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Originally Posted by Malatesta
I've never been convinced of this argument that programs sitting in memory, but not consuming CPU cycles, deplete battery life significantly or even at all.
Anyone care to give a detailed argument from a programming/engineering perspective to actually back this up? Seems to be an old habit carried over from the WM2003 days with little evidence. I also hope for the sake of the OS it is not true because that is just awful to make the consumer manger their devices---the exact opposite reasoning give by Microsoft for having apps minimize and not close.
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Well, if the app is polling on any sort of interval for hardware status or other info then it will use resources (the amount of resources used will obviously depend on the hardware being queried). If it is truly sitting idle and only operating on its own data set or info then it shouldn't be using any additional resources by merely being open.