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[4.0+] Guardian - Process Watcher

Guardian - Process Watcher
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One of the most important tools on my device, is the good old Watchdog that, since the beginning of my SmartPhone era, have watched over my devices and alerted me whenever an app or a system process started to misbehave. But the dog is getting old, already am I finding myself having issues on newer ROM's and the project seams to have died a long time ago. So to save the future of process watching, I decided to create a new watch app, and at the same time trough in some more features. So with no further ado I present Guardian.
Guardian has been build to avoid false reporting. It will not alert you about a game that you are playing, or a music player that is playing music in the background or a video player that you are currently using to watch a movie. It will in most cases not alert you about a small temp. sync operation either. It will alert you whenever these processes keeps spending a lot of process time after they should have quit. Like after you left the game, turned off the music or closed your movie.
Also you can configure Guardian to handle rough processes for you in different circumstances. For an example if you are sleeping, you may possibly not notice any alerts from Guardian. In this case Guardian can force close the rough process automatically so that you can avoid waking up to a burning device or one with no power left.
XDA:DevDB Information
Guardian, App for all devices (see above for details)
Contributors
dk_zero-cool
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 1.2.0
Stable Release Date: 2015-06-05
Created 2014-07-14
Last Updated 2015-06-04

Hi, I just found this app while having a look at your 'Xposed Additions' which is on sale atm.
I read the description and thought: Wow!
Watchdog was also a loyal fellow for a long time on my devices, but it seems that it died in the past...
Your app seems to be very promising and as far as I can rate it now, it's doing what it's supposed to do
I'll give more feedback after some days of testing - but I really needed to say thank you for this!

Depressed T.Bear said:
Hi, I just found this app while having a look at your 'Xposed Additions' which is on sale atm.
I read the description and thought: Wow!
Watchdog was also a loyal fellow for a long time on my devices, but it seems that it died in the past...
Your app seems to be very promising and as far as I can rate it now, it's doing what it's supposed to do
I'll give more feedback after some days of testing - but I really needed to say thank you for this!
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I have had it running on my device for several month while developing it, and it has been working quite good. But the real testing is when it hit's multiple devices and users with mixed device use. So feedback would be great.

Is root required??

JoeFCaputo113 said:
Is root required??
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Not at all. There is a root option that can be enabled. That is used to kill processes that cannot be killed using regular Android tools. Other than that, nothing special is needed to use this, except for a device with Android of cause :s

I'm running your app for several days now. It's stable and doesn't drain the battery - that's good
The only alerts I get (daily) are from the 'Android System'.
A Whitelist feature for that would be great!

Depressed T.Bear said:
I'm running your app for several days now. It's stable and doesn't drain the battery - that's good
The only alerts I get (daily) are from the 'Android System'.
A Whitelist feature for that would be great!
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Yes battery drain was the most important thing on my mind when making this. No point in watching for rough apps if the watcher acts as a rough app itself.
Whitelist option is on my todo among other things. However maybe you should check this system alert problem? I have been running this app during development for the past 7 month and the only alerts that I got, was the one I triggered for testing purposes. If you don't think that anything is wrong, could you tell me what you are doing to trigger this? Because if this is a false alert, the service should be changed to handle it more correctly. The app should work in a way that makes whitelisting an unnecessary feature.

I can't reproduce it, I simply reflashed my rom, and the problem was gone.
It occurs before over night.
I recently got alerts for titanium backup.

Unexpectedly it made my phone stable
Is it weird that my xperia sola ****ty phone works well with guardian. No launcher redraws anymore and I can multitask now. Does it have memory optimization or something.? Also how can I enable root functions? Does it need exposed framework in root? The root functions etc is grayed out.

yankee77 said:
Is it weird that my xperia sola ****ty phone works well with guardian. No launcher redraws anymore and I can multitask now. Does it have memory optimization or something.? Also how can I enable root functions? Does it need exposed framework in root? The root functions etc is grayed out.
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It does call some of the Android process tools. Maybe when doing this, it triggers a process sync which cleans up the list properly.
Root allows you to kill all processes, not just background and non-perceptible and also not just Android processes. It is unlocked in the payed version. Xposed Framework is not needed with this option, but it can be used ones I add Wakelock monitoring which will require Xposed.

Ah. Yeah it does make apps seems run faster etc. I tested this to ****ty phone and well it does work wonders. Ram management on xperia 2012 seems the culprit. I suggest installing this to 1gb ram phones and tablet to maximize the effects

Where is the download Link? ?
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+1
TimTaylorX said:
Where is the download Link?
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TimTaylorX said:
Where is the download Link?
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In Downloads tab.

Unfortunately, Guardian won't launch in my Nubia Red Magic 3. I used Magisk Hide but still no luck.

Unfortunately Guardian won't launch in my Huawei mate 10 pro.

[App][2.3+]Stop Log - Stop Android loggers

☆Root required☆​
Stop Log is a simple Root App that let you disable your Android loggers and may improve your:
☆ System performance
☆ Privacy by avoiding any sensitive data leaks
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Tested on HTC M8 running Android KitKat, but it should support any Rooted device running Android 2.3+.
Change log:
1.0.3:
- Minor fixes
1.0.2:
- Add Android L and Gingerbread support
- Few improvements

This is great ! However, is there any known issues when disabling those logs (except for developers wanting those logs of course) ?

_Johnito_ said:
This is great ! However, is there any issues when you disable those logs (excpet for developpers wanting those logs of course) ?
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Tested for 2 days with no issues on my devices GS4/M8/Note10.1.

Installed and works on my Galaxy S5 so far.

It works on my Note 3. Thanks!

Android L support planned tonight.

Not that it affects me but how come support only starts from honeycomb instead of the usual gingerbread?
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@wanam gingerbread support would be great! if possible plz support it.

dpsi said:
Not that it affects me but how come support only starts from honeycomb instead of the usual gingerbread?
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killoid said:
@wanam gingerbread support would be great! if possible plz support it.
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Already done, i will update tonight when i come back home.

Stop Log updated with Android L and Gingerbread support.

Thank you for this app! Once a day I do some cleaning for my Android, and every time there are tons of logs and other ****, your app blocked some of them, but is there any chance to block them all?
Is there any chance to block:
/data/tombstones/
/data/system/dropbox/
.log files
UsageStats reports
Network and Process statistics

There is a typo in your app.
"Disabling Android has two major effects:"
Disabling ANDROID on your Android device?
wanam said:
improve your:
☆ System performance
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Do you have data that shows how big the impact is? Benchmarks or test runs?
Sure it reduces some CPU cycles, but i think you would not be able to notice it.
The biggest performance drain for logging does usually not come from the act of outputting the message itself, but from the effort that happens before an app logs something, like calculating debug values or extra calls. Disabling the logging from Syslogd only remove the last step of the chain. Apps will still keep logging, it just won't be printed into the log buffer.
wanam said:
improve your:
☆ Privacy by avoiding any sensitive data leaks
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True only for <Android4.1 Since 4.1 apps can only read their own log output.
I don't mean to attack you, the idea was well intended, but i don't see the benefit of doing this and it adds the huge downside of not being able to catch crash stack traces in the log which would help developers fix bugs.
Kinda like those custom kernels that come with logging disabled, just does more harm then good.
arkenstone said:
Thank you for this app! Once a day I do some cleaning for my Android, and every time there are tons of logs and other ****, your app blocked some of them, but is there any chance to block them all?
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Sorry, but no it didn't. This app prevents the creation from logging (sockets?) at /dev/log (currently). These are not items that are picked up/cleaned, they can't be deleted anyways as they are not files but sockets iirc.

Dark3n said:
There is a typo in your app.
"Disabling Android has two major effects:"
Disabling ANDROID on your Android device?
Do you have data that shows how big the impact is? Benchmarks or test runs?
Sure it reduces some CPU cycles, but i think you would not be able to notice it.
The biggest performance drain for logging does usually not come from the act of outputting the message itself, but from the effort that happens before an app logs something, like calculating debug values or extra calls. Disabling the logging from Syslogd only remove the last step of the chain. Apps will still keep logging, it just won't be printed into the log buffer.
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Dark3n, firstly thank you taking the time write this feedback.
Actually i don't agree with you about the biggest performance drain, this is relative and may depends on the device hardware but i think disk i/o operations are usually more expensive/slower than cpu calculation operations.
Anyway crash stack trace is the most important thing to be reported, and the developer shouldn't keep debugging informations on their App release, one of the reason i used to put those precious Proguard lines on my Apps:
Code:
-assumenosideeffects class android.util.Log {
public static *** d(...);
public static *** v(...);
public static *** i(...);
}
True only for <Android4.1 Since 4.1 apps can only read their own log output.
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True i'm aware non Root/System Apps can read only their own logs starting from JB, but we can't ignore the other type of Apps and older OS versions.
I don't mean to attack you, the idea was well intended, but i don't see the benefit of doing this and it adds the huge downside of not being able to catch crash stack traces in the log which would help developers fix bugs.
Kinda like those custom kernels that come with logging disabled, just does more harm then good.
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Yes, it may break some parts of bug reporting, but the user can still enable them anytime he needs to do that, and the developer does not need to rely on the logger for the bug reports, he can catch the stack trace and report it without the need of logcat (with Acra, Google Analytics or any other bug reports tool).
Sorry, but no it didn't. This app prevents the creation from logging (sockets?) at /dev/log (currently). These are not items that are picked up/cleaned, they can't be deleted anyways as they are not files but sockets iirc.
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They are a special files and they can be deleted.

Should this app stop adb logcat as well? Because it didn't on my GS4 GPe running stock (4.4.4) rooted firmware.

Just installed on LG G3, no problems so far, cool as no custom kernel for this phone yet

Chahk said:
Should this app stop adb logcat as well? Because it didn't on my GS4 GPe running stock (4.4.4) rooted firmware.
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Yes it should, disconnect your device and try again.

@wanam i cant find any option to save the settings after disabling logs on my gingerbread device. when i press back button it says 'do u want to quit without saving configuration?' but no save option there.

Congrats on your new app wanam mate, a very good and promising one! thanks for your work :good:

I tried this app today on my lg g3 and I noticed my temps running 105+ degrees. So I tried re checking all the boxes and temps went back down to low 90's. I tried re-downloading the app, rebooting with same results.
Anybody else seeing this issue?

i presume this would hamper law enforcement's ability to gather some sorts of evidence from your phone...

L Speed - Bug reports

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This is the bug reports thread for L Speed. Main usage of it is reporting bugs.​
Please follow rules before you post anything about bugs.
Basic rules:
- Write your device model
- Current ROM&Kernel (Android version, ROM version, links, anything useful)
- L Speed app version (Stable/Beta)
- L Speed logfile
- Logcat (In case you have force close or any kind of app crashing, please provide a logcat)
Important rule:
- BugReport (Please well describe a problem with useful information)

Nexus 5X / bullhead
PixelROM 7.1.2
Stable L Speed
I've noticed not all the build.prop tweaks actually take effect. Some do, while others don't. I've resorted to manually entering them. Do you use "setprop", cause it should work then?
EDIT: Tested with the "getprop" utility.

LazerL0rd said:
Nexus 5X / bullhead
PixelROM 7.1.2
Stable L Speed
I've noticed not all the build.prop tweaks actually take effect. Some do, while others don't. I've resorted to manually entering them. Do you use "setprop", cause it should work then?
EDIT: Tested with the "getprop" utility.
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I have to admit that some setprops don't work. But setprop-ing properties as early as possible works for me.

LazerL0rd said:
Nexus 5X / bullhead
PixelROM 7.1.2
Stable L Speed
I've noticed not all the build.prop tweaks actually take effect. Some do, while others don't. I've resorted to manually entering them. Do you use "setprop", cause it should work then?
EDIT: Tested with the "getprop" utility.
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Which exactly?
Every property inside L Speed is picked from AOSP source, so possibility that something isn't working is pretty low. Tell me what exactly doesn't have any function on your device, so we can discuss about it.
Thanks

Honor 7 with extreme ROM b830
Last beta
The force doze not working very well

ponemania82 said:
Honor 7 with extreme ROM b830
Last beta
The force doze not working very well
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Can you describe a bit better?
Do you see SU toasts on screen On from L Speed, if you have SuperSU, please check logs does service function well.
Provide me more info, i don't have anything from this.
Thanks

where can I find the log file? I will supersu pro v2.79

ponemania82 said:
where can I find the log file? I will supersu pro v2.79
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Enable pro superSU
Set Logging to full content
Set Logging to full content also for app in APPS section
Then use device for a while with enabled Aggressive doze
After few hours of using, post few screenshots of logs, and tell me is that timing when you switched screen on/off

then if I disable the auto lighting, and motion sensors, when waking up the device they do not wake up, but still do not work

LG G3 with Fulmics ROM and Xceed KERNEL
when i transfer big files (>1 Gb, especially mkv files) via usb it stops at the end, in both external and internal memory.
i disabled aggressive doze and sd tweaks and nothing happened,
after uninstalling LSpeed and making restart everything is fine.

ponemania82 said:
then if I disable the auto lighting, and motion sensors, when waking up the device they do not wake up, but still do not work
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So, you wanna say, if you keep option enabled for disable motion sensors device won't wake up screen.
ad7elmy said:
LG G3 with Fulmics ROM and Xceed KERNEL
when i transfer big files (>1 Gb, especially mkv files) via usb it stops at the end, in both external and internal memory.
i disabled aggressive doze and sd tweaks and nothing happened,
after uninstalling LSpeed and making restart everything is fine.
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What's your setup inside LS, can you provide me a log from app. I wanna check.

This is my file log, before I have only 1% of battery drain with screen off...Now 3% in 2hours....All this screen off

Paget96 said:
So, you wanna say, if you keep option enabled for disable motion sensors device won't wake up screen.
What's your setup inside LS, can you provide me a log from app. I wanna check.
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No...I want say, when I have disable motion,and then I have screen on, the auto brightness no work

ponemania82 said:
This is my file log, before I have only 1% of battery drain with screen off...Now 3% in 2hours....All this screen off
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ponemania82 said:
No...I want say, when I have disable motion,and then I have screen on, the auto brightness no work
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Oh, let me check
Send me both logs when screen is on/off and do it also with enabled/disabled option for motion sensors

This screen on
unfortunately I temporarily disable the function p

Here is the log

ad7elmy said:
Here is the log
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Try disabling scheduler tuner. Reboot after disabling.

Paget96 said:
Try disabling scheduler tuner. Reboot after disabling.
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I'm sorry nothing changed
should i disable the SD tweaks too?

ad7elmy said:
I'm sorry nothing changed
should i disable the SD tweaks too?
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Can you go randomly? And see what is an issue. That'll be the best.
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Beta 4 won't apply on boot..just stayed on executing...... without applying setting on boot. Pls fix Dani. Back to beta 3 for now.

Question Excessive battery drain while using YouTube Vanced

I have noticed a strange battery drain issue while using YouTube Vanced (16.15.34).
The battery drain almost seems to be on par with the display's battery drain (see attached picture).
It seems kinda unusual to me that this app uses so much battery.
Does anyone have the same issue or is this normal?
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Reboot? An earlier post about battery drainage said "Did a reboot and it seems to be much better now"
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...hat-cause-this-im-on-miui-12-0-4-a11.4257827/
The percentage is not quite accurate to the usage

GalaxyFan88 said:
I have noticed a strange battery drain issue while using YouTube Vanced (16.15.34).
The battery drain almost seems to be on par with the display's battery drain (see attached picture).
It seems kinda unusual to me that this app uses so much battery.
Does anyone have the same issue or is this normal?View attachment 5292397
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It's a vanced problem, they have a problem in their latest release. I noticed the same thing and it's a global problem. Check "Vanced" on Reddit and you will see many people are complaining about it.
Uninstall and install v16.02.35 until they fix this problem.

GalaxyFan88 said:
I have noticed a strange battery drain issue while using YouTube Vanced (16.15.34).
The battery drain almost seems to be on par with the display's battery drain (see attached picture).
It seems kinda unusual to me that this app uses so much battery.
Does anyone have the same issue or is this normal?View attachment 5292397
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Please see this post by @Timmmmaaahh! in the Youtube Vanced thread. Maybe the excessive data consumption also leads to a high battery drain - at least I could imagine.

Has already been fixed, there has been a re-release. Update to latest Vanced Manager via Github and reinstall YT (+YT Music if you use that as well). And please don't make threads for issues about apps that have a dedicated support thread. That issue was already posted there anyway so this is obsolete.

Same problem. Thanks for the info

Timmmmaaahh! said:
Has already been fixed, there has been a re-release. Update to latest Vanced Manager via Github and reinstall YT (+YT Music if you use that as well). And please don't make threads for issues about apps that have a dedicated support thread. That issue was already posted there anyway so this is obsolete.
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Seems it helped reinstalling/updating VancedManager as you said.
I did it through the app itself and it updated to 2.6.0 Crimson.
Then installed YouTube Vanced re-release (same version number like before).
Battery drain seems to have reduced.
Another thing though. We need to deactivate MIUI optimization upon every reinstalling/updating YouTube vanced, right?
So in the Poco X3 the option to activate/deactivate MIUI optimizations is hidden in the developer menu and can be accessed through clicking on "Set back to standard values" under "Autofill".
Although this is a possible way to access MIUI optimization settings temporarily, every time we are executing "Set back to standard values" we need to also grant permission to all the apps again.
This can be very annoying. Does someone have another way to access MIUI optimizations without this hassle?

GalaxyFan88 said:
Seems it helped reinstalling/updating VancedManager as you said.
I did it through the app itself and it updated to 2.6.0 Crimson.
Then installed YouTube Vanced re-release (same version number like before).
Battery drain seems to have reduced.
Another thing though. We need to deactivate MIUI optimization upon every reinstalling/updating YouTube vanced, right?
So in the Poco X3 the option to activate/deactivate MIUI optimizations is hidden in the developer menu and can be accessed through clicking on "Set back to standard values" under "Autofill".
Although this is a possible way to access MIUI optimization settings temporarily, every time we are executing "Set back to standard values" we need to also grant permission to all the apps again.
This can be very annoying. Does someone have another way to access MIUI optimizations without this hassle?
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Please, search and you will find. Or better yet: try and you will experience. Worst case you have to reinstall. This is all still very obsolete.

Timmmmaaahh! said:
Please, search and you will find. Or better yet: try and you will experience. Worst case you have to reinstall. This is all still very obsolete.
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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
It still does not work enabling "install via USB" option and consecutively installing via the app mirror apkm installer.
Guess we have to keep going the complicated route through disabling MIUI optimizations, installing Vanced, re-enabling MIUI optimizations and granting permissions for each and every app again.
If anyone can provide a different and more fluent approach, you are very welcome.

GalaxyFan88 said:
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
It still does not work enabling "install via USB" option and consecutively installing via the app mirror apkm installer.
Guess we have to keep going the complicated route through disabling MIUI optimizations, installing Vanced, re-enabling MIUI optimizations and granting permissions for each and every app again.
If anyone can provide a different and more fluent approach, you are very welcome.
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Read the guide, there you can find
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How To Guide ***CLOSED*** Samsung: How to KEEP apps in the BACKGROUND!

Hey guys,
in case you are not happy with the default One UI apps background management, you can check this solution. In a nutshell, there is a Memory Guardian module part of Good Guardians, that allows the user to switch from default to the so called "quick switching mode" that somehow reduces the aggressive background app killing, i.e. app refresh.
Moderator Edit: YouTube link removed due to violation of XDA external links policy.
I have tested this with following apps:
- Spotify
- Mixcloud
- Instagram
- Snapchat
- Tiktok
- Youtube
Some other users tested this with Waze and other apps and it seems that it works.
What is the idea? Well imagine you are browsing through insta and you find a nice post that you d like to check, but then something else pops up and you switch to another app. Then after you are back to your app (in this case insta) One UI would "refresh" the app, meaning that it will reload it, and you will lose your "last state", i.e. imagine refreshing the app or close/opening it.
Download Samsung Good Guardians from the Store ► https://bit.ly/3yGFUms
Download Samsung Good Guardians for a manual install ► https://bit.ly/3yOehYD
It is also supposed to work with some of the heavy games, test it and let me know if you apps refresh is a bit better (i.e. not refreshed so much) or ... no difference at all.
I have tested this on my S22U with 12G of RAM but I guess it should have a better impact for 8 GB and lower RAM configs.

Appreciate the find!
I have 8gb version and apps are staying open much better now

billmurray1004 said:
Appreciate the find!
I have 8gb version and apps are staying open much better now
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Nice to hear that! Can you let us know which apps did you test? Also - how much of VRAM (Virtual RAM) do you use?
I makes a bit of difference on my 12GB version so I assumed that it would be even better/bigger impact on 8GB and less.
Strangely enough this function is not very popular, was almost not able to find much info around. The whole Good Guardians tools are widely underestimated and they pack a few good tricks.
Thermal Guardian for example can let you adjust the thermal threshold of your phone, so it can potentially tolerate a bit more heat where battery life is exchanged for better peak performance and hopefully also sustained.

velqn said:
Hey guys,
in case you are not happy with the default One UI apps background management, you can check this solution. In a nutshell, there is a Memory Guardian module part of Good Guardians, that allows the user to switch from default to the so called "quick switching mode" that somehow reduces the aggressive background app killing, i.e. app refresh.
Moderator Edit: YouTube link removed due to violation of XDA external links policy.
I have tested this with following apps:
- Spotify
- Mixcloud
- Instagram
- Snapchat
- Tiktok
- Youtube
Some other users tested this with Waze and other apps and it seems that it works.
What is the idea? Well imagine you are browsing through insta and you find a nice post that you d like to check, but then something else pops up and you switch to another app. Then after you are back to your app (in this case insta) One UI would "refresh" the app, meaning that it will reload it, and you will lose your "last state", i.e. imagine refreshing the app or close/opening it.
Download Samsung Good Guardians from the Store ► https://bit.ly/3yGFUms
Download Samsung Good Guardians for a manual install ► https://bit.ly/3yOehYD
It is also supposed to work with some of the heavy games, test it and let me know if you apps refresh is a bit better (i.e. not refreshed so much) or ... no difference at all.
I have tested this on my S22U with 12G of RAM but I guess it should have a better impact for 8 GB and lower RAM configs.
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il try this thanks, HTRACK is always closing after 5 or more apps overtake it in the que

velqn said:
Nice to hear that! Can you let us know which apps did you test? Also - how much of VRAM (Virtual RAM) do you use?
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So...I just sort of excluded all apps for the most part to test. They stay in ram longer but still hit a point where they refresh. Using 8gb vram but haven't seen ram usage above 6gb or so yet

gav83collins said:
il try this thanks, HTRACK is always closing after 5 or more apps overtake it in the que
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Can HTRACK be further tweaked, perhaps from dev options? I remember seeing something for background processes, like a limitation factor setting.

billmurray1004 said:
So...I just sort of excluded all apps for the most part to test. They stay in ram longer but still hit a point where they refresh. Using 8gb vram but haven't seen ram usage above 6gb or so yet
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Yep, it`s not a silver bullet, but still some positive impact.

velqn said:
Can HTRACK be further tweaked, perhaps from dev options? I remember seeing something for background processes, like a limitation factor setting.
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Yeah there is but only upto 4 processes I sometimes have many any more apps open at once, anyway I'm trying it now and here are some screens if you wanna attach to op and il delete from this post once you add them
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update, i must say this app so far has seemed to keep my HTTrack running great in the background, it ha certainly made a difference, i did have it set "unrestricted" in the app settings/battery setting before and that didnt help, this app now works even with the app power settings set to "optimised"

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