What are some must have apps for our phone after being rooted and making phone quicker? Plz give details of what app will do if you post any and thanks.
I would love to see some replies to this as well! I think most people use advanced task killer to speed up their phones but hey we will learn maybe.
Speeding up Apps
I am convinced that task killers do not work as you might expect. The way that Android works with memory is that for most apps there is little use to killing an inactive task. Most apps don't leach memory in the phase where they are unused, and are deleted from memory after being unused the longest. If there is a sudden need for additional memory, the built in garbage collector in Android kills old processes, otherwise the app sits dormant in memory. If you want to start up that app again, the memory is just reactivated. Task killers just kill apps that are sitting dormant for no real reason--they don't gain you speed for certain. They MIGHT help if an app doesn't play properly with memory, but generally you won't notice an advantage to doing this, in fact things might slow down(you'll have to relaunch that app to use it again rather than reactivate it). The only "speed up" apps I use are:
Quick Settings--To quickly access commonly used dettings rather than digging through the list.
SetCPU--WHich allows you to overclock or underclock your CPU. In reality, I used this more to underclock than overclock(preferring battery to speed).
and Swiftkey X--Which speeds up your data input through its wicked cool prediction of what I want to type next. Other than that you have a Tegra II dual core beast. Its already fast. Find a good EXT4 based system(ext4 is the system's internal drive format...ext3 is the standard buil, but ext4 is faster(somewhat). Also use a good ROM and enjoy. How fast do you need it to be? I don't experience much lag at all with my phone.
setcpu for speed and improving battery life.
Autokiller memory optimizer (optimum is a good setting to start at), autorun manager, sd booster & juice plotter.
Those are good tools for performance, battery life and understanding how much time you have left. Depending on your preference, juice defender also. I love it, adds hours of life to my phone, but some people don't like it, all depends on your preference I guess.
I agree with gpmartinson also on task killers, their are tools to manage your phone without using such a raw and possible hurtful or annoying app.
Don't forget, their are many threads identical to this one also.
Eh, if your interested, here's a list of my apps: http://www.appbrain.com/user/bmann_420
I'm just posting this cause I like to see other peoples lists also (at least somewhat android educated users' lists) lol =)
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simi clock
set cpu
go sms
launcher pro
player pro
quickpic
camera 360
Root Explorer and SetCPU! Root explorer can really do it all.
Power Amp music player(obviously free)
That's all I can think of
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GO SMS
GO Launcher
Root explorer
Picsay Pro
Quick Pic
Setcpu
Vidtrim Pro
Beautiful Widgets
1) Titanium Backup
2) SetCPU or Pimp my CPU
3) App Remover
4) Root Explorer
5) QR Droid Private
6) Camcard
The only way to make the phone "quicker" is to install an efficient rom along with an overclocked kernel.
1. Titanium backup
2. SMS backup
3. LG 2X/Black/#D Notofications
4. Launcher Pro
5. Beautiful Widgets
6. Skype
7. Tune-in radio.
8. Soundhound
1. Handcent
2. Meebo
3. Soundhound
4. Pandora
5. Minimalistic Text
6. Myweather
7. Google Reader
Newsrob Pro (std is fine too)
Handcent SMS
Tweetdeck
Beautiful Widgets
LauncherPro Plus
SMS Backup+
Titanium Backup
Rom Manager
Dolphin Browser
Wapedia (wikipedia app)
Spare Parts+ is one I did not see anyone list. I use it to speed up windows animations a transitions. Set the speed to fast and it is like having a new phone.
Juice Defender - free edition was enough for me
DSP Manager - a must if you love music (but then who doesnt love music)
gpmartinson said:
I am convinced that task killers do not work as you might expect. The way that Android works with memory is that for most apps there is little use to killing an inactive task. Most apps don't leach memory in the phase where they are unused, and are deleted from memory after being unused the longest. If there is a sudden need for additional memory, the built in garbage collector in Android kills old processes, otherwise the app sits dormant in memory. If you want to start up that app again, the memory is just reactivated. Task killers just kill apps that are sitting dormant for no real reason--they don't gain you speed for certain. They MIGHT help if an app doesn't play properly with memory, but generally you won't notice an advantage to doing this, in fact things might slow down(you'll have to relaunch that app to use it again rather than reactivate it). The only "speed up" apps I use are:
Quick Settings--To quickly access commonly used dettings rather than digging through the list.
SetCPU--WHich allows you to overclock or underclock your CPU. In reality, I used this more to underclock than overclock(preferring battery to speed).
and Swiftkey X--Which speeds up your data input through its wicked cool prediction of what I want to type next. Other than that you have a Tegra II dual core beast. Its already fast. Find a good EXT4 based system(ext4 is the system's internal drive format...ext3 is the standard buil, but ext4 is faster(somewhat). Also use a good ROM and enjoy. How fast do you need it to be? I don't experience much lag at all with my phone.
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Watchdog Task Manager works. If you set it up right, all it does is monitor, never autokills. If an app starts using excessive cpu cycles it alerts you. It is very useful in finding apps that kill your battery.
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Launcher Pro
Titanium Backup
Tasker
Battery Notifier
GEICO BROSTACHE
Here are some of the system tools that I use to manage/monitor my android.
Titanium Backup
To backup and freeze/uninstall useless system apps
Android Assistant
To prevents apps from auto startup at reboot
Easy battery saver
Battery Management
Betterbatterystats
To find out what's eating my battery
EF file explorer
File explorer...
SD maid
To clear up unwanted files and free up more space
Battery info widget
To see the battery temperature (I realised the other battery apps above don't show that! And my battery gets really hot sometimes, so I'm trying to monitor it for a while)
Where's my droid
To track phone if lost.
I know there are some overlaps. If you have any advice on what might be a better combination or replacement, feel free to comment on mine setup or any other posters.
Also, others can look to this thread to see what might be a good combination for themselves.
If time permits, I could try combine them into list... if I could think of a way to categorize them...
I found an application named AutoKiller Memory Optimizer by which applying its tweaks It makes my phone more smoothly and saves my battery very well!
There are some reviews below links:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=622666
http://andrs.w3pla.net/autokiller
http://andrs.w3pla.net/autokiller/details
http://andrs.w3pla.net/autokiller/kernel
If anyone has installed this application plz give your opinion !
Task killers are pointless, just use Autostarts and Greenify.
That combo will be far more efficient
It's not a regular task killer! I suggest to try it!
Listy2021 said:
Task killers are pointless, just use Autostarts and Greenify.
That combo will be far more efficient
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It's not a regular task killer! I suggest to try it!
ehsan453 said:
It's not a regular task killer! I suggest to try it!
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Yes it is, it's just filled with other guff to make it look more advanced or whatever
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Yes it is, it's just filled with other guff to make it look more advanced or whatever
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You have not test it yet, therefore you can't understand what i mean!
ehsan453 said:
You have not test it yet, therefore you can't understand what i mean!
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How do you know I haven't tested it before?
The whole reason I can make a judgement on task killers (including this one) is that before using Autostarts & Greenify I tested other options, therefore my opinion is valid :good:
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How do you know I haven't tested it before?
The whole reason I can make a judgement on task killers (including this one) is that before using Autostarts & Greenify I tested other options, therefore my opinion is valid :good:
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It's not a task killer. It's an app that modify your lmk and add some tweaks. But you can kill some apps from this app.
What is so special about this task killer? No, I am not gonna test it.
Vit5000 said:
What is so special about this task killer? No, I am not gonna test it.
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First Plz read reviews in first post and also these two reviews:
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Releasing RAM With Autokiller Memory Optimizer
Have you ever wished to speed up your Android, but now known how? Have you tried task killers, but found it hard to tell whether you made an improvement? In this post, we’ll look at Autokiller Memory Optimizer, an app that gives you more control over how Android releases its system resources.
“You shouldn’t be using a task killer with Android” clearly explains why the task killers are not a good solution to fasten up your system in the Android interface. Briefly, we might say that the reason that task killers are no good for Android is that the same system regulates itself for releasing RAM memory. Process are not killed when you close the app; instead the process stays open until the system itself realizes it needs more memory to run a new process. This way, you can actually gain some speed when you restart the app, as its resources may still be in memory.
Just like a computer, a smartphone uses Random Access Memory (RAM) for processing the functionality of softwares and apps. When you are running low on RAM, your phone will start to slow down, because it needs more memory than is available. As a solution to this problem, Android devices has an autokiller that automatically shuts apps down when the memory used is close to the limit. Obviously this limit depends on the capabilities and configuration of your phone.
If you root your phone (and I totally recommend you to do that) you can use apps for changing your system parameters like the RAM auto killing. One of this apps is Autokiller Memory Optimizer available on the Android Market.
As the developer says: “AutoKiller Memory Optimizer is designed to fine-tune Android system’s inner memory manager routines to keep your device fast and smooth. It also features a full-powered process manager which lets you control your whole system.”
Warning: Messing around with system configurations like this is potentially dangerous to your phone, and not for the faint-hearted! Check out our other How To articles for safer tips on improving performance.
Going for It
The system itself divides the process into six different types, and here’s where it gets technical. The six types are as follows.
FOREGROUND_APP: This is the process running the current foreground app. We’d really rather not kill it! Value set in system/rootdir/init.rc on startup.
VISIBLE_APP: This is a process only hosting activities that are visible to the user, so we’d prefer they don’t disappear. Value set in system/rootdir/init.rc on startup.
SECONDARY_SERVER: This is a process holding a secondary server — killing it will not have much of an impact as far as the user is concerned. Value set in system/rootdir/init.rc on startup.
HIDDEN_APP: This is a process only hosting activities that are not visible, so it can be killed without any disruption. Value set in system/rootdir/init.rc on startup.
CONTENT_PROVIDER: This is a process with a content provider that does not have any clients attached to it. If it did have any clients, its adjustment would be the one for the highest-priority of those processes.
EMPTY_APP: This is a process without anything currently running in it. Definitely the first to go! Value set in system/rootdir/init.rc on startup. This value is initialized in the constructor, careful when refering to this static variable externally.
For every type of app, the system has a limit of pages (1 page=4 kilobytes) predefined. Autokiller Memory Optimizer allows you to modify this.
For the changes you can make you have the freedom to set as you wish, but there is a lock on the three first types of apps (this can be removed in the Preferences tab) and there isalso a list of presets configuration as follows (the numbers corresponds to megabytes remaining before shutting apps in the last 3 types of apps): Moderate (30, 35, 40), Optimum (40, 50, 60), Strict (60, 70, 80), Aggressive (82, 90, 98), Extreme (150, 160, 170), Ultimate (200, 225, 250) and (a wink from the developer about the TV series) Lost (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42).
Autokiller presets
Within these presets, you should try different ones, because every phone has its own RAM capacity and it would not be a good idea to set a killing parameter that is very close to your RAM total capacity as your phone would be killing apps constantly and you wouldn’t be able to use it at all.
Processes list
The app also categorizes the running apps in the six types and you can kill them manually for RAM release in the tab processes and the same occurs with the services in the current tab.
Services list
This app has also a donate version with some more features like the Chuck Norris mode when you can configure the app to use aggressive killing to release memory. It also gives the ability to set a different preset when the screen of the phone is off (this is very useful because when the screen is off you do not need memory to run new apps, but it still consumes battery).
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Tweak your system thanks to AutoKiller Memory Optimizer
Summary
Relax, I’m not trying to fool you into thinking that a task killer is really a tweak. Don’t be fooled by the ‘AutoKiller’ part of the app’s name, focus on the other words instead, because AutoKiller Memory Optimizer will allow you to fiddle around and make a few adjustments. Read on and find out what kind of adjustments I’m talking about, and whether the app is worth your time.
Features & Use
AutoKiller Memory Optimizer is there to help you bring your system up to par by conducting a bit of fine tuning. The app comes with a task manager. Use the task manager to get rid of lagging processes, the logic behind this being that if you’ve got something running that’s not really doing anything useful, but does consume 98% of the CPU as well as a hefty chunk of memory you should really unload energy hoggers. Your system will thank you by running smoothly. The task manager also displays the oom_value for ever app—more details below.
The app allows you to regulate the settings for the OOM killer, the automatic killer integrated in every Android device whose role it is to create more memory space wherever possible. As you know, in the Android world applications are never halted or shut down, they are merely rendered inactive—until the memory pipes up and the Out Of Memory Killer rears its head. But when does memory shortage become critical? And who decides which apps should be banished, and when should this occur? If you want to make these types of decisions yourself take a look at AutoKiller Memory Optimizer.
Android divides running apps into six categories ranging from the app that you’re currently working with to ‘empty apps’ (i.e. apps that you left by hitting the back button at some point). Once RAM space becomes too low the OOM killer will start by banishing said empty apps, and, if need be, continue working its way up. AutoKiller Memory Optimizer lets you decide how much free RAM space is required for your device run smoothly. There are different presettings to pick from (‘moderate’, ‘aggressive’, etc) and you can check out the developer’s website to read up on user experiences.
Bottom line:
AutoKiller Memory Optimizer affords you easy access to essential systems settings, allowing your Android to perform as optimally as possible. How essential this kind of app is is contingent on lots of factors: which device you’re working with, how good the manufacturer’s presettings are and what can be done to adjust them.
Screen & Controls
AutoKiller Memory Optimizer is set up in a very logical way. While high skilled, expert knowledge of Android isn’t essential in order to get the best performance out of the controls, it doesn’t hurt to have some experience. You can find in depth information and details regarding the settings options on the developer’s website, which means that you really don’t need much background knowledge in order to get something out of this app.
If you have a bit of experience you will find that the app’s controls are intuitive; if you’ve never worked with tweaking before I recommend that you give this app a miss.
Speed & Stability
AutoKiller Memory Optimizer is fast, stabil and dependable. I’ve been using the app for just over a month and it hasn’t crashed once so far.
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This actually helps very much with memory management. I've been using it alongside Greenify and Autostarts for several months now.
Those individuals banging on about it being just another task manager clearly did not use this app as it is intended to be used.
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If i use the "ultimate" preset, will it drain my battery faster?
AzizWahid said:
If i use the "ultimate" preset, will it drain my battery faster?
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Best preset is optimum
Its 2018 now. Is it still useful?
Android Booster is a top-rated mobile phone optimization app that helps millions of users speed up their Android phones, reclaim memory, save battery, kill tasks & completely uninstall unwanted apps.
I use it more as battery saver (i have use a lot of that kind) and i can tell you people this app leaves me speechless. You dont need to do anything just choose a profil or create your own and here we are thats all...worth a try
.....and sorry if its any fault on this thread its my first one
BATTERY TWEAKS AND TIPS
Introduction:
This is a guide that will help you save battery. After searching many forums and websites i came across a few tips that worked and a few that didn't. These tips are based on my own personal experience and therefore may not apply to everyone.
WARNING: Battery calibration is a big no-no. This can reduce your battery's life and in most cases does not work. I tried it a few times and one of my batteries went bad and had to be replaced. Also, task killers are not recommended at all. This is because android is based on a linux kernel which keeps apps running in the background by default. By killing these apps, many experts say that there is an actual decrease in battery life.
Also avoid battery saving or startup managing apps...
Apps that clear cache are ok and would not result in loss of battery life.
Remeber: do these at your own risk. I am not responsible for any damage cause to your device.
TIPS
The following tips do not require you to be rooted:
1. First and foremost, you must do the obvious stuff:
- Set screen brightness low
- Turn off 3G, packet data and WIFI if not in use
-use 2G networks if you don't use data
-turn off auto-sync
-allow Wifi to sleep when the phone is asleep (Go to the Wifi settings in your phone, press the Menu Button, press advanced, press Wi-Fi sleep policy and change it to "When screen turns off")
-Uninstall unused or unwanted apps
-Remove unwanted widgets from your homescreen
2. This is a trick i have tested and has given me excellent results:
-remove your battery and take a knife or another sharp object and scrape the metal contacts with it and also scrape the metal contacts in the phone's batter compartment. This allows for the batter to be in good contact with the contacts (avoid shortage).
The following tips require you to be rooted or have experience with using ADB:
1.Unwanted Files and Apps
-It is recommended to use root explorer to delete any system apps that you do not need
-What many people seem to neglect is also clearing out the "left-behind" data files of these apps. You must clear these by finding the corresponding folder in the director /data/data with RootExplorer etc.
-After uninstalling apps I highly recommend that you clear the dalvik-cache folder and reboot.
-Many unwanted samsung apps or sync apps cause battery drainage and should be deleted.
-Remember Google is your friend, if you see an app of which you are unsure if to delete, Google it!!
2.Build Prop Tweaks
-I am unsure about how well these work but i have them in my build.prop anyway.
In rootexplorer go to the directory: /system and you will see a file called build.prop. Open that file with the text editor (Ensure the partition is mounted as RW) and add these following lines to the end of the file:
ro.ril.disable.power.collapse=0
pm.sleep_mode=1
wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=180
ro.mot.eri.losalert.delay=1000
ro.kernel.android.checkjni=0
profiler.force_disable_err_rpt=1
profiler.force_dosable_ulog=1
ro.kernel.android.checkjni=0
logcat.live=disable
persist.sys.purgeable_assets=1
3. Avoid some init.d scripts
-I have no intention of bashing developers but some zipaligning and sqlite tweaks have been proven to cause battery drain. This is very unnoticeable though and if you want, you can keep those
-A ram managing tweak is highly recommended. Google "Flyon Mod" or "V6 supercharger"
these allow your phone to store apps in ram for faster access and prevents the ram from becoming overloaded.
4. Use a good CPU governer, IO Scheduler and Cpu freqencies
- These can be adjusted using apps such as: SetCPU and No-Frills
- More info about these can be found at: CLICK
Thanks for the guide! Although the knife part seemed a little too much