Why after i close app, it stays in bck and conumes memory, what are good settings for Andrs Autokiller ?

[Guest brickornot]

Why after i close app, it stays in bck and conumes memory, what are good settings for Andrs Autokiller memory optimizer, minfree, for zte blade?

[Guest agpoli]

DO NOT use an autokiller!!! link

[Guest brickornot]

I know, this is autokiller only by name, look:

I heard that killing applications is unnecessary on an android device, so why should I use AutoKiller?

Unfortunately there are many applications which cannot sleep properly, or don't release resources. (the most annoying I met with was a task killer!!!) if you have the time to find out which are these one bye one, you can kill them any time you finish using them. But if you don't want to mess with this, setting lowmemory killer is the best approach as a fix.<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"free" memory is not useless: memory is always filled up with cache of your most used applications. So you get resource-consuming applications killed, and got cache with preloaded data your phone will probably use.

this sets value MINFREE....

http://andrs.w3pla.net/autokiller/faq

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=630262

Edited September 8, 2011 by brickornot

[Guest t0mm13b]

From android versions donut, cupcake, eclair, using a task killer would have been okie as their memory management was not exactly up to scratch either and thus essential.

For Froyo - its seen as a emergency usage where it is really really necessary, but most of the time its okie. :)

For Gingerbread and upwards, (who knows ICS could be even better!), the memory usage/consumption handlers within the bowels of Android has improved. Using a task killer on these rom based versions are neither a essential or necessity thus a no-no. Leave it well alone and let Android handle it!

:)

[Guest targetbsp]

The best way to use an Android task killer is to click the button marked 'uninstall' :)

[Guest t0mm13b]

The best way to use an Android task killer is to click the button marked 'uninstall' :)

LOL! True that... shhhh - that's undocumented .... :lol:

[Guest brickornot]

Ok, so tell me this - if gingerbread is doing this kill thing when he need memory,

so why when i look at some process i just closed window, which should be off,

i see that for example this process consumes 39,2MB,

few minutes later it consumes 33MB

so if it changes it mean that he is doing something ? uses some cpu cycle ? consume power ? drain battery ?

[Guest targetbsp]

Read the link in post 2. It explains everything you need to know. :)