven't removed and would recommend - all of the rest, in my experience, have done much more harm than good.
does what it says perfectly - nothing more nothing less and most importantly no annoyances - one of my all time favourites
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LOL, I guess like 90%+ members should know about this already.
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I love fast statistics. Do you have another one?!
Obviously I didn't literally mean 90%+, but yeah, most active users should know about Greenify
tuxonhtc said:
Obviously I didn't literally mean 90%+, but yeah, most active users should know about Greenify
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I'm an active user and I didn't find out about Greenify until yesterday. Strange, but it happens.
kindly, give the remaining "10%" a chance.
I am a ROM developer and also this is tbe first time I hear about this app, thanks for sharing
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I am a ROM developer and also this is tbe first time I hear about this app, thanks for sharing
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Thank you.
Only problem being that it shows only apps with widgets or that anyone will probably use and won't block (or "greenify")... so totaly useless... to me at least.
dalanik said:
Only problem being that it shows only apps with widgets or that anyone will probably use and won't block (or "greenify")... so totaly useless... to me at least.
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I'm not sure I understand this. You can greenify any app. Just press the '+' button on the top right corner and you get a list of all the apps.
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Chaos ^_^ said:
I am a ROM developer and also this is tbe first time I hear about this app, thanks for sharing
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Me too :good:
Do you think it's possible to port your rom for note 2 user ??
Big thanks
Im using this app since 1 months withe real battery saving :thumbup::thumbup:
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ROM : testing
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modem : XXDLK7
recovery : TWRP
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Me too :good:
Do you think it's possible to port your rom for note 2 user ??
Big thanks
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yes it is possible, but i need testers, and if possible developer to port and i will help him in all the ways i can
It is nothing but a task killer.
Kills the process after idle time.
confirmed it from Setting-Applications-Running Applications.[ And Other task killers too]
Check out and let me know.
^^nope it isn't a task killer it just hibernates the service so that it doesn't consume any cpu cycles unnecessarily afaik
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Don't go on the description.
I've observed with Facebook app.
The service restarts Every time.
You can feel the excessive leading time.
There is nothing like hibernation.
yes it does kill the app after ideal time, and the good thing that it works, other battery saver only kill app temporary and it will restart automatically again.
don't use it with apps like what's app or viber skype,,, etc
you will not receive calls ir chats untill you reopen the app, personally I am using it with secondary apps like kik and facebook twitter, ,, etc
apps that I dont want to get notified instantly
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yes it is possible, but i need testers, and if possible developer to port and i will help him in all the ways i can
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I can help you if i can
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Greenify caused me problems. Swiftkey keyboard waked up my phone some times, so i Greenify it. But when i wanted to use it, all i got was a black screen. Only after i removed the battery the problem solved.
Generally this programme is useful for Facebook, eBay, Tapatalk. And only if you don't want notifications from these apps.
Can't use it (there is no point) in Viber, clock - temperature - diary widgets, battery monitoring programmes, setCPU programmes, WiFi Toggler programmes, call recording programmes, Cerberus or "where's my DROID" programmes.
For me is useless.
From Galaxy Note 2 with Swype "talk and type"
MeddlingMageGR said:
For me is useless.
From Galaxy Note 2 with Swype "talk and type"
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No problem, stop using it.
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My phone is able to get really hot by leaving a game on pause or standby while the screen is off. Is there an app or way to auto close everything or auto turn off the phone if it gets too hot? I have cm11 nightly, neighborhood kernel and trickster mod.
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trueiceman said:
My phone is able to get really hot by leaving a game on pause or standby while the screen is off. Is there an app or way to auto close everything or auto turn off the phone if it gets too hot? I have cm11 nightly, neighborhood kernel and trickster mod.
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Use Greenify. (find it on the market)
It will kill all processes of apps not active. However, remember it does not distinguish that you have switched to another app, and want a particular one in memory to remain. So choose the apps you want to "hibernate" before hand carefully.
I have been using this app for a very long time, now, and find the battery life and heating issues are a thing of the past. Active apps will continue to drain battery and heat up processors, but not much you can do about that is there?
cheers
Milind
milindchitale said:
Use Greenify. (find it on the market)
It will kill all processes of apps not active. However, remember it does not distinguish that you have switched to another app, and want a particular one in memory to remain. So choose the apps you want to "hibernate" before hand carefully.
I have been using this app for a very long time, now, and find the battery life and heating issues are a thing of the past. Active apps will continue to drain battery and heat up processors, but not much you can do about that is there?
cheers
Milind
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i'll look into it. thanks.
trueiceman said:
i'll look into it. thanks.
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Hi another thing you can try is to tweak down the max cpu speeds using any tuner. I myself use the Kerneltuner which is very efficient for the CM11 roms.
The effect is immediate and the battery life is also increased. You can also chage the control to power saving / on demand to solve this issue without changing the cpu speeds.
hope this also helps.
cheers
milind
Thanks. I just need some app that will turn off the phone when it gets to the boiling point, lol. Any ideas? Thanks.
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trueiceman said:
Thanks. I just need some app that will turn off the phone when it gets to the boiling point, lol. Any ideas? Thanks.
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I'm not sure about cm, but stock roms turn off when it gets unsafe (around 90 C I think). Mine used to shut off with extended miracast use, so now I keep it on ice cubes. I use tasker to display cpu temp on the screen when I'm doing high heat producing activities like watchespn and maps. That at least lets me see when things are getting dangerous.
hey i just installed the xposed framework and greenify with donation package on my oneplus one running the cm12.1 2015.11.17 snapshot.
i just want to make sure i am using it the right way.
is it good to use it on snapchat, facebook messenger and facebook. is it good to always greenify them when locking my device. and say i get messages on facebook messenger from time to time, it wont drain my battery if it keeps waking the app? i'm just not sure if i am doing it the right way hehe. is there something else i should do with it. (i have the g gcm push feature on) apps are auto hibernated by greenify anyways so maby it is just as it should? im using servicely also.
kewinhdorff said:
hey i just installed the xposed framework and greenify with donation package on my oneplus one running the cm12.1 2015.11.17 snapshot.
i just want to make sure i am using it the right way.
is it good to use it on snapchat, facebook messenger and facebook. is it good to always greenify them when locking my device. and say i get messages on facebook messenger from time to time, it wont drain my battery if it keeps waking the app? i'm just not sure if i am doing it the right way hehe. is there something else i should do with it. (i have the g gcm push feature on) apps are auto hibernated by greenify anyways so maby it is just as it should? im using servicely also.
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Experiences vary; no right answer. You'll need to experiment to find the config that works best for you. That said, quieting Facebook will go a long ways toward improving battery life.
Davey126 said:
Experiences vary; no right answer. You'll need to experiment to find the config that works best for you. That said, quieting Facebook will go a long ways toward improving battery life.
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okey ill try experimenting with it, thank you for now my battery is very good hehe.
Davey126 said:
Experiences vary; no right answer. You'll need to experiment to find the config that works best for you. That said, quieting Facebook will go a long ways toward improving battery life.
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also i forgot what is the difference between root mod and boost mode? i don't quite under stand the difference. perhaps you could explain it to me ?
kewinhdorff said:
also i forgot what is the difference between root mod and boost mode? i don't quite under stand the difference. perhaps you could explain it to me ?
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The short descriptions on the options speak for themselves. Boost is the 'best' choice but requires Xposed framework. Otherwise go with one of the other two options depending if your device is rooted.
Davey126 said:
The short descriptions on the options speak for themselves. Boost is the 'best' choice but requires Xposed framework. Otherwise go with one of the other two options depending if your device is rooted.
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ill go with boost ;D