Hey guys,
Besides "Force Close" how do you close the stock music player?
On my Telus Milestone I can go into the built in Froyo Task Manager on that phone and close out the music player, but on the Atrix I don't see how to do so. If needed are there any 3rd party apps that can get the job done?
I'm really not a fan of pauing and leaving the music player open, heck even Pandora has an "exit" setting built into the app.
(Yes I know that task managers are bad *blah blah blah* but there's gotta be a fix for this)
Any ideas?...
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Tennis11 said:
Just pause it and hit home...
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
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There's gotta be a better way.
Heck I could do this on my Desire, and Galaxy S...
There's a task manager built into the Atrix. It's aptly named, "Task Manager." Just check your app drawer. You can choose to "End Application" from there.
Alternatively, change your launcher to Go Launcher Ex and there will be a "Running" tab in your app drawer. Clicking on apps in that tab will allow you to close the app, among other things.
maledyris said:
There's a task manager built into the Atrix. It's aptly named, "Task Manager." Just check your app drawer. You can choose to "End Application" from there.
Alternatively, change your launcher to Go Launcher Ex and there will be a "Running" tab in your app drawer. Clicking on apps in that tab will allow you to close the app, among other things.
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That's the thing that's really weird.
When the music player is running and you go into the "Atrix" Task Manager it shows the music player as "Not running" so you can't close it. If I use the music player on either my Froyo Milestone or my Froyo Galaxy S then "Both" of their Task Managers can shut it down.
Also when I use "Go Launcher EX" on the Atrix, it shows the music player as a running app, but it won't let you close it. When you try to close it, the app still sits there.
Somebody else try this and please let me know if I'm doing something wrong or if you get it working, because that seems too buggy IMO.
The only way for now that I can stop the music player on my Atrix is by "Forcing it to stop" but there's gotta be a better way?...
Anyone?...
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Easiest way to delete apps is get Titanium Backup found in the market.
It gives you a list of all your apps, to back them up, delete, whatever.
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Hello,
Not sure if this is possible in Android but, can you kill/exit for good an android app?
I keep using Adv Task Killer but the damn apps keep on restarting after killed...can anyone advise? Its driving me nuts! I liked that tweak in winmo where you long press x and the program is gone for good.
Thanks for enlightening me!
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No one knows the solution?
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I donwnloaded a program called Startup Auditor from the market. It will allow you to disable a program on startup and keep it diabled.
I also deleted the Footprints app (useless) by getting the root explorer app (costs money) that will allow you to delete the app. This is the only explorer I have found that will let you uninstall pre-installed apps.
**BE CAREFUL** removing some apps like Friendstream, mail, messages, etc could mess up your phone, because they are tied into the system.
Google it thats how I figured it out.
Search in market for developer "Gpc". They have a tool called SuperManager for free with great functions such as Root Explorer. In market you will find it with a desktopsymbol icon and japanese letters! no worrys.. whole app can be set to english :d Second entry i think if you search for Gpc. No need to pay for rootexplorer root/data/app/ think there are the apps like footprints you want to deinstall/delete
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digitalhater said:
Hello,
Not sure if this is possible in Android but, can you kill/exit for good an android app?
I keep using Adv Task Killer but the damn apps keep on restarting after killed...can anyone advise? Its driving me nuts! I liked that tweak in winmo where you long press x and the program is gone for good.
Thanks for enlightening me!
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This always happens, the easiest way to do it is just to go the manage application in the settings and force the close, the app should not restart after this regardless what the task killer says. Some apps will restart too if you have background data on within the background.
Hope this helps.
I use autostarts. Its capable of stopping the app from loading during boot, and you can block recurring starts through the options. Easy to use. Click on app then disable. It will boot if you run the app, but will not autorun on startup.
You should NOT USE any app killers the are bad for the battery and the memory dont even install them. Next time you update or change your build leave the app killers out like the DEV intended or they would have added 1 for you
Stop looking at the running apps list. Problem solved. If them sitting in that list worries you then uninstall the app. Android isn't winmo, having apps sitting in that list is nothing to worry about.
Is there any way to hard code (when building a custom ROM) the OS so that certain pre-installed system apps DONT auto-start on boot-up, or constantly start while the OS is running (restart themselves and stay running)? I am trying to stop things like Google Maps from starting on its own, unless I WANT to start it. Another example is not auto-starting the GMAIL or MAIL apps, until I open them. Same deal. Possible?
Go into settings then click on the button labeled "Applications". Then click on "Running" and click on the apps you want to stop running and click "Force Stop" and they will stop running until you reopen them again. Otherwise, download ATK.
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Or you can use a program called autostarts which can be found in market. Not sure if you can disable the autostart when building ROM.
I updated today to Froyo on my Droid X and now everytime I use advanced task killer to close the browser and reopen it, it does not open to my default google homepage, but instead opens the last webpage I was viewing. Any way to fix?
Uninstall task killer. You don't need it. I used it @ first & I don't see any batt. life improvement. The Android OS is smart, it auto closes what it doesn't need. Task Killer makes the OS continually restart the processes it needs that task killer keeps stopping. Hope that helps some.
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Task killers are still useful for manually force closing apps that aren't working properly or are causing problems. Just don't set them to autokill. And despite rumors I've heard about Froyo disabling task killers, my ATK still works fine after the 2.2 OTA update.
kizer8 said:
I updated today to Froyo on my Droid X and now everytime I use advanced task killer to close the browser and reopen it, it does not open to my default google homepage, but instead opens the last webpage I was viewing. Any way to fix?
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This has always been my "default" experience. This is the behavior i am used to as well. If I want my homepage I have to manually go there. So I would be interested to know if there were some sort of setting to accomplish this.
Btw- I have never used a task killer on my DX. I started NOT using one just as an experiment. Coming from WinMo it was very difficult at first to "minimize" every running app with out really "Xing" it out. But I am used to it now and I just let Android handle it. If I absolutely need to - I can just reset my phone. With WinMo I used to HAVE to do that 10X a day (literally)- so yeah - just thought I would throw that in there.
Is there a solution to this yet? Either from the system itself or from downloading or sideloading a specific app to close them?
This is still Android so there should be something to force close apps like our phones.
I agree, I force closed each app individually, helped speed things up a bit.
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I wish there was as well. Only thing you can do currently is go into Apps and manually Force Stop the apps, which is too much of a pain. Really stupid.
wouldn't greenify achieve that? I haven't tried to install it on the shield, but I assume it would sideload fine. just add all the apps that you commonly find yourself force closing to your greenify list, then you should be able to just open greenify and hibernate them all at once.
awp69 said:
I wish there was as well. Only thing you can do currently is go into Apps and manually Force Stop the apps, which is too much of a pain. Really stupid.
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It's not possible to limit the number of apps running in background in the developper menu?
You can download a task manager and killer.
You just need to side load it.
Im personally using this which i can confirm working on full android with airmouse controller
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330150
The app has native "force close" option, which you can use on any currently opened app, and, for those interested, has tasker support, i.e. initiate tasks anywhere
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"force close" option is listed as "ka". Ka = kill app
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Im using lmt version 2.5 on full android marshmellow, although i can confirm that it worked on full lollipop too