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This post is from a blog...Which is offcourse owned by me and my two DEV friends...So this is not copy...
(Posting this Bcoz if I dnt, then they'll ban me...)
Anyways coming back to our topic...
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We're all decluttering our closets and basements in celebration of spring, but it's time for a break. Kick back on the couch, pull up your Android phone, and act like you're still being productive by giving it some spring cleaning of its own.
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>Reclaim Drive and SD Card Space<
Most Android devices have two different storage spaces: your internal space (where apps are stored) and your SD card (where your music, photos, and many of your apps' settings are stored). The SD card is easy to clean up—just delete any music, photos, and videos you don't need. If you see any folders that look like settings for apps you've removed, you can delete those too. If you're rooted (which is really easy to do), you can even use an app like previously mentioned SD Maid to clean up all that cruft for you. Cleaning up your internal storage is also pretty simple: just uninstall unnecessary apps. Chances are you have a few apps you don't use anymore, not to mention games you don't play—they'll take up the most space—and you can just uninstall them from the Play Store to free up that space and, hopefully, speed up your phone a little bit. If your phone is starved for internal storage and you can't spare any of your hard-earned apps, you can try moving them to your SD card instead. This will free up that internal space and speed up your phone, but keep all your apps close at hand. To do this, just head to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications. Select an app, and tap the "Move to SD Card" button to move it. Some apps won't have this ability, but you should find that lots of your space-hogging apps have no problem living on your SD card. You can read more about this process here.
>Give It a Battery Boost<
Android phones in particular are notorious for sucking the life out of your battery. If you haven't dug through your settings in awhile, this is a good time to make sure you're getting the most out of your battery as possible. This means turning the brightness down, the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth off when not in use, and turning off any eye candy (not to mention uninstalling apps that constantly use up your data). Tweak these settings yourself or automate them with a program like Tasker or JuiceDefender for an easy, hassle-free battery life boost. I'm always an advocate of getting a second battery, too—just keep it in your glove box or in your desk drawer for those emergencies where your phone is about to die.
>Speed It Up with Some Settings Tweaks<
How to Speed Up, Clean Up, and Revive Your Android PhoneIf your phone is a bit older, or it's just feeling sluggish, there are a number of things you can do to make it feel a little smoother. Trying a new home screen launcher is always good for a bit of speed, as is lowering your number of home screens and ditching all those widgets. If you're rooted, you can even overclock or install a custom ROM for even more speed. And, if you really want to get technical, there are some advanced settings you can play with to eke every bit of speed out of your phone possible. Just don't use a Task Killer, whatever you do (unless you're on a really, really old version of Android—like, 1.6 old).
Remove and Clean Your Case (If You Use One)
Of course, the inside of your phone isn't the only thing that needs cleaning. If your phone has gotten a bit dirty over the past year—which is even more likely if you have a dirt-trapping case on it—you might want to take it off and clean it up. The case shouldn't be too hard to clean, but make sure you don't clean your phone with anything that'll harm the screen.
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Is there a possible way to have a program boot on start up to curb loading times? Kinoma play is an amazing program, I love its functionality, ease of use, looks, and consolidation...hate the load time. Is it possible to make Kinoma boot when the phone boots to curb that time everytime the phone is reset? Honestly it would be a good idea to do with programs like opera as well.
Sure, add a shortcut of the .exe to Windwows\StartUp
You'll want to use a good file explorer like GSFinder, navigate to opera.exe or whatever, make a shortcut to it, and drop the shortcut in
\windows\startup
as syqe said.
Be aware that sometimes shortcuts to apps on the SD card don't always start up, due to the delays in accessing the SD on startup. However, try it and see.
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If it doesn't start up, then add to registry boot.
Boot the program after start up or include the boot time in start up, ( difference ? ). Now you have a program that is constantly running in the background ussing up program memory amd battery life. Is it worth the extra few seconds of bootup time ?
denco7 said:
Boot the program after start up or include the boot time in start up, ( difference ? ). Now you have a program that is constantly running in the background ussing up program memory amd battery life. Is it worth the extra few seconds of bootup time ?
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yes...i don't know if you have the newest version of kinoma play...its far and away the most amazing application for Winmo, it consolidates almost everything I do online and offline into one finger friendly app...but when you load it, its literally a 2-3 minute wait on my Touch HD. I Run a Lite Rom that doesn't have Touch Flo or anything bloated on And battery life...lol we have HTC devices here, if that was really an issue I would have went with a battery friendly phone. Thanks guys for all the prompt responses.
Check your scanning settings?
I'm running a TPC rom on my Tilt, and Kinoma's start time is a couple of seconds, not minutes.
The only reason I can think of for such a long start time is if you are letting it scan your entire device each time it starts. That was one of the biggest drawbacks to the program it its earlier releases. You can now turn the automatic scanning on or off, and select the directories you want scanned.
I hope this helps
Criss
Yes this information is quite useful that we can choose which drives or directories to scan and thus save our valuable time.
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Hello
I see there are many options to tune Today screen. First there are apps like HomeScreen++ which enhance Today.
And we have Today replacement.
So there are apps delivered with phones by big companies, like TouchFlo3D, Manila, Titanium, Glide etc.
We have some commercial progs: SPB Mobile Shell, Wisbar, Vito Today (or sth like this).
And we have many free apps:
Androkkid, FEWidgets, Infinity, PointUI and many others I don't remember.
All of them have their weaknesses - some have memory leaks, others are memory hog, some are slow, or doesn't have all features, hard to extend, or are simply ugly. But the biggest weakness (for free software) is lack of support.
I think it would be good to make an article comparing all of them.
It's pity that every software have it's own system of widgets incompatible with others. In old good days Today items were standarized, and (while not the prittiest and finger friendly) all were working together, so life were easier.
Now we have 20+ programs - every have titanium clock, every has weather plugin/widget, what I want to say is that all of them has the same functionality, but at the end old good Today screen has more "widgets" than all of them together.
What I'm looking for is something light, easily configurable, finger friendly and not eating my battery.
I see there are many like me. But there is nothing to choose. Most free projects are abandoned, commercial projects are usually very heavy and not easily configurable. Any comment?
Moved as not software release.
Thanx for moving, I wan't sure which forum to choose
What about Titanium that comes standard with WM6.5?
Maybe flash a 6.5 ROM, titanium is very customizable and it's not eating much memory and it's simple. You can also add different 'panels', such as a communication manager, weather, etc.
I have Titanium. I've installed JMLToday and it slowed down my phone so much that it was useless.
There is not so much plugins for Titanium as you suggest. I see no alternative in Titanium to have all important information at once:
-unread mail, SMS
-unanswered calls
-clock/date
-nearest calendar appointments
Default Titanium configuration put those information on different widgets and i need to tap one by one to check them all.
Ps. Yes, Titanium is beatifull.
I use S2U2 for unread mail/sms, missed calls, time, date and appointments best solution for me, so now I have a lot of free space on today to use for more things - apps, weather, wireless monitor, google search and so on
Marx2 said:
I have Titanium. I've installed JMLToday and it slowed down my phone so much that it was useless.
There is not so much plugins for Titanium as you suggest. I see no alternative in Titanium to have all important information at once:
-unread mail, SMS
-unanswered calls
-clock/date
-nearest calendar appointments
Default Titanium configuration put those information on different widgets and i need to tap one by one to check them all.
Ps. Yes, Titanium is beatifull.
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There's a panel for that.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=513431
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I hope that's what you mean.
I have had my Nexus S since Christmas. I love it! It is my 5th Android phone and by far the best, up until a couple of days ago I had not experienced any lag at all with the phone.
However recently the phone has been laggy, the back button seems to get stuck (with the backlight off) and it is starting to get unresponsive.
I am trying to work out what is wrong and I wonder if I have installed too many apps... I have >100 including lots of games. Almost all are installed to the SD card.
Could this be the cause of my problems?
Why would anyone install 100 game? I have well let me look hold.
1min later 423 games on SD thats close to 1.91gb but I only install 2-3games and when I finish I install another. Also your problem is you don't have BS service disabled which you should do and make sure they don't restart after shutdown on boot.
To be fair, of the >100 apps, i would say 30 are games
What is BS Service and how can I stop apps from starting automatically after reboot?
Huh Samsung failed again as Google supported them supplying folks with 512mb ram in 2011 talk about still unofficial stand on post mid2010 standard for new 2011 era. You wish you had that extra bit of ram now didn't ya
Anyways well you can use apps like Autostarts or Startup Auditor to disable service on boot/fc on restart. BS service lol well I think you know what "BS" means just disable anything you don't need which may be diff from person to person which is only what you know.
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i'll not be surprised at all, as i have just well over 377 apps/games installed
games usually take most of the space, as it needs to download additional files from the net
i have to constantly keep deleting stuff to make space for more games / apps
i'll say 70% of my space is utilized by games, and 30% by apps
in which they are both shared by MP3 collection and MTV clips collection, as there is simply not enough space for movies
AllGamer said:
i'll not be surprised at all, as i have just well over 377 apps/games installed
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Do you find that the performance of your phone has reduced as you have added more apps/games?
timshields said:
Do you find that the performance of your phone has reduced as you have added more apps/games?
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nope
i have 4 screen of widgets in the launcher desktop
and the only thing i would consider lag (because all the apps were moved to SD) is the ICON loading time, but it doesn't slowdown the launcher, it just shows with the default green AOS icon instead of the pretty ones
using GO Launcher EX as my default, more features than LauncherPRO / ADW yet faster and FREE!
same with GO SMS
both offers great skin capabilities, and lots of FREE themes (skins) to download
Generally, lag is a result of a poorly coded app sucking your processing power down the drain.
I have uninstalled a load of apps and everything is now running smoothly again.
Just need to figure out which one is causing the problem now...
Thanks guys
"There is not enough storage space available to complete this action. Please clear some space and try again"
I have like 2GB free on both the external SD and internal storage. Does anyone know why this is happening? And how to fix it?
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The space on your device is divided in different parts:
System
Data(for your apps)
Storage
The space you're probably talking about is the space left on your Storage part(where it also saves your photos/videos/music etc.). If you go into:
settings -> applications -> manage applications
You see a bar at the bottom of your screen which indicates how much application storage(the 'data part') you have left.
A way to solve this, is by clearing all the caches of the applications you have installed(there are apps on the Google Play Store that can do this for you) or delete applications that you hardly/don't use anymore.
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The space on your device is divided in different parts:
System
Data(for your apps)
Storage
The space you're probably talking about is the space left on your Storage part(where it also saves your photos/videos/music etc.). If you go into:
settings -> applications -> manage applications
You see a bar at the bottom of your screen which indicates how much application storage(the 'data part') you have left.
A way to solve this, is by clearing all the caches of the applications you have installed(there are apps on the Google Play Store that can do this for you) or delete applications that you hardly/don't use anymore.
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I am getting this message more and more often. I did use an app to clear application cache but that didn't do any good.
Im using JellyShot 2.6 and the error appears even after clean installation (full wipe, dalvik, cache, system, data). More often it appears when I use my phone as mass storage and transferring files. It's annoying really.
Use link2SD and partition your SD card. I did mine and got 1gb of internal memory
Found the cause!
Dear friend,
I have had the same issue, and wanted to find the why.
So I have used Titanium Backup's "freeze" function to find WHO.
After 30 minutes of freezing and defrosting I have found the cause!
It is an app that tries to access the SD card before it is actually mounted.
This app is VIBER. Try to freeze it and you will not have this message, useless and annoying message.
Sure it is a bug.
I will try something to overcome this problem, then I will post again.
Thank you for inspiration!
I have just transferred Viber to SD.
Now this message does not annoy me anymore, but I'm testing if viber works well on SD also.
Viber issue
Unfortunately Viber do not works in SD card before opening it.
So we have 2 choices:
1. Open viber manually after every restart
2. Watching its message everytime we boot the phone
If people @Viber will work on this there would be a third option...
Update
And now, after moving Viber back to internal memory... the message does not appear anymore!
Alright I'll explain a bit my case.
At CM10 I had no problem with internal memory, I had around 200-170mb free with all my must-have apps, and even other ones I think. I switched to CM10.1, most precisely, to besttt's Slim Bean, as @mikeioannina said, it's just not necessary to wipe /data at any moment, (see this wiki article) so yeah, to update from like.. Slim Bean 7 to SB8, I just wipe /system (even when it's said not to), cache and dalvik. Even after removing a LOT of system apps (over 15), including the google search one (QuickSearchBox.apk) my phone displays a total of 64 megabytes free, with all the SD card apps moved to SD card.
I am experiencing the problems in having low internal storage, such as this problem. I haven't been able to update whatsapp or download any other app, not even BBM that is 13mb, it just won't let me install due to "insufficent storage available", even when I have enough room for both apps.
What do I think that happens? I guess there are some leftovers from previous ROM(s) in /data, and I wanted to know how to clean properly my /data/, or well just entirely my internal storage WITHOUT having to:
Having to reinstall ROM
Wiping the whole /data
Doing a factory reset
Having to redownload ALL my apps again
as I see the procedures listed above unnecessary at my case.
EDIT:I also did a sum of what my apps weigh in Settings>Apps and gave this result (approximate), not exceeding the 200mb, just as it was at CM10.
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EDIT2 The sum of all the apps that were at Settings>Apps>All, I mean, these:
(I have more space free because deleted the YouTube app, it's still really low)
and it gave me an approximate of 240mb, being used by all of those apps, where's my 160mb left of free storage?
Best regards~
No one? This took me a bit of effort..
They may say that it is not necessary, however the best way to do things is always to do a full wipe before installing or updating any ROM. This is especially useful if you encounter problems like this. Yes, it is indeed time consuming and tedious to redownload the apps and restore the save data, but this is the best way to ensure that the installation or update went well. It is to also prevent leftover data from messing up with the ROM installation.
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I think that the dalvik uses around 60-100 MB depending on how much apps you have, and its not showed. Apps like Link2sd tell you that it can move the dalvik to the sd, but if you make a wipe from the cwm the dalvik is created in the phone memory again. At least that is what happen to me.
By the way, you could also erase the apps before you install a rom, delete them from the zip. Just be aware of which ones are important to the system. Maybe you gain some free MB