Hello everybody
I was wondering if there is a way to change the back button on the phone to exit the app or game you are in, instead of just minimizing it?
Cause everytime you have used an app or played a game, it is just being put in the background when you press the "home" or "back" button on the phone and using up power and memory.
I hope you understand what i mean
Search for 'quick exit' in market. Not exactly what you wanted but it makes the job
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try downloading advanced task killer from the market its free and will do the job
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Is android as bad as apple? Iv come from a N900 and it was simple. You pressed a button and the app was sent to the background (still running) and then you press a different button to see all the apps running in little windows..
I dont even know how to close a app for good or keep it running in background and how to see whats open and whats not without a app killer app?
Am I missing something?
As bad as apple? Nope...but i am also waitin' for this "button". =)
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there's no taskswitcher built in, there's obviously lots out there, but that doesnt mean it has no multi-tasking as you can press the switch apps by going to home screen and trigger the app again which has been running in the back ground.
fards said:
there's no taskswitcher built in, there's obviously lots out there, but that doesnt mean it has no multi-tasking as you can press the switch apps by going to home screen and trigger the app again which has been running in the back ground.
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How do I do this dont get what I press? It seems to have a mind of its own and I never know how to close the app for good or keep it running..
sorry new to android..
to close most well behaving apps you use the back button, holding down back button will close whatever app you are using with just one press.
some apps will stay resident (but not active) in the background if you press the home key once which should drop you back to the homepage.
on the streak if you hold the home key down then you get the switcher screen and across the bottom there's a list of recently used apps, so you can switch between apps that way..
I'm also new to android and learning quickly
tbh I've tried a few taskswitchers etc and have jkAppswitch at the mo because it works well, but that method above works ok as well.
I wish Dell had given us a basic drop down taskswitcher..
sottyc said:
Is android as bad as apple? Iv come from a N900 and it was simple. You pressed a button and the app was sent to the background (still running) and then you press a different button to see all the apps running in little windows..
I dont even know how to close a app for good or keep it running in background and how to see whats open and whats not without a app killer app?
Am I missing something?
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Once tap to back button take you backward
tapping twise close the app
holding back button takes you to homescreen which you were on
home tap dosent close the app its just take you to homescreen
Hi all,
How to quit sms properly??after i press back button from sms screen, it still show at my "active application",need to go to to there and press exit...please advice...-newbie-
Just realized, same here.Tried disabling a few things but no good. I just kill it with task manager (edit: manually) but notice it doesn't consume any cpu.
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same with me..sometimes it need me to kill the sms manually....i'm not sure whether it is default setting for gs2...still looking the solution...any??lol..
Hi,
I use Project V Rom.
I tried to download something on opera and switch to another app at the same time but as i see when I get back to the opera everything is stopped and its look like the browser is open start over
Can someone help me with that (how to minimize app not close it )
Thanks.
You can long press your home key to open your task manager. That should show recently used programs.
Or, go through Operas settings to see if there's an "exit on back" setting and disable it.
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I am confused right now as to what to actually use when trying to close an app. I read that killing an app for RAM doesn't really help. So does this mean that I should just keep pressing the home button even if it leads to a lot of apps piling in the background? What do you do personally?
You can keep pressing back until the app exists, or you can press menu and see if the app has an exit button, or you can just pile apps in the background as you describe it and android will auto kill them when you are running low on ram.
I set the 'hold back button to force kill' option in cm7.
Interesting option, I avoid CM as it is bloated but do you know any other roms with similar function or how to enable it yourself?
franzks said:
I am confused right now as to what to actually use when trying to close an app. I read that killing an app for RAM doesn't really help. So does this mean that I should just keep pressing the home button even if it leads to a lot of apps piling in the background? What do you do personally?
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Exiting via the back button "kills" an apps. Exiting via home button leaves it running so you can return to it if needed. A taskkiller is pointless as Android will restart a service almost immediately. Stop Maps in Running Services and see it return within 5sec. Lifehacker have some good info on Android taskkillers and why they are fairly pointless.
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I use ALWAYS back button,but sometimes keeps running in background so then i use Advanced Task Killer Pro,and DIES.
Depends, browser I use home. Xda app I use back. You just get used to it. Try not to worry about.
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I always use back button to closing an app. When you need to go back to an app later, you can use home button
usually back button to don't waste Ram.
I use back button to kill apps by long pressing it (ics final by jusada)...there is option in settings>application>developement> to enable this...NoT sure if its there in any stock rom ..
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AFAIK back button should kill the app, there's some cases it doesnt, and home just keeps it on the background.
On gb 2.3.6. No matter how I quit or clear the memory, the apps will automatically start by themselves without me launching the apps.
Some of the apps, I try to back or find the quit button to exit the app, the app is still shown as running behind the scene.
Besides unibstallibg the app, any way to prevent them from running in the background?
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many apps will run in the background even after you quit, ones that wake the phone i uninstall, theres a program called autorun manager, im not 100% sure it works but i disabled many apps and widgets i dont use and when i boot i dont get alot running and i save more ram and theres less cached programs or programs i use only.
heres a link for info
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/autorun-manager-updated-to-v2-0/
On settings there is developer options. Check the kill app back button. Whenever you need to close the apps, long press the back button.
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jigs0416 said:
On settings there is developer options. Check the kill app back button. Whenever you need to close the apps, long press the back button
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Dude, he's running gb. Also this isn't you're looking for but you can freeze apps with titanium backup. Also with advanced task killer if I remember the name right, you can set autokill for exsample every minute. Also you can update to ics
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