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The “pointless” Task Manager strikes back!
1542 days
You know what they say: “the road to hell is paved with good intentions!”. As I wrote the other day, people say task managers are useless. While I tend to agree with them, as I already said, there are times when you need them for additional purposes. And yesterday I had to find out the hard way: I used Motonav all day long while receiving lots and lots of calls. The navigation would go in the background allowing the call to go through and would comeback to foreground when I finished the call.
I’ve been very happy to see it worked flawlessly until it just went black. The screen went black. I could see the Motonav launching but it wouldn’t show me the map and so on. Now what? Well, I thought that once I don’t have the Advanced Task Manager (it’s absolutely useless, remember?), I’d wait because it will ultimately go away by itself, like I read in that fancy article!
Half an hour later I tried to start Motonov: though luck! I really needed to get to the hotel, so I did what every Android power-user would do: I downloaded the first task manager I could get my finger on, shut down the Motonav app (and the camera, the Market app, etc) and restarted it. Job done.
Wait! A restart should’ve done it! Damn! I gotta stop use this damn pointless task manager thing:)
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Are the Task Managers in Android pointless?
2545 days
Well, it seems it’s true. I’ve been using one since the Symbian days. Without one my Sony-Ericsson P910i wouldn’t function. My next smartphone, the Sony-Ericsson P1i became sluggish in operation and would reset at the end of the day. Those particular Task Managers were quite specialized: they would automatically shut-down unused applications, double as file managers, etc.
And now, yes, it seems we suffer from a Placebo effect: we seem to need it. It “seems” because Task Managers are still good with shuting-down apps when you need the battery juice. They are good with switching between the Alps because my Task Manager Pro places an icon on the upper taskbar.
Truth being told, after reading the above article I went and fired-up the camera, then left it idle (see the picture) for a few hours. Sure thing it wasn’t there when I checked.
So I will uninstall it for a week and see how it goes. I’m interested in battery life especially.
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