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How to stop running unwanted background stuff.

Is there an app or something that actually tells me what is running I. The background? I'm currently using automatic task killer but I feel that it only kills somethings and not all.
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try system panel. or taskiller

Why do you want to kill the apps? Android will stop them for you if it needs the memory. Hitting the back button at the bottom of your phone should exit you out of the app you're currently in.
What do you have running in the background that's killing your phone so bad?
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Autostarts is a good paid app. Prevents certain apps from ever starting automatically.
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Love autostart.. cheap and on cm6 with stock root I hit 1903 on quad. Also I removed alot of stuff. Almost barebones then installed my 28 apps. Still get average 1800s. +1 for autostart.
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atypical1 said:
Why do you want to kill the apps? Android will stop them for you if it needs the memory. Hitting the back button at the bottom of your phone should exit you out of the app you're currently in.
What do you have running in the background that's killing your phone so bad?
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You can back out to exit but doesn't shut down the app when you are done with it. Stays in the background. Developers need to start putting close or exit on apps to close and shut down the app instead of leaving it in background. There is 3 parts.. background..foreground.. and cached..
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atypical1 said:
Why do you want to kill the apps? Android will stop them for you if it needs the memory. Hitting the back button at the bottom of your phone should exit you out of the app you're currently in.
What do you have running in the background that's killing your phone so bad?
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The back button closing apps is a large myth for most apps. Some are coded that way but not all. As for the other post about AutoStarts, it is a great app for root users. Just be careful. However, 2.2 is great by itself about managing apps and resources on its own without a 3rd party task killer. I use AutoKiller to tweak Android's own task manager to kill off items sooner. Just because you see an app running does not mean it is using battery or hogging resources. Android is not a Windows device.
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Well the reason I'm asking is because, I am rooted with 2.2 But I still get horrible battery consumption. I thought it might have been all the background apps still running or on standby. I used taskkiller myself but i really don't see a difference.
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Good info on the back button. I always thought that worked for some applications. I don't see how force closing an application can be good for your phone though anymore than force closing a program is great for your computer. But I'm not totally familar with the OS on our phones.
But my understanding about the OS is that it will shut down apps on it's own in case it needs the memory right? And, to your points just having apps open won't necessarily drain the battery.
OP, how's your reception. It's also my understanding that having poor reception will drain your battery worse too. Are you running GPS, wireless, or services that use those resources?

Not at all, I don't even have Bluetooth on. And using system tools I can see that before killing any background apps the phone is using 63% memory when killing the apps its reduced to 42%
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autostarts + system panel + juice defender
Take a little time to learn how they work, one you get them set up you'll be a happy camper.

nebenezer said:
autostarts + system panel + juice defender
Take a little time to learn how they work, one you get them set up you'll be a happy camper.
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+1 for system panel. This will tell you not only what processes are running, but will also tell you how much battery and CPU they use (and have used over the past X hours). It's invaluable when trying to find the rogue process that's sapping up your battery.
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I don't know why there should be any problem with killing an app or service through the app manager. I do it frequently. At first I did encounter unexpected results but these are less now as I become more familiar.
I wondered, though, is there a preferred order of stopping and clearing data/cache through the app manager (in 2.2)?
I didn't know there was background/forground/cache difference: in froyo, it appears to me that app manager shows all of those under "running"--is that correct? Also, you can look at services. If a service (calendar, talk, etc.) is running, for example, it could be an obvious thing to stop if you aren't using it. You will see if you log out of the service first, and then check the service list, that it might remain running.
I think when you re-start the device very little starts with it. You can use that as a baseline.
Playing games online realtime is probably the biggest power hog I've found. I sometimes cannot play for even 15 min.
Other days, the device holds juice for more than 24 hrs.
The signal strength seems to be the main variable in my experience. The phone signal strength makes a difference, so does 3G, and 4G even more. It's like there's a threshhold or a revolving time--sorry, I don't know the right term here--but the device goes round and round searching if it thinks some signal is out there or if you trigger an app that calls for it. OTOH, once the device really finds nothing at all it drops everything. It shuts down entirely and you get really great battery life

my phone stays awake sometimes and sometimes it dont

i cant find what keeping my phone on cm7 up sometimes it wont stay awake and it will be fine other times it stays awake 100% of the time. in my usage the browser is number 1 but thats cause i use it alot. but then sometimes ill restart the phone and it will be normal again sooo

Have you checked partial wake usage from Spare Parts?
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Ah it says beautiful Widgets which I suspected. But how do I fix that cause I want to use beautiful widgets
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Check the settings in Beautiful Widgets. I believe there's a setting that turns the phone on to check for weather updates. You should be able to turn that off.
I'm not using it right now so I'll redownload it from the market and check.
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Hmm, couldn't find that option. It's probably waking the phone when it refreshes the weather. What's your refresh interval? I'd set it to something longer or just refresh manually. If you're using geolocation then that could be a problem too.
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It was a hour thought I had it on 4 hours so put it on that and geolocation Is on I also just deleted the animation pack for when u turn the phone on. Even if the refresh was a hour it keeps it the phone up 100% every second. I always get a notification for geolocation how it can't locate maybe that's constantly trying to locate
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It was a hour thought I had it on 4 hours so put it on that and geolocation Is on I also just deleted the animation pack for when u turn the phone on. Even if the refresh was a hour it keeps it the phone up 100% every second. I always get a notification for geolocation how it can't locate maybe that's constantly trying to locate
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Seems like geolocation is the culprit. If you're usually in one city, just input that city instead of using geolocation, it'll save battery too.
If all else fails, you can try the app "Permissions Denied". Disable the permission in BW that lets it keep the phone from sleeping. The first time I used the app, I lost my settings after rebooting to make them take effect. After setting it back up and rebooting again, everything has worked fine since.
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Deffiantly was beautiful Widgets w.e I did to it it is now fixed. Turned of geolocation deleted animation pack so one of those were the culprits and either way animation pack was annoying
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Juice defender

is it working for you guys? for some reason mine is not shutting off data when screen is off

Not working for me either...
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I am wondering if it is something with this phone. I am not using JD but rather Green Power (same as JD) and it seems to have an issue shutting off data as well. I ended up using Llama and setting a condition that whenever the screen goes off to kill data and vice versa. It has been working great.

Tried it for a day and noticed that my phone couldn't connect to data even when wifi was off other users also had the same issue so I've steered clear of it since besides while using it really didn't see much of a difference in battery life
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It seems to still be working for me? It has always been working for me.. I have juicedefender ultimate don't know if that matters?

Its working for me! It always has..
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i have gotten both results. some days it does work, some days it doesn't. when it chooses to work and when it doesn't occur at random times, and i'm not sure what i do that makes sure that it works as it should.
i wonder if this issue and other reports of settings being reset after a reboot are phone related or firmware related...

It worked today after I went to the status page and tweaked some things.
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It worked today after I went to the status page and tweaked some things.
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what did you do?

In the "about" tab there are different options, this is what I have; enable after unlock is highlighted, disable on wifi (data) (4G) are highlighted, all the rest are not highlighted. Of course I have the app itself enabled with aggressive highlighted. Notifications needs to be allowed... been working ok for 2 days now.
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Has been working for me as well. Using ultimate, advanced settings, basically have it set to turn off data while screen is off, sync every 5 minutes, using location for WiFi for home and work. averaging 1.85x. Data does not turn on when lock screen is checked, only when phone is unlocked. At that point, I see the juice defender icon has a red dot to indicate no data connection. It then turns blue and cell data turns on momentarily while wifi connects. The pull down menu indicates "screen" as the trigger got starting data.
Rooted just the other day, flashed the stock minus bloatware ROM (tesh's streamlined version 1) yesterday, juice defender still working fine.

Its working fine for me.
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This thing works well for me but
i'm not sure about the features that require root. Id be very curious to hear if anyone has got the 2g/3g/4g toggle to work as well as any of the other features that require root on the stock ROM.
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I just bought the Ultimate version. I intend to put some screenshots up after a few days to show if there are any differences between the battery life I have been experiencing with this phone and what I experience with Juice Defender installed and working on it.
Obviously, there will be some tweaking going on to get it set up properly but hopefully I will have everything figured out very shortly. I have high hopes for this application though I realize I am likely going to have to root the phone to gain access to the 2g/3g/4g toggle function. That is likely to save me the most battery power when I am out of the house and office while still allowing synchronization all of the time.

It worked good for me just had one complaint. It takes a few secs to connect from screen off. But it does save some battery.

[Q] Why does it keep on lighting by itself? [SOLVED]

Lately the phone started to light itself on every ~2 minutes or sometimes it stops for a while and randomly does it again.
I usually place it next to my TV desk or on my computer one, is that the cause? If so, is it in any way harmful?

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maybe some app is running in background......

maybe because of some background apps

Like the two people above me said check which apps are running in the background. I don't really know much, but maybe Better Battery Stats app will help. It's in the market. I use it to check which apps keep waking up my device and preventing it to deep sleep, thus draining battery.

Well I press the Home button a few times and even open the Task Manager to see if anything is running and there's nothing. :s

Task manager doesn't show apps running in the background.
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Goto
Settings>> Applications>>Running Services
there you will find all the apps running in background
check which application(not stock core applications ) are running end any third party app and see if it helps

Install better battery status and check the partial wakelogs to know which app is conflicting
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Thanks everyone. I think there was some left out stuff I forgot to end.

Automatically disable data during the night on cm10?

Hi,
As I am losing 20% overnight (which means no alarm clock in the morning) I need something to save my battery.
Maybe it is possible?
I would like an app which turns off:
- wifi
- Data
- Changes to 2g
Maybe something else?
Thanks!
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Just manually turn off data before you go to bed?
Or plug the phone in...
Or... buy an alarm clock? There's an idea .

I believe CM10 has this setting under "Night Mode". Try searching in your settings for that. I would give you a more specific answer, but right now I'm not running CM10, but a lot of other roms have this option. It allows you to set the times and apply certain data and toggle settings. Then again, I could be completely off and CM10 might not have this.

I know Airplane mode would disable all carrier connections, but that still leaves WiFi. For that, could you not simply disable WiFi itself?

Go into profile and edit the night profile and you'll be set
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specter07 said:
Go into profile and edit the night profile and you'll be set
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Thanks!!!! But how to switch profiles automatically?
Do i need to go to settings each tim? No shortcut?
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You can look into using an app called Tasker. It has a vast array of useful tasks that can be automated.

There's an app called LLAMA, which should work.
bat0nas said:
Hi,
As I am losing 20% overnight (which means no alarm clock in the morning) I need something to save my battery.
Maybe it is possible?
I would like an app which turns off:
- wifi
- Data
- Changes to 2g
Maybe something else?
Thanks!
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DZYR said:
There's an app called LLAMA, which should work.
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Already installing.
Thanks!

Llama is totally great!!!
Not sure if it is a best solution and what are the alternatives. But I love Llama now.
I confgured 4 events (home, home night, work, outside work or home) and testing them.
Switching between events is a bit laggy but seems to work.
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Even with data etc on, the phone certainly shouldn't eat that much battery over night. Find what's the true cause (poor app) instead.
tptlk

personally i use an app called Green Power that you can set times and modes for that disables data when the screens been off long enough and a number of other useful features to help with battery life.