Hey,
I currently am running AOKP 4-11-12 and I was wondering if it were possible to install the Samsung Task Manager as I prefer that to the one in the ROM and I cant find any other good task managers on the market.
So is it possible to download and install the APKs for the Samsung task manager or will it not work with this ROM?
ImmenseGT said:
Hey,
I currently am running AOKP 4-11-12 and I was wondering if it were possible to install the Samsung Task Manager as I prefer that to the one in the ROM and I cant find any other good task managers on the market.
So is it possible to download and install the APKs for the Samsung task manager or will it not work with this ROM?
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wont work.
it depends on the samsung framework.
you can try, but if it even shows up for you it will FC
ImmenseGT said:
and I cant find any other good task managers on the market.
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Really. did ya look? u know "good" ones cost money.
ImmenseGT said:
Hey,
I currently am running AOKP 4-11-12 and I was wondering if it were possible to install the Samsung Task Manager as I prefer that to the one in the ROM and I cant find any other good task managers on the market.
So is it possible to download and install the APKs for the Samsung task manager or will it not work with this ROM?
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There is a de-Touchwizzed one here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1452004
I haven't tried the Task Manager but I have used some of the other apps in that thread. Note: it doesn't integrate at the bottom of the recent apps list, but you can launch it as a normal application using methods such as custom home long press app, launcher gestures, search long press, etc.
stone_ship said:
There is a de-Touchwizzed one here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1452004
I haven't tried the Task Manager but I have used some of the other apps in that thread. Note: it doesn't integrate at the bottom of the recent apps list, but you can launch it as a normal application using methods such as custom home long press app, launcher gestures, search long press, etc.
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Thanks! Just to clarify, have you used these apps with AOKP or with some other ROM?
I've been using the Clock and Calculator with AOKP and CM9. Once separated from TouchWiz, they are pretty much normal apps. But, they are not perfect! For instance, alarms can't be set in the Clock. I use the AOSP Clock for alarms, the TW Clock for stopwatch/timer functions. Again, I haven't tested the Task Manager, but the thread is short enough that you see if people are having problems.
This is also out there--again I have no first hand experience, but it's all really easy to find by Googling:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529223
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Does anyone think it would be possible? The widget is nice and clean, telling you the amount of apps running. If it is possible, I'd like to use it in LauncherPro.
Me too (running Galaxy S I9000 though). I had a play around, found I could run it as an 'activity' in LauncherPro, but only running in its own little screen, not as a widget. Had a play around with the apk and some basic dev tools, considered either copying the app but making it a regular widget which could then be installed like any other, or creating a new app that runs the existing activity (like LauncherPro) as a widget. Unfortunately, either I'm not skilled enough or it's not possible (or both - I'm not skilled enough to properly work out that it's not possible ).
Dean-O said:
Me too (running Galaxy S I9000 though). I had a play around, found I could run it as an 'activity' in LauncherPro, but only running in its own little screen, not as a widget. Had a play around with the apk and some basic dev tools, considered either copying the app but making it a regular widget which could then be installed like any other, or creating a new app that runs the existing activity (like LauncherPro) as a widget. Unfortunately, either I'm not skilled enough or it's not possible (or both - I'm not skilled enough to properly work out that it's not possible ).
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didnt know you could do it as an activity, but whats wrong with just holding the home button and clicking on task manager?
djkdawg said:
didnt know you could do it as an activity, but whats wrong with just holding the home button and clicking on task manager?
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Like most widgets, just being able to glance at the Program Monitor widget rather than open Task Manager is faster, that's all
Good news - I looked into this a while ago and was stumped as per my previous post. Then a couple of days ago I stumbled upon how to properly decompile the widget's apk, which I have now done. Very busy with other work right now, but will look into trying to turn it into a widget that runs on any launcher as soon as I get the chance - hopefully as an easily installable apk file (by recreating the program as a standard widget), but possibly might need to be an update.zip file (modifying the program in /system/app to run as a standard widget). Will post any updates.
That would be awesome - I have been googling this for a while now and I didn't think it was possible to do. Keep us posted!
The same as me ! Keep us posted if any news !
I too would like to get just this running again.
Any word on this? I love the widget.
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bump......
any one know if this is still happening?
jinx8402 said:
Does anyone think it would be possible? The widget is nice and clean, telling you the amount of apps running. If it is possible, I'd like to use it in LauncherPro.
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Have you tried any of the modded tw launchers from sgs tools?
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anything ever happen here? Got Bionix v1.2 with TW launcher but program monitor is gone. Love to get it back
nothing with this yet? it'd be a great addition to roms.
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nothing with this yet? it'd be a great addition to roms.
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Can't believe that i haven't came across this thread but if it hasn't been answered. A port has been created and it's called "Active Apps". Try a search in a market and it should appear.
Well the closest you are going to get it seems is active apps. It's not as fast, and it doesn't show everything (I.E if you hold home and bring up the task manager, it will show your aftermarket launcher as an active app, where Active Apps doesn't show it if it's running on top of it)and it's a little laggy, but you can theme the icon, change colors, it doesn't monitor battery use and change colors but it's still the best you are going to get for a program monitor style app.
http://androidforums.com/application-announcements/306629-app-active-apps.html
Dear all,
I love the way LG stock rom devides apps in to default ones and Downloads. Moreover, it allows creating new categories to better organize apps. However, no custom rom (void, prime, lol,...) has this useful ability.
Do u know how to get this? Which app can help with the same need?
The LG Home app recognizes 2 categories by default, but additional categories may be added. And ones from the first category can be moved to the second and so on. The only thing special about the "APPLICATIONS" category in the stock launcher includes all apps from the /system/app/ directory.
With Zeam, GO, ADW, Panda, Better Home and LauncherPro (I don't know of other launchers...) it is possible to create categories and organise apps the same way as in the stock home app. But system apps are by default not seperate from the user applications in the app drawer.
If you want the stock launcher app, just copy it from your stock ROM - "/system/app/LGHome.apk". Then you are free to place it on any ROM of your choice (Simply install the package or copy it to the /system/app/ directory).
Ianis G. Vasilev said:
With Zeam, GO, ADW, Panda, Better Home and LauncherPro (I don't know of other launchers...) it is possible to create categories and organise apps the same way as in the stock home app. But system apps are by default not seperate from the user applications in the app drawer.
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How do you do this? I've been using LP Plus for 2 weeks and I've pretty much gone through all the possible settings from the preference page and I couldn't find anything about it there.
AzNxJoHnNy said:
How do you do this? I've been using LP Plus for 2 weeks and I've pretty much gone through all the possible settings from the preference page and I couldn't find anything about it there.
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i would like to know this too so i can create category for my downloaded apps and preinstalled apps
Many launchers come with this function. Just try them. If you have an Android phone and you haven't yet tried all the launchers, it's weird. I bet 99% people have tried all launchers.
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AzNxJoHnNy said:
How do you do this? I've been using LP Plus for 2 weeks and I've pretty much gone through all the possible settings from the preference page and I couldn't find anything about it there.
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Yeah, I find no option to do this
Hi,
when I had stock samsung firmware I had a widget that easily let me free RAM and see what applications were running. Does anyone know if you can get the APK file for this widget and install it on CyanogenMod?
PS: I am talking about the widget in the picture that says Active Applications.
Thanks
anyone????????
I'm looking for this too, I thought it's part of the TouchWiz launcher, was surprised to see it's not there with the custom ROMs
bverilo said:
I'm looking for this too, I thought it's part of the TouchWiz launcher, was surprised to see it's not there with the custom ROMs
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the widget's called Program Monitor by the way
Try "active apps" in the market.
Not sure what other peoples views are but I don't use Task Killers, I think Android does a good enough job of managing itself however since moving to AOSP/AOKP ROM's I really miss the stock Samsung Task Manager.
I have certain apps on my phone that don't have an exit button or can only be exited by the home button which means they stay active and use CPU and thus battery, if I was still using a Samsung ROM I would use the Task Manger to close/exit said applications.
Some apps will close by sliding the tile in recent applications but some do not, I love the ROM I am currently using but I miss the control I had over my phone with the Task Manage.
So my question is...
Does anybody know of an application available like the stock Samsung Task Manger or...
Can the stock Samsung Task Manager be modded to work on CM9 and other AOSP/AOKP ROM's?
Thanks and let the flaming begin! lol
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Many solutions
In aokp rom:
In rom control/general tick the "long press on the back touch to close app"option.
or in rom control/navigation barr configure one of the button to killer app.
In aosp/aokp settings/devellopement options
tick "don't gard activity" option. (may cause applis bugs)
Download a Task killer on the market.
Ok, so I am not exactly a noob with android. But ICS, yes. I just upgraded last week. I flashed Siyah kernel and Omega rom as that was close to what I used to have with GB and UnNamed rom. I then moved Omega to 2nd rom and flashed Task's AOKP rom as primary making it duel boot. I ABSOLUTELY love AOKP!! However, I miss two things that I enjoyed having in Omega and UnNamed and that is the ability to put applications into folders and the Active Applications monitor widget.
Using folders to organize my apps just makes sense to me and it made it easier to put the lesser used apps away. I know that I can organize apps on the homescreens, but that area is reserved for widgets and apps that are used most of the time. My question for this is: why are developers NOT including this feature? Is there something I am missing? Is there an easier way to organize apps that I am not seeing?
As far as the Active Applications widget, I used that widget to tell me what I have left open when navigating away from a program or hitting the home button to go to another app temporally. I would also use it to go back to said apps that I left open. I also used it to kill those apps. The widget would tell me, at a glance, how many programs I left open. This seems like a feature that would be important, yet I cannot find it anywhere!
I did google searches and forum searches to no avail. This worries me as since I am the only person asking, there must be something better or I am missing something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would ask Task directly, but I cannot post to his thread.
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Ok, so I am not exactly a noob with android. But ICS, yes. I just upgraded last week. I flashed Siyah kernel and Omega rom as that was close to what I used to have with GB and UnNamed rom. I then moved Omega to 2nd rom and flashed Task's AOKP rom as primary making it duel boot. I ABSOLUTELY love AOKP!! However, I miss two things that I enjoyed having in Omega and UnNamed and that is the ability to put applications into folders and the Active Applications monitor widget.
Using folders to organize my apps just makes sense to me and it made it easier to put the lesser used apps away. I know that I can organize apps on the homescreens, but that area is reserved for widgets and apps that are used most of the time. My question for this is: why are developers NOT including this feature? Is there something I am missing? Is there an easier way to organize apps that I am not seeing?
As far as the Active Applications widget, I used that widget to tell me what I have left open when navigating away from a program or hitting the home button to go to another app temporally. I would also use it to go back to said apps that I left open. I also used it to kill those apps. The widget would tell me, at a glance, how many programs I left open. This seems like a feature that would be important, yet I cannot find it anywhere!
I did google searches and forum searches to no avail. This worries me as since I am the only person asking, there must be something better or I am missing something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would ask Task directly, but I cannot post to his thread.
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Tbh you don't need an active application widget. Also, you can put folders on your home screen so I don't know why you think you can't.
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Ok, so I am not exactly a noob with android. But ICS, yes. I just upgraded last week. I flashed Siyah kernel and Omega rom as that was close to what I used to have with GB and UnNamed rom. I then moved Omega to 2nd rom and flashed Task's AOKP rom as primary making it duel boot. I ABSOLUTELY love AOKP!! However, I miss two things that I enjoyed having in Omega and UnNamed and that is the ability to put applications into folders and the Active Applications monitor widget.
Using folders to organize my apps just makes sense to me and it made it easier to put the lesser used apps away. I know that I can organize apps on the homescreens, but that area is reserved for widgets and apps that are used most of the time. My question for this is: why are developers NOT including this feature? Is there something I am missing? Is there an easier way to organize apps that I am not seeing?
As far as the Active Applications widget, I used that widget to tell me what I have left open when navigating away from a program or hitting the home button to go to another app temporally. I would also use it to go back to said apps that I left open. I also used it to kill those apps. The widget would tell me, at a glance, how many programs I left open. This seems like a feature that would be important, yet I cannot find it anywhere!
I did google searches and forum searches to no avail. This worries me as since I am the only person asking, there must be something better or I am missing something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would ask Task directly, but I cannot post to his thread.
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For ICS ROMs, I haven't tried many different yet, but at least on the Horny Porny Unicorn, with Apex launcher, free version, you definitely can make folder(s) on the Home screen(s), only on the home screens, not in the App Drawer.
Your other question seems to be called "Program Manager" where it lists how many apps and which app currently opened. In ICS, honestly I couldn't find anything similar to that (note: that Program Manager will only work on Samsung framework). I currently just use Task Manager to deal with it.
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Ok, so I am not exactly a noob with android. But ICS, yes. I just upgraded last week. I flashed Siyah kernel and Omega rom as that was close to what I used to have with GB and UnNamed rom. I then moved Omega to 2nd rom and flashed Task's AOKP rom as primary making it duel boot. I ABSOLUTELY love AOKP!! However, I miss two things that I enjoyed having in Omega and UnNamed and that is the ability to put applications into folders and the Active Applications monitor widget.
Using folders to organize my apps just makes sense to me and it made it easier to put the lesser used apps away. I know that I can organize apps on the homescreens, but that area is reserved for widgets and apps that are used most of the time. My question for this is: why are developers NOT including this feature? Is there something I am missing? Is there an easier way to organize apps that I am not seeing?
As far as the Active Applications widget, I used that widget to tell me what I have left open when navigating away from a program or hitting the home button to go to another app temporally. I would also use it to go back to said apps that I left open. I also used it to kill those apps. The widget would tell me, at a glance, how many programs I left open. This seems like a feature that would be important, yet I cannot find it anywhere!
I did google searches and forum searches to no avail. This worries me as since I am the only person asking, there must be something better or I am missing something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would ask Task directly, but I cannot post to his thread.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I do believe holding down the home button shows you recent apps and is also a built in task killer. Also with folders as previous posts have said to add folders to the home screen just drag one icon on another and ur good to go.
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Nick281051 said:
Tbh you don't need an active application widget. Also, you can put folders on your home screen so I don't know why you think you can't.
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Your right! I can put folders on my home screen, but like I originality said, you cant put folders in the apps screen where they are needed. The home screen is reserved for things like often used apps and widgets.
As far as holding down the home button to kill programs... seems to work on my Omega but not on the AOKP. I turned it on under rom control to Pre-ICS recent when holding down the Home button (after playing will ALL the settings) and all it allows for is showing you the recent apps... not active ones. Anyone know of a task manager widget or something like what I am talking about???
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Your right! I can put folders on my home screen, but like I originality said, you cant put folders in the apps screen where they are needed. The home screen is reserved for things like often used apps and widgets.
As far as holding down the home button to kill programs... seems to work on my Omega but not on the AOKP. I turned it on under rom control to Pre-ICS recent when holding down the Home button (after playing will ALL the settings) and all it allows for is showing you the recent apps... not active ones. Anyone know of a task manager widget or something like what I am talking about???
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You meant the app drawer, okay yeah that only works with touchwiz. As for the task manager setting it to pre ics removes a lot of functionality. You can set the back button to kill apps but you can have the task manager that is in samsung roms.
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Nick281051 said:
You meant the app drawer, okay yeah that only works with touchwiz. As for the task manager setting it to pre ics removes a lot of functionality. You can set the back button to kill apps but you can have the task manager that is in samsung roms.
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That works... I played around with that, but I thought it was just a way to kill the app you currently were using and had open. If you open a app and navagate away from it or press the home button, holding down the back button will show those apps and then kill them. Works like a charm! I love this mod...
I guess all I need now is touchwiz or something better that will probably never happen and life will be grand! Thank you so much!!!
If you have Nova Launcher Prime you can have folders in the app drawer. I believe is $4.00 in he play store
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Thanks, I will try it out.
Go Launcher Ex will do folders in the app drawer. I use it with Shostock2.
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