Advanced Task Killer users read this.

[Piiman]

I initially thought it was more RAM, but now I don't have much running in the background ever since I went to the settings of each app. It's too bad I cannot do anything about the bloatware as AmazonMP3 and Blockbuster have no reason to pop up once in a while. And learn how to use multi-quote.

You can root and remove it.

I tried that multi-quote but never could get it to work. Care to explain it to me or point me to the documentation.

I like your edit put please define bloatware for me since you didn't like mine.

 

[Piiman]

So after using Advanced Task Manager for 12 hours here are my results.

I downloaded and install ATM and set it to auto kill about 13 apps. But before I did I ran Quadrant (I'm not sure this is the best benchmark for this type of test but it's all I have)

My phone runs with about 40 to 50 mg free Quadrant score 1250
I then "ended all" using the end all button. After my phone stopped freaking out I had 153 meg free Quadrant score 1215.

I then set ATM to auto kill about 13 apps I thought were unneeded by me. Once ATM killed them and sent the message that it had killed 13 apps I had 93 meg free Quadrant score of 1211. I do an end all again and no additional memory was gained Q score 1242

I also flipped out of LP and back to blur launcher (which BTW is jerky as hell once you get used to LP) and even though I had almost 150 meg more of free memory than normal the Moto home/Blur was still jerky and choppy.

I did this several times and the scores were all similar every time. With the best always being from the phone without ATM killing task, basically testing my phone has it would normally be.

So after doing this several times I saw no advantage other than some piece of mind that you have more free memory and you thinking you're controlling what is running in the background.

I say " you think you're controlling" because even though you kill task most return in a short time span and remain until the next kill interval.

Also noticed several bazaar behaviors from the phone will ATM was running.

1. I was trying to get twitter up and going so i could follow the dev phone hacking going on when I noticed ATM notifying me it had killed the apps. Well I also notice that the twitter client seemed to lockup and totally stop responding to button presses. Obviously I didn't have it on the exclude list but if I hadn't known ATM had just killed a bunch of apps, and my twitter app, I would have thought the app or my phone was buggered up.

2. Once after doing the end all the entire phone locked up and after about 2 minutes it finally rebooted. Again if I was a noob I may have blamed all this strange behavior on the phone and not ATM.

So spent the afternoon yesterday trying to find an advantage to using ATM and other than it having 10 to 40 meg more of free memory it offered no improvements in performance and in fact had worse scores (not by much but still worse). Most apps return shortly after the kill so you don't really have control of what is running. And last but not least killing apps did/can cause problems even when you think you know what you're doing.

I uninstalled ATM and got my .99 cents back and that's my .02.

If you can show it actually does improve preference I'd like to see the numbers.

 

[pm1066]

It's unfortunate you used it only as a task killer and not as a pure memory manager.

 

[Piiman]

It's unfortunate you used it only as a task killer and not as a pure memory manager.

The difference being what? And how would it have made the results different? What exactly is your reason for trying to manage the memory?

BTW the app is called Advance Task Manager not Advance Memory Manager. And as far as I could tell the only way to effect the memory pool was to kill tasks. Is there another?

 

[copr165]

Iv'e had nothing but weird problems since day one of my DroidX. I just received a DX hoping it was Hardware issue's (even though I was convinced it was software related). Everyone kept telling me it was because I rooted my droid, but I disagree.

Come to find out it was Advanced Task Killer causing my problems. I had it set to "Auto Kill" and set the level to "Crazy" and set it to "When Screen Turns Off".

It was killing my alarms, Killing Txt, VM, missed call Notifications, and restarting my phone because it was killing an important process....

IDK if anyone has already posted something about this (I didnt see anything) so I figured i'd throw it out there. Im still currently using ATK but the Auto Kill is turned off. Sending New DX back to Verizon.

Completely uninstalled it today after I read this post yesterday. Got better batt life today on both my X and Incredible.

 

[rjoudrey]

It always amazes me how two people have exactly the opposite experience with an application. When I use ATM I only exclude the apps I want to continue to run. I have never had any problems in any way whatsoever. You obviously have to exclude widgets. If you have any kind of sync service running you obviously do not want to kill it because that will cause problemsor it will restart immediately. This one really confuses me, is it user error or what?

 

[rjoudrey]

One other thing, i never allow a benchmark to dictate to me how my phone is working, it is always based on user perception. I have had overclocked phone that scored very high on benchmarks run laggy as hell.

 

[Piiman]

One other thing, i never allow a benchmark to dictate to me how my phone is working, it is always based on user perception. I have had overclocked phone that scored very high on benchmarks run laggy as hell.

Preception ahh ?? Yeah that reality thing is over hyped.
Hey if you have fun killing task for no legitimate reason have at it!
Later.

 

[Stealthman]

ATK has been a godsend for me. I get almost double the battery life using it and no more lag. I know, I know everyone says you don't "need" it but my phone performs so much better using it. You can select which apps to kill, you don't have to kill them all.

Weird thing is I had it installed but it didn't start working right until I put the ATK widget on my home screen. Now it works great and tells me how many apps it kills. Some times it's as many as 17.

Bottom line is it works great for me, I am loving this phone right now, I was a little down about the battery life but now it's great.

 

[Mc1]

So nearly everything on the home screens, even the arrow, went missing. Nothing was there, just the wallpaper galaxy, and the ATK running. The apps are still there, but everything else is missing. Even the side screens, all empty.

I tried to kill ATK but couldn't at first. Unisstalled it but my whole interface is messed up now.

Is there a way to restore? If not, how do I do a factory reset?