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Hold home button for task manager? Possible?

Hey.
Hold home button for task manager? Possible?
I am talking about just like the Vibrant, where you would hold the home button and then task manager would come up, where you could END ALL apps?
Is it possible on G2X?
Thanks.

actually, holding home on the g2x brings up the recently used apps for faster transition. its not used to end/kill apps. just to switch between 8 recently used apps.

Why are you using a task manager?
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I don't know if either of you understand his question. The vibrant, stock, would bring up recently used apps like most other android phones, but also had a button on that "recent apps" pop-up that took you to the built in task manager that touchwiz had. This would allow you to kill any programs that were still actively running in the background.
I don't have an answer for your question though, sorry. I think that's a touchwiz only(and possibly sense) thing.
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allthrottle said:
I don't know if either of you understand his question. The vibrant, stock, would bring up recently used apps like most other android phones, but also had a button on that "recent apps" pop-up that took you to the built in task manager that touchwiz had. This would allow you to kill any programs that were still actively running in the background.
I don't have an answer for your question though, sorry. I think that's a touchwiz only(and possibly sense) thing.
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Active Applications in the market. Its free.
Its exactly like the vibrsnts task manager.
And don't worry about defending yourself to these people.
They did not understand my love for the vibrants task manager.
They ALL ripped me
But you want to be able to kill task like browser which does not close with the back button like other apps.
Yet leave the apps that would reopen alone. Just like the OFFICIAL Samsung task manager.
Active Applications.
Your welcome in advance my friend.
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Actually doesn't CM7 have the ability to choose which program launches on long presses? I don't use task managers but I'm pretty sure I played with those in a long time.
Outside of CM7, I know there are other sneaky apps in the market to achieve the same effect.
On my cheap android tablet I bought for my son, he had the habit of running a game, hitting home, and launching another one. So I installed a task manager to kill all apps while the screen was off.
Sure it might not be the best idea on a PHONE but it worked VERY well for saving battery life. I think if you excluded the proper apps, you could gain the same results.
This, coupled with SetCPU, did wonders. Night and day difference.

Is task manager the only way to kill apps?

Ok so is the factory task manager the only way to kill apps? I hate having to click off each app individually cause if I click kill all it will kill important apps like my alarm clock. I used to have advance task killer but it was eating my battery. Any suggestions?
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lunercrab said:
Ok so is the factory task manager the only way to kill apps? I hate having to click off each app individually cause if I click kill all it will kill important apps like my alarm clock. I used to have advance task killer but it was eating my battery. Any suggestions?
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I havent verified if it actually kills the app or not, but if you hit the recent apps button (bottom right capacitive button) and swipe up on an application it removes it from that screen. Like i said though i havent checked if it kills the process the same as task manager does though.

cloudraker said:
I havent verified if it actually kills the app or not, but if you hit the recent apps button (bottom right capacitive button) and swipe up on an application it removes it from that screen. Like i said though i havent checked if it kills the process the same as task manager does though.
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Pretty sure this method is dependent on the app and whether it's programmed to run in the background or not. For example, if you do the swipe-up method with the Facebook application, the process is still running in the background. Other than a Task Killer, I'd imagine the only way is to go into the Applications menu under Settings, click on the task in question, and then click "Force Stop".

lunercrab said:
Ok so is the factory task manager the only way to kill apps? I hate having to click off each app individually cause if I click kill all it will kill important apps like my alarm clock. I used to have advance task killer but it was eating my battery. Any suggestions?
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I'm curious, what apps are you trying to kill? Are they ones you use often or are they ones you don't use at all?
If you use them frequently, or even occasionally, it is best to just let the OS handle it.
http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/
If you don't use them at all then you can just go to "Manage applications" and "Disable" them.

HELP! Applications keep opening. Killing battery

I have advance task killer and I close apps frequently through out the day. For some strange reason there are 30+ apps running when I'm only using 10 of at the most or a little more. How can I keep them from opening after they have been terminated???
My S3 is starting to move slow and I don't like it One bit!!!

One of the cardinal rules of Android is to never use a task killer......
As you have found out, the apps just open again anyway & all that open/closing will absolutely kill your battery life.

jmorton10 said:
One of the cardinal rules of Android is to never use a task killer......
As you have found out, the apps just open again anyway & all that open/closing will absolutely kill your battery life.
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SoO.......Do you have a solution?

Ummm close them or reboot
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xWiZxKiDx said:
SoO.......Do you have a solution?
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Don't use a task killer
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xWiZxKiDx said:
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Don't use a task killer, especially on Froyo and above.

Task killers are totally counter-productive in Android.
Android does a great job of memory management all by itself, just let it do its thing & don't worry about it.

Never use ATK. Wastes more battery then the apps themselves.

As everyone else has said, using a task killer makes things worse, not better.

What everyone has said about not using task killer plus, exit apps using the back button and not home if you want to close them. That way they will exit rather than stay in memory. Also, if you really want to dump everything out of memory then hold in home>task manager>end all.
And it's moving slowly since the task killer kills the app so the app relanches itself. Killed, relaunch, killed relaunch, killed relanch. Now multiply that by 10 or 20 or 30 apps and it's a wonder your CPUand RAM haven't melted yet.

There's a stock option in 'settings-developer settings' to limit background processes. Also to kill any app you leave right away.
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I have an app called Eva which is a voice assistant. I believe ics is sometimes closing the app when its in the background, because the widget for the app is not responsive and has no text sometimes and works fine other times. I don't know of anyway in ics to set an exception in the task management to never close this app or its background process. Any way to get around this without a 3rd party task killer? Or is there any way to see a log of what ics is killing in the background to confirm my suspicion?
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It's probably the apps problem I'd contact their user support.
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Task killer vs back key force closing.

I've heard using task killers is bad. Is long-pressing the back key to kill an app just as bad? Its really useful when I want to stop it completely or not have to go back several menus.
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jryan388 said:
I've heard using task killers is bad. Is long-pressing the back key to kill an app just as bad? Its really useful when I want to stop it completely or not have to go back several menus.
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With ICS you don't need a task killer,it's inbuilt. But on gingerbread, a task killer is a very wellcome app, and i think long-pressing back to kill doesnt do harm,offcourse that may sometimes depend on wich app it is, but should be harmless.

jryan388 said:
I've heard using task killers is bad. Is long-pressing the back key to kill an app just as bad? Its really useful when I want to stop it completely or not have to go back several menus.
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IMHO as an Android developer killing an app manually isn't bad. It's usually not necessary unless the app is doing something really stupid -- making a lot of network requests or refusing to turn off the GPS are two examples -- but it should be fine. Apps shouldn't get messed up when you force-close them unless they're designed poorly.
Tasks killers, on the other hand, are a Bad Thing because Android does a good job of managing memory on its own. Task killers try to do the same thing but they do it worse, with unpredictable results.
If you want to increase your battery life, check the statistics on your battery monitor app every once in awhile, most phones have one. Just uninstall any apps that seem to be eating up an inappropriate amount of battery.

Task Managers/Killers

I was just told by the AT&T guys that Advanced Task Killer is not good to be using on my phone, apparently it can "harm the device," and that the stock task manager (which I seems lacking imo) is better.
Does anyone have any opinions or suggestions on what kind of task managers to use? The default one doesn't seem to have an easy way to kill all unused applications with the press of a single button, let alone an easy way to get to it. Maybe I'm missing something... the SGSIII task manager has a kill all function which is very nice.
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Just use task manager built into android, 3rd party task managers havent been needed since before gingerbread

Uhm what Rom are you on?I know the stock HTC task manager has an all kill button .
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The Advanced task killer will kill some things that need to be running on your phone.I know on the Advanced Task Killer there was an "ignore" option, but I personally didn't think that worked well.. The Htc one X stock task manager has a "stop all" button at the top righthand side, middle button.
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Oh wow, haha... I never saw that task manager in the app list... Even with this phone since launch. I'm just on stock.
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Advanced Task Manager Arron La
i bought this back when i had my motorola backflip since it only updated to 2.1 and cm7 wasn't released yet, but once cm7 was released this app became pointless it became basically a front-end to the built-in task manager plus some extra info.