Help Should I use a memory manager app?

[ship69]

Hi

How good is Android 4.4.2 (Kitkat) on Galaxy Note 3 at memory management? Is there any need to use memory clean up ?

e.g. I was using a couple of different memory management apps on my Note 2 (which I lost at the bottom of a canal), e.g. Clean Master Phone Boost? (100million downloads, btw!)

ALSO what about things like JuiceDefender for extending battery life? Any views?

J

 

[SkyJackpot]

Hi

How good is Android 4.4.2 (Kitkat) on Galaxy Note 3 at memory management? Is there any need to use memory clean up ?

e.g. I was using a couple of different memory management apps on my Note 2 (which I lost at the bottom of a canal), e.g. Clean Master Phone Boost? (100million downloads, btw!)

ALSO what about things like JuiceDefender for extending battery life? Any views?

J

I'm not sure what the memory management is like on 4.4.2 as I use 4.3.

If you aren't rooted and using a memory management application then it might be affecting your battery as it keeps stopping programs and those programs keep restarting and the cycle keeps on going.

I think a better strategy would be to test each application when you download it, and if you feel your phone slowing down just a little bit then refund or uninstall it and find an alternative application that can do the same thing. You are allowed 15 minutes to test the application before you are denied any refund.

There are applications that are big in size and some small in size and alot of them run fantastically and some do not regardless of their size. The applications that I am using right now to type this are quite large in size, Dolphin Browser & SwiftKey keyboard but there isn't really any noticable performance drop when using them, although there used to be with SwiftKey before they optimised it further after complaints.

While testing your application I would also advise you to test the multi tasking too, switch to some other applications and then back to the one you are testing to see if the speed has dropped. If everything seems fine then I think you've picked a good application 👍👌.

Greetings.

 

[EarlyMon]

Clean Master is great for cleaning up left behind junk from app uninstalls, that's not a really robust Android function, and clearing cache if needed, but it sometimes is. I've used it for that, it works pretty well.

The rest of the functions, avoid and do not use, you're doing more harm than good with them.

Having a memory manager and task killer is such a great idea that it has been built in to Android from the beginning, and really improved with Froyo.

http://androidforums.com/android-applications/335110-why-you-dont-need-task-killer.html

Don't try to fight the built in memory management with an add on, that's doing it wrong.