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Problem with app downloads

When trying to download apps, it stalls on the starting download screen. I've left it there for 5 to 10 minutes without anything happening. I still have 201mb of space left for the apps. Is anyone else having a problem with this?
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This is one of the reasons why I rooted my vibrant and installed ryanza's lagfix. Have u tried clearing your market history/cache?
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Cool, Thank you i will try that and see if it works.

Mine does it. Not sure why but this fixes it......open Google talk, click on a status, and go "home". Works every time. Make sure you have talk ignored in you task killer too.
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Program Like Backgrounder for Android?

i'm new to android. on IOS there is a cydia app called "backgrounder". i loved it because it let me redefine multitasking rules for certain programs. for example, for most programs, i made it so that the OS kills the program anytime i exit using the home button. now is there such a program for android that would let em do this? i don't want to have to manually kill app everytime, i want to make the OS do it by itself for the programs i specify.
google searches say no, but i'm still optimistic so if anyone knows, please reply.

Android does a great job of managing running applications, there is no need to kill them. If you do the app will just have to reload your battery life would go down. Also the nexus 4 has 2gb of ram. That will easily handle multitasking
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I have a question. Why? This isn't an iPhone. You have 2 GB RAM. Let the OS do it's thing. If you're really worried about it, use an app like Auto Memory Manager to make the OS more agressive.
Ordered my Nexus 4 on the 13th. Still waiting.

estallings15 said:
I have a question. Why? This isn't an iPhone. You have 2 GB RAM. Let the OS do it's thing. If you're really worried about it, use an app like Auto Memory Manager to make the OS more agressive.
Ordered my Nexus 4 on the 13th. Still waiting.
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not all apps in background are inactive though, some are actively running in the background and using resources/wasting battery life. i should not be worried about this?

You can do it straight on the phone under the development options in settings. You have to go into settings first and then phone info and tap on the build number until the tells you that you're a developer now. Then go into developer options and scroll down to apps. From there you can set it to do what you want.
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jinjin12 said:
not all apps in background are inactive though, some are actively running in the background and using resources/wasting battery life. i should not be worried about this?
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Using more ram doesn't drain battery. Most multitasked apps that aren't services don't even waste battery since they are put into hibernate
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hey dude checkout gemini app manager lets u turnoff autorun on those background apps!
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Swiping apps from multitasking

So I know this isn't nexus 4 specific . but I am using one ..
People have always told me that swiping away apps doesn't close them. I disagree.
If I open an app . then swipe it away . you can watch it reload .. Also open an app and go to running apps or cached apps and you will see it there
Now swipe it away and it will disappear from running or cached .. Surely its closed now ?
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It closes it as much as Android needs it to?
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Yeah, it basically says to the app "Please close?". The app can agree politely, ignore it entirely, or anything in between

Swiping is similar to a close with the back button.
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Its more like killing the app ONLY if the app I unnecessary. For example, if you clear the browser after the use, android will get rid of it from ram but if it is light flow or setting app which needs to be ran the whole time, the app doesn't close.
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[Q] Why does android videos(youtube) have to redownload?

i just dropped the iphone 5(sad face) to try this s4 active out(ready to go fishing). So its been a year since i've had a top of the line phone, so here it is the S4. I'm watching a youtube video/ hit the home button to send a text but the video has to RELOAD instead of resuming where it left off at.
Like is there a way around to having videos to redownload after you switch apps on youtube?

My YouTube doesn't have this problem, it may be some rare bugs. You may also try the preloading feature of YouTube Android.
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Can resume here. May be you are out of ram or have some app kill it when you switch to other app
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nor does it occur here
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I never had this problem. Could be ram, click home do what ever you have to do then hold down home button wait for recent apps to appear click on YouTube should just resume from where you left off.

Yeah but it has to buffer then it resumes where it left off.... On iPhones you can go into other apps then come back and and hit play. Androids you have to hit play then let it redownload the remaining video. So like if you are on a data limit it sucks since it downloads the remaining video after resuming

I have the same problem.
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Duplicate apps

Hey guys. Is this normal for me to have multiple apps?
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I haven't seen that before. But they are different versions so it's possible. I'd freeze the older version and see if you run into problems
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that is *kind-of* normal.
All pre-installed apps are installed in "system/apps" folder and cannot be removed unless rooted. Then all updates are stored in the "data/apps" folder along with all user installed apps. This is done so normal users "not-rooted" can delete all their installed apps and updates to get back "stock".
Most apps that list your installed apps, like titanium backup, or the "system settings > applications" normally take this into account and only show you one version. What-ever crap program you took a screenshot of, obviously does not take that into account and is confusing you. I see "safe2remove" beside many of the items in that screenshot, I do not recogize that application you are using. Just some garbage app as far as I am concerned now.

do not freeze either version

I'm looking at system cleanup
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You can delete the older version, but you have to remove the app manually or you'll need to reinstall. Look at the YouTube app in the attached pics. Also, system cleanup is a great app.

I have two play stores, also two Google play services
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Remember to backup before you do any modding

camsurf said:
I have two play stores, also two Google play services
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The 4.82 update for SystemCleanup fixes the issue of apps showing twice