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.
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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.
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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.
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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..
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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?
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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 guys and girls.
I need to ask this. My gf love using stock browser to watch movie. Since stock browser doesn't have the close or exit button like what browsers have, once she press the home screen, will the stock browser still run at background and auto close when say we have escape it for about a few minutes?
I do not want to see the browser still running and my data goes away for free.
Can you advise me on this? Many thanks all!
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I'm pretty sure the stock browser wont use any data when it is not foreground.
Once you hit the home icon it will still be running in the background but wont be using any data.The only thing it could effect is your battery.
cooza said:
Once you hit the home icon it will still be running in the background but wont be using any data.The only thing it could effect is your battery.
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I'm pretty sure the stock browser wont use any data when it is not foreground.
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Thanks guys!
That is good news indeed! Thank you for your clarification
Pressing home keeps it running for a while in the state it was in. If you keep pressing the back button on your phone you will eventually be back at your homescreen and resets the browser's state.
It will still run on the background i guess and bad thing it consumes more battery
If you are still worried about it you can always hold down the centre home button until "task administrator" appears.it shows all the tasks that are open.close it from there,its perfectly safe as thats what its made for.
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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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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Long press back button to kill the current app. Cyanogenmod and MIUI Roms already have it :good:
Unnecessary and battery consuming apps can be killed right away without the trouble of going to the application menu every #@! time...
Can some developer perhaps make this possible for the XPS?
Swipe the app away from the list when you long press home.
its not nessesary if you use the go back button to quit the app and not the homebutton.
and open, but recently not used apps dont needs battery but to close apps all the time if they have boot recivers needs alot of battery
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Swipe the app away from the list when you long press home.
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I can't.. you mean the 'recent' list with a max of 8 apps right? i can't swipe at all in that list
edit: I'm on GB by the way but thanks
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its not nessesary if you use the go back button to quit the app and not the homebutton.
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Ah i thought not all apps close when pressing the back button, but i just tried it again with some apps, but they do close unless they are necessary in the background offcourse but i was more concerned about cached processes, do they use battery or resources (except RAM) can they restart themselfs and maybe for example connect to the internet
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Swipe the app away from the list when you long press home.
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I don't know I can do that
thanks
Zeus ROM for Optimus Black have this mod, if you devs want to give a look
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Zeus ROM for Optimus Black have this mod, if you devs want to give a look
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Thanks that ROM uses a modded version of the Xperia S home launcher! :good:
Do you also know about cached processes, (except RAM usage) can they restart themselfs and maybe for example connect to the internet or do something else. Or is it just cached 'frozen' in memory and nothing more, until its needed again on command
Do you do the "home button" method or the "back button" method?
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For me, it's always been the back button. I've always felt that with the less apps running in the background, I get better battery life. Does it make that big of a difference? Just doesn't make sense that with such a powerful phone, I'm not utilizing it to its potential.
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Depends. Back button if I won't be going back into the app. Home button if I will be going back into the app again.
Back button = kill (sort of)
Home = multitasking
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I generally always use the home button.
If I want the app killed I will use the recent apps window to kill them off.
I don't mind the RAM being used in the background, it doesn't have any real negative consequences as far as I can tell.
Still, every now and then when something is acting up, I wish we had the long press back to kill process feature. I have this on my tablet.
Home button.
Seems like I read if you use the back button it'll completely exit app, but if you use home you can go back to where you were in the app later. You can long press home and bring up task manager to stop all apps or individually stop them. You can go to settings>General>Developer Options> go to bottom "Don't keep activities" Guess it stops the apps for sure when you exit. Maybe helps with battery life?
Yup that was ways my dilemma. I've always used the back button because it exits the app completely because I've heard that gives better battery life.
Then I started thinking that's kind of a waste of a phone this powerful if I'm not using it to its potential. So just this past week, I've tried getting in the habit of leaving apps running in the background and exiting with the home button.
I haven't noticed too much of a difference, if any.
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I use both depending on the app. However, I notice that even when I back out of an app (even the ones that confirm closing) it will still be in my list of open apps when holding the home button.
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I was under the impression those are just "recently used" apps rather than open apps. Maybe I'm wrong.
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I was under the impression those are just "recently used" apps rather than open apps. Maybe I'm wrong.
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They're not open necessarily, but when you swipe them they die.
I optimize my ram all day erryday
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Home and optimize ram with the widget
i use home then recent apps kill all. though i prefer the option of holding the back button to kill apps like on my old g2x.