HTC Boost+ for Android
HTC Boost+ is a new -- beta -- tweaking application by HTC that the company has released to Google's Play Store for devices running Android.
The new application is available for all devices running Android 5.0 or higher regardless of whether they have been manufactured by HTC.
The application has been designed to free up disk space and RAM on the device it is run on just like many other applications that you find for Android that do the same.
There is CCleaner for Android for instance, and at least some device manufacturers put their own cleaning apps on their devices automatically (Xiaomi does it for instance with an app called Cleaner).
HTC Boost+
The app displays storage and memory information on start which highlight the current status of both, and the total that is available.
The lower half of the screen lists the four tools the app ships with that allow you to free up storage or RAM.
- Boost: the name giving mode scans the device for applications or services that are running, and suggests some that you can free up memory from. In addition to that, it provides you with an option to enable smart boost which automates the clearing of memory in the background.
- Manage Apps: This is a basic uninstaller that allows you to remove non-system apps from the Android device. The only advantage it has over the default uninstaller is that you can pick multiple apps for removal at the same time. You may change the sort order from largest to oldest used or name instead. Especially oldest used may be useful as it lists apps you have not used the longest at the top.
- Clear Junk: this works similarly to the Boost mode, only that it checks for temporary files and app installers that are stored on the device.
- Lock Apps: you need to give Boost+ usage rights before you can use the feature. Afterwards, you are asked to create an unlock pattern and enter your birthday before you can lock applications. This protects applications from being opened by requiring users to draw the same unlock pattern during launch to open the application.
The app's Boost and Clear Junk modes give you options when it comes to what is cleared or cleaned on the device. If you don't want caches cleaned for instance, then you can disable the feature to only clean other areas pointed out by the application.
While junk cleaning may make sense at times, especially if you are a heavy user and never ran an application like HTC Boost+ before, clearing memory does not make that much sense as applications will quickly use memory again. You can verify this by running the "boost" operation several times on the device.
The only way to free up memory permanently is by reducing the number of (background) applications that run on the device.
Closing Words
HTC Boost+ is a beta application at the time of writing. It is well designed, but the features that it provides are not really that different from other tweaking or cleaning applications available for Android.
Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?