useless stuff running in the background and battery usage

[onlyoneromeo]

i downloaded a task manager/talk killer thingamajig and every time i kill a bunch of stuff they come back in a few mins. why do these programs hav to run in the background? i know they eat up battery life and i want to make it as easy on the phone as possible to manage battery power. is ther any way to keep t hese things from popping back up?

 

[Robbie317]

i downloaded a task manager/talk killer thingamajig and every time i kill a bunch of stuff they come back in a few mins. why do these programs hav to run in the background? i know they eat up battery life and i want to make it as easy on the phone as possible to manage battery power. is ther any way to keep t hese things from popping back up?

I dunno... I did the same thing and it seems that "Voice Dialer, Qik, Amazon MP3 store, You Tube, NASCAR (they don't even have races but Friday - Sunday) and few others pop up all the time" even after I kill them off.. They don't all start back up all the time.. I Click on ATK every 3 - 4 hours and it seems every other check these programs open back up for one reason or another.

At the same time I average 14 - 16 hours and my worst battery life was 10 hours of heavy use and 30 hours on VERY light usage so it's not a MAJOR problem.

Only way it seems to crush those things is to root your phone and then download a good ROM that takes all that stuff away....

 

[mfeigley]

The apps that are "running" in the background aren't really draining too much resources. They actually are just launching and then frozen in the start state so that when you actually launch the app you won't have to wait for it to start. Android does a good job of managing those apps and will close them if your memory gets low. You are wasting more battery by killing the apps because they will restart and they only use power when they start (after that remaining dormant in the memory). The system would rather fill that unused memory instead of keeping it open for nothing. If it does need that memory it will close those apps. I have a task killer, but I only use it for killing apps that have frozen.