What apps have to be running?

[yosteve]

Go to settings, apps then running apps.

What apps should you not stop order for your phone to be running smoothly?

I stop in tune radio for instance if I know I'm not listening for awhile for example. I wanna know what else I can safely stop.

Thx

 

[gonzlobo]

Is this some sort of desperate attempt to preserve battery life? Let the OS manage the apps.

 

[yosteve]

I listen to in tunes radio app at might before bed in sleep mode. In the morning, I close and swipe off the right way, the program will still sit running all day taking up memory and battery.
I can't restrict it to wifi cause I listen on the road

Programs, that you don't need, run on their own.

 

[ultravisitor]

I listen to in tunes radio app at might before bed in sleep mode. In the morning, I close and swipe off the right way, the program will still sit running all day taking up memory and battery.

From a discussion about Android multitasking:

When you leave an application, that application is allowed to keep its process running in the background (true multitasking) allowing it to carry on doing whatever work it needs to do. For example continue to download the rest of a webpage or playing music. However, just because an application leaves processes “running” in the background, does not mean they are actually doing anything at all. They are being kept in memory just in case you are going to use them again soon. Many people cite this as a battery drain, nothing could be further from the truth however. Storing a footprint of an application in memory uses exactly the same amount of battery as it would if that section of memory is free. If you continue to open applications, then more of your memory will be used.

Eventually there will be no memory left, time to use a task killer? No! Android is smart enough to recognise when it is running low on available memory, and will start to close those apps that it deems are low priority. The way it determines priority means that those apps you have used least, and are not core to the phone will be closed down first. This does not include apps that are currently in the foreground, or as mentioned core apps such as the clock alarm. When android does close apps itself to free up memory, it does this in a very clever way in that the next time a closed app is reopened, it will restore it as if it had never been closed in the first place (this is similar to what iOS actually calls it’;s main multitasking, laughable I know).

Just let the OS manage itself. That's what it was designed to do.

 

[iBowToAndroid]

Sigh.

"Running" is a misnomer. It doesn't mean it's actively open in the foreground, using resources. It means that it's loaded into RAM, ready to be used. If you're really that worried about it, swipe it out of your multitasking list when you're done with it.

 

[yosteve]

The other day, another app that was closed was using my camera boot allowing me to scan a receipt.

I had to look at running apps and kill it manually.