Hey,
I use an app called 'itching thumb' wich replaces the default home screen. But as the app is only intended to switch task I still use the defaulft home screen (sense). The problem now is, that this way 'sense' is sleeping and since it has a high memory usage it's often closed by andoid. My question now is, is there any way to let android prefer other apps to close?
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I found the Task Manager app in HTC Desire HD at 2.3.5 is really useful, it kills most of the apps I don't want to use, but leave those always running ones such as Lookout security, 3G watch dog, Viber, Weixin(Like Heytell) and Onavo.
After I switched to HTC One X, it seems it kills everything, and you can not put certain app in a exception list which is really annoying, so I have to either restart the apps or stop those unwanted ones one by one.
Any better solution for this?
Thank you.
Best solution: don't use task killers. Not sure why HTC bothered putting one in. Let android handle what needs to close and when. It does okay.
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Hi Guys,
I've noticed that when i "remove" (flick upwards) an app from Recent Apps, it does not really kills/closes that app. I know i can go to Task Manager and kill that app. My question is that is there any way (settings) that enables "Kill" of the app when i remove it (using upward flick) from the Recent Apps.
I tried looking up for this but was not successful hence a new thread (i was somewhat sure someone must have ask for it already).
Thanks
veerm said:
Hi Guys,
I've noticed that when i "remove" (flick upwards) an app from Recent Apps, it does not really kills/closes that app. I know i can go to Task Manager and kill that app. My question is that is there any way (settings) that enables "Kill" of the app when i remove it (using upward flick) from the Recent Apps.
I tried looking up for this but was not successful hence a new thread (i was somewhat sure someone must have ask for it already).
Thanks
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I dont believe that there is a setting where you can change that. If you want to kill an individual app, use the task manager but in general, there is really no need to be killing all of your apps - the Android OS is designed to have apps sitting there not closed (and the HOX has 1gig of RAM so your shouldnt see any slow down anyway!).
Some custom ROMS for other devices do have a setting where you can set longpress backbutton to kill the app that you are in. Havent seen this in any One X roms yet but im sure it will come
It has been written many times before but can't be said enough, task killers isnt helping the system at all! Android OS itself controls the ram memory and closes the apps that isnt used in case of running out of memory
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App killers are phone killers!!1
Even if you force close the app, it may reopen immediately. some apps do this on their own. you dont need to worry about it.
the phone will prioritise the currently running app over cached or paused apps when it needs to. this is an autonomous feature (you don't have any control over it)
I stopped using App Killers and found performance/battery-life/usability to be exactly the same.
remember, Android has your back.
Megabunny said:
Even if you force close the app, it may reopen immediately. some apps do this on their own. you dont need to worry about it.
the phone will prioritise the currently running app over cached or paused apps when it needs to. this is an autonomous feature (you don't have any control over it)
I stopped using App Killers and found performance/battery-life/usability to be exactly the same.
remember, Android has your back.
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Yeah but those apps are open and fill up almost whole 1GB RAM and when somone wants play game it is laggy cos not enough ram ..
Even when am broqsing internet is so laggy ..
But when u not doing with mobile it doesnt drain battery cos cpu is idle 99%
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the HOX has 1gig of RAM so your shouldnt see any slow down anyway!).
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well you will see slow down because it's an HTC One X..somehow HTC have managed to reduce the performance of a quad core processor to something that resembles a dual core device...juttering and slowing down..hogging all the RAM and re-drawing the launcher constantly
well done HTC. This the last time you're getting my money.
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True, however, the priorization is all wrong. When I send my browser to the background just to open an email for an address, most of the times the browser gets closed.
So, when I revert to the browser it has to start all over.
When I look in taskmanager, I see many programs that should be closed before closing the browser, because the browser was the lastest used application.
I would love to have more control over the dumb task closer of the HOX! For instance:
- really close applications that have been in the background for at least a certain amount of time (so games can have more memory without stutter!)
- close applications in reverse order of latest used instead of used most memory
- try to leave at least a certain amount of memory free (and let ME choose this amount)
So, when many tell that task killers are not needed they are only right for non-HOX devices. In other words, the HOX task killer that works automagically has serious issues preventing us to multi-task!
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- try to leave at least a certain amount of memory free (and let ME choose this amount)
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linux caches stuff in memory to make it quicker when you do want it. unused ram is wasted ram. it is not like windows.
Sorry for the vague title.
When apps that require additional data (GTA III, Spectral Souls, ect) are downloading, I find that I need to keep them running in the foreground.
If I open GTA III, let it start downloading data, switch to home and do other stuff, then switch back, the app immediately closes and I have to resume the download by relaunching the app.
I am not familiar with downloading data for apps so I am not sure if this is expected behavior or if there is some issue with my tablet.
Thank you in advance.
I have experienced the same issue.
Also even when I play a game and go to the home page to look at something and try and get back after a few minutes the game restarts.
Its as if multitasking does not work or the applications are being killed.
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One of new features in jelly-bean is closing non used apps automatically instead of keeping them in ram
like android does normally, to controll dfault system behaviour in this case go to setting/developer options/keep activities, this may be causing problems, from developer point of view every app should be killed when user quits is., and android activity life cycle was sometimes real pain in the ass, especially in case of porting apps from other platforms.
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Thank you for the response. But this is not true multi tasking then. And what is the default standard limit mean? Thank you.
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i think in the setting u can delay this?? not sure where but im sure i saw something like that...
I leave a few app to a specific page or section that I use a lot open in the recent app. After few min. I click recent app, it will load the app and it will act like it open the app fresh. So the recent app is basically useless. Any idea??
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I think the Recent App is just that - it shows you your recent apps. Where it opens up depends mainly on your memory, whether it released the memory for that app to make space for another app, or still have that app's recent screen/page in memory.
Your app will stay running in the background until Android decides that it needs to free up memory for something else.
Some apps cope better with this - Chrome, for instance, still goes back to the same tab I had open but seems to reload it from cache. Other apps just start afresh.
I'm not sure of any easy way to tell Android to not close a particular app I'm afraid
Is there a way to prevent apps that you long press home for and minimize to open another app, thus causing it to restart?
I think I get what your asking, but can you ask again with a little more detail and explanation of what your asking?
Okay, say i'm playing a game, I minimize the game to open up a program, and when I open the 2nd program and do what I have to do, and full screen the first app that I originally minimized, that app almost always reloads from the beginning like I closed out of the app.
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Okay, say i'm playing a game, I minimize the game to open up a program, and when I open the 2nd program and do what I have to do, and full screen the first app that I originally minimized, that app almost always reloads from the beginning like I closed out of the app.
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yup that's the problem with 512 mb RAM
if you're rooted, flash turbo Boost mod which increases the RAM
"Lack" of ram is the main issue here
There's an option in the settings that kills every app when you minimize it, if that's what you need, just give a look
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