Android TaskKiller application
Posted by Tonio | Filed under Application
TaskKiller is an task manager designed to help you to increase the battery life of your phone by killing unused processes. Why is this usefull ? When you start an application on your phone, informations used by the this application process will be kept in memory, even after you quit the application. The Android system will also start diferent services depending on random events and notifications. As a result, your phone memory is full of idle process, which has the effect of making it slow and consume battery. TaskKiller makes it possible to kill those idle process both on demand and automatically. There are four functionalities you can configure to optimize the battery life of your phone :
TaskKiller Application
The application allow you to kill running tasks on demand. It is the entry point to configure TaskKiller functionalities and to manage black lists of applications you don’t want to kill. TaskKiller also has a functionality to bulk uninstall applications from your phone in only one click. This is usefull to remove permanently the applications you don’t use anymore.
TaskKiller Widget
The TaskKiller widget can be used to kill running task directly from your phone home screen at any time. It will notify you with the number of tasks it has killed and the resulting available memory on your phone. Use it to free memory before starting an application that will run faster with more memory : 3D games, web browsing, video, …
TaskKiller Auto kill
When running, the TaskKiller auto kill feature will kill silently unused tasks at a fixed frequency. You can start and stop the service from the TaskKiller application settings. Once started, the service will remain running until you stop it. It will also be restarted at phone boot it it was running when the phone turns off. The auto kill functionality is particulary usefull for killing useless services started by the Android system when your phone is idle. Your phone battery will no more be over solicited when your phone is in standby. The auto kill functionality will not kill the application you are currently using on your phone.
TaskKiller Kill on pause
When your phone screen is turned off, keeping processes in memory is useless. The TaskKiller kill on pause functionality will kill unused tasks automatically each time your phone screen is turned off. Combined with the auto kill functionality, it will optimize your phone battery life. If your phone is turned off with an application running in foreground, this application will not be kill by the kill on pause feature.
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