So I was wondering if there is a way to add this functionality, or if it's already possible and I just didn't see it.
Picking and choosing individual apps to put in auto-hibernation.
Example: I have google play music on greenify and it auto hibernates. Even when I'm listening to music.
So is there a way to deselect it from auto hibernation without completely shutting it off.
StonerSteve420 said:
So I was wondering if there is a way to add this functionality, or if it's already possible and I just didn't see it.
Picking and choosing individual apps to put in auto-hibernation.
Example: I have google play music on greenify and it auto hibernates. Even when I'm listening to music.
So is there a way to deselect it from auto hibernation without completely shutting it off.
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In Greenify, select the app you want to degreenify. Touch the menu button in Greenify and one of the options will be 'degreenify the selected app'. Select it and that particular app will be degreenified and will no longer be auto-hibernated.
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In Greenify, select the app you want to degreenify. Touch the menu button in Greenify and one of the options will be 'degreenify the selected app'. Select it and that particular app will be degreenified and will no longer be auto-hibernated.
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I still would like to be able to greenify it. I use the widget to greenify apps at once and google play music doesn't close all the way when I exit the app that's why I'd still like it being apart of the greenify list just not on auto hibernate
StonerSteve420 said:
I still would like to be able to greenify it. I use the widget to greenify apps at once and google play music doesn't close all the way when I exit the app that's why I'd still like it being apart of the greenify list just not on auto hibernate
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Either you have all the greenified apps auto hibernate or manually hibernate. You can't have some on auto and some on manual, as far as I know.
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Either you have all the greenified apps auto hibernate or manually hibernate. You can't have some on auto and some on manual, as far as I know.
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Yeah that's what I figured. Didn't know where to suggest an idea maybe they can implement this
StonerSteve420 said:
So I was wondering if there is a way to add this functionality, or if it's already possible and I just didn't see it.
Picking and choosing individual apps to put in auto-hibernation.
Example: I have google play music on greenify and it auto hibernates. Even when I'm listening to music.
So is there a way to deselect it from auto hibernation without completely shutting it off.
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I am not entirely sure, but Greenify has a Tasker plugin. So you could set up a Tasker profile that will hibernate a specific app only when you want it to be hibernated, not in combination with other apps.
Give it a try and - taking your example with Google Play Music - de-greenify GPM completely and try to hibernate it with Tasker.
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Hi
First of all thank you Oasis for creating a tool to fix things that shouldn't be broken to begin with! You are an example for a lot of developers :good:
I've read the first couple of posts on the original thread but I still have a few things that are not clear..
The advice of Oasis himself is too hibernate only those apps that misbehave. He states that hibernating apps will also remove them from the memory, which will come with a performance/cpu usage penalty when you want to use them again.
In the video tutorial however Josh greenifies almost every application that doesn't need push notifications.
So this would mean that when I use an application that doesn't have notifications but I open frequently, for example Nu.nl, a dutch newsapp, it will always have to reload the app from scratch instead of loading it from memory?
So baically the best way to use Greenify would be to NOT just greenify most apps, but to use the analyzer frequently and see what's running in the background and greenify those that don't depend on notifications?
Then newsapps that don't push news, image viewers, file managers, system tools like SD Maid and simple games that don't use internet should be ok not being greenified?
Is there no big list available of apps that misbehave or are safe to keep de-greenified?
Thanks in advance for any help on this.
Basically you got it right. Use the built-in analyzer as well as disable service and autostarts to check apps' behaviour. For my experience, sometimes is better to disable a background service than greenify an app, if the app "misbehave" for this service only (of course you'll have to check if the app still works). An example: guaranteedhttpservice and tracksyncservice in shazam...
marchrius said:
Basically you got it right. Use the built-in analyzer as well as disable service and autostarts to check apps' behaviour. For my experience, sometimes is better to disable a background service than greenify an app, if the app "misbehave" for this service only (of course you'll have to check if the app still works). An example: guaranteedhttpservice and tracksyncservice in shazam...
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Where can I find and disable things like tracksyncservice? I also use Shazam but I can't find both services you mentioned in Greenify nor TiB?
latino147 said:
Where can I find and disable things like tracksyncservice? I also use Shazam but I can't find both services you mentioned in Greenify nor TiB?
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"Disable Service" (and "Autostarts") from play store.
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"Disable Service" (and "Autostarts") from play store.
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Ah, I believed those were two functions withing Greenify I couldn't find
wtf, FB has 62! services! None of them where active though, until you open the app, then it was 3.
So you can choose between greenifying an app which will basically kill all services from an app, even background services on one hand, and choosing specifically which services too disable, like you did with Shazam.
The only issue with this second method being that you don't always really know what these services do.
latino147 said:
So you can choose between greenifying an app which will basically kill all services from an app, even background services on one hand, and choosing specifically which services too disable, like you did with Shazam.
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Exactly. Take google play services for example. If you greenify it, you'll lose gcm and other functions and that's not advisable at all (in fact greenify hides it). But with disable service (and autostarts/system tuner)you can choose what to disable while still mantaining gcm, location services (when needed), sync etc. I can' remember what I did in system tuner regarding gplay services (I followed some tutorial), but with disable service I disabled analyticsservice (this one will reactivate itself unless you do some tweak with system tuner), refreshenabledstateservice, playlogreportingservice, googlehttpservice, playlogbrokerservice, adrequestbrokerservice, gcmschedulerwakeupservice, advertisingidservice, adsmeasurementservice, locationwearablelistenerservice, nlplocationreceiverservice, geocodeservice, dispatchingservice and playlogservice. A reboot is needed. Haven't lost a single function since weeks (gcm, location, autosync and every google app in general are working 100% fine).
Same story with play store. Apps wake it very often, so greenify it does more harm than good. Instead, you can disable pendingnotificationsservice, contentsyncservice and dailyhygiene (and will still be fully functional).
Of course these are little tips to increase performance and battery life even more. I use greenify for 90% and more of apps that "misbehave" and disable service/autostarts/system tuner for the remaining 10% "misbehaving" apps. However, an app "fixed" with such methods will stay cached while with greenify is completely closed (resulting in more cpu/time/battery consumption when loaded again).
The only issue with this second method being that you don't always really know what these services do.
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Like I already said, for general purposes you'd better simply greenify the "misbehaving" apps. If you use it/it is woken very often, you can consider these methods.
Yes, it's a "trial and error" thing. Unless you're disabling services with self-explainatory names such as "pushservice".
Never installed Facebook official app but I heard many times that is a notorious hogger and takes many personal datas too, for which you can look for xprivacy xposed module as well.
I'll start experimenting with it today :good:
How to remove whats app from greenify? the new update doesn't show any option or may be I am missing something obvious. I don't want whatsapp to be hibernated
Did you try to highlight Whatsapp in the hibernated list and click the menu button? You will see the option to degreenify the selected app. Click that and it is degreenified.
tnsmani said:
Did you try to highlight Whatsapp in the hibernated list and click the menu button? You will see the option to degreenify the selected app. Click that and it is degreenified.
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In teh latest version when I highlight it then shows 2 options one is X another is zzZ I clicked on X so whats app is no more in hibernated list but I am still not getting messages unless I open whatsapp
which means it still is hibernated.
I got the message saying
"Despite degreenified apps still stay in hibernation until you wake it up by explicitly launching it" so I have opened it its not in the app list but still remains hibernated.
Am I missing something? cant I get whatsapp back out working normally?
Those options are for hibernating (zzZ) and cutting off the wake up path (not X but a scissor). What you should have done is to click the menu button (three vertical dots). Then you would have got the option for degreenifying. What you seem to have done is to cut off the wake up path.
You can try to clear the cache and data of Greenify and see whether Whatsapp works. But it will involve selecting all the apps again to greenify. Otherwise I think that you may have to uninstall and reinstall Whatsapp.
I am not an expert on this so wait for some more comments before attempting to do anything.
Actually new version changed a bit so I could not find those option, anyway Just restarted the phone & seems what app is running now, I can see it in running apps will wait to get a message, hopefully its working now.
sgsI9003 said:
Actually new version changed a bit so I could not find those option, anyway Just restarted the phone & seems what app is running now, I can see it in running apps will wait to get a message, hopefully its working now.
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IF you are facing similar problem in the future, you could actually backup your WhatsApp conversations (TiB or other backup tools you admire) and uninstall WhatsApp. After uninstalling, reboot, and then reinstall WhatsApp. Launch WhatsApp first and then attempt backup restore for your WhatsApp app.
This is a known problem and proved to some people faced it. Unfortunately however, Greenify has no way to fix this, as this is much more in behalf of WhatsApp's fault. You can search in the old thread if you are interested.
Remove Apps from Auto-Hibernation
1. Open Greenify App
2. Look for the app you want to keep open under the "Pending Manual Hibernation" list.
3. Press AND HOLD the app for a few seconds.
4. When new menu appears across the top, press the "X" button to remove it from the auto-hibernate list.
This is for Greenify App v2.8.1 on Android (Galaxy Note 5 on AT&T Network).
Trying to de-greenify stopwatch/timer app
I have a stopwatch and timer app which does not sound its alert when Greenify is active. If I force stop Greenify I get the alerts. The app does not show on Greenify's list of hibernated apps , even when a timer is in progress, so I can't work out how to de-greenify it.
Any ideas?
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I have a stopwatch and timer app which does not sound its alert when Greenify is active. If I force stop Greenify I get the alerts. The app does not show on Greenify's list of hibernated apps , even when a timer is in progress, so I can't work out how to de-greenify it.
Any ideas?
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- if on MM/Nougat remove app from optimize list using ROM interface
- avoid using aggressive/shallow doze (experimental features)
I often see a few apps running in the background and wonder why they are not Grenified. This happens to me most with YouTube, Google Drive & Titanium Backup. There doesn't seem to be a reason why they should run in the background, thus I'd expect them to be hibernated by Greenify.
I have a rooted LG L7 II device running CM11.
Digdis said:
I often see a few apps running in the background and wonder why they are not Grenified. This happens to me most with YouTube, Google Drive & Titanium Backup. There doesn't seem to be a reason why they should run in the background, thus I'd expect them to be hibernated by Greenify.
I have a rooted LG L7 II device running CM11.
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Did you Greenify those apps? I had to ask since you didn't specifically say so. Also, is Greenify enabled in Device Administrators and Accessibility settings? And are you running Greenify in Root mode or Boost mode?
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Did you Greenify those apps? I had to ask since you didn't specifically say so. Also, is Greenify enabled in Device Administrators and Accessibility settings? And are you running Greenify in Root mode or Boost mode?
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Thanks. Gotta to admit that I didn't Greenify them manually, but waited for Greenify to do it automatically. I now sent them manually to hibernation and will keep track on whether they run in the background as they did before.
However, isn't the whole point behind Greenify that you don't need to do it manually, but let Greenify do that for you? AFAIK, neither of these apps have anything to do in the background, so isn't Greenify supposed to notice that and send them to hibernation?
Digdis said:
Thanks. Gotta to admit that I didn't Greenify them manually, but waited for Greenify to do it automatically. I now sent them manually to hibernation and will keep track on whether they run in the background as they did before.
However, isn't the whole point behind Greenify that you don't need to do it manually, but let Greenify do that for you? AFAIK, neither of these apps have anything to do in the background, so isn't Greenify supposed to notice that and send them to hibernation?
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Greenify doesn't automatically greenify(!) any app. There are many apps running in the background, some required, some not required. So you make the choice to greenify whatever you choose to, depending on your requirements. This is because if you greenify all the apps running in the background, you will lose some functionality. While you may choose to greenify one particular app because you don't need it to run in the background, I may not agree with you since I may require its functionality. So to each his own. That is the beauty of Greenify, that it allows you to choose.
However, once you greenify a particular app, Greenify takes over and further greenifying that app is automatic.
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Greenify doesn't automatically greenify(!) any app. There are many apps running in the background, some required, some not required. So you make the choice to greenify whatever you choose to, depending on your requirements. This is because if you greenify all the apps running in the background, you will lose some functionality. While you may choose to greenify one particular app because you don't need it to run in the background, I may not agree with you since I may require its functionality. So to each his own. That is the beauty of Greenify, that it allows you to choose.
However, once you greenify a particular app, Greenify takes over and further greenifying that app is automatic.
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Thanks for your answer. I did Greenify apps manually in the past, ones that I considered their running in the background as unnecessary (such as a shopping app I had which kept notifying me of new deals). However, I thought that Greenify could somehow identify apps who run in the background without need, and so it would send them to hibernation automatically. Guess I was wrong here.
auto hibernate when app is closed : eg. FB, music players many other apps & services stay on even no need after closing.
If anybody know how to auto stop these with other apps or tricks, plz let me know!?
Per App Hacking doesn't help..
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auto start when screen is on : eg. I don't need clean master to stay on when I'm not on wifi and screen is off.
again, any workaround for this?
Greenify is already the greatest app out there, but if it had these features, it would b God of apps IMHO
kennyk09 said:
auto hibernate when app is closed : eg. FB, music players many other apps & services stay on even no need after closing.
If anybody know how to auto stop these with other apps or tricks, plz let me know!?
Per App Hacking doesn't help..
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auto start when screen is on : eg. I don't need clean master to stay on when I'm not on wifi and screen is off.
again, any workaround for this?
Greenify is already the greatest app out there, but if it had these features, it would b God of apps IMHO
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I think that you have not understood the working of Greenify correctly. It comes into play for hibernation only after the screen is off. When screen is on, it merely collects info about the apps that are running, closed etc to determine which apps are to be hibernated once screen is off.
Reg. auto hibernation, do you have root and have you enabled it in Device Administrator and Accessibility under Settings? Under which mode are you running Greenify: Root, Boost or Unrooted? And have you enabled Auto hibernation within Greenify and selected the apps to be greenified?
Check the thread title
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I think that you have not understood the working of Greenify correctly. It comes into play for hibernation only after the screen is off. When screen is on, it merely collects info about the apps that are running, closed etc to determine which apps are to be hibernated once screen is off.
Reg. auto hibernation, do you have root and have you enabled it in Device Administrator and Accessibility under Settings? Under which mode are you running Greenify: Root, Boost or Unrooted? And have you enabled Auto hibernation within Greenify and selected the apps to be greenified?
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It's a wish list. you don't understand what wish list is?
I fully understand how Greenify works.
Use Tasker and task kill plugin.
And for Greenify create hibernate shortcut and don't forget that it won't hibernate of application is in recent Apps list.
It's easy to kill every app on exit.
Just use LMT(PIE) app , and instead of standard ''home, or back button'' use ''KILLAPP'' button from PIE menu.
In combination with greenify it works fine.
I was think to use only PIE(pie ''kill app process'' on exit), but this is not the same, greenify realy put this apps in hibernation.
So i must use combination of these 2.
Would be great, that greenify do this itself..
I want to use greenify to "freeze" a certain apps when are not in foreground, do don't check in the background for location, connect to internet to update, and so on and so forth. Like if weren't installed from the beginning. I couldn't find anything in the user interface, the app looks more oriented to hibernate the entire phone (which I don't want).
scandiun said:
I want to use greenify to "freeze" a certain apps when are not in foreground, do don't check in the background for location, connect to internet to update, and so on and so forth. Like if weren't installed from the beginning. I couldn't find anything in the user interface, the app looks more oriented to hibernate the entire phone (which I don't want).
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Look elsewhere. Greenify doesn't "freeze" any app.
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Look elsewhere. Greenify doesn't "freeze" any app.
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Ok look like there was a misunderstanding. Didn't mean "freeze" in the way Titanium Backup does, but rather prevent the app from doing anything unless in foreground. Greenify is capable of that, you just add the desired apps to the list.
Hibernation Manager is similar and has high ratings. Also explains things better.
scandiun said:
Ok look like there was a misunderstanding. Didn't mean "freeze" in the way Titanium Backup does, but rather prevent the app from doing anything unless in foreground. Greenify is capable of that, you just add the desired apps to the list.
Hibernation Manager is similar and has high ratings. Also explains things better.
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My understanding is, when you add apps to the autohibernate list and when you continue to work with one app in the foreground, any other hibernated app will continue to run (if started while you are working or if already running) till the screen is locked. Only after that the running apps will hibernate. This is the behaviour I am seeing.
Correct me if I am wrong.
Edit: Even Hibernation Manager works only when screen is off. Please read its description in Play Store.
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My understanding is, when you add apps to the autohibernate list and when you continue to work with one app in the foreground, any other hibernated app will continue to run (if started while you are working or if already running) till the screen is locked. Only after that the running apps will hibernate. This is the behaviour I am seeing.
Correct me if I am wrong.
Edit: Even Hibernation Manager works only when screen is off. Please read its description in Play Store.
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Yes Hibernation Manager and Greenify only work when screen is off. That's enough for me, but do you know if any app that does it also when the screen is on? (App always hibernating unless on foreground)