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[Q] Is it possible to install too many apps?

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

*URGENT* Please help with my Tablet, it is stuck on boot screen!!!!

I have the Samsung p6200 which about 4 months ago I flashed Jellybean 4.1.2 on it, I have had no problems, but today I was deleting a lot of apps and I freed a lot of space (1.8GB) it was slow when uninstalling apps and was freezing, also it was quite hot, I deleted a lot of apps (about 15) and thought that maybe I should restart my phone to speed it up, I restarted it and got a kernel panic error (It is not too uncommon for me so I never really worry) and restarted it, then it got stuck on the boot screen. I turned it off to cool down and have turned it on. It has been trying to boot for 5 minutes and nothing, it is just stuck, I do not want to format it at ALL, please help, I also was using NEXT 3D launcher, good news for me is that I can access recovery mode (I have installed CWM recovery on it). And another wierd thing, a few minutes ago I plugged it in and the battery thing started up and did its business, then I unplugged it and it was still going (quite natural) and all of a sudden the battery look changed from like a blue battery to a white squared like batter (actually looked cool) it was a 2D look and it filled up with white as it charged with a black background, interesting, I have rooted my phone and I hope to God that I kept USB debugging on in case. Any ideas????

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The battery was in that kind of style, it looked like that but was a battery

May not be too bad
I plugged it into my pc on its boot loop, detected it and installed drivers

Take a back up of the Rom..
Then wipe/factory reset.
Then try restoring
May be this works
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Ok it is fixed
It is fixed, I left it plugged in my laptop and took 8 minutes and 42 seconds to boot, it was as slow as hell and I lost alot of my apps data, I lost 700 of funny pictures I was saving over the year, I lost all my progress in games too, swiftkey kept crashing along with 13 other apps, I had to remove some and reinstall a lot 'cos of files missing, I lost all 500 of my contacts too, I deleted a lot of apps and opened and regave root access to the apps that needed it, all is fine now:good:

Glad you got it fixed.
Backups cannot be overstated, not even so much for things like apps as they can always be re-installed and reconfigured but more for pictures.
I use dropbox and when I take pics they are auto uploaded to my dropbox cloud account which I can access from my other devices / computers.
If I lose apps it doesn't matter although for those I do have titanium backups, the pictures would definitely hurt to lose.

Apps wont go in fullscreen

hi there,
suddenly my apps wont go in full screen mode. i did install xposed lately, so its maybe related. but before unlocking bootloader (effectively wiping) this happened too. so in my opinion its not related to xposed (gravitybox installed).
any ideas how to fix this? sometimes its like on screenshots, sometimes only dots instead icons. black frame is still present.
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anyone pls?

download this
CHECK THIS APP
AND YOUR WORK's DONE..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.ppareit.immersivemode

I don't want payed app for something build in. Few days ago it was working, now it's not. There must be something changed in system. I would love someone to direct me in right way so we can fix it. But thanx anyway

Did you play any movie and check.. Or this issue only related to apps?
Sent from my XT1032 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

just tried to stream movie to mx player and it works as suppose to so it looks like only apps :/
for example in this game a see black backround, but instead of icons i see those dots. this is how it should behave before kitkat. since kitkat we should have true full screen, right?
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...62-h821-no/Screenshot_2014-05-02-08-38-43.png

PumaPerez said:
just tried to stream movie to mx player and it works as suppose to so it looks like only apps :/
for example in this game a see black backround, but instead of icons i see those dots. this is how it should behave before kitkat. since kitkat we should have true full screen, right?
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...62-h821-no/Screenshot_2014-05-02-08-38-43.png
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These dots indicate the navigation buttons.. If you don't want these, you can install modules like "force immersive mode" in xposed framework...
It's not the issue..
Sent from my XT1032 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

ok, then tell me reason why did i have true fullscreen mode since i buy the phone to like 3 days ago... was my phone defective and now suddenly is everything ok?

PumaPerez said:
ok, then tell me reason why did i have true fullscreen mode since i buy the phone to like 3 days ago... was my phone defective and now suddenly is everything ok?
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Check mine... See few apps, games won't go full screen mode.. Developers designed like that.. If you want full screen.. Use xposed modules..
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few days ago that app was in full screen.
also about angrybirds go. do you think developers let there that navigation bar on side, so when i want to turn right i actually quit the app?
i already told you, those apps where in full screen since i bought my phone. suddenly few days ago those apps wont go to full screen. something happened to system.

Galaxy s6 with gameloft games

So I'm wondering if anyone else is having problems running gameloft games on there s6? I have asphalt 8, modern combat 5, and gangster vegas installed and they all work great until something makes them stop working. This is the second time this has happened to me and wanted to know if anyone else has any problems with these games.
So they work fine and then I'll try to go play them and I just get a black screen. Like modern combat 5 I play everyday and today I open up and it just goes to black screen. I had this problem a few weeks ago and I tried to uninstall then reinstall and it still doesn't work. I've tried to clear data and cache and still does the same thing. I've tried to clear play store data and cache and nothing works. I found last time that factory reset fixes the problem but I really don't want to go that way.
Does anyone have any opinions on why this is happening, thanks

Maybe and just maybe try the game through Google Play Games.
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Thanks but when I do that it resets my account for some reason. I log in with Facebook to save my game saves.

mikep2323 said:
So I'm wondering if anyone else is having problems running gameloft games on there s6? I have asphalt 8, modern combat 5, and gangster vegas installed and they all work great until something makes them stop working. This is the second time this has happened to me and wanted to know if anyone else has any problems with these games.
So they work fine and then I'll try to go play them and I just get a black screen. Like modern combat 5 I play everyday and today I open up and it just goes to black screen. I had this problem a few weeks ago and I tried to uninstall then reinstall and it still doesn't work. I've tried to clear data and cache and still does the same thing. I've tried to clear play store data and cache and nothing works. I found last time that factory reset fixes the problem but I really don't want to go that way.
Does anyone have any opinions on why this is happening, thanks
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Do you have heat generated while playing games?
I have excessive heat and battery drain whilst playing heavy graphic games... I have to stop playing after 3 minutes of gameplay.... stock s6 version 5.0

It heats up somewhat but not to much.

Has anyone experience flickering/glitching after updated to 23.4.A.1.232?

At first I thought glitches I saw caused by the app (inbox) itself. Then I keep seeing it happens on other apps as well.
It is like some elements (ie, action bar) of apps flashing or the whole screen flickers. It usually happens only a second or two at most; too quick to make a screenshot of it.
Though, this problem is not happen regularly, it is frequent enough to get noticed.
Here are some apps that I remembered glitches happened, it happens in other apps too but usually very quick and random.
In FX File Explorer, sometimes glitches occur during transition animation between folders.
When adding a new Google account in Settings, the big top blue part of the screen flickers.
In Inbox app, sometimes tips bar just keep flashing for almost 2 seconds when I closed it.
And, in A Better Camera app, this can happen sometime:
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I'm considering reverting back to 23.4.A.0.546.
Even though the old firmware has stagefright bugs, it's very unlikely that someone would use it on me, and I don't use MMS anyway.

for me both cameras are better in .232
and yeah I have these screen problem
and did you notice that the speakers are noticeably lower in music ?? now they are like Z3+ !!!!

I had some screen tearing when I first installed .232, but none since then.
Speakers seem just as loud as before.

I do have the same problem.
Made myself a prerooted fw using PRF, downgraded, rooted and upgraded using the prerooted firmware i made.
Also made a factory reset. Now i'm getting screen tearing while scrolling, video glitches and stutterings.

I saw that at first but not anymore (maybe I haven't noticed them).
Strange thing is that 232 version should be Stagefright free, however, I've runned a test and I'm still vulnerable to one of the flaws.