Functioning apps running in the background?

[Guest Firasco]

Hi,

I was just wondering: do I need to leave apps like Pure Calendar Widget, Call Meter NG, Auto Memory Manager, Audio Manager, NetCounter running in the background for them to work properly?

For example, if I close NetCounter or Call Meter NG will it still count the Data? If I close Pure Calendar Widget, will it still keep my calendar widget up to date?

Does Auto Memory Manager actually write the configuration to the system so I can close it, or do I have to keep it running in the background to enforce the limits?

I have Advanced Task Manager, and I'm wondering which apps I need to "exclude" from the kill-process.

Thanks.

[Guest Firasco]

Does anyone know the answer?

[Guest zorm]

Generally speaking, task managers for Android do more harm than good.

As far as your questions go, afraid I can't help. I do know task killers are often to blame for non functioning alarms & missed messages mind you. Shouldn't it be fairly easy to answer most of your own questions after a little bit of testing?

[Guest Dr. dre]

Hi,

I was just wondering: do I need to leave apps like Pure Calendar Widget, Call Meter NG, Auto Memory Manager, Audio Manager, NetCounter running in the background for them to work properly?

For example, if I close NetCounter or Call Meter NG will it still count the Data? If I close Pure Calendar Widget, will it still keep my calendar widget up to date?

Does Auto Memory Manager actually write the configuration to the system so I can close it, or do I have to keep it running in the background to enforce the limits?

I have Advanced Task Manager, and I'm wondering which apps I need to "exclude" from the kill-process.

Thanks.

If you are using MCR 3.2, then you don't need a Task Managers, It's Internal Task Killer is by default configured to start killing apps once it reaches the lower limit, But if you are using any other ROM I'll suggest you to use 'ES Task Manager' If you don't have root access and 'Autokiller' if you have Root Access.

[Guest qmanager]

If I close Pure Calendar Widget, will it still keep my calendar widget up to date?

Hi,

"widget" is only a sort of a display for the program running in background. So if you close (kill) the program itself, your widget on screen will show old data or no data at all.

[Guest Firasco]

Generally speaking, task managers for Android do more harm than good.

As far as your questions go, afraid I can't help. I do know task killers are often to blame for non functioning alarms & missed messages mind you. Shouldn't it be fairly easy to answer most of your own questions after a little bit of testing?

Thanks for the link. I read the summary.

SO do u guys seriously suggest I should refrain from using a Task Manager? I use MoDaCo ROM 3.2

Till now I thought the most vital thing is the Task Manager - after killing apps the phone runs so smoothly. I never had a problem since I pay attention to WHAT I kill. I excluded system processes and apps from the killing instance (alarms, notifications etc).

But now I'm really considering removing the "Advanced Task Killer Pro".

Thanks.

[Guest venturerider]

Android already has a built-in task killer. You can adjust its settings with AutoKiller if you are so inclined. It's in the Market. Personnally, I'm happy with the defaults, which keep my free RAM above 20MB at all times.

Edited April 30, 2010 by venturerider

[Guest Firasco]

seriously, i tried going without a task killer and its almost impossible. the phone gets super slow and horrible to use. i have a lot of apps installed and many of them are in the start up. but even if not in the start up. lets say i just used some app to read the news, then the browser etc after that i want to start playing the 3D game "asphalt" which requires a lot of resources... trying to play that game without having KILLED other apps beforehand is very unpleasant. the game doesnt run smoothly and its really horrible to play. so what am i supposed to do? sit and wait for android to start freeing up resources for me to be able to use resource intensive apps? it doesnt work that way. i have no idea how u guys cope with this problem without a task killer.

that just cant be it!

[Guest JadeMonkee]

seriously, i tried going without a task killer and its almost impossible. the phone gets super slow and horrible to use. i have a lot of apps installed and many of them are in the start up. but even if not in the start up. lets say i just used some app to read the news, then the browser etc after that i want to start playing the 3D game "asphalt" which requires a lot of resources... trying to play that game without having KILLED other apps beforehand is very unpleasant. the game doesnt run smoothly and its really horrible to play. so what am i supposed to do? sit and wait for android to start freeing up resources for me to be able to use resource intensive apps? it doesnt work that way. i have no idea how u guys cope with this problem without a task killer.

that just cant be it!

I use ES Task killer still, but I only use it to kill the browser: it's really the only app on my phone that ever causes slow down.

So yeah, every time I've finished with the Browser (unless I exited it by pressing the back button enough times), I open up ES Task Manager and kill it.

I've never had to kill anything else, so my Ignore list is pretty extensive.

The internal task killer seems to work great for everything but the Browser.

There is no harm having ES Task Manager on your phone. If you don't use the Widget, then it doesn't use any resources until you open it, and you can safely kill it in the same move as killing the Browser, so go for it.

[Guest ranzorz]

Generally speaking, task managers for Android do more harm than good.

As far as your questions go, afraid I can't help. I do know task killers are often to blame for non functioning alarms & missed messages mind you. Shouldn't it be fairly easy to answer most of your own questions after a little bit of testing?

That article is so unbelievably far from reality. it makes me think it was written by someone at Google so people will not use Task killers.

Like Firasco said, not using it is just not practical. you WILL feel the slowdown at some point when running heavy tasks.

Moreover, it's farily simple knowing what to kill and what not to kill. worst case, you just learn from your mistakes, with the Alarm clock killing issue and Mail for syncing.

[Guest Soaa-]

Slowdowns occur from misbehaving apps, not from running too many apps. The Android framework makes it that most apps will simply not consume any CPU time at all in background.

Task managers should be used to kill only misbehaving apps. Remember, free RAM is wasted RAM. Using RAM alone won't slow down the phone in any way. Using the CPU will.

It's funny how people believe their phones run better after killing background apps. If anything, it'll just make restarting those apps slower. But y'know, snake oil will do it for many. You only have to belieeeeeve.

Edited May 9, 2010 by Soaa-