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Help how to disable/stop apps from auto closing?

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I'm not gonna get into a debate about why this phone force closes apps, redraws the screen, or screen flicker. There are many phones out there that have these same problems. There are many tweaks and mods that are out there that fix these problems. Those same fixes don't fix the lg volt. With my everyday use of this phone, I believe these problems exist cause of the lg volts use of ram with the qHD screen. Let's just leave it at that.
 
This isn't really a debate. Neither of our phones exhibit the issue you're claiming. Maybe there is something wrong with your phone. I don't have any force close issues.
 
weird rather useless best answer choosen while i was gone, how do i change it? (clicking "best answer" didn't seem to do anything), i'd prefer it to be this one:

http://androidforums.com/threads/ho...-from-auto-closing.859810/page-2#post-6826152

petermg said:
I just experimented with the OOM presets. I think I tried "Light" and also "Medium". You could also try "Very Light" but I think it's a tradeoff between responsiveness/closing apps, and a bit of lag if you get to permissive. I would recommend trying "Medium". If you set it to "Very Aggressive" it will start closing stuff in the background again, at least it did for me. There are other presets, but I haven't tried any of them. I think basically the OOM settings on this device were just set to some very aggressive / extreme setting so probably anything more gracious than that may solve the problem.

The version of Kernel Tuner I use is:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rs.pedjaapps.KernelTuner&hl=en

Although there is a newer version, I have had problems with the newer version on another phone, would cause it to reboot when messing with the min and max CPU frequency settings so I'm hesitant to try that same one but who knows, maybe it was just an issue with the phone I was using at the time (Evo 3D).
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I still have the same issues I've always had but at this point it doesn't matter much anymore, since i only have it as a backup and use it 0.01% if the time.
 
jetfactor said:
okay... having the same issue. however, it seems to only happen:

- when i am running pandora in conjunction with maps
- when i am running pandora in conjunction with waze
- when i am running pandora and i open camera to take a picture
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substitute "spotify" for "pandora" and in conjunction with, well, ANYTHING ELSE, and that's my problem However my son has the same phone and doesn't. :mad:
 
So how has editing the OOM been working for everyone? My girlfriend is having the same problem with her Volt and is frustrating the hell out of her. With her Volt, not only does the music apps close but so does Facebook, the browser, and her launcher always resets upon returning to it. Also, her keyboard likes to close while in use as well, really pissing her off. And like they say, an unhappy girlfriend is an unhappy me lol

I haven't rooted her phone yet because I am not familiar with this problem and I know simply rooting doesn't change how a phone acts. On my past phones I used to keep apps resident in memory but the trade off is less memory for other apps. I was also thinking ad blocking could free up some RAM, especially while web browsing. (I forgot how many ads exist these days!) But if changing the OOM to be less aggressive works I will expedite this process asap!
 
Quick question unrelated but I don't think it needed it's own thread. How do you get softkeys on the volt???
 
HallOfPromise said:
So how has editing the OOM been working for everyone? My girlfriend is having the same problem with her Volt and is frustrating the hell out of her. With her Volt, not only does the music apps close but so does Facebook, the browser, and her launcher always resets upon returning to it. Also, her keyboard likes to close while in use as well, really pissing her off. And like they say, an unhappy girlfriend is an unhappy me lol

I haven't rooted her phone yet because I am not familiar with this problem and I know simply rooting doesn't change how a phone acts. On my past phones I used to keep apps resident in memory but the trade off is less memory for other apps. I was also thinking ad blocking could free up some RAM, especially while web browsing. (I forgot how many ads exist these days!) But if changing the OOM to be less aggressive works I will expedite this process asap!
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OOM settings have helped quite a bit, as well as ad-blocking and debloating, but the best thing you can do to help this phone is root and flash the Volt Uno kernel from here. It's overclocked to 1.6ghz and has a whole host of better governors and schedulers that make the Volt run like it should. Unlike switching to a whole new rom like cyanogen there will be absolutely no change to her user interface or data, everything works just like stock, and there are none of the side effects that some of our phone's roms have (loss of LTE, green tinted camera, etc).

I've been running it exclusively for a couple weeks and have had zero problems. Very stable.
 
lazysean said:
OOM settings have helped quite a bit, as well as ad-blocking and debloating, but the best thing you can do to help this phone is root and flash the Volt Uno kernel from here. It's overclocked to 1.6ghz and has a whole host of better governors and schedulers that make the Volt run like it should. Unlike switching to a whole new rom like cyanogen there will be absolutely no change to her user interface or data, everything works just like stock, and there are none of the side effects that some of our phone's roms have (loss of LTE, green tinted camera, etc).

I've been running it exclusively for a couple weeks and have had zero problems. Very stable.
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Thank you very much! I will start this as soon as I'm able to before we head out for our workation. If all goes well she will love this.
 
quite the sight to see this thread still alive a year later...anyways

rooting, debloating, and changing OOM hasn't been as sucessful for me as it has others.

one warning about overclocked custom kernels: be careful how hot you let the phone get, while it might not be an issue here, a phone can burn itself out into a brick if not careful.
 
Open Task Manager.
Use the settings button to open the Task Manager settings menu, and choose Settings.
Unclick Auto clear RAM.
 
np6s4x said:
one warning about overclocked custom kernels: be careful how hot you let the phone get, while it might not be an issue here, a phone can burn itself out into a brick if not careful.
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Fair enough. I haven't noticed any issues here, though it's only been a few weeks. I will say, though, that even without overclocking this kernel seems noticeably zippier. I don't know if it's the different governors/schedulers (I'm using intellidemand/sioplus), compiler optimizations or what, but I do not have any of the freezing, apps and keyboards quitting, memory issues that I had with the stock kernel and I really haven't changed much of anything else.
 
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