Hero progressively slower and eating more battery

[willpower101]

Originally Posted by kbussen

Interesting and annoying?? So when you install a ton of apps on your computer and try watching a movie while burning a cd and running a slide show of your family it doesnt get slow?? These phones are like small computers, if you bog it down with a ton of new content and dont clear out some space every now and then, yeah, it will get slow.

Haha, another ******* from knoxville I moved from there to murfreesboro cause utk cut down on their technology classes in order to budget more sports. But I kinda miss the dragon and cherahola

I'm pretty sure installing a bunch of programs on a computer doesn't do jack until they are all running simultaneously. (or until it starts affecting hard drive space) The android doesn't seem to want to close any of my apps and release their memory.

Everything i've read about this OS says that apps sitting in the background are supposed to release memory, but mine just take up memory until I close them with a task manager. The browser alone takes up 20mb and i routinely need quick access to it and my tabs, but it kills the os. Take the iphone or the blackberry for example. I can leave plenty of things open on those (backgrounder installed on iphone of course) and have absolutely no problem doing other complex tasks on the phone because the background stuff takes an incredibly small footprint. Unlike how the hero will lag 5 seconds after pressing the "call button" with just gtalk, handcent, browser, and email open in the background doing what they should be doing. I think all we're asking for is to be able to use the thing properly.