Difinitive Apps to Freeze List

[NiceGuysFinishLast]

Question about freezing apps: When you freeze the apps, are you just making it to where the system can't run them automatically itself and you can still access the apps manually yourself, or does this keep them from coming on period?

this keeps them from working, period. Until you thaw them, then they run fine.

[c_m_chance]

Thanks for the quick response! I just froze a good bit of stuff that I don't need running. How much battery improvement do you normally see from freezing some of this useless stuff that always runs?

[NiceGuysFinishLast]

I don't know, I did most of my modifications all at once. Here's a writeup I did the other night.

[Phoenix1224]

Question about freezing apps: When you freeze the apps, are you just making it to where the system can't run them automatically itself and you can still access the apps manually yourself, or does this keep them from coming on period?

I know they're not in my tray anymore... From my understanding, it hides the app itself, then blocks it from running so as to save you some space in RAM, though it is still present in the drive space. Lol, like being swept under a rug. Thats just my guess though

[tebower]

I'm pretty sure that all Titanium does is rename the application files from *.apk to *.bak. Meaning that they become backup files that the OS does not see as applications. Once your defrost them, their extensions go back to being .apk, so the OS registers and runs them.

You could manually do this with Root Explorer and get the same effect.

[kptphalkon]

Yes you could but titanium makes it so much easier!

Sent from the F-Zero cockpit on my D2G

[c_m_chance]

I don't know, I did most of my modifications all at once. Here's a writeup I did the other night.

Very nice write up man! I've pretty much been running all the same settings you are except for the freezing of apps (until today) (and I leave the animations on just because...well...I like them haha). But other than that I've been doing pretty good at getting about 20 or 21 hours with pretty average use for me (a lot of texting and email) before I get to 15% battery life left. I'm hoping that with the freezing of apps I can see an improvement to 24+ hours before I have to charge it.

[kptphalkon]

After charging my phone to full and then pulling the plug before i went to bed, i am at just under 90% after 9 hours, 41 minutes with a couple calls to my bosses, voicemail retrieval and about 35 texts.

Usually it would have already been at 80% just from being unplugged all night! Great write up man!

Sent from the F-Zero cockpit on my D2G

[silver6054]

I don't know, I did most of my modifications all at once. Here's a writeup I did the other night.

Very nice write up man! I've pretty much been running all the same settings you are except for the freezing of apps (until today) (and I leave the animations on just because...well...I like them haha). But other than that I've been doing pretty good at getting about 20 or 21 hours with pretty average use for me (a lot of texting and email) before I get to 15% battery life left. I'm hoping that with the freezing of apps I can see an improvement to 24+ hours before I have to charge it.

Please let us know! One of my concerns has been if freezing apps might really have the same issues as using task killers. Is something in the system continuously trying to start these apps and failing, which might cause no battery saving at all (or, like task killers, potentially use more with the constant attempts to start). Or is the system clever enough to detect that these apps don't exist and avoid attempts to launch?

[xPhoenix777]

I have not narrowed it down yet, but one of the "safe" apps made my stock calendar app close (not FC, just plain close) when I tried adding a new task and would close my stock text messaging app. Use at your own risk.

I went to Fission Rom... Not sure if I fully like it. I black screen at times, so I might SBF back and give the "safe list" another shot. Just simply freeze these programs with Titanium Backup Pro. Worth the $5!