Help advanced task killer

[350X]

Almost every App listed as running in a task killer is not actually running they are CACHED they take up no resources and no battery life. Android takes care of itself and task killers cause many problems and solve none. You have no idea how many people's phones I have magically "fixed" by removing task killer apps. These things were made back before Android 2.2 and were useful then because Android was not yet mature enough to handle itself and did not yet have the option to force close apps but Android is now a much smarter and mature mobile OS and can take care of itself.

Well I don't like how no program has a close or exit option, cached or not, I don't like it doing that. The phone should just hide cached programs and not call them running, cause when Im done, clear data and turn it off. I don't need angry birds to load 3mil a sec quicker. 3 days later when I decide to play again

 

[brotherswing]

I understand your point of view, but it honestly doesn't matter when you think of how Android manages memory. Here's a video of one of the Android developers explaining it.

http://dubroy.com/blog/google-io-memory-management-for-android-apps/

 

[TGBlade]

I decided to read through this and several articles about the argument over ATKs. The links that were posted here did a good bit of convincing in the way of supporting the idea to get rid of ATK. I then tried it out for a few days, and WOW. Just my battery life alone is improved. (Obviously YMMV) I had my phone of the charger yesterday and after the first 9 hours, I had only used up 13% battery with light use including internet, sync'd mail, a couple of apps.

Seems to be helping me!

 

[350X]

yeh, we got another convert

 

[Petrah]

Light to moderate use. No task killer. 3 days on battery (Jerry, dude your rom rocks!).

 

[koopakid08]

Well I don't like how no program has a close or exit option, cached or not, I don't like it doing that. The phone should just hide cached programs and not call them running, cause when Im done, clear data and turn it off. I don't need angry birds to load 3mil a sec quicker. 3 days later when I decide to play again

You can force exit any app by using the back button to get out of an app instead of the home button and why wouldn't you want Angry birds to loaf quicker? Like I said before cached apps have no effect on battery or system resources and over time Android learns what apps you use most and keeps those apps cached until the ram is needed elsewhere.

 

[Thorsten]

I'm not talking about installed stuff. I am talking about the stock bloatware consuming so many system resources I would have to pull the battery.

That's what I was talking about. My phone pre-root. I did not have any lag issues.

Same here. There are two (still unrooted) Vs in my family and many similarly-powered Froyo and Gingerbread phones all around me (for which I

 

[350X]

All hail to thee,

ATK, you lift me up when Im down and never take me lower.

Been a blessing on my cell phone and now my new tablet.