Very nice, thanks :)

exactly what i’ve been wanting! thanks so much!

Brilliant!

I notice that the free memory reported is about twice that from another memory app that was released a couple of days ago on the app store (and the name escapes me since I deleted it after installing the new sbs version).

Would it be possible to include in the process list the amount of ram and CPU hit of each app?

Thanks! (sbsettings is the primary reason I chose to jailbreak!)

Excellent addition! Thanks BigBoss!

Could you give us some basic numbers such as how much RAM does the phone have total so we know how much available is left ie: is 18mb a lot or almost running out? How much memory do apps normally use? 1-2MB, 5-7MB etc?

A follow-up:

The app i had been using to check my RAM was “Free Memory”. It was reporting up to about 22 MB free max. I’m seeing initially 68MB then 35MB being reported by SBsettings.

(I’m more inclined to believe SBS as it’s better written, but was curious about the difference and variation.)

Cheers

i dont see upgrade in cydia :(

Thank you so much!!! I love you!!!

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I consider both free and inactive pages to be free memory since both can be used by a new app trying to load. Most apps would probably only count “free”. That is probably the difference. Inactive pages are pages that are no longer in use but are still held by the OS for whatever reason.

I’m not sure yet. I may try to obtain some more information per app and also display the amount of memory springboard is using. But the source code to top sure is ugly. Anyways, I don’t see the value in displaying every app / process especially when you cant do anything about most of them.

nicely done, sir!

Is there any way you can indicate which apps are backgrounded? If so maybe you could italicize the name.

Could you add some sort of simple memory analysis/warning or percentage – basically context for the “memory available” number Something like “Warning! Only 10% of RAM Free!”

Thanks again.

I agree. I think that maybe you should only display the ones that can be killed.

Yeah, CYDIA uses alot of memory..

BigBoss,

I just noticed a subtle vulnerability with SBSettings.

If the phone goes to sleep while SBSettings is running, and the passcode lockscreen keypad appears, it is possible to select More in SBS, exit with the home button, and defeat the passcode lockscreen entirely — exiting SBS takes you to the Spring/Winter board.

If the passcode lockscreen is not present or enabled, SBS briefly appears but exits so quickly that it’s practically impossible for someone to recognize and use this vulnerability.

Of course, the simple solution is to never be distracted and forget to exit SBSettings. ;)

Would it be possible to tweek SBS’s behavior with a passcode to match it’s behavior without a passcode?

Cheers

Which is what it does now.

What process caused this and how did you debug it?

Great update!

What are average “Available Memory” values on an iPhone running stock firmware with no apps running?

Just need some type of relative value to compare to.

Thanks!

I don´t see any upgrade for to open SBSettings at lockscreen! Is that something not gonna happen in the future either?

Greate job BB !!! Thx .U slowly do dewice being the best in its section.
What about to make some mayby widget to switch between running
apps from level SBsettings ??!!
And of course in the end : copy and paste :-)
Cheers

mm, dont remember now, but they were 2 proceses as far as i remember, and one was the crashreporter (i think) that kept cicling (first one, then the other)

i saw them in top.

but using top means:
1) open terminal
2) type TOP + enter
3) read
4) “control + c” gesture
5) manually type killall Terminal (since the shortcut stops working after usint top, the one that apears in the many options that apear when you push the screen).

the problem i described never happened again, it apeared twice before 2.2, once was fixed by a reboot, then next only with a restore if i remember correctly.

pd: nevertheless, im a maniac and would love to see whats running, even if i cant kill it, and without all those steps i mentioned above :P

i suppose this could be useful in a small handful of situations, but i noticed when I background cydia, then install and app within cydia, it doesn’t install right until I go back and un-background it then exit. This might only apply to apps that require respring, but it’s enough reason for me to never background cydia.

Hey Bigboss,

For some reason I don’t see the process icon to bring up the processes to kill. I do see the available memory at the bottom of sbs settings though. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling sbs settings and I still don’t get the icon for processes. Any ideas??

found it… just kill the brightness switch :)

Cydia isn’t showing an update for 1.0.7, I’m on 1.0.6 and don’t have the processes icon.

Hello.

Thanks for this new widget, very useful. I support those who suggested a way of indicating how much memory apps use, if possible.

On a related note, I wanted to ask about a potential bug I found. If I turn off wifi through the normal setting app, often sbsettings does not reflect that changed state. If I then hit refresh, it crashes and I have to force reboot. It seems that other refreshes of sbsettings has often the same effect. Any hints?

A further point, not really related to the process killer widget, is a feature request for the wifi toggle. It would be very very useful if it could bring up the little HUD that let’s you select Which network to use, and not just switch wifi off and on. Is that at all possible, Bigboss?

Thanks. M

dude yo have to open cydia,then go to sections at the bottom open App Addons, scrole down till you find processes and install, good luck.

you know..!!? an Auto Correct toggle/widget would be nice on this app.

I am not totally sure. On 2.2, it seems around 30mb free is average. Without winterboard themes it may be a bit more. It also seems that the device can get as low as 15mb free without any real side effects. I noticed that other backgrounded apps get closed as more memory is needed. Safari, for example, can get closed out by SpringBoard (or whatever OS process manages memory) if a game needs more memory. It’s unclear if this mechanism works perfectly or if its best to manage it on your own.

If you dont like brightness just turn it off in the more app.

1. open your photoalbum
2. open a photo
3. press the button with arrow jumping out of box (down left)
4. press “Use as Wallpaper”
5. Move and Scale
6. press “Set Wallpaper”
- Done

you should really take a look at the iphone videos on the apple.com site.. they explain these “low tech” question very good.

BigBoss,

Can you explain about the HHD partitions sometime? (I realize this is tangential to the process discussion, but germane to SBSettings.)

I did a search for BossTools, and the info there was helpful, but left me with more questions.

I’d like to understand the difference between / and /var, what would be considered a low number for /, if rejailbreaking & repartioning with pwnage would be preferable to moving apps from one partition to the other (or not), as well as any performance or stability implications associated with having a / partition that’s nearly full.

Perhaps this would be better as a new blog topic. I’d be interested in this subject since your explanations of the tech bits of the iPhone are quite clear. Cheers.

Works great!

Few remarks:
1. When the phone gets locked (manually or automatically), if SBS is in front, it will still be there, while it really needs to unload.

2. When SBS goes down with processes active, when it comes back, the process list is still there, but not refreshed…

3. I wish there was a way to integrate backgrounder into this. If we could mark the current task as a background task through this type of interface it would be fantastic..

After installing sbsettings my battery seems to drain much faster. In settings the usage and standby times are now always the same when before the usage was always much lower than the standby. Any suggestions?

I can’t find it in Cydia anywhere and SBsettings is
still on v1.0.6 and not v1.0.7 like in the screenshot. Cydia isn’t showing an update for SBsettings either.

Any help? Thanks

I can’t find it and I’m on v1.0.6 and i don’t think Cydia is updating properly as last time it had any changes was 3 days ago :-S

Yeh, there’s no update for v1.0.7 for me :-(

I’ve noticed after installing sbsettings that if my phone is totally off and in the dock charging and i turn it on it goes straight into safe mode. Anyone else have this problem. I tried uninstalling sbsettings and it does remedy the problem. Anyone else have this happen.

SBSetting’s feature is to have SSH “on” after reboot.

If you want SSH “off” then you will have to turn it back “off” after every reboot.

Reason being, it is a safety precaution to leave it “on” just incase something ever went wrong you would have the ability to SSH into phone.

Thanks for another great release. I’d like to again inquire about a toggle for push e-mail. Can any capable programmers create one? Can it even be done? I know there are some restrictions as to what can be made into a toggle but that sort of stuff is way beyond me. Thanks again.

Great app. Small quibble/recommendation for the next version. To kill an app how about saying “Quit” or “Kill” the word “Delete” is a little misleading. At first glance I thought it was going to uninstall the program.

Anyway, obviously not a big deal. Keep up the great work!

Regarding SBSettings, can it be fixed that OpenSSH does NOT default to ON every reboot? Thanks <3

hey Guys, is there somehow the possibility to integrate quickgold to SBSettings.. maybe a Toggle to turn Quickgold off or something to save a little bit memory…
I ask because always when i use Snapture, i get Memory problems

Thanks for this great app. Do you know how much SBSettings uses? And how much mb uses BossPreffs?

Thanks again, Mark

Hi, I Like it very much,

But since I installed it, each time i put my device ON the springboard crash…

Any ideas…

Many thanks

Hi. Thanks for this. I had removed the SSH widget from showing up in the toggles, and now cannot get it to reappear. I have tried rebooting the phone. Any other ideas how I may be able to get the SSH toggle to re-appear?
Thanks!

iphone is split into 2 partitions. your main partition being 500 megs and your media partition being the left over (7.5 gigs or 15.5 gigs). you have the ability using pwnage tool for mac to resize your system partition to something larger 1 gig is popular.

I believe that it is common for the jailbreak tools to automatically move your fonts and ringtones to your media partition and sym link, but in reality, all your apps installed from apple will be on your media partition, and all your apps and games installed by cydia will be in your stash folder. all your themes as well, and these are all in the media 15 gig partition.

the only reason you need a larger system partition is if your installing alot of libraries and developer tools that have to reside there. 500 megs is fine for most people and I don’t see needing to go over 1 gig.

/ is root. /var is in /private/. so the full path of var is /private/var/

+1. I love sbsettings, but VPN would be great as it’s the toggle I use most often. Keep up the excellent deb work guys!

Never Mind I got it back

Great app! Absolutely killer!

My feedback: instead of the red x (or in addition to it, whatever), maybe we can slide the drawer back up to put it away, as it were?

If you dont have sbsettings installed and you install this app, it will auto-install sbsettings, but it will crash cydia without restarting springboard. You have to them manually reboot to get sbsettings to start up.

I agree, but only for Mail. I don’t use Push and all email is set to Manual Fetch. Closing Mail via SBS Processes clears up 4Mb. Unfortunately, everytime you turn the phone off (or it goes to sleep), upon waking the Mail app is back again. Seems like a waste of 4Mb that could be used toward other backgrounded apps like biteSMS (or whatever non-stock SMS you use) which I’ve watched chew up 14Mb after backgrounded!!!

PS. With biteSMS, Mail & Phone running I show 25Mb available memory. Open Maps and it drops to 18Mb. Open Safari and load a basic page and it drops from 25 to 17Mb.

iPhone 3g 8gb Black firmware 2.21 Jailbreak with Quickpwn ver 2.2.5-2.SBSettings 1.0.7-5

Problem solved! Seems like SBSettings ver 1.0.7-5 does not like when Passcode lock is enabled. Since then, I haven’t had any crashes with my iPhone with SBSettings installed. When idle, Passcode lock is enable, when I enter my 4 digit passcode, it use to crash before, during and after entering passcode and various times during the day. Even when idle it was crashing. Since disabling passcode, I haven’t had any issues. I hope there’s a fix for this. Wondering if anyone has similar issues.

Ever since I upgraded to v1.1b my mail app icon on my itouch keeps having the circular loading icon on the bottom left hand corner of the mail app icon. It’s not a big issue or anything, it’s just annoying. Is there away to not show that the process is running? I kill the mail task and the icon does disappear, however as stated above, it pops right back –> “Note: some tasks, the iPhone will start right back up if you kill such as phone or mail”.

Is this happening to anyone else? Or is my i touch starting to screw up?

Is it possible to theme the processes list? Thanks

I am a SBsettings noob. I downloaded the THE REAL 360SB theme and i only can activate it for the drop down window. How do i activate it for my backround and apps like in the screen shot.

Its because you like men