Android's built-in low memory taskkiller

[Aldo Junior Ao2]

Im running

Rooted
Modaco 2.2
xda-developers = Less aggressive GK-031-lessaggro-signed.zip
Setcpu 480 max and 245 min

Also gotroot have you changed from performance to powersave and then go to your phone dialer and watch how slow it goes. Wow

 

[g0tr00t]

Also gotroot have you changed from performance to powersave and then go to your phone dialer and watch how slow it goes. Wow

Yeah I did...at first I forgot I selected Powersave and hit Home...all went black...then I thought....oh god...BRICKED! LOL...then it slowly moved and 10 minutes later I had it back to Ondemand..haa haa haa

 

[Aldo Junior Ao2]

Still testing but more important i want to see this soo called battery life improving you know.

 

[kennyidaho]

This is a dangerous place to be playing and you could mess up your phone in ways you might not be able to fix if you start mucking around in here.

Thanks for the links but I have a git clone on this machine

How so? As long as one can get to a boot loader one should be able to factory flash back to stock. All these modifications are gone.

I am not trying to be a jerk I am just trying to understand what exactly is going on here. I am not as leet as you guys

 

[FatDroid]

How so? As long as one can get to a boot loader one should be able to factory flash back to stock. All these modifications are gone.

I am not trying to be a jerk I am just trying to understand what exactly is going on here. I am not as leet as you guys

It's really safe to try. At worst, you just turn your phone off and on. Testing it out doesn't cause settings to persist, meaning it will revert to default when you turn the phone off. No need to flash anything.

Lots of people have tried it and it's now finding its way into ROM's. Someone also posted an app on the XDA thread that lets you test the tweak if you are too lazy to open up a shell.

Best bang for a tweak yet.

 

[zeus111981]

I've tried this. It sped up performance a LOT. It has made me realize the importance of free memory on my sprint htc hero. i'm starting to look in to adding compcache (basically swap) to my rooted fresh 1.1 rom, gumbo kernel, with setcpu running.

There is a program on the market MinFreeManager that will make the memory changes for you that are referenced above. (sorry if that is duplicate knowledge, i didn't read the thread entirely). It even allows you to save it across reboots...much more cozy for those not comfortable with adb.

 

[mysticmead]

l use Advanced Task Killer by Apollo Software, it is easy to use and save a lot of battery.

ya might want to rethink using ATK... using the BUILT IN low memory killer and letting Android kill processes that it knows are idle and no longer needed is much better. killing processes using ATK or similar task killers can actually use more battery since you can kill commonly used processes that then have to restart.. using more power and adding lag time..