Re: Really would like to hear about battery life & signal strengt
Well I finally bit the bullet! After 10 months of sitting on the fence with my $100 new every two credit, I went to Verizon and with the BOYO, I bought myself and my wife each a brand new Droid 3 all for $100.
Sweet deal!
Anyways, I'm new to android and so is my wife. We are now divorced from BB and have a 14 day engagement before tying the knot!
I've been reading many posts and do understand that I will not get the battery life with the D3 as I did with my BB 8330. So to help with this, I'm compiling a list of things that needs to be done in order to save the precious battery. I came across this post and have a few questions. Here they are.
Are you talking about the Task Manager or an app called Task Killer? I you mean Task Manager, how do you uninstall it? If you are talking about an app called Task Killer, my question would then be: Is it automatically installed and how do I remove it.
Thanks for your help!
Sounds like you got a sweet deal. I myself got mine for $149.99 at a corporate discount (no NE2 or rebate).
Anyway to answer your question. Any and all task killers are completely unnecessary on any version of Android 2.1 and later. The reason is that Android manages the tasks by themselves. It will kill things it does not need and just because something is showing as running in the background does not mean they are actually using memory and in fact killing those processes generally gets them to start up again because they are meant to be running thus using memory.
On very rare occasions you may get a rogue task eating up your memory and in almost all cases this is cured by force closing the app (Settings > Applications > Application Management) or worst case scenario is you reboot the phone or remove the offending app.
Task killers (apps the show a list of running tasks and let you select what ones you want to kill and may or may not have a white-list) are evil. People come to Android from a non smartphone or from a Blackberry (or the old Windows Mobile) and are paranoid abut running tasks. Many uninformed store reps will even install them for customers or offer to because the customer complains about the less then stellar battery life the first couple days.
One thing that people need to get out of their head is that these things have anything remotely to do with other phones. Android phones are COMPUTERS plain and simple and like all computers they are very complex and learn over time how to work more efficiently and manage memory.
Task MANAGERS (apps designed to kill one task at a time) are slightly less evil but just as unnecessary as Android has those tools built onto the OS. Why are they so burred? Because they are not meant to be used regularly. Built in task managers should just be ignored and only used when absolutely necessary.
The best tips I can give you when it comes to memory management are:
1. Stop worrying about tasks
2. Decrease screen brightness when not needed. I don't recommend doing so to the degree that it decreases your enjoyment of the phone but it does not always need to be at a high setting. The screen on the D3 does not use nearly as much memory as say the Thunderbolt or Charge but it's still something to consider.
3. Decrease the time-frame of your data syncs unless you NEED instant updates. If you are just at work or otherwise occupied you can manually sync your data as needed.
4. Minimize the number of widgets you have on your home screen to the minimum you really need. Facebook for Android (of FriendCaster) may be cool but remember it is constantly pulling data from Facebook.
Sorry, but this kybd blows away the LG Ally. Hell even the Env Touch kybd blew away the LG Ally. 
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