Ok so ive been getting this error lately. im getting it while playing games (mainly cartoon wars gunner). the game will just freeze and close me to the main screen. i then have to use my task killer to manually kill the game before i can reopen it. i have android booster and it says that i have around 30% memory available usually. i try to keep anything not needed killed. but i can play for an hour and no prob then one time itll freeze within a minute of starting. any ideas?
I know android has its own task killer, but a preventative measure might help. When closing a program, use the back button instead of the home button. Using the home button leaves the app running in the background if possible.
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So, after installing Task Manager and opening it I had 31 applications running in the background! Yup, you read that right, 31!!! I ended them all and started playing around. I would launch and app, hit the back button and then go into Task Manager and there it was, still running. I launched several applications hitting back aftewards and they were all still running. I even tried hitting home aftwards and still running. Oh, and I had some apps running twice!!! WTF!?!? Looks like I found a major flaw in the new 2.1 OS.
This is normal android behaviour.
Apps are only shut down when the phone runs out of memory, however if the app is not doing anyting it will be paused and not use any battery / cpu.
And since the nexus has 512MB RAM it can have a LOT of open applications
If it is a background app (like im) it usually has an exit button in the menu.
Apps always run on android if you don't end them with a task manager.
Ya, normal behavior. The app actually has to intentionally end itself when you press the back button for that to really end it. I wouldn't worry about it, though. Apps in the background tend to use very little RAM and CPU.
Not sure why people are freaking out about apps running in the background... This is normal and Android does an amazing job of freeing up memory by killing apps as NEEDED.
Hmmmm, guess I never looked at it that way. I do notice it gets a little sluggish when all of that is running in the background. I'm just used to my MT3G. I've NEVER seen that many apps running at once.
setzer715 said:
Hmmmm, guess I never looked at it that way. I do notice it gets a little sluggish when all of that is running in the background. I'm just used to my MT3G. I've NEVER seen that many apps running at once.
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try two and two-thirds the amount of RAM and that would explain how you get so many apps running lol.
david1171 said:
try two and two-thirds the amount of RAM and that would explain how you get so many apps running lol.
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Ha-ha, good point!!!
From my experience the apps never close it is set to idle and is stored in the phone memory therefore decreasing startup time and allowing for a better multitasking experience but on all other previous android devices there wasn't as much memory so only a few apps could run at a time before the memory would be needed so something would get closed.
You're used to having 37.5% of the ram the Nexus One has
Now here's the question: does having 31 apps open affect battery life?
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You're used to having 37.5% of the ram the Nexus One has
Now here's the question: does having 31 apps open affect battery life?
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It depends on the applications. If they just sit quietly when suspended (in the background) and don't do anything, they will have no impact on battery life (because their threads will never schedule/run). If they continue to do work while in the background, that will have some impact, however, unless they hold a wakelock (something they need the "keep phone from sleeping" permission to do), they will have no contribution to battery consumption while the screen is off and no other apps/services hold wakelocks.
In short, "it depends."
The menu / settings / about phone / battery use panel tries to give you as much information as possible about what apps/services are consuming your battery.
martijnve said:
This is normal android behaviour.
Apps are only shut down when the phone runs out of memory, however if the app is not doing anyting it will be paused and not use any battery / cpu.
And since the nexus has 512MB RAM it can have a LOT of open applications
If it is a background app (like im) it usually has an exit button in the menu.
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Yes. Traditional multitasking (WinMo, BlackBerry) phone OSes will not close an application (or program, on WinMo) until you tell it to close, or it decides to close itself. This is a resource hog, and results in the freezing up or running painfully slowly that we have come to expect from those devices. The iPhone always runs fast because it ALWAYS closes an app--no multitasking whatsoever--so it never runs out of resources and slows down. It "pauses" the app, then closes it, so when you open it, it resumes right where it left off, as if it were open the whole time. The downside is nothing gets done in the background--which is why awesome apps like Locale or Screebl won't run on iPhone. Android is the best of both worlds. It leaves apps running until it NEEDS to close them. When resources run tight, it pauses apps just like the iPhone, so it stays running fast, but as long as you don't overload the system, you can run background apps. And background services will stay running.
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Now here's the question: does having 31 apps open affect battery life?
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I'm sure it does some, but with that monster of a CPU, and as little power as apps use when they're sitting in the background not doing anything, I'm guessing it is a negligible difference. But that's why I love Advanced Task Manager's auto-end feature.
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When you have 31 applications running, is there a hardware key that you can press (perhaps with a third party software) to show those which are running, and to switch to anyone of them instantly without resorting back to the application menu? Also, does this same tool let you shut down an active tasks in order to conserver memory and battery life? I understand that a long press of the home key only shows the last 6(?) application launched but not necessarily the currently active tasks.
On my jailbroken iPhone, I'm used to be able to double click the home button to show all active tasks, and there I can switch to or terminate anyone of them. While running an application, I also have the option of long pressing the home button to end it directly so that it does not continue running in the background. If I do a normal home press, the application will continue running in the background, and I'm presented with a screen which lets me jumps to any of the desktop in order to launch new applications.
I hope I can have the same level of convenience here.
All of the applications in the backround are essentially in hibernation - it is part of the way Android manages the RAM. I think it's great.
while phone looks like its sleeping the apps are still working and using the processing power for whatever they are doing there behind the black screen.
and theres alot of apps that need to sync or update or pull data off the internetz
would that be a possible issue of standby battery drain?
i mean i can turn my phone on at random times and there will be 10-20 apps running in the background when i didnt even use them.
they just start check something and sut back down.
can i stop the apps from autolaunching?
remove task killer and run auto killer .. also use autorun killer to stop certain apps from starting. I would caution you to be careful what apps you stop. You make cause important apps not to work.
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while phone looks like its sleeping the apps are still working and using the processing power for whatever they are doing there behind the black screen.
and theres alot of apps that need to sync or update or pull data off the internetz
would that be a possible issue of standby battery drain?
i mean i can turn my phone on at random times and there will be 10-20 apps running in the background when i didnt even use them.
they just start check something and sut back down.
can i stop the apps from autolaunching?
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If there are apps running its cause they have a task to do. You can manually change your syncing to stop these apps from starting. Also try autokiller and set it to aggressive. This way the apps continue there task and android shuts them down faster than normal
Thanks for the tip. I have both running. I haven't stooped any apps from running with autorun killer, I'm hoping it does it on its own. The other is set on aggressive.
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Hi there. First time android user, do not have much experience just wondering what would be the easiest way to exit/close a running application in NC?
The way I'm doing it right now is through Home Button -> Task Manager and Kill the app.
Some apps have an exit option if you click the menu button, but the majority of them do not. Android will automatically close apps that are not being used if it needs memory for currently running apps, so I wouldn't worry too much about it
Advanced task killer there's just a little Droid Guy in notification click him then full view of running apps, to kill/switch to, as well as showing free ram.
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Oops didn't see that's what your doing, some apps have an exit but tbh even hitting that most stay running in task manager, I'm a first time android user as well, but task managers just seem the best.
I find that the NC doesn't close apps... in fact I've had as many as 12-13 apps running in the background. I either kill them all or do a reboot every day or two days.
Easy Way
Just Download " Android Assistant " From Android Market For Free
And It Will Close All Not Used Programs At Once
if you are using cm7, go to Settings>Applications>Development, check Stop app via long-press, then you can kill an app by long-pressing the BACK button.
i think this is the best way to exit and kill an app, hope it help
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Hi there. First time android user, do not have much experience just wondering what would be the easiest way to exit/close a running application in NC?
The way I'm doing it right now is through Home Button -> Task Manager and Kill the app.
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As of Android 2.2 Froyo, memory management is much improved. Unused apps in the background are automatically killed off, and there's been a lot of discussion that task killers actually degrade performance. The issue is that some of the apps that these kill will automatically reload, actually consuming more battery in the process.
However, there are some apps that stay active in the background that can cause problems. There is a difference between just "flipping away" from an app, and backing out. If you back out of an app (with the back button or right-left swipe on the status bar if using B&N 1.4.1), these will free up properly.
I'd try that first. Then, if the results still aren't satisfactory, you can play with the task killers.
my wildfire is working fine if i dont use heavy apps, but when im using a lot of apps, heavy apps, after a while it became unresponsive and show a black screen, itsactually still working as if i press in some place the screen it open the relative function but it keeps showing the black screen, its like its over used, i dont know, maybe with no more ram.
anyway i need to restart the phone, the restart menu with shut down, restart, plane mode etc options its not showing up too, i can just press the black screen where i think the restart option is and the phone start restarting. after restart it work fine.
this problem happens only when im usgin heavy apps, if i just call play music or read mail no problem found.
anyone got this problem? theres a way i could fix? or theres any app that have a function like in the iphone that pressing to buttons toghter all the open apps are closed so its like a soft reset, theres anything like this for android?
and otherwise theres a fast way to reboot the phone or something that can do the same as reboot without rebooting? like loggin of for windows?
Try a task killer
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a standard task killer dont do nothing special, dont fix it, and is unuseful cause i cant access it when the phone is stucked on
raniero1 said:
a standard task killer dont do nothing special, dont fix it, and is unuseful cause i cant access it when the phone is stucked on
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Maybe not the issue with the ram.
And have u tried some task killers with great scheduled auto killing abilities (like "Advanced Task Killer"). And some of those utilities might allow u to set a threshold ram level at which the older apps should be killed. Don't know specifically, but pls search.
Try to hard reset your phone if you didnt till now,maybe you have some michelous app on your phone...something similar happens to me. And do not use task killer for "killing" apps...use it to force stop tasks or apps if you understund me. If you kill it on froyo thay come back 30 sec. after and if you once a day force stop apps that you dont use often you meke your phone go faster and stable.
Oh yea...I do hard reset once in 3 mounts an its take me 2h to slowly make it as he was before reset...and with same apps my phone have more space and its noticeably faster and stable.
actually i dont know the difference from kill and stop, how can i stop apps?
Does anyone else sometimes get a loading message after hitting the home button , if running stock rom JB? It doesn't happen all the time but it does every once in a while & it slows me down wanting to quickly go to another app, please let me know
Johnathanag said:
Does anyone else sometimes get a loading message after hitting the home button , if running stock rom JB? It doesn't happen all the time but it does every once in a while & it slows me down wanting to quickly go to another app, please let me know
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What you are experiencing is the Android built-in task killer, OOM=out of memory and LMK=low memory killer, which close processes when in need of RAM. Your launcher is an application like any other and it runs in RAM. Should the system decide it's in need of RAM, if you're playing an intensive game, or you're switching between dozens of open apps, the launcher can get killed off just like any other app or process. When you see the loading screen, it means the launcher was killed and is starting up again.
There's really no helping it, though personally it never happened to me with this 2GB phone, but you can try and exit apps using the BACK button. Only use the home button to close an app if you're coming back to that app soon so you want it to be kept in RAM. Otherwise, close apps with the back button. The processor of the phone is fast enough to load any app into RAM almost instantly.
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What you are experiencing is the Android built-in task killer, OOM=out of memory and LMK=low memory killer, which close processes when in need of RAM. Your launcher is an application like any other and it runs in RAM. Should the system decide it's in need of RAM, if you're playing an intensive game, or you're switching between dozens of open apps, the launcher can get killed off just like any other app or process. When you see the loading screen, it means the launcher was killed and is starting up again.
There's really no helping it, though personally it never happened to me with this 2GB phone, but you can try and exit apps using the BACK button. Only use the home button to close an app if you're coming back to that app soon so you want it to be kept in RAM. Otherwise, close apps with the back button. The processor of the phone is fast enough to load any app into RAM almost instantly.
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Oh ok, I got it now thanks so much for a detailed answer!