App killers and battery life

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I used to have advanced app killer and used to manually kill apps like crazy, but then I read that they actually hurt daily battery life. Do you guys still use them? It sucks to manually go into settings to stop apps. Discuss.

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Originally Posted by og954

I used to have advanced app killer and used to manually kill apps like crazy, but then I read that they actually hurt daily battery life. Do you guys still use them? It sucks to manually go into settings to stop apps. Discuss.

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They are counterproductive with the new versions of Android.
Use watch dog to monitor for "misbehaving apps"

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I have used Watchdog since I got my phone. It has twice alerted me that the browser was using extra cpus. It gives an option to kill the app right there so I did and everything was cool. Nice app.

1+ watchdog task killers were needed back in the day with 2.0 and below but android handles it pretty well nowadays

I only use it after boot up, but after that I only use it if I start getting lag.

Agreed. Avanced task killer and similar apps are rubish now days. Watchdog is Great because it alerts you about apps using top many resources.
New users and sales people tend to assume android uses ram like a computer does; the more free ram the beter. Android keeps certain apps available in ram so that its faster to open it you when needed. If the system requires more ram to function it will remove unused apps from memory.

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Thanks for the watchdog recommendation. I checked out the app in the market place and it looks pretty cool. So you guys use no app killers at all?

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i've with and without task killer, i always get longer battery life with, and have never had any issue's with using it.

No app killers period for me.