Removed task killer, now phone is a bit sluggish

[mikejs78]

I was running ATK for a while, just to kill apps I was using when things seemed to get sluggish. However, I was also getting random reboots, about one every one to two days. After poking around here in the forums, I decided to remove ATK and see if that improved things. So far, a day later, no reboot, but in the last hour or so, things have started to seem jerky and a bit sluggish. Nothing that is preventing me from using my phone like the clock of death on my old BB Tour, but it's still not what It'd expect from a device with these specs. Any thoughts?

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[Cory Streater]

What other, if any, 3rd party apps and/or widgets are you running? If you are getting low on memory, Android should be killing things for you, so that shouldn't be causing any problems.

 

[DaRkL3AD3R]

Imho from using this device, a seperate app shouldn't be necessary to keep your memory at a good level. For me, all it takes is opening Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications -> and from here I click the menu button and press Filter. Then select Running and now you see all running apps. From there I just close off any app I know I don't need running (emulators, browser, Pandora, etc.)

I find that Android when left alone will let my ram drop to a horribly low 10MB of available memory. Once I force stop all these background unnecessary apps then my free memory jumps up to a whopping 150-200MB. This seems to help improve performance without needing a dedicated app to do so.

 

[moosc]

And after u close them android turns around and reopen them. It's never ending battle. Root your X and get autokiller in market. Set it to ultimate. This adjust the android memory and your x will not drop below 50.

Imho from using this device, a seperate app shouldn't be necessary to keep your memory at a good level. For me, all it takes is opening Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications -> and from here I click the menu button and press Filter. Then select Running and now you see all running apps. From there I just close off any app I know I don't need running (emulators, browser, Pandora, etc.)

I find that Android when left alone will let my ram drop to a horribly low 10MB of available memory. Once I force stop all these background unnecessary apps then my free memory jumps up to a whopping 150-200MB. This seems to help improve performance without needing a dedicated app to do so.

 

[greydarrah]

And after u close them android turns around and reopen them. It's never ending battle. Root your X and get autokiller in market. Set it to ultimate. This adjust the android memory and your x will not drop below 50.

It looks to me like the Ultimate setting tries to keep it from dropping below 200MG free. Am I reading that wrong?

 

[tntdroid]

I deleted my killer cause of reboots and have not have a problem since. Phone has been killing battery more quickly i think.

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[Cory Streater]

If you have 10 minutes to spare, I really like this article a lot.

 

[Dubbayoo]

Imho from using this device, a seperate app shouldn't be necessary to keep your memory at a good level. For me, all it takes is opening Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications -> and from here I click the menu button and press Filter. Then select Running and now you see all running apps. From there I just close off any app I know I don't need running (emulators, browser, Pandora, etc.)

I find that Android when left alone will let my ram drop to a horribly low 10MB of available memory. Once I force stop all these background unnecessary apps then my free memory jumps up to a whopping 150-200MB. This seems to help improve performance without needing a dedicated app to do so.

So you're just doing manually what an ATK would automate. I'll take the automatic.

 

[maverick96]

If you have 10 minutes to spare, I really like this article a lot.

Good read.. Task killers and or managers are completely useless...ESPECIALLY in Froyo which makes it much easier to just go in and kill off a rogue app if its needed, no use for TK'ers

 

[kilofoxtrot]

Taskiller is a feel good app .... now repeat after me... "I believe, I believe....."

 

[mikejs78]

Well, spoke too soon. The phone speed cleared up soon after I posted this, but then about an hour ago this morning, the phone spontaneously rebooted again. Here's some of the stuff I'm running that include widgets:

ADW Launcher
Beautiful Widgets
Seesmic
Facebook
Sportstap
Doubletwist
Contact Widget
BattStat

 

[Cory Streater]

If I were to point fingers it would be at ADW - recent comments suggest force closes and slowdowns. Also, if you're going to use a 3rd party launcher, make sure you delete all widgets off of the stock home screens.

I'll assume you have the latest updates for Facebook and Beautiful Widgets. If you don't you should as both programs had issues that were addressed with updates recently. I haven't been following the thread very carefully but I think there's one in this forum about not using the stock FB and market FB at the same time also. Not sure if it's performance related or not.

 

[ceriem]

As an former ATK user, both automated and not, i will say my phone runs MUCH smoother without either on board anymore. And my battery life has gone up about 50% per day, and that's a conservative estimate.

 

[Cory Streater]

Mike: here is the thread on BW.

 

[mikejs78]

So I did a factory reset on the phone, finally, on Monday night, and reloaded everything. Haven't had a reboot or sluggishness since. Hopefully that solves it.

 

[johntkong]

If you have 10 minutes to spare, I really like this article a lot.

It is a good article. I learned a lot about ATK.

 

[newob]

It is a good article. I learned a lot about ATK.

what did you learn? i just read it and im comfused. atk bad or good? if i've got this right, from the article, android only closes apps/processes when memory is low?

 

[rjdangerous]

Your doing the same thing a task killer would do but the long way.

Good read.. Task killers and or managers are completely useless...ESPECIALLY in Froyo which makes it much easier to just go in and kill off a rogue app if its needed, no use for TK'ers

 

[anon(40252)]

I miss being able to just 'close' apps when I am done with them on my BB. Why is this such a hard design option.

I love the flexibility of Android but wish they published (maybe they do) or enforced some best practices/consistency on UI/Menus.

 

[bmderuosi]

If I were to point fingers it would be at ADW - recent comments suggest force closes and slowdowns. Also, if you're going to use a 3rd party launcher, make sure you delete all widgets off of the stock home screens.

Any way to do this without uninstalling the 3rd party launcher (launcher pro)? I don't remember if I did that before using LP.