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MalWare G1 App Warning
Chuong wrote in pointing out there is a ruckus going on in the Android Market due to a MalWare app that does can erase your memory, destroy your memory card, spam your email and more. It’s called MemoryUp and a lot of users are reporting similar crimes against their G1’s. There is no need for the MemoryUp app as the Java components on Android clean up memory on their own. You are warned!
Source: Gizmodo; image from same
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about 1 year ago
i always knew there was something about this phone that would cause a problem like this, thanks god i didn’t get it right away
about 1 year ago
What i think is funny is that the Memory for Lemmings app does the same exact thing…nothing…and people argue over whats better. well i shouldnt say nothing, just nothing helpful.
about 1 year ago
But will it calculate my tips…?
about 1 year ago
this can happen to a winmo phone as well derrick
about 1 year ago
i know, i was just bs’n lol…..but i am trying to wait to see what other phones tmo has to offer soon, and not talking about the shadow 2
about 1 year ago
So thass why my pics show sometimes in thumbnail view?
about 1 year ago
Bratag, the developer behind Snap Photo, StickyNotes and others, wrote a tiny program available free called ‘Memory for Lemmings’ which is basically a joke program making fun of all the worthless memory management programs out there. In a nutshell, Memory for Lemmings makes a ’suggestion’ to the OS for a check of memory that can be freed up – a check the OS makes regularly on its own, this just forces another check. So the OS checks and usually finds few kb and frees it. Memory for Lemmings then reports “31kb memory cleared – everyone dance!” The joke of course, the reference to Lemmings and dancing for joy over such an insignificant gain.
Anyway, point is that’s about the limit of memory management capability – a ’suggestion’ that the OS should run another check. But since it does often anyway, there is never much to to cleared, nothing significant. By design, Android/Linux do a very good job of memory management and dosen’t need any extra help. It’s already in there, so to speak. So there really nothing add-on apps can or should do. Best thing to do on a G1 to keep it running snappy is keep memory over 20-25MB by clearing out caches and not installing too many apps. And limit the number of running widgets.