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thorthunderblt

thorthunderblt

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Hey peeps can yall take a look at this list of running services that are going on my phone and let me know what apps i should keep running and ones that i dont need. Any help is really appreciated.

Music - DownloadManager$Download (cant see the rest of the name)

Go Launcher EX - AppService ( I am pretty sure i need this app running)

Go Launcher EX Notification - NotificationService

Battery Widget - BatteryWidget$Update

Android System - HtcIntentService (pretty sure i need this one also)

Sound Set - SDMService

Calender - ConnectToPCService

Google Services FrameWork - Google Messaging Service (cant see rest of name)

Sync Service - SyncService

HTC DM - HtcDmService

Maps - NetworkLocationService

com.smithmicro.DM - DMServiceApp

Mobile IM - HTcMimService (I use GO sms as my messenger, to me the mobile IM seems like the factory messaging which i shouldnt need?

SwiftKey X - i am pretty sure i need this running as well.


Also do i need the city ID app? It always seems to be running in the background. The app seems to be used for when i get phone calls?

Again any help with this is really appreciated.

***I would imagine that this list might also help other people as well***
 
Unless you are experiencing a problem with apps and services, you should not try to manage your resources yourself. Android will do a much better job of it.

All of the apps, widgets and services listed above look like they are needed for the smooth and reliable operation of your phone. If you kill them, Android will relaunch them and do nothing more than consume more of your battery. If you uninstall them (root needed for many of them) you run the risk of severely crippling some of the services which you use, and in most cases the only way to get them functional again is to perform a factory reset.

Also note that just because an app or service is listed as "running" it may only be cached in state and not consuming any CPU cycles and not affecting the performance of your phone.

Is there a reason why you want to dump any of these?
 
Yeah thats true. I did notice though that when i went into the Blocbuster app and disabled the movie updater. That now the 2 PVpservice things are no longer running.
 
thorthunderblt said:
Just looking for more ways to improve battery life.

Good advice though.
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Gotcha. The first thing to do to improve battery life is to get rid of any task killer app you might have installed. Unfortunately many reps in phone stores STILL recommend task killers as necessary with an Android phone. It really hasn't been the case since 1.5 and even then it was a stop-gap measure instructed by supervisors to get customer's with problems quickly out of the store.

There are a couple of general things you can do to increase battery life. First I would look at widgets that use data, like news feeds and weather widgets. Cut back on the frequency of the polling. Many times they are set to every 5 minutes by default or even every minute. That can really suck juice fro a battery. Similarly, if you have any POP or IMAP email accounts, reduce the number of times they poll the servers, or if email needs to be immediate, forward your other email accounts to gmail, which is a push service.

Cut back on screen brightness. Many use the lowest setting but auto works fine for me. And, turn off Wifi, Bluetooth and GPS antennas when not in use.

Finally, especially when the phone is new, it's advisable to perform a deep power cycle.

Let your phone discharge completely, keep it on until you are warned about low battery and then just let it run out. Most phone will shut down automatically around 5%.

Plug the phone into the original a/c charger, not the usb cable. Let it charge to full uninterrupted.

When the phone says full, unplug the phone from the charge and reboot. Once the phone is completely restarted, plug it back into the charger and shut the phone off. Even if it says fully charged, let it charge for at least one more hour.

Unplug the charger and reboot the phone one more time. Now you should start seeing (possibly significantly) longer charge times.

Modern Li-Ion batteries do not have a memory and do not need to be conditioned, but Android needs to be taught exactly what a full charge represents so that it can manage power appropriately. Without a deep power cycle, it doesn't know the true capacity of the battery.

Be advised that you should only need to do this once as regularly deep cycling the battery can harm it. Li-Ion batteries perform better and last longer with incremental charges.

Hope these suggestions help you out.
 
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