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honestly i find this really annoying, especially to the average person tha doesn't think to go download a task manager and kill everything after doing anything on the phone so your battery lasts more than 6 hours.
here's a simple logic i'd like to use.
if you use the "back" button to exit an application, kill it.
if you use the "home" button to leave an application, don't kill it until you go back to it and use "back" to exit. or kill it with a task manager.
like why hasn't someone implemented this? close or minimize its as simple as that people. i really hope the android developers listen to me on this one.
im sure nobody would be happy if microsoft came out with an update that disabled the X and you could only minimize applications or kill them with the task manager. come on. thats why i'm not totally satisfied with android yet.
Chillaxed said:
honestly i find this really annoying, especially to the average person tha doesn't think to go download a task manager and kill everything after doing anything on the phone so your battery lasts more than 6 hours.
here's a simple logic i'd like to use.
if you use the "back" button to exit an application, kill it.
if you use the "home" button to leave an application, don't kill it until you go back to it and use "back" to exit. or kill it with a task manager.
like why hasn't someone implemented this? close or minimize its as simple as that people. i really hope the android developers listen to me on this one.
im sure nobody would be happy if microsoft came out with an update that disabled the X and you could only minimize applications or kill them with the task manager. come on. thats why i'm not totally satisfied with android yet.
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How else would you have multi-tasking? Most of the stuff I use, I would rather it not close just because I had to check my calendar, or reply to a text.
just hit the home button to minimize it. hit back to close it. select the app again after minimizing it to open it again. simple. or if you're worried about having to go find the app again, just have the app minimize to the notification area. but personally, i'd just close everything and go back to it
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that is a good idea should shoot google an e-mail. but its be diffrent from phone to phone as not all are the same(while most do have a home button)
I like what Dolphin Browser does, how if you hold back (as opposed to just clicking it) you close the application. I think that would work great if implemented universally.
well then could someone create an app that for all applications, holding back will actually kill the app?
chrys9989 said:
How else would you have multi-tasking? Most of the stuff I use, I would rather it not close just because I had to check my calendar, or reply to a text.
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Being able to multitask has nothing to do with having the ability to close the application I don't need running anymore.
how abt remapping that search button that i rarely ever use to close an application. that sounds more plausible, then we can leave the back and home button the way they are (sometimes, u just want to go back, not close an app)
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well then could someone create an app that for all applications, holding back will actually kill the app?
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Dude, no one has to write an application for that. There are a lot of applications in the Market that can KILL running apps on your phone. A few examples:
- Free Advanced Task Manager (also has a Widget that requires a single press to end running/useless apps)
- Task Manager
- Advanced Task Killer Free
- Automatic Task Killer
...and MANY MANY MANY MANY MORE! It will take a day to review them all and find the one you like the best. That MANY!
And what you really wanted to say is that the developers SHOULD implement an EXIT function in the application (some have it). If the user doesn't want for the application to run anymore, will use the EXIT function! Simple as that
If someone doesn't like multi-tasking, can always get one of those EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE AND USELESS iPhones
like i said, it'd be really annoying to have no X button on the top right of every window, and the only way to exit something would be to open the task manager. and potentially kill something that's keeping track of something.
i am aware of all the apps. its just really annoying. every time i do something i go and find the task bar and kill everything.
by the way when i said back should close the app, i meant the back button still acts as the back button until it goes back to the desktop. then when it goes back to the desktop it closes it.
i like this, cuz normally the apps that i dont need anymore stay open and overtime make my phone slow and drains my battery, and i hate using taskiller cuz im using sense ui and taskiller kills everything meaning that i have to reboot the sense ui which takes a minute or two and itz annoying to go to taskiller and kill the apps one by one...
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i like this, cuz normally the apps that i dont need anymore stay open and overtime make my phone slow and drains my battery, and i hate using taskiller cuz im using sense ui and taskiller kills everything meaning that i have to reboot the sense ui which takes a minute or two and itz annoying to go to taskiller and kill the apps one by one...
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you need to set your exceptions in your task manager
On Android, when you use back or home to exit an application that application goes to "sleep" mode. That means it doesn't use processor and/or battery power.
There are a few exeptions of course, the calendar, mail, alarm clock, music (if you listen to music). These have to run in the backround to function correctly. If you kill the alarm application then your alarm won't go in the morning, etc...
Just picked up a Radar, moving from two years of Android. Hoping I could get some help on the following questions:
1) Does WiFi turn off when the phone sleeps? If so, is this a changeable setting?
2) I'm having trouble getting GoVoice to notify me. I've gone through all the setup numerous times. I leave myself a voicemail and I don't get notified. If I click the app, it refreshes, vibrates and gives me the new message.
3) Is there a way to bypass the initial lockscreen when using password lock?
4) Is there a way to have the Maps app voice direct me automatically, or I have to touch the screen?
5) Can the maps app navigate if it isn't in the foreground?
6) How do I truly close an app? Like when I run Slacker and stop using it, it still displays on the lock screen.
7) Is there really a difference in the find my phone functionality turning off push vs sms?
THANKS
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1) Does WiFi turn off when the phone sleeps? If so, is this a changeable setting?
Yes it turns off. Not changeable.
2) I'm having trouble getting GoVoice to notify me. I've gone through all the setup numerous times. I leave myself a voicemail and I don't get notified. If I click the app, it refreshes, vibrates and gives me the new message.
Dont use it, but did you contact the app developer?
3) Is there a way to bypass the initial lockscreen when using password lock?
No, it's more secure than Android bypasses.
4) Is there a way to have the Maps app voice direct me automatically, or I have to touch the screen?
Not bing maps. There are alternatives.
5) Can the maps app navigate if it isn't in the foreground?
Not sure it can. It will refresh to your current position when you go back to it.
6) How do I truly close an app? Like when I run Slacker and stop using it, it still displays on the lock screen.
Back, back, back, back till you go to home screen.
7) Is there really a difference in the find my phone functionality turning off push vs sms?
I would leave all of those settings as 'on' as that maximizes my chances of finding my phone.
hah2110 said:
Just picked up a Radar, moving from two years of Android. Hoping I could get some help on the following questions:
1) Does WiFi turn off when the phone sleeps? If so, is this a changeable setting?
2) I'm having trouble getting GoVoice to notify me. I've gone through all the setup numerous times. I leave myself a voicemail and I don't get notified. If I click the app, it refreshes, vibrates and gives me the new message.
3) Is there a way to bypass the initial lockscreen when using password lock?
4) Is there a way to have the Maps app voice direct me automatically, or I have to touch the screen?
5) Can the maps app navigate if it isn't in the foreground?
6) How do I truly close an app? Like when I run Slacker and stop using it, it still displays on the lock screen.
7) Is there really a difference in the find my phone functionality turning off push vs sms?
THANKS
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For WiFi, if you are streaming music with one of the Pandora apps (MetroRadio or RemoteConrolled), it will continue to play using WiFi.
Try pinning the GoVoice app. Not sure if it will help or if you already did this. If you are in an area with no coverage when the notification is sent, you might miss it. Then you will need to launch the app and refresh. GoVoice could be modified to check this with a background process that would run every 30 minutes. It may already do that.
As far as closing apps. For music, I usually just pause it. It will eventually be inactive. Unlike Android, apps are actually suspended when put in the background. If music is paused it isn't streaming, so it isn't doing any work.
If you really want the processes cleaned up. Back, Back, Back, ...
Maps don't update in the background. In fact GPS can't be accessed in the background. But, the GPS works fast in the foreground.
Faster way to close the app out it hold the back button, select the window that has the app like slacker, when app comes up, hit back.
Not to say you can't do it, but I wouldn't worry about closing apps. On Android you needed to as they would suck your phone dry with unruly processes and poor management. With windows phone its a suspended action unless streaming something. So in the case of slacker, or any other music player, once you hit "pause" its a stopped process. It isn't using resources, and will eventually be kicked out.
The WP system will manage it on its own and boot out old processes to make room for things if its finding that it needs to.
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It looks like all of your questions have been answered.
Is there a specific question that still needs answering?
If not, there is no point in bumping.
If so, please state the specific question / questions that you still need answered.
Am I going crazy, or is there no way to stop notifications from waking the screen? Everytime I get any sort of notification, my screen wakes up to display the notification on the lock screen, and then goes back to sleep a second later. I would like to turn this off and it drains battery.
Sauveur said:
Am I going crazy, or is there no way to stop notifications from waking the screen? Everytime I get any sort of notification, my screen wakes up to display the notification on the lock screen, and then goes back to sleep a second later. I would like to turn this off and it drains battery.
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I've noticed this happens to me when I receive an SMS, but nothing else. I don't think this is the default behaviour. Do you have an app installed that maybe does this? LightFlow?
Well I did install Snaplock for a hot second but I've since uninstalled it. Maybe it changed some setting somewhere that I can't find?
Any help for this? It's driving me crazy.
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Any help for this? It's driving me crazy.
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I have tried to find a solution for this, but I haven't been able to. I am guessing it is just unconfigurable behaviour of the Samsung messaging app.
Yep. I installed 8sms and Textra. Both allow you to disable the screen wake. Decided on 8sms for the long haul.
Help
Ok, so I am also irritated by the same issue with the screen waking up every time I get a text. My phone is usually in my pocket, and by trying to take it out to see the text, my camera or dial screen is opened cause I touched it while the screen was on. I have tried downloading Textra, Handcent, and 8sms to use instead, but in every one of those, when I try to send a photo, it fails, and I have dug through all the settings in those apps as well. I can send them on the stock messaging app just fine.
Has anyone found out how to turn the screen wake up off yet, or what am I missing on the other apps that is preventing pictures to send?
The other thing that is bothering me is that in the stock messaging app, it is displaying a call back # on every text I receive. Is there a way to turn this off?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
-Nick
I'm also trying to find the solution to this. G920I with Vodafone Australia.
Did anyone find a resolution to this issue? My phone turns on with every notification, not just sms.
I don't have my phone on me, but check settings > lockscreen and security > Show information or
settings > lockscreen and security > other security settings > notification access
I disabled all lock screen notifications and the screen still turns on randomly. I thought it may have been facebook so I disabled notifications then uninstalled the app with no luck. This problem is very annoying to say the least, when I go for a run I take my phone to stream music etc and can end up taking a few hundred pics of my pocket; lol.
Yeah I've this problem too, samsung didn't include the option to disable it :\
Are you saying there is no way to stop the screen from coming on?
Doesn't look like you can disable it, sadly. Nothing stock in touchwiz that gives that functionality. Or am I wrong? I just searched the entire settings on my phone..
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The inability to prevent the wake-up is annoying not only because of the instant battery usage, but because when the phone is in pocket it then causes all kinds of mispresses which lead to unintended app openings, changes, and screen staying on much longer. Samsung needs to provide option to disable screen wake on notification.
Samsung we have f#%$*ng RGB LED for notification!
Try the Screen Notifications free app
Try the Screen Notifications free app. I did and meantime it's OK. Looks it may work for the desperate people like we are....
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lukekorth.screennotifications
Sauveur said:
Am I going crazy, or is there no way to stop notifications from waking the screen? Everytime I get any sort of notification, my screen wakes up to display the notification on the lock screen, and then goes back to sleep a second later. I would like to turn this off and it drains battery.
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I remember asking about this in a thread a long time. Ago. Good news, (if the other suggested fixes aren't working), I know how to fix this. First, you have to be rooted (naturally). 2nd, install another text app, I just use google's Messenger text app, nice and basic and I like it. Open that app and let it set itself as default or do it manually in settings. That step might not be necessary, but should do it just in case or possibly be left with no text app by accident. Finally, go to system > priv-app > SecMms_Delight-Open > Copy the app which is our stock messaging app and it has the screen wake function built in and paste it somewhere else like a backup folder in the priv-app directory so you know where it goes back to. Delete the app inside the SecMms-Delight-Open directory and reboot. You'll notice the yellow stock messaging app is gone from desktop and app drawer and now when you get a text, no screen wake! :good:
This annoyed me quite a bit because for a living I deliver catering orders and each time I get an order, it sends a text to let me know to check the browser for order info. So I was getting like 12 to 20 texts a day in addition to all the normal texts from friends and family. It was waking a lot!
I wish the build my edge came on was rootable. Sad face for sure. No root, no downgrade, no happy.
Loving my Gear S3 Frontier but still a bit confused about using it on occassions! Can anyone tell me is there a simple way to:
1. Keep an app you are currently using on the display?
For example, while walk around the supermarket, I was using the excellent "My Notes in Gear" to work through a shopping list I'd created previously. Problem was that when the watch display turned off if I raised my wrist up to look at the screen it frequently had reverted to the watch display. Only way i could get it back to my shopping list was to select the apps view and tap on the "My Notes in Gear" app again. Surely I must be doing something wrong and there's an easier way to resume the view of an app you are currently using?
2. Easily toggle between watchface (time) display and current other app in use?
Say I'm tracking a hike in S Health but I want to check the current time. Is there an easy way to toggle from S-Health to the watchface, and then quickly switch back to S-Health tracking again?
Having had the watch a couple of weeks now I'm sure I should have a handle on these things by now, so maybe I'm just being dumb - or maybe these things are not as easy to do as they should be?!
Really, NOBODY has a solution to this??!!
SirBindy said:
It's not rocket science.
Set your double-tap home button to "last app".
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Thanks for the tip. OK, maybe it's not rocket science but to me it seems very strange that there's is not a standard quick way to click back to a current open app. After all, on your mobile phone it's very easy.
And is there any easy/quick way to toggle between watchface (time) display and current other app in use, as when I just want to quickly check the time? Yes, I realise now I can optionally set my double-tap on the home button to view current app, but what if you prefer to set that to normally open another app like S-Health or S-Voice? Sorry, but I really think this is an aspect of typical use of a smartwatch that the designers have not fully thought through. Surely the ability to easily switch between your watchface and another app you are running should be a standard and quick operation?!
I'm having the same issue. And yes, I've set the home button to revert to my previous apps. I'd prefer, however, to raise my wrist and have the app that I was currently using still be there. For example, whenever I'm out on a run and I'm listening to music, I have to double press the home button, and select the application in order to begin toggling to the next sound track. Similar situation happens when I'm using the notes app. Does anyone know of a way to "lock" the current app so that it doesn't go away when I put my hand down?
Worked in the previous Gear 1&2&S. There are a setting for movement activation : Last screen or Clock. Very usefull, do not know why Samsung removed this setting in the Gear S2/S3 ???
It does this on Galaxy Gear too.
It makes much more sense the app you're using is just there, no need to press any button :-/
Thanks for the double tap tip.
Can anyone explain the various options for "stopping" an app? As far as I can tell, you can:
1. Swipe it off the app switcher screen
2. Long press and hit "Pause app"
3. Long press, tap info, and turn off all notifications
4. Go to settings, apps, and "force stop"
What's the technical difference between all of these? It seems unbelievable that there isn't a simple way to fully stop all processes associated with an app until you manually restart it.
I'm mainly interested in squeezing the last bit of use out of old phones.
Well, I thought this would get more of a reaction. Would it be more enticing if I asked for a more technical discussion on how these functions work?
I know I can Google this stuff, but pretty much everything I come across is focused on the basics of turning off notifications. The most technical content in the articles I've found says things like, apps don't use system resources when they're just sitting in the background and appear in the app switcher. But honestly, that seems ridiculous. If an app CAN send a notification, regardless of whether Android displays it, then it will obviously use resources periodically.
So I'm looking for what actually happens when you turn off notifications, pause an app, swipe it off the switcher, or force close. After that I'll be looking for a tool that will make it easy to manage what I want running.