Does anyone know how to clear multi task menu besides turning off the tablet?
Even though these processes may not be using any resources, I would like to keep that menu nice and clean.
thanks!
it's most likely possible but without the source code it will be very difficult to figure out how to do it.
I would think a task manager app would handle this....
leyvatron said:
I would think a task manager app would handle this....
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it's a list of recent apps, not running apps. if you kill them, they will still be there.
smaskell said:
it's a list of recent apps, not running apps. if you kill them, they will still be there.
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Exactly, I've tried looking everywhere and couldn't find any settings to clear the recent app list.
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Any android apps capable of doing this? I am noticing the amazon mp3 program keeps randomly starting. I would do a full unroot but such hassle for one issue already using unrevoked good enough for me.
Pretty much any task killer could do it. Autostarts, but Im not sure if you have to be rooted to use that.
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Pretty much any task killer could do it. Autostarts, but Im not sure if you have to be rooted to use that.
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well none have an option to select the program to block it from loading they just kill them at least advance app killer doesn't
Autostarts is the app you're looking for.
I keep seeing many apps running in the background when using Advanced Task Manager even right after I just start up my Xoom or right after I just kill the process and I was wondering if there is a way to stop these apps from starting up on their own?
msalem said:
I keep seeing many apps running in the background when using Advanced Task Manager even right after I just start up my Xoom or right after I just kill the process and I was wondering if there is a way to stop these apps from starting up on their own?
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Honeycomb frees up its own ram. Even though they appear to be running they are actually cached. If you go to settings, application, running services you will see what is truley running. On the top right hit cached and you will see the stuff that is open but not using CPU...ie not running.
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Do not use a task killer unless the app in question is truely stuck.
Running services will continue to open themselves after you close them. Memory is handled by the OS and you have plenty left, I promise.
If you believe an app is malfunctioning and eating up CPU cycles, uninstall it, forcing it to close will do nothing.
If an app is not a service and not in the foreground, it is not running.
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let them run, using a task manager is only making you drain more battery by having the apps continually restarting after force killing them.
honeycomb will manage your RAM and CPU just fine.
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Advanced Task Manager
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Christ. Take that **** off your tablet! It's not necessary.
Repeat after me, people: "UNUSED RAM IS WASTED RAM", and "THE SYSTEM KNOWS HOW TO HANDLE ITS RAM BETTER'N YOU DO".
HTH
kcrudup said:
Christ. Take that **** off your tablet! It's not necessary.
Repeat after me, people: "UNUSED RAM IS WASTED RAM", and "THE SYSTEM KNOWS HOW TO HANDLE ITS RAM BETTER'N YOU DO".
HTH
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Task manager is the problem. Uninstall it right at the moment you see these comments!!!!
Thanks for all of your advice. I'm uninstalling it now.
I really wish they would stop developing that virus they call an app. And I wish Verizon would quit pushing it on customers.
I have a luncher pro installed. I selected as my default home screen app, it was working fine. Recently every time i press home button i get a window asking me to select default home screen application. It does that at random, even though i checked the box before selecting launcher pro.
You could try clearing the defaults, then set it again. Under Settings - Applications - Manage Applications, find all the launchers and use the Clear data option for each.
Does this happen mainly after a reset? Do you have a app killer? Something that auto clears your caches?
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f1vel66a said:
Does this happen mainly after a reset? Do you have a app killer? Something that auto clears your caches?
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I have a app killer, but i have set the program to be ignored. I also do have a auto cache clearer. Could that be causing the problem? aCCcleaner pro.
xplod420 said:
I have a app killer, but i have set the program to be ignored. I also do have a auto cache clearer. Could that be causing the problem? aCCcleaner pro.
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ATK's are BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD DO NOT USE THEM. 2.2 has them built them into the OS. this has been discussed numerous times.
That is most likely your problem, and you'll notice your battery life will go up as well.
cleaning the cache as nothing to do with. for it to ask you to use the phone is sutting down lancher pro, and removing the default settings, then it's starting back up on your own and since the phone doesn't know what launcher you want to use by default it's going to ask you.
I do have ATK, plus Process Manager. I will get rid of ATK see if it will fix the issue.
xplod420 said:
I do have ATK, plus Process Manager. I will get rid of ATK see if it will fix the issue.
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why are you using Process manager?
neidlinger said:
why are you using Process manager?
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Its something that i have always used, to kill the apps that i was not using. From the Nexus days. Do i not need it? I just don't want apps running in the background and killing my battery and processor. I also have SetSPU for that purpose.
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Its something that i have always used, to kill the apps that i was not using. From the Nexus days. Do i not need it? I just don't want apps running in the background and killing my battery and processor. I also have SetSPU for that purpose.
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android phones are built off the linux shell.
Linux in nature are multitasking MONSTERS. when you are not using them they are setting dormant not using the processor and not using any resources. Applications in Linux will not run unless you tell them to. From reading the android market it looks like that app isn't running 24/7. But the ATK are constantly running looking for applications to kill, thus killing your battery in the process... On older 1.5 and 1.6 android and lower end units rocking 2.1 ATKs were acceptable, but not recommended, but on newer 2.2 and 2.3 units ATKs are not good.
Well I got rid of ATK, now left with Process Manager and SetCpu. Are you saying that I should get rid of those two as well?
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Well I got rid of ATK, now left with Process Manager and SetCpu. Are you saying that I should get rid of those two as well?
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no, i'm not saying that in the least a-lot of people use set CPU, that just manages your CPU.
And Processor manager looks like it doesn't run 24/7. You can keep it, i just wouldn't use it unless you have to.
Thanks. We'll see how it goes with just those two running.
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no, i'm not saying that in the least a-lot of people use set CPU, that just manages your CPU.
And Processor manager looks like it doesn't run 24/7. You can keep it, i just wouldn't use it unless you have to.
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Thanks for jumping in I got busy with work
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thanks for all the help
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thanks for all the help
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i assume things are running smoother for you?
Download homeswitcher from the market.
And yea... Task killers are evil.
Eeevvviillllll
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i assume things are running smoother for you?
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yeap, i don't get that annoying pop up anymore asking me to choose the home launcher.
xplod420 said:
yeap, i don't get that annoying pop up anymore asking me to choose the home launcher.
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i figured ATK was the problem. the last time i ran an ATK i had CM4 on my Magic. When i went to CM5 i used Swapper2 to help with memory management, and from cm6 to cm7 i haven't needed anything at all to make this phone rock.
I did the grey blur Rom, loving it, but when it got rid of all the bloatware it got rid of my task killer. The one with auto end list. Anyone know how I can attain that again?
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^looking for that too, he means to Task Manager that was on the stock rom.
What for? Read up on task killers.
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What for? Read up on task killers.
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I use it to kill a few rogue apps that don't like to turn off and destroy my battery, like Navigon.
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What for? Read up on task killers.
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^ *sigh* There's still a need for it from time to time. That's why it was included in the original ROM, and even my Samsung has it too.
OP, you're stuck with "force stop" or you can download this:
https://market.android.com/details?id=biz.stachibana.FroyoTaskKiller
^ which basically does the same thing as "force stop" but it saves you a few steps to get there, plus it lets you know what apps are also running (which is nice to know in case you need to single out a rogue app on your phone).
It's not as good as the stock task killer, but it will stop any app and sniff out the rogue ones.
Hope that helps...
Ok, just looked and I am running Greyblur and it has the stock task killer still there. Also on the gingerblur thread or site they have a zip file of stick bloatware, could be there.
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^ *sigh* There's still a need for it from time to time. That's why it was included in the original ROM, and even my Samsung has it too.
OP, you're stuck with "force stop" or you can download this:
https://market.android.com/details?id=biz.stachibana.FroyoTaskKiller
^ which basically does the same thing as "force stop" but it saves you a few steps to get there, plus it lets you know what apps are also running (which is nice to know in case you need to single out a rogue app on your phone).
It's not as good as the stock task killer, but it will stop any app and sniff out the rogue ones.
Hope that helps...
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Was asking a serious question, I have the same phone without the need so I was curious as to what apps are going nuts on their phones....as far as the read up on task killers comment, I was just giving general advise so they are not sweating it if they assumed they needed it.
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Was asking a serious question, I have the same phone without the need so I was curious as to what apps are going nuts on their phones....as far as the read up on task killers comment, I was just giving general advise so they are not sweating it if they assumed they needed it.
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No problem, I'm just tired of Task Killer topics that sometimes end up in flame wars...
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Was asking a serious question, I have the same phone without the need so I was curious as to what apps are going nuts on their phones....as far as the read up on task killers comment, I was just giving general advise so they are not sweating it if they assumed they needed it.
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If you download Autostarts or AutoRun Manager, you'll see apps that restart or start for such asinine reasons. After powering up or rebooting, many apps are set to startup even if you don't use them often. For example, the eBay app will start in the background for such system events as "Application Replaced" or "External apps available". So when I insert my microSD card and I have some .apks backed up on it by Astro, why should the eBay app start up in the background because the media scanner detected there are apks. Don't get me started on Google Maps, there are all sorts of crap that it starts for. I only want GoogleMaps running when I need it running, not when I install a new app or if I unistall an app or replace an app. While it might be great to have an instant lock on my location so I can instantly add to Latitude(which I don't use), it kinda sucks that I'll also be grabbing my charger sooner since it's running in the background.
Most good task managers will help kill those apps and have the option to put certain apps on an exclude to kill list, which gives you control of what is running and what is not. A good way to figure things out is to kill all your running apps in the task manager and see what will restart. You can put the ones you want and need running, such as widgets and apps that get updates, on an exclude to kill list...that helps with the whole "battery drains because app keeps having to restart" argument as to why task managers are "bad." I use Autostarts to prevent apps i don't want running from starting for useless reasons and Advanced Task Manager to force close ones when I don't need them any longer. However, there is a learning curve as to what you shutdown or prevent from running, as it may affect other apps.
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If you download Autostarts or AutoRun Manager, you'll see apps that restart or start for such asinine reasons. After powering up or rebooting, many apps are set to startup even if you don't use them often. For example, the eBay app will start in the background for such system events as "Application Replaced" or "External apps available". So when I insert my microSD card and I have some .apks backed up on it by Astro, why should the eBay app start up in the background because the media scanner detected there are apks. Don't get me started on Google Maps, there are all sorts of crap that it starts for. I only want GoogleMaps running when I need it running, not when I install a new app or if I unistall an app or replace an app. While it might be great to have an instant lock on my location so I can instantly add to Latitude(which I don't use), it kinda sucks that I'll also be grabbing my charger sooner since it's running in the background.
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That's the only thing that I miss about Eclair, you could truly lock that sh*t down... *sigh*
Hello All,
I've been looking around and can't get any luck.
I was wondering if it would be possible for someone to develop an app which allows you to select apps that you want to bypass the built in Android Task Manager, so that they will not automatically be killed in the background.
If that makes sense.
Thanks.
Nobody up for the challenge?
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Nobody up for the challenge?
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It's not a challenge when mist task managers have an ignore list. Also task managers on Android is really kinda pointless, but that's just my 2 cents.
Apologies, I think I'm confusing you. I want to be able to, essentially, put an "ignore app" list on the built in android task manager. So that the app will always stay open.
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Apologies, I think I'm confusing you. I want to be able to, essentially, put an "ignore app" list on the built in android task manager. So that the app will always stay open.
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i dont get it.. so do you want the app to not be able to be killed by you or automatically by the task killer?
if its by you, then there is a simple solution. dont kill it.
if its by the task killer, then i dont know what task killer you have that is automatically killing your apps.
making an app system persistant can be a bit dangerous
The Android system will automatically close apps that are in the background, when it needs memory for another app (simplified).
I don't want it to do this for a specific app. If it were system persistant, I don't think it would be using enough resources to be a problem/dangerous.
you can look here for great info on how android's oom-killer works (oom is out-of-memory). nuts and bolts.
or if you're lazy you can just use ratson's autokiller app to temporarily boost specific app's oom settings. the link I gave is to part of his homepage.
good luck!
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you can look here for great info on how android's oom-killer works (oom is out-of-memory). nuts and bolts.
or if you're lazy you can just use ratson's autokiller app to temporarily boost specific app's oom settings. the link I gave is to part of his homepage.
good luck!
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This one looks interesting.
Thanks.