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Disappearing applications

So after turning my phone on today, I can no longer see the previous free applications that I had installed on my phone.
Is there a known reason for this or I'd something wrong?
Captivate 2.2.1 Paragon

This happened to me once, I opened the Market app and there were purchased apps only.
You need to have root to do this, but it's save.
First, clean the cache (Cache Cleaner NG is nice, but you can use "Manage applications" for that), then delete all files from /data/dalvik-cache/ and immediately reboot. Hopefully, problem will be solved.
Be aware that the system will be booting longer than usual - it needs to recreate all the cache. You may gain some space in your phone memory in the process.

Cool, thanks. And yea I have root so ill go and get the application now.
Ill report back when something happens.
Captivate 2.2.1 Paragon

Well I coudln't get that to work but I DID find an alternative just in case anyone else has this problem.
Basically, Google only follows your paid applications, not the free ones. So when you re root and start over again and if you restore from Titanium Backup, you're technically not installing the applications from the market, hence them not showing up.
I found a program called aTrackDog, which is free, and actually checks to see if your installed apps (whether they be from the market or not) and if there is a newer version on the market, it gives you the option to download and install.
Again, the app is called aTrackDog and I'm using it now, looking good to me.

AppBrain's App Market will do the same thing when you sync it, just to throw in there.

Happens to my rooted aria all the time. No need to wipe davlik just open settings/apps then find market and clear cache, market will then rebuild links. And TBP will most definitely restore links to market despite claims to the contrary above
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GroovyGeek said:
Happens to my rooted aria all the time. No need to wipe davlik just open settings/apps then find market and clear cache, market will then rebuild links. And TBP will most definitely restore links to market despite claims to the contrary above
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Thanks for posting, ill clear the market's cache right now. After I clear it is there anything else I.have to do or just wait a while?
And what is tbp?
Captivate 2.2.1 Paragon

Hmm, cleaning just the cache did nothing immediately, that's why I assumed I need to delete dalvik as well.
TBP - Titanium Backup Pro, I think

Clearing Cache

I have searched the forum, found results but most of them were of some other phones, and my question was not really answered in it.
Anyway my question is does removing/clearing cache make phone slow? I use ES Task manager to clear the cache, but i noticed after clearing it, my phone became a little slow :S. Not sure whether it was due to clearing cache or something else.
Because what i know that clearing cache make ur phone work fast. :S
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Speaking from a PC point of view, programmes that cache clearing and other services that are available to do manually, even if buried under layers of menus, tend to make things worse and drop there own nasties along the way.
So delete said programme and when you want to clear your cache;
1) Open the "internet" app (not via your chosen browser app)
2) Hit "Menu" (the three horizontal dots button in a corner of the screen)
3) Hit "Privacy & Security"
4) Hit "Clear Cache" = done!
optional) & "Clear History" if you want.

touchy66 said:
Speaking from a PC point of view, programmes that cache clearing and other services that are available to do manually, even if buried under layers of menus, tend to make things worse and drop there own nasties along the way.
So delete said programme and when you want to clear your cache;
1) Open the "internet" app (not via your chosen browser app)
2) Hit "Menu" (the three horizontal dots button in a corner of the screen)
3) Hit "Privacy & Security"
4) Hit "Clear Cache" = done!
optional) & "Clear History" if you want.
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But i m talking about cache of all apps. If we remove cache of all apps through some app like ES Task manager, does it make ur phone slow?
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hbforce
NO it doesn't make the phone slow down, may be it makes some apps slow down but just in the beginning, after a while it will be normal, personally i always clear my cache, especially Facebook, Twitter, chrome and Default Browser to have some free space, otherwise, if you noticed some lags it may be caused by apps updates ...
Cordially.
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hbforce said:
NO it doesn't make the phone slow down, may be it makes some apps slow down but just in the beginning, after a while it will be normal, personally i always clear my cache, especially Facebook, Twitter, chrome and Default Browser to have some free space, otherwise, if you noticed some lags it may be caused by apps updates ...
Cordially.
"IF I HELP YOU PLEASE HIT THANKS BUTTON"
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Yeah i did find some apps working slow after removing cache, thought may be clearing cache make phone slow. Anyway thanks for that.
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omer7 said:
But i m talking about cache of all apps. If we remove cache of all apps through some app like ES Task manager, does it make ur phone slow?
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In my book the same applies;
Settings/Storage/
scroll down to phone storage, under that heading use "Make more space" to do the job.

touchy66 said:
In my book the same applies;
Settings/Storage/
scroll down to phone stage, under that heading use "Make more space" to do the job.
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Will try it the next time i want to clear cache.
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hbforce
omer7 said:
Yeah i did find some apps working slow after removing cache, thought may be clearing cache make phone slow. Anyway thanks for that.
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Never mind my brother ...
i want to give you another advice in order to avoid powerlessness of your device, please please please never use task killers !!!, people thought that task killers make their phones smooth, but paradoxically it doesn't !!!, after killing apps android will launch again some apps because he need them, so why do you kill them !!! and when he finish with the apps recently closed, they will be closed automatically, why we need this !!!?, because android want to make your experience more smooth, so please never kill apps .
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hbforce said:
Never mind my brother ...
i want to give you another advice in order to avoid powerlessness of your device, please please please never use task killers !!!, people thought that task killers make their phones smooth, but paradoxically it doesn't !!!, after killing apps android will launch again some apps because he need them, so why do you kill them !!! and when he finish with the apps recently closed, they will be closed automatically, why we need this !!!?, because android want to make your experience more smooth, so please never kill apps .
"IF I HELPED YOU HIT THANKS BUTTON"
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Yeah i read that somewhere, and never killed any app using a third party task manager after that. I have ES task manager just to clear cache and sometimes check the storage and other phone status (which can be checked through other means as well, but i like all the info at one place).
Once or twice i used the stock task manager to kill some apps, but now i dont even use it to kill apps.
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Titanium Backup scheduled cache clearing with exceptions?

So, as the thread title suggests, I have Titanium set up such that it regularly clears out my app caches (if I don't do this, crucial apps eventually start FC'ing). However, when I run a cache clearing on my own, I'm given the options to exclude apps, which I do. I usually limit cache clearing to only particular user apps that accumulate large caches.
But, when it's a scheduled job, I don't apparently get this option. It just clears all caches, user and system apps. This results in my wallpaper and keyboard being reset to stock for some reason. Which is a pain in the butt. So I'm wondering if anybody knows of a way to get Titanium to recognize my excluded apps when running a scheduled cache clearing.
Thanks much.
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Have you tried not clearing caches on systems app and only personal apps.
It would help to know what device you are currently using.
Information is crucial, don't be so general with your request.

GTIM2L8 said:
Have you tried not clearing caches on systems app and only personal apps.
It would help to know what device you are currently using.
Information is crucial, don't be so general with your request.
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Yes, in my post I stated that when I personally run the process, I clear only user apps. And my device is in my signature, the Samsung Infuse.

Since it's hard to determine what all you have done have you just selected the batch clear cache and not using a "Filter" for it?
I set filters up for all my batch processes where it will exclude certain apps.
I had to as I run a Droid Razr with safestrap and have 3 diferent ROMS on the same phone.
Without the filters it drove me crazy trying to figure out which batch process I wanted to run on each ROM.

Wallpaper reset after cache clear?
dstarr3 said:
So, as the thread title suggests, I have Titanium set up such that it regularly clears out my app caches (if I don't do this, crucial apps eventually start FC'ing). However, when I run a cache clearing on my own, I'm given the options to exclude apps, which I do. I usually limit cache clearing to only particular user apps that accumulate large caches.
But, when it's a scheduled job, I don't apparently get this option. It just clears all caches, user and system apps. This results in my wallpaper and keyboard being reset to stock for some reason. Which is a pain in the butt. So I'm wondering if anybody knows of a way to get Titanium to recognize my excluded apps when running a scheduled cache clearing.
Thanks much.
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Hello dstar,
Did you ever figure out which item to exclude from cache clear to prevent your wallpaper from being reset? I figured out that "Samsung Keyboard" was causing my default keyboard to be reset, but I have not yet figured out wallpaper. If you have any ideas on that for my Samsung Galaxy S4 (probably same thing on your phone), I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks,
Nate

Actually, I figured it out on my own after manually clearing the cache on 90% of the items available lol. Unfortunately the winner was towards the end. The item that will reset your wallpaper if you clear its cache is "System UI". I created a filter that excludes this item along with a few others when my scheduled weekly cache clear runs.
Hope this helps someone else!
Nate
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dstarr3 said:
So, as the thread title suggests, I have Titanium set up such that it regularly clears out my app caches (if I don't do this, crucial apps eventually start FC'ing). However, when I run a cache clearing on my own, I'm given the options to exclude apps, which I do. I usually limit cache clearing to only particular user apps that accumulate large caches.
But, when it's a scheduled job, I don't apparently get this option. It just clears all caches, user and system apps. This results in my wallpaper and keyboard being reset to stock for some reason. Which is a pain in the butt. So I'm wondering if anybody knows of a way to get Titanium to recognize my excluded apps when running a scheduled cache clearing.
Thanks much.
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Go to Backup/restore then "click to edit filters", at the bottom click on create label
from "add/remove elements" you can add the apps you want to clear cache of and save it.
Then setup a cache clean schedule and in the no filtering list select the label you just made.

[email protected] said:
Actually, I figured it out on my own after manually clearing the cache on 90% of the items available lol. Unfortunately the winner was towards the end. The item that will reset your wallpaper if you clear its cache is "System UI". I created a filter that excludes this item along with a few others when my scheduled weekly cache clear runs.
Hope this helps someone else!
Nate
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THANK YOU! Just found this doing a Google search. Yeah, clearing user and system apps also wiped out my wallpaper and Swype keyboard. I figured out how to exempt the keyboard but exempting "wallpaper" didn't work. SystemUI, ah!
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GTIM2L8 said:
Since it's hard to determine what all you have done have you just selected the batch clear cache and not using a "Filter" for it?
I set filters up for all my batch processes where it will exclude certain apps.
I had to as I run a Droid Razr with safestrap and have 3 diferent ROMS on the same phone.
Without the filters it drove me crazy trying to figure out which batch process I wanted to run on each ROM.
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How do you set filters to exclude specific apps with a scheduled batch action? I only see how to do that with manual batch, not with scheduled batch.
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dsjiffry said:
Go to Backup/restore then "click to edit filters", at the bottom click on create label
from "add/remove elements" you can add the apps you want to clear cache of and save it.
Then setup a cache clean schedule and in the no filtering list select the label you just made.
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ah, should have read further. I will try that. Thank you.

Multi user slowing me down

Hello XDA community
I've updated my samsung galaxy s6 sm-g920f to android 5.1.1 and unlocked the multiuser functionality in the build.props file.
However since then it seems like my phone sometimes is extremely slow, and sometimes when switching profiles it can take up to a full minute before it actually does so.
During the profile switch it'll be showing the background of the profile it's switching to, but no oher interface.
Sometimes it'll also show a message that the app that i currently have open has run out of memory (it's shown shortly so not entirely sure what it exactly states).
Anyone else out there having the same issue, anyone found a solution?
I've tried to use various apps to track the CPU and Memory usage, and the result is quite boring, the CPU is not really used and the memory always leaves about 2-300mb of ram available.

Try deleting your app cache with App Cache Cleaner downloadble from Playstore.

roydok said:
Try deleting your app cache with App Cache Cleaner downloadble from Playstore.
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Thanks for your reply, i'll try it and see how it works !

Clear all cache

Hi guys
In the previous Android versions it was possible by a single click to clear all the cache of all the apps.
This option is not available anymore and no app that I'm aware of in the Playstore could clear this cache.
Even the option from the recovery does not clean this cache.
Does anyone of you know a "magic" way of cleaning this cache?
I'm not rooted and all stock.
Thank you

I use Nox Cleaner from the play store sometimes.
If it wasn't run for a while there's usually a lot to clear.
Check that one out and see if it does what you're talking about.
There are no ads, popups or any crap like that.
4.8 rating from almost 400k reviews.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noxgroup.app.cleaner&hl=en_US

slayerh4x said:
I use Nox Cleaner from the play store sometimes.
If it wasn't run for a while there's usually a lot to clear.
Check that one out and see if it does what you're talking about.
There are no ads, popups or any crap like that.
4.8 rating from almost 400k reviews.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noxgroup.app.cleaner&hl=en_US
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Thanks for your answer, man, but, as all the apps of its kind, it identifies VERY WELL the cache, junks and all (thumbnails, adds, etc).... but it does NOT delete them AT All.
It's the n-st app I installed of this kind and all of them have the same behavior, unfortunately...

gothy.gothy said:
Thanks for your answer, man, but, as all the apps of its kind, it identifies VERY WELL the cache, junks and all (thumbnails, adds, etc).... but it does NOT delete them AT All.
It's the n-st app I installed of this kind and all of them have the same behavior, unfortunately...
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Damn that sucks then... If you do find one let me know.
Maybe there is a Magisk or Xposed module if you decide to do that way in the future.

slayerh4x said:
Damn that sucks then... If you do find one let me know.
Maybe there is a Magisk or Xposed module if you decide to do that way in the future.
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I've been rooted on Nexus 5 and Nexus 6, but for OP6 I've decided to stay unrooted until I understand how this system of double partition (A and B) works