Hey all. Quick question. My Le Max 2 has had a weird issue since I received it. I'm wondering if anyone has experienced the same or knows of a fix.
I have noticed that if I open an app and then swipe it closed using the task manager (recent apps button and swiping it closed) that the app will no longer function until I manually open the app again. 2 examples. The Google clock app. I set an alarm last night and swiped the app closed and this morning my alarm didn't sound. I tested it this morning, and as long as I leave the app running in the background, the alarm will go off. But if I swipe it closed from task manager, it kills the app and the alarm will never sound.
The second example is a little more bothersome. I have noticed that unless I leave my SMS/MMS app running in the background, I will NOT get any text or MMS message at all. I use TEXTRA and as long as it's open and running in the background, I'm good. But if I swipe it closed, I will not receive any text or MMS messages. To be clear, it's not that I'm not notified... it's that the text message or MMS will NEVER come thru if the app is swipe closed. They don't even show up if I open the app after the fact. Ive tested this many times with my kids sending me messages with their phones. So I leave textra open at all times.
Finally, a nitpick, has anyone noticed that changing the font size in the display settings, doesn't reliably change the font size system wide? Example, I use gmail and when I open it the font settings are miniscule, despite me having the font set to extra large in the display settings. However, if I leave gmail open and go to display settings menu and change the font size from extra large to small and then back to extra large again and then I go back to the gmail app, the font size is larger and readable. Kind of annoying.
Thanks!
For your first issue I would recommend you not to close any app and try to lock in the memory the ones that are important like whatsapp, Viber, etc... Assuming that your model has at least 4 GB of RAM, it's useless to close the running apps. This is not windows and it works in a different way. It will take some time to get used to not pressing the "Close All" button, but believe me, it's useless. For the other thing with the font I'm not sure what to say. It might be an EUI bug that should be fixed in the future updates.
Currently I'm running CM13 S19 by Parasite and I never close any app. I'm still trying to convince my wife to change her habit but looks like she's possessed by closing her apps on S6 edge+, also a 4GB of RAM device
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For your first issue I would recommend you not to close any app and try to lock in the memory the ones that are important like whatsapp, Viber, etc... Assuming that your model has at least 4 GB of RAM, it's useless to close the running apps. This is not windows and it works in a different way. It will take some time to get used to not pressing the "Close All" button, but believe me, it's useless. For the other thing with the font I'm not sure what to say. It might be an EUI bug that should be fixed in the future updates.
Currently I'm running CM13 S19 by Parasite and I never close any app. I'm still trying to convince my wife to change her habit but looks like she's possessed by closing her apps on S6 edge+, also a 4GB of RAM device
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Thanks a lot for the reply. Makes sense. Is there a way to "lock" the apps open in memory, or are you just saying to change my habits so that they stay open? Could you explain the method if there is a way? Thanks again.
While in Task Manger (Recents or how you like yo call it, or maybe even "Control Center") swipe down on an app instead of swiping up to close it, and you will see a lock icon on the app in the Task Manager. Then when you'll press by mistake the "Close All", this app will be omitted.
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just put cm13 on, imo the official rom is useless
valy_cta said:
While in Task Manger (Recents or how you like yo call it, or maybe even "Control Center") swipe down on an app instead of swiping up to close it, and you will see a lock icon on the app in the Task Manager. Then when you'll press by mistake the "Close All", this app will be omitted.
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Fantastic. Thanks so much for your help. That's helpful. I don't seem to have a close all button tho. Lol.
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I have ICS 4.0.3. and I want to know how to close App?
How do you know for sure this App is closed, without having to go in Settings and close it there every single time manually.
You don't.
Android handles management of apps and will close them when it needs too. It will also pre-launch apps so they are ready to use. So no need to worry about closing them. Just go back to the home screen or whatever and don't worry about it.
If something is misbehaving you can go into your Settings > Apps find you app and hit Force Close, but that should not need to be done often. If you do then find a different app.
Even if you do this to "close apps" Android will probably just relaunch them in a few minutes anyway. You just don't need to "close" apps. That is a traditional PC convention and does not translate to Android.
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I have ICS 4.0.3. and I want to know how to close App?
How do you know for sure this App is closed, without having to go in Settings and close it there every single time manually.
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Click on recent app tab, find the app that you wish to close, swipe left or right to close it. Love this feature so much.
Open the recent apps button at the bottom (3rd from left and looks like 2 boxes) and then swipe the app you want closed to the left or right.
Edit: Crap. Lol someone beat me to it
andyxover said:
Click on recent app tab, find the app that you wish to close, swipe left or right to close it. Love this feature so much.
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Pretty sure that is just a list of apps you opened recently. Swiping them off just removes them from the list, and doesn't stop the application from running. You can test this by swiping it off then going into your Settings > Apps. For me, the app is still running even when swiped from the list. Also things stay there even when an App has actually been forced close.
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Pretty sure that is just a list of apps you opened recently. Swiping them off just removes them from the list, and doesn't stop the application from running. You can test this by swiping it off then going into your Settings > Apps. For me, the app is still running even when swiped from the list. Also things stay there even when an App has actually been forced close.
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Correct this doesn't close the app but just gets rid of it in the list of recent apps.
UmbraeSoulsbane said:
Swiping them off just removes them from the list, and doesn't stop the application from running.
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I didn't know this! Thats good to know. I won't bother doing this after hit the home button then!
wgr73 said:
I didn't know this! Thats good to know. I won't bother doing this after hit the home button then!
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LOL. Yeah, when I first saw this I was kinda confused by it. I know how Android manages memory and apps, so I didn't understand what it was for: especially with prominent placement on the System Bar. I guess they just felt they needed something for people used to closing apps.
This would be great for people that run 3 or 4 apps all the time since they would not need to have them on the Home screen or go to the App Drawer.
Android does a good job managing memory, so you should only need to close apps that are having problems. This can be a hard transition from the Windows world.
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I didn't know this! Thats good to know. I won't bother doing this after hit the home button then!
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Now this isn't necessarily true.
I played w/ this a bit and put the Task Manager widget on the home screen. On some apps, if you remove them from the recent apps list, the task disappears from the Task Manager maybe 5-10 seconds later. Now while I realize that not all running apps necessarily show up on the Task Manager, I've noticed that if an app/process is ended on the Task Manager, it is no longer listed under running apps in the settings.
And when you use the Task Manager to close certain apps, they'll still show up in the Recent Apps list but instead of showing a proper image of app activity, it'll be just a blank black square. When you tap that square, it just opens the app as new.
I used the app called system to verify and swiping does close them....awsome.
One of my favorite features of ics
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I just discovered that you can get rid of apps from the recent apps menu (the square button next to the home button) by swiping them to the side. I don't know why this makes me so retardedly happy, but I am sure that SOMEONE else out there will also appreciate this tidbit of information.
Anyone else have any nuggets of joy to share?
I liked that trick also when I first found out. Another thing too is that you can hold down the app in recent menu and a quicksetting will come up to let you remove it from list or look at app info.
Remember though, this only removes it from recent apps list. It doesn't close down the app itself.
Does it really matter though performance wise? I Always thought Android puts background apps into an "idle" state where they dont take up any resources until used? Although it is cool for people with OCD like me
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I liked that trick also when I first found out. Another thing too is that you can hold down the app in recent menu and a quicksetting will come up to let you remove it from list or look at app info.
Remember though, this only removes it from recent apps list. It doesn't close down the app itself.
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Yes it does close the app. It just doesn't close background processes of the app.
Swiping an app from recent apps menu removes the app from cached memory, but keeps the background sync's (if it has any) still running. So you can kill off Facebook, but it's background sync (that would be started during system boot up anyway) remains.
You can test it, if you swipe browser from recent app's memory, it has to reload the page it was on. Same with Facebook app. But Facebook app's background process keeps running until you 'force stop' it.
Android application architecture runs in two layers, foreground and background processes. UI and the things you can use are written to memory when focus is lost from those apps, clearing them from recent apps also clears the memory those apps take at the time.
Is it useful? Yeah, for some things. But it won't improve your performance in any real noticeable way. Best you can do is swipe away apps that you don't need, keeping only apps that you want to keep in memory should you re-open them again. But that's usually too much micro-management to be worth it.
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Yes it does close the app. It just doesn't close background processes of the app.
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Perhaps, BUT, not every app in the recent apps list is actually running. That's why many times (most of the time?) the screenshot isn't what you actually see when you select an app from the list--you're really restarting it.
I think it's safest and easiest to just assume that you're really only removing apps from the recent apps list, not actually managing what's running in any way.
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Does it really matter though performance wise? I Always thought Android puts background apps into an "idle" state where they dont take up any resources until used? Although it is cool for people with OCD like me
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Yeah it doesn't make any difference performance wise, but it makes the menu much more useable for me =D
Thanks for this message, this is my first android device and I've been trying to figure out how to "close" applications. Did a search in here (I think), prime manual search and googled it. I am slightly OCD and like to "close" thinks that I'm not using. Harkens back to my early Windows days when you closed apps to conserve memory.
In the manual it says to close application by clicking on an X in the recent apps menu. Though unless it is super tiny, there isn't one.
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I just discovered that you can get rid of apps from the recent apps menu (the square button next to the home button) by swiping them to the side. I don't know why this makes me so retardedly happy, but I am sure that SOMEONE else out there will also appreciate this tidbit of information.
Anyone else have any nuggets of joy to share?
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if you have the dock, 2 finger gestures on the touchpad act as screen swipes. i.e. swipe two fingers across the tab, the tab changes screens. Also, if you want to actually kill the apps, add teh asus task manager widget to a screen. works great!
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In the manual it says to close application by clicking on an X in the recent apps menu. Though unless it is super tiny, there isn't one.
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That was an ASUS Honeycomb customization. It went away in ICS...
redandblack1287 said:
I just discovered that you can get rid of apps from the recent apps menu (the square button next to the home button) by swiping them to the side. I don't know why this makes me so retardedly happy, but I am sure that SOMEONE else out there will also appreciate this tidbit of information.
Anyone else have any nuggets of joy to share?
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if you have the dock, 2 finger gestures on the touchpad act as screen swipes. i.e. swipe two fingers across the tab, the tab changes screens. Also, if you want to actually kill the apps, add the asus task manager widget to a screen. works great!
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Yes it does close the app. It just doesn't close background processes of the app.
Swiping an app from recent apps menu removes the app from cached memory, but keeps the background sync's (if it has any) still running. So you can kill off Facebook, but it's background sync (that would be started during system boot up anyway) remains.
You can test it, if you swipe browser from recent app's memory, it has to reload the page it was on. Same with Facebook app. But Facebook app's background process keeps running until you 'force stop' it.
Android application architecture runs in two layers, foreground and background processes. UI and the things you can use are written to memory when focus is lost from those apps, clearing them from recent apps also clears the memory those apps take at the time.
Is it useful? Yeah, for some things. But it won't improve your performance in any real noticeable way. Best you can do is swipe away apps that you don't need, keeping only apps that you want to keep in memory should you re-open them again. But that's usually too much micro-management to be worth it.
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that's what I meant. I should of been more clear then. just swiping it doesn't close down app "Completely", meaning no background process either. you have to use a task manager or Force stop in order to "Truly" close n stop an app from running.
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In the manual it says to close application by clicking on an X in the recent apps menu. Though unless it is super tiny, there isn't one.
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There isn't any in ICS, only in HC.
i didn't know that either until last week! ice cream is awesome :]
Conduitz said:
if you have the dock, 2 finger gestures on the touchpad act as screen swipes. i.e. swipe two fingers across the tab, the tab changes screens. Also, if you want to actually kill the apps, add teh asus task manager widget to a screen. works great!
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You know.....that Asus task manager widget does not work on mine. It doesn't matter if I press x next to one app or select kill all - nothing happpens. I think mine is broken
I removed it from one of my home screens, no need to have it if it doesn't work
demandarin said:
that's what I meant. I should of been more clear then. just swiping it doesn't close down app "Completely", meaning no background process either. you have to use a task manager or Force stop in order to "Truly" close n stop an app from running.
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It's a bit different though, because those background processes will (likely) already be running even if you don't start the app. Most of those background processes are started by boot activity in Android and others are started by scheduling activities (such as alarms or certain notifications and sync). These will be usually restarted once app is started again too (after Force Close) and if they are not already running (and they usually are).
Force Close is unnecessary unless you know that a certain app is bad for the system and was run accidentally, etc.
Let's keep track of bugs and "gotcha's" that we find in the ICS leak or any apps that have problems with the ICS leak.
Bugs/Problems [Updated 4/5/2012]
TwLauncher crashes almost immediately after install (Crashes seem to stop after using the phone for a bit. Possible Workarounds: factory reset; re-flash ROM again)
Some applications seem to lag worse than on GB, noticeable scroll and transition studder
Black crush issue still exists but was "addressed" (test image with 1-21 blocks, on GB it dropped to black on "1", on ICS it drops to black on "7" and it's still not gradual)
Noticeable grey-to-black banding, transition is not gradual
SetCPU appears to default to 1.2GHz as the max speed
Embedded youtube videos in the stock browser don't work
Contacts tab is no longer in Phone dialer (Contacts is now found by pressing the Menu button in the Phone dialer)
Left handed SPen does not work
Battery life is questionable
Quick view option in stock camera crashes when deleting a photo.
Hovering pen icon in Pen Options doesn't seem to do anything
Build.prop, dalvik.vm.heapsize is defined twice (64m and 256m), not sure which takes priority but GB was 128m
All browsers crash when accessing any government website when it asks if you approve of there cert
Shutdown and restart hang
SMS app stops working for some, MMS not working
Email accounts, can't use multiple with the same name before the @ symbol even with different domains
Stock camera cuts left side of pictures
Email doesn't show unread email count
Application Problems [Updated 4/4/2012]
Nova Launcher/Apex Launcher works but can't add widgets due to "Not enough space on this Home page" (The widgets are actually 6 columns wide. Workaround: Nova Settings > Behavior > Enable Resize all widgets, then go to Desktop > Desktop Grid > Set columns to 6, add widget to the home page, resize the widget to take up only 5 columns, go back to Desktop > Desktop Grid > Set columns to 5)
AT&T Visual Voicemail crashes on open (Workaround: see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24451275)
Instagram camera causes reboots after taking a picture
HMA VPN Pro does not connect
Launcher Pro paid crashes
K9 Mail, swipe to delete selects the email below
Other/Nice-To-Have's [Updated 4/4/2012]
RAM available is now 624MB instead of 733MB on GB
No android or swype keyboards
Some apps are now renderring in "phone" mode (Amazon AppStore)
Adobe Flash Player not installed by default
AT&T default "Marimba" ringtone is missing
(to be updated as bugs are discovered)
Launcher stops crashing if you flash it again that's what i did.
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I can't play embedded youtube videos on the browser.
left handed s pen support is broken.
It will change in settings but the actual input is off from the pen tip.
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On the Skyrocket leak the way to fix some of the first time bugs/gitters was to do factory data reset.
If someone has upgrade with problems. might try that before you reflash over and over again.
camera in instragram causes reboot after taking a picture.
camera quick view crashes when deleting a photo.
s1mpd1ddy said:
camera in instragram causes reboot after taking a picture.
camera quick view crashes when deleting a photo.
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some of these issues may simply be app incompatibilities....We should be careful to discern which is which.... unless the purpose of the thread is to track both issues with the leak AND app compatibility (which seems a little silly, maybe two different lists would be better?)
That is a good idea i will split bugs and app incompatibilites when i get ob my computer
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Nova adds widgets fine for me
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Battery life seems to have gone to ****...
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Just got a phone call and it didn't (silence when turned over).
No biggie.
sirheck said:
Just got a phone call and it didn't (silence when turned over).
No biggie.
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motion detection is not turned on by default. might check that.
JDrew said:
Battery life seems to have gone to ****...
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note LTE.
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Yeah my battery life is much worse. Seems to be going down twice as fast.
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dcfella said:
Yeah my battery life is much worse. Seems to be going down twice as fast.
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My battery is awesome under ICS but was the **** under GB.
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Private browsing (incognito mode) works fine in stock browser. The button is in the 'tabs' window
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hololight said:
Private browsing (incognito mode) works fine in stock browser. The button is in the 'tabs' window
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Ah ok, I kept looking in the settings for an option
00mred00 said:
some of these issues may simply be app incompatibilities....We should be careful to discern which is which.... unless the purpose of the thread is to track both issues with the leak AND app compatibility (which seems a little silly, maybe two different lists would be better?)
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the quick view option in stock camera*
is what i should have said
itsjusttim said:
Nova adds widgets fine for me
Sent from my ICS Note on T-Mobile 4g.
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I can't see your image, but can you add the stock clock and weather widgets? It gives me message saying no room even on a completely blank screen
Force GPU rendering
Enabling "Force GPU rendering" seems to make the phone unstable.
Mine is actually perfect at least no problems so far...
Has anyone experienced on overly aggressive closing of apps by the OS on the phone?
I run "Conversations" as an XMPP messenger on my phone (https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=conversations&fdid=eu.siacs.conversations). Previously, had it installed on a couple Samsung devices without issue.
Eventually, after the Honor 5x is inactive, Conversations will be closed and I cannot receive messages until the app is loaded again. Even when telling the app to keep itself in the foreground (by way of notification drawer), the OS still closes the app when the phone is inactive for a while.
I would assume this issue is with EMUI, but I am not sure. Can anyone else shed some light on this?
It is an EMUI thing. You will do yourself a huge favor if you go to settings>Power saving>Protected apps, hit "menu" and "Add all"
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It is an EMUI thing. You will do yourself a huge favor if you go to settings>Power saving>Protected apps, hit "menu" and "Add all"
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@rdbud, Thank you, that appears to be right on. This phone is my wife's phone, and she confirmed that the app stays running now. Good find.
terrypearson said:
@rdbud, Thank you, that appears to be right on. This phone is my wife's phone, and she confirmed that the app stays running now. Good find.
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You can also "lock" an app in memory by hitting the Recents app square and then sliding down on any app. It will place a lock icon next to the app to show it is protected.
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@rdbud, Thank you, that appears to be right on. This phone is my wife's phone, and she confirmed that the app stays running now. Good find.
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Keep in mind that it won't protect any subsequent apps you install. So if you install any new apps, you should go back in and make sure it's protected.
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honordevice said:
You can also "lock" an app in memory by hitting the Recents app square and then sliding down on any app. It will place a lock icon next to the app to show it is protected.
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That's an interesting feature, but is it the same as the protecting the apps in the settings? Or does it keep that app locked open so switching is easier? I have all my apps protected, but none of them have locks in the Recents app.
The only true solution that many dont know is
Just open the "phone accelerator" app .
Then open settings and then protected apps
And check the app that u want to run in the background .
Once done , now check ! U wil be able to receive notifications from the app u wished to run in the background.
what is the fastest, easiest way to force stop an app ?? i know settings, apps, find app, but with a bunch of apps its a pita. any other tricks, shortcuts, safe apps, or any other ideas?? not looking at hiding the notification, but stopping the app.
say 2 things, new to oreo and s9, last phone was an s7. anyways, if i had a program running in the notifications, say for my motorcycle gps, tomtom, i was able to long press the notification, then go to app data and force stop. not seeing that anymore.
Trying to find the fastest way to force stop an app running, that has a notification. for example this one says connect device. I am not trying to hide the notification, but force close it when i don't want it running. for example this app gives me live traffic, sometimes i want it, sometimes i don't.
thanks much for the time
settings, developer options, running services
that seems to work too, and the app i want to end is on the first page.
seems easier than the apps, and scrolling down to the Ms
hmm
Greenify, then you can set what you want to force close, and then make a home screen button. Bam it easily blows them away.
Recents, long press the app icon on the left, wait for the i info letter to appear on the right, press i, force stop.
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laureanop said:
Recents, long press the app icon on the left, wait for the i info letter to appear on the right, press i, force stop.
You're welcome
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love it, thanks so much !!!!
I'm dumb
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world be nice to find an app that shows ALL opened apps and services and can completely close it in one click.
thank you so much!!!!
I just moved from s7. on s7 android 7 I can long press shortcut on home and can tab on i icon That menu has removed.
The apps you actively use are closed when you swipe them away in recents. You dont need any fancy force closing. Try it. Open recents, swipe away the app, when you open it again it loads from scratch. Or am I missing something?
Smashing the phone on the ground.
Jonathan-H said:
The apps you actively use are closed when you swipe them away in recents. You dont need any fancy force closing. Try it. Open recents, swipe away the app, when you open it again it loads from scratch. Or am I missing something?
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That not correct. Some application even you remove it from recent app it still run in background.
In my case Facebook Messenger is often cause media sound issue, after end call sometime media sound route to earpiece. Two way to solve that is kill the app or restart phone.
You can use my apps Killapps and Hibernator