Hello Everyone
There was an application that I used a while back quite often to modify application graphics to allow apps or games to run better on lower power hardware.
This was capable of modifying any app with varying success, is there any app like this available anymore?
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This is a pretty stupid question, but is File Expert's memory manager safe to use? I'm running CM9, the concept sounds great, I just want to be sure it can be easily reversed, etc. Thank you!
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Memory Manager (Pro; Root)
As of FE Pro V4.1.4, a new tool was added to FE. This requires the Pro plugin and root access on your device.
Every app that runs, Android puts into an "out of memory group" based on their priority; FOREGROUND_APP, VISIBLE_APP, SECONDARY_SERVER, HIDDEN_APP, CONTENT_PROVIDER, and EMPTY_APP.
When Android needs memory, it starts killing off applications in these groups based on how much memory is free; starting with the group with the highest value.
For example, if you set HIDDEN_APP = 24mb; when free memory on your device dips below 24mb, Android will kill off apps running in this group. If the next highest value was EMPTY_APP = 20mb, then Android will wait until free memory hits 20mb, then start killing off apps in THAT group - and so on.
You can control the behavior of Android's "task killer" by setting these values yourself using FE's Memory Manager. FE's team has come up with sets of values based on common behaviors of users. These "presets" can be used without any knowledge by the end user - just pick the one that suits you and you're done.
If you're a more advanced user, you may want to "dial in" these values yourself instead of using one of the pre-built settings. To do this, you'll need to understand each of the groups and what apps get put in there.
Foreground Application - An app that you currently see on the screen. (also includes System and Phone)
Visible Application - An app that is visible to the user but not at the front, possibly because of transparency, etc.
Secondary Server - These are BACKGROUND applications and services. This typically includes launchers (Launcher Pro, etc.) and UI shells (Sense, Motoblur, etc)
Hidden Application - Apps that are not visible but still run in the background.
Content Provider - Processes that provide for other apps (Contacts, Calendar, etc.)
Empty Application - Apps that are paused and not doing any work.
Source.
As for it being safe, I presume so because such a well known application "company" wouldn't put out risky stuff and the Chinese normally know what they are doing. That being said, I doubt it is needed. But give it a whirl and see for yourself
PS this should really be in the normal Android section somewhere rather than a device forum. Maybe get more opinions/views over there (the whole of xda has reason to go there, not just particular device) and perhaps worth pm'ing a mod to get this thread moved.
Good luck!
Hello everyone!
Recently I stumbled upon this pre-installed app on my Samsung Galaxy A5 2016 device. The app is called: Game Optimizing Service 1.1.21, and I can't open the app It just sits on my phone doing nothing. Does anyone know what it exacly does? Yes, I know it optimizes games, but how do you open the app etc?
Thank you very much,
- ScoutFromEarth
ScoutFromEarth said:
Hello everyone!
Recently I stumbled upon this pre-installed app on my Samsung Galaxy A5 2016 device. The app is called: Game Optimizing Service 1.1.21, and I can't open the app It just sits on my phone doing nothing. Does anyone know what it exacly does? Yes, I know it optimizes games, but how do you open the app etc?
Thank you very much,
- ScoutFromEarth
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May be no need to open app and optimise game manually. It may automatically optimises game when you open according to your GPU and game graphics requirements.
Ashwinrg said:
May be no need to open app and optimise game manually. It may automatically optimises game when you open according to your GPU and game graphics requirements.
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Hmmmm, could be. Thanks for your help, ill report back to you if I know some more stuff about the .apk if you want
Anyone know more about this system app installed on Samsung devices?
Samsung Bloatware
Anyone know more about this potential bloatware installed on Samsung Android devices?
Does it actually improve gaming as implied by the name, Game Optimizing Service?
Does this app install other apps?
This app is a service needed by Game Tuner to operate. Game Tuner is a really good app, as it allows to customize some aspects of the phone when games are launch. For example: you can lower the resolution at which the game will be rendered, reduce the quality of the textures, allow the phone to exceed certain temperature limiters, use MACRO mode, among other options.
There must be more to it than that because I have never played a game on my phone and I don't have any other gaming apps on my phone except this one and it uses my mobile data and runs in the background and restarts itself when after I stop it change very strange to me I think there are other things in play here that we are not meant to know
GameService SOFTWAREThrottling before HW Throttling
Old thread I know..
I have a Exynos Note 9
Came across and applied THIS.
Youtube.com/embed/h4F0L-soM1I
Worked for me, esp Longterm Pubg FPS staying near 60fps at FHD+ in HD Preset the entire time..
Not the usual 10-15mins until 40-45fps starts happening and stays there.
Thought its worth sharing this Software does in fact impose its own rules and once removed, your at the peril of Hardware level throttling schemes..
Sorry if this isn't the best section to be asking in, it's a big forum out there with so many boards.
I'm trying to run many instances of a certain Android app concurrently. I need either Google Play services to be available for a one-time sign in on each instance, or preferably a way to import app data to remove the need for Google Play or any other components of the Android environment besides the basic runtime needed to run the app.
I'm currently using an Android emulator (Nox) running on 640x360 at 20 fps, which is able to get me about 14 instances running on my local Windows. machine before things start crashing. The limiting factors seem to be the frequency of snapshots taken by the VMs and running low on RAM, which in turn increases CPU usage for defragmentation and page file management.
Is there any more efficient way to accomplish this task? Perhaps an x86 Android runtime with settings to reduce graphics quality? I've also looked at the Genymotion AMI on AWS but all of Amazon's VM options seem too powerful (and costly) to run my app on so many machines.
Thanks!
TL,DR: the possibility to control permissions in apps are one of the most important advantages of rooting (in my opinion).
Seeing that App Settings is somewhat being underestimated, let’s talk about the powerful permission manager that it has.
I think that permission management alone is one of the most important things of rooting. The possibility to control what permissions grant to apps, besides what Google wants you to be able to control in Android, is absolutely critical for a power user.
Let’s see some examples. Right now everything is “free” because telemetry and you being “the product” for companies... You can be OK with that if you want to. But where did you accept that EVERYTHING in your cell phone should have ads? I don’t remember accepting that... Well, thanks to rooting + AdAway + some browsers and user permission management, you can have a ad-free cell phone (really) and with more battery life, less background internet usage and faster because you can stop every app for syncing constantly because of ads...
There was a time when almost the only app that could do effectively permissions management for rooted cellphones was Stericson’s “Permissions Denied”. The problem was that you needed to restart your Android System everytime you changed permissions, and in later Android and the app versions it was being less stable and effective.
With the great xPosed everything changed. Now you have some modules that took over that advantage. Some of them are: xPrivacy, Permissions Master, and App Settings.
In my humble opinion, xPrivacy works as a some sort of “permissions firewall”. It has deep control of some aspects, but at the cost of too many things to pay attention to, and resources of the system.
The approach of Permissions Denied / Permissions Master and App Settings is that them work similar of controlling permissions as if you control some Internet connections in Windows systems with the “hosts file”.
You can select from available permissions and, for example, control and deny Internet access completely to an app. Android permissions management won’t allow you to stop an app from connecting to Internet altogether, because of ads.
If some “ruler app” for example, claims that is “free” and “ad free”, whatever reason... Why should it connect to Internet, have access to your contacts, etc.? Let’s imagine that you still want to use that app, but you don’t want it to connect to Internet. Solution? App Settings!!!
And the advantage of App Settings is that it works in real time. If you change some permission for an app and it stop working, you can reverse that, and it works almost instantly. Permissions Master is similar, but some changes won’t stick denying permissions to apps.
I simply can’t believe that the rooting community, with XDA being one of the greatest forums about Android tuning, is letting App Settings fade away.
So, consider this just a reminder that being able to control fast, and effectively ALL the permissions that apps use in your Android System is one big advantage that deserves to not disappear, if we still care for rooting and user controlling what the apps in your system are doing.
One last thing, another example of permissions to control in your Android are: what apps should start after booting, what apps should keep working in the background, which ones should access your contacts... etc.
With App Settings you can control all that and more, in a fast, effective and easy way. I love Firefox, but I don’t want it to start while Android boots, or be able to access my camera (I don’t use Firefox for any camera related thing), etc.
You can’t do that at the same level with Android permissions management. It just let you control stuff that won’t go against ad industry. It’s understandable, but Google won’t be harmed by the minority of us that just want to be able to control which apps should connect to Internet and which ones shouldn’t...
I would love to contribute to Apps Settings development, but sadly coding isn't one of my capabilities. This thread wasn't intended to explain to the great and brilliant community of XDA what App Settings do (you already know), it just a general description for everyone and try to keep the user permissions management in spotlight.
If you reached here, thank you for reading!
Sorry for my english, it’s not my native language.
Hey guys,
I want to use 2 versions of the same app on the same device, I tried Island but it doesn't seems to support 2 different versions of the same app. So I turned to Parallel Space, which seems to be the most popular one in the same category.
This makes me wonder, how does it works? And are there any FOSS alternatives?
Thanks!
@Rapier-
Simplified:
Parallel Space creates per app what gets cloned a virtual space ( simulated memory and disk space ) which is isolated from the outside, like a sandbox, means cloned apps run in parallel and work independently from their original apps. Because the virtual memory isn't taken from device's RAM - it's just disk space, it's by nature slow performing. Result: Parallel Space allows you to use multiple accounts at the same time on your device. Further it can protect you from being detected by random apps. Important: Cloned apps will not receive automatic updates so you can keep and run a stable version alongside the original app.
Note: It might be illegal to use this app and you might get your accounts banned permanently for using it. You get warned!