First of all I wanna thank you all guys,
you have been so kind and gave me so useful info
It's not easy meet patient and generous people like you!
Then I have few questions for ayush29, but everyone can answer:
- I went to the task manager and the green line is 227/290 what it means? Below there is a button "clear memory" but it also says caution! cleaning ran would finish some of the
running applications. Save data applications before. What I should do? Is this operation really useful to save battery?
- I have downloaded few games from the market but they are all crap, while instead on youtube
I see tutorial of people playing with smashing games like fifa, pes, resident evil, grand thieft auto and so many others less famous but with an amazing graphic, on the galaxy ace! Could you suggest me some nice games supported by the ace?
- do really exist batteries with a higher capacity :O ? is possible find also original samsung ones?
If I don't trust to take them on internet, could I find themn in any shop, like currys or carphone, etc? what do you mean when you say they use the original like back up (sorry Im a disaster about technology)
- what is a file manager...? installing another browser could it create conflicts with the original?
- last thing, yesterday I have started to install some apps basically to download free music, at least 10 of them, because I like search for rare songs and in these way I have more sources
but this morning the telephone seems slower, and a couple of apps haven't closed correctly.
Is it possible take a virus from apps downloaded from the android market? is there an antivirus app in this case? Or an app like ccleaner for windows to clean sometimes the system?
To don't have all these downloading programs, could you suggest me the best 2 or 3 where i can find almost everything?
Thanks you all guys
for your patience and kindness
doriangray
227/290 is your ram usage indicator, it says that you are currently using 227mb of ram out of available 290. Clear memory buttons shuts down the non essential apps, it says caution because if you are working on a word file or surfing the net or anything, hitting that button would close these apps and you will loose your work, so its suggested to save your work or finish your work before clearing the memory. On clearing it should show 160/290 or similar, depends on how many non essential apps were running in the background before clearing.
Its not anything risky but it should not be done regularly, only when your phone feels extremely slow or when the indicator shows near to 290mb ram in use. Ram usage means your cpu is working on an app continously, and that means using battery. You can see the running apps in settings>applications?manage app>running apps.
Some people have tried porting HD games to ace and similar tricks to play them, most of them are successful in running the games but the games always have problems, they lag, shut down randomly, force close etc. There are very few games that people have been able to port with absolute success. These games don't work because of limited hardware, and thats not gonna change by software tweaks. Search on internet for ported apps and stuff and try them, see how they work for you. I am not much of a gamer but i have played angry birds, nfs shift, age of empire etc. Look into play store there are tons of games available for non HD phones.
High capacity batteries are easily available, samsung gives us a 1350mah battery, you can easily get a 2000mah+ battery in the market, given that its voltage, amperes, size and other specs match the samsung one so that you can be sure it will fit the case and won't be harmful. Look in xda, there are many high capacity battery users, they will guide you better.
File manager is your sd card browsers, the 'My Files' app on your phone. There are many similar apps on play store that you can use, and they are much more feature rich than this. All these contacts, My files, Calender etc are just apps only, there are always alternatives available in the market. Try those i said before, i use solid explorer, its pretty good.
When phone becomes slow, do a reboot, that turns off extra apps and get back to essentials only, don't use app that need to run in the background.
Always read the permissions an app wants when you download it, for example a simple game application should not be asking permissions for contacts, messages or accounts permissions, if it is asking that means there is something bad with that app, don't install it. Make sure the app is developed by a reputed developer and not some random unknown guy/organisation. Otherwise there are no such viruses in android. Only your common sense can keep your phone safe. There are antivirus apps available, but they are more or less useless, they just run in the background and consume unnecessary ram and battery.
