This review is on an app that I absolutely love.  It’s a free app in the market called OS Monitor.  This has been a huge help is detecting performance hits on the many custom roms that I’ve loaded.   It’s able to break down and display the processor and memory usage of processes list and much more.  It even has a CPU load graph option that sits right up top of your notification bar.

I’ve learned that every time that I reboot or just boot up my phone, the Gallery3D application is running and updating the cache for about 2 minutes before it settles down.  This has been the case with any rom that has Gallery3D.  =D

It even has the ability to kill those processes that are causing problems.  Now I’m not fond of those auto task killers at all.  Although, I see a real need to kill certain processes if it’s causing issues … Especially when I’m downloading so many apps from the market that might be problematic.  I advise that you don’t use those auto task killer apps at all.  Just manually kill the processes with OS Monitor if you know it’s causing problems.

Just as I was taking screen shots of the process list, I saw something that got my attention.  I use LauncherPro and it’s been my default launcher.  It was actually the first thing I installed when I loaded up froyo.  So why is Launcher even loading?  Well this is my preference … I deleted the Launcher2.apk from the /system/app folder and rebooted.

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