topic Re: What app is reading my disk ? in Z Series

What app is reading my disk ?

MartinK1 — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 11:08:49 GMT

My Z5 Compact (Nougat) is running really slow lately,

sometimes the home screen take a long time to load and all the icons are gone for several seconds.

I've then used System Monitor to see whats going on - and i can see the disk is REALLY busy at times, like 90MB/s read operations for minutes and 3-4 CPU cores very active.

but i can't see what app is to blame...

apparantly i need ROOT access to get more info ?

any advice ?

Re: What app is reading my disk ?

GhKerh — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:15:36 GMT

You could try to stop wifi and data and seeing some difference?

Re: What app is reading my disk ?

NeoBeum — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:27:47 GMT

Do you use Stock Launcher and Widgets? and Facebook?

Re: What app is reading my disk ?

MartinK1 — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 18:35:54 GMT

A phone with no Internet is just a brick....

Re: What app is reading my disk ?

MartinK1 — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 18:39:40 GMT

Stock launcher

A few widgets ive had for a year: Sony calendar, Sony weather and a vpn widget.

Im using a Facebook/Messenger client version 73 which is 17 months old.

Re: What app is reading my disk ?

Uliwooly — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 18:40:13 GMT

@MartinK

First try to boo on safe mode to disable all third party apps, that should help you narrow down the culprit

Re: What app is reading my disk ?

MartinK1 — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 06:59:54 GMT

I tried shutting down all Internet access while it was stalling... It didn't make a difference, the disk would still read like crazy.

Re: What app is reading my disk ?

MartinK1 — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:02:48 GMT

If I boot into safe mode and the problem persist, then all I know is that its one of my MANY apps which is to blame..

Then how do I find the sinner, other than uninstall / disable one by one.. Itll take a month before I find out.