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Background tasks/apps

I've got advanced task killer but I've noticed that when I look at what's running in the background there seems to be loads of stuff that I havent opened.
Even after just a few seconds. Can this be stopped?
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why do you want it stopped?

The background tasks don't seem to need to be doing anything. Like one is the first-aid app. There's no need for that to be running.
Also, is there a way to minimise apps and then go back into them like I could on my touch hd?
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long press the physical 'Home' button to go to the last used apps.
And do those background tasks really actively run? Do they consume any CPU load?
Don't use any task killer. Android handles all the stuff automatically.
Check the services if you want more 'power'. If you find a service you don't need, then don't kill it, but open the specific app which launches this service and tell it in a setting to not do the background task which requires this service, like some online syncing or so.

widget similar to Program Monitor

Hello! I think I saw a similar post in the "general" section with no replies but I thought I'd try here.
I'm trying out Launcher Pro and things are nice, except for the fact that I got very used to having the Samsung TW Program Monitor widget around that told me how many programs were running and clicking it took me to the task manager where I could kill individual programs (and not everything at once). Does anyone have any suggestions?
I'm tempted to just go back to the touchwiz launcher...

I would also like to know of an app that is like the tw program monitor, just something simple and easy to use
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The ONLY TW widget i liked was the program manager one!
But it isn't worth going back to Touchwiz from Launcher Pro though.
I've been looking for a suitable widget similar, and will report if i find one.

search for systempanel in the marketplace
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jacjyd said:
Hello! I think I saw a similar post in the "general" section with no replies but I thought I'd try here.
I'm trying out Launcher Pro and things are nice, except for the fact that I got very used to having the Samsung TW Program Monitor widget around that told me how many programs were running and clicking it took me to the task manager where I could kill individual programs (and not everything at once). Does anyone have any suggestions?
I'm tempted to just go back to the touchwiz launcher...
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If you're using launcher pro then you can still access program monitor only thing is that you won't have it as a widget. From launcher pro simply hold the home key until the task manager window pops up. Click on task manager and you're back to program monitor.
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sewhuy said:
If you're using launcher pro then you can still access program monitor only thing is that you won't have it as a widget. From launcher pro simply hold the home key until the task manager window pops up. Click on task manager and you're back to program monitor.
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Thanks but I was hoping for something more widget like. I've also noticed that you can sort of select is as an "activity" in Launcher Pro but it just gives you a shortcut to the widget in like a different dimension and that's not very useful...
Been getting used to Task Manager (an app by Rhythm Software, not the stock one) and it's pretty good. I think by default if you click on the widget before opening the program to mess with the settings it just kills everything which is sort of scary but the settings are easy enough to figure out. Instead of how many programs are running the widget tells you how much RAM is free...same gist I guess!

I don't know if it's the app or some other random thing but the battery life on my un rooted epic drastically increased. I wonder what this program is killing...

Process Monitor Widget
This app is a widget showing how many apps are running and how many of them can be killed based on an user-defined exclusion list.
It is available in Market and still a beta version at this stage.
It has many other features and allows you to record process activities to spot badly behaving apps.
Also can show memory consumption (from SD, internal and live memory) as well as CPU load.

Yea I would like that too. Dont think one widget is worth switching to TW from LauncherPro

Process Monitor as task manager
After many testing, I found out that Process Monitor Widget is more accurate than most other task killers, such as System Panel to name one, which do not take into considerations the deep-sleep time in their calculations!
Indeed you can verify phone/app up-time in the settings/phone info/battery... and in any system panel... After a deep-sleep, the figures are different except in Process Monitor Widget.
Just to let you know

What does swiping an item up in "Recent Apps" actually do?

It would seem logical that swiping an app up not only removes it from the "recent apps" list, but should also close the app. However after swiping an app up I can still see it running in "Task Manager". So I'm not sure what swiping an app does at all? Any ideas?

Swiping from task manager is the same as closing it using the back button.
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joshnichols189 said:
Swiping from task manager is the same as closing it using the back button.
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You cannot swipe in the Task Manager. You can close the app by pressing the [X]. I'm talking about the "Recent Apps" list which is accessible by pressing the right hard button.

That's what I meant. Swiping in the recent apps list is the same as closing with the back button.
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I think it just removes it from the recent apps menu, but leaves the process running. Try playing music and then swipe the music app up in the recent apps menu. It continues playing.
I think it was designed to navigate quickly between apps, not to be a task manager.

maniacaus said:
I think it just removes it from the recent apps menu, but leaves the process running. Try playing music and then swipe the music app up in the recent apps menu. It continues playing.
I think it was designed to navigate quickly between apps, not to be a task manager.
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Actually, it does kill processes, you swipe the App away basically telling Android It's okay to kill it.
and it doesn't kill Music because that's an Ongoing process that you see in the Navigation Bar which must be exempted, it will just re-Appear in the list.

I'm quite sure it will kill the process instead of just remove it from the list.

I think it's just like the Task Manager , +the design and graphic things.

Pardon my blasphemy.
Anywho....i do wish they would revert back to the standard recent apps menu.

ozaghloul said:
It would seem logical that swiping an app up not only removes it from the "recent apps" list, but should also close the app. However after swiping an app up I can still see it running in "Task Manager". So I'm not sure what swiping an app does at all? Any ideas?
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Swiping offscreen in Recent Apps should close the app if it's running. But just being the Recent Apps list doesn't necessarily mean it's still in memory. The HTC Task Manager isn't really a good snapshot of the current applications in memory, some items, like Gmail, rarely show up. Take a look at the Tasks tab in "Android System Info" for a more accurate view of backgrounded apps.
maniacaus said:
I think it just removes it from the recent apps menu, but leaves the process running. Try playing music and then swipe the music app up in the recent apps menu. It continues playing.
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Actually it does remove the Music app (UI) from memory, the player service is still running.
maniacaus said:
Anywho....i do wish they would revert back to the standard recent apps menu.
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Yup, this is the thing I miss most from plain ICS (don't like the Settings in Sense either, but that's cosmetic). This task switcher wastes alot of screen real estate, and the canted screenshots reminds me of HTC TouchFLO from my old WinMo phones, looks out of place compared with the rest of the UI.

TommUK said:
Actually, it does kill processes, you swipe the App away basically telling Android It's okay to kill it.
and it doesn't kill Music because that's an Ongoing process that you see in the Navigation Bar which must be exempted, it will just re-Appear in the list.
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This, exactly. The music app along with other ongoing processes that you can see in the nav bar are exceptions, but other applications get killed.
How can you test this? Well, fire up Opera Mobile. Now swipe Opera Mobile up. Then fire up Opera Mobile again. You'll see Opera's splash screen again, indicating that it is starting up all over again, which it wouldn't do if it would've been running in the background.

my guess is that if you swipe it from the "Recent Apps" section Android waits for all its processing to complete before it runs its cleanup procedures
Though I would like to know what are all the apps that can be removed off the HOX so that I can get more free RAM space currently always sitting on 600MB in use
is there such a list?
cos I dont want to brick my baby

jinkira said:
my guess is that if you swipe it from the "Recent Apps" section Android waits for all its processing to complete before it runs its cleanup procedures
Though I would like to know what are all the apps that can be removed off the HOX so that I can get more free RAM space currently always sitting on 600MB in use
is there such a list?
cos I dont want to brick my baby
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RAM is meant to be used.
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Understandable, but I dont want to use so much.. I am still old school when it comes to memory usage and keeping as much free as possible untill needed
so I just want a list of BLOATWARE that is ok to uninstall

close apps

Hi there.
Is it possible to close apps, so they dont show up when i hit multitask button?
So my question is 1, can i close apps completly? And 2, can I remove them from multitasking?
I am using jelly bean
/ Christian

Christianfrank said:
Hi there.
Is it possible to close apps, so they dont show up when i hit multitask button?
So my question is 1, can i close apps completly? And 2, can I remove them from multitasking?
I am using jelly bean
/ Christian
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Yes. Open multitask view and swipe them away to remove them from the list. This will also close them.
Furthermore, some custom roms have an option that will allow you close an app by long pressing the back softkey.

Swiping them away only removes them from the recent apps. There is no real way to close apps in a Linux environment. They don't need to close. Your system will turn off apps on its own when and if it needs the ram. Android is not like a windows PC that needs more ram to run applications.
I hate when this question is asked. If your that dead set on closing apps then you should get a useless app call advanced task killer.
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abtxpress said:
Swiping them away only removes them from the recent apps. There is no real way to close apps in a Linux environment. They don't need to close. Your system will turn off apps on its own when and if it needs the ram. Android is not like a windows PC that needs more ram to run applications.
I hate when this question is asked. If your that dead set on closing apps then you should get a useless app call advanced task killer.
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But the swipe does close apps sometimes .
Just now I hit the home key and swiped away XDA. When I opened it again, I was the first screen again.
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abtxpress said:
Swiping them away only removes them from the recent apps.
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Not only. Try it yourself: open an app, tap home, re-open app. It will show the state it was in when you left it.
Now try this: open an app, tap home, open recent list, swipe it away, re-open app. It will start from scratch.
There is no real way to close apps in a Linux environment.
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Of course there is. But hardly relevant, because on Android apps don't run on the kernel natively.
They don't need to close. Your system will turn off apps on its own when and if it needs the ram. Android is not like a windows PC that needs more ram to run applications.
I hate when this question is asked. If your that dead set on closing apps then you should get a useless app call advanced task killer.
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That's true. There might be other reasons than performance related to remove apps from the recent list though.

Swipe away the app in the recent list, it closes the app. It closes activities but not services.

[Q] Uber quick way to freeze/unfreeze apps?

I use Titanium Backup to freeze my apps and it's great for what it was designed to do.
But I'd like to take things another step. Hoping someone out there knows of a way to do these two things.
1) Is there any sort of widget that will show me the apps I have frozen and let me quickly defrost them? Something where I don't have to go into Titanium Backup and see ALL my apps, or to filter by only frozen apps?
2) Is there any way to have a profile that I can quickly switch between. Such as profile #1 has all my apps unfrozen, while profile #2 has all apps except a select few, frozen.
Thanks for any suggestions.

Haven't seen anything that does either of what you are asking. You can setup filters in Titanium backup and just batch freeze/defrost apps based on the filter.
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Just realized that TB has a widget that allows you to set actions (freeze, defrost, etc) based on a filter, so then all you have to do is tap that widget and it will do whatever you set it to do.
So you could have a filter setup for the apps you like to freeze and then have two widgets, one that freezes and one that defrost said apps.
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d3athsd00r said:
So you could have a filter setup for the apps you like to freeze and then have two widgets, one that freezes and one that defrost said apps.
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I had seen that widget but thought it was only for defrosting. I didn't realize it could freeze also. Thanks.
Still looking for something a bit more all-in-one, but this is a good start. :good:

CZ Eddie said:
I had seen that widget but thought it was only for defrosting. I didn't realize it could freeze also. Thanks.
Still looking for something a bit more all-in-one, but this is a good start. :good:
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I think that is the best you will get.
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Great!
That's something I was looking for since a while. I even supposed that TB would be capable of doing this and it turns out true.
Anyhow, as it took me some time to learn the right way to implement it, I cite the website that helped me out on this.
You can assign labels to these apps in Titanium Backup. Open the app and navigate to the ‘Backup/Restore’ tab. Touch the app in question swipe to the right to access the ‘Special features’ tab and select ‘Assign labels’. From here you can create a new label.
To then create the one-touch widgets long touch on a blank space on your home screen select ‘Widgets’ (this may differ depending on your launcher so the other possibility is that you go to the app drawer and slide over to the ‘Widgets’ category) and then tap ‘Titanium Backup (Actions)’. Then select ‘Action > Freeze all user & system apps (USE FILTERS & EXTREME CAUTION)’ and then select ‘Filter by > the filter you created’. Touching this widget will then disable all those unnecessary apps while leaving their settings intact.
Next repeat the whole widget process again selecting ‘Defrost all user & system apps’ as the action. Then when that crisis does eventually come up just quickly touch the defrost widget and in about 10 seconds all those apps will be back on your phone just the way you left them.
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Source: How to manage resource-hungry apps on Android - apcmag.com
edit: I wanted to post the link, but as I haven't posted 10 posts, I couldn't. Just Google it if you're interested in the original source.