Task Killer Pros / Cons?

[blw1230]

Thanks for the help guys!

 

[GooTz66]

Yeah tell me about it. I've been confused why every different task manager shows me different lists of running apps compared to the built in list. I finally found the best task manager, system panel, shows the true running apps list. And It shows what is active vs inactive (cached) which NONE of these other task managers show.

Finally with this app I am starting to understand how android does its multitasking, and I've been trying to learn for 2 months now. I actually got angry once I realized these other task managers were lumping in all the inactive apps together, giving a COMPLETELY false sense of what is truly running and what is not.

+1 to just using system panel...much smarted way to do it

Thanks guys! Loaded up System Panel today after reading your posts and so far so good! Much better that ATK

 

[RayStinkle]

System panel shows active vs inactive apps. What I've learned so far:

If using an app and you press home button, the app stays active and runs in the background. If you use the back button to leave that same app, it will go to inactive cached and disappear in a few seconds, press the refresh button in system panel to see this.

Many times when leaving an app via the back button, the app will say VISIBLE but quickly hit refresh and It will go to inactive and then close completely.

The reason why this app is so good is it shows you what is actually running. Any of the apps listed as inactive cached do not take up any resources. And if you sit there and hit refresh, you will see the OS swap these out here and there. You can see that the OS simply releases them and the CPU doesn't even increase, so they truly don't hurt anything.

The reason other task managers suck so much is they lump everything together so you have no idea what is running background and what is inactive cached.

 

[RayStinkle]

i've been using system panel since the beginning, and love it. using it on stock 2.1 ROM on my nexus one, system panel shows your active apps at the top, then your inactive (cached) apps, followed by your system processes at the end.

but tonight i upgraded to froyo, and updated system panel at the same time, and now the app no longer shows your "inactive cached" apps. it skips right over that and shows running apps followed by system processes. i dont know if this is something new with froyo and how the OS works, or has the developer simply updated system panel and removed this function? it was an incredibly useful piece of info to see with this superb app, and i'm not sure what's going on. does anybody know what is going on, has this app been updated and removed the inactive app list?