PLEASE READ: Do NOT worry about Apps running in the Background

[windozesuk]

I still need ATK, at least on G1..

I have the new Droid and haven't been using ATK too much, as I have not seen any big performance hits that make me want to kill apps.

However I came from G1 with Android 1.6 Donut... and I am not sure if it is just the apps I was using, but without ATK, phone would eventually come to a stop. I have CoPilot8 on it and that is a very resource hungry app. I would try to start it and it would be real slow starting (explanation could be Android killing other background apps to make room for the big copilot app). Once it started, if I didn't use ATK first, it would run so slow it was unusable, if I ran ATK first, it would run pretty quick. Now when I say "run", I am referring to working in the app, not the startup time of the app.

So, I would say unless Android 2.0 Eclair changed the way apps run in the background, ATK is staying on my droid.. however, I won't obsess with it. I barely use it on droid like i did with G1, but I had a lot of apps on G1.

So I am just throwing my experience with androids in here. I feel there is a time and place for ATk (or other task killer). But the Droid seems to do pretty good handling things on it's own.

P.S. I have had problems with gmail and google voice on Droid and using astro process killer helped me restart those without rebooting. Myabe I will drop ATK and just use Astro's process killer, seems to do more but ATK is so quick to access.

 

[Backnblack]

Going on 8 days with out killing anything and the Droid is a snappy as ever, Battery is doing well also.

 

[meta droid]

this is defiantly not an efficient txting phone. i love the layout of the thread txting but since you have to have the screen on, it kills the battery. i get about 10 hours of battery with sending and receiving about 250-300 txt(i rarely make phone calls), browsing the web about 15-20 min and a little on the market place, and once or twice with the camera a day. but i dont play games or use much apps. so the screen seems to be the battery killer here. but i would never trade it. ill just get another battery for $40 from verizon

 

[Backnblack]

this is defiantly not an efficient txting phone. i love the layout of the thread txting but since you have to have the screen on, it kills the battery. i get about 10 hours of battery with sending and receiving about 250-300 txt(i rarely make phone calls), browsing the web about 15-20 min and a little on the market place, and once or twice with the camera a day. but i dont play games or use much apps. so the screen seems to be the battery killer here. but i would never trade it. ill just get another battery for $40 from verizon

Aren't there phones made for texting? Env3 comes to mind, My daughter has one. If your looking to just text why the $600 phone?

 

[shane1v]

Great thread, very informative, thank you.

 

[ThePhoneGuy]

this is defiantly not an efficient txting phone. i love the layout of the thread txting but since you have to have the screen on, it kills the battery. i get about 10 hours of battery with sending and receiving about 250-300 txt(i rarely make phone calls), browsing the web about 15-20 min and a little on the market place, and once or twice with the camera a day. but i dont play games or use much apps. so the screen seems to be the battery killer here. but i would never trade it. ill just get another battery for $40 from verizon

extra battery, charge it whenever possible, portable chargers, we all have to change our cell phone habits.

 

[thegipper]

tmp3150

I'm unclear on what you mean. Are you asserting that Android is NOT linux based? And as far as how memory is handled these things are documented. The following is quoted from the android developers website

"
In many ways, each Android application lives in its own world:

• By default, every application runs in its own Linux process. Android starts the process when any of the application's code needs to be executed, and shuts down the process when it's no longer needed and system resources are required by other applications.
• Each process has its own Java virtual machine (VM), so application code runs in isolation from the code of all other applications.
• By default, each application is assigned a unique Linux user ID. Permissions are set so that the application's files are visible only that user, only to the application itself — although there are ways to export them to other applications as well.

"
If you are saying something different, my apologies and please clarify.

 

[808droid]

Yesterday I downloaded FreeCaddie before I went out on the course yesterday, not realizing that GPS was turned on all night. When I woke up this morning and picked up my DROID, there was a warning screen that said, your battery is low please recharge.

Now, I have never had that happen, the battery going almost dead that is. So I went online to browse droidforums and see what could be draining my battery, I saw this thread about apps running in the background, which is an excellent sticky.

I noticed a satelite icon on the top right that wasn't there before, but then realized prior to this happening, my battery never went to 10% overnight.

If you see the satelite icon on, it will drain your battery!

Go into settings
Click on location & security
uncheck GPS where it says Use GPS Satellites

*Also note that when GPS is turned on, it states below the check box (uncheck to preserve battery)

It warns that using GPS will use more battery!


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[Backnblack]

If you see the satellite icon on, it will drain your battery! ​

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[808droid]

If you see the satellite icon on, it will drain your battery!

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No I don't, do you?

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[montecarlo]

Thanks andjarnic. You just answered many questions for me.

Carl

 

[Backnblack]

If you see the satellite icon on, it will drain your battery!

Need a larger font?
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No I don't, do you?

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Just as bad as typing in all caps...

 

[racklefratz]

Just as bad as typing in all caps...

Worse, IMO.

 

[CptPanther]

Good thing to see my first time on here. I saw so many task killers that I was convinced it must be a processing issue a lot of ppl have. Good to know that I can scrap that taskkiller app.

 

[metsnfins]

is it normal for 50 apps to open simultaneous (be running in the background) without me starting them?