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Help Incredible Slowing Down

Dr3amWif3y

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May 14, 2010
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So my phone was working fine the last few weeks that I've had and then all of a sudden, it just started moving slow. Screens were taking forever to load and a lot of apps were force closing. Anybody have any ideas as to why this is happening? And any suggestions on what I could do to make it stop?
 
Must be due to a bad app. Download "OS Monitor" to see processes and find what is taking up large % of CPU. Seismic messed up once for me and took up 30% CPU all the time. Had to kill it, and I uninstalled it because twitter came out with their own app.

Thanks. I have been looking for CPU utilization app.

Here is a link from appbrain:
OS Monitor - Android app on AppBrain
 
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Yeah there isn't one step you just have to go thru your applications list and clear individually.
I find the best way to do this is , set it so the biggest apps are first and move my way down. If it's not over 1meg I don't even worry about it anyways. But some of them especially internet browsers will get up there in Cache memory really fast. Seen mine as high as 20megs before
 
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Yeah there isn't one step you just have to go thru your applications list and clear individually.
I find the best way to do this is , set it so the biggest apps are first and move my way down. If it's not over 1meg I don't even worry about it anyways. But some of them especially internet browsers will get up there in Cache memory really fast. Seen mine as high as 20megs before

Gotcha. I do that every few weeks. Sometimes helps. I also notice though that when 3G or voice signal is low the phone slows down too and not just the apps requiring a signal.
 
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thanks everyone for the input -- it was a bad app.. handcent sms messed up my phone but i uninstalled it && then i couldnt find it again in the android market so i just downloaded chomp SMS... i'm too mad though because i loved handcent && chomp is somewhat different.. i'm going to clear all the cache for my apps though ;; thank you EVERYONE for your help <3
 
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