About Closing Apps - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello. I am using D855 stock Lolllipop ROM.
Every time I “close” an app I will just go to recent task and swipe left or right to remove from memory.
Some apps like stock file manager, I freeze it in TiBackup because I dont need to use it.
My question is, apps like Google Map, Browser etc. I want to close it completely after using it, that means after going into Apps settings I see the Force close button is grey out.
Is there any method to do this?

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How to close App

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.
nixtip said:
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.
UmbraeSoulsbane said:
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.
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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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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how to stop app from running background?

On gb 2.3.6. No matter how I quit or clear the memory, the apps will automatically start by themselves without me launching the apps.
Some of the apps, I try to back or find the quit button to exit the app, the app is still shown as running behind the scene.
Besides unibstallibg the app, any way to prevent them from running in the background?
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many apps will run in the background even after you quit, ones that wake the phone i uninstall, theres a program called autorun manager, im not 100% sure it works but i disabled many apps and widgets i dont use and when i boot i dont get alot running and i save more ram and theres less cached programs or programs i use only.
heres a link for info
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/autorun-manager-updated-to-v2-0/
On settings there is developer options. Check the kill app back button. Whenever you need to close the apps, long press the back button.
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jigs0416 said:
On settings there is developer options. Check the kill app back button. Whenever you need to close the apps, long press the back button
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Dude, he's running gb. Also this isn't you're looking for but you can freeze apps with titanium backup. Also with advanced task killer if I remember the name right, you can set autokill for exsample every minute. Also you can update to ics
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[Q] Easy way to quit Stock Music app?

Is there an easy way to quit the stock Music app?
In most other apps, you can quit them from the drop down menu, but it doesn't work with the TW Music app.
Am I missing something? I know you can exit the app from the menu at the bottom, but it's rather cumbersome to fiddle around like that.
if your device is rooted than you can do it 2 ways....
1.- install titanium backup and FREEZE the misuc player app.
2.- install link2sd and FREEZE the music player app.
Done...
Would removing it from the recent-apps list accomplish your goals? (This should make it clean up its resources and the OS will probably kill it really soon if it doesn't.) Long-press the Home key and swipe it out of the app list.
donalgodon said:
Is there an easy way to quit the stock Music app?
In most other apps, you can quit them from the drop down menu, but it doesn't work with the TW Music app.
Am I missing something? I know you can exit the app from the menu at the bottom, but it's rather cumbersome to fiddle around like that.
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Press menu key on the left and quit when you are in music app.
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fastest way to force stop an app?? help please

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

can I use deepclear for recent apps in mi a3 ?

hi
my recent xiaomi phone had miui and could deep clear recent apps !
but in mi a3 ( all of android one devices ) it does not deep clear and all of apps stay running in background !
is any way to add this option to the rom without install any 3rd party app ?
Not sure what kind of mumbo jumbo "deep clear" is, but you can "clear all" when you swipe to the left in recents screen. However keep in mind that aggressively killing apps to free up RAM is useless and counterproductive.
_mysiak_ said:
Not sure what kind of mumbo jumbo "deep clear" is, but you can "clear all" when you swipe to the left in recents screen. However keep in mind that aggressively killing apps to free up RAM is useless and counterproductive.
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when i close apps and clean them from recent apps tgey are still running !
i can see this from other 3rd party apps that i install
but in miui rom when we close recent apps they will be forced close .
i don't wanna free up Ram , want to close them becauae they use my battery so much
#MmdRza said:
when i close apps and clean them from recent apps tgey are still running !
i can see this from other 3rd party apps that i install
but in miui rom when we close recent apps they will be forced close .
i don't wanna free up Ram , want to close them becauae they use my battery so much
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Which apps are using battery after closing them? Also don't mistake cached apps and running apps. You can force close app from recents manually - click on app icon -> app info -> force stop. Don't forget that some apps are designed to be always running, so they will most probably restart once they receive corresponding intent.
_mysiak_ said:
Which apps are using battery after closing them? Also don't mistake cached apps and running apps. You can force close app from recents manually - click on app icon -> app info -> force stop. Don't forget that some apps are designed to be always running, so they will most probably restart once they receive corresponding intent.
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so you mean there is no way to force stop apps automatically when i close recent apps ?
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so you mean there is no way to force stop apps automatically when i close recent apps ?
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"Although some people may think that clearing an app from Recent Apps menu will*fully*close it, they are unfortunately mistaken. There is a difference between clearing an app from Recent Apps menu and clicking Force Stop on it.
Clearing an app from Recent Apps menu may not fully close the app specifically the apps that use services such as Music Player, Whatsapp, Facebook, etc. When you clear Music Player for example, the music won't stop because the app uses a service running in the background,*BUT*if you force stop it from mobile settings, the music will stop hence the service is terminated.
So if you want to clear some memory to increase your RAM, you should force stop the apps that use services.
In conclusion, clearing an app from Recent Apps menu will*only*kill the activity lifecycle of the app but not the services that are run by that app."
Source: https://android.stackexchange.com/q...by-clearing-it-from-recent-apps-menu-and-forc

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