Originally Posted by
rimpit But in the end, I have to terminate every app in the task manager by pushing and holding the home button to held the task menu clean for fast switching the apps.
- all the apps designed to run in background will continue to operate - mail clients, media players, monitoring apps, etc.
- terminating apps in Task Manager is a common
mistake and actually slows down the device. Android with full memory runs faster, no need to reload apps, they are in memory already. If the system needs RAM to run something else, it will hibernate inactive apps automatically.
- Android JellyBean and up has much better memory management than BB10. 2GB RAM Android device will run more apps faster than 2GB BB10 device, and will switch between apps faster too.
The device you have experience with is a
bare minimum to run JellyBean + few apps only, this is what $60 phone is good for. On 512MB device every new app you open will hibernate one before, and it can't run in hibernated state. It's like running Windows8 on a 10y old computer. It will run somehow, but you won't be able to do much with it. Go to a mobile store and try something like Nexus 5 ($350 off-contract on Google Play, best price/specs device available) and you'll be amazed how the phone does things faster than you can decide what to do next.