A couple of you saw how I recommended LBE Privacy Guard to keep your phone from being hijacked by apps (including malicious ones).
Today, though, I'm going to recommend another app. AutoStarts. This one is a paid app, though. But this is what it does for you: It disables apps from autostarting whenever they want. This increases boot times, as well as loading times for certain things. Like, you'd be surprised how much Google Maps is primed into the background. If you don't use Maps all that often, but often enough where you don't want to freeze / defrost it whenever you use it, this is the tool for you.
There's also a secondary benefit. Do you hate it when you install an app and it has like 20 widgets? My example will be Jorte: (Click Show to see)
Yeah, that's annoying, isn't it? Well, this is what it looks like for me:
Yeah, much better. How do you do that? With Autostarts, you can disable the "Widget Updating" for the widget sizes you don't care about. Like so:
Then reboot and they won't show up anymore. You actually have to reboot before any of the changes in Autostarts takes effect, IIRC.
And I'm sure you could use an alternative version to Autostarts that does the same thing. There may be a free alternative, but I bought Autostarts about a year ago because there were no good alternatives.
Today, though, I'm going to recommend another app. AutoStarts. This one is a paid app, though. But this is what it does for you: It disables apps from autostarting whenever they want. This increases boot times, as well as loading times for certain things. Like, you'd be surprised how much Google Maps is primed into the background. If you don't use Maps all that often, but often enough where you don't want to freeze / defrost it whenever you use it, this is the tool for you.
There's also a secondary benefit. Do you hate it when you install an app and it has like 20 widgets? My example will be Jorte: (Click Show to see)
Yeah, that's annoying, isn't it? Well, this is what it looks like for me:
Yeah, much better. How do you do that? With Autostarts, you can disable the "Widget Updating" for the widget sizes you don't care about. Like so:
Then reboot and they won't show up anymore. You actually have to reboot before any of the changes in Autostarts takes effect, IIRC.
And I'm sure you could use an alternative version to Autostarts that does the same thing. There may be a free alternative, but I bought Autostarts about a year ago because there were no good alternatives.