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praise for Superfreeze app (f-droid.org)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/androidapps@lemmy.world
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great app.
every so often.. its healthy to stop apps that you aren't using and dont plan to use soon.
saves you phone battery.

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[–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

i think i know what you mean.
im glad to discuss it:
it seems like a flaw. but i really think its a feature!
i like having the menu for each app and personally decide wether to kill the app (and clear cache).
regarding android battery controls..
if u go to developer menu from settings and find standby apps, then find the app you want to sleep.. you can do that.
but for example.. Voyager lemmy app: if i put it in restricted, then everytime i change windows.. the app needs to re-load. its functional(but dysfunctional).
so.. i like it better now that i just give it permission to run, then when i know that im done with it, i can choose to kill it until next time (plus manage other heavyweight apps).
i have it set to prompt/kill my 5 bigggest apps only. that's all i need. the app doesnt work if you have 100 apps. that would take too long. there are other solutions for other goals.(ADB until google makes it unusable.)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child)

    you can, now, choose to disable all "background usage" from
    Settings > Apps > * App info > App battery usage

    that's what i did for Voyager. If it's not on screen in the foreground, it's not 'working'.

    At first i missed superFreeze and tried all the alternatives too, but then i read some about the updated battery permissions (there's also no bloatware on LineageOS). i ended up uninstalling superFreeze.
    With my first Android with all the bloat designed to "phone home" all the time, superFreeze was essential (as well as Netguard and ADB)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    i see what your saying.
    i think it would be most ideal to test it.
    it may be lower resource to force kill.
    estimates vary.. but i average, as low as: 20x , 4x lower. (those are unverified approximations. and i really think it depends on the app)
    for cache clearing.. i can see lemmy(voyager) is using 34mb(some apps like firefox use alot more).. clearing puts it down to zero.

    this app can live in my RAM all day https://f-droid.org/packages/org.billthefarmer.editor

    related/relevant(for readers):https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aistra.hail via shizuku via ADB .
    warning: unwise use of adb can brick your system and you would have to wipe your whole phone

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