How long since last restart?

[Natey2]

Wow.. i don't think i have ever had more then 24 hours without a voluntary reboot.

I'm curious what your reason is for rebooting daily...
I only reboot when my phone starts getting sluggish.
My phone also reboots by itself when I hook it up via USB (but not always).

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[13th angel]

I reboot daily to semi-daily also. It clears out active apps, clears out cache (i have cache manager set to clear on boot), and more.
I just do it as preventiom to keep my phone from getting sluggish. I do it with my laptop also (although its mostly because of swapping from win-blows (mostly just use for games) and ubuntu (general use).

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Edit: swype had a fail moment when i typed that out lol

 

[DroidsAreFTW]

How do you tell?

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[BayouFlyFisher]

I reboot every day or so. For same reasons as stated above - preventative maintenance.

 

[Hardyy]

i have restarted my phone brfore a few months win i have some problem in it now i have solved it and now it works great again.

 

[dscholz]

Sorry I'm a bit of a Driod newb but I didn't realize that you had to restart your device periodically.... is there a reason for this? I've never really had a smart phone before and have a good audacity to break electronics so that's why I joined this site. Soooo how often should I be restarting a new phone... like every week?

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[13th angel]

Read my post on march 3, thats why i restart as often as i do. I would recommend at the very least once i week. I restart mine every day when i pull it off the charger to go to school. Ive had problems of it freezing up alot if it stays on for more than a day or two straight.

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[Natey2]

Ive had problems of it freezing up alot if it stays on for more than a day or two straight.

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Gee, I wonder why

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[13th angel]

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Ive had problems of it freezing up alot if it stays on for more than a day or two straight.

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Gee, I wonder why

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What, fission? I have that problem on stock, liberty, rubix, and gummyjar...

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[Natey2]

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Ive had problems of it freezing up alot if it stays on for more than a day or two straight.

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Gee, I wonder why

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What, fission? I have that problem on stock, liberty, rubix, and gummyjar...

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I can't speak for custom roms, but I can say that there are some serious resource leaks with the stock/blur configuration. I monitored my phone closely for about a month:

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...what-my-android-apps-doing-behind-scenes.html

The performance definitely and noticeably degrades, but certainly not lock up or freeze in just 2 days.
I'd love to use aLogCat to monitor what these custom roms are up to.
I'm trying to get my hands on a HTC to see if sense is any better than blur re: resource leaks too.

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[13th angel]

T

Gee, I wonder why

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What, fission? I have that problem on stock, liberty, rubix, and gummyjar...

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I can't speak for custom roms, but I can say that there are some serious resource leaks with the stock/blur configuration. I monitored my phone closely for about a month:

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...what-my-android-apps-doing-behind-scenes.html

The performance definitely and noticeably degrades, but certainly not lock up or freeze in just 2 days.
I'd love to use aLogCat to monitor what these custom roms are up to.
I'm trying to get my hands on a HTC to see if sense is any better than blur re: resource leaks too.

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Its gotta be better.... I have a really good d2g in some aspect but theres some things that it could deffinately be better with. Normally when it freezes i can just hit lock and it will unfreeze but it takes about 30 sec to unlock on that situation. I generally just reboot it when it does that so it stops. Also, my status bar will go wierd sometimes, it acts like when you press towards the top and it starts to come down but then it just flickers like it cant decide if it wants to go back up or go down and it wont lock on this. Again, does this on all roms.

I can get you a few log files if you want me too.... have to tell me how you want them set up.

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[Natey2]

T

What, fission? I have that problem on stock, liberty, rubix, and gummyjar...

Sent from my Fissioned D2G

I can't speak for custom roms, but I can say that there are some serious resource leaks with the stock/blur configuration. I monitored my phone closely for about a month:

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...what-my-android-apps-doing-behind-scenes.html

The performance definitely and noticeably degrades, but certainly not lock up or freeze in just 2 days.
I'd love to use aLogCat to monitor what these custom roms are up to.
I'm trying to get my hands on a HTC to see if sense is any better than blur re: resource leaks too.

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Its gotta be better.... I have a really good d2g in some aspect but theres some things that it could deffinately be better with. Normally when it freezes i can just hit lock and it will unfreeze but it takes about 30 sec to unlock on that situation. I generally just reboot it when it does that so it stops. Also, my status bar will go wierd sometimes, it acts like when you press towards the top and it starts to come down but then it just flickers like it cant decide if it wants to go back up or go down and it wont lock on this. Again, does this on all roms.

I can get you a few log files if you want me too.... have to tell me how you want them set up.

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Do NOT send your logfiles to people you don't know. There is private/personal info in there that some apps log.

I installed aLogcat and watched the logs closely as I tried my various apps, data sync, etc.

The temporary UI freezing I experienced coincided with the times the VirtualMachine was doing memory management (GC=Garbage Collect).
This occurred after days of a notorious app leaking memory (database cursor resources).

Some other app might be using/leaking (more?) resources in your case, causing the need to GC more frequently/aggressively, and slowing down the UI.

For proper analysis, the phone has to be hooked up to a PC with SDK, and the logs have to be collected over days, and frequency of GCs over time compared. Dumping the heap periodically and inspecting it will tell where the memory is getting tied up.

Java developers who fine tune Java apps know how to use Memory Profilers, etc. to do these things. I guess that skillset must be lacking at many Android app development companies.

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[trook]

I reboot daily out of habit, I also have sysctl enabled and need to reboot daily per instructions. My phone normally takes care of the reboot by itself the second I plug it into the usb port. I remember tech support telling me to reboot daily years ago because my phone was like a little pc. If they only knew what was a couple years away.

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[13th angel]

I can't speak for custom roms, but I can say that there are some serious resource leaks with the stock/blur configuration. I monitored my phone closely for about a month:

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...what-my-android-apps-doing-behind-scenes.html

The performance definitely and noticeably degrades, but certainly not lock up or freeze in just 2 days.
I'd love to use aLogCat to monitor what these custom roms are up to.
I'm trying to get my hands on a HTC to see if sense is any better than blur re: resource leaks too.

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Its gotta be better.... I have a really good d2g in some aspect but theres some things that it could deffinately be better with. Normally when it freezes i can just hit lock and it will unfreeze but it takes about 30 sec to unlock on that situation. I generally just reboot it when it does that so it stops. Also, my status bar will go wierd sometimes, it acts like when you press towards the top and it starts to come down but then it just flickers like it cant decide if it wants to go back up or go down and it wont lock on this. Again, does this on all roms.

I can get you a few log files if you want me too.... have to tell me how you want them set up.

Sent from my Fissioned D2G

Do NOT send your logfiles to people you don't know. There is private/personal info in there that some apps log.

I installed aLogcat and watched the logs closely as I tried my various apps, data sync, etc.

The temporary UI freezing I experienced coincided with the times the VirtualMachine was doing memory management (GC=Garbage Collect).
This occurred after days of a notorious app leaking memory (database cursor resources).

Some other app might be using/leaking (more?) resources in your case, causing the need to GC more frequently/aggressively, and slowing down the UI.

For proper analysis, the phone has to be hooked up to a PC with SDK, and the logs have to be collected over days, and frequency of GCs over time compared. Dumping the heap periodically and inspecting it will tell where the memory is getting tied up.

Java developers who fine tune Java apps know how to use Memory Profilers, etc. to do these things. I guess that skillset must be lacking at many Android app development companies.

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Never knew that about the log files.... never really used them much other than for trouble shooting sensors stuff.

If you could possibly pm me instructions for how to do it through sdk (have everything set up for starting to do dev work on d2g ports but haven't really done much in it. I'm on spring break this week so I have the time just not the know how.

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[Natey2]

If you could possibly pm me instructions for how to do it through sdk (have everything set up for starting to do dev work on d2g ports but haven't really done much in it. I'm on spring break this week so I have the time just not the know how.

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I'd be doing an injustice, compared to what's already out there in blogs like this one:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/avoiding-memory-leaks.html

(Some of the reference links/urls discuss tools & techniques to identify leaks)

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