Advance App Killer, not needed?

[NastyNate08]

As far as this Advance App Killer.....
I thought that the Droid running 2.0.1 automatically does what the App Killer was made to do. is this App needed for droid users?

 

[Houndstooth]

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...-not-worry-about-apps-running-background.html

 

[MotorolaDroid]

people say it is not needed, but i know i was playing with google sky map and i didnt use my task killer to stop it and i when i went to use my phone about 3 hours later it had drained 30% of my battery.... i looked at my battery usage and sure enough sky map had used 85% of it.

i use it and like it, dont have any problem with it at all.

 

[JBHorner]

I think the argument against using an app killer is that it isn't necessary because the OS is managing memory in such a way that it "requests" applications to close when the memory resources get low.

But, as a prior post noted, that is a very limited view of the value of an app killer. Like the individual above, I use one regularly to "kill" applications that I know are sucking the life out of my battery. I've had a number of applications (such as Facebook) that like to run in the background and take my battery life away.

Joel

 

[New2u]

I think the argument against using an app killer is that it isn't necessary because the OS is managing memory in such a way that it "requests" applications to close when the memory resources get low.

But, as a prior post noted, that is a very limited view of the value of an app killer. Like the individual above, I use one regularly to "kill" applications that I know are sucking the life out of my battery. I've had a number of applications (such as Facebook) that like to run in the background and take my battery life away.

Joel

+1 For a good all around post. You said exactly what i would. I do the same thing, while i'm not worried about using the app killer to worry about the memory management, but the battery management.

 

[MotorolaDroid]

i wish the droid had a way "stock" to just literally close an app.... w/o having to try and force close it...

oh well i guess that what a task killer is for.

 

[jimnutt]

i wish the droid had a way "stock" to just literally close an app.... w/o having to try and force close it...

oh well i guess that what a task killer is for.

That's all the app killer's do, is force close the app. You can do the same thing from the settings screen.