I'm forced to restart my phone everyday ,when I don't it becomes really laggy, the phone stutters when I scroll , when I swipe between the homescreen, when I switch between apps, I'm running stock kit Kat with Franco kernel r33, but I remember well the same used to happen when I had my nexus 4 and everything was stock I just had root .
Just closing all opened apps doesn't solve the problem .
Do you guys have similar issues?
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I never had to do that with my phone.
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Nope. I restart once a week, if that. Never have any lag/stuttering/slowdown issues. Stock rooted.
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Nope. Everything stock at the moment but I've also used Franco r33 and didn't have that problem then either. If you're just using the recent apps screen to close your apps that might not be enough since it'll only list foreground apps and not background services which would more likely be the culprit. If you aren't already, try using an advanced task killer app (I can't recommend any as I don't use them) and try killing services one by one until the lag stops so that you can figure out which app/service is causing it.
There is no reason to use a task killer or to kill all apps.
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There is no reason to use a task killer or to kill all apps.
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Not for everyday use, no, but to diagnose which app is being a resource hog what else would you suggest?
I've never restarted my phone due to "lag." My current uptime is about 3 weeks. I'm bone stock.
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Never restart. Faux r33 too
Try restoring the factory image and running it for a day or so without any extra apps. At least then you'll know if the phone is faulty. It's likely to be an app or two that are using a lot of memory, but I thought the mighty Nexus could cope with anything!
I have stock ROM, no root, since launch and I've used it everyday 24/7.
No lag problems, never had the need of rebooting it, as a matter of fact sometimes it has been on for more than a month without a poweroff or reboot.
While I've not "had to" restart my N5 due to lag, I have gotten into the habit of restarting it every night when I recharge. I started doing this when google play services (old version) was going haywire and sucking down the battery every now and then.
I only restart my phone when it's really needed (like an app requires reboot and etc)
I restart my phone maybe once every two days or so just to start fresh. Same with your computer restarting it will eliminate processes that you may have started and not ended or background processes running and so on and so fourth.
I only restart when the device doesn't sleep. I find after a day or 2 Google now keeps the device from sleeping. A reboot fixes it right up.
Never experienced lag. Running stock, gravity box, apex launcher and Franco kernel
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Having to restart your phone that frequently is not normal. Not that it would help a lot, but have you tried switching to ART?
OP, how many apps do you have? Anything else you modified but the kernel? Overclock, underclock, UV, etc.? Give us more infos.
I recently set up my tasker profiles for morning - morning commute - work and home. The last one I have is a nightly reboot at 4am. I just have the tendency to restart my devices daily. Memory dump and fresh start every morning never gives me any issues.
Look into it.
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I never restart my phone unless there's a need to flash something (ROM update, kernel, etc.).
Also, I think my phone feels smoother than before, especially when I don't clear anything in recent apps.
So i just flashed back the stock kernel and everything went back to normal, I guess I'm done with custom kernels, I've always had bad experiences with them, I don't know if I'm really picky and other people don't notice it, but I can't believe I'm the only one who experiences lag while on custom kernels, maybe the're too agressive trying to save power?
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Hello!
My RAZR HD is having bad battery life. I have to charge it everyday!
I think the culprit might be this com.motorola.ServiceDialingNumbers. My guess is that it is not letting the phone sleep. Check it out:
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Hi,
Froze the app with Titanium Backup and the battery seems normal now. The phone can finally sleep. Did anyone else notice this problem?
I'm running Jellybean 4.1.2. The stock rom was a Claro one, I had some problems upgrading to JB, used matt's tool to restore to 4.0.4, flashed BR Retail rom, then upgraded.
I'd love to know if that's a bug
Seeing your status bar.. i think you need to clear up your memory and reduce syncing cycle for facebook, gmail and other services that you have.
No need for clearing up the memory. I did a factory reset 2 days ago. I also use Facebook constantly
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So, I followed your suggestion. I also restored the service numbers app and cleansed app data. It's better now. The phone is deep sleeping, consuming only 1% overnight and I'm getting 3h of display on time with 35% battery remaining. Will post screenshots later.
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Thanks a lot man!!!
I'm having the same problem!
Is there any other way to freeze ou stop this program without root?
I forgot to use the root keeper when I upgraded....
At least I now know the problem...
Regards!
Don't think so. I also figured that the Facebook app was battery hungry. Froze that too, now I'm using friendcaster
You can try to restore 4.0.4, root and upgrade keeping root, at your own risk of course.
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Don't think so. I also figured that the Facebook app was battery hungry. Froze that too, now I'm using friendcaster
You can try to restore 4.0.4, root and upgrade keeping root, at your own risk of course.
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I've just downgraded it. Now I gonna root.
But if I freeze the ServiceDialingNumbers, the the battery cicle remains good as ICS?
And, freezing this service the phone still perfectly works?
Sorry the many questions, but is that because I only will upgrade again if the battery came to your normal consume.
Thanks a lot!
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I've just downgraded it. Now I gonna root.
But if I freeze the ServiceDialingNumbers, the the battery cicle remains good as ICS?
And, freezing this service the phone still perfectly works?
Sorry the many questions, but is that because I only will upgrade again if the battery came to your normal consume.
Thanks a lot!
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The phone works if you freeze ServiceDialingNumbers, It just won't have the Service Dialing Numbers group in your phonebook
Later, I restored the ServiceDialingNumbers app and then cleaned it's app data from the Android Applications menu and the problem went away - no more battery draining from SDN.
After fixing SDN, freezing Facebook and setting update interval to 4 hours in most apps, the battery is better than ever. Right now, 2h 32m running, mostly idle, and still got 98% battery.
Passing just to say thanks again!
I'm already in 4.1.2 again, but this time with root.
I've frozen the Service Dialing Numbers, and my battery is doing really great!
After I will try to restore and clear cache to see whats gonna happen!
Thanks a lot man!
See ya!
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I just clear data of com.motorola.ServiceDialingNumbers and restart. Phone now goes to deep sleep. Thank you man! Good call.
Too soon to say. Later the phone back to keep awake all the time.
Them I block the app with the Gemini App Manager. And now phone's doing good.
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I just clear data of com.motorola.ServiceDialingNumbers and restart. Phone now goes to deep sleep. Thank you man! Good call.
Too soon to say. Later the phone back to keep awake all the time.
Them I block the app with the Gemini App Manager. And now phone's doing good.
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I also I have the same problem, upgrade to jelly bean with rsd, then I realized that this process does not let him sleep on my cell, clear the cache and restart the process but only worked a few minutes, then I realized that keeping him awake again my phone, I had to freeze the process and so far it has worked well, not if there is a negative effect freeze the process
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Too soon to say. Later the phone back to keep awake all the time.
Them I block the app with the Gemini App Manager. And now phone's doing good.
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Hi.
Do you know if there's any free app that can freeze this service? I'd hate to pay to implement a workaround to a bug by myself! Seems that Titanim and Gemini both require payment.
Thanks!!
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Hi.
Do you know if there's any free app that can freeze this service? I'd hate to pay to implement a workaround to a bug by myself! Seems that Titanim and Gemini both require payment.
Thanks!!
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System Tuner Pro does it.
this app is supposed to allow you to take a backup of your app data from one android device and restore it in another android device.
Background:
I have galaxy s3 (i747), galaxy note 10.1 (n-8013), asus transformer prime (tf-201)
I play games on all three devices, and would like to sync progress in all three.
All devices are stock and unrooted.
Observations:
1) the only way to sync up without buying premium version is to start carbon server on all devices, and then log onto a chrome browser from pc.
While makin backups of apps, the carbon server kept crashing.
2) i was unable to restore games progress. The system always said restore completed successfully, but when i opened the game, it was not really restored.
I tried temple run 2 and hillclimb racing.. restore did not work.
3) most serious side effect - this app does not allow device to go in sleep and causes partial wakelocks. Drains battery.
Here is a screenshot of better batterystats when carbon was installed
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My devices always went to sleep prior to installing this app... so this app was narrowed to be the culprit.
I uninstalled carbon from all my devices and rebooted... now my system goes to sleep!
See screenshot below, when my system is going to sleep finally!
I do not recommend installing this app.
Hope this revew helps.
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Proof from my galaxy S3.
See attached image.. my phone drained out in 6hrs overnight with this app turned on. Uninstalling the app allows my device to sleep again.
Hi there,
I'm not sure, but it seems that a restart of the device after performing a backup can solve the problem (well okay..., that's more a workaround than a solution...). At least after a restart I had no further partial wakelocks of the *backup* listed in the BetterBatteryStats-app.
Regards
JoeS
smrsxn said:
this app is supposed to allow you to take a backup of your app data from one android device and restore it in another android device.
Background:
I have galaxy s3 (i747), galaxy note 10.1 (n-8013), asus transformer prime (tf-201)
I play games on all three devices, and would like to sync progress in all three.
All devices are stock and unrooted.
Observations:
1) the only way to sync up without buying premium version is to start carbon server on all devices, and then log onto a chrome browser from pc.
While makin backups of apps, the carbon server kept crashing.
2) i was unable to restore games progress. The system always said restore completed successfully, but when i opened the game, it was not really restored.
I tried temple run 2 and hillclimb racing.. restore did not work.
3) most serious side effect - this app does not allow device to go in sleep and causes partial wakelocks. Drains battery.
Here is a screenshot of better batterystats when carbon was installed
I believe this app enables something in adb restore that keeps waking system to do backups.
My devices always went to sleep prior to installing this app... so this app was narrowed to be the culprit.
I uninstalled carbon from all my devices and rebooted... now my system goes to sleep!
See screenshot below, when my system is going to sleep finally!
I do not recommend installing this app.
Hope this revew helps.
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I had the same problem and when awake it kept my cpu pegged all the time....
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JoeSac said:
I'm not sure, but it seems that a restart of the device after performing a backup can solve the problem (well okay..., that's more a workaround than a solution...). At least after a restart I had no further partial wakelocks of the *backup* listed in the BetterBatteryStats-app.
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That's because backup needs to be re-enabled via ADB, using the Helium desktop app, after every reboot (on non-rooted devices at least).
I have Helium on my non-rooted SGS3 and have noticed the same thing but I'm not convinced that it's actually affecting battery life.
Recently I've noticed a lot of battery use when the phone is supposed to be asleep. (Rom -- old Vahalla Final). Battery life used to be okay. I ran cpu spy and better battery stats and found out the phone was not going into deep sleep mode at all. Where do I go from here?
what is bbs telling you is keeping the phone awake in terms of programs
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Check wakelocks... both partial and kernel. Then look at alarms and network stats...
seems to me that deep sleep is working just fine on my sgs4g.
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That doesn't show deep sleep... just really good battery.
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That doesn't show deep sleep... just really good battery.
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always gotta spoil someone's fun, don't you?
anyway, let me just say this, screen was off the whole time. the thing that surprises me is i know for a fact that the last time i charged it was more than the time indicated (feb 28th to be exact cause that's when I posted in the proton thread) and i had to turn the phone on to get the screen shot and it was still at 1% before i plugged it in.
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what is bbs telling you is keeping the phone awake in terms of programs
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under "kernel wakelocks" it says "ste-gps-interface" 93.6 % but I almost never use gps.
then "vbus_present" 19.9%
"synet"3.2%
"powermanagerservice" 1.8 %
"radio-interface" 1.5%
"max8998-charger"0.1%
and the rest are 0%.
so what is "ste-gps-interface"? There are some threads on it. The only time I switch on gps is for this speedometer-radar detector app that I haven't used in months.
partial wakelocks are negligible.
Under alarms I am getting 61 wakeups for Yahoo mail which makes sense as I'm on too many email lists. I've now frozen the Ymail application since I don't want email notifications on my phone anyway. the next highest is 21 wakeups for maps and I don't know why that is.
Sounds like your ROM/kernel's GPS handler is screwed up.
My suggestion would be another flash of your ROM without a wipe, reboot to system, unlock phone and accept any SU request popups, wait 10 minutes, and then if you had a custom kernel reboot to recovery, flash your kernel, reboot to system, wait another 10 minutes... and check Better Battery Stats to see if GPS is still going nuts. If so, you'll probably need to wipe system and just follow those steps again.
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Sounds like your ROM/kernel's GPS handler is screwed up.
My suggestion would be another flash of your ROM without a wipe, reboot to system, unlock phone and accept any SU request popups, wait 10 minutes, and then if you had a custom kernel reboot to recovery, flash your kernel, reboot to system, wait another 10 minutes... and check Better Battery Stats to see if GPS is still going nuts. If so, you'll probably need to wipe system and just follow those steps again.
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I reflashed the rom using CWM after wiping everything but I am still getting the ste-gps-interface wakelock. I'm wondering if reinstalling the system and bootloaders with Odin will do anything. I tried a different modem with no results.
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I reflashed the rom using CWM after wiping everything but I am still getting the ste-gps-interface wakelock. I'm wondering if reinstalling the system and bootloaders with Odin will do anything. I tried a different modem with no results.
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Unchecked everything in settings / location services and see if that makes a difference.
Do you have GPS turned on or off when your getting that wakelock? If it's off turn it on and leave it on.
Maps and GPS rings a bell. Something about maps reporting your location periodically comes out of the dusty portions of my memory. Might want to do an XDA and a Web search on that.
Yep...
https://www.google.com/search?q=Maps+gps+wakelock
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Believe that I saw something about Maps still running even when it's frozen, so you actually have to uninstall it.
Ive tried two ics roms and installed proton v2 and it is not deep sleeping. So i always end up reverting to hefe. Can anyone tell me why or confirm this ?
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This is a simple question, but I'm wondering if the answer is complex...
With Android 5.1 and below, Google backed up Apps, and certain system settings, etc, but NEVER app data itself.
With 6.0, I noticed some apps (depending if they're compatible with google API's) back up and restore app data as well, included with the app restoration.
You may ask, why would this guy not want google to restore app data?
Simple... In my testing for a seperate issue, I ran into a serious wake lock problem. After a full RUU, full wipe, and reinstallation of a Marshmallow ROM on my M8, I am getting constant wakelocks and battery drains after all my apps are restored with their data.
I would like to test to see if it is faulty data possibly restored with an app, but that unfortunately gets restored with Google's App backup now.
Anyone know if there's a way to system wide wipe app data? NOT just the cache? Or just tell Google only to backup Apps and not data?
Thank you!
The answer is simple although it's probably not what you want to hear. Don't let Google restore your apps. Do it the old fashioned way. Start clean and install your apps as you need them.
If you're not willing to do that, I'd suggest using Titanium Backup to restore your apps instead of Google. With TB you can choose to restore apps without the data. If it were me though, I'd just bite the bullet and install them one at a time. Seems to me that in a case like yours, that would be the best way to go.
Make a backup of what you have now with TWRP. Then start fresh. If you figure out what's going on, you could maybe restore the backup and fix what needs fixing on it.
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@bigblueshock you aren't by chance using a 5ghz Wi-Fi network are you?
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@robocuff - Yeah i suppose so. It doesn't take too much more time to install one by one. I guess an extra few minutes.
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@bigblueshock you aren't by chance using a 5ghz Wi-Fi network are you?
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I am... Bad idea? =/ I can always do 2.4 instead if that makes a difference.
I also made sure wifi scanning is off.
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I am... Bad idea? =/
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There's a hellish 5ghz wakelock bug on MM. Try 2.4ghz or cellular and see if it sleeps.
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There's a hellish 5ghz wakelock bug on MM. Try 2.4ghz or cellular and see if it sleeps.
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Will try this too. Ill just completely turn off 5 GHZ in my wifi options, just to make sure it doesn't try to connect to any.
I will report back if this helps. Thanks again!
Well, just want to provide an update...
It may not be marshmallow causing this after all. I just did a full clean flash into Viper 4.6.1 (android 5.0.2)
During the day and evening phone was fine. Over night is when the wake locks started happening sporadically. In about 6 hours, dropped about 10%. I checked Wakelock Detector app, and it seems google play services is really pumping out those wakes.
I don't really use bluetooth, I only have 1 device even paired with my phone (my car which disconnects when turned off). But I do keep bluetooth Enabled
I just charged my phone to 100%, turned on Airplane mode + wifi. I'm going to monitor during the day. Is there a way to detect within wakelock detector exactly what part of android is causing this? It doesn't seem like an app itself, because the wakes are coming from android system. Or could an app be causing the google play services wake?
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There's a hellish 5ghz wakelock bug on MM. Try 2.4ghz or cellular and see if it sleeps.
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Hey @dottat and others. I ran into something funny I figured I'd share Not sure of the cause, but take a look. I posted in the respective ROM's thread, but I thought I'd share it in the Q&A as well.
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A day before this, I temporarily went back to a 5.0.1/5.0.2 ROM, found out it was an app or two trying to destroy my battery in the background with high GPS usage. After adjusting and fixing, Phone drained normally, maybe like 4% a whole nights of sleep.
Fast forward, I reflash Marshmallow ROM, set it up, and no more wakelocks/excessive battery drain. I charge the phone with my QC2.0 Charger (QC probably isn't enabled anyway in kernel, but didn't make a difference to me) from about 50% to 100% and unplug, and go to sleep.
This morning I woke up to phone at 86%. I check wakelock detector, and power history, nothing out of ordinary. Scratching my head at this point, I restart the phone, and BAM, phone is at 35%.
Some points below
1) I believe it was the first time I charged the phone fully, not sure if that had anything to do with it. I've never needed to calibrate battery in past...
2) Wifi was strictly on 2.4 Ghz. Cellular coverage is good. GPS is on, but not being used.
This sounds like a longshot, but I'm leaning to the kernel probably not supporting QC2.0, and it being detrimental to charging the phone. Possibly ROM thinking it's enabled, but kernel is disabled. So right now I'm charging the phone to 100% using a computer USB port (500mA max) just for testing purposes.
Have anyone ever seen this before?
Do any of you facing an issue of system ui taking a lot of memory? It happens with me daily and only way to a temporary fix is reboot.
mujeeb999 said:
Do any of you facing an issue of system ui taking a lot of memory? It happens with me daily and only way to a temporary fix is reboot.
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What device? What ROM? What mods? What's running in the background? What makes you think it's specifically a memory leak, instead of something else like a runaway process?
Without details, we cannot help you.
Moto turbo xt1225, stock marshmallow with December security patch. Everything stock, no mods or root. I think it's a memory leak because system ui takes as much as 400-500 mb in couple of days after rebooting.
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Do any of you facing an issue of system ui taking a lot of memory? It happens with me daily and only way to a temporary fix is reboot.
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mujeeb999 said:
Moto turbo xt1225, stock marshmallow with December security patch. Everything stock, no mods or root. I think it's a memory leak because system ui takes as much as 400-500 mb in couple of days after rebooting.
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1) What is causing YOUR memory leaks? Could be anything. Lots of apps like to run in the background, even if you are not using them, so that when you do "open" them, they will snap open in an instant. (Since they are already running as a background process.) The developer thinks HIS app is so important it needs priority. Meanwhile all the time you don't have it actively open, it's still running in the background sucking up RAM. Every app developer thinks their app should be your most important app.
Greenify
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This is why an app like Greenify give you control back. Historically it was an app that needed root, but reportedly now also runs without root?
NEW: "Aggressive Doze" and "Doze on the Go" to maximize the battery saving on Android 6+, even without root!
(details explained in settings)
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I don't know, as I've always been rooted and will always be rooted, but check it out. Anyway at least on my rooted phone Greenify will let you forcefully HIBERNATE all apps on a list of your apps that you choose, so that they will NOT run until you manually open them. Like my flashlight app doesn't need to be running in the background until I NEED my flashlight. HIBERNATE. Until I open the app. Then upon closing the app, will go back into HIBERNATION. Greenify will suggest apps to hibernate, but you can expand to a larger list of ALL your apps to choose from. I have over 200 apps, so I just went down through the list and checked most of them off.
Of course, you don't want to hibernate stuff like your email app or messaging app or weather widget. Those DO need to run in the background. But most everything else, yes.
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2) This won't necessarily help you, since you are not rooted, but I also use Auto Reboot to perform a daily scheduled reboot of my phone when I'm not using it. Like 4am, but would depend on each person's preference. Rebooting clears the RAM, prompts app updates, and generally just refreshes your phone. Same speed benefits as rebooting any PC. I have this set on my phone, my wife's phone, as well as all my friends' Androids who I tech support. We're all rooted of course.
Rebooting daily prevents a lot of the lag that seems to accumulate over time. So, I know you are thinking the reboot is "temporary fix", but rebooting daily can prevent any memory leaks from becoming a runaway process.
Auto Reboot (Root only)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pereira.autoreboot&hl=en
This scheduled pre-emptive rebooting when you are NOT using the phone is better than having to reboot when you are actively using the phone, yes? At work, we have a server that seems to freeze up about once a week. It would freeze up when we were using it, really needing it! Finally our engineering staff got the idea to schedule a weekly reboot of this server during a down time when we were NOT using it, and now it never freezes up!