Wasted Battery

[DracheDame]

Hey everyone. I'm brand new to Android. I just got a brand new HTC Hero, and so far I love it. One of the things I've noticed is that my battery doesn't really last very long. I have the Advanced Task Killer, and I've found that sometimes random apps start opening, like NASCAR, NFL and Sprint TV. Since I don't use these apps, there's no reason to have them running. Is there was way to uninstall NASCAR and NFL? Or just a way to stop them from opening? Also, what is "com.coremobility.app.vnotes"? That is always open. Thanks so much for your help!

 

[aquaboy1976]

I'd love to know about this as well. I could do with out those apps running unnecessarily.

 

[user7618]

Nope, unless you root, you'll have to deal with them opening on their own. The vnotes I believe is the voice notes.

 

[tbhuang2]

After rooting and learning some basic adb commands, it's easy to remove those useless apps.

 

[beezy]

i won't get into the big debate about task killers,but try running without it for a few days.Might help battery.Android has a built in memeory management that will shut things down properly when it needs more memory.The management is set pretty low on stock.If you want to remove sprint apps then you would need root.With root you could flash a custom rom that has the apps removed.I have some roms that are the same as stock,but you can remove sprint apps and the memory management is bumped up alot more to where it shut things down alot quicker.

 

[voghan]

If you have a rooted phone....you don't need a task killer. if you are running stock UI then you'll need one. Set it up to not kill apps you want to be running always and then run it in safe auto kill mode. Really the best part of rooting your phone is not having all the Spring crap running in the background.

 

[DracheDame]

The problem is that I can't root. I'm running the newest 2.1 software, and I'm on a Mac. I've heard about something called "running software" or something like that, but have been unable to find it.

 

[beezy]

The problem is that I can't root. I'm running the newest 2.1 software, and I'm on a Mac. I've heard about something called "running software" or something like that, but have been unable to find it.

Do you have anyway of using a windows pc from about two hours?

 

[DracheDame]

Nope. And I refuse to partition my drive and ruin it with Windows.

 

[barakisbrown]

@DarcheDame -- So Sorry..So Sad..You can try running parelles or vmware.

Astro(if your running root), will remove those apps for you..

 

[DracheDame]

As I said, my drive is not partitioned.