"go bat-shit and kill everything and its mother mode"
That's how I like to play my video games!
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"go bat-shit and kill everything and its mother mode"
here we are day 2 without a task killer and I'm still at 90%... Big ups to the OP.
Really? 2 days and still at 90%....
I'm on 2.2 and keep the ATK on my phone for when apps crash. I have it set to manual kill, and have added all the system functions to the ignore list. I've never had an issue with battery life using the ATK in this manner.
Actually I just switched to the 150MB/mo. data plan (because most of the time I'm around a computer or WiFi network anyway) and to stay within that data limit I turned off the 3g network and all background data. This increased my battery life SIGNIFICANTLY, and I will only turn on the 3g network when needed... though I know this isn't an option for a lot of users of the DX.
I work at BBM and task killers cause us so much grief it's unbelievable. People come in all the time complaining that their phone is defective because it's freezing and force closing applications and they all have one thing in common, the little green dude chilling in the notification bar.
As soon as I see it, I back up their info, restore to factory defaults, and tell them not to ever use a task killer again. 99% never come back. The worst are the ones who stand there and argue that a task killer couldn't possibly be the issue.
I'm on 2.2 and keep the ATK on my phone for when apps crash. I have it set to manual kill, and have added all the system functions to the ignore list. I've never had an issue with battery life using the ATK in this manner.
Actually I just switched to the 150MB/mo. data plan (because most of the time I'm around a computer or WiFi network anyway) and to stay within that data limit I turned off the 3g network and all background data. This increased my battery life SIGNIFICANTLY, and I will only turn on the 3g network when needed... though I know this isn't an option for a lot of users of the DX.
I'm on 2.2 and keep the ATK on my phone for when apps crash. I have it set to manual kill, and have added all the system functions to the ignore list. I've never had an issue with battery life using the ATK in this manner.
Actually I just switched to the 150MB/mo. data plan (because most of the time I'm around a computer or WiFi network anyway) and to stay within that data limit I turned off the 3g network and all background data. This increased my battery life SIGNIFICANTLY, and I will only turn on the 3g network when needed... though I know this isn't an option for a lot of users of the DX.
if you are using wifi, the phone automatically switches off the 3g connection and transfers all data usage to wifi...
You only need to turn off background data to help save battery.
3G is needed for texts and MMS to get through, I believe.
Do you get all your texts even though you've shut off 3G? or do you depend on Google Voice for that? Just curious.
Wow. So Task Killer is actually killing my battery?
I will uninstal and see what difference it makes.
I work at BBM and task killers cause us so much grief it's unbelievable. People come in all the time complaining that their phone is defective because it's freezing and force closing applications and they all have one thing in common, the little green dude chilling in the notification bar.
As soon as I see it, I back up their info, restore to factory defaults, and tell them not to ever use a task killer again. 99% never come back. The worst are the ones who stand there and argue that a task killer couldn't possibly be the issue.
Wow. So Task Killer is actually killing my battery?
I will uninstal and see what difference it makes.
No, it improves my battery life by a lot.
No, it improves my battery life by a lot.
No, it improves my battery life by a lot.
So when a stock phone with no apps installed other than the bloatware lags what are you supposed to do? I no longer use atk but autokiller now and my phone is very fast, but stock it lagged bad, I originally used atk to keep it from lagging and it worked along with giving me a longer battery life, the bloatware gave me tons of problems until I used atk.You are in the minority here...find your offending app and get rid of it. ATK is a band-aid for something that is set up wrong on your phone.
IMO
Problem is, a lot of the so called "general users", or people who just buy the phone 'cause they need a phone but aren't really interested in learning how to use it, don't get this. I saw some guy using a DX in my class the other day, and I mentioned I had the same one and asked him how he liked his phone. He said it was the most frustrating thing he ever owned, because it would crash and require a battery pull several times a day, get really sluggish, and eat the battery in just a few hours which was not enough to last the whole day on campus. He said he was going to sell it. I told him to remove the task killer, which he did, and several days later he was thanking me for saving his phone which he was about to sell. Naturally I referred him to this site and offered him more tips, but I highly doubt he will even bother since he's not really a techie. Like I said he is a great example of the typical users that make up probably like 90% of the people who use the phone. Sometimes you wonder why people say they hate their android phones, but chances are they have absolutely no close how to use it-- similarly, they probably have 5-10 market apps and thats about it. fact is, it is a complicated high tech device and it takes a lot of time for many to learn.
So when a stock phone with no apps installed other than the bloatware lags what are you supposed to do? I no longer use atk but autokiller now and my phone is very fast, but stock it lagged bad, I originally used atk to keep it from lagging and it worked along with giving me a longer battery life, the bloatware gave me tons of problems until I used atk.
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