If you suffer from dropped calls...

edufur · #1 (**permalink**) 07-12-2010, 01:12 PM

I was starting to think that I had a good smart device but a crappy phone. I was having calls drop a lot. I noticed that they were dropping when I was on bluetooth and the screen would go to sleep, when I would touch the screen, i would see this flash of "4 apps killed." I decided to turn off the advanced task killer. It was set for autokill. Looks like autokill even when it is in "safe mode" was killing my calls. Disable auto kill.... all should be well. Report back your findings.

BTW... dropped calls could have been more or less painful for everyone since auto-kill enganges at screen sleep and everyone has their own preference for that.

**mindfrost82** · #2 (**permalink**) 07-12-2010, 01:20 PM

There are certain system processes that you need to put on your ignore list.

After a reboot, I would open up ATK and see what's running. Add everything to the ignore list except any apps that run at startup that you don't need. Anything with HTC in the name should be ignored.

After that, make a phone call and hit Home, then go into ATK and see if there's another process that starts while you're on a call...if there is, then ignore that too.

I have ATK on my wife's Evo and have it set to AutoKill every 30 minutes and she hasn't dropped any calls...but I'm not sure if she's had a 30+ min phone call either.

twilk · #3 (**permalink**) 07-12-2010, 01:37 PM

Seriously how about just deleting ATK. Its junk. I went two days last week because I forgot to charge my phone. It didnt die, granted I was lightly using it anyway those two days. But I rarly ever day and I get some seriously heavy usage some days. If and when I die I am already at home and I just got really heavy usage from the phone.

ATK is a joke, this isnt windows mobile people. Learn how to use Android and you will see how ATK is not only not neccasary but useless.

drksilenc · #4 (**permalink**) 07-12-2010, 03:36 PM

or just drop atk because it can cause alot more problems than that...

**mindfrost82** · #5 (**permalink**) 07-12-2010, 03:58 PM

I don't necessarily use the auto-kill feature very much, but sometimes I do need to manually kill apps that are programmed badly. I think its been fixed, but the PriceGrabber app that just came out, it would keep GPS on even after closing the app...the only way to turn it off was to kill it using a task manager. There are some apps I just don't like running in the background.

I also haven't noticed a big difference in battery life either way, unless I have a rogue app stuck in the background.