Help Too many apps = sluggish phone?

[peter17319]

If you have a ton of apps installed, does that normally lead to a sluggish phone? Thanks to Amazon and their daily free app, I currently have over 100 installed. And for the last month or so, my Incredible has been a little sluggish (sometimes the notification bar is a little unresponsive, occasional lag when typing a text, etc).


A few things I should point out:

• Most of my apps are installed on the SD card
• I'm not short of space -- both the internal memory and the SD card are less than half full
• I use a Task Killer widget. Not obsessively, but usually every few hours.

But despite those caveats, is a long app list still a "phone killer"?



P.S. -- I posted this same question on another Android forum, so for a few of you this question might seem like a repeat.

 

[sdrawkcab25]

Depends what the apps are and if they are running properly. Download "system panel" and see what is hogging your processor....

Ps... task killers will slow your phone down too.

 

[euph_22]

If you have a ton of apps installed, does that normally lead to a sluggish phone? Thanks to Amazon and their daily free app, I currently have over 100 installed. And for the last month or so, my Incredible has been a little sluggish (sometimes the notification bar is a little unresponsive, occasional lag when typing a text, etc).


A few things I should point out:

• Most of my apps are installed on the SD card
• I'm not short of space -- both the internal memory and the SD card are less than half full
• I use a Task Killer widget. Not obsessively, but usually every few hours.

But despite those caveats, is a long app list still a "phone killer"?



P.S. -- I posted this same question on another Android forum, so for a few of you this question might seem like a repeat.

Also, access times for the SD Card are significantly slower than for the internal storage. I'd be curious if you're performance improves if your running the apps off the internal storage instead.