I'm still running the supposed to be stable version CM 7.1 for SGSII and so far, everything is great except for the problem that when I exit an application using back button, the application still remains running in the background (including settings, theme chooser and about everything else I didn't exited using the in-app exit option). I'm using ES Task Manager to verify and kill the running applications. If I failed to do so, the apps continue to run in the background and eats up extra battery. What I want to know now is that, is this the default behavior of CM7? Or did I miss setting something so that when I exit an application using back button the application is actually really being terminated? I know the setting wherein long press on back button to terminate the app but I really want to set the exit using single short press in back button. Any idea? Thanks in advance..
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Hi,
Can you help me with a problem?
When I want to kill an application on my Desire, I must go to the app drawer and find the Task killer. And then, find the app that I want to kill, press and wait for the options and finally kill that app. It's annoying, because it takes a lot of time... (sorry, but for me 5 sec IS a lot ) Please don't tell me to just avoid killing tasks.
I got an idea if it is possible to kill a tasks just by pressing HW keys or a combination of HW keys. For example: By pressing 3x HOME I'll kill the application I'm just using. That should save a lot of time (that 5 sec).
So my question: Is there a way to assign own actions to HW keys? By remapping or something like that?
Thanks a lot.
In MIUI (and I think CM7) there's an option to long-press the back button to kill the current task.
If you're not interested in using either of those roms, I believe there's an app that will do the same. There's also an app that will allow you to close the current app from the notification bar.
Those apps may require root, and I don't know the names of them. Just search the Market, you may find them.
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plainjane said:
In MIUI (and I think CM7) there's an option to long-press the back button to kill the current task.
If you're not interested in using either of those roms, I believe there's an app that will do the same. There's also an app that will allow you to close the current app from the notification bar.
Those apps may require root, and I don't know the names of them. Just search the Market, you may find them.
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I'm currently using CM7, so I'll try to find this options.
Thanks!
In cm7, from your home screen:
Menu > settings > applications > development > stop app via longpress
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mrrick said:
In cm7, from your home screen:
Menu > settings > applications > development > stop app via longpress
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Found it! Thx!!
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.
So when I enter task manager by pressing and holding home key for a couple seconds from the home page, and clicking task manager, and then clear memory, and exit via the back key, I get the dialer to pop up? Anyone else getting this?
hm
doesn't seem like much of a bug to me but I'll let you know. I was having some issues last night with shostock 1.0 where my phone was stuck in a bootloop so I'm updating to 1.1 as I type this.
EDIT:when I enter task manager by pressing and holding home key for a couple seconds from the home page, then clear memory, and exit through the back button it brings me to stumbleupon. However, if you notice when you push clear memory it says "x applications exited" where x is a number of applications. In my case it was 27 but I'm pretty sure what happens is Apex launcher gets closed. After some evaluation I don't think this is a bug at all, just what happens when you close apex launcher. I had a similar experience using cm7 when I help my back button on the homescreen because it would close adw launcher.
Hmm. Odd. So why would the dialer/other apps open?
For me, Apex doesn't even show up as an active application. So when I go through the process that you mentioned, I get the home screen every time. Not sure why your phone would be doing that.
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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A while back, I installed Cynogenmod on my moto X and stumbled upon its task switch shortcut, I could hold the "recent apps" button to quickly navigate to the last app I had open which I found immensely useful. I'm now running stock lollipop (5.1) and was wondering if there's any way to obtain this great feature once again. I found an app called last app switcher, but it involves clicking a red button that hovers over the screen which I find irritating.
P.S. After flashing back to complete stock, I have the default recovery and I'm no longer rooted, I have computer to root my phone at the moment.
Try out Swapps by SchizTech
Hmm week you can replicate the function by using xposed and gravity box