don't keep activities

[HowardZ]

In the system settings - developers options is a check box for don't keep activities.


I wonder how this will affect battery life?

 

[Bpowder33]

Tried it just out of curiosity. Causes HTC Sense to reload every time I back out of an app. No good imo.

 

[HowardZ]

I use nova launcher.

When exiting an app, it takes under one second for the home screen to get redrawn.

I'm going to keep this activity option checked for a day or two and see what affects it has.

Normally, We run an app, then leave it, but it stays running - occupying memory and possibly even consuming cpu time. Worse is if the app we have stopped using is using the data/internet as the LTE radio uses alot of power. When the android system needs more memory, it is supposed to automatically kill the app. Anyway, I was just wondering about this.

 

[Bpowder33]

Ya sense is no where near as fast at reloading. Does this have the same effect as say long pressing home button and swiping recent activities out of memory? I have a good habit of doing that.

 

[HowardZ]

Well, I am not seeing any wonderful improvement.