Warning about taskiller

[y6y6y6]

Yes I had the GPS on. I always have it on. It doesn't drain the battery unless a program uses it.

This is false. If you have the GPS on it will be a huge drain on the battery.

And there is really no need to guess about these things. The Droid keeps track of what is using the battery power. Go to settings > about phone > battery usage.

One of the things you'll notice on the battery use chart - All those apps you see running in the task killer app that you think are eating up the battery? They aren't.

 

[dannydoes]

That may be true y6y6y6, that gps, if not used drains the battery, but when I used google maps, than failed to "kill" google maps, the drain on the battery accelerated considerably.

Just my experience with it.

 

[jmed99]

I have not noticed any more battery drain since I quit using the taskiller. And btw, my notifications are working perfectly, gmail, hotmail, yahoo, twitter, facebook, text, VM, etc.....this rocks without taskiller. And again I've noticed no additional battery drain.

 

[dannydoes]

I've noticed a lot of people mentioning that they don't get notifications if they use task killer. I've never experienced that. Even if I kill everything, notifications have always come through. Could it be because I am using "advanced task killer" and not the simpler version?

 

[dannydoes]

ok so after charging, here's my usage in 1.5 hours and almost no usage, it just sits in my pocket for 95% of the time. This was with the GPS on and the SYNC on, how do you know if GPS is eating the battery? It doesn't state it here.

Display 34%
Phone Idle 28%
Cell standby 22%
Android system 9%
Android OS 3%
Android Core Apps 3%
Beautiful Widgets 2%