Hi everyone
I'm looking for a program that can terminate a task after a certain time.
For example, i'm listening to music before i go to sleep, but right before i fall asleep, i have to manually end the program and that kinda wakes me up. I just want to put my phone away and sleep ) knowing that my player will be killed after x minutes and saving my battery for the night.
I know it sounds funny, but that was just an example to make you understand what i'm looking for
so, if anybody knows some application that does what i described please let me know
thanks a lot
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this morning all of my alarms failed to go off for some reason. i'm very lazy / a heavy sleeper so it's a miracle that i woke up at all.
the only thing that i can think of is that the phone was being charged / in a dock this morning - does anyone know of any settings that would stop the alarm from sounding when the phone is being charged ?
Two questions:
1. Was the phone switched off? If so, the alarms won't ring.
2. Do you use a task killer? If so, killing the clock will stop alarms from ringing.
Regards,
Dave
hey dave,
[hangs head in shame]
now that you mention it, i DO have a task killer that i rarely use EXCEPT for last night. for some reason i think i was mucking about before i went to bed and i killed the clock to see what would happen. sense crashed and restarted and i thought nothing more about it ...
mystery solved (hopefully) - thanks !
That sounds like it would be the cause! Didn't over sleep for anything important then!
wanna trade your phone for my HD2?
First off, I am rooted with the "unrevoked" method. I have notice that my alarm clock only goes off sometimes. I cant figure out what the pattern is. This is my 4th android phone, so I know how to navigate and set things up. I have it set for Mon-Fri @ 6:05am w/ a stock alarm tone (light).
I am back to using my regular house alarm clock with the blaring radio. Anybody else have this problem?
Do you use a task killer? If so, you should set it to ignore the clock. It will kill the clock and prevent it from going off.
Better yet, find a way to do things without a task killer, but that's my two cents. You can use a task killer if you so desire.
Thanks, I actually was using task killer. Why do you say not to use it?
I don't use an automatic task killer simply because it's not needed, at least not for me. I have plenty of RAM available at all times and this way I don't risk killing off something important. The only time you should need to kill a process is if it is misbehaving by using lots of data or CPU time or not properly going to sleep. Otherwise your phone will generally be faster with a lot of ram in "use" because it's being cached and can be used by other programs. For more information look up how Linux handles RAM.
I see that when a task killer stops a program (cityid, stocks,etc) I can look right back in there and see it running again and in a minute the page is full again of the same apps that I just killed. Even with autokill on they start while the screen is off. I want to know if anyone has figured out what file or service keeps starting these and if there is an edit to it to tell them to quit it ? I am not comfortable with a device that I do not have control of stuff that starts and goes online by itself. Thanks.
madman34 said:
I see that when a task killer stops a program (cityid, stocks,etc) I can look right back in there and see it running again and in a minute the page is full again of the same apps that I just killed. Even with autokill on they start while the screen is off. I want to know if anyone has figured out what file or service keeps starting these and if there is an edit to it to tell them to quit it ? I am not comfortable with a device that I do not have control of stuff that starts and goes online by itself. Thanks.
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If you're not comfortable with a device you do not have full control of, looks like rooting is for you
Seriously though, rooting your device is the ONLY way to remove City ID, Stocks, etc. from your device. HOWEVER.
You should probably break yourself of the task killer habit. Lifehacker explains it all here: http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them.
In a nutshell, Android is actually really good at preserving memory, and killing apps that will keep popping up drains battery faster. The reason they keep popping up is Android is trying to predict what you're going to use next based on what you just did (or something like that), so potentially anything you have installed that is there on startup will hit that list.
I tried using Watchdog as the article said, but honestly I found in the end I just wanted more control. unrevoked 3.21 and several ROM tries later I'm happy with where I'm at
EDIT: I see by your sig that you have rooted your Dinc.. therefore, it's a very simple process if you want to get rid of the app entirely. If you want to leave it installed, you're not going to find a solution to the constant opening - Android is what Android is.
Most of the apps you see in the task list are not active. They're just loaded in memory so they can launch faster when you need them.
Like the previous poster pointed out, task killers are counter productive. You just get a continuous cycle with the app launching and being killed. Launching again and being killed again. And on and on.
Best just to leave android alone to do what it was designed to do.
If you still feel the need to be more in control use app autostarts. It allows you to block the initial app launch and block based on events.
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Mostly what I want to do is,,,,
,,,To stop applications that come on by themselves and log in even when you set in their settings to not do it, like Skype. I do use Skype to do a calll with a bunch of friends from school, but I want to start it when I want to use it, I am all the time having skype calls come in when I have not even launched the app. I figure that if it is listening for a call then it is useing power needlessly. I do not want to have to log out every time I want it to stop, I just want to close it and it behave and stop useing power. Many apps do that and I think it is a major reason for low battery life. My battery will not hold up a full shift at work, but if I kill the GPS and the 3G the thing has been up for 22 hours and is still at 66% and I have talked for over 2 hours today on the phone, so I think that if more control is gained over app behaviour then we can be happier with our batteries ;-)
madman34 said:
...but if I kill the GPS and the 3G the thing has been up for 22 hours and is still at 66% and I have talked for over 2 hours today on the phone,
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You hit the nail on the head there. It's not the apps killing your battery, it's the 3g and gps.
I leave my wifi on all the time but have it set to disconnect if the phone is idle for 15 min. Bluetooth, gps, and 3g are always turned off except when I need them.
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I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to turn off the podcast sync process on Double Twist. I like the app for the ease of syncing, but i really don't have a need for podcast updating. I close the process every time I go to running processes, but it ends up coming back. I tried to turn off podcasts in double twist, but the process still shows up. I know its probably not a battery drainer, but processes start to add up.
Use Google Listen.
I have the LG G4 with T-mobile and I frequently stream music with Slacker. I have noticed quite a few times that is the music app is streaming in the background (and the screen is off), the application will close completely and stop playing. This does not appear to happen when the app is in the foreground. I do not have any task killing applications installed and I was wondering if others had seen behavior like this? Any thoughts on how to prevent this from happening?
Thanks!
Same to me but with endomondo
What is probably happening, well has to be getting killed by the garbage collector, but why could be a few things.. if it's doing it when your screen is off its the device going into deep sleep and slacker is not pushing a persistent enough service to give it a higher priority to keep the device awake when the screen is off which there wouldn't really be much you can do besides using an app like Tasker or a robot To 4 + device awake while the screen is off and there's probably some other apps that will do it too. That's one way to test and at least find out if that's what's going on. And another likely reason would be simply the phone is being pushed into out of memory situation and Android is killing off everything which would only happen if you had a **** pile of apps running and I still don't see slacker having a low enough priority to be killed so quickly. I would have to know a little more about what all you have running on your device at the time it is being closed
Through my ancient eyes comes the certainty of decay... LG G4 & L 70