Does anyone else here obsess over their phone being speedy, tidy and junk free? I've rooted and I haven't gotten around to installing a Vanilla ROM yet, and I've instead stuck with Froyo. However, I've installed a few applications which I find myself using quite a lot.
Autokiller Memory Optimizer -
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rs.autokiller
This application handles the way which your Android device handles memory and processes on your phone. It also greatly increases battery life when you've got the perfect configuration set up! I can get a whole day of extra battery life with this app
History Eraser -
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.infolife.eraser&feature=search_result
This is an app which is capable of cleaning a lot of shit from your phone through the use of a basic GUI. You tick the boxes which you want removing, and the application will run and remove things like the App Cache, draft messages, internet history, etc etc. Check it out!
Aside from these applications, I also trim the fat off by uninstalling things which I don't need, moving applications to the SD card to free up phone space, and organizing my home screens for efficient navigation.
Do you do anything like this to your phones?
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I'd like an Android phone as they seem to have a good range of Application. Fuck the iPhone. I bet half the people with one don't even know what "App" is short for. I know 2 of them :facepalm:
Haha, thanks for pointing that out. Updated the post with the correct word.
Well like android, jailbreaking iOS enables a shitton of stuff. Apps that automatically turn off 3G and other stuff when not in use, faster page loading, etc.
Stuff like that.
All smartphones do this. Your memory has to be powered anyway so, ideally, it should be full all the time to minimize expensive disk (flash) drive access.
In fact, all operating systems do this, when you load a program it stays in memory even when you close it so that the next time you call it, you don't have to trawl through the big old disk drive. It saving power and it's faster over all. You can even try it, try loading python or octave and see how long it takes to load. Then try loading it a second time. Subsequent opens happen instantly!
If the phone needs to free up some memory then it will do it itself, that's the whole point of an operating system, so you don't have too.
Yeah, both get you root user access so you can run unsigned code (iPhone, I think you can run unsigned code already on Android) or perform privileged operations (iPhone and Android).
It's interesting, that's for sure. Then it goes on to mention how the memory is split up into 6 different categories, etc. If you want to read the whole article then click here...
http://andrs.w3pla.net/autokiller/details