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App killer or not?
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droidxd00d
Member
I don't think it's necessary in the newest versions of android. My phones always seem to run better without them. But I would also like to know the answer to this as well.
340DartMan
New Member
I use Android Assistant for my app killer. It seems to make things run just a tad smoother. I can free up between 350M and 530M (not a typo) free memory total. I have read that it is not good to use an app killer, but haven't researched the reason for this.
Because there its more to performance than how much free memory a device has.
I've been on Android since Eclair and I haven't seen task killers do anything but cause more problems than they help.
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One of the reasons is that some apps are designed to auto start. Killing them just makes them start up again - using MORE of your phone's resources than if they were just left running in the background.
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To use or not use a app or task management type app is truly up to you...but read thru this thread to better understand how the Android OS works and how a task killer may or may not help... Androidology (& Android OS Memory Management [task killers])
BroidDrionic
Member
So basically: DO NOT use an auto task-killer. If an app is misbehaving for whatever reason, then you can close it alone via a task-killer, but you should not use an auto-killer. Plus the bionic has a gig of RAM anyway, it should be able to hold everything you need and then some! All my apps open instantly without using any sort of autokiller *shrug*
Yes...
Quick update.... everything ia going great for the DROIDX and DROIDX2... but.... I know that it isn't related to deleting the app killer... but as soon as I deleted it, my phone started dropping data and doing the BSOD..... odd timing... but that's all it is..... so on the phone to Verizon I will go..... this isn't tolerable to me... my last bionic didn't do this... the audio jack just went out..... >:-[
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mikeexplorer
Member
I used a task killer on the Eris, but it also had limited memory compared to the Bionic. With the Bionic, I don't use one at all and it runs fine like it is.
Good luck and keep us posted!