Motorola Droid X
Dumped my task killer but...
Ok so i've been reading about how the task killer is not needed and even harmful to my beloved X so i thought i'd see how it goes without it. I was driving myself crazy closing apps every time I did something my head was about to explode. My question is that I listen to a lot of music. How long will the music player continue to run since I can no longer "turn it off"? Thanks guys and i'll let you know how the battery performs without the TK.
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it's off, you don't have to worry about it.
Unless you see something in your notification bar (icon, gps pinging, etc) then the application is NOT consuming CPU cycles (not taking energy)
Instead it is in a "save state" in the ram consuming basically no power. If your phone needs more ram for something, it will kill it automatically and safely.
Android does not need any task manager, and it hasn't since 2.0 (and barely needed it before). If you have a rogue app that is draining battery when you back out of it, then uninstall the app and tell the dev to fix it.
And ATK doesn't work with froyo anyway, so you're good there.
Unless you see something in your notification bar (icon, gps pinging, etc) then the application is NOT consuming CPU cycles (not taking energy)
Instead it is in a "save state" in the ram consuming basically no power. If your phone needs more ram for something, it will kill it automatically and safely.
Android does not need any task manager, and it hasn't since 2.0 (and barely needed it before). If you have a rogue app that is draining battery when you back out of it, then uninstall the app and tell the dev to fix it.
And ATK doesn't work with froyo anyway, so you're good there.
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Menno I hear what you're saying but about 20 minutes after i paused the stock music player it was still there. So just for fun i loaded ATK and it wont kill the app unless you long press the music player and select kill. And i wish i understood how android works as I don't understand how random apps keep popping up. I will clear all apps then immediately go back in to find apps like amazon,skype and other apps i wasnt even using running. This doesnt make sense to me
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Because those apps arn't running.
ATK and programs like it show all applications currently in your memory, not just apps that are actually using your battery.
That is why they keep popping up.
How android works is that as SOON as you put an application in the background it pauses the app (unless you are listening to music/using gps something like that) and puts it in a save state in your RAM. This is what shows up in ATK.
They consume ram so when you go back to them, it's as if you never left. This is intentional. If your music player is still showing up in ATK 20 minutes after you paused it, it's because you've done nothing on your phone that requires that RAM to run, so the device was holding it there for you.
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ATK and programs like it show all applications currently in your memory, not just apps that are actually using your battery.
That is why they keep popping up.
How android works is that as SOON as you put an application in the background it pauses the app (unless you are listening to music/using gps something like that) and puts it in a save state in your RAM. This is what shows up in ATK.
They consume ram so when you go back to them, it's as if you never left. This is intentional. If your music player is still showing up in ATK 20 minutes after you paused it, it's because you've done nothing on your phone that requires that RAM to run, so the device was holding it there for you.
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