Should i constantly close every little app?

[xXBLACKBERRYXx5]

Hey does it make a noticeable difference whether or not I close little apps like text messaging after I'm done sending a text?

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[nolittdroid]

I recommend a task killer (many don't lol) but I have most of my apps set to 'auto kill' when I close my screen. Helps a ton, and I've noticed a difference in battery life and performance.

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[dmmarck]

Hey does it make a noticeable difference whether or not I close little apps like text messaging after I'm done sending a text?

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Unless you're running 30-40 apps at a time, I wouldn't worry about it. Sense 4.0's multitasking is set up in a specific way and seems to do a good job in that regard.

 

[xXBLACKBERRYXx5]

I recommend a task killer (many don't lol) but I have most of my apps set to 'auto kill' when I close my screen. Helps a ton, and I've noticed a difference in battery life and performance.

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Ics has a built in task killer when u hit the recent apps button on he one x u just swipe up to kill the app. But what I was asking was do I need to do that on little apps like messaging?

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[nolittdroid]

My dinc2 has issues with not sending texts so I prefer not to constantly close my SMS. Makes no real difference.

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[icebike]

My dinc2 has issues with not sending texts so I prefer not to constantly close my SMS. Makes no real difference.

This isn't a Dinc2.

And no one should run a task killer. They do nothing but increase battery usage.
You will still find idiots at the AT&T store that install them for customers, but that is only because they don't have the slightest clue how Android works, and haven't done a single bit of research on the subject.

Android Task Killers Explained: What They Do and Why You Shouldn't Use Them

FAQ: Why You Shouldn?t Be Using a Task Killer with Android (geekfor.me) - xda-developers

Why you don’t need a task killer app with Android. | AndroidSPIN

The built-in Android Task Manager trumps third-party tools | TechRepublic

 

[anon(819941)]

And no one should run a task killer. They do nothing but increase battery usage.

I get that, but even after reading some of those Articles you posted (thanks, btw), I still have questions...

When I open an app and close it from the Multitasking screen (or whatever it is called), I many times see that the task is still running if I look at the task management screen. I suppose the task is kept there for faster startup times (wild guess), but there is an obvious cost in terms of RAM usage. Since it seems ICS cannot autokill apps, how can I clear tasks once the app has been closed (automatically)?

In addition, because of the autosynch feature, tons of tasks remain open for all the apps that autosynch (which makes sense, of course), but will those tasks be killed minutes after they synched or are they open forever?

 

[icebike]

Well, I'm thinking you DON'T get it Chema, because those articles explained everything in very good detail.

There are a lot of apps that start a foreground process, and a background service. The background service s there to take care of business when the foreground process is not running. It does things like check mail, sync calendars, watch for Instant Messages, etc.

These continue to run. In addition, Android starts some of these automatically. What good is Google Talk if it is never allowed to run and accept incoming messages?
What good is Gmail with Push if there is nothing allowed to run in the background to watch for pushes?

Things that are not actively running take very little memory, perhaps no more than 50 bytes. Their data and code segments are all paged out, and a tiny watch-dog thread is left in memory to receive notifications and wake up the rest of the application when one is received.

And it only "runs" when it has to, when the system taps it on the shoulder and says, "Hey, remember that socket you had open to GOOGLE? Well, it just became active - you better wake up and check it out". So the sleeping app fires up its code and reads the socket, and determines if it was a Gmail, a Calendar update, a Contact update, or what ever else it handles.

In linux, there can be a bazillion processes idling that take essentially zero resources, they just have their name written down on the Operating System's scratch pad so it can find them again when they need to. The process itself is often totally paged out. (not in memory).
There is ALMOST ZERO cost in terms of ram, and processor utilization may in fact be ABSOLUTELY ZERO. They are not running. The exist primarily as book keeping entries.


When you say that UCS can not Autokill apps, you are simply wrong.
Also, don't presume that the RECENT TASK LIST is a list of running tasks. Its just a list of recent tasks.

Lastly.... (how to put this diplomatically...) If your field of expertise is not the internals of Operating Systems, Linux in particular, and you have no training or experience in operating system level memory management, process scheduling, interrupt handling, and TCP/IP socket programming, you should probably NOT start micromanaging the operating system. Leave it alone. Linux/Android (or any 'nix) does a way better job of managing memory and processor utilization than any other OS you will find today. Let the phone work for you.

In-discriminant task killing just forces the processor to restart tasks that it needs to handle events. That takes more time than simply waking up a paged out app to do its business and paging it out again when done.

If you go into Settings/ Power/ Battery Use, and you see something showing up above 10% at the end of the day, that you never use, you MIGHT look in to that.

If you see an app that you absolutely never ever use, go into Settings / Apps, and clear its cache, clear its data, and either Uninstall it, or mark it as disabled. Some one at HTC decided I was not allowed to remove Facebook from my phone without rooting it. But every part of Facebook is disabled. (Undomesticated Equines would be unable to move me to Facebook).

 

[anon(819941)]

Well, I'm thinking you DON'T get it Chema, because those articles explained everything in very good detail.

I decided to change my post. I was replying to you in similar tone and terms, but it?s just not worth it. Let me just say that you are wrong in most of your assumptions, but again, it?s not worth discussing like this.