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Android is optimized to run at near memory capacity to maximize both battery life and performance. It loads apps into memory however they are not active. My best advice is to ignore them and use your phone. As you do, Android will learn what apps you use and load those into memory while leaving the apps you don't use dormant. If you are constantly killing apps you are hampering this learning process.

 

Not exactly, free memory in Android does not make it faster as it does in Windows. That is why this topic comes up all the time. And I'll admit, when I got my first Android device I ran a task killer because it was infuriating until I discovered that the task killer was making it worse.

 

Staff here says it over and over and over. No worries, we don't mind. Oh, and get rid of that task killer, it will do more harm than good.

Think if it like this. Lets say you use YouTube all the time and not Facebook. The more times Android has to unload Facebook to free up memory for YouTube, it will learn to load YouTube in Facebook's place. Now introduce the task killer which closes the app outside of Androids purview. It kills Facebook and Android now has free memory to fill. It goes looking for apps to load and holy cow, look at how many times Facebook has been loaded. The user must really use that app a lot so I'll help them out and pre-load it into memory thus restarting a vicious cycle.

This is why you will often see folks that are running task killers also complaining of poor battery life and hot phones. Android and the Task killer are in a constant resource consuming battle.