App killers for Andoid phone, what do you use?

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I recently got an Android phone and the one thng I have read about is Apps staying resident and running in the background that are consuming resources etc and the only way to stop them is to force each to stop individually or use an "app killer".

So hence the question, I have done some Googling on the matter and read reviews of those listed in the Google store and what confuses me is that some apps, the inbuilt ones that are in the main required for the phone toy 'run' can inadvertently get stopped by using an App Killer ~ not good AFAIK.

I hope users can share their insight as the best choice of App Killer :)

TIA
 
AVG, not a bad idea to have antivirus anyway but it also closes anything being awkward.
 
4wd said:
AVG, not a bad idea to have antivirus anyway but it also closes anything being awkward.
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Many thanks for the reply.

Ah! so Android needs AV as well as MS products! I will have a look in Google Store for AVG anti virus and its App Killer features especially if with one click it will force stop of all non system Apps :) Also I do hope AVG itself is 'light' on resources demands as this phone though 16GB of storage has a 1GB of RAM
 
I hope users can share their insight as the best choice of App Killer :)
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I have never used an app killer at any time during the 5 years I've been using Android devices. The memory management system in the Android OS is more than good enough.
 
On my Android (note 3) I hold the home button and it shows all the running apps press the bin icon and it closes them all, never use a separate app.

It's good to have an anti virus running, I have always used avast which doesn't seem to slow the phone and has some nice features with it.
 
Spoony said:
On my Android (note 3) I hold the home button and it shows all the running apps press the bin icon and it closes them all, never use a separate app.

It's good to have an anti virus running, I have always used avast which doesn't seem to slow the phone and has some nice features with it.
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Mine is the Moto G and so far the only way to see all running Apps is to drill down in the settings menu and stop them one by one if/as needed.
 
you could just go into the developer options and tell it to close apps on exit and restrict the maximum number of processes in the dev options (I think)
 
DizMatt said:
you could just go into the developer options and tell it to close apps on exit and restrict the maximum number of processes in the dev options (I think)
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Ah! getting under the hood as the USA cousins might say :lol: I have found by Googling how to access the DV options.......................will have a look but being risk aware just need to be carefull what I do or not as the case may be???
 
Box Brownie said:
Mine is the Moto G and so far the only way to see all running Apps is to drill down in the settings menu and stop them one by one if/as needed.
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Mine's the Moto G too, it's very rare you need close things manually, but I have had one or two things sort of lock up which could be closed down easiest with AVG - firefox springs to mind.
 
Android doesn't need antivirus. It also doesn't need app killers. Trust me on this...the only time you might want an app killer is if a process hangs (ES Task Manager is good). Otherwise, let the OS manage it, it's better at it than you are.
 
I find the process prioritising and queuing weak on Android..
Basically you have apps installed. They all think that they're important and fight over cycles and data.
For example. You open up your tablet to check the forum? Every Damn app and its dog wants immediate run time and checks for notifications instead of waiting for the actual app that's in the foreground. It really does need help..
My old Sony phone was so bad at this or actually had problems answering the phone FFS at times.
 
That is not how android works and is not typical. Android does not behave that way.
 
landwomble said:
Android doesn't need antivirus. It also doesn't need app killers. Trust me on this...the only time you might want an app killer is if a process hangs (ES Task Manager is good). Otherwise, let the OS manage it, it's better at it than you are.
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Re AV, yes as I understood and read not AV as a little like Apple there are (or were not) virii for Android but I have read that Malware and other such nasties do exist that could affect/infect Android apps/programs........so are the likes of AVG, Avast, ESET needed or not to counter such nasties? For the record I use ESET on the PC so is a brand I trust and did get the ESET app as a layer of protection.

Looked up ES task manager and it does get good reviews.
 
Moto G runs KitKat which is far better at handling this than any other android version, simply click the app-switch button (2 boxes, 1 in front of another, then swipe away the app that doesn't need to be left open). I have a Nexus 5 and my friend a Moto G, neither of us have had to do anything more than that. AV is a good precaution, but providing you read the reviews or comments on the app prior to installing its not really necessary.
 
Neilc28 said:
Moto G runs KitKat which is far better at handling this than any other android version, simply click the app-switch button (2 boxes, 1 in front of another, then swipe away the app that doesn't need to be left open). I have a Nexus 5 and my friend a Moto G, neither of us have had to do anything more than that. AV is a good precaution, but providing you read the reviews or comments on the app prior to installing its not really necessary.
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AFAIK yes Kitkat (I think that is v4.4) has been released as I have seen mention of it but it appears not to have been "released" by Motorola as there "are no software updates.....". Thinks best check again what v number mine is as I thought it was 4.4.2 or is it 4.2.2
 
Should be 4.4.2, Moto have definitely released it :)
 
There really is no need for AV on android. Read app reviews and review app permissions before installing and don't side-load apps from dodgy sources.

As for app killer, there hasn't been any point to these since Ice Cream Sandwich (Android V4), just use the built in task manager. Right hand button to pull up the list of running apps and swipe away the one you want. To be honest though, unless it is a badly written app it will just be cached and not taking up any resource that you need anyway.
 
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