Pull the battery in the morning, check the free memory, open the apps you normally would, use the escape key throughout the day, check the free memory at the end of the day.
Do the same steps the next day with using the close option.
Additionally, pressing and holding the Escape button closes most native and some 3rd party applications.
Just pressing the red end call key moves the application to the background. Think of it in PC terms. When you minimize a program, it is still using processes/memory as opposed to when you close the program.
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The effects of 'escape' or 'close' or 'exit' will vary also, according to the application.
IN MOST cases, escaping out of the app leaves it running in the background of the device, consuming resources and perhaps using additional memory as it collects additional data (say like BBWeather which will continue to update itself in the background).
Closing or exiting and having the application no longer processing in the background is the better choice IF you are not using that application constantly during a period.
Or, for example, an active browser page, say a weather or weather radar page which might be set to update constantly or every 60 seconds. That obviously will cause lag and/or memory depletion.
So, all opinions aside, there is also 'fact' involved which you must consider, regardless of which is faster.
I agree with Joey but now a days with the newer operating systems even if you escape the app rather than close/exit it, the memory foot print is still very low. With my 8900 I hardly find a drop in the memory if escape an app rather than close it.
I agree with Joey but now a days with the newer operating systems even if you escape the app rather than close/exit it, the memory foot print is still very low. With my 8900 I hardly find a drop in the memory if escape an app rather than close it.
Some of us are still working with "thumbprints" for memory!
According to QuickLaunch - I am at 10.52 MB right now and that is about average. After reboot I will be at 12 to 14.
Escape Vs. Close
