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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blenkows said:
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.
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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
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?
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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.
Hi,
I know it's a general android question but let me ask it here.
Let's say I'm driving, using (just as an example) Waze as a navigator and Audible as a bookreader. Easiest way to switch between them is to do a long press home and choose an app. But is there a way to make it even simpler? Like I long press home or search or whatever and it switches between two most recent apps? Or some bluetooth gadget that swaps apps on a button click? I'm open for options because available routine is too much of distraction - long press then look and tap a proper icon?
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As far as I know...no. But if that simple changing of apps distracts you that much...maybe you shouldn't be fiddling with your phone and driving.
With that said, android tablets have this wonderful program called "cornerstone". Lets you simultaneously run 3 apps on screen at the same time. Would be pretty sweet if it could get adapted to the note. Maybe just 2 apps at a time.
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Pity...
In fact, there are more possibilities than Home button. Waze beta voice command mode is being triggered by waving a hand (proximity sensor?). Good idea for someone to write a task switcher - you wave a hand, and it switches applications!
Is long pression the home button and removing open/recent apps "killing" the apps? I read that there is no need to "kill" an app and it actually uses more battery life than it saves. Should I be actively swiping away recent apps?
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Is long pression the home button and removing open/recent apps "killing" the apps? I read that there is no need to "kill" an app and it actually uses more battery life than it saves. Should I be actively swiping away recent apps?
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You should use Task Killer to kill an app
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You should use Task Killer to kill an app
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That doesn't help me at all... I quote "kill" because I'm not sure if that's synonymous with wiping from the screen where you long press the device's home button 0(in my case Galaxy S4). Also, I said whether or not it is necessary to kill an app because doing so drains battery life faster.
For those who don't know, Backgrounder is an app on jailbroken iPhones since iPhone OS 1.x that allows users to keep an app in the background entirely, meaning that you could be running a process, leave, and it would still run since the app thinks it is still in the foreground.
Why has this not emerged for Android? It seems like if anything, it would have emerged on this platform first.
I think many people would gladly pay for this functionality.
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For those who don't know, Backgrounder is an app on jailbroken iPhones since iPhone OS 1.x that allows users to keep an app in the background entirely, meaning that you could be running a process, leave, and it would still run since the app thinks it is still in the foreground.
Why has this not emerged for Android? It seems like if anything, it would have emerged on this platform first.
I think many people would gladly pay for this functionality.
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I think you mean to have several process running in the background and switch between these process back and forward, isn't it?
If so, in any opened app, just press on home button, then open another app and then press on home button again. Now to go the previous or the first process, do a long press on home button which will bring you the the recent app menu, choose the app you want that is running on the background
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I think you mean to have several process running in the background and switch between these process back and forward, isn't it?
If so, in any opened app, just press on home button, then open another app and then press on home button again. Now to go the previous or the first process, do a long press on home button which will bring you the the recent app menu, choose the app you want that is running on the background
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No not the standard multitasking. The kind where if I am playing lets say NOVA, if I press the home button and go to facebook, NOVA would still be running in it's entirety even though it is not on screen.
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No not the standard multitasking. The kind where if I am playing lets say NOVA, if I press the home button and go to facebook, NOVA would still be running in it's entirety even though it is not on screen.
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yep and the one mentioned is doing the same,, just choose NOVA again from recent app,,, NOVA will be still going
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yep and the one mentioned is doing the same,, just choose NOVA again from recent app,,, NOVA will be still going
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No that merely pauses the app to run in standby and conserve battery life. BTW I'm on a Nexus 7 so I have a dedicated app switch button
So I guess there is not app that enables such functionality?
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Sorry to bump and old thread but I have not seen any full solution to this problem. I came from apple(1 yr. in feb) thinking(more like hoping) that the android fanboys were right in saying "android has REAL multitasking, apple has *asterisk", Also i got tired of apples BS, minimal upgraded on new phones, plus the Note 3's pen is the ****, (though they did the same thing apple did with the Note 4) but back on topic.
Today I found a wifi faker for android but still not backgrounder fully working. I just need the ability to keep a app, that's not music related, working in the background because I only benefit from it being open as its automated to rack-up points while i do other stuff, usually less labor intensive. Plus I dont know what it is but i just have a fundamental problem with apps staying open when i close them even though i am fully aware it takes up no processes and is fully battery efficient. But there are apps for that, but still no way to keep and app fully running in the background.
Any help is appreciated, Thank You
P.S. I have seen this tread MultiTasking Breakthrough! but cant really make heads or tales of it.