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Hi
This might be a stupid question, but anyways:
I bought me a HTC Desire yesterday and im very happy with it.
Now i installed the Advanced Task Killer as i heard its a good app.
Now, every time i open something, like the SNESoid Player, or even my SMS(Messages), and the close it by pressing the Home or back button, i see afterwards in the Task Killer that its still running!?
So, how do i "close" an application, or is this just normal? It's pretty weird to me.
Thanks

This is one of the most asked and answered questions. Search and you shall find.

You probably used a WM device before Android I can imagine. Android OS handles all that stuff automatically, you shouldn't worry about apps not closing because when an app isn't used it isn't using either memory or CPU. When a new application opens and needs memory, the one(s) still running will close and give space for the new one.

As "ArtieQ" said it's not recommended to use a task killer.
But if you really need to stop a program you can use your native task manager, from "settings">applications>manage applications - then when the list of applications loads, you can press menu button and choose "filter" and then "running". Now when you choose an application from the list, it will show you information for it and an option to "force stop" it, that is to close it.

Thanks alot!
Well, i used a crappy iPhone 3G before..no multitasking you know

I was looking for an answer to this question and find something here but I am still a little bit confused : many applications that I have tested dont close if I press the home or the back button and they don't have any "quit" or "exit" command or menu entry. I was facing some battery issues with all these apps in the background. It's true that uninstalling some of them and force closing others in the app manager solved the issue but it is really not confortable to go in the app manager every time after using the phone to close the apps and save battery. I am wondering if an auto-close application exist in the market...

Advanced task manager has an autokill function within It's settings. It also has a desktop widget that you can press to kill apps when you want. You will probably want to add some of your apps to the ignore list though so notifications etc still work ok
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hans moleman said:
Advanced task manager has an autokill function within It's settings. It also has a desktop widget that you can press to kill apps when you want. You will probably want to add some of your apps to the ignore list though so notifications etc still work ok
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I remember that installed somthing like advanced task manager and it ended up by eating my battery charge cause it was running all the time. I'll test this and report back.
Thanks for the tip

Instead of using a task manager/killer consider using 'autostarts' which is an app (paid) which allows you to stop apps starting automatically.
For example, maps gets started when you do almost anything and once started really eats your battery.
I've been using autostarts for a while now and would definitely recommended it for battery saving.

thanks for this tip iain2510

Task killer not killing apps

I have tried 3 different task killers but each one do not seem to be killing the task even though it says it is.
When i open the "killed" apps, they open to the last screen before they were killed.
I am using the froyo ROM. On 2.1, when the apps were killed and then re-opened them, it always went back to the main screen.

perhaps stop using them u only disturb androids internal memory managment.

I prefer using task killers, it made the phone quicker when i was on 2.1

U should search Google, for why android doesn't need task killers.
Cyanogen even mentioned it in his tweets.
Tadkillers are pointless on android
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nope they are not.
but i agree they are useless on daily operation
i am using them to kill everything after boot, since android loads everything into memory.
which is not usefull either.
after that one kill, i am also not using any.

Thanks, I find the task killers are very convenient to use.
When I kill a app, I prefer to go to its main home page rather the last page I was on.
Can others confirm if there having any issues regarding this?
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Right after experimenting a little, i have discovered the following.
The task killers are killing apps. I have done a test to confirm this.
I have opened many apps and then gone into the menu then RUNNING APPLICATIONS. There it shows me all the opens that i have opened. So i then kill nthem using a task killer and i go back to RUNNING APPLICATIONS. Now these apps are not there so they have been killed.
This "issue" that im having may be standard feature of froyo.
So can anyone open a few apps, use them for a few seconds and then kill them. When you re-open them, do they go to the last page you were on or do they go to app main page.
thanks

Can anyone just do a quick test for me on there desire?
It will be much appreciated.

froyo and task killers

On froyo I have noticed that app killer is not killing the apps properly.
When I kill the apps and then reopen them, it goes back to the last screen.
Does this happen to everyone?

It's working fine with me
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What task killer are you using?
So if you go on the web to any website, kill it, then re-open the web. Does it go to your homepage or the last page you were on?

[Q] No multitasking on my rooted Desire...

Hi! I'm looked throught all posts, but nothing found about this, no one answer. Just some questions from some users, but no answers
My problem is- I don't have multitasking on alpharev s-off rooted New Sence ReflexTSence HD. now I have v 1.7, before I had 1.5, 1.6.
I tryed to use taskkiller app, all is ok while it is running... I have used different settings, some of them was ok. !!!BUT!!! After some time on standby taskkiller kills itself or phone kills it, I realy don't know. So if I delete taskkiller app, multitasking doesn't exists anyway. Web browser closes after I hit home button and use any other app like sms @mail or player (power amp) or phone book...
I CAN'T SEND SMS OR MAKE PHONE CALL WITHOUT LOOSING WEB SESSION (((confused: (SORRY 4 MY POOR LANGUAGE)

First of all, uninstall the taskkiller app, it will do more harm then good. It is not needed anymore since android 2.2.
If you phone runs out of memory it will kill your websession. Don't know a solution for this, you could try an other rom, but that's your own choice.

but some times it works ANY IDEA???

I tried this... but why author all time puts it into rom??

Flash gingervillain
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woldya said:
I tried this... but why author all time puts it into rom??
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if you dont want to use rom
you can use mini info and see how much ram you have and the cpu usage.
Also try a different webbrowser?

I like built in browser much more
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How do you prevent the stock task manager from automatically closing important apps

How do you prevent the stock task manager from automatically closing important apps like: Web?? I'm tired of going back to my browser to find that everything i was just doing has disappeared.

Stock task manager doesn't automatically kill apps unless you tell it to...

Well after using other apps, something is ending the Web browser. When I go back to the browser it opens back at whatever homepage i have set in the browser.

No replies...? I guess Android users are content with this type of sloppy design.

That's not the task killers fault, my Sensation 4G did the same thing. When the browser closes itself to default home page, did you have multiple windows opened in the browser?

Wow just cause no one answered you right away doesnt mean you gotta get all snotty.
Btw im surfing the web I will then proceed to reopen my web browser leaving off at the last page I was on.
How I do it ... I don't press the back button. I press home and select the app from there.
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hazard99 said:
Wow just cause no one answered you right away doesnt mean you gotta get all snotty.
Btw im surfing the web I will then proceed to reopen my web browser leaving off at the last page I was on.
How I do it ... I don't press the back button. I press home and select the app from there.
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No op its correct, if you leave the Web browser and go of and do enough tasks that require enough ram, your browser will get booted and you'll lose all your tabs. I've tried using a 3rd party browser like opera but I believe opera will close as well if the ram is demanded, Android is just designed this way.Android central wrote a good article about this.
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mettleh3d said:
No op its correct, if you leave the Web browser and go of and do enough tasks that require enough ram, your browser will get booted and you'll lose all your tabs. I've tried using a 3rd party browser like opera but I believe opera will close as well if the ram is demanded, Android is just designed this way.Android central wrote a good article about this.
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LOL, I knew my earlier comment would get a good response! Interesting, I'm gonna go try to find that article.

If you pressed "back" button then of course you told the browser to quit...
Don't press "back", press "home".

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If you pressed "back" button then of course you told the browser to quit...
Don't press "back", press "home".
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Dude, your wrong. Read post #7.

Im serious aslong as i dont press back im ok . I know its how android works but i guess i never leave the browser alone
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I was looking the other night for an option in the web app because i noticed it to. For some reason it closes out of your websites whenever you exit the program unlike the vibrant and other android phones i have had.

when ever you exit meaning you press the back button?

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when ever you exit meaning you press the back button?
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Try this: Exit the browser by pressing the Home button, then go play a couple games, check your email, browse through your settings, watch a couple of videos on youtube etc. etc. (you get the point) If you do enough things on the phone that uses a certain amount of Ram then POOF if you go back to the browser, everything will be gone (whatever webpage you were browsing and all your tabs that were open will be gone!) This is unacceptable and I hope there will be a fix, cause I really love this phone.