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Whats the point in using Advance task killer on an android phone?

I just bought an android phone. The phone guy said I should use advance task killer. Whats the point of "killing" apps?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Because the design of Android is to multitask so that means that if you use an app, its still running in the background even if youre not doing anything with it anymore. So its using battery- app killers shut them off. best one is advanced task killer- just pick which ones you wanna kill

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    All a production unit reset will do is erase all apps and archives (contacts, ringtones settings) that are on the telephone itself, and restore the telephone to out of the field condition (so a great way as what's put in on the telephone's inner memory. It won't touch something put in or saved to the SD card (if any). this could propose you may desire to verify each ingredient you prefer to maintain, has been subsidized up in some vogue, the two to the SD card, your pc, or on line someplace, until now you do the production unit/grasp reset. no might desire to worry "messing the telephone up. Rooting your telephone won't mess you telephone up, until you verify to not persist with the instructions for rooting your telephone with the strategies which could be utilized for you telephone and version of OS put in on your telephone. does not matter what you "HEARD" approximately rooting, what gets you in difficulty with rooting, isn't following the instructions, not employing the approach that works to your telephone, and not doing the stairs as given in the instruction manual for rooting your telephone. So quite in case you are able to not persist with instructions, ensue to be impatient, and searching for short cuts , extra helpful to not root your telephone, until you have the time to study and understand what you're doing. Over Clocking is something which you're able to do after rooting your telephone and setting up a Kernel that facilitates you to run the CPU of the telephone, faster than it is with the inventory kernel you get out of the field. this could do some issues, make the telephone run faster, make the telephone run warmer, and use the battery faster, could additionally make the telephone volatile. until you employ overclocking good, you are able to kill your telephone. yet it quite is something that oftentimes does not ensue, a minimum of with the present apps accessible for overclocking, and it won't be able to be completed, until you root the telephone besides.

  • 1 decade ago

    google it

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