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Does anyone know if a app, like the ccleaner for windows is available for android?
Now I know that android is linux based, therefore there is no need for a registry cleaner, but with the constant install and then removal of apps (now i am assuming here) there must be some sort of footprint left behind which needs deleting?
thanks for any help and advice
eh...the only thing I could think of is maybe "CacheMate"
Neejay said:
eh...the only thing I could think of is maybe "CacheMate"
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I second Cachemate. Been using it for months now and finally bought the "Pro" version. More like donation-ware. It was especially useful when I felt I was running out of space after app installs; however, now that I'm running an AOSP rom and have the option of using Apps2SD, space on the phone is less scarce. Either way, I run it every now and then to clean things up, particularly before making a Nandroid backup.
i am not sure if this is right because i am also quite new to android, but:
android is not windows. When you install a programm there is one .apk.. probably it creates a folder on the sd.. thats it. There is no registry, programms do not mess around @ system files.
Uninstalling means deleting the apk.. perhaps you have to remove the folder @ sdcard yourself.. thats all i guess.
I installed a couple of roms without wiping and many many apps, and my system is still clean what i can see (and fast like on the first day..)
nice one!!
Thanks for that, i'll download CacheMate and have a look.
Cachemate is good, but Titanium really works (root needed)
I paid for Titanium because my brand new Samsung Galaxy S 4G started having low phone storage on the first day. Couldn't move a bunch of stuff, so I just did Superoneclick and rooted it, then installed Titanium. I was able to free up space on the phone itself (it's loaded with bloatware) by moving some stuff, but it also has a cache cleaner that got rid of another 25 MB of data that I didn't need. So, short story is, if you just need to clean you cache, cachemate is probably fine, but if you need more robust options for system maintenance, consider Titanium.
Well when you uninstall an application you not only have the .apk in /data/app/ but the application data in /data/data/ which is removed when you properly uninstall the application, not just deleting the apk. The "cache" you are seeing is browser, maps etc. data. You can manually do this in application manager by clicking the name then clear cache.
The only extra data you might have would be if the application has data on the sdcard which I find most applications do not remove if it's an external download such as skins. So there really is no need for any type of cleaning tools, none of which would clean out anything on /system/ unless it's a rooted application so there should be no need for that.
i tried cachemate and i can say that phone was reborn after it... it started to fly... 13 mb was cleared...
There was a another app called aCCleaner. It's even better
http://www.appbrain.com/app/1tap-cache-cleaner-free/com.a0soft.gphone.acc.free
If your device is rooted then you can try out SD Maid.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1013063
It deletes leftover folders from uninstalled apps from the SD card.
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Cachemate never seems to work for me. It always say my cache has been recently cleared and there is nothing to clean although I didnt set it on auto or clean it before. Werid.
Why looking for alternatives if you can try CCleaner on your Android device, try this link http://goo.gl/TIR4pk as its in beta, but still its working fine. If you still want to CCleaner like alternatives for android try this link http://goo.gl/LMmUho
Might be this help you
Do not use applications that might spoil the phone ... after all, remember that Android is based on Linux. so it is already Optimized for his trial ... try CacheMate.
Try clean master. It's pretty good!
-Omkar
If I uninstall apps, is registry cleared for good or does some of them remain like on Windows PC?
If so, is there an app to clean registry?
My friend wanted to try out my Nexus and installed bunch of useless apps.
There is no registry.
distortedloop said:
There is no registry.
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So uninstalling completely removed the app and misc files (like cache or data information for example) right?
johnkim0011 said:
So uninstalling completely removed the app and misc files (like cache or data information for example) right?
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Actually, it will depend on the app. A lot of apps leave stuff on your sdcard that don't get removed after an uninstall (presumably so that you don't lose the data in case you want to reinstall).
I'm actually not sure if the cache is cleared automatically just because you uninstall the app, but it will eventually as other stuff fills in if it isn't.
If there's some kind of space or privacy concern, I'd use recovery to wipe cache and dalvik-cache just to be sure.
If I get a chance I'll try uninstalling some app today and poke around in the cache/dalvik-cache to see if they go away for that app automatically.
Ok, so there has been a LOT of people complaining that they are having issues updating certain apps. This seem to be happening mostly on Android 4.3 or 4.4. I too started having this issue so did a search for a fix, I found probably hundreds of threads across all the XDA forums without really finding any solutions. One of them points to a trick with a function of Lucky Patcher. That used to work but it seems the latest updates removed that feature. In most cases, clearing the data or removing updates does not seem to fix this issue either. Most threads will eventually end up saying to do a factory reset, not so. So I figured out why that is happening and thought that I would post it here for everyone to finally fix that annoying problem.
It seems like this is happening because Android is creating two data folders for that app and then when you try to update it, it tries to create another folder and the system wont let it. Therefor it is giving an out of space error. Not really an expert or proven reason but that is what it seems like to me, maybe somebody else can clarify, here is what will fix the error though.
Use a file explorer (I use Solid Explorer) and navigate to the root folder
Do a search for a small portion of the app name that you cant update. You will see several folders come up. They are most likely in /data/app-lib and are called appname-1 and appname-2. Some apps may have it by the developers name instead so make sure that it is the app that you are having issues with first.(example - tunein radios folder is called radiotime)
Delete both folders (notice - it would probably also delete the apps data too)
Go back to the play store and magically update!
Let me know if anyone else finds this useful as I have not seen this mentioned anywhere.
Hey ladies and gentlemen.
Can someone tell me what is the best cleaning app?
And i mean advanced cleaning, not something like clean master and such.
SDmaid is great, but i think it doesn't clean everything.
Many thanks in advance advance and sorry if its wrong section.
By the way i have Xperia Neo running ICS stock rom rooted.
What do you want to clean? You can use the recovery mode to wipe cache and dalvik cache, advanced enough?
Or titanium backup to clear apps data and stuff.
Hope it helps .
I don't know if I have used any cleaning apps specifically. I find that normally just deleting unused applications is generally enough. Everything is sandboxes and fairly self contained. Also never underestimate the size of your image lib. Always good to backup your phone and archive off pictures at the end of each year.
So called cleaner apps are all a joke. I would avoid them. Just do some minor cleaning yourself every now and then.
Cleaner apps do the contradictory action don't download them...
If u want free RAM then use
Greenify [root]
To cleanup the cache use recovery mode..
CCleaner. I got I for free from amazon appstore. It helps with cleaning,with a few clicks you can delete unneeded garbage.
Avoid cleaning apps
I strictly recommends you not to use cleaning apps they eat up more battery and RAM.:silly:
shadowcore said:
CCleaner. I got I for free from amazon appstore. It helps with cleaning,with a few clicks you can delete unneeded garbage.
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This. CCleaner is awesome. Check it out.
Khoga said:
This. CCleaner is awesome. Check it out.
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Those cleaning apps dont do anything other then place ads on your screen. All effects are placebo designed to make noobs think they are doing something great.
zelendel said:
Those cleaning apps dont do anything other then place ads on your screen. All effects are placebo designed to make noobs think they are doing something great.
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Actually, CCleaner has no ads, at least the version I have. Suffice to say, its a useful tool. Less menial work to do, especially when deleting many things at once.
shadowcore said:
Actually, CCleaner has no ads, at least the version I have. Suffice to say, its a useful tool. Less menial work to do, especially when deleting many things at once.
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Have you even looked at what it really does. These types of apps were put to the test years ago. They were found to be mostly pointless as they mainly cleaned up DB files what we're just redone on the next reboot.
And now with Android 5.0 they are even more pointless.
360Antivirus geek. Maybe.
I agree most clean up apps don't do much for you. I do like SD maid as it allows me to toggle whether or not certain apps run at start up, duplicate finder can also be useful at times.
Also use SD Maid to check its file's recommendations out occasionally. Interesting to see and optional to remove...
DuxAS92 said:
SDmaid is great, but i think it doesn't clean everything.
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It's tough to be both thorough and still on the safe side. If you send me a mail regarding what you think was missed i can look into it.
techacker007 said:
What do you want to clean? You can use the recovery mode to wipe cache and dalvik cache, advanced enough?
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Dalvik-Cache, the cache partition and app cache is not the same. AFAIK no recovery targets app caches except when doing a factory reset.
IgnitusBoyone said:
I don't know if I have used any cleaning apps specifically. I find that normally just deleting unused applications is generally enough. Everything is sandboxes and fairly self contained. Also never underestimate the size of your image lib. Always good to backup your phone and archive off pictures at the end of each year.
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The sandbox is pretty leaky though. Especially the sdcard is basically a huge free 4 all with developers thinking they are the most important app on the phone and stuffing files everywhere. Then there are also the cases where apps think their data should stick around because you "might" reinstall, who specifically make sure the data is not just deleted on uninstall.
If we put root into the mix, it's all fair game .
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So called cleaner apps are all a joke. I would avoid them. Just do some minor cleaning yourself every now and then.
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"Most" cleaner apps are a joke, but don't put them all in the same bucket . But i do i have to admit that the majority are a joke if not even missleading or straight scummy.
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Have you even looked at what it really does. These types of apps were put to the test years ago. They were found to be mostly pointless as they mainly cleaned up DB files what we're just redone on the next reboot.
And now with Android 5.0 they are even more pointless.
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All the "RAM cleaning stuff" has been pointless since 2.2/2.3. Not sure what you mean that Lollipop has changed further, while external sdcard restrictions have been forced since 3.0 (in reality 4.4) it doesn't completely solve most issues, especially on custom ROMs or rooted devices where the restrictions are often deactivated as they are pretty inconvinient.
I'm not sure what DB files you are talking about, care to elaborate?
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Also use SD Maid to check its file's recommendations out occasionally. Interesting to see and optional to remove...
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Interesting to see indeed, and pretty much how i think it should be used, but people want comfort and rather have the apps make the decision for them. Can't blame em though. Android has lots of room for improvement in that deparment, not easy to solve though. If they change the whole sdcard access system they could track file access of each app and use that data for security and uninstall purposes but i guess that would be difficult to do with the differences between each handsets storage solution. Also brings some performance penalties, and storage access already is one huge bottleneck on Android.
Thank you all for your answers.
I will just keep using SDmaid its best till now.
I dont want Clean master and DuSpeedBooster craps, thanks but no thanks.
Also CCleaner is pretty simple, i think sdmaid is doing better job.
I dont know how to use recovery mode, i never made it.
I am on ICS stock rom rooted, maybe its not even possible for me to go into recovery mode.
Yeah lolipop is great but my phone wont get it and i cant get new phone so Lolipop is nowhere near me.
Cheers
Clean Master
Hello people,
Here's a thing that isn't that much of an issue, but it is annoying when it does occur.
My gallery rebuilds its thumbnails every now and then for no apparent reason. I have about 200 pictures and this can take a while if done from scratch. The thing is that I have no idea what the trigger could be. I could reboot my phone a couple of times, connect it to a laptop to transfer files, jerk around with the pictures I do have and nothing would happen, and some other times I could look at the gallery pictures, close the app, rerun it, and none of the thumbnails would be there. I would basically have to wait for the gallery to recreate all those thumbnails, which is a process that both takes a while and hogs resources while it does it. I have an older phone so it can make a world of difference in performance.
Things I did so far:
- Turned off the sync for Picasa,
- Cut the number of pictures from 600 to 200,
- Tried different gallery apps.
As I said, this isn't that much of an issue, but if there was a simple fix I would welcome it. I searched the internet and didn't find a single instance of someone having the same problem, so perhaps this thread would be a good reference for others with a similar issue. Also, an information of some relevance would be that I didn't notice any space oscillations on my SD card while the rebuild is taking place. It's as if the thumbnails are always there, but the system takes a while to link them to their respective pictures.
Phone specs are in my signature. It's an older phone, but heavily modified thanks to XDA. Gallery is default.
Did you use any app to clean devic memory and you just set it to automatic
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droid_god said:
Did you use any app to clean devic memory and you just set it to automatic
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No, there is no such app involved.
The gallery app needs to load thumds which take less time in loading than original picture.
When you close an app it can run in catche and sometimes it gets cloased.
So basically when i remains on catche it will not load every time.
And when i gets closed then it has to reload every time
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So this is a common issue? Is it possible to force the Gallery to stay in cache?
Also, the cache is supposed to clear after the reboot. How come in 95 % of cases the Gallery retains all of its generated thumbnails after the reboot (the rebuild isn't necessary)? Usually it rebuilds after I connect the SD card to my laptop, but even that isn't a rule.
If you ave a new imagd in gallery then it will re build thumbs. Its a common to face only solution is to ave a larger ram device.
1 gb pr larger does not have this issue
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Figured as much. Thank you for the reply!
Use a better thired party gallery app.
My ram is 707mb and i do somtimes face this problem so i just use camera 360. Its gallery is good
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