Verizon's obsession with ATK

[dimebagdan65]

Honestly, I don't think I would've rooted if it was going to (permanently) void my warranty. haha

As far as ATK is concerned? First thing the rep did when I got my phone was install ATK and instruct me to keep up with using it. I was adamant about it for a while, sometimes waking it up just so I could kill the BS that was running in the background (bloatware and all that jazz). Soon before I rooted, I was reading up about how task killers were unnecessary, deleted it and broke myself of the habit. By now, I'm so far gone from using it that I'm not sure if I gained any battery life or not. What's important to me, though, is that now that I'm not starting ATK up every five minutes to look over the apps and hit "kill," I've got more time to actually USE my phone!

Woohoo! An honest,intelligent, non spiteful post! And here I thought this thread was doomed I recently stopped using ATK's and SetCPU as well just to see if there's a difference and after about a week, battery life is sucking... I've been up for maybe half an hour, down 20% already. It looks like it all depends on the user as to whether or not they have any kind of benefit. Ohh well lol

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[najaboy]

Hi All,

I know Android is an awesome OS. I know Linux is an awesome OS. I know people (experts) say ATK isn't necessary and since they're experts, they're always right.

I've had my Incredible since 4/29 - the day they came out.

I've been bummed with an average of 8 hours of "good use" since I had it. My son has the same phone and similar battery life. We turn down the screen, turn off WiFi, blah blah blah to help, play with Juice Plotter, yada yada. Bottom line - after 8 hours I'm in the "red" and need to recharge or it'll shut off.

A month ago, I decide to put on ATK just for the heck of it. BAM! 15 hours of use my first day! A couple days later I texted my son... "1am here and still at 39% battery!" Heck I never made it past 6pm before needing a charge.

I don't care what the "experts" say or the OS zealots. I changed NOTHING but installing ATK and now for the past month my battery life has basically doubled. In fact, I forgot to plug in last week one night and 30 hours later my phone was still running. That was impossible before.

There are no words anyone can write which will change my real-world experience. It WORKS. I did play with setting which apps it killed, level of aggressiveness, etc. but no matter how I use it, it WORKS. Sorry guys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence

 

[smkd13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence

That my friend is the best post I have ever seen. I agree with it because it is true because all of the open source stuff really has people confused because they are all use to the windows normalcy that they produce anecdotal evidence to support their theory that it is the same.

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[Cryous]

I know that many Verizon stores have issues with atk, but at my store they say that what ever you do don't install any task killer. My friends uncle is the owner of the regional Verizon stores and he said that corporate says not to teach that anymore but some stores missed the memo

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