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noxxtar

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That sounds stupid as f*** because we all need good hardware but still some stuff are just not optimized. I can easily do that on Windows, so is the same story for android?
I knew a few ways to do it.
1.Stop background apps and services. Greenify in one word.
2.Use RAM Manager.
3.Use Root Booster.
4.Increase the SD Card cache.
5.Use a less disturbing launcher.
6.Switch CPU governour and overclock.
7.Seeder.
Is there a thing to do to improve gaming performance, way more deeper than this? Teach me my friends. A way more effective way to increase gaming performance, if there is. I know I might ruin the device at some point if I run too far, this is just curiosity.
 
No, don't kill anything and don't use RAM Booster. Android isn't windows and it's designed to have apps cached in RAM. If it needs to kill apps to run games, it will do it itself.

There are a few posts in this thread, but it's worth a read: http://androidforums.com/threads/pu...k-killers-ram-optimizers-and-the-like.896663/

That will explain why you don't need RAM boosters or to kill apps etc.

What games are you trying to run on what phone/tab?
 
dude knock it off ram manager doesn't clean ram it sets ram VM heap size etc and it doesn't matter what game just demanding games.. I know the ram stuff its the 4th time I hear it
 
good. thats what i wanted. i knew the ram stuff. but why would i keep messenger running in the background and receive stupid notifications? i think its worth stopping some apps.
now the seeder part was really unexpected. i really though it was good n stuff. it made my menu go insane, but if its not recommended, i wont use it. tho i dont see that not using seeder and not stopping background apps will increase my performance.
anyway thx.
 
There's only so much you can do to improve gaming performance. If you have a custom kernel which allows you to overclock the gpu (as well as/as opposed to the cpu) that may make a difference, but overclocking of any sort is always at your own risk. Also remember that overclocking will generate more heat, and any phone will throttle once the temperature rises too high, so there is no guarantee that any gains from overclocking will be sustained in longer gaming sessions (playing inside a walk-in freezer isn't a practical solution for most people ;)).
 
noxxtar said:
tho i dont see that not using seeder and not stopping background apps will increase my performance.
anyway thx.
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Stopping apps will have no effect because if the system thinks it needs an app, it will just start it again. Androids best memory manager is Android, just leave the OS alone to "kill" apps and manage memory as it needs to. If a game needs more memory to run, let the system assign whatever memory it needs.

Looking at other suggestions on your list, I'd be dubious about SD Card Cache too. It might improve the length of time it takes games to load, but probably wouldn't improve the performance of the game itself.
 
Being honest....the most sure-fire way to upgrade game perormance, especially demanding FPS type games, is to upgrade and replace the device itself, e.g. a Samsung Galaxy S6 is going to have much better game performance than say a lowly Galaxy Ace 3.

Android is NOT Windows! :thumbsupdroid:
 
load times are also a part of this.
overclocking is a thing ive been doing since a while, it works brilliant on windows, both gpu and cpu, while on android setting up the govenor and overclocking cpu didnt made anything at all! all it did was to make my tab reboot after 4-5 mins after lock screen. weird huh? about the gpu that was a think ive though about, but never was dare to do due the fact that im not into this kernel stuff.
I UNDERSTAND that the os kills anything but im talking about my shit apps that I have about for example animania, i played a while a game and when i came back the app was still running. why would i not stop that by myself while the os didnt do it? about system apps... yes they do restart if i kill them, its pointless, but user apps dont restart once they are closed. i also see very useful stopping my anti virus while playing because it eats 100mb ram. why wouldnt i do that? android doesnt stop it.. ive seen that indeed android stopped some stuff while playing and did some nice stuff, but about the antivirus neh. i need a lighter anti virus or none.
buying phones like toilet paper isnt my thing.
 
Nor mine - I typically keep smartphones for 3 years, feature phones I kept for longer.

The phone will try to keep some apps going, e.g. those which have high-priority services attached to them. I expect the AV is running that way. That said, if the phone doesn't need that extra 100MB of RAM to run the game then clearing it won't make the game run faster, so the gain you'll get is if AV app is otherwise taking cpu cycles. But the value of a constantly-running AV app in Android is very doubtful, so you'll not do any harm stopping it (I have a security app just because it offers better phone location options than Android Device Manager, but do not let it do real-time scanning of my device and apps).
 
Hadron said:
Nor mine - I typically keep smartphones for 3 years, feature phones I kept for longer.

The phone will try to keep some apps going, e.g. those which have high-priority services attached to them. I expect the AV is running that way. That said, if the phone doesn't need that extra 100MB of RAM to run the game then clearing it won't make the game run faster, so the gain you'll get is if AV app is otherwise taking cpu cycles. But the value of a constantly-running AV app in Android is very doubtful, so you'll not do any harm stopping it (I have a security app just because it offers better phone location options than Android Device Manager, but do not let it do real-time scanning of my device and apps).
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to be honest, ive never seen the os clear some ram when it needed. for example i play a demanding game thats not compatible with my device, well thats my guess it does show on the market place, it works fine on smaller maps and medium maps but when it comes to big maps it works pretty slow and i though the ram is the fault due the fact that i have 250mb out of 464mb being used everytime, so i though 214mb wouldnt be enough, and thats how i started this mess.
so if im lagging, doesnt that mean that my device needs that extra ram, but doesnt want it? or does that mean that my cpu gpu is crap? a quick wonder here. anyway the stuff you guys said were applied to the phone it didnt quite increase performance but it increased battery. i deleted all apps about optimization. thanks.
 
The fact it's running slow is nothing to do with RAM. The fact that it lags is because you have a Dual Core MediaTek 6572 CPU (info taken from another of your threads).

Mediatek chips aren't the greatest and they themselves have said it's supposed to be used in entry level smartphones.

With an SoC like that, there's going to be very little you can do to increase performance by any reasonable level.

Sorry, but it is what it is.
 
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El Presidente said:
The fact it's running slow is nothing to do with RAM. The fact that it lags is because you have a Dual Core MediaTek 6572 CPU (info taken from another of your threads).

Mediatek chips aren't the greatest and they themselves have said it's supposed to be used in entry level smartphones.

With an SoC like that, there's going to be very little you can do to increase performance by any reasonable level.

Sorry, but it is what it is.
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so ram doesnt matter? thank you going to tell this to my friend soon. i dont care bout performamce that much, but my friend does. so i took the job of him asking. bad thing but i learned stuff
 
Also consider that pirated apps often contain other code that isn't in the description (i.e. malware). If I'm using software whose purpose is to modify my system I want to be _very_ sure that it isn't going to do anything other than what I expect.
 
a summary of what we learned in this topic
-every optimization apps that looks candy to eyes (du battery speed booster bla bla bla) are cat crap
-ram cleaners are awful. and useless.
-game fps depends on phones only on hardware and the software can barely improve the performance.
-android os is smarter than you think. let him to do the stuff for you. (if its a she please correct me)
-only major way to improve performance is to overclock.

now, another questions, due launchers interferre with games? or they dont have to do a thing with them? i mean if you've got a fancy launcher that eats 100mb ram, android wont stop it if the game needs ram, right? so they do worsten the game? or is it false? do we need a light launcher?

another thing. will having less apps improve performance because your device has more room to work with? sounds stupid but can it be true? a friend of mine says this i dont believe him.
*talking about load times*

will making the ext sd card the default write disk make load times fatsre

another thing. will stopping google play services while playing games that dont need be good enough? not force stop it lol but to freeze it with titanium backup. will freezing apps do any better?

work here guys.
 
btw most os-es have tweaks that can improve gaming performance, will that be true on android? probably not, but is there still? like an app or something. just curious tho.
 
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