After using the taskiller "kill all", I get a strange call out screen, it doesnt let me hit any buttons. It looks like when you dial out, grey screen with no contact photo.
Anyone else have this issue?
Das_mobile said:
After using the taskiller "kill all", I get a strange call out screen, it doesnt let me hit any buttons. It looks like when you dial out, grey screen with no contact photo.
Anyone else have this issue?
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Try hitting your home button. Sounds like you even killed the launcher. I'd consider adding it to the ignore.
Why do you want to kill tasks? You have all that memory so you might as well let it fill it up. It will unload/kill tasks when needed! It will make the phone faster because its already loaded your apps in the memory ready to be used
stewart1988 said:
Why do you want to kill tasks? You have all that memory so you might as well let it fill it up. It will unload/kill tasks when needed! It will make the phone faster because its already loaded your apps in the memory ready to be used
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I've found that the phone is much better if you keep track of what's running in the background. I had one random reboot, and since I've started pruning apps on it I've had no issues at all. Having all the memory just means more things are sitting in memory, and if you have less than perfect apps, and you do, you can have resource leaks. It isn't needed, I suppose, but I've had advanced task manager for a while and continue to use it.
Yeah added launcher to ignore, and no more issues! Thank you!
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Is there an app that can close selected apps when they are not being used, one thing I don't like is apps running in the background the having to go to the app just to close it with magic button or the right hard key.
on the treo apps close as soon as they are not on the screen.
thank you
Download this freeware...
http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/inclosemobileexpressedition.shtml
whats wrong with magic button? it closes apps rarather minimise when you press top right button and you can close all runnings apps with ease. what else do you want it do do?
that said, i am actually looking for an alternative myself. although i love it, i do find that it tends to crash out pretty often. i am constantly restarting it. anyone else finding this?
i find that magic button will work fine until... you show the phone screen. it can't seem to close it correctly. it flicks it on an off several times and generally goes bonkers.
For a very minimal look, try VJOkButt.
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Wouldn't it be the end-all be-all solution if we had a 'panel' or whatever it's called, with wich you can switch and close applications? You could make switching the default clicking behaviour and assign closing to the right softkey.
I don't know how possible this is, but I thought it was worth saying...
graey said:
Wouldn't it be the end-all be-all solution if we had a 'panel' or whatever it's called, with wich you can switch and close applications? You could make switching the default clicking behaviour and assign closing to the right softkey.
I don't know how possible this is, but I thought it was worth saying...
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This is good, but the only problem I see is that on the same homescreen the HTC Task Manager taskbar icon is readily available on the top-right corner (on HTC devices).
Having said that, HTC Task Manager must be consuming some amount of RAM itself, whereas a single panel shouldn't take anywhere near as much RAM.
nuke1 said:
This is good, but the only problem I see is that on the same homescreen the HTC Task Manager taskbar icon is readily available on the top-right corner (on HTC devices).
Having said that, HTC Task Manager must be consuming some amount of RAM itself, whereas a single panel shouldn't take anywhere near as much RAM.
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Titanium holds up to 20 pages each panel.
Therefore you could have it show the 20 processes/tasks.
And swip left to right to switch between them,
and then press it to end them.
But honestly this would be more helpful for the background processes and not the items that are in the regular task manager.
I thought of something like this, but then thought what nuke said
and also thought of a few other things
that made me personally not want to develop this.
Don't get me wrong, it's a good idea, but I'll wait for someone else to come up with a good way to develop it.
actually this is an awesome Idea. We could get rid of the HTC Task Manager thus saving RAM. This will improve the overall feel and speed of HTC devices.
+1 for the Idea. It'd be very nice way to switch apps IMO.
rayraven said:
+1 for the Idea. It'd be very nice way to switch apps IMO.
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to switch apps yes,
to have it so you could close, no.
You'd still have to have a diff task manager.
I don't use htc task manager,
it sucks.
Doesn't get the background running processes that take up the ram that the other poster was talking about.
You can only have 20 pages, so to just have it act like htc task manager wouldn't be bad, but for the processes that I use a task manager for it's no bueno.
You could have it kill the task if you assigned the right soft key to that function.
So with all this talk about Hero's ability to multitask I just wanted to ask how people leverage this ability.
Unless I'm missing something if I want to go from a browser session to my playing music app I have to go via the home screen. Similarly if I want to switch from say Google Maps to Google Mail then I need to go via the home screen and the app's icon.
This is no different to how the iPhone handles things except that the apps on the Hero continue to run in the background.
Am I missing some technique for 'TAB'ing' between running apps? Palm's Pre has got the 'cards' and the floaty shortcut menu thing.
To be honest if there is no ability to switch DIRECTLY to a running app from another running app then the whole multitasking thing is a bit pointless (Widgets not withstanding)
I'm new to Android so I'm hoping that I'm just missing something.
I have a G1 but if you hold down the home key you can switch between running apps and I imagine that works as well on the hero.
Also, you can use an app such as "task switcher" or "bar control" found in the android market to switch between applications without having to go through the home screen with a few more options than the home key thing.
HTH
Holding down the home key only displays 6 recently opened apps not ones that are running. Thats what it does on the Hero anyway. It also brings you back to the home screen and out of whatever app you were in when you held it down.
It seems that the Palm Pre is currently the only handset that truly enables multitasking app switching.
I'm somewhat disappointed in the Hero in this regard.
To be fair, the whole concept of multitasking doesn't really address in what way you would be switching from app to app. The major thing is the ability of the phone to keep two, three or ten apps running at the same time, doing their stuff in the background. This is what the iPhone doesn't have and Android does. This is the "competitive edge".
If you install "Advanced Task Manager", it will put itself in the notification drawer for two-click activation. I think I'd enable it, if there was a setting to make all apps behave this way. A sort of "show all running apps in the notification drawer" feature (or the apps I select).
Notice you can switch to all running apps from Advanced Task Manager, but that makes for a total of four clicks, moving from one app to another. It's a bit cumbersome.
Pressing and holding Home should IMHO bring up the recent apps list to allow switching WITHOUT returning Home first.
Maybe a bug or a bad decision UI wise.
@joemax
That would sort me out. Having it behave like that would be really useful.
Commantalb looked promising in the Market - very nice effect when bringing apps list up too
BUT, it cannot be envoked unless you press and hold HOME and then select Commantalb.
If it were a background process that changed the default HOME button behaviour - to launch itself, it would be very cool.
ShiroEd said:
To be honest if there is no ability to switch DIRECTLY to a running app from another running app then the whole multitasking thing is a bit pointless (Widgets not withstanding)
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Ok -here's a real world example.
I use MyTracks when out walking. Since the Hero can multitask, I can start MyTracks recording, then as I'm walking do anything else with my phone that I want and not be artificially limited to a select few apps. This is something that I do regularly.
From my perspective, the lack of a true task switcher is largely immaterial to me, but the fact that the apps are still running, even when not active, is.
Regards,
Dave
joemax said:
Pressing and holding Home should IMHO bring up the recent apps list to allow switching WITHOUT returning Home first.
Maybe a bug or a bad decision UI wise.
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I can happily report that this is exactly what it does with the new ROM. Yipee!!
It does indeed
Posted as such on another thread.
The new firmware is very good IMHO.
ShiroEd said:
I can happily report that this is exactly what it does with the new ROM. Yipee!!
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GOD ALLMIGHTY IN THE HEAVEN!!! THERE IS STILL A GOD!!!
I didn't know this untill now... and it god damn works... WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
We love you HTC...
Oh damn... a double post... :-(
So I'm having a rather annoying issue with the icons on my device. In order to save space I moved all my games and large programs i only use rarely to the sd card. i'm trying to keep more space for running programs and such (which is another issue i'm having, seems my phone wont keep more than 100mb running space without me constantly hitting the kill button. and even then its annoying that at start up i have 180mb running space, but quickly loose 100mb and can't get it back till i reboot).
anyway, seems that all the programs i've moved to the storage card only show the generic android icon rather than their icons. this is only on my home screen tho. the programs show the correct icons in the program menu. is there a way to refresh the home screen after boot to fix this? or anything i can do other than putting them back onto my phone?
You could force stop the launcher by going into manage applications. That'd refresh it.
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i don't see any process called "launcher" or any with that in the name either.
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i don't see any process called "launcher" or any with that in the name either.
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Sorry, you didn't specify which launcher you are using. If it's stock then it's called Sense. Or you could've downloaded one from the Market such as Launcher Pro Plus, ADW, ADW Ex or Zeam (my personal preference).
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yeah, I'm still on sense. for now i like it, will branch out and see what others offer eventually.
so if i kill it? then what? will it auto restart or something?
viperv303 said:
yeah, I'm still on sense. for now i like it, will branch out and see what others offer eventually.
so if i kill it? then what? will it auto restart or something?
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Yup. When you press the Home key.
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cool, thanks. seemed to have solved it, mostly. a few of the apps are still stuck with the default android icon, but the rest are now displaying correctly. guess its a side effect of installing apps to the sd card?
Not sure... I've seen apps on SD take a moment to show after a boot but they always show up for me. Unless the the app is no longer actually installed.
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I had this issue repeatedly with angrybirds when it was in a homescreen folder. Since I moved it out of the folder it hasn't done it.
Sent from my PG06100 using XDA App
seems that is where this problem happens the most. i made folders and put my short cuts in there to help minimize the number of icons on the desktop. was under the impression that it'd help ever so slightly in making it quicker (device wise). but i'm starting to think it doesn't matter that much...
Does anyone know how to clear and or remove the recently accessed tool on the Acer Iconia? It is on the lower left of the screen beside the home key. Thanks
Been wondering this myself lately.. I'm not sure that there is a way besides getting a task killer app. Or maybe navigating to the settings/applications menu and force closing those apps?
A reboot will clear it.
Sigh! Sadly it isn't a running programs button like it should be. I hope there is a way to mod it some day.
cd85233 said:
Sigh! Sadly it isn't a running programs button like it should be. I hope there is a way to mod it some day.
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Or at least specify which ones are running. Maybe highlight them in that "blue" that the system color has.