johnashtonedgar
08-31-2009, 03:19 AM
A list of simple things you can do to take care of your Android friend.
1. Cycle or restart your phone once a day. Technically because the Operating System is Linux based you shouldn't have to do this. However, it will put all the little Androids back in their rows after a day of cavorting about. This "soft resests" the phone and I find this very beneficial. In place of soft reseting your phone, you can use the MemoryForLemmings Application from the Android Market. This application basically "reminds" your phone to open up memory blocks that were previously being used by other programs, making your phone run optimally.
2. Clearing Caches. Simply Maintaining your memory caches will increase the speed of your Operating System. The truth is that while the caches are there to speed up your System, at some point it becomes counterproductive as they fill up and will actually slow your system down. To clear the cache of the browser, you would select menu in the browser and then more > settings > clear cache.
It is interesting to note that in the new Android 1.5 Google sourced build I am checking out, if you would go into Manage Applications in the main Settings, each application now has a clear cache button. By clearing the caches of the Market, Youtube, and the Browser, I freed up 20.4 MB of memory.
*If you hit clear data in any of these areas you will lose all saved information in the application.
3. Don't be an SMS slut. How someone gets more than a couple hundred text messages piled up, is beyond me. They take up space and the G1 does not like more than 700, which seems to be the magic number. If you want to save them, use the Mybackup application and atleast get them off the phone to the SD Card. I won't even go into the fact that at some point, extreme amounts of messages start managing you.
4. POP3 Email. There is a known issue with the POP3 email application. You cannot delete the emails in the trash. Pop3 email actually downloads the email to your phone causing you to end up with memory issues. Use the k-9 mail application from the market that will allow you the ability to delete your emails permenantley. Another approach would be, to every so often depnding on use, delete and reinstall the email account(s).
The G1 is a small computer. I probably spend more than 2 minutes and less than 5 minutes everyday maintaining it. There are things you can do to help your Android run smoothly. I funnily enough keep running into people that use their Androids for a few weeks to a month and keep factory reseting to fix Android because it is "slow". Guess what factory reseting your phone does? This clears the caches, deletes emails, and gets rid of the thousands of SMS messages. Give your little buddy some love and the Android will love you back. :D
1. Cycle or restart your phone once a day. Technically because the Operating System is Linux based you shouldn't have to do this. However, it will put all the little Androids back in their rows after a day of cavorting about. This "soft resests" the phone and I find this very beneficial. In place of soft reseting your phone, you can use the MemoryForLemmings Application from the Android Market. This application basically "reminds" your phone to open up memory blocks that were previously being used by other programs, making your phone run optimally.
2. Clearing Caches. Simply Maintaining your memory caches will increase the speed of your Operating System. The truth is that while the caches are there to speed up your System, at some point it becomes counterproductive as they fill up and will actually slow your system down. To clear the cache of the browser, you would select menu in the browser and then more > settings > clear cache.
It is interesting to note that in the new Android 1.5 Google sourced build I am checking out, if you would go into Manage Applications in the main Settings, each application now has a clear cache button. By clearing the caches of the Market, Youtube, and the Browser, I freed up 20.4 MB of memory.
*If you hit clear data in any of these areas you will lose all saved information in the application.
3. Don't be an SMS slut. How someone gets more than a couple hundred text messages piled up, is beyond me. They take up space and the G1 does not like more than 700, which seems to be the magic number. If you want to save them, use the Mybackup application and atleast get them off the phone to the SD Card. I won't even go into the fact that at some point, extreme amounts of messages start managing you.
4. POP3 Email. There is a known issue with the POP3 email application. You cannot delete the emails in the trash. Pop3 email actually downloads the email to your phone causing you to end up with memory issues. Use the k-9 mail application from the market that will allow you the ability to delete your emails permenantley. Another approach would be, to every so often depnding on use, delete and reinstall the email account(s).
The G1 is a small computer. I probably spend more than 2 minutes and less than 5 minutes everyday maintaining it. There are things you can do to help your Android run smoothly. I funnily enough keep running into people that use their Androids for a few weeks to a month and keep factory reseting to fix Android because it is "slow". Guess what factory reseting your phone does? This clears the caches, deletes emails, and gets rid of the thousands of SMS messages. Give your little buddy some love and the Android will love you back. :D