3.6.7 / February 5, 2012
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Description

Stop killing your apps randomly. Start monitoring them withWatchdog.

You don't need a task killer. But you do need a way to make surea background app doesn't lose control and eat up all your CPU.Watchdog monitors your apps and alerts when one loses control,allowing you to kill just that single app. Killing apps blindly cancause them to stop working as designed, and most app developerswon't even take a bug report from you if you are using a taskkiller!

From Android 2.2 on, the kill command works only on backgroundapps, and they will likely restart immediately. Watchdog removesthe app immediately from the list, since there isn't feedback aboutwhether it was successful. Having lots of apps running doesn't hurtyour phone at all unless they are doing something. In fact, killingan app and having it immediately restart simply consumes yourphones resources. If you just leave the apps running, they willstart immediately when you want to go back to it.

The paid version has all the features of the lite, removing theads, while adding a “blacklist” feature. This allows you to pick asingle app that is constantly misbehaving and assign a CPU %threshold to it. When that app exceeds the threshold, it will beautomatically killed.

So stop blindly killing all your apps; be smart by managing theminstead. Good for all versions of Android.


NOTE: There is an Android issue where Watchdog might crash uponlaunching after an upgrade. It seems to be related to the upgradeof the app while the old version happens to be executing in thebackground. It doesn't affect your phone's operation at all. Ifthis happens, re-launch and goto the menu and hit restart forproper monitoring.

App Information Watchdog Task Manager

  • App Name
    Watchdog Task Manager
  • Package Name
    com.zomut.watchdog
  • Updated
    February 5, 2012
  • File Size
    598k
  • Requires Android
    Android 1.5 and up
  • Version
    3.6.7
  • Developer
    Zomut, LLC
  • Installs
    10,000 - 50,000
  • Price
    $3.49
  • Category
    Tools
  • Developer
  • Google Play Link

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Watchdog Task Manager 3.6.7 APK
Zomut, LLC
Stop killing your apps randomly. Start monitoring them withWatchdog.You don't need a task killer. But you do need a way to make surea background app doesn't lose control and eat up all your CPU.Watchdog monitors your apps and alerts when one loses control,allowing you to kill just that single app. Killing apps blindly cancause them to stop working as designed, and most app developerswon't even take a bug report from you if you are using a taskkiller!From Android 2.2 on, the kill command works only on backgroundapps, and they will likely restart immediately. Watchdog removesthe app immediately from the list, since there isn't feedback aboutwhether it was successful. Having lots of apps running doesn't hurtyour phone at all unless they are doing something. In fact, killingan app and having it immediately restart simply consumes yourphones resources. If you just leave the apps running, they willstart immediately when you want to go back to it.The paid version has all the features of the lite, removing theads, while adding a “blacklist” feature. This allows you to pick asingle app that is constantly misbehaving and assign a CPU %threshold to it. When that app exceeds the threshold, it will beautomatically killed.So stop blindly killing all your apps; be smart by managing theminstead. Good for all versions of Android.NOTE: There is an Android issue where Watchdog might crash uponlaunching after an upgrade. It seems to be related to the upgradeof the app while the old version happens to be executing in thebackground. It doesn't affect your phone's operation at all. Ifthis happens, re-launch and goto the menu and hit restart forproper monitoring.