After installing and running the taskkiller APK I found, to my surprise, that the eDGe has quite a lot of apps running in the background. Some of these, like the library and email I can understand.

But a whole bunch of others, like VPN, for instance, google friendservice, or the default browser (even though I use Dolphin)? Also, it appears that some third party apps (like google voice) also run in the background automatically on startup.

As far as I can tell, there is no need for these apps to be running, but yet they do and take up memory, processor resources, and contribute to battery drain.

As far as I know, there's no way to disable loading apps at startup. The only solution I have is to manually kill these processes with taskkiller, which obviously is not an ideal solution.

Anyone have thoughts or other solutions?