[Q] How Can I Keep A Particular App from Auto-Closing - Verizon Droid Incredible 2

This is a convenience thing, I'm pretty hopeful someone has experienced something similar: Lets say I'm referencing App (a) and I need to then reference a second app (b). I switch to app (b) and get what info I need, come back to app (a) and the app has been closed, reopened, and I need to start from scratch in app (a).
PITA if you ask me. I'm in CM7 Nightly #41. Maybe a setting I've missed? Any helps appreciated!

Are you pressing back, or home to exit the app? Back will close it and home leaves it running. Also CM7 has a setting where long pressing back will close the app regardless of where in it you are. Hope that helps.

Thats very helpful. I'll check that out. I'm afraid I was using the backbutton, but I'll double check. Thanks.

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Apps closing when screen off (Partially fixed)

As the title says the current app is closed (well minimised) when I power off my device, this is really annoying, is there a registry edit to fix this? It happened in black 2.0 and now in black 3.0.
Thanks
Rob
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The app is closing on suspend not complete shutdown
rob61280 said:
As the title says the current app is closed (well minimised) when I power off my device, this is really annoying, is there a registry edit to fix this? It happened in black 2.0 and now in black 3.0.
Thanks
Rob
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So, I am not sure if I understand. You want the current app to continue running while the device is off ???
todd_jg said:
So, I am not sure if I understand. You want the current app to continue running while the device is off ???
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sorry my explanation was a bit dodgy, I want the current app to be there when I turn the device back on (I'm talking about just tapping the power button not completely shutting the device down) it used to work like this in wm5 and after initially installing black 3.0 but now its closing the app I was using.
thanks
Rob
rob61280 said:
sorry my explanation was a bit dodgy, I want the current app to be there when I turn the device back on (I'm talking about just tapping the power button not completely shutting the device down) it used to work like this in wm5 and after initially installing black 3.0 but now its closing the app I was using.
thanks
Rob
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I've found out the cause of this problem:-
When I enable a password either pin or alphanumeric, the current app is always closed when the screen is turned off, regardless of weather the device is due to lock or not. Anyone else come across this?
R
I am using Black 2.5 and I have noticed this. It isn't a problem since the application is only minimized but it is annoying if I wanted to go right back to it...like WMP or TomTom.
same experience here. no real issue for me though
Its just annoying when am using a spreadsheet and it minimises, I've disabled lock for now, I doubt anyone would return the device if they found it (yeah am cynical)
R
Thanks so much for the idea of turning off the screen lock. I was getting rather annoyed with this as well. Saved me some headache! I guess I can do without the screen lock for now. I love xda-developers.com!

[Q] Ventriloid/Mangler issues

So I REALLY want to get Ventriloid/Mangler working. It keeps force closing on me. Both apps do the same thing. Before I would connect and be able to talk 1-3 times then the push to talk button would stop functioning and I would have to abandon it and try again later where it would do the same thing. I changed the push to talk button from hold to a toggle and it worked a lot better. However it still force closes ALL the time. If it worked for a little but and then force closed I wouldn't matter as I was gonna use it for short conversations where I need to tell someone something, I really want this app to work. Has anyone been having the same issues?/Found a solution? I'm using stock rom and I rooted it and it still FC's. Halp please.
Sorry for posting again since I haven't received a reply. Am I the only one experiencing these issues?
FT
Fearme4life said:
So I REALLY want to get Ventriloid/Mangler working. It keeps force closing on me. Both apps do the same thing. Before I would connect and be able to talk 1-3 times then the push to talk button would stop functioning and I would have to abandon it and try again later where it would do the same thing. I changed the push to talk button from hold to a toggle and it worked a lot better. However it still force closes ALL the time. If it worked for a little but and then force closed I wouldn't matter as I was gonna use it for short conversations where I need to tell someone something, I really want this app to work. Has anyone been having the same issues?/Found a solution? I'm using stock rom and I rooted it and it still FC's. Halp please.
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Is this a push to talk program? If so I haven't had any problems with tikl
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mysteryemotionz said:
FT
Is this a push to talk program? If so I haven't had any problems with tikl
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It is sort of a PTT program but it isn't like tikl. I have downloaded the app and will try it later tonight once I get home to get my vent info and then I will post my results for the OP
Sh0wNuF said:
It is sort of a PTT program but it isn't like tikl. I have downloaded the app and will try it later tonight once I get home to get my vent info and then I will post my results for the OP
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Thanks I will appreciate it. ^^ Also try switching channels a bit and listening to others talk.
Fearme4life said:
So I REALLY want to get Ventriloid/Mangler working. It keeps force closing on me. Both apps do the same thing. Before I would connect and be able to talk 1-3 times then the push to talk button would stop functioning and I would have to abandon it and try again later where it would do the same thing. I changed the push to talk button from hold to a toggle and it worked a lot better. However it still force closes ALL the time. If it worked for a little but and then force closed I wouldn't matter as I was gonna use it for short conversations where I need to tell someone something, I really want this app to work. Has anyone been having the same issues?/Found a solution? I'm using stock rom and I rooted it and it still FC's. Halp please.
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I had similar issues when I used them before. I know the big issue is you want to "Force 8kHz Transmit" in the settings. I can't recall if that is enough to solve all the problems, but I know that got me working.
Wanted to give this a little bump.
I can connect to Vent, I can hear everyone and do everything the app is supposed to do, except the push to talk feature will not work. I have even tried to put it on auto but the mic never activated. I tried switching hotkey to a keyboard key and that did not work either, it just will not work
Sorry I Haven't posted that update yet but everythin works fine for me. I didn't mess around with any settings, just put in my vent info and it worked(though there were complaints of me being really loud and a tn of backround noise while I was talking mid raid)
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keyboard letters keep launching apps

just flashed the new CM7 and whenever im texting someone certain letters launch apps like if i press "S" it launches like the web or something. i searched on the web but cant find an answer. can someone tell me where to fix this??
huhhhhh said:
just flashed the new CM7 and whenever im texting someone certain letters launch apps like if i press "S" it launches like the web or something. i searched on the web but cant find an answer. can someone tell me where to fix this??
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Had this problem before. A simple reboot did the trick for me. :]
rebooted.. it worked for awhile. then it started up again. seems to be on and off.. very random. i looked thru everything on my phone thinking "maybe" theres some option thats making it do this, but nothing. its quite annoying when im trying to txt.
huhhhhh said:
rebooted.. it worked for awhile. then it started up again. seems to be on and off.. very random. i looked thru everything on my phone thinking "maybe" theres some option thats making it do this, but nothing. its quite annoying when im trying to txt.
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I'm assuming you're talking about the physical keyboard; its a quick keys bug, just push the search button first and it'll disable it
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There actually is a setting for keyboard shortcuts - clear all of them and the problem goes away. No bug, the ROM has the shortcuts set when you flash it for some reason. Flash a newer ROM and it shouldn't do it - or just clear the shortcuts.
I can't look in my phone right now to tell you where the setting is at but it might do some good for you to look through them and become familiar so you don't call something a bug that isn't.
KCRic said:
There actually is a setting for keyboard shortcuts - clear all of them and the problem goes away. No bug, the ROM has the shortcuts set when you flash it for some reason. Flash a newer ROM and it shouldn't do it - or just clear the shortcuts.
I can't look in my phone right now to tell you where the setting is at but it might do some good for you to look through them and become familiar so you don't call something a bug that isn't.
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yeah i figured this was the problem. i looked through my phone pretty throughly and didn't see any options though. I'll look again and get back to this thread n report.
this has been happening on and off to my phone for the last couple of weeks, I am still running RC4. it is very strange, the ROM worked fine for a while and now does this every so often, pressing E opens email app, S opens search. a reboot fixed everytime and then for what seems like no reason at all, it starts again.
will go to stable this week and hopefully it will go away. just thought i'd add another device to the list of ones with the issue.
i have no shortcuts setup at all, and have double checked. have been using CM7 since the start and it never happened prior to RC4.
When this happen just hit the "symb/search" button and the keyboard will work again
Sorry it took so long to get back with the cure but here it is:
settings>applications>quick launch
In there is where all the hw keyboard shortcut settings are. Clear any you don't want, create new ones, or whatever. Clear the ones that are giving you issues and this should solve it. If you ever clear your user data (factory reset) then it clears these settings also, so you may have to go in and delete the shortcuts again.
Hope this helped!
thank you! i cleared it all.
KCRic said:
Sorry it took so long to get back with the cure but here it is:
settings>applications>quick launch
In there is where all the hw keyboard shortcut settings are. Clear any you don't want, create new ones, or whatever. Clear the ones that are giving you issues and this should solve it. If you ever clear your user data (factory reset) then it clears these settings also, so you may have to go in and delete the shortcuts again.
Hope this helped!
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I hate the magnifying glass button!

Is it just me, or is the magnifying glass button really annoying. I am always touching it by accident. Then, due to no mulit-tasking, I have to re-load whatever app I had running. This is esspecialy annoying when playing "I Dig It" The joystick is right above the magnafying glass, so very frequently touching that button. I would like to dissable it, but I don't there there is a way.
The search button? Lol there is a way to disable it I believe its an app called button remapper or something like that
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pressing the back button in most cases returns whatever you were on last to the same state as before
comeradealexi said:
pressing the back button in most cases returns whatever you were on last to the same state as before
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Ya, but without multi-tasking, the phone has to re-load the app. That can take up to a valuble 10 second...
dotson817 said:
The search button? Lol there is a way to disable it I believe its an app called button remapper or something like that
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Is that available in the marketplace. My phone is stock, so no sideloading.
Titus_Andronicus said:
Ya, but without multi-tasking, the phone has to re-load the app. That can take up to a valuble 10 second...
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uhhhh not sure what kind of phone you have but if it takes 10 seconds to reload or resume an app...you might want to have it looked at.
Titus_Andronicus said:
Ya, but without multi-tasking, the phone has to re-load the app. That can take up to a valuble 10 second...
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And some games it resets them to the beginning. Very irritating.
It's probably also worth noting that, even with Mango's fast task switching, apps may need to be updated to take full advantage of it.
If an app doesn't know about the new dormant app model, then when you switch to it, it may behave the same way it does today as far as thinking it needs to rehydrate its saved state (or restart completely). It will probably still be faster than it is today, even in a worst case scenario, but apps that are updated with the new dormant model will be instantaneous.
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Is it just me, or is the magnifying glass button really annoying. I am always touching it by accident. Then, due to no mulit-tasking, I have to re-load whatever app I had running. This is esspecialy annoying when playing "I Dig It" The joystick is right above the magnafying glass, so very frequently touching that button. I would like to dissable it, but I don't there there is a way.
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and thats why I love my Samsung Focus with NoDo and the Samsung firmware update.

Physical Keyboard stops working

Quite frequently, my glide's physical keyboard stops working. A reboot fixes it but is kind of annoying to do this once a day
This is a new phone (less than a week old) and I am trying to find out if this is a known issue and if there is a fix for it. If my phone is defective, I might be able to still get a replacement from newegg.
I notice that there was another thread in XDA on the same topic but it quickly moved on to discuss some other issue with no clear advice.
Thanks and appreciate your help,
urundai said:
Quite frequently, my glide's physical keyboard stops working. A reboot fixes it but is kind of annoying to do this once a day
This is a new phone (less than a week old) and I am trying to find out if this is a known issue and if there is a fix for it. If my phone is defective, I might be able to still get a replacement from newegg.
I notice that there was another thread in XDA on the same topic but it quickly moved on to discuss some other issue with no clear advice.
Thanks and appreciate your help,
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Stops working all together or opens up different applications when you press a key? I had the latter. If it is the apps opening up double check you do not have any shift type button stuck as that would make it act funny and appear to not be working properly.
Tap on "ALT", "SHIFT", "SEARCH" see if that fixes it.
dudejb said:
Stops working all together or opens up different applications when you press a key? I had the latter. If it is the apps opening up double check you do not have any shift type button stuck as that would make it act funny and appear to not be working properly.
Tap on "ALT", "SHIFT", "SEARCH" see if that fixes it.
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Thanks for the response. I went back to my old iPhone 3 (Yuck). Let me double check on that when I get home this evening.
urundai said:
Thanks for the response. I went back to my old iPhone 3 (Yuck). Let me double check on that when I get home this evening.
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If it is launching Different apps then it is the Quick launch that is the cause. You can see what Shortcut is associated with which app go here:Settings -> Applications -> Quick Launch
Most Launch with Search + any key. Perhaps your search button is stuck.
JB
Mine has that problem as well usually requires a reboot as well but can't ever get it to just do it on command. U on a custom rom? Or stock?
If the random apps are opening, open the landscape keyboard and press the search button. If you accidentally press it and then you press a corresponding letter to open a certain app, it'll so that. And when you hit back, the phone thinks that you pressed the wrong letter key and has that quick open on. Just press search again. That's all lol
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I also have the problem of physical keyboard that stops working. No random apps, it just stops working. What to do to fix the issue, aside from rebooting?
Thx
phatryan69 said:
Mine has that problem as well usually requires a reboot as well but can't ever get it to just do it on command. U on a custom rom? Or stock?
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I am on stock. It's just annoying when it happens at least once in 2 days.
I am thinking of rooting it and installing a custom rom to see if that takes care of it. Will keep you all posted.
I might turn on the debugging level in the logs as well to see if I can find out what's going on. Given that this happens only every two days or so, not sure if that will help much but let me see.
antonyfirst said:
I also have the problem of physical keyboard that stops working. No random apps, it just stops working. What to do to fix the issue, aside from rebooting?
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I am on Rogers stock ROM. At this point, it certainly looks like something to do with the software (will be hard to find several of us having the same hardware problem).
dudejb said:
Stops working all together or opens up different applications when you press a key? I had the latter. If it is the apps opening up double check you do not have any shift type button stuck as that would make it act funny and appear to not be working properly.
Tap on "ALT", "SHIFT", "SEARCH" see if that fixes it.
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+1.
My keyboard stops working too, but this doesn't happen very often. I experience this about once in 3-4 weeks for now.
I have had this problem a few times as well (on stock AT&T).. QWERTY doesn't respond at all, reboot fixes it! Got me worried the first couple of times though
I continue to run in to this once in a while. I have tried pressing all kinds of keys (search, alt etc) with no success. At times, I see some of the keys working but not others.
Anyway, this looks like software / driver issue. Looks like reboot is the only cure so far.

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