Boost your Android phone by Releasing RAM With Autokiller Memory Optimizer (Free Download)

Have you ever wished to speed up your Android, but now known how? Have you tried task killers, but found it hard to tell whether you made an improvement? In this post, I will look at Autokiller Memory Optimizer, an app that gives you more control over how Android releases its system resources.

"You should not be using a task killer with Android" clearly explains why the task killers are not a good solution to fasten up your system in the Android interface. Briefly, we might say that the reason that task killers are no good for Android is that the same system regulates itself for releasing RAM memory. Process are not killed when you close the app, instead the process stays open until the system itself realizes it needs more memory to run a new process. This way, you can actually gain some speed when you restart the app, as its resources may still be in memory.

Just like a computer, a smartphone uses Random Access Memory (RAM) for processing the functionality of softwares and apps. When you are running low on RAM, your phone will start to slow down, because it needs more memory than is available. As a solution to this problem, Android devices has an autokiller that automatically shuts apps down when the memory used is close to the limit. Obviously this limit depends on the capabilities and configuration of your phone.

As the developer says: "AutoKiller Memory Optimizer is designed to fine-tune Android system inner memory manager routines to keep your device fast and smooth. It also features a full-powered process manager which lets you control your whole system."

Going for It

The system itself divides the process into six different types, and here is where it gets technical. The six types are as follows.

• FOREGROUND_APP:  This is the process running the current foreground app.  We would really rather not kill it! Value set in system/rootdir/init.rc on startup.
• VISIBLE_APP: This is a process only hosting activities that are visible to the user, so we would prefer they don’t disappear. Value set in system/rootdir/init.rc on startup.
• SECONDARY_SERVER: This is a process holding a secondary server killing it will not have much of an impact as far as the user is concerned. Value set in system/rootdir/init.rc on startup.
• HIDDEN_APP: This is a process only hosting activities that are not visible, so it can be killed without any disruption. Value set in system/rootdir/init.rc on startup.
• CONTENT_PROVIDER: This is a process with a content provider that does not have any clients attached to it.  If it did have any clients, its adjustment would be the one for the highest-priority of those processes.
• EMPTY_APP: This is a process without anything currently running in it.  Definitely the first to go! Value set in system/rootdir/init.rc on startup. This value is initialized in the constructor, careful when refering to this static variable externally.

For every type of app, the system has a limit of pages (1 page=4 kilobytes) predefined. Autokiller Memory Optimizer allows you to modify this.

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For the changes you can make you have the freedom to set as you wish, but there is a lock on the three first types of apps and there isalso a list of presets configuration as follows: Moderate (30, 35, 40), Optimum (40, 50, 60), Strict (60, 70, 80), Aggressive (82, 90, 98), Extreme (150, 160, 170), Ultimate (200, 225, 250) and (a wink from the developer about the TV series) Lost (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42).

Autokiller presets

Within these presets, you should try different ones, because every phone has its own RAM capacity and it would not be a good idea to set a killing parameter that is very close to your RAM total capacity as your phone would be killing apps constantly and you wouldn’t be able to use it at all.

Processes list

The app also categorizes the running apps in the six types and you can kill them manually for RAM release in the tab processes and the same occurs with the services in the current tab.

Services list

This app has also a donate version with some more features like the Chuck Norris mode when you can configure the app to use aggressive killing to release memory. It also gives the ability to set a different preset when the screen of the phone is off.

 Download from Android Market FREE!