SSD Boost
This is a work in progress project which has the goal to speed performance and extend endurance of smartphone internal flash memory.
Smartphone internal storage uses solid state technology SSD/emmc. Counterpart to lower access time, and less latency of SSD is that its performance may degrade over time: writing after writing, the memory cells show a measurable drop in performance, and will continue degrading throughout the life.
'SSD Boost' minimizes writings on your SSD, increasing speed and extending life of your storage: your smartphone will thank you.
It needs Root.
Be careful, if you have got one of the following models:
- Samsung Galaxy R.
- Samsung Galaxy SII.
- Samsung Galaxy Note.
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
- Samsung Epic 4G Touch.before installing, check presence of Brickbug (a bug on eMMC chip fw): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vinagre.android.emmc_checkChangelog:
1.0.2
- added TRIM command
What does TRIM for ssd/nand performance.
Unlike HDD, SSD cannot overwrite data because only a transition from 0 to 1 is possible, so before overwriting the data has to erase the whole page to 0 then program the bits.Erasing takes longer then writing data, so after you used the device for a while it will have to erase the pages before writing them and cripple performance.It would be so much better if controller would erase the blocks while idle so you have them ready when you need to write. Unfortunately this is not possible as controller has no knowledge of file system so it does not know what blocks are used and with are not.
TRIM command, when supported by the SSD/NAND, allows operating system to send a list of blocks to controller to erase when is idle.
Android 4.3+ supports trim natively, it means that operating system after deleting a file will sends a trim command to nand controller notifying witch blocks the file used, the controller will erase them when idle so it can write fast without erasing next time.
But users have no control over this process and Android doesn't trim the storage for a very long time.
'SSD Boost' helps you to run trim on your device manually if you feel it has become laggy and anyway it does trim for you on every reboot.
It overtakes LagFix (fstrim) limitation, supporting Android 5 Lollipop.
1.0.1
- added NOATIME, NOADIRATIME support
Android maintains file system metadata that records when each file was last accessed. This timestamp is known as atime and atime comes with a performance penalty – every read operation on a filesystem generates a write operation. Updating the atime every time a file is read causes a lot of usually-unnecessary IO, slowing everything down.'SSD Boost' disables the tracking of atime, remounting filesystems with the noatime/noadiratime options.
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Reviews (26)
Wow this is real Deal i have problem on my phone that when i dl an app on playstore it always restart when i do it background thats why i only open playstore and camt do multitask while downloading and this app fix it not just that i can obviously how fast my phone now is. Thumbs Up for the Dev 👍
Breaks the ctsProfile part of SafetyNet. EDIT: Yes. When I installed it, Magisk Manager told me that it failed, and I couldn't use Google Pay, but when I uninstalled it, SafetyNet passed. OnePlus 5T running LineageOS 16 btw.
Thank you so much for your work.. Using this app for 4 years straight now.. From My Asus Zenfone 4 to My Zenfone Max to Redmi Note 3 to Mi A1 to Moto G3 to my Current OP 7T Pro.. Even on 7T pro the performance improvement is noticeable.. Really is my number one reason to root. Developer please implement a donate option. Thanks a lot again.❤️
This is to me a far better way for me memory management and it speeds up my phone.
Awesome ap and the ad is really unobtrusive. Thanks to the Developer(s)
For rooted phone only, i dont like to root my phone for this app.
Was good for trimming sd cards or internal storage
Thanks My write speed went up to 88 mbps write speed 😀 Working on my Cherry Mobile Flare S8 Stock Rom
Not working stuck on boosting ssd
Don't download it want full access of your entire device
Is it possible to do this in a non-rooted way?
Have used since i so it 👍
highly recommended for rooted device .. doesnt need rocket science to know what will fstrim with noatime & nodirtime does if someone well verse in linux command tune2fs .. speed wise showing improvement by 3x when sdmaid optimizing its sql db before and after effect ..speed wise more unimaginable if the device utilize ufs2.x storage type p.s. 2021 still one of the best tweak for rooted device with ext4 filesystem and f2f2 not so sure
Besto appo
Fast perfekt, direkt nach dem Boost merkt man einen riesigen Unterschied. Doch das einzige, das fehlt ist ein Widget für das schnelle Boosten vom Homescreen. Almost perfect, instantly after booting you notice a giant improvement. The only thing missing is a widget to boost the SSD from the homescreen.
My Moto G3 already ran smoother than ever on Lineage, but Jesus Christ. I know at least one of the things it does is remount all your filesystems with "noatime" but there's no way that's all it does, it never made that kind of difference with plain Linux on an SSD.
This app works very well. Without going into details, the app sets up specific settings with how android manages the filesystems and the low level block system. It then sets up a 'script' of sorts to run it at boot time, thus making reopening the app unecessary. This is basically the dream 'set it and forget it' app. I have a OnePlus 3T with the stock Android Oreo/Oxygen OS ROM and Magisk used for root. My phone is pretty fast; I thought there was no way it could get faster, then you proved me wrong. Thank you for your work on this app. I have one question that I am unable to find out for myself. How often does your app/script run the trim command? I was assuming that it at least runs it once with every boot.
Not sure hoew this helps it takes 90mb to run in backround. thatsore ram then most my apps. Maybe ad free version would bring down ram usage an make this useable. Really liked the description looked like it had,or has poe
Thank you developer for creating a brilliant app. One question though. I am rooted and run deathly adiutor on my tablet to increase CPU performance. Will this app interfere with deathly adiutor? I think not but I'm not sure. Edit: After researching around, this app will not interfere with deathly adiutor. In fact, it has no impact on the governor or i/o scheduler, which is totally separate. I did notice that before installing this app my tablet was using 1.3 GB or ram out of 1.7 GB. After boost I am averaging 1.1 GB. In addition, everything on my tablet loads faster (apps,settings,browser,etc) and no trouble with multitasking. I would highly recommend this app to anyone with a rooted phone.
This app is amazing, it does what it says and more. My load times have drastically increased. Not only that, but my phone is gaining an extended battery life and getting less hot. I recommend any root user download this, as I feel that any phone can benefit from these qualities.
The best think that has happened to my old Galaxy S4 with a custom ROM. The phone had recently been very sluggish and underperforming to a point that I was looking for a free time to reinstall the OS. However, this thing has made my phone very snappy, the apps open quick and about 85% to 90% of the sluggish behavior has just gone away. Keep up the good job!
The effect can be felt instantly. Awesome app, worth trying. Made my Xperia L faster and much more responsive than stock. Also, doesn't remain in background hence no memory related issues either. Happiness! Thank you Dev. You're awesome. 😁
I'm sure it works but as I can't root this particular phone,its not useful. I would think that,if you have Android 6, you can make it device admin in system settings and give it some ability to work. Oh well.
I don't see any improvements on Samsung Galaxy J1, probably because of how Samsung devices work. Maybe I need to flash ROM to see any differences.
Definitely accelerates boot, bypassing some of the system processes that lag during OS startup. Beyond that, I'm not sure if it is helpful during normal use but must remain running in the background to function...
This app is essential on any smarphone. I installed it around 3 years ago on my OnePlus One and today it runs on linage os almost as fast as the first time. I recently buy a OnePlus 6 and Im waiting a while before rooting because of the warranty. Hope this app still work that great with this.