TGI...wait, damn it! It's only Thursday. Though, by the time you read this your work day will be over and you will be stuck in traffic somewhere waiting for that tasty dinnertime meal of room temp left overs and hopefully a tall glass of Guiness left over from your last party. No you won't, because that's my evening! Ha ha!!! All except for the traffic. Gotta love unemployment. Its the bees knees.
TaskKiller Pro is today's free app from Amazon. Please don't ask me why there isn't a proper space between the words "Task" and "Killer" even though the second letter "K" is uppercase.
Grammatical issues aside, I cannot recommend this app to everyone. Who I can recommend this to are Android users with any OS prior to 2.2. As with Android 2.2 or higher the system manages battery consumption and background processes in the most optimized manner without any external task killers. Just read the reviews and you'll get this hint. This is also the case with almost every task killer on the Android Market.
These apps were at one time a necessity. With older Android operating systems there was no task killer or battery management system built in to the OS. Along come these apps and people began screaming hallelujah.
- reduce your use; change your habits and reduce how much you are on your phone doing whatever. Turning devices on/off constantly, powering the screen, connecting to cell and data towers, even constant wifi use all add up to daily recharges.
- crack the whip; tell those apps you don't want to see then running in the background by adjusting their settings. Most apps have settings that ask for your permission to run in the background and often times these settings are enabled by default. Look for notification preferences or sync options. Crack the whip!
- uninstall unused apps; the simple fact that they are on your phone allows them to open themselves all willy nilly. When cracking the whip doesn't work then there is something else in the app, maybe an overlooked permission, that is allowing it to operate in the background. Many people say this can happen to help quick start apps as well. Though if you do not open a particular app for a very long time then this should not be the case.
- ignore it all; just pretend for a week that you don't know anything about apps running in the background. Try a little bit of everything above until you get to this last ditch effort and just ignore it all. This will help calm you about this whole app killing thing and let you face the real tough challenges in life. Just say to yourself "Killing is bad, life is good." (results may vary)
Got anymore system resource saving advice? Post it in comments, please!
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