Sent to us by Hamza Rahman, this brand new Nokia concept is a dual boot machine with both Android 4.4 KitKat and Windows Phone 8.1. The device is dubbed Nokia Powerranger and it comes with a 5.1 inch LCD display with a 1440 x 2560 pixel resolution.
The design is sleek and slim and adheres to the Fabula format, but the front side looks much more modern. The bezels are kept to a minimum and the curve of the corners is very small. Nokia Powerranger relies on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor, clocked at 2.5 GHz and uses Adreno 420 graphics for great looking games. It has 64 GB of internal storage, 4 GB of RAM and up to 512 GB of total storage.
At the back of this Nokia QHD phone there’s a 24 megapixel Pureview camera with dual LED flash and 4K video recording, plus high image stabilization and Carl Zeiss optics. Upfront we’ve got a 5 MP camera also with a dual LED flash, which is a bit of a premiere. There are two massive stereo speakers in the mix and this model even does 5G connectivity. It’s a very thin smartphone made of polycarbonate and it allows you to switch between Windows Phone 8.1 and KitKat in just 3 seconds.
The hunt is on for background apps. But before we go on an app massacre, let's remember that many apps run in the background for good reason: they are syncing, providing location data or otherwise doing what they were designed to do. But not always. If you want to know which apps are running excessive background processes or you want to stop apps from running in the background entirely, then we'll show you how.
First of all, if you want to know which are running background processes and how power hungry they are, both in terms of processing power and impact on battery. Android has these monitoring options built in.
Enable Developer Options by going to Settings > About Phone and tapping the Build number until you are notified that Developer Options have been enabled.
Go to Settings >Developer Options >Process Stats to see how much of the time your key apps are running. Tap any app to see how much RAM it's using.
Next, go to Settings > Battery then tap the individual apps to see how much battery they're using.
Which apps should I stop running in the background?
A big culprit of background memory and battery usage is games you're not playing, and music players you're not using. If you can see no logical reason for an app you know well to be running in the background, then you should probably close it.
As a general, you should leave most apps/services starting with the word 'Google' running. So DON'T STOP THE FOLLOWING APPS (really essential services won't let you force stop them anyway):
Google Search, Google Play services, Google Contacts Sync, Google Keyboard, Google Play Store
In the Process stats list, you should have a pretty good idea of which apps you want to leave running in the background simply by knowing how much you use them. The list is a good place to stop bloatware from running (like Moto Care, which you see in the picture), or services you might not use like Google Play Music.
How to disable, stop and uninstall background apps
If you have an app that you think is using an unreasonable amount of processor power or seems to be running in the background way more than it should, then you can either:
Disable it in your App Manager by going to Settings > Apps, tapping the app, then tapping Disable.
Since the Lollipop update, you can close recent apps easily by tapping the Recent Apps navigation button on your phone (to the right of the home button), then swiping left or right to close apps you ran recently.
Delete it from your phone by going to Settings > Apps, tapping the app, then tapping Uninstall
Or Force Stop it by going to Settings > Apps, swiping right to the Running tab, tapping the app, then tapping Force Stop
Remember, if you have no clue what an app or service is, then you probably shouldn't stop it, unless it's using up a lot of RAM or battery, and you don't mind risking your phone crashing.
Greenify is an app hibernation app, letting you put apps to sleep when you're not using them. It's basically an automated version of force closing or disabling apps every time you stop using them and then turning them back on when you need them. But doing that manually is a pain. Hence Greenify is one of the best app management apps around.
To get the full benefits of Greenify you need root access, and we have guides on how to root yourNexus 5, HTC One M8 and Galaxy S5, among other phones. Just search for them at AndroidPIT.
Non-rooted users, for example, won't be able to automatically hibernate apps, but can simply flick a widget switch to put your apps to sleep (not a bad fix if you don't want to root your device). If you're serious about managing your background processes, Greenify is the tool you need.
Do you monitor your app processes? What tools do you use?
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Are you still waiting for Android 5.0 Lollipop to arrive on your device? Or maybe you already have it but don't think that a relatively small smartphone or tablet screen does it justice? If you're in either of these situations, then getting a Lollipop emulator on your PC could be appealing. Here we'll show you how to do it.
You may be familiar with an Android app emulator like Bluestacks, but this emulator goes one step further by letting you run the whole Android operating system on your desktop. Read on to find out how to get Android 5.0 Lollipop on your PC.
Install Android SDK (Software Development Kit)
Download Android SDK for your computer - as either a .exe or .zip file - and install it (you need to have the Java Development Kit installed on your PC for the installation to go ahead).
Open SDK Manager. The only boxes you need to have ticked in the Packages window are Android SDK Platform-tools under Tools and Android 5.0.1 (API 21).
Next, click Install packages, then accept and confirm the installation.
Once you've installed these packages, go to the directory where you install Android SDK and open AVD Manager.
In AVD Manager, click Create, then Insert the following:
AVD Name: the name of the emulator, do not use spaces (example: LollipopEmulator)
Device: Choose which Google device you want to emulate - we recommend the Nexus 5.
Target : the version of Android to be installed. This will vary depending on which version of Android is out when you read this. At the time of writing, Android 5.1.1 was available to install in the SDK, but didn't work when we tried emulating it, so we stuck with Android 5.0.1, which worked for us.
CPU: select "ARM"
Skin : select "Skin with dynamic hardware controls"
RAM: Again, this depends on the amount of RAM your PC has, but we think 1024 amount of RAM to use so both the emulator and your PC run smoothly.
Leave the other items with default values and click OK.
You've now added your emulator to the AVD Manager. Select it, click Start then Launch to run it. The first startup may take several minutes, as it will install Android Lollipop. To select a size, go into the the Launch Options after Start, select ''Scale to display real size'' and set your preferred size.
Congratulations, you’ve now successfully installed your first PC emulator with Android Lollipop. Now you can immerse yourself into Material Design and comb through each new option brought by this fantastic update!
