Advanced Task Killer

[Guest perljun]

Hi,

I've been playing around with ATK a bit and was wondering whether there is a list about which process is safe to kill or a description of what certain processes do.

For example :

com.huawei.sfp

com.google.android.partnersetup

com.google.android.googleapps

java

com.android.providers.downloads

So far by experimenting I've found NOT to kill these:

com.android.providers.calendar (Home screen resets afterwards)

Alarm (was a bit late the morning after)

com.cootek.touchpal + com.cootek.touchpal.language (obviously restarts again after killing and I guess re initiating takes up other resources)

Edited April 10, 2010 by perljun

[Guest helikopter]

Hi,

I've been playing around with ATK a bit and was wondering whether there is a list about which process is safe to kill or a description of what certain processes do.

For example :

com.huawei.sfp

com.google.android.partnersetup

com.google.android.googleapps

java

com.android.providers.downloads

So far by experimenting I've found NOT to kill these:

com.android.providers.calendar (Home screen resets afterwards)

Alarm (was a bit late the morning after)

com.cootek.touchpal + com.cootek.touchpal.language (obviously restarts again after killing and I guess re initiating takes up other resources)

the best advices of how to use a task killer in general on android:

1. don't kill any of the apps and services which you want to send you notifications (todo apps, alarms etc.), to periodically refresh themselves (weather, facebook, data counters like netcounter, battery meters) or those which you want to constantly run and be available anytime (like bar control).

2. you should never kill any kind of system processes. those usually look like com.android.something.

Edited April 10, 2010 by helikopter

[Guest david_dawkins]

1. don't kill any of the apps and services which you want to send you notifications (todo apps, alarms etc.),...

I suspect these applications use the android Intent API to register (timer) events that will awaken (or re-start) them as necessary, meaning it's OK to kill them.

[Guest Azurren]

You can kill Java without any worries ;)

Turn the ATK security level back to Medium so the essential tasks don't appear in the list. I have found that you can't kill any of those .com tasks without consequences.

[Guest helikopter]

I suspect these applications use the android Intent API to register (timer) events that will awaken (or re-start) them as necessary, meaning it's OK to kill them.

my experiences don't justify this. like killing the arm app definitely makes you late at work.

[Guest david_dawkins]

my experiences don't justify this. like killing the arm app definitely makes you late at work.

Yep, fair enough; I can't see how it's actually written, I just know how I'd have written an alarm app having messed about with the API a while back.

[Guest perljun]

Thank you all for the information. I'll keep it in mind when setting ATK