Timeline for How can I stop applications and services from running?
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| Jan 6, 2021 at 13:47 | comment | added | RocketNuts | Everything you write here makes sense. However, I notice a HUGE performance difference after uninstalling a dozen apps which I suspected of doing random things in the background. Problem is, simply uninstalling them doesn't solve anything for me, as I actually need most of those apps (most of them are banking apps). Uninstalling them was just an experiment. My phone got noticeably faster. After reinstalling them, things got slower again. Contacting the developers of such apps is typically useless or sometimes not even possible, at least in my experience. Any other options? | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 13:47 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
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| Jul 26, 2017 at 19:42 | history | edited | Matthew Read | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Jul 26, 2017 at 8:21 | history | suggested | Emil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Autostarts is now a paid app; Removed broken link - no longer available from f-droid; Source code (official) is still available in GitHub, link provided
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:18 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://android.stackexchange.com/ with https://android.stackexchange.com/
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| Oct 30, 2015 at 16:13 | comment | added | Matthew Read | @JeffreyBlattman You're right, please do feel free to edit this since it's a Community Wiki answer. | |
| Oct 28, 2015 at 0:56 | comment | added | Jeffrey Blattman | "Activities are usually not able to run computations in the background, so no CPU or battery is used for them."- that's simply not true. There's nothing that stops an activity from starting threads and leaving them running when it leaves the foreground. Perhaps you meant to say "Well-behaved activities usually ....". Well, okay, but the concern for most people is ones that aren't well-behaved. | |
| Aug 27, 2015 at 16:41 | comment | added | Matthew Read | @unforgettableid "greatest daemons" is a play on "greatest demons" and "daemons" (services). "Kill apps" does not mean "kill ALL apps". | |
| Aug 27, 2015 at 15:38 | comment | added | unforgettableidSupportsMonica | +1. Splendid answer! But what does "greatest daemons" mean? And what does "kill apps whenever they start" mean? (If you kill every app whenever it starts, I would have thought that it would be impossible to launch and use any app at all.) It would be good if you could please ping me with a comment reply which clarifies. :) | |
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| Sep 20, 2014 at 21:53 | history | edited | Matthew Read | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 29, 2013 at 18:17 | history | edited | imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
it's helpful to know when the software is free/open-source
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| Jan 27, 2013 at 6:43 | history | edited | Oasis Feng | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Add a warning about misusing on app hibernation
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| Jan 25, 2013 at 3:19 | history | edited | Oasis Feng | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 5, 2012 at 17:24 | vote | accept | Matthew Read | ||
| Oct 4, 2012 at 19:06 | history | edited | Matthew Read | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
wording, typo
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| Oct 3, 2012 at 23:33 | history | edited | Matthew Read | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
how to uninstall system apps
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| Oct 3, 2012 at 23:27 | history | edited | Matthew Read | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
how to uninstall system apps
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| S Oct 3, 2012 at 23:09 | history | answered | Matthew Read | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Oct 3, 2012 at 23:09 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Matthew Read |