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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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.
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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
Hello,
Sorry for my bad english.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2, and flash'ed the Resurrection Remix 1.7 ROM. BEST!
What I missed is a Taskmanager like the original Samsung ROM Taskmanager.
You can see what is open (okay... I can see this with ICS too), whats in the Background open (this I cant see), and how much RAM it eats /how much RAM is free...
I looked at the Play Store, and there are Apps, they are old (are they still ICS compatible?), or they are ugly or have Ads like "Wanna have better Battery!?! OMG!!! Download my all-can-fix-app here".
I dont want anything, only the funktion, whats in the Background open, and how much RAM it eats... Like in the Samsung ROM with the one widget.
Sorry for my bad english.
Hope you can help me. Becouse I dont find something...
Thanks.
+1 I was wondering about this too.
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you dont need a task manager on android
android manages ram differently
if you kill a app with a taskmanager
android will just restart it= wastage of battery life
apps in the back ground are frozen and wont affect performance but u can remove them in the ics multitasking UI
bluefa1con said:
...you dont need a task manager on android...
...android manages ram differently...
...if you kill a app with a taskmanager
android will just restart it= wastage of battery life...
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Thanks for the answer.
But when I will watch/show (...my english... ugly!) what is in the background? Or what CPU eats?
Can ICS show me this too? Becouse I doesent find enything. In Stuck ICS from Samsung, I can watch it, and so I can see, for example:
I have installed "Testapp A", and I wonder, why the battery will be so short, I go to Samsung Taskmanager, and it shows me that the App running in the Background, so I go to Play Store, and delete this app. So it dont running more...
With Stuck ICS I wonder, why the battery goes down... I looked. And an App was in Background. A Game... So I have deleted this crap.
Do you know what I mean? Its for me more Diagnostical, I know, when I kill something, it will restart.
Maybie it´s not a Taskmanager, it´s more a Diagnostical app?
Sorry for this english.
bluefa1con said:
you dont need a task manager on android
android manages ram differently
if you kill a app with a taskmanager
android will just restart it= wastage of battery life
apps in the back ground are frozen and wont affect performance but u can remove them in the ics multitasking UI
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what a bunch of bull
background apps are frozen on iOS, not on android, they fully run, hence the term "full multitasking".
also, just services will restart on their own, normal apps, like youtube, games and so on are fully quittable, why would they restart? do you think all your apps run all the time?
the more ram is consumed, the more power the device uses, so exitting background apps saves battery.
i am also still looking for a good task manager like the samsung stock one, because in ics, some apps just don't quit, like skifta, with the dlna server running all day the battery life goes down massively and swiping it away in the recent apps screen just doesn't quit it.
Chef_Tony said:
what a bunch of bull
background apps are frozen on iOS, not on android, they fully run, hence the term "full multitasking".
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Actually it's not a bunch of bull. You can freeze apps on android using Titanium Backup. Also you can disable some apps that you don't use (not all of them allow it) or don't use frequently with just app manager in system settings. Then you can re-enable them when needed.
You can try apps like Task Killer, etc... (and make sure you kill it too so it's not on all the time), but it's not as good as freezing with TB.
Good luck.
Don't know if this is "ugly", but it's ad-free anyway - Diagnosis.
I like it anyway, and the dev is great, posts on the apps section. His SD Maid app is a godsend.
I use ES Task Manager. Find it useful and you can also mange cache and startup programs.
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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.
Avenger1 said:
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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Avenger1 said:
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.
Avenger1 said:
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???
Avenger1 said:
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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Guys my mind seems to get stuck because i use advance task killer and i have also task manager the stock app that comes with the GS3 ....the thing is if i open more apps and kill them with advance task killer they are still available to kill with stock task killer and also the other way around...So what does this tell me?! What is the best way to actually close the apps that are still running in the background?!
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gagauza said:
Guys my mind seems to get stuck because i use advance task killer and i have also task manager the stock app that comes with the GS3 ....the thing is if i open more apps and kill them with advance task killer they are still available to kill with stock task killer and also the other way around...So what does this tell me?! What is the best way to actually close the apps that are still running in the background?!
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Don't use advanced task killer.
Let me repeat that for longevity, DO NOT USE ADVANCED TASK KILLER!
That was useful pre froyo, not now.
Let Android do its thing.
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Don't use any 3rd party task killer it will only decrease you battery life. Task Manager is pretty good. Just kill the task and use "clear memory"
Like the guys say, you do not need a task killer from the market. Android manages tasks for you. If you have a badly coded app use the samsung one which is under long hold home for convenience. Usually this is force stop in application manager
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Which app or mod do you suggest me to have recent apps ( not necceserly task killer )??
1.AppICS Task Manager/switcher
2.AppICS Task Manager
3.Mod Add ICS/JB Like Recent Apps
I need one of this, which can't drain battery...i just want to have jelly bean recent apps, also if it hasn't task killer...
if you know any other better mods or guides just post it below..
PLEASE HELP TO DECIDE :silly:
:good:
you see on my thread of Mod Add ICS/JB Like Recent Apps I included the suggestion to use the ICS Task Manager app by HalfCycle because it is the most convenient among the three. and also it doesn't have any issue using a qvga screen like our x10 mini device. the other app ICS Task Manager/switcher almost eats up the whole screen of our small device so it is not advisable. =')
PS: I use the ICS Task Manager app for daily use.