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I have used apps such as "BetterBatteryStats" "AppOpsXposed" "Amplify" "PowerNap" "Greenify" to find apps that could and mostly should be frozen/disabled.
System apps can be frozen through titanium backup!
Free alternative debloating software!
Other recommendations
Disable CarrierIQ - http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-lg-g3/general/att-lg-g3-carrier-iq-removal-guide-t2819295
Amplify Extreme Battery Life Thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-extreme-battery-life-t3095884
Let me know if you have any other suggestions!

soosoolhastam said:
I found some great information I wanted to share. Three apps ims, mlt, lte phone drain the battery severely. With our them, I have had normal battery life. 5 hrs or screen on time.
I attached a list of the bloatware I disabled with titanium backup.
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Need root though right.
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Ya buddy

soosoolhastam said:
Ya buddy
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That sucks. I'm worried about rooting because I have the h950 and we have no way to return to stock yet.
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MLT can be disabled without root just by entering to the hidden menu.
Type 277634#*# in the dialer. Go to SVC Menu, then MLT.

Anyone use app ops to disable permissions like keep awake?
Which apps do you recommend?

Updated the information

nikgl said:
MLT can be disabled without root just by entering to the hidden menu.
Type 277634#*# in the dialer. Go to SVC Menu, then MLT.
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Code not working for Sprint variant. Not seeing anything related to MLT after browsing 5689#*955#

soosoolhastam said:
Hey guys, I have made adjustments to my phone to increase battery life, remove bloatware, and decrease lag. They have significantly improved my phones experience.
Bettery battery life
App ops to disable keep awake of multiple apps like google play services and google now. Disable other permissions
Disable many of the useless google app wake up paths with greenfly or disable services
amplify xposed module
Safe bloatware list
I attached a list of the bloatware I disabled.
Decrease lag
Adjust thermal settings
Change cpu governor to interactive.
change i/o scheduler to noop and read ahead to 1024.
Let me know what you think!
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FYI, this list soft bricked my H950 5.1.1 v11x.

abohler1 said:
FYI, this list soft bricked my H950 5.1.1 v11x.
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Sorry to hear that. I'm not sure why. I have the same things and more frozen along the same rom. Works fine.
Anyone else have this problem?
I'm afraid you might of froze an important system app

soosoolhastam said:
Sorry to hear that. I'm not sure why. I have the same things and more frozen along the same rom. Works fine.
Anyone else have this problem?
I'm afraid you might of froze an important system app
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I actually removed the apk's for all of the files noted in your thumbnails with titanium backup. That must have been the difference. So in your case you just froze everything with xposed?

How do you change the kernel & Cpu settings?

soosoolhastam said:
Hey guys, I have made adjustments to my phone to increase battery life, remove bloatware, and decrease lag. They have significantly improved my phones experience.
Bettery battery life
App ops to disable keep awake of multiple apps like google play services and google now. Disable other permissions
Disable many of the useless google app wake up paths with greenfly or disable services
amplify xposed module
Safe bloatware list
I attached a list of the bloatware I disabled.
Decrease lag
Adjust thermal settings
Change cpu governor to interactive.
change i/o scheduler to noop and read ahead to 1024.
Let me know what you think!
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Any way you could elaborate a bit more on how you performed everything?

epofhouston said:
How do you change the kernel & Cpu settings?
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i used kernel adiutor!

abohler1 said:
Any way you could elaborate a bit more on how you performed everything?
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yes! done!

Do you really notice improvements in battery life?
Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 utilizzando Tapatalk

yes. The biggest improvement would be from the xposed amplify battery module.

Hi,
I'm considering to get the device soon but one thing that's frightening me is battery life and more precisely SOT :S
I've read that without these mods users gets 4 hours SOT in average.
Knowing that I have an heavy use of my smartphone (BT always on for my smartwatch, often streaming music in 3G/4G on Spotify, Facebook/Messenger sync, internet browsing and games ...) I wonder how much SOT/battery life do you get with these mods ?

I-Immortal said:
Hi,
I'm considering to get the device soon but one thing that's frightening me is battery life and more precisely SOT :S
I've read that without these mods users gets 4 hours SOT in average.
Knowing that I have an heavy use of my smartphone (BT always on for my smartwatch, often streaming music in 3G/4G on Spotify, Facebook/Messenger sync, internet browsing and games ...) I wonder how much SOT/battery life do you get with these mods ?
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Not much. Screen eats up alotta juice.

I-Immortal said:
Hi,
I'm considering to get the device soon but one thing that's frightening me is battery life and more precisely SOT :S
I've read that without these mods users gets 4 hours SOT in average.
Knowing that I have an heavy use of my smartphone (BT always on for my smartwatch, often streaming music in 3G/4G on Spotify, Facebook/Messenger sync, internet browsing and games ...) I wonder how much SOT/battery life do you get with these mods ?
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I get almost 5 hours, 4,5-5hs all over the day. I get up at 6am, and plug into wall at 11-12pm, no plug all day, all with sync, except g+. works mail 15 minutes, and the rest in stock. I have a lot of freezed apps, and removed too
rooted, h955ar rom over h950, removed almost all lg software and greenify only, I have premium, but no xposed.

[APP][Root][7.0+]RunInBackgroundSetter v1.4 :: [25.07.2017]

Few hours ago @explainAndroid posted article on xda main page onto how to use android's hidden RUN_IN_BACKGROUND permission to restrict app's background behavior. I made an app for that.
Here's link to original article: https://www.xda-developers.com/freeze-app-background-processes-without-root-android-nougat/
Here's link to app's github: https://github.com/MrBIMC/RunInBackgroundPermissionSetter
Here's link to reddit thread about app: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/co...en_run_in_background/?st=j570s1rf&sh=675cc4d6
Here's link to xda labs: https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.pavelsikun.runinbackgroundpermissionsetter

Omg it created multiple threads. Sorry. Trying to remove duplicates now.

Submit this to XDA Labs as well! Don't worry about a crappy icon or whatever. I've made apps in Tasker and have posted them to Labs hehe. As long as people find it useful feel free to submit!

@MrBIMC
Thanks for the app!!
Is possible add hours of the days of week when selected apps run or doent run in background?
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Nice app!
Will charging disable this?

Can u make the app work without rooting, just using adb, where the permission through adb for this app is granted once and then it can be used to limit background permission of other apps

excellent mate.
we should post a tutorial... not everyone will understand the potential ramifications of disabling everything

I will try to test this out! Though, I kinda like the old icon compared to the new one, it seems like it's not properly cropped. Additionally, could you add an option to show system and user apps only? Maybe a toggle to ignore apps all at once or vice versa too?

No chance for Marshmallow?

Does this have the same functionality as in lineage os ROMs app ops where you can disable background processes?

As someone is undoubtedly going to ask it, I'll ask it for them. How does this differentiate to apps like greenify @MrBIMC? Do they both limit background processes? Anyways, the all looks very interesting, thanks!

This looks great!
Do the settings stick after reboot?

arjuntsgowda said:
Can u make the app work without rooting, just using adb, where the permission through adb for this app is granted once and then it can be used to limit background permission of other apps
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No.
From the Github page:
Anyway, this app is for those who don't want to mess with adb shell and input commands manually and prefer to just click on app name to enable/disable it from running in the background. Sadly, android apps are not allowed to implicitly edit permissions of other apps, so this application requires root to overcome it.
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Al Gore said:
No chance for Marshmallow?
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No.
From the Github page:
Anyway, this app is for those, who don't want to mess with adb shell and input commands manually and prefer to just click on app name to enable/disable it from running in the background. Sadly, android apps are not allowed to implicitely edit permissions of other apps, so this application requires root to overcome it.
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jordirpz said:
@MrBIMC
Thanks for the app!!
Is possible add hours of the days of week when selected apps run or doent run in background?
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This would be really cool. Best way to implement that I think would be to add Tasker plugin functionality to the app to allow Tasker flows to toggle the permission, which would have the benefit of being able to change it for any reason (such as low battery).
DEVILOPS 007 said:
As someone is undoubtedly going to ask it, I'll ask it for them. How does this differentiate to apps like greenify @MrBIMC? Do they both limit background processes? Anyways, the all looks very interesting, thanks!
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If I understand both correctly... Greenify forces apps to hibernate when you turn your screen off (or manually tell it to), but the app can still wake itself back up for a variety of reasons, such as receiving push notifications, location updates, or any other unnecessary reason like Facebook, lol. This app overrides a hidden permission in Android 7+ that tells the system to not allow the app to run in the background, which means it will not be able to wake itself up.

hassan_1000 said:
Does this have the same functionality as in lineage os ROMs app ops where you can disable background processes?
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according to the reddit comments its the same. but maybe the Developer can confirm this

xdauser7 said:
according to the reddit comments its the same. but maybe the Developer can confirm this
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Am Developer. Can confirm, toggle "limit background activity" in LOS14 is the same as this app. At least that's what reddit tells me as I haven't checked myself.

Wow. Looks promising. I was too lazy to run ADB manually xD
So lets see if I can screw something up with disabling almost everything

MishaalRahman said:
Submit this to XDA Labs as well! Don't worry about a crappy icon or whatever. I've made apps in Tasker and have posted them to Labs hehe. As long as people find it useful feel free to submit!
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Ditto

neonixxx said:
This would be really cool. Best way to implement that I think would be to add Tasker plugin functionality to the app to allow Tasker flows to toggle the permission, which would have the benefit of being able to change it for any reason (such as low battery).
If I understand both correctly... Greenify forces apps to hibernate when you turn your screen off (or manually tell it to), but the app can still wake itself back up for a variety of reasons, such as receiving push notifications, location updates, or any other unnecessary reason like Facebook, lol. This app overrides a hidden permission in Android 7+ that tells the system to not allow the app to run in the background, which means it will not be able to wake itself up.
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thanks, makes sense about Greenify... do you or anyone know the difference between this and Brevent?

dimm0k said:
thanks, makes sense about Greenify... do you or anyone know the difference between this and Brevent?
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I actually tried Brevent for the first time a few weeks ago. According to the app itself, aside from not requiring root, it's supposed to monitor when you hit the back button or remove an app from recents, and then actually kill the app process when you do, despite if the app has some background process that it intended to keep running. Basically lets you manually control when an app is killed in a quick and intuitive way, but for me personally, it didn't seem to work as expected for some reason; background processes seemed to keep running after.
Also Brevent, being a non-root solution requires you to connect the device to a PC and run some ADB commands to give it permission every time you reboot. It has an experimental root mode that doesn't require this.

Best app for system clean up, startup, etc

Hi folks, I've tried a couple of apps like CCleaner, All in One toolbox, SD Maid, App Ops, My Android Tools, Greenify, etc. I kind of like All in One toolbox (AIO) for boosting memory, disabling auto startups but I don't like the fact that it's always sitting as a background process. App Ops is very useful but disabling auto startups doesn't seem to sync with AIO toolbox (disabled in AIO but doesn't show up as disabled in App Ops).
I've always come to XDA for all the great apps the devs here have provided and the great community. In my opinion, here's the come to place whenever I look for some tools. I've done some searches and a ton of stuff turned up so I'm wondering if there's a tool like AIO but doesn't behave like a memory hog and not have tons of wake locks that I have to disable in order for it to work.
I'll also welcome any tips on maintaining a lean OS (currently on Lineage 14.1) with regards to what essential apps I should have on my cellphone; any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

I use "All in one toolbox" for disabling auto startups too and hibernate it with Greenify.
In fact I heavily hibernate everything with Greenify.

Sir-Shadow said:
I use "All in one toolbox" for disabling auto startups too and hibernate it with Greenify.
In fact I heavily hibernate everything with Greenify.
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Yeah, I use these 2 apps but "All in one toolbox" have a tendency to stay in the background even with Greenify.

windwaver said:
Yeah, I use these 2 apps but "All in one toolbox" have a tendency to stay in the background even with Greenify.
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I'm using Greenify in privileged mod and it fully hibernates AIOT.

Sir-Shadow said:
I'm using Greenify in privileged mod and it fully hibernates AIOT.
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I also did that but every-time I look under 'development tools' -> 'Running services' AIOT is always running.

windwaver said:
I also did that but every-time I look under 'development tools' -> 'Running services' AIOT is always running.
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Weird! Mine isn't running.

Sir-Shadow said:
Weird! Mine isn't running.
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I think it's because I've enabled AIOT service in Accessibility.

SuperFreezZ

SuperFreezZ
superfreezz.gitlab.io
Code:
Disclaimer: SuperFreezZ is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
SuperFreezZ is an Android app that makes it possible to entirely freeze all background activities of an app.
Any contributions are welcome.
SuperFreezZ is not yet another task manager promising to delete 10GB of data per month or making your device 2x as fast. This is impossible. You should freeze only
apps that you do not trust (and do not want to run in background) and
apps that you use very few.
If you freeze apps that you use daily, the battery of your device will drain faster and these apps will take longer to load. You should take the name seriously: SuperFreezZ will super freeze your apps, and it is not that easy to defrost them.
Download
Features:
Optionally works without accessibility service as this slows down the device
Contributing to SuperFreezZ
If you have a problem or a question or an idea or whatever, just open an issue on GitLab!
If you would like to help, have a look at the issues or think about what could be improved and open an issue for it. Please tell me what you are going to do to avoid that I also implement the same thing at the same time
Donate
Developing SuperFreezZ is and was a lot of effort, which I did in my free time. Please donate to show me your support and to boost development.
Also, I will upload it to the Play Store when I earned €25 through donations (because uploading to the Play Store costs that much)
Q/A:
Q: But the correct spelling would be "SuperFreeze"!
A: I know.
Q: Do you have any intentions to sell freezers?
A: No.
XDA:DevDB Information
SuperFreezZ, App for all devices (see above for details)
Contributors
hcur, hcur
Source Code: https://gitlab.com/SuperFreezZ/SuperFreezZ/
Version Information
Status: Alpha
Created 2018-07-14
Last Updated 2020-05-08

Reserved

I built and installed the app on my phone, but I couldn't get it to work. Can you please let me know how does it work? After some guiding pages, it reaches to a page with yes and no question. after selecting each of them, it shows a circle progress above the page and does nothing.
I liked the idea about the app so I'm very excited to get it to work
Thanks

Sorry, I didn't see your post, I thought that I'd get a notification when someone posts something here...
Anyway,
artosian said:
it shows a circle progress above the page and does nothing.
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Doesn't it say "ALL APPS" anywhere? Quite strange...
What Android version are you using?
Can you send me a log excerpt (
Code:
adb logcat
) or even traces of the running stacks?
What happens when you wait 2 minutes?

The app should run in the background and automaticly freeze pre-selected apps just like Greenify does, overwise it's not much useful to me.

Been using this app for a week and like it alot. Especially as it seems to be one of the few open source options.
Only thing I miss in this is the ability to freeze system processes or the bloatware apps coming with the phone. Many of them are possible to freeze manually, but unfortunately they dont show up in SuperFreezZ.
Then there is the problem with restarting apps. As dimqua mentioned there is a need for autofreeze.

Module6 said:
Only thing I miss in this is the ability to freeze system processes or the bloatware apps coming with the phone. Many of them are possible to freeze manually, but unfortunately they dont show up in SuperFreezZ.
Then there is the problem with restarting apps. As dimqua mentioned there is a need for autofreeze.
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Good point, I will add it when I implement settings: https://gitlab.com/SuperFreezZ/SuperFreezZ/issues/8
And see https://gitlab.com/SuperFreezZ/SuperFreezZ/issues/15.

Hello,
I am really interested in switching from Greenify to SuperFreezZ, but am not entirely clear as to what the differences between the 2 apps are (if any).
What difference is there between freezing an app and hibernating it (which is what Greenify does, right?)? Why would it be a problem to unfreeze an app once it has been frozen, and does this process differ from what Greenify does with apps that have been hibernated?

evaz88x said:
Hello,
I am really interested in switching from Greenify to SuperFreezZ, but am not entirely clear as to what the differences between the 2 apps are (if any).
What difference is there between freezing an app and hibernating it (which is what Greenify does, right?)? Why would it be a problem to unfreeze an app once it has been frozen, and does this process differ from what Greenify does with apps that have been hibernated?
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There is no difference between freezing and hibernating.
And neither SF (SuperFreezZ) nor Greenify have anything to do with unfreezing/de-hibernating, the Android system does this from itself when you start a frozen/hibernated app. It is a problem because you will have to wait some more seconds until the app is loaded and the process also consumes some energy. And it does not differ from using Greenify at all, except for the fact that the developer of Greenify doesn't warn you.
So - actually you will see what the main differences between Greenify and SF are when using them. There are almost no "hidden" differences.

Module6 said:
Been using this app for a week and like it alot. Especially as it seems to be one of the few open source options.
Only thing I miss in this is the ability to freeze system processes or the bloatware apps coming with the phone. Many of them are possible to freeze manually, but unfortunately they dont show up in SuperFreezZ.
Then there is the problem with restarting apps. As dimqua mentioned there is a need for autofreeze.
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dimqua said:
The app should run in the background and automaticly freeze pre-selected apps just like Greenify does, overwise it's not much useful to me.
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I implemented both of these features, you will have to look for them in the settings though. This is because they are rather for advanced users (that is, those who have a look at the settings).

I can now receive monetary donations: https://liberapay.com/Hocuri/! If you like the app, please consider donating something.

Please, add a root option to hibernate apps without accessibility service.

APK plox?
Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using XDA Labs

Can you explain if it is useful on android pie or just redondant?

kryzeK said:
Please, add a root option to hibernate apps without accessibility service.
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Have you seen Drowser https://f-droid.org/de/packages/com.jarsilio.android.drowser/? It is also FOSS.
skiely666 said:
APK plox?
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I did not understand this, what do you mean?

EMJI79 said:
Can you explain if it is useful on android pie or just redondant?
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It depends. SF can completely prevent apps from running in the background.
Newer Android versions (like, Pie) let the apps run in the background fewer and fewer when they are not used, to save battery. SF can make SURE that apps do not run in the background at all. From https://gitlab.com/SuperFreezZ/SuperFreezZ:
Get back control over what runs on your phone (this did not change)
Enhance battery life and reduce mobile data usage by freezing rarely used apps (hint: the system will also let them run in the background only a little, even without SF).
Especially useful while you are on a tour, where you need only some apps but a long battery life
If you want to be really sure, you will have to test whether using SF saves battery yourself on your particular phone with your kind of using it.
Update: Apart, apps cannot use the camera or get your current location or use the device sensors while they are frozen.
Update 2: Also see https://www.xda-developers.com/superfreezz-freeze-background-apps/

hcur said:
Have you seen Drowser https://f-droid.org/de/packages/com.jarsilio.android.drowser/? It is also FOSS.
I did not understand this, what do you mean?
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It's ok I got it ?
Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using XDA Labs

hcur said:
Have you seen Drowser https://f-droid.org/de/packages/com.jarsilio.android.drowser/? It is also FOSS.
Don't you intend to add this function?
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Gilfreitas said:
hcur said:
Have you seen Drowser https://f-droid.org/de/packages/com.jarsilio.android.drowser/? It is also FOSS.
Don't you intend to add this function?
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It depends. It seems not to make sense to just duplicate this functionality on the first sight, but: Is there any reason why you would prefer SF over Drowser?
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hcur said:
Gilfreitas said:
It depends. It seems not to make sense to just duplicate this functionality on the first sight, but: Is there any reason why you would prefer SF over Drowser?
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First of all, thank you for this cool foss greenify alternative.
I don't think you should worry much about copying that since "am force-stop" is first result when searching "kill android app command" and the accessability thing seems like a more complicated hacky workarround. Having this as an option for rooted devices would be helpful, especially for killing apps while locking the screen as I could not get that feature to work reliably so Im left with freeze shortcut. I like this freezZer more because I find default delayed freezing the most convenient way to save some wattbytes having way more installed apps than I'd like to admit. (Seriously, why would someone need to have an app that calculates dew point? No idea but it prooved itself that one time and it's only 127kB!)
Intelligent feature could maybe be improved by logging usage and delaying freezZing more (in defined bounds) the more frequently given app is used, but this may be a hustle to implement.
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[Help] Introduce an app to avoid auto start

Hi, I've got root and xposed installed.
And already have installed amplify, greenify, no wakelock and bootstart manager.
But none of these was able to block an app from auto starting when phone is on.
Yea, it kills the app when you click on the greenifys shortcut, but I dont refer to that, I want an app which can disable the autorun service of the app.
Can anyone introduce a way or an app for that?
Thanks.

Aaazv said:
Hi, I've got root and xposed installed.
And already have installed amplify, greenify, no wakelock and bootstart manager.
But none of these was able to block an app from auto starting when phone is on.
Yea, it kills the app when you click on the greenifys shortcut, but I dont refer to that, I want an app which can disable the autorun service of the app.
Can anyone introduce a way or an app for that?
Thanks.
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You mean an app like autostarts? Which alters the criteria to said apps??
Used to use it years ago but it's still available..
Not a task manager but an actual app that manages changes.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elsdoerfer.android.autostarts
Not free but definitely worth a £1
Hope this helps..

dladz said:
You mean an app like autostarts? Which alters the criteria to said apps??
Used to use it years ago but it's still available..
Not a task manager but an actual app that manages changes.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elsdoerfer.android.autostarts
Not free but definitely worth a £1
Hope this helps..
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Thanks.
I think its what I needed, but its not asking for root so it wont work
Any orher app to share with me?
thanks

Aaazv said:
Thanks.
I think its what I needed, but its not asking for root so it wont work
Any orher app to share with me?
thanks
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Really??
Perhaps this may help then
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/209327/disable-autostart-on-boot
Gutted about autostarts man that was a sick app.