[Q] Can I disable Voice Talk shortcut (2x home button) - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey I was wondering if there is a way to disable the press Home 2x shortcut to activate Voice Talk (or even uninstall it)?
It's not a big deal, but just a preference. And the shortcut seems to unlock my Widgetlock screen as well (not that it really happens often)

I can confirm i have frozen all voice related apps and including the one you mentioned and double press home does not start anything.
I dont use the voice apps and have not had any negative effects since. Hope this helps
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Forgot to mention i used titanium backup pro to "freeze" apps. Its a safe way before deleting.
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thanks, the thing is I dont see Voice Talk in my apps list in titanium backup.
I guess its called something else there.
But just like you i dont use any voice command apps so I guess I'll just freeze'em like you suggested.
thanks again =)

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What to freeze from titanium backup

To save battery what would I freeze?
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xriderx66 said:
To save battery what would I freeze?
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I read that DRM related services suck up a lot of juice.
If you don't use these, freeze two(2) start with DRM* and the MediaHub app.
Or give Axura 2.2 (Search for it) a try, it gives me the best battery life.
Wifi calling if you have it, usually uninstalling wifi calling screws with things so just freeze that if you have it. And usually any other bloatware such as default samsung apps like the Email and Allshare and crap like that.
I only froze a few of apps.
Anything with DRM
Media Hub
All Share
Anything with bluetooth (I don't use them)
Daily briefing
Samsung Keypad
Samsung apps
Swype
Voice Recorder
Voice Search
Anyone know which system apps/processes I can freeze without screwing with the phone too much?

So many applications running in the background

I couldn't find anything on this topic so I had to create a new 1 I'm sorry if I repeated.
There are always so many applications running in the background they take ram too.
Is it normal?
Has anyone found a solution if this is a problem?
What makes them running in fact what makes them start in the first place thanks in advance
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use task killers, but AFAIK there is no need for that since android automatically kills unused apps.
just go to settings-application-running services and close the 1 u want to
simple
Thanks
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I would suggest not using a task killer cause they suck but using android assistant its really cool and works well for a lot of things including killing tasks but more important use startup Auditor you can look up programs that are always running and in background and select to kill them at start up as well as keep them killed you can still open and use the apps it just keeps them from opening by them selves
divyanshu308 said:
I couldn't find anything on this topic so I had to create a new 1 I'm sorry if I repeated.
There are always so many applications running in the background they take ram too.
Is it normal?
Has anyone found a solution if this is a problem?
What makes them running in fact what makes them start in the first place thanks in advance
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try smart bar.
I use "autorun manager" to control which stuff works at startup.
i would suggest googling for android task killers and reading the lifehacker article about them, it is pretty well explained (sorry but I can't post links just yet)
Autorun manager isn't a task killer,so you can use it only for monitoring startup apps. This is a good alternative.
Hi every one
I downloaded the applications they are good but I didn't really got my answer.
The thing is that even when I turn the things off even after terminating the threads after a while they get started on their own why does this happens?
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It sounds like you are using an app that is turning something back on. i.e. some app that uses google maps so that service is turned back on.
Zyzomys said:
It sounds like you are using an app that is turning something back on. i.e. some app that uses google maps so that service is turned back on.
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yeah i guess i'm obviously not sure.
right now there are atleAST 10 to 15 apps running in background.
i didnt even clicked them by any chance.
they all are consuming ram.
You could always use Titanium Backup and freeze Maps. I do this as soon as I am done with Maps - that way it is not able to start up again.
Zyzomys said:
You could always use Titanium Backup and freeze Maps. I do this as soon as I am done with Maps - that way it is not able to start up again.
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You know any application that provides freezing for free;-)???
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[Q] Turn off vlingo/voice talk when you double tap the home button?

So if you double tap the home button vlingo/voice talk pops up, is this something you can turn off with some sort of setting? I know that before ICS it wasn't possible, but hoping that maybe ICS brings this option?
Also i know you can freeze the app with titanium backup+root, but just wondering if there now maybe is a setting for it instead.
I have the nordic version of ICS and I was able to simply uninstall voice command. It seems like it is not a system app anymore...
I can't uninstall Voice Talk on my Galaxy S2 Nordic ICS. Can't even disable it. Samsung has written to me, that it's not possible to do so. Is your GSII rooted?
root, use root uninstaller or similar or any file explorer with root file capability and remove file manualy.
you can uninstall vlingo without root.
if you use apex launcher, simply click and drag the voice command app in the app drawer to the top and it will let you uninstall it!
should probably work with other launchers that have drag to delete functionality.
Yaay, uninstalled it using Go Launcher, I'm rooted but don't know if made the difference.
Also works with apex, nova launcher and probably other launchers that have a drag-to-trash uninstall feature. (I have a non rooted ICS SGS2)
Just remember to back up your app before uninstalling (voice commands app). just in case you change your mind later
for now, good riddance vlingo!
Doesnt work
I have tried the launchers and they dont unistall this app does anyone else have this problem?
You HAVE to use the launcher's drag and drop method to uninstall. If you try to uninstall through the app manager there's no uninstall option available
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I was able to remove it from my S2 running ICS using the "Go Launcher APP"
You can find the instructions here
techbu.com/2012/07/01/how-to-disable-voice-talk-on-samsung-galaxy-s2

Why are all these apps "running" on my s3?? HELP PLEASE.

Disclaimer: I'm a total smart phone noob who recently went from a cheapo tracfone to a Samsung Galaxy S3.
I seem to be getting really bad battery life and I just went into my app manager and clicked on the "running" and there's a big list of apps in there...all with timers running..including a couple games I dloaded. Why are they "running" and are they draining my battery? How do I shut them down? NOTE: When I play a game or use an app, to get out of it, I just hit the Home button. Is there a way I should exit from each app?
After hitting the home button, hold it down then a list of your recent apps will show up as thumbnails, slide them off the screen to close them.
And if you are finished with an app exit it with the back button, exiting it with the home button just keeps it in ram (multitasking)
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nodstuff said:
And if you are finished with an app exit it with the back button, exiting it with the home button just keeps it in ram (multitasking)
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Cool, thanks.
irish-sid said:
After hitting the home button, hold it down then a list of your recent apps will show up as thumbnails, slide them off the screen to close them.
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Great! thanks didn't even know I could do that. Ok so I did that and swiped them all off the screen...then did it again and went into task manager and it said "Active Applications: 0"...ok awesome. However, then I went back intoSsettings ->Application Manager and "runnning" tab and there's still a big list in there:
Settings
Factory Mode
Software update
T-Mobile My Account
AllShare Play
MAPServiceSamsung
Bonus Apps
Google Services
Dropbox
Maps
Task Manager
Media Hub
MobileLife Contacts
Email
SecPhone
GBA service
S voice
Samsung Keyboard
Deep Sea (live Wallpaper)
now I obviously understand Settings, task manager and wall paper, but why are the rest "running"??
kbreese said:
Cool, thanks.
Great! thanks didn't even know I could do that. Ok so I did that and swiped them all off the screen...then did it again and went into task manager and it said "Active Applications: 0"...ok awesome. However, then I went back intoSsettings ->Application Manager and "runnning" tab and there's still a big list in there:
Settings
Factory Mode
Software update
T-Mobile My Account
AllShare Play
MAPServiceSamsung
Bonus Apps
Google Services
Dropbox
Maps
Task Manager
Media Hub
MobileLife Contacts
Email
SecPhone
GBA service
S voice
Samsung Keyboard
Deep Sea (live Wallpaper)
now I obviously understand Settings, task manager and wall paper, but why are the rest "running"??
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You are always going to have running apps and services, that's unavoidable.
Just clear the recent apps menu by swiping them away and forget about the rest.
If you are rooted you can use a root explorer to go to system/app directory and delete bloatware.
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This is a computer, pal. And all of them run dozens of processes. Leave Android kill by itself those that are not needed anymore...
kbreese said:
Disclaimer: I'm a total smart phone noob who recently went from a cheapo tracfone to a Samsung Galaxy S3.
I seem to be getting really bad battery life and I just went into my app manager and clicked on the "running" and there's a big list of apps in there...all with timers running..including a couple games I dloaded. Why are they "running" and are they draining my battery? How do I shut them down? NOTE: When I play a game or use an app, to get out of it, I just hit the Home button. Is there a way I should exit from each app?
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On your Windows PC (if you have Windows), press CTRL+Shift+ESC, then click on the processes tab of the window that shows up. For extra excitement, click on "show processes from all users". See all those apps running? You don't need to care about 98% of those. That's Windows doing its thing.
Loading up a task manager on Android results in a similar list. Most of that list is just Android doing its thing, including keeping apps cached in case you need to go back to them. In almost all cases, you don't need to do anything. Even if you exit an app by pressing the Home key, Android will just page it out of memory pretty quickly unless it's specifically designed to run in the background (or just poorly programmed).
Your best bet is just to ignore task management software as they tend to do more bad than good.
visit the thread "apps safe to remove" and delete or freeze all unwanted apps forever
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Also remember to go into S Voice settings and turn off the wake ups etc
Then go follow the tread posted above and have Titanium backup or System Tuner Pro etc ready, to Freeze bloatware.
Also you use Kies? Can also remove or rename 'kiesexe' from system/bin.
Then enjoy! Went from 90-110M free ram to 220-320M now after loading all my widgets etc
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irish-sid said:
After hitting the home button, hold it down then a list of your recent apps will show up as thumbnails, slide them off the screen to close them.
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correct me if i am wrong , this function shows only the history of programs open , program is already close , only app application monitor shows unclose app
Aimara said:
correct me if i am wrong , this function shows only the history of programs open , program is already close , only app application monitor shows unclose app
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Swiping them away in that menu clears them from memory.
All running apps/services are not shown in that menu.
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[Q] App freeze with Titanium Backup

Hi guys.
Sorry if this post is going to annoy some devs.
Lately I've frozen some annoying Samsung apps and services from my phone with the aid of titanium backup.
However, after freezing and a restart, I always want to confirm by going into SETTINGS > APPLICATIONS.
In there when I scroll down, I see the disabled apps but then when I open them, they still have an option for "FORCE CLOSE"
The question now is does this mean that they are still running in the background in some sort of way or something else.
I seem to be confused thinking freezing them will not only make their icons dissapear but stop them from ever running.
Thanks.
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freezing will have disabled them, it's just Samsung not recognizing that, might be worth letting the titanium team know about this

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