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Droid crashing and other bugs due to task managers and other such utilities?

Those of you experiencing crashing and freezing and other assorted bugs. Are you by any chance using task managing applications? That is, applications that will kill off certain processes in memory to free up space or increase battery life?

I've read numerous reports of these applications prematurely ending processes that are needed by other running programs thus causing instability and unpredictable behavior.

My experience with the Droid has been stellar with very high degree of stability and reliability. No crashes or freezing. Other than a few software quirks (my Yahoo account doesn't sync correctly, but GMail works fine), I haven't had any major problems to speak of. As a preventative measure, I'll power cycle my Droid about every three days, but that's about it. I don't use any such applications that promise to increase battery life or free up memory by killing off what it thinks are uneeded processes/apps.

Thoughts on this?

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andreo

I have to agree. I received my Droid and started loading up on apps and utilities. The phone became less resposive and more unstable. I also had a 4 hour battery life. I wiped the phone and stayed away from some of the apps that I suspected was causing the problem. I've had no more stability issues and battery life is past 8 hours between charges. This included a couple of hours worth of streaming music, a few wireless syncs, and I never turned off bluetooth, gps or wi-fi. Oh, and all the music was being played through my bluetooth radio.

supitsmike

Task Managing is something you have to manually do to understand how it works. Having stuff that you don't use in the background only bogs down the performance of your phone, and, at the end of the day when you do put more apps on your phone it will catch up to you with performance.

SSHGuru

Advanced Task Manager doesnt do anything by itself - it allows you to kill apps.

So having it doesnt harm the performance of the phone. In fact if something is wrong you can kill all the apps and restore the phone to a more native state.

supitsmike

SSHGuru wrote:
Advanced Task Manager doesnt do anything by itself - it allows you to kill apps.

So having it doesnt harm the performance of the phone. In fact if something is wrong you can kill all the apps and restore the phone to a more native state.

This.

alxnet

supitsmike wrote:
Task Managing is something you have to manually do to understand how it works. Having stuff that you don't use in the background only bogs down the performance of your phone, and, at the end of the day when you do put more apps on your phone it will catch up to you with performance.

Perhaps with WinMo devices. Android appears to have been developed with this in mind, placing background apps in hibernation/sleep state, preventing them from affecting your device's performance:

"The Linux scheduler that Android uses is quite good at taking care of memory use and the CPU is not used unless an application is active. Most of the folks wondering about memory usage don't understand how Linux works on that front. Linux will use every bit of available memory it can all the time and release what's not actively in use, like for a sleeping app, as needed. So unless an app has a memory leak then it's not actually tieing up an memory and unless it has sleep issues then it's not tieing up the CPU. When I started looking at things for the right perspective, read: this is linux not just another smart phone, then I realized that a task "manager" isn't necessary just something lightweight, that exits or sleeps when I push the back button, that will kill an out of control app is all that is necessary."

SSHGuru

I can honestly tell you that every so often selecting kill all apps fixes a problem.

And since it's a smartphone the important aps start running right away and you have a clean slate.

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