Timeline for Shell script to kill custom apps, run another app then restart killed apps?
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| Jan 31, 2013 at 16:40 | history | edited | Izzy |
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| Aug 13, 2012 at 15:36 | vote | accept | GermainZ | ||
| Aug 13, 2012 at 9:01 | answer | added | devwom | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 13, 2012 at 4:01 | answer | added | rm-vanda | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 13, 2012 at 3:58 | comment | added | rm-vanda | GermainZ's idea is somewhat legitimate for older devices with less RAM, t0mm13b. However, t0mm13b is right in the sense that the apps would restart themselves as they need to. | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 19:43 | comment | added | GermainZ | Not quite. I'm not trying to avoid distractions, but to gain enough resources to run the game without lagging. Which worked fine for PES, the most demanding game I play on my android. :) | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 19:41 | comment | added | t0mm13b | Gaming has never been battery friendly regardless. And killing apps regardless is not exactly a good way of dealing with it - might be easier to put it another way, switch into airplane mode and run the game, those that are relying on network traffic will quietly shut-up until finished playing the game, and switch off airplane mode, everyone happy! | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 19:37 | comment | added | GermainZ | Also, gaming isn't exactly battery friendly, and killing some user apps does pay off on lower end devices. In my case, it nullifies the lag while playing PES. | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 19:29 | answer | added | Zuul | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 19:19 | comment | added | GermainZ | I wouldn't be killing system services, only user apps such as: viber, whatsapp, SwiftKey, etc. | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 19:16 | comment | added | t0mm13b | That would not be a good idea IMHO - that would be a battery killer - since explicitly killing other apps and services that are not yours, those services and apps will end up getting restarted... and tbqh, killing other apps just for the sake of "Game Mode" is very bad idea and if that was published - there'd be uproar about it... | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 18:47 | comment | added | GermainZ | Thanks for the comment. What I basically want is some sort of "Game Mode", activated before launching a game, desactivated after exiting it. For example, I have some apps bulletproofed (e.g. keyboard, whatsapp, viber, etc) and it would be nice to kill them before launching the game and launch them again once I'm done. | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 18:38 | comment | added | rm-vanda | This is all more than possible on a rooted phone, but before any of us begin writing the script, may I ask why you would want to do this? I mean, why go through the trouble of re-loading the killed apps? If you're eager to get started on this, Tasker would be the easiest way for you to do it, albeit it'll cost you $8 USD | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 18:33 | history | asked | GermainZ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |