The auto app killer modify that landed in the Cydia store yesterday is one that is triggering mixed opinions around the jailbreak community, with most chatter surrounding whether or not a bundle of this nature is even required. The modify is designed to enable jailbroken individuals some extra manage over running processes on their gadget in the hope that it will keep either the iphone or iPod touch running smoothly without any low memory warnings.
Once installed, auto app killer enables individuals to set a specific low memory threshold, which is the minimum amount of free RAM they want their gadget to be running with before the system starts to terminate running apps in order to free up a few of that valuable memory resource. I am quite sure the debate will run on as well as on about whether or not something such as this is really required, thinking about that iOS itself does a quite great task of immediately handling memory on the device. however keeping that disagreement aside, the auto app killer modify does a quite great task when going about its business.
Whenever an application is running as well as then closed by the individual by pressing the house button on the device, that app is sent to the background as well as discovers itself at house in the multitasking tray. The theory behind this is that it can be quickly invoked once again from memory should the individual need it. The only method to eliminate that app totally from memory is to gain access to the switcher bar, put the icons into edit (wiggle) mode as well as delete it from the background. auto app killer will essentially handle that process for you by killing apps that are taking memory.
One of the great things about the modify is that it really aspects applications that are currently in the background however are still running processes. So apps like Pandora or the music app that may not be on screen, however are still streaming music will be left alive. Additionally, applications that are tracking GPS positions or running any type of other specific background process will not be killed, making it rather an effective memory handling utility.
On a personal level, I have never experienced any type of memory problems on any type of of my iOS devices, which to me suggests that Apple’s mobile OS does a bang-up task of handling this, as well as for extra support I utilize a modify like WeeBackground pro to kill running applications as well as free up memory.
Auto app killer is offered for $1.49 from the BigBoss repository as well as needs a jailbroken iphone or iPod touch running iOS 5 or above. This modify is not compatible with the iPad.
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