In order to look after the installation Watchdog in action, go to the settings and install the Polling interval (polling interval) in 10 seconds, and the threshold (trigger level) to 1 or 10%. This is a good way, in a short period of time, to show how the program works.
Then, set the Polling interval (polling interval) CPU and the threshold (operation level) less intense in value. Longer intervals will allow the phone to sleep, saving battery power. We recommend to start with 2 minutes. Threshold (trigger level) is less important for battery saving, but may cause unwanted tripping if set too low.
Recommended setting values There are 2 primary setting for experimentation
- One of them is to choose a higher threshold with a smaller interval. For example, 50% and 1 minute. In this case, the program will be caught quickly, but Watchdog will be used more intensively.
- Another method involves a low threshold and a high range. For example, the threshold of 30% every 2 minutes is as effective as the first method, but rarely takes the phone out of sleep mode.
WhiteList (whitelist) From time to time the application running in the background, there is a need to use the CPU. If you add this app WhiteList (whitelist), then the Watchdog will link him to ignore. On the "Alerts" tab, click on the desired application and press WhiteList button, the program react to it in the future will not be.
BlackList (blacklist) ... (only for paid version)
Version differences In the light version there are no ads and the following functions:
- The blacklist (black list): here you can specify the applications that should be automatically shut down.
Widget The widget can display a simple CPU (idle CPU) as a percentage of the last measurement and the amount of memory in Android applications. If you choose the CPU usage, the widget will show the CPU utilization active (foreground) android applications.
Quick Start Guide Stats (Stats) This tab includes basic statistics collected during monitoring
- Last Collection - when the information was collected for the last time. This time may be older than the polling interval of processor sleep.
- CPU% spent in background apps - Percentage of CPU load (during the last collection) all applications marked as background. This includes all applications, highlighted in blue on the CPU tab.
- Time CPU spent off (sec) - When the screen is turned off and charging is disabled, the CPU goes to sleep periodically. This specifies the amount of time the processor is sleeping (during the observation period).
- Memory - the amount of free and total memory in the phone (RAM) where indicated. It is advisable to free memory was low.Free memory - memory wasted (Free RAM is wasted RAM) . If you want to free up memory, android itself unloads the background processes.
- CPU information - Total CPU usage for the entire period of information gathering. numbers are describedhereand they are the same,
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Alerts This tab contains a list of processes that have exceeded the level of CPU utilization, defined in the program settings. Clicking on the process gives three options. Ignore removes the process from the list. WhiteList puts process in the WhiteList, and removes from the list. Kill closing process.
When you receive a first notification (alerts), you can ignore it, because maybe it was a one-off. If an application continuously displays alerts and you want to continue using it, you can add it to the WhiteList. Close an application - this is a temporary solution, since it will be restored by the operating system. And if the application is "badly behaved" once, it will do it again.
CPU This tab shows a list of all processes on the Android phone, active and hanging in the background. Each line shows the latest state of the application, as well as memory usage and CPU. In the menu there is an item for changing the way of sorting this list. Star on the line indicates that the application is in the WhiteList. A red X indicates the application of the black list (blacklist). It marked blue background tasks. Green entries - active application. White system-level processes identified.
Under present checkbox Real time CPU for more accurate current value of the processor utilization. In this case, increasing the use of CPU Watchdog-th. There are also optional freeze, which freezes the list to see without changing it. However, the program still continue to monitor applications.
Menus (Menu) - Preferences - settings menu
- WhiteList - Displays the status of the current WhiteList. Long press - list management.
- BlackList - Displays the current content of the BlackList. Long press to delete the items. Press to change the current setting.
- Help - Login to the help menu.
- Restart - If the application is not obnavlyayutsya, last updated list of applications was for a long time, click Restart to restart the service. Probably this is the result of action taskkillera who completed monitoring service.
- Sort - Various sorting options CPU tab list.