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If Clean Master, or pretty much any other dodgy apps that Cheetah Mobile has is allowed on the Play Store, then it speaks volumes about the Play Store's security.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard&hl=en_GB
In the "key functions" section
"BOOST MOBILE: Clean background tasks, free up more RAM. Change your phone’s speed from ��to ��."
It claims to speed up your phone
The ONLY reason I upgraded from my note3 to the s7edge was that I leaned over on a machine at work and cracked the screen...IMO the only 'new' features I love are the fingerprint scan unlock, and the battery life on the s7e. As for your battery issue, I used Clean Master (or equivalent) clearing all the background apps at least twice a day kept it from slowing up and let the battery survive most of my day.
Well, the OS itself takes up some space of course, then there are the preinstalled apps and the ones you installed. On my Galaxy S4 for example out of the box 5 GB of storage were used. But it is also possible that one of your apps uses a lot of storage. The app directories are private and only readable by the app that owns it and thus don't show up in the file explorer. You can always try Clean Master, it does a decent job at freeing memory and has never deleted anything it shouldn't on my device. It also includes some other tools like "RAM speedup" but they rubbish in my opinion.
I use Clean Master to help clear some RAM before starting the app. It does slightly improve its performance on my Google Nexus 7 though the ads are a little annoying.
Another option I did was to install Clean Master. It helps a lot in clearing the cache to ensure the game runs smoother
Já faz um ano que tenho um Moto G e, antes disso, tinha um iPhone 4 e dá para fazer algumas comparações.
O iPhone 4, antes de ser atualizado e quando ainda usava iOS 6, era excelente no gerenciamento de memória. Em geral, o iOS é muito bom nisso e os aparelhos novos, com mais RAM e CPU funcionam muito bem.
Em comparação ao iPhone 4, nâo tenho do que reclamar do Moto G. Com o iOS atualizado, o iPhone 4 perde feio para o Moto G em performance, mesmo com Android Lollipop.
Entretanto, já notei que, dos 8Gb internos, o Moto G precisa de no mínimo 1GB de espaço em disco livre para melhor performance. Com menos espaço, ele fica quase inutilizável de tão lento.
E mesmo com o espaço disponível, a performance do aparelha começa a depreciar devido ao gerenciamento da RAM. Com o passar do tempo, o telefone começou a ficar lento para responder. Demora em abrir aplicativos. Demora em responder o toque de botões. Um reboot completo do telefone resolvia, limpando todos os aplicativos de fundo e a memória utilizada.
Depois que eu instalei um cara chamado Clean Master, tudo mudou. Ele pode ser configurado para matar os aplicativos de fundo quando você desliga a tela do telefone. Ao ligar novamente, o aparelho consegue se manter responsivo e rápido. Os aplicativos de fundo que ele mata -- sinceramente -- nunca fizeram falta. E deu uma boa melhorada.
Try using Clean Master. I use it every couple of days and it gets rid of unnecessary files that are taking up space on your phone.
Try this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard or another like it before you do that. I know what you're saying. It should help clear out all the useless stuff that keeps piling up.
Mine used to do this. This can be because its ram is being used to much or something. Go to the app market and get an app called "clean master", give it a boost scan and it will get rid of extra apps running still you unaware of ect.. this helped me alot with that issue, and with issues of it freezing and becoming slow!
Edit: thought id give you direct link to app on app market, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard
Hi and welcome!!
I use Clean Master to help clear some RAM before starting the app. It does slightly improve its performance on my Google Nexus 7 though the ads are a little annoying.
Sounds interesting. Do you think you could report back after today?
Here is the Play Store link for anyone curious enough to give it a shot: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard
It's a Cheetah Mobile app, so I wouldn't recommend leaving it installed. They're a bit shady.
Do you have an SD card? Otherwise, you could opt for directly installing to the SD card.
I use an SD card in conjunction with Clean Master. This really superb app gives me a headsup on when an app can be placed on an SD, freeing up vital storage on the phone.
Bang. Got it.
1) Cleared my SD card to make sure it had more free space than my total internal storage. This was a pain in the ass.
2) Went into Spotify settings and cleared the internal cache, deleting all the music that I had downloaded. It also logged me out.
3) Uninstalled Spotify from the app store. This is the step all previous instructions were missing.
4) Just to be safe, I downloaded a disk cleaner. I ran a sweep to get rid of any cached files I might have missed. I'm not sure how vital this step was, but it did seem to find a few files worth deleting.
5) Reinstalled Spotify and logged in.
6) Downloaded my music.
Seemed to do the trick. YMMV.
For the record, I have a Samsung S3, rooted and running Cyanogenmod 11, which I believe is Kitkat 4.4.4.
I hope this works for you.
As much as I'm generally opposed to any type of battery or clean app, Clean Master really helped me out. Turns out there were a lot of programs that were just starting on their own. This let me prevent them from auto-starting, and stopped a lot of batter drain.
This little number helps a lot., but I'm going to flash this when I get around to it. The 5.1.1 ota update improved my performance a lot. It's now as good as it was when I got it, with 4.2 installed.
Well I don't know about disabling that notification, but I do know of an effective way to get back a lot of storage: use a cleaning app. With that you can clear junk files (like cache and temporary files which you don't need) and free up surprising amounts of storage (often hundreds of MBs!).
Clean Master is actually pretty good at cleaning (not everyone likes it though, but there are many alternatives).
What you actually need to clean is the storage, as the other guy said, memory is something different (RAM), and on Android you don't actually have to manually clear RAM and it is actually advised against (though cleaning apps usually offer to clear RAM memory too, you don'tneed to do that - I say just clean the storage).
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Clean Master -many are suggesting SD Maid instead. Due to how bloated Cleanmaster now is I'm keen to check SD Maid out.
- used to be an excellent app for cleaning junk files off your phone. Still is excellent at doing that but they just kept adding features and making it more and more intrusive
- Good app, but probably not worth installing and running all the time. At least not without going through the menus and disabling a tonne of stuff. It’s a little heavy handed and constantly trying to tell you it can “speed up your phone” or force close apps etc.
- I tend to just install it from time to time just to clean up junk and left over files.
- If you do however leave it running all the time I particularly like that it knows when you uninstall an app as it will find any left over folders, cache and general rubbish and offer to remove them
Compass
- speaks for itself
DigiHUD
- Simple app that uses your GPS to give you travel information.
- I only ever use it to test my speed-o to see how well it is calibrated as the GPS is more accurate.
- I now no longer need it though as Waze (which I will talk about below) has a little speedo on it and has plenty of other features that are beneficial
ES File Explorer
- best file browsing app on the market when I was looking for one years ago. There might be better ones now, but I doubt it.
- Has plenty of features like SD Card examiner that can tell you what's taking up space. And also the ability to browse files shared on the same local network as the phone
- this means I can browse my media shared by my computer and then when I select a movie I can watch it through MX Player (a video app I mention below).
Flashlight Widget
- A widget to toggle my flashlight on and off.
- There's TONNES of flashlight apps and plenty come with widgets built in... but I've NEVER opened a whole app to turn on my flashlight. I've always just used the widgets
- This is ONLY a widget so it is less bulky, but it seems to be the most responsive and brightest. I've tried many widgets. Some simply pick and choose when they want to work. Others are very unresponsive and take seconds to turn on the light. Others are dim. This one seems to be the best.
FolderSync –paid option
- A bit advanced. But I use Titanium backup which backs up all my apps and settings to a folder on the phone. I then have a tasker profile which used this apps plugin to automatically sync my backup folder to my NAS at 4am each morning. What this meant is Titanium Backup would backup my phone at 3am. This app would sync that backup to my NAS at 4am and if I drop my phone in a puddle at 10am I still have the backups saved on my NAS
Gem Miner 2 –paid option
- I really enjoyed this game and I hate most phone games.
- go into a mine shaft. Dig for gold. Get gold back to surface before you run out of air. Buy items with gold so you can spend more time in the shaft and dig deeper so you can bring up even more gold each time. Eventually get to the very bottom of the mine and maybe find the rarest gem. I only ever completed it once, but I played it a shit tonne some years back. It's also randomly generated each death so it tickles my roguelike nerve.
Google Opinion Rewards
- do real short surveys. Get paid in real money that you can spend on the android market place.
- Only trouble is they decide whether to send you surveys based on your demographic and there's an abundance of 25-35 males that use it so I've not been sent a survey for weeks. But in the first 2wks I made $3.50 in a total of like 5mins. So hey, I answered like 4 surveys and got enough to buy one of (most of) the paid apps I’m recommending here.
IMDb
- Good for quickly looking shit up like who that cute girl was in that one scene of that one movie.
- I tend to open it at the end of every movie to look at some trivia and check out the message boards to see what others thought.
JEFIT
- Very full featured workout log app. The only reason I stuck with Strong Lifts for as long as I did was coz it had such a good app.
- This app replaces all of those features and has a whole load more.
- great for tracking workouts as you're doing them with countdowns for how long you need to rest and keeping track of how much you lifted last time so you can decide if you want to put on more weight etc.
- Great for keeping stats on how much you're growing, how much you're lifting, how much you’re weighing. Everything.
- Enormous resource of different exercises and how to do them with proper form. Also includes little two frame gifs of how to do each exercise.
- Allows you to make custom routines or search their huge database of routines the community has made so you can find a highly rated one that suits your goals.
Mobizen
- Spectacular app that allows you to remotely control your phone through your web browser. Meaning whatever is showing on your phone’s screen you will see on your computer and you can interact with it.
- Only useful in some situations, but great when you need it.
MX Player
- Best video watching app on the market with really nice and intuitive shortcuts for changing volume, brightness and rewinding/skipping a few seconds.
- This app in conjunction with the ability to browse my network using ES File Browser allows me to stream my media to my phone.
Pushbullet
- install the app, install the plugin for your webbrowser. Share notifications between your phone and your computer.
- Basically it shows a little popup balloon on your PC whenever your phone gets a notification. If I'm at work it will allow me to easily see important messages from general crappy alerts. Saves you having to unlock your phone constantly.
- also allows you to easily push links from your computer to your phone and vice versa.
- full disclosure though. Many people don't like that to achieve this every notification you get on your phone needs to sync to Pushbullet's servers first. This means that if your notification has a text message in it, they could technically read/keep all of your private communications
- they're regularly adding new features so it can do lots more now, but I never really kept up as that's all I ever used it for.
- I should actually uninstall it tbh as I've disabled the notification sharing (due to the concerns I outlined above) and Google Keep allows me to almost as easily push things between my computer and phone
QR Droid
- full featured app for reading and making QR codes
QuizClash
- great fun little app
- it randomly pairs you with another player for six rounds of three trivia questions. Every second round you get to choose the category, and every other round they choose it. If you like who you versed you can challenge them to a rematch. You can also chat with them so you can congratulate them on their wins or gloat about yours.
- You can also get the premium version for free at the moment. Just download the one I linked. Tap "Star a new game", then "find opponent", then type in "SGU". It's a deal they have going with The Skeptics Guide to the Universe (my favorite podcast).
Relay Pro
- IMO far and away the best reddit browsing app.
- It's the most sensibly laid out and most fully featured without being cluttered and gross.
Shazam –paid option, but the free one is good enough
- Allows you to use you phone's microphone to find out what song is playing. Very accurate and huge database of songs.
- Can we dwell on how amazing that is for a moment. We live in an age where 10seconds of almost any song can near instantaneously, and with extreme accuracy be determined simply by tapping a "button" on a pocket sized object. God damn.
Smart AppLock –paid features
- I don't use any lock screen security on my phone. If it ever gets stolen I want the thief to play around with it for as long as possible until I can track it down with Cerberus.
- What I do do however is use this app to lock individual apps. So for example if you try to open my gallery or my emails, or my banking this app will put up a lock screen before allowing you access.
- Also has a great feature where you can set it to be disabled if you're on a "safe" wifi network. Meaning if I'm at home or work this app isn't constantly asking me to put in my pin to open half my apps. But if I'm at a random party miles away from home/work, it will.
And Clean Master has higher reviews than both of them. Play Store reviews are a terrible way to judge an apps quality.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard
Clean Master (Speed Booster)
CleanMaster is the best example of placebo effect in the android platform. Better stop using it as you may be killing the performance of your phone, and this app doesn't increase the performance of your android phone in any way.
What it does do well is, making you feel good through its UI, where you are given the experience of your phone speeding up (trough advanced animation effects and illustrations alone), which is more than enough for many.
Whatever feeling of speed increase you get from this app is purely imaginary. It does have some minor useful tools, to add some semblance of credibility, but mostly its just a well-designed platform to push ads, collect private data and give you the illusion of control over your phone's performance.
Besides Clean Master, this company offers various other apps and games via different Play store accounts. There are even Change.org petitions requesting Google to ban this Chinese company from the Play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.security
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ksmobile.cb
and others
TL;DR: only download apps from the Play Store (Android) or the App Store (iOS) and for those of you living in the early 2000s, I envy you
Likely most aren't malicious but it's a bit of a nuanced answer because what you download doesn't matter so much as where you download them from. iOS doesn't have this problem unless your device is jailbroken because the only place you can get apps is the App Store. Android, not so.
You mentioned CleanMaster (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard&hl=en_US) which we can pretty easily verify is not a malicious attack; it's a real app. 1) It's on the Google Play Store so it's passed app review 2) Almost 5 star rating by about 42 mil+ people 3) The reviews are mostly positive with mixed negative but not referencing malicious activity. So it's safe to say that link is not an attack, it's a real app. Whether or not it's a quality product is another discussion.
Now take a look at this: https://clean-master-cleaner.en.uptodown.com/android. Same branding, same logo, same name and if I'm guessing if you download it, it'll look largely the same. But what is that URL? Definitely not a verified Android app vendor which is a big red flag. Honestly the only link that looks like that that you can trust is this one.
And generally, you should let the operating system of the phone manage RAM and stuff like that. Operating systems was never my area of expertise but there is a shit ton of money and brainpower that goes into building them, making them as resource efficient as possible. I never close apps on my iPhone because the system is (un) surprisingly more efficient at managing all that stuff than I am.
Source: Software Engineer and former cyber security professional
To show you why you're being down voted: this app fits your description: don't download!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard does it look like this?
Reminder that this shitty Clean Master app has 500 million dowloads. There are many apps like this
Try this to clean. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard&hl=en
it will clear cashes and garbage storage items
Is that Clean Master?Link:(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard)
Clean Master - with it you can get rid of unecessary clutter on your phone, back up apps into apk files, boost your phone, and has several other useful tools.
CM Security - from the same people that brought you Clean Master, CM Security functions as an Antivirus. Has several useful tools like applock and a private browser.
Redditisfun - my favorite reddit app so far. 10/10 would recommend
Sleepbot - a smart alarm app. I don't know all of the capabilities of it, but from what I've gathered, you place your phone next to you on your bed and turn on the app, then you can set the alarm to monitor your movements and the noise you make while sleeping, and somehow it wakes you up at an optimal time so you won't feel too groggy. I've only used it 4 times but it's worked pretty well for all 4 of them
Is it Christmas? - one of my favorite apps. Not only will it tell you whether or not it's Christmas holiday, it will also send you a notification everyday at noon so that you'll never miss it. I got it 2 weeks ago and it's been 100% correct so far
Highly doubt that. Maybe on one app. Try with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard
Install this app grany it root access, go to phone boost and chose every app except Greenify.
It's like Cleaner Master
that just isn't true. two of the three brands there basically have this installed a system app that cannot be removed: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard which is responsible for shit like this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bensin/2017/05/05/samsungs-battery-paranoia-broke-the-galaxy-s8s-push-notifications-just-like-chinese-smartphones/#622753707a91
in addition, huawei and samsung are both horrible with ram management due to the use of zram which is why their UIs will forever be plagued with lag. see this for more information on why it sucks: https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/module-swap-torpedo-run-faster-reliably-t3766883
you guys can downvote me for opinion all you want, but it is based on some objective factors.
Only root your phone You can remove ads, unnecessary apps and do many things but warranty will expire immediately so i don't think you should root your phone. I can remove some pre-installed apps (only some) with Clean Master (Google Play, apk)
Clean Master (Google Play, Apk) will let you manage all apps (separated category), uninstall.... Another app is Smart App Manager (Google Play, apk)
Hopefully they release it soon I'm tired of using my my clean master app to boost my phone's performance
i won't get into the nitty gritty of it, but it's technically not an opinion. the removal of that battery manager does fix the issues they're desperately trying to resolve.
there are some other issues with it as well. it's constantly killing applications so you're always reloading stuff unless you explicitly permit it to run (this, from what i hear, is different on the EMUI 5 beta on the H8) which is exactly opposite of good for battery. i could go on and on about this terrible software, but users see fancy toggles and can't fathom that it actually makes their device worse.
to put things in reddit terms, since we all hate cheetah mobile, you basically have this installed a system app that you cannot remove or disable (i'm not 100% sure that huawei/leeco/etc use CM software, but sure does look and behave in a similar way): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard&hl=en
having said all of that, credit where credit is due, the last sentence of my post was an opinion so you can have that.
Yeah. That's true. I heard from an entrepreneur who had represented board members to visit Google Android Team that the team is mostly focusing on how to make things work other than making things elegant. And that's exactly the difference between Google and Apple. For the rest, Android just open his door and let people play around.
- Here's a google cleaning app clean master . Yet its company just had an IPO in Nasdq last year. Almost all because of this app. If you can not resist the seduce from this app, you may install more apps after you've cleaned. Maybe because the advertising is so attractive.
- If you want to try this app, please tell me how you feel. Thanks! :)