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android.process.media force close! FIX

I know some of you have been having problems with a force close message that looks like this: Android.process.media is not responding please force close or retry.
I have done search after search only to find one way that ultimately fixes this annoying every second force close message.
1. Make sure your phone is rooted.
2. Using a file explorer of your choice go into the directories as follows:
/system/app/
3. Delete this file from the menu, mediaprovider.apk
4. Force close messages will now stop. Horray!
If you have questions post them. I will do my best to answer.
StaplesDroid

i tried it on my G2 and it hasn't worked yet. Had to give ES FileExplorer root.
Have a great morning!

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media.process force close issue rooted htc desire
I fixed this problem without any further issues by clearing the download cache - I'm just as surprised as you.

staplesdroid said:
Yea like I said you must have a rooted phone!!!. Did it work after you gave es file root?
Another great program in root explorer. You can get it from ww w. 4shared .co m
Go there type in rootexplorer .apk and it will have multiple downloads. Just pick one and run it.
You can get all the paid apps for free like that. Just type in .apk after the app you want is typed in for example: rootexplorer .apk or irunner .apk or androidbanking .apk..... you get the picture?
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Or you could get it from the market, and pay for it, and support the developers. But if you want to be a thief, that's your decision.

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staplesdroid said:
I'm not trying to piss anyone off. Sorry if you don't agree with that. But 3.99 for a file explorer. Come on.
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It never ceases to amaze me how people can justify being a thief.
If 4 bucks is out of line, how is it you could afford your phone in the first place?
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The purple bear gets the purple worm!

indymx said:
It never ceases to amaze me how people can justify being a thief.
If 4 bucks is out of line, how is it you could afford your phone in the first place?
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+ 1, a one time payment of $4 for something useful is nothing.
Sent from my abucus

why patronize piracy?
I live in Asia, where pirated software/apps are more prevalent than legit ones. That is because software like Microsoft Windows is economically out of reach for the man on the street.
But $3.99? Come on! We shouldn't expect devs to continue churning out useful code without getting paid for it. If the developers of Titanium Backup or Root Toolbox had decided early on that it wasn't worth it to develop apps for Android or WinMo, we'd all still be in the Dark Ages of the cellphone era. Making custom ROMs is not the same. For one, many of them were based on stock firmware--which were made by highly-paid software engineers at phone makers in the first place.
What the Android Market offers for free, I download for free. When it has a price and I need it, I pay for it. Simple as that.

1) the fix listed above worked perfectly for me. (HD2, gingerbread, CM7)
2) paying for an app is the right thing to do. free ones are preferred, of course. you know it, i know it, they know it. support open source, support the community. pay it forward.

staplesdroid said:
I know some of you have been having problems with a force close message that looks like this: Android.process.media is not responding please force close or retry.
I have done search after search only to find one way that ultimately fixes this annoying every second force close message.
1. Make sure your phone is rooted.
2. Using a file explorer of your choice go into the directories as follows:
/system/app/
3. Delete this file from the menu, mediaprovider.apk
4. Force close messages will now stop. Horray!
If you have questions post them. I will do my best to answer.
StaplesDroid
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Thanks for the tip mate. I got rid of FC's after removing mediaprovider. But after removing it cannot access any sort of media like photos, ringtones etc :-D. Any other work around?

WARNING!
fshami said:
Thanks for the tip mate. I got rid of FC's after removing mediaprovider. But after removing it cannot access any sort of media like photos, ringtones etc :-D. Any other work around?
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Yep, this is actually a horrible fix. For me, it did nothing except stop me from accessing any of my media. So if you don't care about listening to music, viewing any photos, having ringtones, viewing video you have taken etc, this MIGHT work for you. I had to dig out the mediaprovider.apk from the .zip of my ROM and replace it.
I fixed mine by restoring my last Titanium Backup ("restore all apps with data"). Whatever was corrupted was restored back to working order. I understand that not everyone has Titanium Backup, but it has save my a$$ a couple of times now when an app or system file has started acting weird. Root your phone and get TB, it's so worth it.
EDIT: OK, so the problem came back after I replaced mediaprovider.apk, so apologies for that. I booted into recovery and did a factory/data reset, then restored my Titanium Backup, and all seems to be good now. Again, I understand this may not help everyone, but it worked for me, and it avoids deleting apk files without fully understanding what effect it will have.

Help
I have a droid 2 global. i tried deleting the file and it says i cant. is there anything else i can do? i cant access my pics, music, or market.

la vela said:
I fixed this problem without any further issues by clearing the download cache - I'm just as surprised as you.
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Did this too, was having FCs after installing a new ROM but just cleared the cache and rebooted. My music player worked again after that.

Nothing works!
I tried deleting it which made things worse! Non stop FCs! Put it back. Cleared data multiple times! Rebooted some times! No luck! What to do! Heeelllppppp!!!!!!!!!

CyberZ-JB said:
I tried deleting it which made things worse! Non stop FCs! Put it back. Cleared data multiple times! Rebooted some times! No luck! What to do! Heeelllppppp!!!!!!!!!
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Try formatting ur sdcard, for me i had some temp folders with long file names which used to mess around..
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fshami said:
Try formatting ur sdcard, for me i had some temp folders with long file names which used to mess around..
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Tried even that! Someone said it might be a Framewore issue! God knows what Android is made of! HELLLPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!

staplesdroid said:
I know some of you have been having problems with a force close message that looks like this: Android.process.media is not responding please force close or retry.
I have done search after search only to find one way that ultimately fixes this annoying every second force close message.
1. Make sure your phone is rooted.
2. Using a file explorer of your choice go into the directories as follows:
/system/app/
3. Delete this file from the menu, mediaprovider.apk
4. Force close messages will now stop. Horray!
If you have questions post them. I will do my best to answer.
StaplesDroid
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I had the same problem with my Asus transformer. In addition the default Music player did not work anymore as it used to (played the wrong numbers).
The above solution did not work for me (I could get to the files mentioned without rooting).
Sofar I got the problem solved as followed.
1. I found an new version 4 of the Music player (com.google.android.misic.4.0.9.apk) and installed this version
2. This by itself did not solve anything, but now I could reinstall the factory original version and now everything is OK.
No forced closing anymore and the default player works as before
I hope it stays this way.
regards,
alfred

I've just updated to latest Oxygen on my Huawei U8800, and was having that same issue.
After reading this post, I've updated with TB the application "[Playlists] Media Storage 2.3.7 (10)" and it solved it.
It seems that my custom playlists of the music app were causing it...

[APP]Network Spoofer *trick your friends*

Network Spoofer lets you mess with the internet on other people's computers.
Network Spoofer lets you mess with websites on other people's computers:
1)flip pictures
2)change Google searches
3)redirect websites
4)swap YouTube videos and many more features to come.
REQUIREMENTS:
* Root (superuser)
* Wifi
* 500MB SD card space
KNOWN INCOMPATIBILITIES:
* Droid X (solution being worked on)
How it works?
APP LINK: chuck norris power
Developer website: http://digitalsquid.co.uk/
DISCLAIMER: The developer(s) of this application are not in any way responsible for it's use or misuse; only use it for demonstration purposes on networks for which you have permission to do so.
Added latest version 0.9.0 So far you can download it from google play, but if google will remove it, you can download uploaded apk
2012.06.14 SEEMS THAT GOOGLE REMOVED FROM PLAY STORE.
TESTED ON GALAXY NOTE, GALAXY S3 AND IT IS WORKING.

Downloading and trying with SGS2.

atm faced up with this issue "a MAJOR CPU hog AFTER it has been closed. I understand it using a large amount of CPU during its activity.. but after i exit it continues to keep CPU at 100% until i reboot... "" but if you want to use this app and dont want to have this issue- you will need to make reboots after you have used that app.

If you download it might me cool to mirror the APK. I predict this is removed within 2 days by Google

sdk16420 said:
If you download it might me cool to mirror the APK. I predict this is removed within 2 days by Google
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yeh ok no problem i think also, google will remove it

Looks interesting, gonna give it a try. But why does it require so much SD space?

It doesn't work for me. And I also had the huge cpu usage after closing the app until I restarted the phone.

I have a suggestion. You know how the WifiKiller app is able to detect the card manufacturer? For e.g. "Apple Computer" would show up with the ipaddress? Is it possible to implement something like this

ArmorD said:
Looks interesting, gonna give it a try. But why does it require so much SD space?
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im not developer but i think for trolo pictures, trolo video and etc.

binlalo said:
It doesn't work for me. And I also had the huge cpu usage after closing the app until I restarted the phone.
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hmmm it is only for ics and not for all phones it is working

It has been around for months in the market, I doubt it is gonna get pulled now.
ArmorD said:
Looks interesting, gonna give it a try. But why does it require so much SD space?
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Debian Iso is needed.

DnaPolymerase said:
Debian Iso is needed.
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Lol XD. I hope it wont be pulled.
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Thanks.. Am gonna try it with my SII

Ohh ok, then that's the problem, I'm on gingerbread. For any other I9001 user, don't bother, it doesn't work.

why is that much space is neeede on sdcard?

Bilgets said:
why is that much space is neeede on sdcard?
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This app seems nice but I second that!

hmm guys....any other ways of stopping it from using max CPU after you close the app besides restarting the phone.
tried force closing the app but my cpu still stays at max.

Bilgets said:
why is that much space is neeede on sdcard?
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This runs a debian image background. It uses it to do the actions.
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Sir,
You are creating a real evil software.
Congratulations for that!!

OP: I'm a network administrator and someone showed me this and I don't understand how it works.. how do I prevent people from doing this sort of thing on my network? Pretty sure this is on the same lines as WifiKill if I'm correct? The device use arp and pretends to be the router?

3 'New' cool apps

Hey guys,
I just wanted to inform you about two apps I found recently that appear to boost performance and battery life a bit.
The one that boosts performance is a better and more efficient version of Seeder. It's called SeFix and (as opposed to Seeder) really does seem to work!
The second (the battery booster) is actually way more versatile:
It's called Greenify and it lets you disable apps to run in the background.
Eg. I set it to decline the Google Maps request to run in the background all the time; because as we all know, Maps often sucks somewhere near 7% of the battery.
(However, it needed me to root uninstall it and then install it from the play store, so it wasn't a system app anymore)
Anyway: I hope this helped and that it makes your device nicer to use (like it did for me)
Last but not least: as you are probably aware: Orange Backup is a backup app that lets you do complete (CWM or TWRP style backups) without having to go into the recovery!
Really awesome.

I guess you could use it for Facebook too, to keep it from running in the background all the time.
Or... You could also *not* use Facebook and switch to cooler social media, such as Google+

adelancker said:
Hey guys,
I just wanted to inform you about two apps I found recently that appear to boost performance and battery life a bit.
The one that boosts performance is a better and more efficient version of Seeder. It's called SeFix and (as opposed to Seeder) really does seem to work!
The second (the battery booster) is actually way more versatile:
It's called Greenify and it lets you disable apps to run in the background.
Eg. I set it to decline the Google Maps request to run in the background all the time; because as we all know, Maps often sucks somewhere near 7% of the battery.
(However, it needed me to root uninstall it and then install it from the play store, so it wasn't a system app anymore)
Anyway: I hope this helped and that it makes your device nicer to use (like it did for me)
Last but not least: as you are probably aware: Orange Backup is a backup app that lets you do complete (CWM or TWRP style backups) without having to go into the recovery!
Really awesome.
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Greenify looks the app I have been looking for. Maps constantly runs in the background (not on my tf700 but on HTC One S). I am trying this app to see if it works. Thanks for sharing!

new_convert said:
Greenify looks the app I have been looking for. Maps constantly runs in the background (not on my tf700 but on HTC One S). I am trying this app to see if it works. Thanks for sharing!
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You might have to root uninstall it and then reinstall it from the Play Store (to get rid of the 'system app' issue).
It worked for me
Definitely some better battery life after stopping those battery hungry apps

:good: thank you, i will try them... :victory:

adelancker said:
I guess you could use it for Facebook too, to keep it from running in the background all the time.
Or... You could also *not* use Facebook and switch to cooler social media, such as Google+
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I'm trying to use Orange backup with twrp but received error "expr: applet not found" , do you have any idea???

buhohitr said:
I'm trying to use Orange backup with twrp but received error "expr: applet not found" , do you have any idea???
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Never happened to me.
Are you using data2sd?
Maybe it's confused because of the switch?
I can only say that it works like a treat for me and that it makes these backups quite fast considering that it doesn't need to boot into recovery.
Have you tried contacting the developer? He's called snoopy333 and is to be found in the original thread. Maybe he can tell you what's going on?

Thank you for sharing the existence of greenify.
EXCELLENT
How do I block the playstore?
Titanium Backup does not turn me or makes user application and remains in system application.
thanks

MarkAndroid said:
Thank you for sharing the existence of greenify.
EXCELLENT
How do I block the playstore?
Titanium Backup does not turn me or makes user application and remains in system application.
thanks
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I have never tried doing that with the PlayStore.
maybe you could try SystemTuner or another app?
I am not an expert in these things lol

adelancker said:
Never happened to me.
Are you using data2sd?
Maybe it's confused because of the switch?
I can only say that it works like a treat for me and that it makes these backups quite fast considering that it doesn't need to boot into recovery.
Have you tried contacting the developer? He's called snoopy333 and is to be found in the original thread. Maybe he can tell you what's going on?
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No data2sd, I installed it, went well, config backup desitnation folder which is on my sdcard or microsdcard (tried both). Did you use cloud instead of internal storage? I uninstalled/reinstalled still same issue, WTF! This app seems very well done.

buhohitr said:
No data2sd, I installed it, went well, config backup desitnation folder which is on my sdcard or microsdcard (tried both). Did you use cloud instead of internal storage? I uninstalled/reinstalled still same issue, WTF! This app seems very well done.
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I tried TWRP (compression disabled, maybe the key lies there) and let it back-up locally.
But I have indeed also backed everything up to the cloud.
Both worked fine...
Have you contacted the dev yet? I am kind of curious what causes this issue

adelancker said:
I tried TWRP (compression disabled, maybe the key lies there) and let it back-up locally.
But I have indeed also backed everything up to the cloud.
Both worked fine...
Have you contacted the dev yet? I am kind of curious what causes this issue
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Thanks, but I already tried with and without compression, also with md5 settings also (tried them all), even reboot my device before launch the app. I may have to contact the dev see what's going on.

adelancker said:
I tried TWRP (compression disabled, maybe the key lies there) and let it back-up locally.
But I have indeed also backed everything up to the cloud.
Both worked fine...
Have you contacted the dev yet? I am kind of curious what causes this issue
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I contacted the developer and he resolved my issue. This issue was busybox. I re installed busybox and bam everything is working as expected. BTW, his service is excellent, send him an email and 10min later I got his reply. Can't beat that for a free app!! Thanks.

buhohitr said:
I contacted the developer and he resolved my issue. This issue was busybox. I re installed busybox and bam everything is working as expected. BTW, his service is excellent, send him an email and 10min later I got his reply. Can't beat that for a free app!! Thanks.
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Ah wow!
Thanks for letting us know!
It is always so impressive how responsive android developers are :highfive:

Sounds interesting... but I didn't find (Google) Maps in the app list ... any hint?

MicAlter said:
Sounds interesting... but I didn't find (Google) Maps in the app list ... any hint?
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Yeah like I said: go into Titanium Back-up, select Google Maps and convert it to user app (or root uninstall Maps and reinstall it through the Play Store)
Afterwards, you should be able to select it for Greenify!

[MOD][Launcher] Galaxy S3 Launcher for Kyocera Rise/Event and any mdpi 4.0+ rom

Link to the page with instructions.
Here

Anybody tried this yet?
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yup
JHell said:
Anybody tried this yet?
Sent from my Event using xda app-developers app
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yes I installed. was easy except I had to save the .so file as no known program that I could find would open or install it including Snappea which I normally use for my apk files, 7zip, and Free File Viewer. so I mounted my phone, opened it as a viewable drive and copy/pasted it to my app folder on my sd. installed the other file via Snap, change permissions....followed the instructions, basically.
this launcher is sweet. it gives you lots of options, is easy to use, can uninstall apps and I don't know what all else without ever having to open your settings. the only complaint I might have would be that the icons on the folders are very small, a bit hard to see, but not a big deal as I think we all tend to memorize locations and content in our smart or regular type folders.
as far using it to install other roms, I have tried a bit using ROM Toolbox Pro and ROM Manager and no success as they want confirmation for CRM, and as I am sure you already know, there is no recovery currently available that I know of for the Event.
Also, as I viewed the files included in the download for the launcher, it came with and internet shortcut to SuperCharger, and I am gonna try that next, as it is supposed to work with all mods, stock or otherwise. description of this installer/launcher describes ability to use for the install of other mods but I need more information. this is the first android I have rooted and I am not ashamed to admit I am a green noob. I wish somebody would talk down to me and explain a bit better. as I peruse the forums i find a wealth of information but it is hard to put into action with some of the abbreviated instructions so prevalent from topic to topic. if you install and figure a way to mount jellycream, please advise, as i could use all the guidance available. much thanks and have fun. i will kudo this guy and see if he will point me in the right direction.

problem
A problem has emerged when I connect Event and turn on usb debug and mass storage. when the sd card becomes unavailable it turns all user/non-stock icons to little green android men on home page and changes app names to developer names. disconnect and reboot does not return icons or normal app names. tried to use Titanium Pro to restore but that didn't work either. any ideas?

bummer
I have tried everything, disabling stock launcher, and re-installing TouchWiz Home .apk 3 times, but every time I mount my phone as an external drive to load music all my non-stock apps turn to little green android men with mostly unidentifiable names. too bad as this was sweet. I am bummed out. nobody seems to be interested in this thread. would be nice to hear from developer... is there something I am doing wrong? ive checked the install on the .so, permissions... don't understand. please help. thanks. gonna have to uninstall in the mean time ;(

mheee
BossKey13 said:
I have tried everything, disabling stock launcher, and re-installing TouchWiz Home .apk 3 times, but every time I mount my phone as an external drive to load music all my non-stock apps turn to little green android men with mostly unidentifiable names. too bad as this was sweet. I am bummed out. nobody seems to be interested in this thread. would be nice to hear from developer... is there something I am doing wrong? ive checked the install on the .so, permissions... don't understand. please help. thanks. gonna have to uninstall in the mean time ;(
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reinstalled halo, what a relief. a valiant try but this launcher is crap. if you would quite ridin' your girlfriends leg long enough to reply I would'a tried to make this work. SupperChang is shiz. Keep trying LegRider, lol. xD

Thanks so beautyful

a kernel or something else for ram speed!

i want a kernel or something else for xperia e single to high speed of my ram! i think its 512mb! please give me something!! please!!!!!!

please answer anyone

This could mean two things: or you want to make your RAM faster which is impossible, or you want more RAM.
You do realise RAM is hardware? Data gets loaded in and processed super fast. When you want to drink water, you put it in a glass. See RAM as your glass. The data(applications) need something to be in for them to work.
Now, you can't increase the amount of real RAM. Yes, you could remove your motherboard from the phone and try to lime a 2 GB DDR3 stick to it. Chances are this won't work.
What you could use is something called swap. You create a partition on your SD card and let your phone use it as RAM. The problem here is that even a class 10 SD card doesn't have the speed of RAM. So it won't do much and your SD card will be burnt up quickly.
Simple answer: you can't get the kernel because it's not possible. Zeus supports swap though.
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sorry but i dont undestand the english always! please tell me again how to can this, in title post

feikacab said:
sorry but i dont undestand the english always! please tell me again how to can this, in title post
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Only you can change the "title post."
It is not possible. Let's try to explain it to you again.
The RAM inside our phones is fixed permanently to its inside parts. You can't change it, make it better, or do anything with it.
@MatsPunt The chipset is very old. I'm pretty sure DDR3 won't work.

NSDCars5 said:
@MatsPunt The chipset is very old. I'm pretty sure DDR3 won't work.
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MatsPunt said:
Chances are this won't work.
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NSDCars5 said:
Only you can change the "title post."
It is not possible. Let's try to explain it to you again.
The RAM inside our phones is fixed permanently to its inside parts. You can't change it, make it better, or do anything with it.
@MatsPunt The chipset is very old. I'm pretty sure DDR3 won't work.
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exist a kernel to boost the ram?

feikacab said:
exist a kernel to boost the ram?
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As MatsPunt said, the best thing you can do is use a kernel like Zeus which has swap and/or zRAM support. These will give a teeny meeny boost.
Also, try apps like Greenify to free RAM.

NSDCars5 said:
As MatsPunt said, the best thing you can do is use a kernel like Zeus which has swap and/or zRAM support. These will give a teeny meeny boost.
Also, try apps like Greenify to free RAM.
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how to use greenify to free ram?

feikacab said:
how to use greenify to free ram?
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1. Download Greenify from Play Store.
2. Open the app.
3. It may ask for root permissions. If it does, at any point of time, give it root.
4. Tap the "+" sign and then choose an app to be Greenified.
Repeat step 4 for all apps you want to Greenify. These apps will now consume memory only when opened.
WARNING: Don't Greenify Hangouts, WhatsApp, Gmail and such because when you Greenify something, you stop getting notifications (like messages etc) from it.

NSDCars5 said:
1. Download Greenify from Play Store.
2. Open the app.
3. It may ask for root permissions. If it does, at any point of time, give it root.
4. Tap the "+" sign and then choose an app to be Greenified.
Repeat step 4 for all apps you want to Greenify. These apps will now consume memory only when opened.
WARNING: Don't Greenify Hangouts, WhatsApp, Gmail and such because when you Greenify something, you stop getting notifications (like messages etc) from it.
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Not with the donation package - I get all the messages from skype and facebook if they are hibernated.

Saleen28 said:
Not with the donation package - I get all the messages from skype and facebook if they are hibernated.
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Really? I only ever used the free version, so I don't have much idea.

does'nt exist a kernel? no zeus..

NSDCars5 said:
Really? I only ever used the free version, so I don't have much idea.
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Yup.
Only annoying thing is this - you chat with someone on pc and when you enable wifi/internet on the phone, you instantly get bombed by all messages you received durning the time you were on pc.
Other than that, everything works properly