Took me the longest time to releaze if you hold down the recent apps button it pops up the menu in any app. Took me forever to realize how to post on here without a true menu button but eventually I stumbled upon it. I know other noobs out there must have had the same question and I just wanted to let people know who may also have been struggling.
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Wow, THANK YOU for pointing that out lol. I seriously would not have guessed that.
Good find! I have came across a couple apps that didn't have the three ellipses and wondered how to hit the settings.
I just learned this today... it's a game changer lol!
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I have Skype Mobile, My Verizon, and VZ Navigator coming up constantly killing battery. 5 seconds after I kill them, they come right back up. Anybody know how I can get rid of them? Thanks
I'm sure this has been posted but when I was searching it came up with 16 pages and after looking through the 1st 2 none of them had it, just topics with the containing words. Thanks guys.
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soff will be out soon. that will be the definate answer to our problems
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he wasnt asking how he can delete them with the phone turned on. he wants to get rid of them.
OP, should try "searching" a little harder: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=709220
didnt even need the search function, thread is still pretty far up on the first page of development section. just scroll down to removing apps.
I have this star with an orange circle dot inside it that pops up at around 5:30am (eastern time) almost everyday since a few days ago. When I pull down the top bar to see the notification, it is an advertizement that will open up an internet browser.
I would love to know how this is happening and what app it might be that is causing this. I have about 90 apps installed and dont want to go ahead and delete everything to hunt it down.
Any info would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
BTW=running Calkulin's Evo2 Froyo rom.
Have you tried going into Settings > Applications > Running Services? You should be able to spot anything running that's out of the ordinary that way.
I did check, didnt see anything, but i will check again today as I bet it will pop-up today a few hours at 530am. Has anyone seen this as well??
here is an idea....
use titanium backup to FREEZE all USER APPS, except for ones that you are SURE are not it...then if you see that at 0530am it did not happen, unfreeze a number of them, maybe 10 or so. at the next 0530am continue this process...until you find the group of 10 that causes the problem to resume.
It's some rogue app that is pushing ads (AirPush). Go to the market and check the reviews on some of the latest apps you've downloaded. that'll help you track it down along with anthonyandrews's idea.
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It's some rogue app that is pushing ads (AirPush). Go to the market and check the reviews on some of the latest apps you've downloaded. that'll help you track it down along with anthonyandrews's idea.
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Initial nailed it. I recall this being discussed on the forum a short while back. Thats just ugly for an app to do that though.
out of curiosity, what was the app?
It's called heyzap. New way of ads.
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use avg antivirus and scan ur phone
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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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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.
Hey everyone I tried doing some searching but these words are pretty common so I couldn't find much.
The problem is that I know that by pressing and holding the menu button I get to the search function but the problem is that it doesn't give me the launch menu like it did on my S2 t989 for example when I held the search key on my S2 t989 a "which app would you like to do this in" menu would come up that would give me direct access to apps like shazam, soundhound, and screencast. Is that feature completely gone or do I have to enable a setting or something for this? I really loved having that menu there.
Also another question about the search function that does come up. It does not seem to be the same full search function from before but only for the web. I used to be able to search the apps that are actually on my phone and launch them through that menu as well. Is that possible anymore or has that been disabled too?
Don't get me wrong I LOVE this phone so much I just miss those couple little things. Thanks!
Thank crapple for the change in search function. If you are rooted go to /system/app and find GoogleQuickSearchBox_USA.apk. renameto remove the __USA part.
Dont know bout the other. Sorry.
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Thanks for the quick reply and help. I am rooted and I am actually running FreeGS3 and in my /system/app folder there is only "GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk" there isn't one with "_USA" on it.
Thats odd. I know that used to work. Maybe im forgetting a step, though I dont think I am.
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You know i didn't even know you can launch the search that way,yeah this is my 1st Samsung phone
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Are you on stock?
CM10 has settings under system where you can change the menu button long press action to in-app search.
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At some point whatever action you're trying to do you probably checked the "use as default" box and now you don't get the choice. I still get to choose which app I use for most things, not sure how to go back and remove the default though.
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Hey everyone I tried doing some searching but these words are pretty common so I couldn't find much.
Also another question about the search function that does come up. It does not seem to be the same full search function from before but only for the web. I used to be able to search the apps that are actually on my phone and launch them through that menu as well. Is that possible anymore or has that been disabled too?
Don't get me wrong I LOVE this phone so much I just miss those couple little things. Thanks!
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you can do it throught Google Gow. just go into Google Now>settings>phone search> and select what you want it to search.
I just loaded a custom ROM but when it asked what app to use it gave me this popup.
Clear default app settings by going to Settings>Applications manager>All
What's a good app or way to close all apps at once?
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mario24601 said:
What's a good app or way to close all apps at once?
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Press the Home button.
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Press the Home button.
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lol apps dont close when you press the home button smart one. and op if you click the multi-window button(the one on the right of home button) you can swipe them all away really fast but dont really know about all at once
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lol apps dont close when you press the home button smart one. and op if you click the multi-window button(the one on the right of home button) you can swipe them all away really fast but dont really know about all at once
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Yes was hoping for an all close at once type app. Had that on iPhone thought might have something similar.
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There are 3rd party app killers in the play store. Check there...
There was a stock task manager...but I guess Google removed it for JB
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Cyanogenmod 10.1 has a button on the multitasking menu to do that. But it's kinda pointless except to clear the list of recently used apps. Android, if my understanding is correct, automatically fills the memory with tasks so killing apps is worse than pointless since you're just causing the system to prioritize unused background processes over the ones that you use more often.
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You should listen to this guy. I know you're coming from a different OS, so you aren't aware of how Android deals with memory. The system is very good at multitasking. Apps that have been idling in the background will be pushed out and won't consume resources or ramp up your CPU. By killing those apps, you force the system to have to reload and process resources necessary to start the app. Android will keep enough of the resources to quickly fire up the app, but restrict activity so that your battery is pretty much unaffected.
An analogy if you need it: Android will bookmark and close whatever you were reading. That way, you can move the book around or leave it on the shelf and quickly pick it up and continue from the last page you were on. You are requesting that the system instead just closes the book, and buries it in a box with other books, and which is located in the attic. It takes more resources to find the book and locate the page again. Just let Android do its thing. Any popular dev will tell you the same thing.
TL;DNR - Don't use a task killer, you will get far better battery life and performance if you let the system deal with system resources.
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lol apps dont close when you press the home button smart one. and op if you click the multi-window button(the one on the right of home button) you can swipe them all away really fast but dont really know about all at once
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Don't listen to this guy. He used the phrase "smart one," which I haven't heard since I was in elementary school (and I thought it was un-clever and uselessly sarcastic then). He also thinks that swiping away apps from the recents menu kills them. This is not how Android works. AOKP devs will not implement a recents menu that actually does let you swipe to kill apps because it's a useless feature that does more harm than good (zero benefit, actually). Just trust that your system knows how to handle its resources.
TL;DNR - Swiping away apps from the recents menu doesn't kill them. Stop trying to kill apps; only do so if they're unresponsive.
If u really want it, aokp has this feature
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reboot?
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You should listen to this guy. I know you're coming from a different OS, so you aren't aware of how Android deals with memory. The system is very good at multitasking. Apps that have been idling in the background will be pushed out and won't consume resources or ramp up your CPU. By killing those apps, you force the system to have to reload and process resources necessary to start the app. Android will keep enough of the resources to quickly fire up the app, but restrict activity so that your battery is pretty much unaffected.
An analogy if you need it: Android will bookmark and close whatever you were reading. That way, you can move the book around or leave it on the shelf and quickly pick it up and continue from the last page you were on. You are requesting that the system instead just closes the book, and buries it in a box with other books, and which is located in the attic. It takes more resources to find the book and locate the page again. Just let Android do its thing. Any popular dev will tell you the same thing.
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Let's say I start loading a web page and quickly jump to another app before it's loaded, then when I return to Chrome the page is ready and waiting. Doesn't this imply that apps are not just simply bookmarked and closed, but may remain active in the background? I am asking, not saying btw.
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Let's say I start loading a web page and quickly jump to another app before it's loaded, then when I return to Chrome the page is ready and waiting. Doesn't this imply that apps are not just simply bookmarked and closed, but may remain active in the background? I am asking, not saying btw.
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Foreground apps are told that they are no longer in view, but are allowed to keep running if they wish. The OS will stop them if the memory is needed - which with 2GB is not very often on the nexus 4!
So Hung0702 was wrong on the last page when he said:
Apps that have been idling in the background will be pushed out and won't consume resources or ramp up your CPU
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It seems as though background apps can use resources and may have a negative impact on battery. Now I have got to the bottom of this I also want a clear all button!
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So Hung0702 was wrong on the last page when he said:
It seems as though background apps can use resources and may have a negative impact on battery. Now I have got to the bottom of this I also want a clear all button!
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Yes, they can keep using resources in the background. However, they will usually not keep the cpu awake unless they have an actual background service, so they will not stop the device from sleeping. As far as I know this is not enforced, but most apps will release the wakelock when told to pause by the OS (because the app is now hidden). This means they shouldn't have much impact on battery life.
You can see what is currently running by going to Settings -> Apps and select the Running tab. The recent apps list is not the same - most will have actually closed when you hid them.