Has anyone else noticed that the XDA App for this forum uses CPU even after you exit the app? I installed OS Monitor and it shows XDA App periodically using 10 to 15 percent even though I had selected the EXIT option from the XDA App menu.
After I killed the XDA App with task killer, I was fine. I know task killers are a controversial subject, but this is why I use a task killer.
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Exiting an app and closing it are two different things.
So how do you properly close the App?
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Menu>settings>applications>manage applications>running tab>app you want to close>force close.
Ditch the task killer. It is probably hogging more battery than the apps you are worried about closing.
Android OS has a built in task killer. It will open and close apps when needed. Task killer apps are overrated and cause other issues.
I wanted to see what everyone's opinion was on taskillers Vs. Watchdog.
I've been reading that taskillers are obsolete with froyo and GB.
But Devs still add taskiller's in there ROM's.
task killers are of no use in STOCK gingerbread and froyo but do come in pretty handy in roms because they save u alot of space for apps and whatever else u use on your phone. I also am a fan of watchdog so try them out and see which one u like personally for me its watchdog. Hoped i helped
Hi Evilstewie, I notice that the blacklist kill on Watchdog only triggers when the phone is awake, is that the way it's supposed to work?
I set the threshold CPU for the stock browser at 0%, so I was expecting it to be killed even when screen is off, and the browser is idling, but it seems like it's only killed when the screen is on
task killers aren't exactly necessary and just kill battery
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sweetnsour said:
task killers aren't exactly necessary and just kill battery
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The thing is even when sent to the background, I notice apps like the stock browser, quickpic, and opera mobile still continue using CPU. So I need these apps to be killed automatically when they exceed 0% threshold
I'm running on completely stock gingerbread... and I noticed that since doing the upgrade from froyo the new stock manager doesn't really close backround apps..
Example: I go into the stock manager to close apps and it shows only 2 running when I have plenty more... OK so I exit them... then go to free ram... and it frees some ram... now I go to stock browser and it still displays my last webpage instead of resetting to mu homepage.....
And it doesn't feel like it freed up ram space because on froyo when I closed all the apparently and freed ram it was flying after that....
Does anyone else notice this..
And would you recommend any good 3rd party task managers?
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Maybe Advanced Task Killer? It's on the market.
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its 2011 why do we need a taskkiller on our phone
Is there an app like a task manager or something similar that asks your permission before it runs? I use advanced task manager but there are always apps running after I run end task.
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I have advance task killer and I close apps frequently through out the day. For some strange reason there are 30+ apps running when I'm only using 10 of at the most or a little more. How can I keep them from opening after they have been terminated???
My S3 is starting to move slow and I don't like it One bit!!!
One of the cardinal rules of Android is to never use a task killer......
As you have found out, the apps just open again anyway & all that open/closing will absolutely kill your battery life.
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One of the cardinal rules of Android is to never use a task killer......
As you have found out, the apps just open again anyway & all that open/closing will absolutely kill your battery life.
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SoO.......Do you have a solution?
Ummm close them or reboot
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SoO.......Do you have a solution?
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Don't use a task killer
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xWiZxKiDx said:
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Don't use a task killer, especially on Froyo and above.
Task killers are totally counter-productive in Android.
Android does a great job of memory management all by itself, just let it do its thing & don't worry about it.
Never use ATK. Wastes more battery then the apps themselves.
As everyone else has said, using a task killer makes things worse, not better.
What everyone has said about not using task killer plus, exit apps using the back button and not home if you want to close them. That way they will exit rather than stay in memory. Also, if you really want to dump everything out of memory then hold in home>task manager>end all.
And it's moving slowly since the task killer kills the app so the app relanches itself. Killed, relaunch, killed relaunch, killed relanch. Now multiply that by 10 or 20 or 30 apps and it's a wonder your CPUand RAM haven't melted yet.
There's a stock option in 'settings-developer settings' to limit background processes. Also to kill any app you leave right away.
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I have an app called Eva which is a voice assistant. I believe ics is sometimes closing the app when its in the background, because the widget for the app is not responsive and has no text sometimes and works fine other times. I don't know of anyway in ics to set an exception in the task management to never close this app or its background process. Any way to get around this without a 3rd party task killer? Or is there any way to see a log of what ics is killing in the background to confirm my suspicion?
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It's probably the apps problem I'd contact their user support.
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