Might also try a free program from the market called "Advanced Task Killer". Easy as all heck to use and turns off loads of programs that are running in the background by one click.
Advanced Task Killer v1.9.1 Application for Android | Productivity
I see you are new, so take this to heart. Task Killers do more harm then good on Android. That way of thinking comes from the Windows world and as Android is Linux, we don't need silly things like that. If you do any research you'll find that they are simply not needed and having them constantly monitoring running apps will kill your battery life.
Just use the Android Power Control Widget and be done with it.
I see you are new, so take this to heart. Task Killers do more harm then good on Android. That way of thinking comes from the Windows world and as Android is Linux, we don't need silly things like that. If you do any research you'll find that they are simply not needed and having them constantly monitoring running apps will kill your battery life.
Can someone please explain how you can kill apps or tasks manually without using ATK?
Where do you get this from? I don't see it on Appbrain.
Sure! It is built into the phone. It's very easy:
To use the Power Control shortcut bar:
1. From the Home screen, touch and hold an empty area until the Add to Home screen menu displays.
2. Touch Android Widgets ➔ Power Control. The Power Control shortcut is added to the second panel of the Home screen.
3. Touch one of the icons on the Power Control shortcut bar to activate the application. A green bar displayed beneath the icon means the application was activated (turned on).
4. Touch one of the icons a second time to deactivate the application. The green bar is removed from beneath the icon which means the application was deactivated (turned off).
I have been using battery monitor to watch for rogue programs waking the phone from sleep. That being said, sometimes "dialer" is the biggest culprit. Is that when phone calls come in or when it is searching for a signal?
Why use some app that itself is taking up cpu time and battery life as it reads readily available information that the OS already provides? Android keeps track of battery usage information and gathers statistics. You can view this information by going to Settings > About Phone > Battery Use.
From what I can tell it doesn't give partial wake data which is still important to me as I try out new apps and configurations, not to mention a battery percentage and time remaining estimate in the notification bar.
I see you are new, so take this to heart. Task Killers do more harm then good on Android. That way of thinking comes from the Windows world and as Android is Linux, we don't need silly things like that. If you do any research you'll find that they are simply not needed and having them constantly monitoring running apps will kill your battery life.
If you do any research you'll find that they are simply not needed and having them constantly monitoring running apps will kill your battery life.
You are going to be constanly playing whack-a-mole and it will get old real quick. The point is that task killers are simply not needed as Android takes care of memory management all on its own. Android is Linux and as a Linux system administer I feel I know a bit of what I talk about.
My understanding is Android has been tweaked to bring apps into memory so when you 'launch' them, they seem to instantly pop into existence since it was already in memory. The app is not running in the background simply because the task killer sees it. To get real complicated Android is launching apps into a separate thread, and then this thread(or process) is put to sleep(ie its not using cpu) and thus only taking up space in ram. Android(and Linux) is very good at managing its memory resources. When you the user makes a request of the system that requires more ram then is available(such as launching a new app), Android will clear out whats not needed to make space.
So ok you are not 'harming' the system, but what it boils down to is you having a philosophical argument with Android over which way to manage system resources. And well a computer never gets tired. Hell even in windows, ram cleaners/etc are bogus crapware that do nothing but slow things down.
Dial *#*#4636#*#*Does anyone know how to see the battery monitor?
You are going to be constanly playing whack-a-mole and it will get old real quick. The point is that task killers are simply not needed as Android takes care of memory management all on its own. Android is Linux and as a Linux system administer I feel I know a bit of what I talk about.
My understanding is Android has been tweaked to bring apps into memory so when you 'launch' them, they seem to instantly pop into existence since it was already in memory. The app is not running in the background simply because the task killer sees it. To get real complicated Android is launching apps into a separate thread, and then this thread(or process) is put to sleep(ie its not using cpu) and thus only taking up space in ram. Android(and Linux) is very good at managing its memory resources. When you the user makes a request of the system that requires more ram then is available(such as launching a new app), Android will clear out whats not needed to make space.
So ok you are not 'harming' the system, but what it boils down to is you having a philosophical argument with Android over which way to manage system resources. And well a computer never gets tired. Hell even in windows, ram cleaners/etc are bogus crapware that do nothing but slow things down.
So if these programs are not really running in the background, why are alot of people seeing such large amounts of data being used when they are not even using their phones?
You are going to be constanly playing whack-a-mole and it will get old real quick.[1] The point is that task killers are simply not needed as Android takes care of memory management all on its own.[2] Android is Linux and as a Linux system administer I feel I know a bit of what I talk about.[3]
My understanding is Android has been tweaked to bring apps into memory so when you 'launch' them, they seem to instantly pop into existence since it was already in memory.[4] The app is not running in the background simply because the task killer sees it. To get real complicated Android is launching apps into a separate thread, and then this thread(or process) is put to sleep(ie its not using cpu) and thus only taking up space in ram. Android(and Linux) is very good at managing its memory resources. When you the user makes a request of the system that requires more ram then is available(such as launching a new app), Android will clear out whats not needed to make space.[5]
So ok you are not 'harming' the system, but what it boils down to is you having a philosophical argument with Android over which way to manage system resources.[6] And well a computer never gets tired. Hell even in windows, ram cleaners/etc are bogus crapware that do nothing but slow things down.[7]
rlb4 said:So if these programs are not really running in the background, why are alot of people seeing such large amounts of data being used when they are not even using their phones?
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