Fire tv has been slow and laggy for past 3-4 months after digging found photo app cache 375-475mb with no photos on unit and app disabled. Clear cache and let sit in music app for 2-3 hours and builds right back up! Is there a way to set the cache for it much smaller or just uninstall the app completely?
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I've had my Verizon Galaxy Nexus since launch day with 0 issues until yesterday -- completely stock, not rooted. I woke up, it was charging overnight and the power button wouldn't wake it up. After battery pull it came back, and I confirmed that the battery was full.
This morning I woke up, woke the screen up to check something and it was ok. A few minutes later I unplugged it from the charger, the notification light was blinking so I pressed the power button and nothing. It wouldn't come back until I pulled the battery again.
I found this link and tried to clear data for System UI -- and noticed that most apps including System UI say "Computing..." forever for storage and cache sizes in the App Info page, making it impossible to clear data. Some, not all, have a total size listed in the application list, but when you tap on them for the full info everything says "Computing..." forever.
I also tried to uninstall an app (Dead Pixel Test, it was one of the apps with the missing storage info) and it took 10+ minutes to uninstall.
Don't know what to do besides a factory reset, but I don't want to blindly reset without figuring out what caused it in the first place -- I obviously don't want to lose my app data and settings and have to do it again in a few months.
Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas on what I can do short of a factory reset?
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Found the culprit!
In case anyone finds this looking for a solution to the same issue, I found the culprit, it was Google Currents. It had left thousands and thousands of cache files on the sdcard, and the GNex was battling through them every time it wanted to do anything with storage. Uninstalling it wasn't enough, I had to delete the tons of files left in /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.currents manually. Now uninstalls and App Info pages work just fine.
I'm trying to get my calendar(s) working and ran, face-first into the "computing..." loop. I do have Currents installed, though I never use it (it is horrible).
the number and density of the files it creates is stunning. I'm deleting these folders a dozen or so at a time and, well, this is gonna take a while, but I do hope it clears up the issues with App Info as you've indicated.
Thanks for the tip.
For the record, using a combination of Astro, ES File Explorer, most of my battery, time, patience, cursing, and venting, I solved the issue.
Completely removing all of the cache from the SD allowed me to remove the Google Currents app.
Removing the Currents app let me clear the data on both the Calendar Storage and Calendar app.
Clearing the data and re-syncing led to my calendar working again with all (8-9) calendars I have.
Thanks to the OP for this excellent suggestion!
Boo to Google Currents for being terrible on Android (and iOS)
Same issue with TripAdvisor
TripAdvisor also generates 100s or 1000s of files and causes the same problem - clearing Cache fixes it
Just wanna get other people's views on Art or dalvik depending on what they are using. I recently switched to ART to give it a try and possibly compare.
What's everyone else using
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I switched to ART last night and S-Health kept crashing after boot up. Went back to DALVIK and the issue went away
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i didnt notice much different in performance with ART compared to DALVIK. the bootup time is very slow but outside of that, performance was nothing noticeable. Maybe it'll be different with lollipop
I noticed that there is more ram space running art than dalvik not that it matters with the power this phone has...and my s health app crashes also....I guess I just found out why. I also noticed that every time I reboot it loads the upgrading apps screen and takes a little bit to upgrade and at that time my phone gets really hot. I think I'm gonna switch back to dalvik.
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I switched to ART and S-Health as well as Pandora both kept force closing. Switched back to DALVIK and everything is good now.
I use dalvik, as I have a few apps that don't work on ART. One of the reasons I hope v5.0 holds of a month or two - to give apps a chance to catch up.
Once 5.0 comes out, it will be forced on us, thus breaking some apps I need. So I'm in no hurry.
I used art for about a week and it runs a little snappier to me. No lag hitting recent apps was the most noticeable difference. I don't reset often but I switched back to dalvic when I realized private mode no longer worked.
If long boot times is ok with you for slightly better response times then ART.
First reboot will take a long time second reboots still take a while about 50-60 apps need to optimize vs 300+ first time.
Long boot times 50-60 apps that always require optimization are most likely Samsung bloatware and touchwiz elements.
Otherwise stick with dalvik. (not very noticeable except maybe some breaking of apps and touchwiz interface)
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I switched to ART last night and S-Health kept crashing after boot up. Went back to DALVIK and the issue went away
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Uninstall the S-Health update. Runs great after that. I even updated it recently after and all is working well
I realize that most people who come here are tech savvy, but I feel that I must at least slightly defend ART from the internet rumors, and misinformation that can kill the most beautiful things...
The upgrading apps on every boot up will not happen when ART is the default runtime in 5.0
I tried using ART, and I liked it, but I could not handle the reboot time. Once it is the law of the land, the reboot issues will be gone and I will be pleased to welcome ART to my phone.
I enjoyed ART. I know it's still buggy but I liked it except for my phone getting extremely hot while upgrading the apps but I'm sure that will.go away with 5.0 too.
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This was the first phone where I felt ART did not improve the performance of the phone. And with the long reboot times I had to switch back. Of the 5 phones I have run ART on this is the only one that complied the apps on every boot.
There are some that say their regents lag went away but I feel it made zero difference. It was faster upon first boot but quickly degraded back to the 1-2 second lag.
I look forward to our update to see if that last goes away and to see if the new TW is a little smoother.
before sometimes It's more than 20MB, after It was updated to the latest version,
now the cache of netflix is still 24KB for a long time meanwhile sometimes I get buffering, is it normal?
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For a long time now I've got my aftv to sleep by setting screensaver time to "never" but now that I have prime and unlimited cloud storage for pics, I use those as my screensaver and want to keep using them. So as expected, it appears amazon never fixed this issue. I have 2 questions:
1. Should I even care that my aftv is always on? (significantly shorten its life?etc..)
2. Is there a way to get those pics to display but still go to sleep after a reasonable time, or at the very least when my TV turns off?
***While we're on the subject of pics and screensaver. If anyone knows if you can delete the amazon stock screensaver jpegs, that I assume get downloaded and saved to the aftv, could you please tell me? I'd think that'd save a good amount of space if they are being stored somewhere on the box. That photo cache fills up fast too. I delete it 2 times a weeks and it's still over 200 mb each time. Thanks
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I'm looking to auto clear the cache for all installed apps the first time the stick is booted, daily. Anyone know of an existing app or is skilled enough to write a script to do it?
I don't want to do it at a pre-set time because the stick might not be running at the time, and I also don't want to do it every time it starts because I'd like to keep the daily data for faster loading of those apps throughout the day.
This is more for preventative maintenance for my rental unit.
Thoughts?