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
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On my galaxy nexus when I hit the recent button I know when I swipe that it removes the application from the list but does it end it or just get rid of it from the recent menu
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General mixed opinions, but if your worried about RAM, don't be. Android natively handles it better then you can possibly attempt to.
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killyouridols said:
General mixed opinions, but if your worried about RAM, don't be. Android natively handles it better then you can possibly attempt to.
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Bingo.
mkeller96 said:
On my galaxy nexus when I hit the recent button I know when I swipe that it removes the application from the list but does it end it or just get rid of it from the recent menu
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The recent list has absolutely no bearing one way or the other on whether an app is running in the background or not. They are two completely separate and distinct things.
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najaboy said:
The recent list has absolutely no bearing one way or the other on whether an app is running in the background or not. They are two completely separate and distinct things.
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Wrong. Try this, open xda app/hit home/now go to manage apps/running tab/at bottom hit "show cached processes"/and you'll see the xda app in that list/now hit recent button and swipe xda away/hit back/and watch xda disappear from the cached process list.
good day.
chopper the dog said:
Wrong. Try this, open xda app/hit home/now go to manage apps/running tab/at bottom hit "show cached processes"/and you'll see the xda app in that list/now hit recent button and swipe xda away/hit back/and watch xda disappear from the cached process list.
good day.
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Apples and oranges. Cached processes and running background processes are two different things. A cached process is one that is not running, using no CPU or data.
To correctly check whether or not the two are tied merely entails force closing an app and then checking if it is gone from the recents list.
I did attempt to duplicate your observation, but there was no overlap between my recent apps and cached processes.
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You know what I don't like? How androids 'Running Apps' screen always says Its using up a bunch of memory but fails to show you all the apps which only total up to about half.
When you swipe an app away, it kills it unless it has a reason to keep it open.
For example, swipe the browser away and it kills it. The last page will have to reload from scratch on launch.
Log in to IMO, then swipe it away and it keeps running. When you re-enter IMO it's exactly where it left off.
At least, that's my perception. Swiping it away tells Android OS that you don't need the app anymore, but it's ultimately up to the app/OS to decide whether or not it will be killed.
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Apples and oranges. Cached processes and running background processes are two different things. A cached process is one that is not running, using no CPU or data.
To correctly check whether or not the two are tied merely entails force closing an app and then checking if it is gone from the recents list.
I did attempt to duplicate your observation, but there was no overlap between my recent apps and cached processes.
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Not true at all.
"What specifically happens when you swipe away a recent task is it: (1) kills any background or empty processes of the application (see http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/processes-and-threads.html#Lifecycle for what this means), and (2) uses the new http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html#onTaskRemoved(android.content.Intent) API to tell any services of the application about the task being removed so it can do whatever it thinks is appropriate.
There are really two major classes of things that run in the background: old processes of previously foreground apps (to speed up task switching), and processes that actively need to run indefinitely because of a service.
The first, background processes, are straight-forward -- they can be kept around, but the system can freely kill them whenever desired to free memory, and doing this basically has no impact on the user experience.
Where things get interesting is with services, which are basically how an application says "hey I need to be kept running in the background to do something." This may be to play some music, to fetch new e-mail, to perform navigation, to download a file, to update an app widget, and on and on. On devices that are tight on memory, it is these application services running that can cause memory pressure that is visible to the user."
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Ok so noticed it few days ago. Will use Facebook and touchdown as example it happens to many apps and for now did not find common denominator.
I reset the phone and do not star Facebook app or touchdown. When I go to task manager they are not listed there even if they are updating with messages/emails. All good. Then I start the app use it and when done press home.
After that I go to recent apps and slide up to kill them. All good but then if I go to task manager both Facebook and touchdown are listed and loaded with minimum 12mb each. Only if I kill them via task manager memory is released.
Had similar issue with calendar, mail or for example YouTube. Even if I have no mobile data so none of those apps can update they still sit in memory after killing them in recent apps. I have to use task manager to kill them.
Any one noticed same issue? Happened on stock rom and on HD rom which is based on stock kernel.
The recent apps menu does not kill them it only clears that from the recent apps window. They will only be killed if you do it manually via the task manager. HTC built it like this and I'm not sure if it will be changed in a future update.
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The recent apps menu does not kill them it only clears that from the recent apps window. They will only be killed if you do it manually via the task manager. HTC built it like this and I'm not sure if it will be changed in a future update.
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Honestly what is the point then? Also why some apps get killed then, mainly games and video players?
Not really sure what the point is, maybe it's just to be used as a quick app switcher. The problem why your games and video players get killed sometimes is that they might be memory intensive apps that android kills automatically when it needs the memory to run other apps.
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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...
Is there a way to limit recent app to any number? I found when recent app list more than 5 it become very slow to open. At first I thought it is bug but after remove some list manually it became fast. multitasking is the selling point for android but if unresponsive then it became a pain. I don't want to clean that many of the list every time I do multitasking
I need to switch from app to app fast without lag so I need to limit it to at most 5.
I'm not talking about background running app here. Please help and thanks in advance
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narayana14 said:
Is there a way to limit recent app to any number? I found when recent app list more than 5 it become very slow to open. At first I thought it is bug but after remove some list manually it became fast. multitasking is the selling point for android but if unresponsive then it became a pain. I don't want to clean that many of the list every time I do multitasking
I need to switch from app to app fast without lag so I need to limit it to at most 5.
I'm not talking about background running app here. Please help and thanks in advance
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try this app called auto memory manager. It allows you to set the amount of used memory in your phone so that apps automatically begin closing
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try this app called auto memory manager. It allows you to set the amount of used memory in your phone so that apps automatically begin closing
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He means the number of thumbnails, if you kill an app, it's still listed under recent apps.
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He means the number of thumbnails, if you kill an app, it's still listed under recent apps.
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oh woops :laugh:
I have a note 2 and maybe a long time ago I downloaded apps which might have caused a problem on my phone and I thought I removed the apps but the problem is still there months later.
Basically random apps are added to my phone. I don't think they are actually downloaded to my phone because I can't see them in my app list but over time it's clogged up all my free home pages with icons for the apps. Now that all the space is taken it will say no space for shortcut.
I'm not sure how to get rid of this problem. Help please?
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Delete all apps and install only use app
Thank you for your reply. I have a lot of info saved on apps. What's the best way to save them please?
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Do you have our original rom ? -> stock ?
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From what this sounds like, you have shortcuts on your home screen that are to non installed apps. Try pressing and holding the app until a menu comes on the top of the screen, keep holding and drag it to either "Uninstall" or "Remove"
I hope this helps
Id say back up what you need and fctory reset.
Assuming these arent just latent shortcuts and a bad launcher....
You could, try avast (incase it virual); you could remove all non - essential apps one-by-one (I would start by opening the playstore and looking at your apps to find the ones with the lowest reviews, read the comments.); you could try a new launcher and forget about the old homescreens, if these appeared there you would know something is afoot.