[ZombieBerry]

Free Application Resource Monitor - Download Application Resource Monitor - Free Apps from BlackBerry App World

Application Resource Monitor (ARM) is an application that provides a service that will monitor third party applications to watch for background system resource abuse (which causes accelerated battery depletion) and will automatically close these applications.

-ARM monitors applications that are not in the user's focus:
-When an application is in the background
-All applications when the display backlight is turned off
-Users are notified of applications via the notification banner
-Users are able to disable automatic closing of applications
-Users can tell ARM to not monitor the application via the notification
-Available for BlackBerry 7.1 only

[Rainbowtyedye]

I would love this! Too bad I'm on 5.0.
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[daphne]

I overslept one morning because it terminated the alarm on my 3rd party alarm app. I was thinking about deleting it. If you are navigating using GPS and and BlackBerry Traffic or other navigation app, and it terminates the nav app, that could be problematic.

[ZombieBerry]

You also have the ability to 'whitelist' an app, so that the ARM doesn't even monitor the power consumption. I had to do that for two apps.

[daphne]

I checked and there is no option to remove it. So whitelisting is the answer.

[obi1]

this app comes PRELOADED with the OS 7.1.good stuff indeed, however i don't see any difference.

[ZombieBerry]

Yes, current builds include the arm, but maybe future builds will not. Then RIM would want to ensure that people still had access to the module(as a stand alone app)

It's actually pretty good that you do not see a difference, it means your installed/running apps do not suck a lot of juice, and do not chew memory.