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Booster FREE - Task Killer

This app - like all task killers, memory managers/optimizers, signal boosters, etc. - is counter-productive and evil.

Uninstall!

Let Android handle processes and memory. It needs NO help!
 
I didn't have any kind of task killer on my evo, but I just got the LG thrill and the battery drain is awful. I set a task killer to kill every hour from a review I had seen on another site, and it's prolonged the battery life by HOURS.
 
You have not cured your problem, you have only put a Band-Aid on a wound that will never heal until you find and correct the true cause of the battery drain. When you do that, you will get better battery life without a task killer than with.

You don't have to take my word about it. It's very well documented in this forum, all over the 'net and by Google engineers that task killers and memory optimizers solve nothing and actually cause problems. Do some reading.
 
Ultimately it's your phone and are free to do anything you like with it, but I'd look for the problem before applying a solution. Task killers can be useful in weeding out power hungry apps if you use it only as a diagnostic. If you are finding improved battery life with a task killer, then every day remove one item from your kill list until the battery life changes for the worse. Then look at what you just stopped killing and you'll find the problem. Once you either uninstall or configure that app properly, then you can shut off/delete the task killer because there should be nothing left for it to do.

The problem with auto killing is it keeps your phone from optimizing itself for your habits. You see, Android prioritizes processes based on frequency of use and last used. If you kill a recently used app, Android will just cache it again and after a while it becomes recently used too, pushing it high on the priority list. This makes it first to be reloaded and you'll just keep killing it. It prevents the apps you really do use from being there waiting to run, so Android has to dump some of it's cache to load your app, which when done will get dumped for one of the apps you keep killing.

There are many things you can do to increase batter life. Task killing shouldn't be one of them.



Why You Don't Need a Task Killer.
 
Oh boy, another Task Killer debate. Meanwhile, I still want to know why my latest OS update, Gingerbread 2.3.3, says it has, built in, “Power management and task killer applications.” I also want to know where the heck they’re hiding.
 
I haven't seen the application on LG phones. I have seen them on Samsung, Motorola and HTC phones and they are basically a convenient interface to end apps one at a time. Rather than having to navigate the menus, you open the app and can end with a tap. It's convenience only, not utility.

I can guess why they are included, but it's only speculation because a task killer for anything after 2.1 is simply not essential.
 
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