QUOTE(saru04 @ Oct 12 2012, 06:13 PM)
guys, sorry if somebody asked this before.
but just wanna know, is it good for a phone is you keep clearing the ram used through the task manager?
as far as I know, friends told me its good but only I came across a few ppl saying it isn't good.
Need some clarifications.
since you asked so politely...
Clearing RAM basically means shutting down EVERYTHING on your phone. Running apps in the background will also be closed.
Well, of course, naturally many apps will restart again thus eating up juice to boot up right? So, in that sense, it does cause a little bit of work for your device. Does it hurt or harm your device? Certainly not.
It's good probably only if your phone really does start to lag badly and you are for certain BECAUSE of too many background apps are causing your device to lag, clearing RAM might improve the situation a little bit.
However, the way Android manages things, it's rarely that that is the case of why your device lags. So many people just suggest not to do it because juice is precious. It's been a long time since I cleared RAM, if I find a rogue application running which I don't like it doing so, either I stop it individually/freeze/uninstall completely depending on how irritated I am about it.