T-Mobile Beta Testing Device Tune-Up, Meant to Help Battery and Performance
T-Mobile’s gotten a bit proactive on the software side of things with improving device experience for their customers. They’ve been building an app called Device Tune-Up which will proactively shut unused/old services down in order to help the battery life and the phone’s overall performance.
“Device Tune-up is different from most task killers because it does not require you to do anything. Device Tune-up will default to ‘on’. While on, Device Tune-up proactively closes services to help the device and battery perform at their best. Most pre-loaded applications will not be affected by Device Tune-up. For our non-technical users, this may mean you never even realize Device Tune-up is running; your device may simply run better.”
It sounds a lot like the app AutoKiller which allows you to set profiles up to make Android more or less aggressive in automatically managing services and memory. It’s different from a traditional task killer where you don’t actually control what’s being shut down and when, rather you’re telling Android’s built-in memory and services manager that you want it to kill apps more often or less often, depending on the settings you provide.
We won’t get into the controversial debate regarding task killers and their neutral (and, according to some people, negative) effect on how well your device performs; but if you’ve followed the advice of Android’s engineers by uninstalling a task killer and you’re still itching for more efficient memory management, this is definitely worth looking into.
Get over to T-Mobile’s forums now to learn how you can test this out.
[via Android and Me]