

One last thing, install System Panel, it's a far better tool for checking system performance and what's going on in the background.


But that's overkill to solve a non-issue. There is NO significant difference in battery life, or performance either way (Skype "running" v. It really does more harm than good, and is unnecessary unless your benchmarking, or playing really cpu/memory intense games (but if your are, just buy a psp). Honestly, I'm going to tell you to just get rid of ATK. And by repeatedly killing it, all you are doing is forcing it to respawn, killing your battery. So the upshot of all of this.you can't really fix it (without rooting). And the small amount of ram they use will not have an appreciable effect on performance. It is not using any cpu, and no more battery than if that ram were empty. When it's "running" in the background it isn't actually running, it's just sitting inactive in the memory waiting to be called. And for cityid, it's important because if runs if there is an incoming call, and cpu lag/hanging is a really bad thing when you're trying to answer a call. This is very important if you actually use skype (or cityID for that matter) since the user doesn't want to wait a minute for skype to load to make a call (and wants to receive skype calls without starting it up every time). To save time at runtime (as well as cpu resources) it loads some apps/services at boot time, and then caches them in ram for when (if they're called). Vzw/HTC installed stuff on the theory that it'd be used. well, I'm going to go with vaguely inquisitive frustrated intershouting. Click to sure it was necessary to revive a post that's been dead for month's longer that most of us have had our incredibles.
