ok i just installed advanced task manager - i just had a question, i disabled the system and uninstall tabs because i dont want to mess with that stuff in this application. i am curious about the 'processes' tab however in which every app is listed -- how do i know what to end? some say 'foreg', others 'backg', others 'idle' and 'active'... what do all these mean? (specifically foreg and backg and idle)..
any info on this app would be appreciated greatly. seems like a great tool.
one more thing - how the heck do i exit advanced task manager?
Answer to last question first: Use ATM to kill itself - Tap (once) Advanced Task Manager in the Applications list, and select "End Task" from the popup menu. Or, add apps to the "exclude" list that you don't want to kill, but don't exclude ATM... and tap the "End All" button. But, there really is no need for you to end it - it doesn't use any CPU time when you are not using it (and you have
not enabled any auto-task-kill functions).
There really is no need to kill anything in the Processes tab; frankly, I would avoid doing that, and only terminate stuff you find in the Apps tab. (Even that may not be necessary unless you are running low on memory).
The only complaint that I have about ATM is that there doesn't seem to be any documentation (
Arron La ), so... no help on what "foreg", "backg", "idle", "active" mean. OTOH, if you are not killing anything in the Processes tab, i'm not sure it should matter to you.
The last time I left my Eris alone for a while, it went something like 67 hours before it needed to be charged again, and I'm really not doing anything special.
Just because you see things listed in either the application list (or the processes or system list) does not mean they are making your handset run slowly or eating away at your battery. A stock Eris with the (1.16.605.1) OTA update will only be active about 2% of the time when the phone is sleeping - assuming that no poorly-written 3rd-party apps were installed that chew on the CPU constantly.
Frankly, ATM doesn't have any particular usefulness for determining
what you should be killing - it just makes killing things easy. OTOH, on a stock Eris with the OTA update, there really isn't much need to use a task manager for much else but checking to see that memory hasn't gotten too low.
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