Help Task Manager in ICS?

[drdnaught1]

Just updated from GB to ICS on my Droid Razr. Noticed Task Manager is gone. What is its ICS equivalent, if any?

 

[carracerz14]

What do you need a task manager for? Just long press on the home button and swype apps away

 

[emmzone22]

That doesn't kill tasks. That is just sort of clearing the history of pages that you've been to.

 

[Admack]

I opened a couple apps and viewed them in my task manager. Then I long pressed home and swiped them away. Refresh task manager and the apps I opened are gone. Seems to me it kills them.

 

[emmzone22]

It's still not like the task manager that he is talking about where you can set up to kill an app after a period of time without having to do it manually everytime. It may kill some, but not all, and not all running apps show up there. I've swiped away pages/apps and they still run in the background, and I have apps running that don't show up there.

 

[carracerz14]

It kills them. If i close my mog while it's playing it stops playing. Idk why you would need an app to kill things. App killers have always been frown apon

 

[emmzone22]

All I can say is long pressing the home button and swiping on my phone doesn't kill apps, and not everyone frowned upon killing apps, because I miss being able to do it, and apparently the person who started this thread does too.

 

[euph_22]

Yes it does kill the apps. The apps may still be cached, but they are not running.

 

[Rxpert83]

Android hasn't needed a task killer since pre froyo.

In fact, using one is actually bad. Let android do what its meant to do

 

[carracerz14]

Yes it does kill the apps. The apps may still be cached, but they are not running.

Exactly. If it didn't kill the why would my mog music stop playing

 

[emmzone22]

Guys, read my last post, I said at least on MY PHONE it doesn't kill the apps. I can swipe the app away and music still plays. I can do this on other apps as well. So no, swiping doesn't kill apps, and it's not justed cached either.

 

[Kelmar]

Android hasn't needed a task killer since pre froyo.

In fact, using one is actually bad. Let android do what its meant to do

To be fair, there are plenty of rogue apps out there that will eat at your performance, battery life and data unless they are "killed." Since the OP didn't specify which it was necessary to mention the other side of the coin too.

OP - you can always go into managing your apps and force stop the one that's acting up.

 

[OverByter]

I personally have never understood the concept of running an app to kill an app. Seems counter intuitive, and as was previously mentioned Android has a built in, automatic memory manager since 2.2 FroYo. 512 mb on Android is comparable to 4 gb on Windoze. Back in the day when ram was expensive and minimal it made sense, but with phones having 512 mb or even 1 gb of ram on board there really is no longer a need for a task killer being used to improve performance.