Hi guys,
Im really new to Android since Note 2 is my 1st android phone (i juz have bought it for 2 days).
I have read several articles over internet which say that shouldn't use the Task killer application (3rd party app) but how about the task manager in Note 2, which provide us some functions like clear ram and end active application?
Should we use this task manager to clear up ram or kill the running app?
Thank you so much
You really shouldn't need a task manager. A few updates ago Android integrated a feature that closes running programs once memory is low. Not to mention the fact that with 2gb ram I don't you will experience lag due to too many running applications.
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You never know when you'll need to close a bad app, or see if a process has gone nuts. I use SystemPanel and highly recommend it.
Thank you so much
Another question is when i hold the home button, there is a dustbin icon so what is the function of this one?
And i still dont understand about 2 things in task manager. 1 is end the active app and another is clear ram. What is the difference between those 2?
When you hold the home button from the home screen and see the garbage can icon that is the task killer. I use it all the time as draw something and maybe words with friends use alot of battery. Plus draw something locks up all the time and I need to kill it. U can also individually kill apps by swiping the ones that show up in the list when you press and hold the home button.
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I don't know if I'm doing this right or not, but currently to close the browser I just press the home hard button. Is this the correct way to close it or is there a proper way to do it? I find that my method always opens the last page I was on. Anyway to disable this?
Apps dont really close as such - they go into the background and Android closes them when it requires their resources.
Hitting home is what I do, and sometimes I go back to my default google window when i open the Browser but often its just where i left it.
This is fine - if i needed to search for something I hit the physical search button anyway. If i want to go to a different site then the bookmarks are there and can be put on the desktop as a shortcut if needed.
What mhewitson says is true BUT, if you use the BACK button instead of the HOME button, the app will usually close right away unless it's being used by something else.
if you hit back enough you get back to where you started, therefore you pick up there next time. Same as hiting home surely
Close all open windows then hit back.
OR if you always want it to open on a specific page/site just add a shortcut to that bookmark and use it rather than opening the Browser/internet icon.
The way i use, is download a task killer from the market like (advanced task killer) you you can pick which apps you want to close
oawalker said:
The way i use, is download a task killer from the market like (advanced task killer) you you can pick which apps you want to close
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Yeah i thought about using such an app too but i read somewhere that task killers arent a good idea.
shaliru said:
Yeah i thought about using such an app too but i read somewhere that task killers arent a good idea.
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I always used a task killer up until a few days ago because i thought leaving an app open would affect performance. Since i've stopped using a task killler i've noticed an increase in performance, and im not going back to using it.
If you are using the Dolphin Browser (Market app), then it has a specific exit action --- long-press the back button once.
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.
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.
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hey guys,
I think the recent button dose not work
anyway, on sense there is the task manger it would kill all the apps you want, however, I opened an MSN app pressed recent app (the one on the bottom right) swiped the MSN app up so it should be stopped but its still running.
any ideas about this?
mine works fine
Same here. Swiping up doesn't kill/force close an app.
Its not a task manager its recent apps.
mr.dj26 said:
hey guys,
I think the recent button dose not work
anyway, on sense there is the task manger it would kill all the apps you want, however, I opened an MSN app pressed recent app (the one on the bottom right) swiped the MSN app up so it should be stopped but its still running.
any ideas about this?
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The Recent App list is not a task killer. It's just there to quickly switch between apps that your often use. Swiping up on a particular app just tidies up your list.
Although you dont need it as the One X has plenty of memory and it screws us the OS a task killer can be downloaded from the Market.
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thanks guys, it would be better if it acts like a task killer
Zinu said:
Same here. Swiping up doesn't kill/force close an app.
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Are you sure? When I swipe apps from my list I get a message in LogCat first from the ActivityManager saying that it is killing the process and then from the ProcessManager saying the process has been killed. I would say it definitely closes 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.