sorry, didn’t realize you don’t have data now…Skunkape is selling a used Droid Incredible for $175. Get that, put unlimited data on it. Save your upgrade for dual-core 4G.
I was considering Skunkape’s but thought the cost benefit wasn’t going to work out after activation and buying multiple phones. I guess I could always resell the Dinc…
Sweet. I was waiting to get the free version if I can just delete them. I would assume this thing has a recovery mode like the iPhone to restore it to stock if I f something up.
Cyanogenmod isn’t supported on the Inspire 4g
Also, what is your choice of app for task management. Advanced Task Killer seems to be the common one but people said that there is a lot of ones that have memory issues themselves and dont wnat background shit killing my battery.
Any other tweaks too? I have SMS popup installed which is awesome and gives me a light up screen/quick reply that I had on my iPhone. Other than that, kind of new.
Reselling was my plan. I sorta did the same thing, decided to do a minor upgrade and get a droid incredible to hold me over for some better stuff. Super happy with it too.
Don’t use a task killer above android 2.1.
GoSMS Pro > Handcent > Stock messaging app. GoSMS popups work really well and it’s VERY configurable.
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Any suggestions for what to use or an easy way to make sure apps arent backgrounding and destroying my battery? I am not worried too much about a task killer to prevent memory as I would assume by 2.0 android would have been using the *nix memory management built into the linux kernel.
Why do you use it over the stock? I like the stock and the SMS popup allows me to quickly respond to messages without unlocking my phone or leaving what I am doing. Actually just read the site on it and seems like it does what Popup sms does and more.
boatloads of options and themes, plus yea the popup stuff is built in
The easiest way is to educate yourself as to why this isn’t an issue. :tup:
I understand task management but I am looking for ways to exit applications that run in the background that are intensive on the data/network side, not the RAM/slow device side. In my opinion, if a application is causing your phone to run slow, uninstall it.
Applications like Pandora and some other data based ones I want to make sure exit when I am not using them.
You’ve really been hurt by the iphone haven’t you?
LOL
Seriously there is no need for a task killer. Only programs that are constantly trying to sync or fetch that are running in the background will kill your battery
I hate my evo today… lately it randomly turns off. (its only happened 3x, but 2 of them were tonight when taking pictures) and now the camera just goes to a blank screen. (awesome, i needed to take pics of a problem with one of my pups)
Anybody else have this problem? I’ve begun uninstalling any unnecessary apps, but seriously what a pain in the dick.
I tried to root it last month and it said something about it being an older version during the white screen bootloader phase then it just booted normally. Ideas?
if you are rooted but the app root explorer, its $3 i believe and its the best $3 i have ever spent. with that you can just delete bloatware apk files and they will be off the phone, just be careful what ones you delete because you can mess up the phone so i recommend making a backup of the ones you delete just in case.
there is no way to fully close an application due to how the android OS works, it will just start right back up be design. Now if you mean you want a quick way of closing programs that background data and stuff for some reason then this is the only time I would suggest a tack killer where you can add all your apps to the exclude list except for the ones you want to stop immediately. But like i said they will start back up but just wont for example be streaming music or whatever, just dont do it constantly because you will do more harm than you would just keeping it going.
GOsms is nice but it is bad on the droidx because of the dumb sms time stamp problem the phone has so messages are constantly flipping back and forth. It is more of a pain than what its worth so i went back to Handcent and the have solved that problem and does the same thing as GOsms. They are basically the same thing now anyway
hey guys, sorry to interrupt the nerd talk, but i need some advice on smartphones. never had one before, but i need a new phone and i want one.
4g does not matter, im mostly in 3g area anyways. i will mainly use it for calls, text, music, facebook, weather, gps, etc. obviously nyspeed as well, lol. i dont plan on using it to access work email or anything, when im not at work i refuse to do anything work related. i was looking at the droid 2 global as it has a keyboard, but the more i looked at it the more i think its a business type phone. i would really like to have a physical keyboard as well, i have an env touch right now and the touch keyboard isnt the best.
what do you all reccommend? thanks. oh yea, i do not want an iphone.
Haha well I know there is apps on both platforms that refresh in the background which I want exit. I know a lot of them go into a suspended state which won’t really do anything bad to the battery.
These are the ones I am looking to monitor. I have a few that fetch data every 15 min in the background that want to exit at times.
I acutally used Titanium backup the free edition. It worked great. Was able to backup a lot of them and then uninstalled it. Worked great and no issues yet from deleting all the HTC crap they put on there.
Ok I will check it out. I just want to make sure my background apps that pull data are exited when I am not using them so I am not pulling 3g data and kill the battery. I am not worried about their RAM usage in the background.
I may have to check this one out. I wasn’t too impressed with GosmsPro so may try Handcent. I am back to the stock app with SMS Popup now but the only thing I dont like is if you reply to the popup using quick reply, the messages icon still has the number of texts over it.
Mine did this two times the other day while I was taking pictures for work :(. I hooked it up to the pc and deleted a bunch of pictures, and I got through what I had to do. Haven’t used the camera much if at all since then. Definitley frustrating.
The phone promtped an update a couple days ago and hopefully that fixed it. I searched quickly and found a few threads (not on here), with the same problem.
Ugh, I still see people using task killers…STOP IT! I don’t know if the knuckleheads at the retailers are telling them they’re needed or what. Just had a Nexus S come in with gingerbread with advanced task killer running…I died a little.
A girl I used to date has a Droid and when she went in to Verizon to have them check her phone for why her battery is dead in 4 hours, their response was install advanced task killer and kill everything after they launch something. :facepalm:
the reason it leaves the icon there is because SMSpopup does not mark the message as having been read like other sms apps do