Task killers are bad... - Page 3

qwho · #21 (**permalink**) 05-24-2010, 10:12 AM

I also agree that if they are used properly they are effective. I only use one for auto kill of city ID, friend stream, footprints, flikr, stock mail app, peep, and calendar, all of which I don't use at all, but are always listed as being open and using battery in my battery usage list. It works silently and I seem to have better battery, and city id never pops up anymore.

dobest · #22 (**permalink**) 05-24-2010, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by milesnapue

so set your task killer to ignore pandora...

Well color me stupid.

mrspeedmaster · #23 (**permalink**) 05-29-2010, 09:46 PM

Hey, I am always running down to 30-40 megs. Every day. So a taskiller is vital to me.

I don't know why but I get a lot of apps that launch by themselves like City ID, Twidroid, Footprints. I never use them.

The only problem with using a Task Killer is that they also kill system daemons. E.G. Alarm clock. When I kill everything, the Alarm clock never works despite the fact, I still have the icon on top. I have to reboot my Droid at night to make sure my alarm clock works.

MrGoodCat · #24 (**permalink**) 05-30-2010, 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by mrspeedmaster

Hey, I am always running down to 30-40 megs. Every day. So a taskiller is vital to me.

I don't know why but I get a lot of apps that launch by themselves like City ID, Twidroid, Footprints. I never use them.

The only problem with using a Task Killer is that they also kill system daemons. E.G. Alarm clock. When I kill everything, the Alarm clock never works despite the fact, I still have the icon on top. I have to reboot my Droid at night to make sure my alarm clock works.

i use "advanced task killer (ATK)" and i simply added the "clock" app to the exceptions list. so even if i kill all apps, the clock remains open and my alarm works as intended. i trust it everyday of the week to wake up for work, and it has not let me down.

joe50000 · #25 (**permalink**) 06-03-2010, 09:41 PM

It really depends on how much data is on your phone. If you have a huge number of contacts and SMSs on your phone it'll slow it down for sure.

Big Calhoun · #26 (**permalink**) 06-12-2010, 12:06 AM

Interesting reading.

When I was on the Motorola Droid, I was using a task killer. After a day or so, there was noticeable sluggishness when going from screen to screen or browsing through my apps. I ended up using a task killer and was able to manage performance day to day, but it was such a chore.

I've probably only rebooted my Incredible about 3 times since launch, and that was more out of my own abundance of caution than it was performance related. If anything, I have more widgets loaded than I did with my Droid and use most of the same apps I did. Outside of one reboot because of a quirk (which I think was related to the app itself), I haven't had any performance issues on this device at all.

Given the experiences I had with the Moto Droid, I am of the school of thought that if you understand how to setup a task killer properly, it can't hurt. At the same time, I'm glad to be rid of them.