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Task Killing

Anyone having issues with Apps getting killed despite the fact that they don't have a task killer installed? I will open Apps and leave them running, go back to the home screen, and when I open my task manager minutes later, they are gone. I know that the system does its own kind of memory management but is it suppose to be doing this? The reason it is frustrating me is because often when I back out of an app or unlock the phone, my launcher pro acts like it has been reset, and I have to sit there while all of my widgets reload. Maybe it has always done this and I am just now realizing it. Just curious if anyone else has experinced this.
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In launcher pro go in setting and check "keep in memory”
JayRHamlin said:
Anyone having issues with Apps getting killed despite the fact that they don't have a task killer installed? I will open Apps and leave them running, go back to the home screen, and when I open my task manager minutes later, they are gone. I know that the system does its own kind of memory management but is it suppose to be doing this? The reason it is frustrating me is because often when I back out of an app or unlock the phone, my launcher pro acts like it has been reset, and I have to sit there while all of my widgets reload. Maybe it has always done this and I am just now realizing it. Just curious if anyone else has experinced this.
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this happens to me too, since upgrading to froyo the memory management has been the only bad thing.
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I think as soon as we have source some good kernels will be coming our way. I always had that problem with the vibrant until I used modded kernels with increases in ram.
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I don't understand why. .when u open up certain apps.....like 10 unrelated apps all start up in the bg. If I wanted them to start I will open them...I mean seriously this is the only os that does this
Osmonitor is a good app to see whats running
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Yeah I know. I use auto memory optimizer. Keeps more free ram. I set it to optimum.
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Random restarts.

I get 1-2 reboots a day. A couple lock ups happen too. Anyone else? Is it normal?
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It's definitely not normal. Try wiping fresh and installing only necessary apps then test again. If the issue persists trade it in for a new Infuse.

eallan said:
I get 1-2 reboots a day. A couple lock ups happen too. Anyone else? Is it normal?
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My wife and I both get it on our two new Infuses. Mine pretty much happens when I am browsing... It will lock up vibrate a few times and basically reboot... Pretty frustrating... And I don't think wiping it clean will help since this happen on both of our phones
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garak0410 said:
My wife and I both get it on our two new Infuses. Mine pretty much happens when I am browsing... It will lock up vibrate a few times and basically reboot... Pretty frustrating... And I don't think wiping it clean will help since this happen on both of our phones
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The black screen vibrate and its off thing us what happens to me too.
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Hmm...interesting....
Are you all rooted? Changed any apps? Made any tweaks or all stock?
I've had my Infuse for a week now and it's been great....no reboots of any kind. No real bugs to complain about, though I have noticed it can lag quite a bit when looking at mms'.
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The vibrating is force closing. sounds like an app to me. did you and your wife both in stall the same apps? try factory rest on just one to test. BEWARE. take your external SD out. the facotry reset, wipes that too.

garak0410 said:
My wife and I both get it on our two new Infuses. Mine pretty much happens when I am browsing... It will lock up vibrate a few times and basically reboot... Pretty frustrating... And I don't think wiping it clean will help since this happen on both of our phones
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I get it too... Do you guys run at 190 dpi? DO you guys run LauncherPro?

Nothing special on our phones...since the AT&T update Thursday, the stock browser, so far, hadn't crashed yet.
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garak0410 said:
Nothing special on our phones...since the AT&T update Thursday, the stock browser, so far, hadn't crashed yet.
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Yeah I updated to UCKE5 with GTG's rom. Wiped my int sd and did a data wipe and very careful what to tibu back... So far so good...

Install a custom ROM, no more reboots and phone will be snappy.
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rjan22 said:
Install a custom ROM, no more reboots and phone will be snappy.
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i did same ish. data system and delvik wipe

rblankman said:
The vibrating is force closing. sounds like an app to me. did you and your wife both in stall the same apps? try factory rest on just one to test. BEWARE. take your external SD out. the facotry reset, wipes that too.
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The vibration is a notification that you are running low in nemmoey and using too much. Check your apps it happens to me too only when I'm browsing and trying to open too much tabs
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slider2828 said:
i did same ish. data system and delvik wipe[/QUOTE
You are aware to install a clean ROM you have to UNchecked wipe davlik, and check wipe data and cache?
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rjan22 said:
slider2828 said:
i did same ish. data system and delvik wipe[/QUOTE
You are aware to install a clean ROM you have to UNchecked wipe davlik, and check wipe data and cache?
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Ergh... no....
It was exactly word for word:
ROM Pre-Installation:
Wipe Data and Cache
Wipe Dalvik Cache
So you put a check mark to tell it to do so.... Been flash roms almost a year now since the captivate.... I would think to do how to do that
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Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!

Jasper_jt said:
Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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This was in June!! June!!! And this is not a damn Windows phone forum....
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Jasper_jt said:
Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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Sell Your phone. Now.
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Jasper_jt said:
Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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WTF...... ? No. Mod.. I think you should close this..

Phone says I have 1 unread msg but I dont

My phone says I have one unread message but I don't.
Any fix to this??
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Is this the first time has it happened?
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Call your self, leave a VM, and then call your VM from the phone, and delete it.

Didn't work...
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whatever widget you are using is probably hung up. go to apps and force stop or see if it has a restart feature.

dylyxcore said:
whatever widget you are using is probably hung up. go to apps and force stop or see if it has a restart feature.
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Yes what the gentleman said
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dylyxcore said:
whatever widget you are using is probably hung up. go to apps and force stop or see if it has a restart feature.
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I'm using Go SMS for texting. Uninstall and reinstall didn't work.
Uninstall Go Locker and reinstall doesn't work....-____-
The 1 gets annoying
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I think he meant to get rid of the widget itself, not the app you use for messaging. Just delete it off your homescreen and add it back. And if that doesn't work try a reboot, it's probably just that the widget didn't update yet.

Samuka97 said:
I think he meant to get rid of the widget itself, not the app you use for messaging. Just delete it off your homescreen and add it back. And if that doesn't work try a reboot, it's probably just that the widget didn't update yet.
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Ya I deleted my lockscreen widget GO LOCKER doesn't do nothing
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i found that when i used to have this issue, it really was a message i didn't bother to read...
just go through your messages and get each one in the screen for a sec or 2. or just delete them all.
see if that fixes it, otherwise try wiping cache in CWM

Or since you use Go SMS, click "Mark all read" and that should solve it.
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theking_13 said:
Or since you use Go SMS, click "Mark all read" and that should solve it.
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I love you< 3
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bstylz911 said:
I love you< 3
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Im assuming it worked?
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bstylz911 said:
I'm using Go SMS for texting. Uninstall and reinstall didn't work.
Uninstall Go Locker and reinstall doesn't work....-____-
The 1 gets annoying
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A normal uninstall will NOT clean everything off the sdcard, use either SD Maid or just go into your sdcard with apps like root explorer to delete the residue files left from uninstall.
Maybe try to restart after you did all that, and try to install it again, see if that works, i fixed a lot of app bugs using this method before, i hope it will solve your problem as well

hhwong said:
A normal uninstall will NOT clean everything off the sdcard, use either SD Maid or just go into your sdcard with apps like root explorer to delete the residue files left from uninstall.
Maybe try to restart after you did all that, and try to install it again, see if that works, i fixed a lot of app bugs using this method before, i hope it will solve your problem as well
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Check 3 posts up, I solved it.
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Do you close active applications or just leave them running?

Do you close active applications when you're done with them or simply leave them running?
I've been reading that it's best practice to just leave apps as they are when you're done using them. That you can end up causing problems or even eating more battery/resources if you use a task manager to close them.
What's your take?

If its a game or such, I exit out of the game with the back button, ending the task. I don't normally kill any other background apps unless i'm troubleshooting or its causing problems.
Its true what they say about task killers and prematurely ending tasks. Android by version 2.2 had become adept at handling background tasks and ending them when needed. No user interference is required.

icenight89 said:
If its a game or such, I exit out of the game with the back button, ending the task. I don't normally kill any other background apps unless i'm troubleshooting or its causing problems.
Its true what they say about task killers and prematurely ending tasks. Android by version 2.2 had become adept at handling background tasks and ending them when needed. No user interference is required.
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+1. With the new ROMs Task Killers are total useless. They can do more harm then good. OF COURSE, exiting/quitting apps THAT HAVE an exit button is a good idea.
Good luck !

What about clearing ram I see thirty programs close is that bad are they apps that should be running
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xxsicknessxx said:
What about clearing ram I see thirty programs close is that bad are they apps that should be running
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If that really bothers you it is best to REBOOT your phone. It is a much, much better way to return to "zero". And it takes a min at most...
It also really helps reset apps etc..... With something like ICS, unless you fully understand its memory mangement, clearing memory willy-nilly only leads to phone mess-up and then yu'll have to reboot any way.

Personally, I only kill an app that has stopped responding. And usually I do that by restarting.
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I kill nothing. Let android do what it does best
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I kill apps all the time since ICS leaked. Hold home and swipe away everything I'm not using.
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jamesd86 said:
I kill apps all the time since ICS leaked. Hold home and swipe away everything I'm not using.
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I don't think that works the way you think it does??
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CZ Eddie said:
I don't think that works the way you think it does??
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Indeed it does. It's a built in task manager.
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Well ics handles it slightly different giving the user the ability to control the amount of stuff in the background runing. No reason to use a task manager

Really, unless an app is giving you problems or excessively draining your battery, they should be left as they are. Ever since Froyo, Android has done a really good job of memory management.

Two hour battery life please help

I'm ruining stock ICS 4.0.4. Noticed yesterday my phone was really sluggish and battery life would go from%100 to dead in about two hours. I went into settings then apps and looked at my running apps and my phone was scrolling through all of my apps. I don't think that's normal. My widgets are slow to activate and my phone is slow to respond. Any help would be appreciated. Does this sound like a virus or a simple fix?
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I did hear that from a friend and I didn't believe it...
Now I'm starting to believe...
Best way fresh install, format internal sd.
That way you know for sure if it's a virus or not.
Good luck!

nbnion said:
I did hear that from a friend and I didn't believe it...
Now I'm starting to believe...
Best way fresh install, format internal sd.
That way you know for sure if it's a virus or not.
Good luck!
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That's not going to tell you if its a virus noob. It could be any number of things causing the slowdown. What are your friends credentials because if its not a background in networking security he's got nothing but here say. Unfortunately for you I am a security professional. The likelihood of a virus is slim to none. Its more likely memory issues some apps probably consuming more than its share.
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mtdew said:
That's not going to tell you if its a virus noob. It could be any number of things causing the slowdown. What are your friends credentials because if its not a background in networking security he's got nothing but here say. Unfortunately for you I am a security professional. The likelihood of a virus is slim to none. Its more likely memory issues some apps probably consuming more than its share.
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you should suggest him what to do instead of mocking me...
And I just told him what I heard and fresh install would be best bet...
If you're having a bad day have a bear bud and take it easy

nbnion said:
you should suggest him what to do instead of mocking me...
And I just told him what I heard and fresh install would be best bet...
If you're having a bad day have a bear bud and take it easy
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Bad info and fear are not good input either. The reset would probably help but not because of a virus but freeing up tons of previously used space.
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When looking at my running apps, should they be constantly scrolling? I've ran Norton malware and it came up clean.
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breeze1000rr said:
When looking at my running apps, should they be constantly scrolling? I've ran Norton malware and it came up clean.
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Get rid of Norton its worthless
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Flash a rom. If you wanna keep it stock go to stock jelly bean 4.1.2.
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spitfire2425 said:
Flash a rom. If you wanna keep it stock go to stock jelly bean 4.1.2.
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This is a good idea.
You may have a app wakelocking keeping your CPU running and not deep sleeping like stated above there is like a .01 percent chance its a virus.
Wipe every thing reflash ROM of choice let settle then install your apps one a time waiting a few minutes between them so u can see witch one dose it.

Read up on the wake lock thread and see what betterbatterystats tells you. Or you could just flash a new rom
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Hey thanx to all who responded. I ended up backing up my phone and doing a reset. Lost all my sips but that's no biggie. Went back with sock ICS and all seems to be fine. Once again thanx for helping out a somewhat noob!

So just to see if I understood :
You are using stock but rooted (?)
And your battery last only two hours.
I had the same issue with a ROM. First you have to shut off al your radios, data, gps, wifi, bt... Just to be aware if none of these things that are draining your battery life.
Then you should try to verify your battery charger. There's an sticky here in the forum. And lastly you have to check wakelocks... There's a good discussion about that here also.
I know it's kind of disappointing at the beginning, but when you finally understand all the symptoms of your phone you will solve all the troubles really quick... It's like having a newborn baby, at the beginning you don't know why they cry but when you learn about them you can identify every "kind of cry".
Best regards.
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