froyo and task killers - Desire General

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?

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Close an Application?

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

Quick froyo question

I am running a froyo ROM which has much improved the phone.
One thing I have noticed, on the web browser if I am on a website and then I kill the app. Then if I reload the browser, it goes back to that last site I was on. Before it used to go back to the homepage.
It's the same for the market and tapatalk app. Both go to where I was Before.
It's a froyo feature or can you change it like on 2.1?
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The only way I thought u could do this was by using a task killer to kill the internet browser. Then when u open it up again it should be at home page.
Careful Mind, i remember reading task killers and Froyo dont mix
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The only way I thought u could do this was by using a task killer to kill the internet browser. Then when u open it up again it should be at home page.
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I am using advanced task killer pro.
When i kill the apps, and then re open the browser goes to my last page i was on, the market goes do the last app i was viewing,
Im using advanced task killer pro v1.9.0
Anyone??
Can someone confirm if this occurs on there froyo roms especially modaco r5 please?
thanks

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.

[Q] Touchwiz task manager

If i do a Level 2 ram clean up with the stock task manager, my messages wont send and xda app wont open. When i try xda, it does the "buzz......buzz buzz buzz" then force close xda. Any suggestions?
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Reboot or keeping on lvl2ing untill it works
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Tried that
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I have the same problem. I now have been just doing a reboot once a day instead of clearing the ram. I noticed I have a few apps that don't enjoy being cleared out with the stock manager. I am happy with how android does its ram management now and really only clear it when I have been playing with lot of media files.
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Problem is, apps like xda, youtube, qik, market, messaging, facebook, twitter and countless others stay in ram after you close them. Makes my phone slow cause I use most every one of those constantly. So clearing my ram manually is needed. I like the task manager way more than the "manage applications" settings ,but if this keeps hapening, I might just have to start force stopping apps the long way.
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Or just sign out of apps like Facebook, Twitter and youtube then sign back in. I do this once a week to keep it clean, it dumps the data. This version of Touchwiz is a mess.
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Closing apps via recent apps manager - issue

Ok so noticed it few days ago. Will use Facebook and touchdown as example it happens to many apps and for now did not find common denominator.
I reset the phone and do not star Facebook app or touchdown. When I go to task manager they are not listed there even if they are updating with messages/emails. All good. Then I start the app use it and when done press home.
After that I go to recent apps and slide up to kill them. All good but then if I go to task manager both Facebook and touchdown are listed and loaded with minimum 12mb each. Only if I kill them via task manager memory is released.
Had similar issue with calendar, mail or for example YouTube. Even if I have no mobile data so none of those apps can update they still sit in memory after killing them in recent apps. I have to use task manager to kill them.
Any one noticed same issue? Happened on stock rom and on HD rom which is based on stock kernel.
The recent apps menu does not kill them it only clears that from the recent apps window. They will only be killed if you do it manually via the task manager. HTC built it like this and I'm not sure if it will be changed in a future update.
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Superfly94 said:
The recent apps menu does not kill them it only clears that from the recent apps window. They will only be killed if you do it manually via the task manager. HTC built it like this and I'm not sure if it will be changed in a future update.
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Honestly what is the point then? Also why some apps get killed then, mainly games and video players?
Not really sure what the point is, maybe it's just to be used as a quick app switcher. The problem why your games and video players get killed sometimes is that they might be memory intensive apps that android kills automatically when it needs the memory to run other apps.
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