Do you need a task manager installed?

iJason · 11:46 PM

Is it necessary do have a task manager installed like advanced task killer or will it not make a difference as far as performance and battery life goes?

01-13-2010, 12:18 AM

It's not necessary.

iJason · 01-13-2010, 12:25 AM

I was wondering cuz I read an article saying that task managers actually do more harm then good.

GivenToFly · 01-13-2010, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by iJason

I was wondering cuz I read an article saying that task managers actually do more harm then good.

Really? Do you have a link to this information? I'd like to see the other side.

iJason · 01-13-2010, 12:31 AM

Here's the article I read I found it on another thread [Only registered users can view links. ]

ridavid81 · 01-13-2010, 07:46 AM

After reading this and doing some testing with Pandora and Tune Wiki I noticed these processes ended very soon after exiting the program. I was checking this within Running Services. I then did some testing with Shop Savvy and this too closed out from Running Services within a few seconds of backing out of the app.

So as long as I used the back key android was killing the process. The funny thing is Advanced Task Manager was still showing that TuniWiki was running and Shop Savvy was running.

This tells me Advanced Task Manager needs some work especially since it was showing TuneWiki twice when in fact it wasn't running at all.

I went ahead and uninstalled Advanced Task Manager for now which was taking 22k in resources anyhow. I'll see how my droid performs without me ending tasks through the task manager.

Thanks for sharing that article. It was useful.

iJason · 01-13-2010, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by ridavid81

After reading this and doing some testing with Pandora and Tune Wiki I noticed these processes ended very soon after exiting the program. I was checking this within Running Services. I then did some testing with Shop Savvy and this too closed out from Running Services within a few seconds of backing out of the app.

So as long as I used the back key android was killing the process. The funny thing is Advanced Task Manager was still showing that TuniWiki was running and Shop Savvy was running.

This tells me Advanced Task Manager needs some work especially since it was showing TuneWiki twice when in fact it wasn't running at all.

I went ahead and uninstalled Advanced Task Manager for now which was taking 22k in resources anyhow. I'll see how my droid performs without me ending tasks through the task manager.

Thanks for sharing that article. It was useful.

No problem. I uninstalled advanced task manager as well and my phone does seem to be running better however its only been a few hours I will report back after a day or two of further testing.

Flyguide83 · 01-13-2010, 11:12 AM

For what it's worth, I have been running without it now for about a month.... My phone seems to be doing just fine. Battery seems to last longer too..

graymulligan · 01-13-2010, 11:18 AM

I also uninstalled my ATK a couple days ago, and I'm not seeing any negative results from not killing tasks. I don't know if its running better, but its not running worse, which was the important part. Looks like the article (which was written by someone much more versed in Linux and the like than I am) was spot on.

dagostin · 01-13-2010, 12:21 PM

my 2 cents is that whether I use it or not, i do not see any change in anything. It's so hard to tell what's doing what anyways because the android OS can restart apps that are setup to restart anyways and even tho an app process is still active, it doesn't mean its doing anything, just idle and using up no resources. I've also noticed that after you boot for first time and check the process list, many of my apps are there, even the one's you'd never expect to start at boot such as "Shop savvy" that have no widgets or anything that shoudl be running in background. Ininitially i'd kill all these on boot to give me a clear head

What i've found though, is that if I do not use the task killer after boot, and just wait some time, many of those processes that started at boot are killed off, so seems the OS handles the memory fairly well and kills stuff that's not needed and is not priority.

My preference is to have a task killer but i do not OCD and use it all the time, rarely ever anymore. What I like it for is for bugs in certain software, such as the stock browser and beautiful widgets for example, sometimes will need GPS for something and if im inside, will try to find a signal for so long, hurting battery. When these things happen from time to time, i use the task manager to kill them.