Help Help on my first android phone

[star_devilyn]

Hi people, i just bought myself HTC Incredible S and this is my first android phone. I have few questions to ask...

1st : Is there any good killer apps on the market? When i tried to kill apps using an app call 'ATK', it will state unable to kill app with 3rd party app? So i try to kill the app by managing applications. Looks like some app that i selected weren't kill at all. I hate to see the notification windows of the apps running when I'm not using it. Is there any way to solve this?Or its normal?

2nd : How do i backup my files from my phone to my SD card? Is there any way other than rooting? I do not want to go into rooting right now coz I'm very new to android.

3rd : I sync my google contacts on the phone, as I'm a previous owner of iPhone, i don't have any contacts on my sim card. Is there a way to copy all my google contacts to sim card instead of doing it one by one? And can i change the view of my phonebook to show my google contacts instead of both coz when i copy a contact on my sim card, it appear on the phonebook.

 

[sitlet]

1st : Is there any good killer apps on the market? When i tried to kill apps using an app call 'ATK', it will state unable to kill app with 3rd party app? So i try to kill the app by managing applications. Looks like some app that i selected weren't kill at all. I hate to see the notification windows of the apps running when I'm not using it. Is there any way to solve this?Or its normal?

Task killers are NOT needed, and only make things worse:

http://androidforums.com/android-applications/214451-task-killer-do-i-need-one.html#post1852258

2nd : How do i backup my files from my phone to my SD card? Is there any way other than rooting? I do not want to go into rooting right now coz I'm very new to android.

Without rooting, your contacts/calendar should be backed up to google, just login to your gmail on your computer to make sure. Otherwise, you can back up a LIST of apps using AppBrain, but it will not back up data. You will need to be rooted for that.

 

[star_devilyn]

Task killers are NOT needed, and only make things worse:

http://androidforums.com/android-applications/214451-task-killer-do-i-need-one.html#post1852258



Without rooting, your contacts/calendar should be backed up to google, just login to your gmail on your computer to make sure. Otherwise, you can back up a LIST of apps using AppBrain, but it will not back up data. You will need to be rooted for that.

How do i go about doing it? I read there issues with rooting your phone like unable to connect to internet. And it say its advisable to backup your rom..i don't even know how to do that

 

[pastafarian]

Moved to Incredible S forum.

1- As already mentioned, no task killer for 2.2+ based roms
2- Astro file manager is free and will back up most files. To do a complete rom backup yo wold need to be rooted. OTH, unless you're rooted and playing with roms, there isn't much of a need for a full back up.
3-I've only had CDMA phones and have no experience with sim cards.

Enjoy your awesome new phone!