18 apps running at once?

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Trying to figure out what's a problem and what's not. Advanced Task Manager....says 18 apps are open. Is that fibbing?

ok so not 18...10.

Voice search, gallery, maps, car home, clock, settings, gmail, voice dialer, weatherbug, mp3 store....the G1 never had that many going at once in memory.

and the phone still zips around im hoping?

it does give very small lag when they are all running, then when i kill them all it speeds up. i actually recorded a video of the whole process.

Mine has 31 currently running?!?! WTF??? Some are running twice like AK Notepad and The Weather Channel? I'm thinking 2.1 is having issues managing applications. I keep hitting my end all widget and it's always like 20+ apps running. So much for the extra ram, things just keep restarting for now reason!

EDIT: After more playing around, it looks like the Back button does not close applications like it does on the G1 and MT3G. Great, better get used to using the Task Manager Widget or nothing will close!!!

Originally Posted by setzer715

Mine has 31 currently running?!?! WTF??? Some are running twice like AK Notepad and The Weather Channel? I'm thinking 2.1 is having issues managing applications. I keep hitting my end all widget and it's always like 20+ apps running. So much for the extra ram, things just keep restarting for now reason!

EDIT: After more playing around, it looks like the Back button does not close applications like it does on the G1 and MT3G. Great, better get used to using the Task Manager Widget or nothing will close!!!

Do we *really* need to kill apps though? We have ample memory to cope, right?

Either that or Advanced Task Manager is giving a false report...I don't know which. But yeah the back button doesn't seem to exit the app.

I'm waiting for this video to finish rendering and I'll post it up on Vimeo. It clearly shows the phone lagging, then speeding back up when they are all killed.

Originally Posted by spr33

Do we *really* need to kill apps though? We have ample memory to cope, right?

I don't think they all need to be running at once though, no matter how much memory we have. I don't want it running unless I open it, with the exception of the few that have to run if your using widgets.

Originally Posted by spr33

Do we *really* need to kill apps though? We have ample memory to cope, right?

According to Task Manager before I started launching apps I had 109Mb avail mem. After launching and backing out of a bunch I was down to 49Mb. That was withing 5min. Can you imagine a full day of not ending apps?

I just emailed the developer to rule out a false report with his app and Android 2.1.