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Which Android Services Can I Stop

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mayank29gupta

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Hi Guys,

Lately Google Play Services has been taking away a large chunk of RAM of the phone and it is also affecting the battery performance. I noted down some of the services that run in background and want to know which of these can I freeze using Link2SD. Name of some services are not complete because the phone wasn't showing full name.

SystemUpdateService
Google Analytic
Google Play Services (com.google.android.gms)
DeviceConnect
GoogleLocation
BrokeredFitness
NlpLocation....
GoogleLocation
DispatchingService
Google Play Service (com.google.process.location)
Google Play Service (com.google.android.gms.we...)
GcmService
Google Message...
Google Play Service (com.google.process.gapps)
Tertiary Tracker
Atci_service
Network Diagnose


Which of these services can I freeze safely. Most of them are started by the Google Play Services.
 
Disabling any of the Google services will seriously cripple your device. You will be considerably less happy than if you try to get to the root of your battery drain. The memory use isn't really related. With Android you want as little free ram as possible. Coming from a Windows world, it sounds counter-intuitive, but trust me, that's the way it works. :)

As far as battery performance, check out your battery stats by going to menu>settings>battery. It would also be helpful if you let us know the phone and version of Android.
 
Lunatic59,

Could you explain in a bit more detail why Android likes to be a RAM hog? Just curious.

Thanks.
 
I can shed a little light.:) It takes battery power to load apps into memory, but the memory uses that same amount of power whether it is full, or empty. So to save battery, Android tries to keep the apps you use the most or services most requested in memory to save battery when they apps or services are called into use. The upside is also that the apps are preloaded into memory, so they open and respond faster.
 
Unforgiven is completely right. With Android, the CPU is more important for battery life and speed. Being a RAM hog just means that your apps will open faster, etc. it doesn't really affect enough that you would want to disable any of them. Unfortunately, your phone would need to be rooted to have access to most apps dealing with overclocking the CPU or similar.
 
My colleague explained it beautifully. Let me just add that the more you use your phone, the better Android will optimize it's memory cache for YOU and performance should improve over time. Again, unlike Windows. ;)
 
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