I agree with this. My phone is constantly having apps in the background using CPU and not getting released. This makes the back of my phone hotter than it should be. I can see the cpu utilization but I cannot kill the task. It's frustrating to think that I've got a runaway program using my battery that I cannot end. What I would give for a shell and a kill -9 command.
On Nov 9, 8:24 pm, Eric Mill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To get back to the original poster's suggestion, I think a process > killer would be wonderful. Sometimes my Android phone gets slow, and > the OS isn't doing a good enough job managing resources, so I'd like > to take matters into my own hands. It'd be for power users, sure, but > there's no harm in making it available. I'd download it in a > heartbeat. > > -- Eric > > On Nov 8, 1:22 am, "Michael T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I reached my limit for apps yesterday. Not all of the apps I had on the > > phone I needed. Some were functional duplicates for comparison. Yesterday I > > got a notice that I could not download an app due to lack of memory. > > At the very least the data an app generates should be saved on the SD card. > > For example, WHY are the notes of all notepad apps being saved to the phone > > memory and emailing them is the only way to get copies of them out? That > > makes no damned sense to me. > > Solution for my problem: did a factory reset and then was highly selective > > about reloading apps. > > Down side: all notepad notes - lost. All game scores, browser bookmarks, and > > preference settings - lost. (Nothing on the SD card was touched. Photos and > > music remained intact.) > > > On Nov 7, 2008 9:30 PM, "Joel Schnall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Precisely. > > > > > > I'm hoping that EA will have the intelligence to store non-executable > > > game assets on the SD... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
