Turning Off Ad Blocking Dropped CPU Usage from 96% to 14%

[dennis_faucher]

Hello,

Unchecking "Block advertisements" just saved me 82% CPU usage.

I love Bugless Beast and am using v0.6.2.1. Recently, the CPU has been spiking until I rebooted and then spiking again. I installed and ran OSMonitor to see what was using all the CPU and it was Android System. I looked at the log for Android System and an error came up every second "skimagedecoder::factory returned null". I did a little Googling and saw that this might be related to AdMob. When I unchecked "Block advertisements" in the ROM toolkit, my Droid became happy again. I just thought I would pass this on.

[BayouFlyFisher]

Hello,

Unchecking "Block advertisements" just saved me 82% CPU usage.

I love Bugless Beast and am using v0.6.2.1. Recently, the CPU has been spiking until I rebooted and then spiking again. I installed and ran OSMonitor to see what was using all the CPU and it was Android System. I looked at the log for Android System and an error came up every second "skimagedecoder::factory returned null". I did a little Googling and saw that this might be related to AdMob. When I unchecked "Block advertisements" in the ROM toolkit, my Droid became happy again. I just thought I would pass this on.

Wow!! This is a spectacular find. Great job!! Good diligence! You may have just found an answer for so many "why is my phone sluggish" and "why is my battery draining" questions.

[dsolomon]

wow, seriously high five, mine really hasn't had too many problems, only it lags when changing launcher screens, and when I open app drawer. Problem is gone now, zips right through.

[crazytrain69]

Interesting? The thing is I can't find ad blocking in the rom tool kit. So where is it? feeling like a moron!

[dsolomon]

i'm using the nightly build, and it's rom toolkit-system

[crazytrain69]

i'm using the nightly build, and it's rom toolkit-system

WOW! I really need to go to bed!! I looked over it about 10 times and it was right in the same spot on BB 6.2.1. LOL! I'll give it a go and see what happens.

[jcwilliams]

Great find! I'm just turned mine off and ima going to see what I get out of my phone tom. Thanks

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[mursepaolo]

hmmm.. i don't know of it's a mind game, but it does seem snappier.

[BigMcGuire]

It would be cool to get a second opinion on this (a scientific one). What does Pete think about this?

Edit: Ok, so I actually did this and yeah, the phone seems considerably faster... I'm OC'ed to 1Ghz and my phone was slowing to a crawl and I was getting launcher FCs (I have like 6 apps installed, clean cache all the time, etc...).

[Game4set]

Ok so besides turning off the option in the ROM Toolkit, should we also uninstall the actual Admob app?