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[Q] Watchdog App Vs. Taskillers

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

HTC Sensation - Sense error

hi , i have a problem , after closing application or game HTC SENCE reloads and a few seconds i can't do anything with the phone. When I open Settings- Applications-HTC sence-Clear cache this problem gone for one day and after that it comes again. Please help!

Is the phone stock or modified? Have you tried a full reset as detailed in the user manual?

Try using a theme that's not provided by htc
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gotsev said:
hi , i have a problem , after closing application or game HTC SENCE reloads and a few seconds i can't do anything with the phone. When I open Settings- Applications-HTC sence-Clear cache this problem gone for one day and after that it comes again. Please help!
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Uncheck fastboot and restart. Problem should go away.
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When the phone runs out of RAM memory (typically big game or app can do this), it starts shutting down other large apps that are in the background. Sense is the biggest app on the phone.
So when you kill the game/app, Sense has to reload into memory before you can use it again. It takes a while to load up (because it's a big honkin' piece of software).
This is normal android behavior.

Gunkk said:
When the phone runs out of RAM memory (typically big game or app can do this), it starts shutting down other large apps that are in the background. Sense is the biggest app on the phone.
So when you kill the game/app, Sense has to reload into memory before you can use it again. It takes a while to load up (because it's a big honkin' piece of software).
This is normal android behavior.
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and also another reason HTC should put more RAM on their phones....

There is a setting to change the amount of ram used before it frees up automatically.I have mine set to 10%

Root your phone and use a custom Rom. Or cut down on your installed apps and uninstall some things. That should help
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[Q] sense crashes

Hey,
I have is with insertcoin 6.0.1
Sense crashes pretty often, usually after exiting memory hungry applications like dolphin or market.
Probably androids task manager that terminates sense.
How can I fix it? Is there a way to tell it which apps not to close?
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You mean, your launcher closes?
There are some scripts which prevent that or you can try RAM Manager free from the market it has the non-killable launcher option as well.

Could you please direct me to a script as I had trouble finding one.
Everybody says not to use task killers, is ram manager something like that?
Thanks
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Ram manager is a ram manager, not a task killer, but why dont you read the description ?
Link to the script (i did not try):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276

davebugyi said:
Ram manager is a ram manager, not a task killer, but why dont you read the description ?
Link to the script (i did not try):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
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Latest supercharger script won't load for some reason.

Is task manager the only way to kill apps?

Ok so is the factory task manager the only way to kill apps? I hate having to click off each app individually cause if I click kill all it will kill important apps like my alarm clock. I used to have advance task killer but it was eating my battery. Any suggestions?
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lunercrab said:
Ok so is the factory task manager the only way to kill apps? I hate having to click off each app individually cause if I click kill all it will kill important apps like my alarm clock. I used to have advance task killer but it was eating my battery. Any suggestions?
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I havent verified if it actually kills the app or not, but if you hit the recent apps button (bottom right capacitive button) and swipe up on an application it removes it from that screen. Like i said though i havent checked if it kills the process the same as task manager does though.

cloudraker said:
I havent verified if it actually kills the app or not, but if you hit the recent apps button (bottom right capacitive button) and swipe up on an application it removes it from that screen. Like i said though i havent checked if it kills the process the same as task manager does though.
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Pretty sure this method is dependent on the app and whether it's programmed to run in the background or not. For example, if you do the swipe-up method with the Facebook application, the process is still running in the background. Other than a Task Killer, I'd imagine the only way is to go into the Applications menu under Settings, click on the task in question, and then click "Force Stop".

lunercrab said:
Ok so is the factory task manager the only way to kill apps? I hate having to click off each app individually cause if I click kill all it will kill important apps like my alarm clock. I used to have advance task killer but it was eating my battery. Any suggestions?
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I'm curious, what apps are you trying to kill? Are they ones you use often or are they ones you don't use at all?
If you use them frequently, or even occasionally, it is best to just let the OS handle it.
http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/
If you don't use them at all then you can just go to "Manage applications" and "Disable" them.

HELP! Applications keep opening. Killing battery

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.

jmorton10 said:
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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xWiZxKiDx said:
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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