How I got great battery life

[sin vicious]

Ok first i know there are multiple threads saying task managers dont work, but let me be the first to say perhaps the Popular ones dont.. but i found one that does work good for the incredible.

I tried to use Advanced Task Killer from ReChild (didnt work for nothing), saw no difference in battery life. I tried a whole hosts of others.. nothing. Then I tried Advanced Task Cleaner Pro from Bright Wallace and i saw immediate BIG improvements. One of the most notable differences between this app and the others was the amount of listed running apps to ignore or kill that all the other task killers didnt pick up on.

I now have GPS on all the time, surf and do everything I use to and get maybe 40% better battry life. I suspect that the biggest issue with battery is int he Sense UI applications.. For the most part when i set those apps to auto kill thats when i began to see big improvements. So this gives me hope that a ROM update will improve this issue.

 

[GryphonD]

Notice any real difference between Advanced Task Killer Pro & 2.0?

 

[sin vicious]

Notice any real difference between Advanced Task Killer Pro & 2.0?

the one i use is advanced task cleaner not killer.. As far as 2.0, I didnt try it. But they are from the same people so I dont imagine theres too difference.

 

[Lynx]

Can you set it to auto-kill your tasks after a set period of time or when you put the phone to sleep?

 

[sin vicious]

Can you set it to auto-kill your tasks after a set period of time or when you put the phone to sleep?

Not by time, but yes there is an auto kill when placed on sleep (dim) mode.

 

[kmo]

Looks like it's worth a try...

Edit: Downloaded Advanced Task Cleaner Pro, guess I'll have to get into the tutorial a bit. Looks like quite a few options to go through. There are certain apps I want to keep running, looks like they did keep gmail on the "do not kill" list as a default. That's god for me since google/gmail is my primary email.

 

[zeus_r6]

Going to give the app a shot...

 

[DJxEDxD]

Wow glad I stumbled onto this thread thanx OP . Since I installed last night bout 7:30 or so now 3:00pm bout 19 or so hours I still have 60% Batt left where i'd usually have had to charge it by now . This is with gmail ,adv tsk cln 2.0,HTC sense,and Gtalk running in ignore list meaning these will not shut down. This is awesome will have to tell my Budy that just got an Evo and was pitching bout the battery my phone just got INCREDIBLE AGAIN!

 

[zeus_r6]

I killed my battery in about 4 hours today....must have task cleaner set up incorrectly :icon_eek:

 

[DJxEDxD]

ok update from my last post over night to today when I made my last post was sitting at idle . In the last hour and a half I've been using it hardcore web surfing on opera using my photo album editing pics and posting on this forum I'm down to 18% Batt life but all in all its still better then it was before ATC2.0 I'd normally have had to charge like right after i start browsing with it which just means the phone itself is just a power hoag .ATC2.0 won't help when browsing cause your phone needs this power to operate.It only stops stuff in the background .

 

[kmo]

Been using it now for several days and don't see a big difference. I think that the android system itself does a decent job of maintaining apps. Unless I'm missing something with this app I don't think it's necessary, at least for me. I also have back up batteries so no big deal to swap a battery when I get low on power. I'm definitely open to hearing how you guys have set the preferences to this app. Maybe I'm not doing something in the set up to get optimum performance.

 

[fisdu]

Been using it now for several days and don't see a big difference. I think that the android system itself does a decent job of maintaining apps. Unless I'm missing something with this app I don't think it's necessary, at least for me. I also have back up batteries so no big deal to swap a battery when I get low on power. I'm definitely open to hearing how you guys have set the preferences to this app. Maybe I'm not doing something in the set up to get optimum performance.

Good point, can you guys post up how you did the configs? What you did/did not set to auto kill

 

[jnmilli352]

auto kill list

Ok first i know there are multiple threads saying task managers dont work, but let me be the first to say perhaps the Popular ones dont.. but i found one that does work good for the incredible.

I tried to use Advanced Task Killer from ReChild (didnt work for nothing), saw no difference in battery life. I tried a whole hosts of others.. nothing. Then I tried Advanced Task Cleaner Pro from Bright Wallace and i saw immediate BIG improvements. One of the most notable differences between this app and the others was the amount of listed running apps to ignore or kill that all the other task killers didnt pick up on.

I now have GPS on all the time, surf and do everything I use to and get maybe 40% better battry life. I suspect that the biggest issue with battery is int he Sense UI applications.. For the most part when i set those apps to auto kill thats when i began to see big improvements. So this gives me hope that a ROM update will improve this issue.

Do you think you can get a screen shot of your auto kill list?

 

[egobuster1]

just root and underclock while screen off..works the best

 

[zeus_r6]

just root and underclock while screen off..works the best

+1 SetCPU for root users