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Originally Posted by SBJ
that's not true. I have a motorola Droid on 2.1 and I use my Advanced Task Manager quite often. I find when I lauch it programs I never even use will be running in the background and by using this app I can make my battery last all day on the go
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It most certainly is true. With 2.1 and up, any use of a task manager is just redundant. Those programs you see "running in the background" aren't fully running and portions of some programs are used by portions of other programs.
The ONLY people who who recommend using Task Managers are the folks making them and offering them up in the market. But even they know that the older models running the outdated version of the OS REALLY need them.
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However, developers of task killing apps are of a different opinion. Arron La, developer of Advance Task Manager, suggests that task killers are more important for legacy devices like the G1 and phones running older versions of Android.
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“It’s very bad to kill services on Android because those services are loaded with a lot of information and are ’sleeping’ without using battery usage,” says Christophe. “That’s why TaskOS doesn’t show services…Killing one application when you know what to do is [beneficial]. Killing mass applications is bad.”
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There’s a great deal of confusion about the way Android handles multitasking, says Android Software Engineer Dianne Hackborn. In a recent blog post, Hackborn clarifies that Android doesn’t require apps to close when users are “done” with them; however, that doesn’t mean apps running in the background negatively affect performance. Look at this particular excerpt from Hackborn’s article:
applications may seem present to the user without an actual process currently running the app; multiple applications may share processes, or one application may make use of multiple processes depending on its needs; the process(es) of an application may be kept around by Android even when that application is not actively doing something.
What exactly does this mean? You don’t need to kill an app just because a task manager says it’s running. Android automatically closes apps if the phone requires RAM
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All you iPhone peeps know that Android is now the #1 smartphone platform in the US right and about 200,000 new Android users are signed up daily? Android then Blackberry and then iPhone.