Closing Apps to Save Your Battery Only Makes Things Worse

krotch said:

kill

put an end to or cause the failure or defeat of (something).


Closing it won't kill anything. Disabling it or removing it sure does

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So you where just being off topic and ignoring the article to make a senseless point that had nothing to do with the actual discussion being had. Got it.

Article is about closing apps, discussion is about the article.

Also to add to that killing an app = closing it. Disabling and removing is not the same as killing. Not sure how you can imply the term killing an app refers to uninstalling it or disabling it but not closing it.

Disposed said:

So you where just being off topic and ignoring the article to make a senseless point that had nothing to do with the actual discussion being had. Got it.

Article is about closing apps, discussion is about the article.

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Hey, just like your post

Holding 10 paused background apps in ram uses less electricity than reloading them all twenty times a day.

A process running in the background is a process running. Kill it to save battery life.

iOS is really good about controlling how non-foreground apps behave. The logic of a push service for battery life extention seemed revolutionary when they introduced it.

Well, just to add my 2c to this discussion; in Dec last the wife and I both got new cell phones from Verizon; LG V10s.
Phone is great but it was loaded with a lot of crap ware from Verizon. A lot of it duplicating apps and functions that Android already provides.
It took a couple week to really learn all the ins and outs of the phone so I decided to kill and disable all the installed apps I didn't need or want.
I noticed a few days later the phone seemed to keep a charger much longer. My wife was complaining the battery life on her phone was no better than the old phone she had.
I took it and KILLED and uninstalled the same apps I had done on mine and low and behold she had better battery life also. Had to wonder what are these apps doing to eat so much batter life??
Data mining? Constantly pinging the towers more than needed? Don't know.

Unfortunately the MOST ANNOYING app I'm going to need a hack to get rid of. It is the Verizon Visual voice mail. A service that costs extra.

Ducman69 said:

I call bullshit.

If I leave Waze or my SmartRadar app running by accident in the background, my phone is dead in no time.

I have a tablet that I leave 24x7 in my car on a magnetized mount, and because I may not drive the car for a week or two, I need it to automatically go into super-sleep mode when it loses USB power when the car turns off. I use a app, slumber something, and basically it shuts down all the background apps and doesn't allow any to wake up or ping for your location or data and so forth until power is restored. It makes a massive difference, and ensures my battery is always showing 100% within a minute or two of driving.

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That's because waze runs when it's in background, unlike facebook/chrome/etc... Waze is a different kind of app. I like that it runs in background because I can shut my screen off and it'll still talk to me and tell me where to turn/etc w/o munching extra battery due to the display being on.