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Autostarts

Autostarts helps you keep control over your phone by letting you have a look at what applications do behind your back. It'll tell you which apps automatically run when the phone boots up, and what other system events trigger in the background (e.g. when an SMS is received, certain buttons are pressed, etc).

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The latest version is 1.5.3, published 2010-02-23.

Autostarts is available in Google's official Android Market for a small cost. At this time, a demo version is not available. You can use the barcode to jump right to the app in the Market.

Autostarts Android Market QR Code

changelog

1.5.3 (2010-02-23)

  • Show a warning before disabling Google Talk with respect to Market
    downloads.
  • Fixed display of component labels (a regression introduced in the
    1.5.0 backend refactor).
  • Improved way of using the root access; should work on more devices
    now, including the Archos devices and the Sholes Droid Mod.

1.5.0 (2010-02-10)

  • Major rewrite of how we retrieve package information. We no longer
    need to keep track of disabled components ourselves, and an uninstall
    of Autostarts no longer is an issue. The new backend also makes
    it possible for us to show additional events that are not in our
    database. Last but not least we can now show components that are
    disabled by default, and make a clean distinction between that
    initial state and changes by the user.
  • Compiled against 2.1 SDK.
  • Included pretty names and descriptions for a large number of new
    events.

1.2.2 (2010-01-31)

  • Added German translation (does not include event texts).
  • Added support for two new events (SECRET_CODE, SPN_STRINGS_UPDATED).
  • Improved handling of certain events (like PACKAGE_INSTALLED and
    friends) that previously didn't properly show up in many cases.
    There is still some work to do here.
  • On first use and on the help screen we now show information about
    how to workaround the freeze bug in the Superuser Whitelist app.

1.2.1 (2009-10-29)

  • "Eclair-ready" (compiled against 2.0).
  • Support all screen sizes.
  • Support various new events introduced in 1.6 and 2.0.

1.2.0 (2009-10-17)

  • Fixed a pretty serious crash on almost every orientation change.
  • Added option to only show disabled components.

1.1.9 (2009-10-05)

  • Warn the user more clearly about the dangers of uninstalling the
    app while components are still disabled.
  • Support orientation change.
  • Minor architecture improvements under the hood, preparing for
    bigger things to come.

1.1.4 (2009-09-22)

  • Support missing camera.NEW_PICTURE intent.
  • Improved logging when an error occurs during component state change,
    to allow investigating problems.
  • "Donut-ready" (compiled against 1.6).

1.1.3 (2009-07-30)

  • Fixed exception when trying to disable on some non-rooted devices.
  • Fixed rare exception during system configuration change.
  • Fixed apostrophe escaping in various texts, the help screen.

1.1.2 (2009-07-22)

  • Support missing CONNECTIVITY_ACTION intent.

1.1.1 (2009-07-14)

  • Slightly improved some event descriptions.
  • Remember state of "toggle system apps" filter across restarts.

1.1.0 (2009-07-12)

  • Allow root users to disable components (and enable them again).
  • Added support for the PHONE_STATE action, which we previously missed.

1.0.1 (2009-07-05)

  • Menu option to reload the list.
  • Menu option to expand or collapse all groups in one go.

1.0.0 (2009-06-26)

Initial release.