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Is there any apps which will list all the apps which are currently running on my Desire, and give me the option to Force Stop them, without having to go through the Manage applications option?
I was showing my Desire to a new iPhone 4 owner and was showing him some of the different Launchers I can install on my phone, and because I use Home Switcher to go between them, I think the other Launchers I have installed (HTC Sense & ADW Launcher, I use LauncherPro) are still running in the background.
And the only way I can see to stop them is to go through the Manage Apps program.
I don't want an Automatic Killer, but I would like a list and an option to kill them?
Any ideas?
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benko286 said:
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Yes, but that is only the last 6 apps, and it doesn't give a force stop option.
I guarantee that there is aLOT more apps running on your phone than that 6.
Used advanced task killer from the market
HTC One X tips and tricks​
As the title says you folks can share HTC One X tips and tricks here. I'm sure lot of the users will find them helpful. I'm new to HTC so I would also use some tips and tricks.
Take Screenshot without third party app
Power Button + Vol down
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Stimulate Battery Removal
Press and Hold Power Button for 10 seconds
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To disable a System app
Go to settings> apps > all tab > Select the app you want and click on Disable. Just like Titanium back.
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To Disable Automatic Shortcut After installing an App
Go to Play Store > Click on Menu and click on Settings > Uncheck "Auto-add Widgets"
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Create Folder Automatically in Launcher
Drag an icon and try to drop it to an existing icon on Launcher menu it automatically creates a folder.
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Proper Reboot
In settings, power, Fast boot - when checked you are only doing a hot boot when you select Restart in power menu, uncheck it and you have the normal reboot(preferred). (Rycon33)
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Move Cursor
To move the cursor left or right while typing, you can press the volume up / down to move it. ( keeenif )
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HTC swype keyboard
Go to settings, keyboard. Then HTC input and enable the trace feature. It's replaced swype for me now (hetalmp)
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Fix Laggy sense 4.0
settings
development section
Don't keep activities
It is unticked by default. Tick it (I went on recent apps to make sure it would be saved, then back) and untick it again. Seems to be a fault in the indication of the settings (131313) More Info
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Limit your data or set a data limit warning
Settings > (Wireless & Network) More > Usage
(puffingbear, 420kushking)
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HTC keyboard Tip
In HTC keyboard, swipe left to change to number/symbol layout, swipe right to change to different language keyboard. (stm2008)
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Phonebook scroll
scroll in phonebook with two fingers will move the list alphabetially. (stm2008)
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Remove black tab with 3 dots (Only on Latest firmware)
Settings > Display & Gesture (For root users on 1.29 or below use this MOD)
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Browser history/bookmark screen
In stock browser, long press the back button can bring up the browser history/bookmark screen (stm2008)
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Scroll through music quickly
To scroll through your music quickly you can use 2 finger scroll. Does it in contacts too (technostein)
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Bluetooth Pictures
when bt handset is connected open camera and press button on handset and camera will take an picture. like remote for camera ( carlowise)
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Stock browser Fullscreen
In the stock browser, get rid of the annoying bar that appears at the bottom of the page every time you scroll down by enabling quick controls.
Got to: Settings --> Labs --> Quick Controls.(apwb)
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Other Tips:
Ultimate HTC One X Guide To Tweaking, Flashing and Modding
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Improve your gaming performance withhamdir guide How to easily Maximize Gaming performance on Tegra 3 One X - root
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Improve overall scrolling experience by using SuperCharger script by zeppelinrox the guide specific for One X created by hamdir
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Battery performance will only improve after 2 or 3 battery cycles. i.e. After flashing the ROM or Kernel wait for 2 or 3 days to comment on battery performance. BTW clearing batterystat.bin does nothing according to engineers at Google.
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After flashing a new Kernel remember to wipe the cache not sure exactly why but it was told by kernel developers
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Access the Secret Power Saver settings by the tip knightrocker in this thread
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To make the developers life easier when you reporting an error, bug on the ROM be sure to include the logcat (for ROM related), kmsg (Kernel related)
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HTC One X Speaker Output
Remove limiter for louder sound and less compressed sound. Also disable Trubass effect which boosts 400hz for a cleaner sound with less mids:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1750369
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Just got my One X. These are very useful tips!
Thanks!
Screen shot is power button and home button, not vol down button.
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Screen shot is power button and home button, not vol down button.
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You are right on that one. The correct sequence is to hold the power button, then press the home button.
Some other tricks that made my user experience better were:
Limit your data or set a data limit warning. Great feature. It only monitors data over the mobile network, however you can show the wifi data as well if you wish. Some ROMS have had this in the past, however it was sometimes unreliable.This is a built in sense 4.0 feature and works great.
Disable "Auto Review" in camera settings>continuous shooting mode. This will give you the best burst shooting experience and you will be able to easily switch to different camera modes, without the annoying best shot feature popping up. Also disable Limit to 20 frames to get up to 99 continuous photos.
Go to settings>more>nfc Enable nfc and scan your smart credit cards or any nfc tag, or nfc enabled phone.
If you use face unlock, go to settings>security>screen lock>face unlock>improve face matching. It drastically improves the time it takes for your phone to recognize your face.
Try out the friendstream lockscreen. Its pretty cool, some people may hate it, others may love it.
Hope this helps
In settings, power, Fast boot - when checked you are only doing a hot boot when you select Restart in power menu, uncheck it and you have the normal reboot(preferred).
And btw, both methods mentioned above posts on screenshot works.
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C_S_R said:
Screen shot is power button and home button, not vol down button.
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Power Button and Volume down works as well it a ICS Tweak works on most of the ICS Models. Just tested it. Hold your power button + Volume down for around 3 seconds it will take a screenshot
Hi,
I came from a HTC desire which had a track pad so I am not sure if this is a new thing.
But to move the cursor left or right while typing, you can press the volume up / down to move it. Found it pretty helpful.
For the HTC swype keyboard which is swype on a much bigger keyboard.
Go to settings, keyboard. Then HTC input and enable the trace feature. It's replaced swype for me now.
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Hi,
I came from a HTC desire which had a track pad so I am not sure if this is a new thing.
But to move the cursor left or right while typing, you can press the volume up / down to move it. Found it pretty helpful.
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Hmm. this is new! But doesnt seem to work for me. still goes into volume control. Did I miss out something?
keeenif said:
Hi,
I came from a HTC desire which had a track pad so I am not sure if this is a new thing.
But to move the cursor left or right while typing, you can press the volume up / down to move it. Found it pretty helpful.
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doesnt work for me too..
There are total of seven screen to attach apps or widgets. In case you use only 5, you can remove the unused screens.
Press the unused screen, there will be an option there.
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fi3ry_icy said:
doesnt work for me too..
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after a few test... I realised it was the keyboard that I am using. Its called MultiLing. My apologies. But I guess it would be nice if thats added.
C_S_R said:
Screen shot is power button and home button, not vol down button.
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Just tried that randomly on my Desire HD which is using stock 2.3.5...
It worked! Mind blown!
Stop sense 4.0 from craxhing
If you worry about the laggy sense 4.0:
settings
development section
Don't keep activities
It is unticked by default. Tick it (I went on recent apps to make sure it would be saved, then back) and untick it again. Seems to be a fault in the indication of the settings, because only now I got my phons as fast as expected.
Made my laggy sense go away and the fun has really started for me now.
After a total power off it is still working fine.
Great Hints! Just one question:
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Go to settings>more>nfc Enable nfc and scan your smart credit cards or any nfc tag, or nfc enabled phone.
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I'm very interested in NFC payment, and I have a smart card. When I enable NFC and place the card on the phone, I get a beep. But it doesn't look like anything's happened. I'm pretty dubious about downloading an app from the market which scans my card. Is there a real world use for this yet? Or an official, trustworthy app?
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If you worry about the laggy sense 4.0:
settings
development section
Don't keep activities
It is unticked by default. Tick it (I went on recent apps to make sure it would be saved, then back) and untick it again. Seems to be a fault in the indication of the settings, because only now I got my phons as fast as expected.
Made my laggy sense go away and the fun has really started for me now.
After a total power off it is still working fine.
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Sorry but you sound little confusing. Do you mean that option should be ticked and then unticked again and this will remove laggy sense?.
ShyamSasi said:
Power Button and Volume down works as well it a ICS Tweak works on most of the ICS Models. Just tested it. Hold your power button + Volume down for around 3 seconds it will take a screenshot
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The both ways are right. Power button + Volume down 2sec. is the "pure" feature of ICS, screenshots are saved in /sccard/pictures/screenshots.Power button and then home button (keep holding power button) is the HTC Sense feature, images are saved in /sdcard/dcim. That is the different.
otarinz said:
Great Hints! Just one question:
I'm very interested in NFC payment, and I have a smart card. When I enable NFC and place the card on the phone, I get a beep. But it doesn't look like anything's happened. I'm pretty dubious about downloading an app from the market which scans my card. Is there a real world use for this yet? Or an official, trustworthy app?
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I would like to know that as well.
Anyone know where notification tones are saved? I would like to copy my fav tones...
Just got my new HOX. Thanks for the great tips!
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Actually it does remove the Music app (UI) from memory, the player service is still running.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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.
I'm talking about the using the volume buttons as shortcuts to access Qnote and the Camera. The first time I did it I selected the A Better Camera app and it worked just fine, then I uninstalled the app later because I couldn't figure out how to change it. The next time, after uninstalling ABC, I held the volume down button it asked for another app so I selected the default camera app. Now I want to go back to ABC but I don't know how to do it. I don't know what cache settings to delete or how to get to them to reset the Shortcut keys.
Anyone know?
icoman said:
Anyone know?
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Thank you. That did it.