This might be a noob question but that's ok, I'm a smartphone noob.
I'm running CM6.1.1 and have the default android browser. Is there any where/way to set it up so that when you move from the open browser back to the "desktop" area that the browser actually closes?
It is driving me nuts to be on a site, hit the home key on the phone and then when I come back to the browser later I'm still on that last site I visited instead of the defined homepage for the browser. I can open the "window" key from the browser menu, close the current page & let it open a new widnow at my homepage and then go back to desktop, and I can of course force close under app management. Both options are a pita. I have to believe there is something I can set which will fully close the browser when I move away from it.
Help!
What you're doing is what I've been doing for ages (Menu > Windows > close all current windows then back out to home). I thought I remembered reading that with CM, you should be able to long hold the Back button to properly close an app, but I've never seen that done.
Yeah, I tried building a shortcut to the app manager but you can't build it far enough down. I don't want to just pull up the manager & then go through the selecting the browser & then force close.
I keep seeing something about "Task Killer". Maybe I can install that and build a shortcut that will just always kill the browser and make a habit of using that when I return to the desktop...
If you go to Settings>Applications>Development>Stop app via long press, you can kill the app by holding the back button. works great for me, hope it helps you .
-K
kelsec said:
If you go to Settings>Applications>Development>Stop app via long press, you can kill the app by holding the back button. works great for me, hope it helps you .
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I'll be damned. I never saw this option and thought it was automatically built into CM6. To the OP: I just tested this and it does exactly what both oif us have been dieing for
Thanks kelsec.
np, glad i could help i always keep this option checked, it helps for those problem apps that quit responding or that game that just never closes.
Precisely my need for it as well. Specifically apps like the Facebook app that randomly seems to not want to connect. Force closing it and relaunching was my work around, until now
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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
I've just upgraded to Skype 2.0.0.47 on my SGS2 and on my girlfriends ZTE Blade, but are having some issues.
1. Where on earth do you change the status of Skype? It should be, and probably is, dead-easy to switch.
2. Is there an easy way to exit the application, short of force-close?
3. Can you prevent Skype from auto-starting constantly, even after force-close? The Skype issue page for this version states:
Skype is auto-starting after sign-out / force close:
Skype is a "search provider" type of application. As a consequence of this, the default behavior of the Android platform is to try to restart the application if it crashes or the user does a force close. Skype does not auto-start itself after signing out of Skype.
Surely it can't be that stupid? When I close an app, I expect it to stay closed. This is especially relevant with Skype and it always starts with the status set to online, no matter what the last know status was (another bug).
Appreciate any insight on this, thanks!
1. Skype - profile - the icon next to search icon in the top right corner. There might be easier way, but I haven't found it (wasn't really looking)
2. Stop Skype from the market, but I'm having issues after last Skype update - see 3.
3. Don't know, but if I use the stock task manager and kill it it stops restarting - at least for a while.
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There are version within this forum that have the likes of non auto start and exit buttons built in.
pepa.sajdler said:
1. Skype - profile - the icon next to search icon in the top right corner. There might be easier way, but I haven't found it (wasn't really looking)
2. Stop Skype from the market, but I'm having issues after last Skype update - see 3.
3. Don't know, but if I use the stock task manager and kill it it stops restarting - at least for a while.
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1. There it was, thanks!
2. Yeah, that that one and it doesn't work for me. Skype stays closed longer than if I just end the task via a task manager, but still re-launches. Such a pain, at the moment I am forced to sign in and out as and when I use it.
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There are version within this forum that have the likes of non auto start and exit buttons built in.
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Now that sounds promising. A link will earn you the soul of my firstborn
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There are version within this forum that have the likes of non auto start and exit buttons built in.
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May I get the links?
(i'm completely new here, and not an english native - hard 2 navigate 4 me )
http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/4849-Skype-with-Video-Support-for-Various-Devices...
I hope this one helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1148708
This build works well for me with the extra options. SGS2 stock
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1148708
This build works well for me with the extra options. SGS2 stock
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Sounds very promising, thanks! Will try that.
Having tried it, I can confirm it's a good build for the SGS2. Most importantly there's an exit button and it doesn't autostart when you quit it. Just those two futures alone make it essential.
Video works soso, not always and the quality isn't much to write home about but then I don't really use video that much.
On the problem side it always starts with the 'Online' status set, not remembering the previous status like it does on a computer or on iOS devices (though that's the same as the vanilla Skype app from the Market) and more annoyingly, and several times embarrassingly, it rings and vibrates on a call even if the phone is set to silent (don't know if that is also the case with the vanilla Skype app).
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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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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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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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.
Hi out there
I don't know if I am the only one with this "problem":
I always was wondering, why no (max 1 or 2) apps are active. Finding out by having a look on the stock widget which shows the active/running apps. Wondering why SGW always starts at the main page (weather information) when returning form reading an article at News & Weather-app. Or why I always have to restart opera when receiving or reading an whatsapp in between.
Mostly I'm using the home button.
Problem now is, that I want to upload some photos to synology disc station. I am using the synology app browsing to the desired folder. While selecting the picture to be uploaded SGW switches to picturegalery in order to choose the file. Hitting the file (selecting) SGW returns to initial screen from synology app where you have to give credentials. So the operation is broken and you have to start again and again unable to upload anything. Same when I use webbrowser.
I guess that SGW kills the synology task while in galery. Same that SGW kills News & Weather while reading article. And so on.
Any solution???
I'm running stock rom 2.3.6, rooted, with V6 supercharger at level 6.
Thanks in advance
holydiver
V6 SC will kill apps in RAM.....to recover for active apps!!
Long press on Home key should bring up list of 6 apps by default.....and you should be able to return to any app.
It works for me, even with Tapatalk....I will leave....Tap Home key....do something else on phone....then long press Home.....be back in a sec!!!! .....
I'm baaack!!!!!
Just checked my Gmail and returned here by long press Home and selecting Tapatalk....brought me straight back where I left off.....
That is my experience!!!
level 6??
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long press on home button brings up the last 6 used apps. Does that mean they are still in RAM?
Why does the widget tell me there are no active apps?
Maybe its an bug (sorry feature ) from the synology app!?
holydiver
holydiver said:
long press on home button brings up the last 6 used apps. Does that mean they are still in RAM?
Why does the widget tell me there are no active apps?
Maybe its an bug (sorry feature ) from the synology app!?
holydiver
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It all depends if there is ram available.... if not, they will not be in RAM.....but you should get back to where you were in App.
Android is not Windows.....see this:
http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/android
4. Task Management Android multi-tasks differently to a desktop OS such as Windows. This is to make better use of a phone's limited resources such as memory and battery. The part of an Android app that you generally open up and deal with (the graphical user interface, or 'Activities') don't multitask. If you press Home and open something else, the app you leave is frozen in memory and stops getting CPU time. Most apps on Android work this way, unfortunately including the stock browser which won't continue updating when you are away from it. Some apps use special threads of execution called 'Services' which always run in the background but don't interact with the screen. Start playing a song in the music player (or start a streaming radio app like Last FM) and hit Home to go do something else. The player interface (which may include a CPU-hungry equalizer visualization) freezes and won't do anything until you switch back into it. But the thread playing the music keeps running and your music keeps playing. Start playing a game and then hit Home. The game freezes and sits in RAM but doesn't take any CPU. You may read and respond to a text message then hold Home and select the game from the popup (or even open it from a shortcut in the launcher/on your desktop!). The game will resume from where it was. Start playing a game and then hit Home (again). The game freezes and sits in RAM. You can now open the browser and load a big webpage so that the phone runs out of RAM, forcing Android to dump your game from RAM. Later you hit Home to switch back into your game but it will restarts fresh, as though you weren't running it before. A variation on that last one: Some apps periodically save your state so they can return you to that instead of sending you right back to the beginning.
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Also, not sure which version of V6 you are using..... this article is slightly outdated, but worth a read.
http://yagyagaire.blogspot.com/2011/10/v6-super-charger-complete-memory.html?m=1
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My phone is rooted, but I dont think multi tasking was working before I rooted it. I read somewhere to multi task, long press the Back button in a app, but nothing happens when i do that. Ive tried long pressing the Home button too but it only displays Recently opened apps, not all the apps on my phone. How do I get multi tasking to work, this is a really big deal to me.
Thanks
No multi tasking on at&t yet
ATT always takes forever, my phone is rooted, anyway I can get it without ATT?
You mean multi window. Multitasking works fine.
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You mean multi window. Multitasking works fine.
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I cant get Multi Tasking to work either? How do you Multi Task?
Hold the home button
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Seems like folks are asking for Multi Window functionality. Currently there is no official update that will deliver Multi Window (multi tasking) option. However, there are several custom ROM available that will allow you to use it. I personally use Jedi ROM and Multi Window works very well.
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Hold the home button
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Nope, does not work for me, holding Home only brings up recently opened apps, not all apps on my phone. Why is this not working, could it be a setting?
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Nope, does not work for me, holding Home only brings up recently opened apps, not all apps on my phone. Why is this not working, could it be a setting?
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I think you are confused as to what multitasking is. Multitasking is being able to quickly switch between open or recently opened apps. If you want to view all apps on your phone, you just open the app drawer by clicking the Apps button on your home screen.
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I think you are confused as to what multitasking is. Multitasking is being able to quickly switch between open or recently opened apps. If you want to view all apps on your phone, you just open the app drawer by clicking the Apps button on your home screen.
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I think he is an ex Iphone user.
So I only can switch to open or recently opened apps? For example I cant switch from my internet browser to an app that is not open or recently open. I have to close my browser in order to open a app that has not been open recently?
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I think he is an ex Iphone user.
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I always had Android phones but I do have a iPod touch 4g.
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So I only can switch to open or recently opened apps? For example I cant switch from my internet browser to an app that is not open or recently open. I have to close my browser in order to open a app that has not been open recently?
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You could hit the home button and leave the browser running in the background. Open the other app, and if you want to switch back to your browser, hold the home button and click on the browser. You'll be exactly where you left off. Then if you want to switch back to the other app, do the exact same thing. Hold the home button and switch to it. You will be where you left off in that app.
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So I only can switch to open or recently opened apps? For example I cant switch from my internet browser to an app that is not open or recently open. I have to close my browser in order to open a app that has not been open recently?
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Just asking... you don't mean multi window right? you really do mean multi tasking...? right?
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Just asking... you don't mean multi window right? you really do mean multi tasking...? right?
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He basically said neither was working for him. If you want multitasking, it works as I explained earlier. If you want multi-window, the only way to get it is through a custom ROM at the moment, or wait for the AT&T update.
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You could hit the home button and leave the browser running in the background. Open the other app, and if you want to switch back to your browser, hold the home button and click on the browser. You'll be exactly where you left off. Then if you want to switch back to the other app, do the exact same thing. Hold the home button and switch to it. You will be where you left off in that app.
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Thanks!
Basically hitting the back button will leave the current app running so you won't lose your place then open another app. THen you can hold the home button to switch back and forth between them (or other apps).
At this point I'm really considering rooting and flashing a custom ROM so I can take advantage the multi-window function (and get rid of AT&T bloat apps).
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Basically hitting the back button will leave the current app running so you won't lose your place then open another app. THen you can hold the home button to switch back and forth between them (or other apps).
At this point I'm really considering rooting and flashing a custom ROM so I can take advantage the multi-window function (and get rid of AT&T bloat apps).
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Ive already rooted my phone and uninstalled ATT bloat apps with Titanium Backup. Heres how I did it...
galaxynote2root.com/galaxy-note-2-root/how-to-root-galaxy-note-2-easiest-method/
RojasTKD said:
Basically hitting the back button will leave the current app running so you won't lose your place then open another app. THen you can hold the home button to switch back and forth between them (or other apps).
At this point I'm really considering rooting and flashing a custom ROM so I can take advantage the multi-window function (and get rid of AT&T bloat apps).
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Ive already rooted my phone and uninstalled ATT bloat apps with Titanium Backup. Heres how I did it for the l317 model. Took me less than 10mins.
galaxynote2root.com/galaxy-note-2-root/how-to-root-galaxy-note-2-easiest-method/
Stay away from the website mentioned by op. Very conflicting. Use the stickies and tutorials found here.
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