Help MessagesCS constantly above CPU threshold?

[Erutis]

Hello all,
I'm the proud owner of an HTC Inspire. I love my baby, but recently it's had some weird problems. I installed Watchdog a while back and set the notification percentage to 30%. The only process that ever goes above it is MessagesCS. At least five times a day. I've tried looking online for what this process specifically does, but no luck. Soooo... what does it do? Is it important, is it okay to just kill it? Did it come with the phone or is it from an app?
Thanks!

 

[dylando808]

hmm that's very odd. i also use Watchdog (lite), and that same process (MessagesCS)
never goes even past 5% for me? i'm pretty sure it has to do with receiving and sending text. for me it seems to go up when i have a new message in the inbox.
you may text more often so it may be higher in percentage than mine. or it could be a bug with the messaging app itself.

but as for killing it, i would not reccomend it because it is a phone process so killing it may have unwanted consequences that might affect text messaging.
if you want you can always get the paid version of watchdog which allows "whitelisting", which means you can allow certain apps/processes to exceed threshold if you desire.
or you can just raise the CPU threshold in settings. (i have mine set to 60%).

 

[Erutis]

I do have the full version, but whitelisting doesn't stop it from killing my battery. It's been significantly lower since MessagesCS started acting up. It just did it again, this time at 41.1%. I don't really text to a crazy extent, and it even goes above the threshold when there are no new texts and haven't been for hours.
I use Handcent, could that have something to do with it?

 

[dylando808]

I do have the full version, but whitelisting doesn't stop it from killing my battery. It's been significantly lower since MessagesCS started acting up. It just did it again, this time at 41.1%. I don't really text to a crazy extent, and it even goes above the threshold when there are no new texts and haven't been for hours.
I use Handcent, could that have something to do with it?

first i would like to correct myself when i said whitelisting was available for the paid version only. it's also available for the free version.
the paid version allows for BLACKLISTING which autokills processes once it exceeds threshold so you don't have to manually kill it.

but having that alternative SMS app might be the culprit. maybe it's because since the phone is using 2 sms apps the MessagesCS might be accounting for the two?
my first thought to fix this would maybe to uninstall then reinstall Handcent?

 

[Erutis]

my first thought to fix this would maybe to uninstall then reinstall Handcent?

Did that, no dice. Still going above 30% constantly. My battery got to the red zone in 7 hours. I have it set to kill it at 40%, and it's killed it twice today.

Sigh... what to do!?