20+ startup apps? How do I kill them? 2 hr battery life

[pamon]

I've got 20+ apps running when I startup my phone. They are installed apps but obviously don't want them running at the startup. I'm getting like 2-3 hour battery life due to this. Is rooting my only method fix this or is there a reliable startup program manager that will kill these for good? Tried a few with no fixes. Might factory reset if all else fails. Like the phone but c'mon....

 

[Unibrow]

would need to see a screen shot of your battery usage. Likely what you have is at least one app that is wake locking your phone. Vtok did this to my daughters 5.0 galaxy S and drained the battery something fierce.

 

[Mikey47]

A task killer is not the answer. As unibrow states you have a misbehaving application. Could you send a screen shot of your battery usage, or at least type it in for us? Most likely some applications is not letting your phone sleep when the screen is not on.

 

[blashandroid]

I'm trying "Android Assistant" which has multiple helpful utilities. One of which is called Startup Manager which allegedly kills user-selected apps (and system processes) during the phone startup process. Its too early to tell yet but it does seem my DroidX is booting up considerably faster as a result. But I can't get behind the app yet until I see if there are any "side effects" of killing apps in startup.