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Originally Posted by TF1984
I will respectfully offer the opposite in opinions. I was addicted to advanced task manager but after letting it go I have been getting more than three times my original battery life. There is a Slight amount of lag, but very very slight, like a quarter of a second. I guess it really comes down to personal usage and apps. For us to have a true answer on which is better, it would have to be a controlled experiment with identical usage, one w/ and one w/o task manager.
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And I'll have to counter back again. I'm getting three times the battery life now using the free app "Advanced Task Killer" and have gone from high 30% to below 15% awake time. I have hardly any apps and use this to kill stock apps like the browser, calendar, and camera, and then the task killer itself. The OP may well be right in describing how traditional linux works, but one thing is for sure, that applications aren't going to sleep, even the stock apps like the browser, do not always go to sleep and cause battery drain. I had another task killer that always ran in the background it seems and didn't help that much in the end. The "Advanced Task Killer" however allows you to kill it when killing the other apps and I have found nothing but increased battery life and faster operating speed.
To the OP, thanks for the info. But I don't think this can easily be applied across the board to all Android systems, and Sprint Hero's for that matter. It's very apparent with all the battery life issues that many people are having (and many different kinds) that there is a flaw somewhere in the OS that is causing most of these problems and not allowing even OS appications like the browser go to sleep. I really hope that these battery life issues are fixed in the upcoming 2.1 OS, or at least improved.