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SystemPanel: a task killer for people who hate task killers.

Interesting how it disagrees with Startup Cleaner as to the amount of available memory. Mini Info says 59 MB free and this says 41.1 MB free.
 
tliebeck said:
To Roger: sorry for delay in getting back to you as well, as far as I can tell the N1 with Froyo does not have any inactive/cached apps. I'm running the leaked Froyo version as well. On the other test phones (an Incredible, a Droid, and a G1) as well as in (non-Froyo) emulators I do see inactive processes as before.

And thanks again to all who provided bug reports and feature suggestions. Additional features will be added in future versions as well. 1.0 is only the first iteration.
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so does it look like google made some fundamental changes in froyo to the way apps are cached in the background? or did they perhaps change the API's in a way which breaks compatibility in system panel. i'm just wondering if those cached apps are still in fact there, but system panel is just not showing them in froyo because of some changes they may have made. thanks.
 
Mominator said:
Interesting how it disagrees with Startup Cleaner as to the amount of available memory. Mini Info says 59 MB free and this says 41.1 MB free.
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SystemPanel is using ActivityManager.MemoryInfo for the free memory calculation and the MemTotal item from /proc/meminfo for the total memory available.

The data from ActivityManager.MemoryInfo seems to line up with the free memory data in /proc/meminfo as well (by adding truly free memory + cached memory).

There is more than one way to calculate free memory on an Android (Linux) device. For instance, if you look at truly unused memory (not used as cache) the answer will be much closer to zero.
 
Great app, tliebeck!

Question (I'm new to Android): when looking at the detailed CPU activity, you have System, User, Nice, and Idle. Could someone please explain to me what "Nice" is?

Most of the time on my Evo, "Nice" is at 0%, but then sometimes it just goes crazy and I've had a hard time correlating it to what's running. Anyone?

Thanks!
 
aurialus said:
Great app, tliebeck!

Question (I'm new to Android): when looking at the detailed CPU activity, you have System, User, Nice, and Idle. Could someone please explain to me what "Nice" is?

Most of the time on my Evo, "Nice" is at 0%, but then sometimes it just goes crazy and I've had a hard time correlating it to what's running. Anyone?

Thanks!
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Thanks!

"Nice" processes are those which are running with a low priority and will only operate when excess CPU processing power is available. If you have a normal process that wants 75% of the CPU and a "nice" process which wants 50%, the normal process will receive 75% and the nice one the remaining 25%. If the normal process wants 100%, the nice process will get nothing.
 
That seems about right, maybe a little high. My top app is system using 2% just about always. I've not seen any higher than that.
 
This is one of my few "must have" programs.
If you like it go with the paid version ( $2.99 I think), just released.
It's one of the few paid ver I have, gives me the info I want to know.
 
It's for purchase in the market for me in usa.

I'm really curious if Google made these new froyo changes permanent with how the OS handles running apps and displays them, or if it is just something temporary until the final official release comes out. It seems like a pretty significant change, and I looked thru the 2.2 change log but didn't see anything like this mentioned.
 
when i open android market it gives me just lite version -
yeah great there are android users outside USA also - so as i live in europe i have to cheat to purchase it ?!?
 
kalevs said:
when i open android market it gives me just lite version -
yeah great there are android users outside USA also - so as i live in europe i have to cheat to purchase it ?!?
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Where in Europe are you from? If your country is a 'Google Experience' country, you will be able to buy from the market, if it's not, then you can only download free apps. I'm not sure if this has changed but your country would be able to buy apps if a Google Experience phone is carried in your country.

PM or email the dev so that you can buy the app directly from him :)
 
Trying out System Panel (trial/lite version) because it seems a lot of people like it and just out of curiosity...why does the app need internet permission? I can't seem to find the reason. There's no ads or an option to send information...so I'm not sure why Internet is needed. I'm skeptical with apps that have permission to basically a good chunk of the system and requires Internet for unexplained reason.
 
is there anyway to get the charge rate of the battery to show up? sometimes i feel that when i'm charging, it charges slower than usual, like it's not 1000a but ~500-700a.

if i buy the full version and a new update comes out, do i have to repay for it, or is it like a lifetime license?
 
tracerit said:
is there anyway to get the charge rate of the battery to show up? sometimes i feel that when i'm charging, it charges slower than usual, like it's not 1000a but ~500-700a.

if i buy the full version and a new update comes out, do i have to repay for it, or is it like a lifetime license?
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All apps (paid/free) are updatable on your existing phone. From my understanding, usually lifetime usage is with respect to the life of the phone. Some apps won't allow you to transfer the paid app to a new phone (when you bought it...it's contracted/assigned to the existing phone) and some won't allow you to reinstall it again on the same phone if you uninstall it (these are very rare).

kmetek said:
I want to buy this one, I'm EUROPE will I be able to buy it? How to buy it?

I have paypal, Amex and Diners.
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This is the dev's contact information: Contact | android.nextapp.com
 
Mine doesn't stay in my system tray and more.
Is one of the things thats NOT avaliable with the free version?

thanks
 
The only time it was in the system tray was when it was monitoring I believe, and monitoring is no longer in the free version.
 
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