I have a strong stance on both types of apps. DON'T!
First, you bought a powerful pc in your pocket. With near instant access to your email and social hubs. Both of these types of apps have features that will restrict or completely cut off tools your phone uses to maintain it's connection to either communications need.
What's the point of paying for instant email, when you have an app that doesn't allow it?
Task Killers: Originally, there was a valid use for these, which is pre-Android 2.0. All handsets featuring a near-current build of Android has task management already built in to the system it self. 2.3 and above almost starts to follow your personal habits and regulates tasks accordingly.
A couple other issues I've seen involving task killers, is the app restricting or killing the actual phone app. In effect, prevents an incoming call from even creating a notification until a voicemail is left. Or, doing a similar action to the SMS/Messaging app, which has created two different scenarios. One, killing the app and not notifying of new messages, and another where the messaging app is regulated during composing or sending a message, and somehow sending it to an entirely different contact.
Battery Savers: I haven't seen any big problems associated with these, just annoyances. One of the key ways for one of these apps to help save battery life is to restrict or completely cut the data connection to the network. Not a big problem, but very annoying. Sometimes the app even prevents you from manually turning the data connection back on, when you want to use it.
These apps will also save battery life by cutting off other radios. Such as WiFi. But with the new Verizon Wireless limited plans WiFi is almost a necessity. With using my WiFi when I can, so far this month I'm at .9 Gbs and I don't reset until the 21st. Without WiFi I usually hit between 2.5-4 Gbs for the month.
Most of the time, when I'm troubleshooting a client's phone, removing any of these types of apps solves most of the problems. Just uninstall all found apps of these catagories, then PULL THE BATTERY OUT. Not shut the phone down, pull the battery out! Another optional step after removing them is to clear the Delvik cache, which is kinda on the advanced user side of things, but I will get in to doing that in a later post.
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