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I have the completely opposite experience on my HTC Eris. If I don't use a task killer I get lag problems (especially with dialer delay) It becomes unbearable after a couple of days. Everything is perfect a few seconds after a trip to ATK. I'm not sure if this is a resource management problem or just a bug in the HTC Sense apps.

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Up until Froyo (2.2) I had to kill tasks every now and then (or simply reboot) because it was slowing down to a crawl. All the animations were getting choppy, took a lot longer for applications to start, and so on. I guess they fixed or tweaked something in 2.2 because for the past moth I didn't have to kill anything yet; I have the same apps as before. Unfortunately they also broke some stuff in FRF91 (oddly enough FRF83 was better / more stable for me...)

My wife's phone (Eris) has the exact same issues. I put a task killer on, and immediately the lag issues were reduced. I've just tried switching from Sense to the stock home app and removing the task killer to see if it would help. Interestingly my own phone (Droid) has never had any issues and works fine without any task killer apps.

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