Posted byby Kellen
December 2, 2009

slow running motorola droid?

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we keep hearing about people’s issues with either a slow running droid or a battery draining droid. we wrote and gave a tutorial on an application called advanced task killer just a week ago to show many of you how to help save battery drain during the night.

well we wanted to bring you another application which is also free that we’ve switched to over the last week. it’s called advanced task manager (big difference eh?), is free, and seems to come with a ton more options than the free version of advanced task killer.

not only does it show you the applications you have running in the background, but it gives you all the processes you have running and which items in your system directory that are taking up memory. pretty fantastic right?

with the battery drain and slow phone news breaking all over the place, there have been a barrage of new app killing apps out there, but we suggest advanced task manager first, since it’s free.

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Kellen

It’s not often that you get to merge personal passions into a professional life, but that’s what Kellen did when he launched Droid Life in 2009. After working years of unsatisfying jobs in the medical and property management fields, he took a risk to try and create an online community while playing with the coolest gadgets on the planet each day, a risk that has turned out to be incredibly rewarding. Outside of Droid Life, Kellen is your typical Portlander who drinks way too much good beer, complains often about the Trail Blazers, and can be found out on the streets for a run, rain or shine.

4 Comments

Daniel W. Unzicker says:

August 23, 2010 at 9:51 pm

I thought we decided/discovered that these are bad for Android…
Daniel W. Unzicker says:

August 23, 2010 at 2:51 pm

I thought we decided/discovered that these are bad for Android…
escuccim says:

April 14, 2010 at 12:18 pm

I've been struggling with this problem since I got my Droid in November. If I'm near an electric or USB outlet for most of the day its fine, but if I take a train into the city and check my email, reply to a few and do a little bit of web browsing it uses up 20-30% of my battery in that hour.

I use Advanced Task Manager to kill all unnecessary tasks, but half of them end up just starting themselves again, MP3 store is a recent culprit, I've never used it but if I leave the phone untouched it tends to start itself. Corporate calendar, alarm clock, and a bunch of other apps tend to start themselves.

The display uses the most power so if I kill all the apps, turn off all of the wireless services other than the basics (phone calls) I can get the battery to last a good 8 – 12 hours. This is with the phone starting off fully charged and just sitting in my pocket untouched.It seems if I check it all of the apps will start again and just the time killing them usually drains the battery a good bit
- Tom Maassen says:
  
  July 14, 2010 at 1:02 pm
  
  Advanced Task Manager can auto kill all apps on a programmed basis. It has a nice little excluded list that will leave certain apps running, but kill everything else.
  
  Since I purchased it (well worth the $2 or whatever it was that I spent on it) my battery will last a good portion of the day, being used constantly. I use bluetooth, WIFI, and play apps for most of the day. Used to only get 3 to 5 hours and it was totally dead, now it rocks right along.