task manager/killer

[Robert7107]

I have the Motorola droid bionic have had it since late September. The task manager on the phone is the application that came with it. It allows me to auto kill running applications not being used. Supposedly after 2 minutes of no activity it closes the apps selected .... now is there a better application out there on the market. Battery life is good but could be better I always have to open my task manager to see if applications are running and sometimes I noticed that the ones that are checked for auto kill are running f!!! So what is out there that os better to use and how is it better then the preinstalled one....

 

[OfTheDamned]

Task Killers do nothing to improve battery life. The apps you see typically aren't really running or using any battery life. Going into a task killer and checking to see what is running turns on the screen and kicks in the CPU. These two things will use up more battery life than the majority of apps on the market. If you are concerned about a specific app using too much battery then you can always look at the battery information under settings to see what part of the phone or which apps are using the most battery percentage wise.

Task Killers in general are not needed for Android. The manufacturer installed ones aren't needed and you certainly don't need to download another one. The only thing you will really accomplish is messing something up. I don't mean this to be something about you in particular, anyone can mess something up on their phone from using a task killer.

 

[iJay]

This is exactly what i do

 

[aysiu]

There's really no good solution for this situation. As you mentioned, killing the app will probably just make it re-launch. And you don't want to uninstall the app. It really just sound as if the app is badly coded.

What I would do in your situation is keep around the .apk for Getjar, install it when you need it, and then uninstall it when you don't. Ice Cream Sandwich has the ability to disable apps (without uninstalling them), but you're still on Gingerbread, so that's no help.