Auto Start Apps

[Shadowmaster]

I tried searching but haven't found any recent posts about this, so maybe I missed the "fix".

I have an EVO, and I use the Task Killer.. but every single time I open it there are 8 - 10 apps that are running, that I never opened. And now I can see the location services icon running when I am just writing a text message, so obviously a background program is using it, and it's a program I didn't open.

I disabled the Latitude app from auto updating, so it isn't that.

But basically, I don't want any apps running when I'm not using them, especially ones I didn't even start in the first place. My battery drains fast enough.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[sitlet]

I have an EVO, and I use the Task Killer..

1st problem, stop using task killers.

but every single time I open it there are 8 - 10 apps that are running, that I never opened.

They aren't running, they are just cached.

But basically, I don't want any apps running when I'm not using them, especially ones I didn't even start in the first place.

They aren't, they are just cached. Don't worry about them. Every time you kill an app, android sees open memory and will just re-cache that app, thus using MORE battery than if you would have just left it alone.

Do a search on here for task killers. There are MANY threads which will explain it more if you want to read up on them.

 

[ardchoille]

A very good article about this can be found here, it explains a lot.

 

[mikedt]

1st problem, stop using task killers.

They aren't running, they are just cached.

Does this assume that apps are perfectly behaved?

A very good article about this can be found here, it explains a lot.

Interesting thread. Seems to be a few cases of badly behaved or buggy software doing stuff in the background, e.g. a golf scoring app which keeps using the GPS when it is supposed to be 'cached'.

I've actually had a couple of situations like this myself. I've took my phone out of my pocket, found it physically hot and the battery is drained a lot more than expected. Because of some app I had supposedly exited, but was still doing its stuff in the background rather than being 'cached'. I had one app fruitlessly and repeatedly trying to ping Facebook for no apparent reason, even when it was in background. 1) I don't use Facebook. 2) It's impossible for the app to reach Facebook.