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andy2373

Apr 24, 2010, 5:31 PM
With a task killer app, will it kill the ability to send messages? 😕
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stinson5043

Apr 24, 2010, 5:49 PM
no
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sultrypickle

Apr 25, 2010, 1:56 AM
Not at all. The Task Killer goes in and shuts down all the little programs and stuff that happen to run in the background. These programs aren't needed for the phone to function. In fact, I have noticed that sometimes some of the games that I have on my phone will be running in the background even if I haven't used them recently. I don't know why this is.

Back to the point, with my experience it doesn't affect the phone negatively at all and it actually conserves your battery which is why I use it since the battery in my ERIS sucks.
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WernerCD

Apr 25, 2010, 9:25 AM
Apps, as you use them (OR as they auto-run, especially with respect to widgets on your "desktop") will re-open.

Auto-Kill all just cleans up apps that don't close themselves properly, thus slow down your phone.
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Menno

Apr 25, 2010, 11:27 AM
That being said.. I only run the task killer like once every other week and don't notice any real slowdown. Android 2.1 is much better at managing application memory than 2.0 was (2.01 wasn't bad).

The problem is that google didn't update the built in task killer to compensate for the increased memory these devices were getting, so a larger % was being used at any given time. not that they've fixed that.. you shouldn't need the task killer unless you have a bad app.
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