Taskmanager is useless...

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The taskmanager that comes pre-installed with the phone seems useless...

Reason being is that when it's used to close apps to free ram, seconds after it's as it was before...

Supposing my used ram is 474mb. I then clear the memory at which then the task manager reports used ram as just 273mb.....

When checking the task manager literally minutes after it will then read 474mb or higher.

This is even when the phone has not been touched & was left on idle.

So please tell me the point in having a task manager that kills apps which then simply open again moments later....

Task manager exists to Effin close the apps for good, not have then "tabbed-out" and sit there and drain battery / Ram. Man, some people are oblivious.

Edit: abd apps dont open by themselfs after, geez. Its the system (THE PHONE) that takes from Ram to actually /run/ and function

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Clearly someone doesn't understand how Android works. If you want to learn something, then google "Android why you shouldn't use a task killer".

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Originally Posted by BazookaAce

Clearly someone doesn't understand how Android works. If you want to learn something, then google "Android why you shouldn't use a task killer".

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Clearly someone doesn't KNOW how to read...

Since when did I mention a task killer? I am referring to the STOCK task manager that comes PRE-INSTALLED on the phone.

Instead of jumping to conclusions, learn to read...

All I'm saying is that the task manager doesn't seem effective...

hey mr angry pants, task killer and task manager are the same thing, the only thing a task manager can do is "kill" a task

Originally Posted by bamboo12

hey mr angry pants, task killer and task manager are the same thing, the only thing a task manager can do is "kill" a task

Yes I know, but BazookaAce referred to a task killer, a third party app in which I didn't mention.

I simply stated my opinion and I did not have a go at anyone & neither was I rude.

So for a simple opinion I get trolls having a go at ME making statements such as I know nothing about android and being oblivious.

Seems you can't express your own opinons without getting trolled on...

Why must people be so rude and have a go at you?

I have a right to be angry...

If someone disagrees with my statement, then let it be. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong but If I disagreed with someones statement why should I become rude and fight?

Why is it so wrong if I simply stated I feel the task manager is useless? There is no need to get rude...

what the task manager does is kill everything except for the bare OS. then when you go to home, it will rebuffer all your widgets and icons back into the ram, and will reload any background processes that are required to run the widgets.

occasionally when you run an app and close it, it will leave the process running in the background, taking up ram unnecessarily. an example would be something like tap tap revenge, android market, music player, facebook, the crappy polish media player that came with my phone even though i never used it, etc.

normally, unless you have a task killer or task manager app, these apps will remain hogging up ram until you kill it. even if you use the market or music player once and then close it, it may remain running or may have a background process that remains running. what clear memory does is it removes all of these little annoying processes from the memory and just restores the OS back to its bare ram usage again.

this is useful for when you want to play a game or use an app that requires a lot of ram (ie. dungeon defenders) and you dont want it to crash on you when youre making an ingame purchase because you ran out of ram. you can clear your ram of junk first and then run the game, leaving you with more ram available for the game data.

task killers are silly because people often program them to kill apps that are designed to reopen themselves anyway, which puts the app in a reboot loop that drains more battery.

if you want to permanently stop a process from hogging up ram, you'd have to root your phone, run titanium backup and freeze the useless processes.

Thank you so much Souai for your response, you provided some useful information with regards on how task managers work...

Unlike a few others who were unhelpful I appreciate your post and detailed explanation.

Will hit the ''thanks'' button.

As for Titanium backup, I've heard of it but not tried it. Once my phone has been rooted I will give the application a try.

Originally Posted by BazookaAce

Clearly someone doesn't understand how Android works. If you want to learn something, then google "Android why you shouldn't use a task killer".

Well i can tell you from experience that task killers DO work.
Before i put the phone in my pocket, i run it, saves battery drainage.
And when the phone begins to lag, i run it, and it runs smooth again.

So whatever all those articles tell you, i experience the opposite.

P.S. I'm rooted