Long press Home Button, what does it do? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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?

mindstormer said:
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

xnan said:
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.

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Close applications or minimize using home button?

What should I prefer: Closing applications completely after use using task manager/back button or is it fine to use the home button and let them run in the background?
searching would have informed you its not good to use task managers/killers
I know, I read that. But I didn't really understand why. I mean an app that runs in the background still uses up ressources, doesn't it?
Lownita said:
I know, I read that. But I didn't really understand why. I mean an app that runs in the background still uses up ressources, doesn't it?
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Depends on the app. If you leave music streaming in the background, yes, it will use some CPU, data, and battery. But if you leave a Notes app open, you only use a bit of RAM. It's okay to have apps sitting dormant in RAM since that's what RAM is for - helps apps open faster.
Like Darkside Agent said, stay away from task killers. Use the back button to close the app and the home button to leave them in the background.
Leave it all running... Plenty of RAM and Android is pretty good at memory management...

[Q] Home vs Back button

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.

[Q] Long press back button to kill app

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
K900 said:
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
noob.fl said:
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
K900 said:
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
brunodmjr said:
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

Default task manager ICS

Hello, I have Android ICS and when I long press home button I see a task manager (opened apps), but I want to know if when I slide to remove the it will be just removed from list or it will be closed/killed?
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When you slide it closes. If you want to kill (I can't see any reasons) just long press, then go to app info and force close.
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I thought that killing a app I could save battery life.
jjforums said:
I thought that killing a app I could save battery life.
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Killing an app in fact, consumes battery and does not save.
App Killing is actually done to free up RAM, in case if wanted to play some high graphic games.

How do YOU exit out of apps?

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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