I bought (and am now asking for my money back!) CCleaner, which only stops apps temporarily! I need to free up RAM or my game crashes a lot. Surely Android must have a way to disable all these apps? In windows I can choose start-up apps, and even have two sets saved so I can start up minimally if I need the RAM.
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Help How to force stop apps PERMANENTLY?
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Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
Ditch CCleaner in the first place, change to SD maid free.
CCleaner for android is crap, ironically works wonders in windows. Since it is only a registery cleaner.
what phone do you have?
android for the most part does a pretty good job at managing ram.
do you know how much ram your phone comes with?
what apps are always running on your phone?
i found this article that gives some good advice:
www.makeuseof.com
android for the most part does a pretty good job at managing ram.
do you know how much ram your phone comes with?
what apps are always running on your phone?
i found this article that gives some good advice:
Low RAM on Your Phone? 7 Android Memory Management Tips You Need to Know
Worried about the amount of RAM on your Android phone? Here's how to manage memory on Android, plus what not to do.
www.makeuseof.com
It's 2025 people, why are still talking about force closing apps 🤓
Registry doesn't need cleaning. Best thing to save disk space is treesize (which is free), you see the folder taking up the moist space, and you can drill down (not good for the sectors) to find the boggest subfolder, and decide something is full of sh1t or a program you don't need. I do this when the hard dick is full and I save about a third of the space man!
Motorola G31. HAHAHAHA! Android is like Windows 3 in terms of tech. It closes things you were using silently when you run out of RAM! Windows just uses a swap file and when it's slow you realise you should do something. I played a game only to find Ebay had silently closed, and I missed several important notifications! It could of at least told me!what phone do you have?
android for the most part does a pretty good job at managing ram.
do you know how much ram your phone comes with?
what apps are always running on your phone?
i found this article that gives some good advice:
Low RAM on Your Phone? 7 Android Memory Management Tips You Need to Know
Worried about the amount of RAM on your Android phone? Here's how to manage memory on Android, plus what not to do.
Because I have a phone I bought for £40 2nd hand. But I see modern expensive ones still have a pathetic amount of RAM. The game I play (and mobile phones play those now, even though manufacturers don't seem to know they eat RAM!) would like about 5GB. My phone is 4GB.
WTF? Come on, get with the times, a phone is now a computer, and 16G is the bare minimum I'd put in a computer, and then one used for simple tasks. This computer has 128GB.
So you ask us for advice and then you insult us? I think you and I are going to get along just fine 
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
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my s25 ultra runs great. i never have to force close an app. like i said android in general does a pretty good job at ram management given that it has a decent amount of ram. anything less than 6gigs could run slow depending on what you do on the phone.
Why would I want to seduce you, I don't even know what you look like, and why would the admins cater to your warped needs? Perhaps it's you who needs telling off. You're of no use in this thread, I'll talk to the more sensible replies.
12-16GB, nothing compared to a desktop PC, but usable. But I'm not going to spend 1 to 2 THOUSAND dollars (!!!!????) on a phone! That's more than I paid for my desktop computer, and a third of what I paid for my car!! Meanwhile in reality, most of us are not that rich. Even 2nd hand, 500 to 600 $!?!?! For something in my pocket I will probably drop at some point, get real. Most of us need to force stop.
Now would somebody come up with something constructive instead of making fun of my wage packet?
with tech....you get what you pay for. you buy something cheap, you get something cheap. not much you can do about that.
and nobody is making fun of you. at least i am not. just making a point. look for a phone with more ram. low ram phones will always be about ram management. either get used to it, or save up and get a better phone.
and nobody is making fun of you. at least i am not. just making a point. look for a phone with more ram. low ram phones will always be about ram management. either get used to it, or save up and get a better phone.
I'm not going to spend that much on a phone, I can't afford it. There must be RAM managing programs to fix Android's lackings for cheaper older phones. In Windows I can kill off everything except the game. There must be a way to stop Android allowing stuff to just restart. There are background apps like whatsapp, telegram, Ebay, I simply don't want in RAM at all when playing the game. How hard can it be? Like ccleaner, but with a lock to stop them coming back. They shouldn't be coming back anyway! If they are force stopped they are not there, right? How can they get back in if they are not running?! I expect to load them manually or restart the phone to get them in RAM again.
Perhaps there's a 3rd party RAM manager - to make a swapfile like any other OS has? Slowing it down is better than running out of RAM!
Perhaps there's a 3rd party RAM manager - to make a swapfile like any other OS has? Slowing it down is better than running out of RAM!
I'm trying Greenify based on AI recommendation. Perhaps I should always ask it instead of in a forum!
It says it's the best thing if I don't root. I need to root to create a swapfile and make Android approach being a proper OS. I'm not prepared to root, too much hassle. Android shouldn't need all this root nonsense, it should be a switch in settings. Google went overboard with security after cleaning up the security hole ridden earlier versions of Android (up to about 5 or 6). Now they even like to prevent apps monitoring your usage incase they dare to sell data to make money off you. Because of course Google wants to take that all for themselves. It would be like the government stopping people ripping you off so they can do so in taxes, imagine if they did that! Oh wait.
It says it's the best thing if I don't root. I need to root to create a swapfile and make Android approach being a proper OS. I'm not prepared to root, too much hassle. Android shouldn't need all this root nonsense, it should be a switch in settings. Google went overboard with security after cleaning up the security hole ridden earlier versions of Android (up to about 5 or 6). Now they even like to prevent apps monitoring your usage incase they dare to sell data to make money off you. Because of course Google wants to take that all for themselves. It would be like the government stopping people ripping you off so they can do so in taxes, imagine if they did that! Oh wait.
James L
Android Expert
There used to be a command you could use in terminal emulator or command prompt etc. That could do it, not sure what it is anymore without looking through my posts. I haven’t been on here in a long time due to switching to IPhone.
I’m sure with a little searching you could find the command on this forum still.
I’m sure with a little searching you could find the command on this forum still.
James L
Android Expert
Yes you would run the command including the apps name. I think it was 2 apps used one being terminal emulator but if you have a PC neither app is necessary. I’ll try to take a look in a bit.
James L
Android Expert
Try this as it doesn’t require root access.
- Connect your phone to your computer via USB.
- Enable USB debugging in your phone's settings.
- Use the following command in the command prompt to remove an app: adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.my.demo.app (replace com.my.demo.app with the app's package name).
- To find the package name, you can use: adb shell pm list packages | grep <search-term>.
James L
Android Expert
Or use terminal emulator instead of a PC.
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
Registry doesn't need cleaning. Best thing to save disk space is treesize (which is free), you see the folder taking up the most space, and you can follow down (not good for the sectors) to find the massive subfolder, and decide something is full of garbage or a program you don't need. I do this when the hard disk is full and I save about a third of the space man!
- hey OP:
I have edited this. You said "Moist" and "Di*K" when you wrote "The hard disk" you mean also "Drill down" meaning follow down.
I corrected it op. SMH!
- hey OP:
I have edited this. You said "Moist" and "Di*K" when you wrote "The hard disk" you mean also "Drill down" meaning follow down.
I corrected it op. SMH!
But I'm stopping maybe 30.....
And are you sure that's the right command, it says "uninstall".....