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SysAdmNj

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but I got a couple of question. I know task killers arent recommended but then..

1. whats the best way to kill apps you see running unnecessarily in the background when you have exited them and know you dont want to use them?

2. What is a good free antivirus to use?

3. What version of swype should I install? Can someone point me to a link or name.

4. Oh yea, how do I sync my apps back to my phone which are stored on googles servers with my email address. I was able to do this yesterday when I first set up my phone but after I rooted and rom'ed it , it didnt ask me to sync apps so I'm sure theres a way to bring them over manually?
 
1. I NEVER kill apps let the system manage it
2. Look out mobile
3. dont use it especially on the Inspire keys are perfect i type fast
4. you might have messed that up with the rom
 
1. I just hate that I see stuff in the background I totally closed.

2. Lookout was only trial when I tried it.

3. No, I love swype or the equivalent lol, I want a recommendation.

4. Can you recommend a rom, Im currently on Android Revolution HD.
and theres gotta be a way to manually sync apps.
 
SysAdmNj said:
1. I just hate that I see stuff in the background I totally closed.

2. Lookout was only trial when I tried it.

3. No, I love swype or the equivalent lol, I want a recommendation.

4. Can you recommend a rom, Im currently on Android Revolution HD.
and theres gotta be a way to manually sync apps.
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1. ignore it LOL

2. there is a lookout free

3. sorry LOL

4. I havent rooted and rom'd yet so cant help there did you check XDA
 
Disable service and don't waste time with task killer unless it does not respond due to memory leak or bug.

HKM said:
As android is running linux based variant by default it shares few similarities. As one of them includes superior memory management which is not same as WinMo. In our world UNIX world (long before this POS Android newbie stuff was even born) we have a saying that unused memory is wasted memory. So when anything is allocated it is cached and its not released until anything requires it to be reallocated. Now this can happen from few things as memory is still cached if user were to access it by rerunning it then it will still be available but if the resource is unused based on the access recalls its relased based on chronologically.

Now anyone who thinks task management is not required even on UNIX/Linux much less on Android is simply a fool who shouldn't do anything as they are harm to the system. With that being said if you are required to shut something down forcefully due to memory leak or other factors you should do it only if you know what you are doing as it will not be fully released until you do warm boot.

If you need greater access to system resource then I suggest you take control of service and disable things that you do not need. Once again if you don't know what you are doing then leave it alone. As you can disable service at boot and some service do restart in that case you can also setup policies to shut it down if its restarted.

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^ now tell me I don't know about memory efficiency.
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