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how to keep apps from opening in background?

After i turn on my phone i use Taskiller to close all the Apps that are running in the background but when i check a few minutes later some of them are back. Is there a way to stop them from starting by themselves?

miamidade said:
After i turn on my phone i use Taskiller to close all the Apps that are running in the background but when i check a few minutes later some of them are back. Is there a way to stop them from starting by themselves?
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You can use TaskPanel to have it automatically close them when they open

doing this might drain your battery as you said the apps always open after you close it. so if u have an app that keeps closing it everytime it opens, itll just be a constant cycle, drain battery, slow down performance, etc.
some apps that open after you close may be essential to the android process, like dialer, calnedar, gmail storage, im, etc.

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Oops... wrong comment from me. I didn't notice that this is android phone thread because I keep up with xda with RSS reader..

NguyenHuu said:
some apps that open after you close may be essential to the android process, like dialer, calnedar, gmail storage, im, etc.
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Quoted for truth. You are experiencing one of Android OS's features - it will restart essential apps and systems that are necessary for proper phone operation whenever they crash or are manually terminated.

Random programs in task manager

A lot of times I will get random programs that I never use listed as open in the task manager. Mp3 store, nba league pass, documents to go, they all keep opening up again even though I never use them. Is there a reason for this? There are other apps that do this too, I just listed the ones I see most often.

Yes, this is normal. Android loads applications until the RAM is almost full, so they're ready to pop up in an instant when you actually launch them. If an application requires more RAM to work with than available, the system will shut down some of the inactive applications.
There are those task auto-killer programs out there that people use because they think it makes their phone run faster or tidied up, but in fact, most of the time they will slow it down because applications will take longer to start. And consume more power, because there's more work to do when starting an app. A properly written application won't consume any power when inactive, and the RAM has to be powered anyway, so that's why you want it to be used as much as possible.

Thanks for the info!
Is there anyway to exclude certain apps from opening up? There are apps on the phone like mp3 store or the stock messaging app that I would never use, so it would be more worthwhile to get the system to keep apps I actually use open instead of just random ones.

djsaad1 said:
Thanks for the info!
Is there anyway to exclude certain apps from opening up? There are apps on the phone like mp3 store or the stock messaging app that I would never use, so it would be more worthwhile to get the system to keep apps I actually use open instead of just random ones.
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Search.. All your questions have been asked and answered before.

How to lock apps in memory

I understand android has its own way to manage apps. If they aren't being used, android will automatically close them.
Sometimes, though, android (at least mine) is stupid. For example, if I don't have the music app open, it will close and stop playing.
I'd like to explicitly force apps like IM apps or google voice or my music app to never close. Is there a way to do this?
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nice question...

I don't mean to spam, but I will bump this until someone answers, 'cuz I've got the same question.

Well you have to increase the priority of the apps you don't want to close. An easy way to that is by using the "Auto Memory Manager" application.

I've used EX launcher once and it has that feature of locking the apps you want in memory and the task manager will not be able to close them most of the time.

renice pidof $process_name

try using the auto memory manager app in the market

quite important question indeed.
i managed to get lower OOM associated to particular applications, such as GO SMS and ADW launcher, which are 2 fundamental apps for me.
fortunatelly i did not have any problems with music player and training session recording apps. using Laszlos' ROM, ADW lancher and GO SMS had a great combination of quite stable system.
so i guess you have to find the best components
to tell the thruth i do hate application handling of android

Kill apps from ram for good

I have a few apps running in the background all the time. Facebook and blood and glory mainly. Is there a way to delete them for good? On Facebook I set it that no notifications and never refresh, and its still using up 12mb. Same with blood and glory. Any way to kill them for good? Is there an app maybe? Thanks.

Well, mainly in android apps have 4 components.
Two of those are Activities and Services.
The activities have UI, you can activate and use it. The services doesn't have UI since they are hidden. You can't Activate them manually and their purpse is to open the app fast. Deleting the app is the best way you can use a task manager to close them.
Advanced Task Killer, for example, has the ability to set timer for RAM clearing, you can set it to whenever you lock your screen.
if i helped you, hit the thanks button

Another way for ram.
I think of the amount of memory (ram) have effected to play game or run any application smoothly.
So If you use kernel Semaphore 2.7.4(GB) or 1.2.0 (ICS) there are choices for big memory to run application smoothly.

I want to kill an app like Facebook, and then I don't want it to run in the background after I close the app. When I kill the process , after aboit 10 seconds it goes on again!

Anyone!?

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use advanced task manager.or delete the facebook app and install fbm.it does not run in the background

I've found an useful article about Task killer apps:
Being a new member, I cannot post outside link.
Search for: Task killer apps What they do, and why you shouldn't use them ->

Autostarts
There is an app on android market called Autostarts, it's an amazing app i've used it for over a year now and never had any problems. what it does it stops apps like facebook from starting up automaticly and keeps the app fully closed until you choose to launch it. Same goes for any other app which you choose to disable from auto-starting by itself. This is why Autostarts is so much better than say a normal task killer because apps closed by task killers restart themselves a few minutes later so your just running round in circles trying to keep the app closed probably eating up more battery trying to close it every 5 minutes than if you just left the app alone, where as with autostarts you dissable the app once then thats it it wont start until you tell it to, perfect!

Autostart sounds quite good
I'd also recommend using titanium backup to freeze the app, unfreeze when you want it and then freeze when you dont.
Autostart probably sounds like the easier option, no need to keep freezing and unfreezing, but knowing about titanium backup and freezing apps doesn't hurt

Background Apps closing when navigating away

Is there a way to stop background apps from closing when navigating away from them?
If flicking between a few apps they are going back to the starting screen so are being closed when navigating away. I have searched Google and it looks like a bug Nokia are aware of but is there a workaround to stop this behaviour?
I tried switching on Background activity cleaner and setting just one app to be blacklisted as per a thread I found but this does not work and still all background apps are being closed
With 6GB of RAM you would have thought there could be plenty of apps left to run in the background without too much performance issues