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Root AutoKiller Memory Optimizer killing HTC Sense

CYNICALifornia

CYNICALifornia

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Running a rooted Evo (obviously) with OMJ 3.8.

I have Sense running with Itching Thumb(which I love).

For about a month or so I have been using Autokiller Memory Optimizer which has improved me phone's performance (I determined this in a sisde by side comparison with my wife's unrooted evo. I know this is not a perfect test, but as OMJ uses a stock kernel it's close enough, IMHO)

Since I have been running Itching Thumb I have notices when switching apps Sense will occationally get killed. I can only assume this is because of Autokiller.

When I looked on Autokiller Sense had an oom of 8, which with a memory use of 9mb and change makes it a candidate for being killed, I would assume. The oom for sense seems to bounce around a bit, it's usually 8, but I have seen 4 and 1 also.

This is a mild annoyance, waiting for Sense to restart, but if I could avoid it I'd like to. I've thought of a few possible fixes I would prefer not to do, which include:

Uninstalling Itching Thumb
Lowering the free memory threshhold on Autokiller
Temporarily lowering Sense's oom in Autokiller

What can I do to keep Sense from being killed? (I considered a bulletproof vest, but they didn't have one that fit) Can I lower it's oom? Any ideas? Or should I just suck it up and accept it and a byproduct of my tinkering?
 
CYNICALifornia said:
Running a rooted Evo (obviously) with OMJ 3.8.

I have Sense running with Itching Thumb(which I love).

For about a month or so I have been using Autokiller Memory Optimizer which has improved me phone's performance (I determined this in a sisde by side comparison with my wife's unrooted evo. I know this is not a perfect test, but as OMJ uses a stock kernel it's close enough, IMHO)

Since I have been running Itching Thumb I have notices when switching apps Sense will occationally get killed. I can only assume this is because of Autokiller.

When I looked on Autokiller Sense had an oom of 8, which with a memory use of 9mb and change makes it a candidate for being killed, I would assume. The oom for sense seems to bounce around a bit, it's usually 8, but I have seen 4 and 1 also.

This is a mild annoyance, waiting for Sense to restart, but if I could avoid it I'd like to. I've thought of a few possible fixes I would prefer not to do, which include:

Uninstalling Itching Thumb
Lowering the free memory threshhold on Autokiller
Temporarily lowering Sense's oom in Autokiller

What can I do to keep Sense from being killed? (I considered a bulletproof vest, but they didn't have one that fit) Can I lower it's oom? Any ideas? Or should I just suck it up and accept it and a byproduct of my tinkering?
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I'm not going to get into the whole you shouldn't use/need an auto killer debate (i use one...with very specific settings successfully)

can you not set autokiller to simply ignore sense?
 
Nope.

Autokiller is not a task killer. It modifies Android's memory management system to maintain more memory free for apps to use as cache. Thus, there is no ignore list.
 
CYNICALifornia said:
Nope.

Autokiller is not a task killer. It modifies Android's memory management system to maintain more memory free for apps to use as cache. Thus, there is no ignore list.
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I guess what I find confusing is that it sounds like it is doing that by prioritizing apps based off of memory usage and then killing tasks lol. it sounds like a more customizable task killer imo....again...I am NOT dissing you for using it, I have found the right combination of settings that result in almost no battery drain at all with screen off and have no reboot/foreclose issues so I can't agree with a "do not use a task killer memory manager" at all statement

I would first try adjusting the settings that you mentioned. That sounds like it will be the only way to keep autokiller and hopefully prevent it from killing sense
 
CYNICALifornia said:
Methinks you are missing a 'not' there . . .

I guess I'll turn down Autokiller a bit. Do you have your configuration posted somewhere? I'd be interested to see what you have done?
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haha yeah I had a customer come in mid sentence lol

I will see what I can put together for my set up...it is actually really simple

10am today 88% 2pm 88% had a 20 minute phone call, caught up on facebook and sent 5 texts...and now at 81%
 
Awesome.

Battery will always suck where I work though . . . phone says the 90%+ I have no signal. Can't do much about that than just plug in or shut down.
 
CYNICALifornia said:
Awesome.

Battery will always suck where I work though . . . phone says the 90%+ I have no signal. Can't do much about that than just plug in or shut down.
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airplane mode...you already know you don't have a signal lol :D I will get a list together of what I have done over the weekend
 
What is best settings to have Rooted evo to help increase battery life using autokiller memory optimizer? I currently have it on aggressize but I'm new at this so I don know it the higher the settings the more it saves or if t just makes phone faster or vise versa. i am alos using overclock set on min 128 and max on 806. Please help.
 
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