Runaway processor

[MacGuyInNC]

So all of a sudden, my 2-month old Hero started losing battery fast and was pretty warm. The only problem is that I don't think I had too many apps running (no more than usual).

My Hero is stock from Sprint, not rooted.

Any way of telling what process(es) is/are running away from me so I can kill them?

 

[willistheyounger]

open market and download advanced task killer it allows you to select which apps you want running in the background and allows you to "kill" all others

 

[beezy]

Astro file manager from the market has a process manager that will tell you with detail of what's running.

 

[MacGuyInNC]

open market and download advanced task killer it allows you to select which apps you want running in the background and allows you to "kill" all others

Forgot to mention that I already have this app.

I'm used to the "top" command on *nix variants. Anything like that?

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

top should work on a non rooted phone from a terminal emulator, or from the adb shell

kill [pid] may or may not work, depends on the permissions of the process.

 

[MacGuyInNC]

top should work on a non rooted phone from a terminal emulator, or from the adb shell

kill [pid] may or may not work, depends on the permissions of the process.

Got any favorite terminal emulators?

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Connectbot. It's both a local term AND ssh client. Free in the market

 

[GolpherZX]

I know many will disagree with me on this, but have you checked for the SMS bug? Many will say it was patched, but when I opened my brand new Hero back less than 2 months ago I did have the bug, even though I had the latest update that was available OTA.

 

[MacGuyInNC]

I know many will disagree with me on this, but have you checked for the SMS bug? Many will say it was patched, but when I opened my brand new Hero back less than 2 months ago I did have the bug, even though I had the latest update that was available OTA.

Not ringing a bell. Could you clarify?

 

[d3xn2o]

What is this SMS Bug? My buddy has the Hero and I think he may have it aswell... PoS is pretty glitchy

 

[toasty#AC]

I know many will disagree with me on this, but have you checked for the SMS bug? Many will say it was patched, but when I opened my brand new Hero back less than 2 months ago I did have the bug, even though I had the latest update that was available OTA.

how did you fix it? I think I'm still having the SMS problem even though I'm using Handcent and have the most current updates, because my phone always shows 100% uptime, no matter what I do.

 

[mrinehart93]

What is this SMS Bug? My buddy has the Hero and I think he may have it aswell... PoS is pretty glitchy

It wakelocks the CPU when it sends something... use Handcent to fix that.

 

[MacGuyInNC]

It wakelocks the CPU when it sends something... use Handcent to fix that.

I'm using Handcent for my SMS messages with Messages turned off, so I doubt that's it.

 

[GolpherZX]

Here is the post that puts how I fixed it in 1.5 before I started playing with the custom ROMs, which is what is my permament fix.

http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc-hero/669-htc-hero-tips-tricks-easter-eggs-6.html#post60947

Also to note, I had someone else show me this, and I didn't see it really handy, so I wrote something up on it quick...