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App that kills app + it's service by pressing a button within the app

LoL, I know it sounds confusing. What I am looking for is some kind of task manager that lets me use it by pressing a hardware button (long-press prefered). Similar to CM7 (that exits the app when long pressing the back button, but it doesn't kill the process/service, only exits back to home screen). I specifically need this to terminate the browser apps as I found them to be eating a lot of RAM (stock, doplhin, opera, doesn't matter).
A similar method (by long pressing the back button) would also be prefered. Any of you know of such an app?

CyanogenMod and Zulu roms have an option to press and hold the back button to kill the app. That's probably the closest thing to what you're looking for.
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What is the disadvantage if apps eat a lot of ram? Android already can manage it automaticly. If you need ram, it kills the apps.

Yeah, but I want it to kill the right apps, the browser that is.

I know its not exactly what you're looking for, but with Miren Browser, you can exit the app through the menu

Dario777 said:
I know its not exactly what you're looking for, but with Miren Browser, you can exit the app through the menu
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Yep, doplhin has this as well. But it's not what I'm looking for.
There is something tho that just popped un in my mind, I was thinking of a some kind of task manager that would have a "shortcut" to kill apps. I could uncheck all the apps and check only the browser and some others that I'm interested in (gallery and maps also seem to be eating pretty much and I never even open the maps app). Then I could go in CM7 settings and activate that "shortcut" for one of the buttons, like long pressing the menu button for example.

Sprint 7 inch tab . Multitask?

Ok I have htc 3d and hitting home allows to see recent and switch to home. I am also new top android. When you click home nothing happens unless you are out of application.
Also oss the search button on bottom goods for anything? Out does not seem to work in. any app.
I am on the new update fun sprint.
Thanks for any help.

wow did not pay attention to new swype settings....
sprint galaxy tab 7 with 2.3.4
does it allow multitask, if so how? clicking home or holding while in other apps does nothing. i have to exit or back all the way out to get to other applications.

Gaandriod said:
wow did not pay attention to new swype settings....
sprint galaxy tab 7 with 2.3.4
does it allow multitask, if so how? clicking home or holding while in other apps does nothing. i have to exit or back all the way out to get to other applications.
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Works fine for me as it does on every other android device I have and have played with.. Hold home, the list of currently/recently running apps pops up, and also gives you the task manager button.. If that doesn't work for you on your Tab, you may have a config issue.

I gifted it out. Tried rooting phone and it messed up. reset phone and it is good. Thanks
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[Q]How does one disable "My Magazine"?

I have gone through my AT&T Note 3 thoroughly and disabled most bloat.
I am finding the "My Magazine" app quite annoying due to single clicks of home button while on home screen and accidental upward swipes.
I have yet to figure out how to uninstall or disable it yet.
Does anyone know how?
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bluetoothless said:
I have gone through my AT&T Note 3 thoroughly and disabled most bloat.
I am finding the "My Magazine" app quite annoying due to single clicks of home button while on home screen and accidental upward swipes.
I have yet to figure out how to uninstall or disable it yet.
Does anyone know how?
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I think until root is achieved if you cant disable it in app manager if you use a third party launcher it stops it from activating
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bluetoothless said:
I have gone through my AT&T Note 3 thoroughly and disabled most bloat.
I am finding the "My Magazine" app quite annoying due to single clicks of home button while on home screen and accidental upward swipes.
I have yet to figure out how to uninstall or disable it yet.
Does anyone know how?
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Open My Magazine, hit your menu key, settings, you can turn off the option to open it via the home button... Unfortunately not with swipe up though. It seems like swiping is more difficult to open it anyway so it's less annoying.

mazdamiata210 said:
Open My Magazine, hit your menu key, settings, you can turn off the option to open it via the home button... Unfortunately not with swipe up though. It seems like swiping is more difficult to open it anyway so it's less annoying.
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Thanks for the tip :good:

Teczguru said:
Thanks for the tip :good:
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is there any way to start the my magazine as an app and put on my home screen etc?
i cannot seems to find it in the app draw

I don't understand why they have this and flipboard. It is basically the same thing with a different interface and less customization.

It's annoying as hell for me because I already have flipboard as a damn widget. What's worse is you can't even put your flipboard account on there.
At&t Note III...& At&t G Pro

Semi Solution
In a search on another thread to find a solution for getting to the home screen or home page without pressing the home button, user Dankchild provided this app:
Swipe Home Button Free
It creates a small area at the bottom of the screen where you can swipe up and it will take you home (or another custom action you set). You have to swipe from a little off the bottom of the screen up, and the magazine action is still there if you start on the screen, but since installing this and getting used to swiping from the bottom starting off the screen, I haven't opened the magazine application once. Not a fix but it is working great for me and killing two birds with one stone!

I'm looking for the same thing-a way to disable the stupid My Magazine swipe-up gesture. It's half baked and useless to me. Flipboard is much better and more customizable and I hate that the gesture is there at all in the stock launcher. There has to be a way around this somehow.

I went in to My Magazine and turned off the launch when pressing home button. Then with my phone rooted I froze it with titanium backup. Now if you swipe up from the bottom you get a little popup that says "No app found" or something like that. I have not found a way to get rid of that completely, maybe with that swipe up program listed above.

I also went into My Mag and disabled the button. Switched to NOVA launcher and now it doesnt activate if you swype up from the bottom of the screen...not sure if I did anything to disable it.

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wttisme said:
If you disable the apk it messes with the stock e-mail app for some reason. I spent days trying to figure out why until someone in another thread suggested I try unfreezing it. Now I haven't had any issues for about 3 days with the e-mail app.
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Is this only with the stock e-mail (not gmail) app, or does it effect other stock apps too?

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wttisme said:
If you disable the apk it messeemails with the stock e-mail app for some reason. I spent days trying to figure out why until someone in another thread suggested I try unfreezing it. Now I haven't had any issues for about 3 days with the e-mail app.
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This happens on my VZ Note 3 as well. Don't understand what links them.

kitsinni said:
I went in to My Magazine and turned off the launch when pressing home button. Then with my phone rooted I froze it with titanium backup. Now if you swipe up from the bottom you get a little popup that says "No app found" or something like that. I have not found a way to get rid of that completely, maybe with that swipe up program listed above.
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I read that this method is doing a fc whit the email apps

I am pretty disappointed with this. I was hoping I would not have to root the device.
You MUST agree to the Terms and Conditions / Privacy Policies to be able to "disable" the home button binding. If you force stop, clear data then the binding returns.
What was Samsung thinking when they thought they should FORCE everyone to use it or SUFFER the inconvenience...

jokesonme said:
In a search on another thread to find a solution for getting to the home screen or home page without pressing the home button, user Dankchild provided this app:
Swipe Home Button Free
It creates a small area at the bottom of the screen where you can swipe up and it will take you home (or another custom action you set). You have to swipe from a little off the bottom of the screen up, and the magazine action is still there if you start on the screen, but since installing this and getting used to swiping from the bottom starting off the screen, I haven't opened the magazine application once. Not a fix but it is working great for me and killing two birds with one stone!
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RDA3440 said:
I am pretty disappointed with this. I was hoping I would not have to root the device.
You MUST agree to the Terms and Conditions / Privacy Policies to be able to "disable" the home button binding. If you force stop, clear data then the binding returns.
What was Samsung thinking when they thought they should FORCE everyone to use it or SUFFER the inconvenience...
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Jokesonme gave you the answer! With that app you don't have to root and you can have it do nothing when you swipe or switch it to a different app.
Thanks jokesonme!!

z06mike said:
Jokesonme gave you the answer! With that app you don't have to root and you can have it do nothing when you swipe or switch it to a different app.
Thanks jokesonme!!
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Did not work for me. Even with installing the app and trying different bindings, it will either FC TouchWiz or go to the app not found screen in Google Play.
Sadface. Can't wait to put on a custom ROM without all the bloat.

This is horrible every like 20 minutes I'm gettin the error. I don't wanna root I wanna stick to stock.
Any other options?

[Q] Need your help - Hardware buttons stop working

Hey, guys. I need your collective genius. I have a weird issue with my Note 3 that I can't figure out and it's driving me crazy. Basically, after a random period of time, my home button will stop working for single press (so, I can't go home). Long press still takes me to multitasking and the back and menu softkeys still work, but after the device turns off, the power button will not turn it back on. A reboot always fixes the issue, but then it crops up again later at a random time.
Relevant info:
I am rooted
I have Adaway installed and blocking ads
Running Nova Launcher with Teslaunread
Froze the Knox apps with Titanium backup, but I did not use TB to do a restore of any kind. I also have a few assorted bloatware apps frozen like Yahoo finance, but nothing critical.
I do not have a custom recovery and there are no other hacks (i.e. xposed framework, etc)
I uninstalled all non-essential apps, but there's no pattern to when it happens, so an app is unlikely to be the cause.
Basically, I'm just rooted with adblock and a few apps frozen. Nothing crazy. No custom rom or anything and I didn't mess with any system files. Does anyone have any ideas? My next step was to uninstall Nova, but I don't think that's the cause. It's maddening because it happens so randomly that there's no way to really nail down the cause and I'd really rather not do a wipe.

I dont think you have software issue I think its a faulty device. My galaxy tab 3 7.0 had the same issue where it would randomly stop working I had to trade it in

Try "swipe home button" app from Google play. Whrn you think the home button stops use that one instead and if swipe works then it might be a hardware issue if swipe doesn't work either then probably a software one and perform a hard reset. That's all I can think of now.
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slimslim said:
Try "swipe home button" app from Google play. Whrn you think the home button stops use that one instead and if swipe works then it might be a hardware issue if swipe doesn't work either then probably a software one and perform a hard reset. That's all I can think of now.
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I forgot about that app! I was looking for a way to enable on-screen soft keys. Thanks.
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So, it looks like it may have been the memory card. It was one of the SanDisk class 10s and I had had it for some time. It had around 1000 pics on it. I got a new class 10 SanDisk card, formatted it in the phone and haven't had a freeze or lock up since.
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[Q] Double-tapping home with sideloaded applications

Hello,
I am using null_18 with the stock launcher (Nova is nice and all, but stock just is smoother for the Gear, and it gives me an actual home button). Now, I noticed that the "double-tap home" setting can be changed from Gear Manager. However, it only allows for the applications which come with null (including PDANet) to be mapped to said button. The rest of my apps are completely invisible to Gear Manager, even under the "Apps" tab. Is there any way to make Gear Manager recognize these other apps?
Thanks

Yeah I think I'm just going to stick with stock right now, there's going to be more updates and its going to increase battery and capabilities of the hardware. I really don't want for Android functions from the little watch I just want to basics
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Here's your battery saving and additional features.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2602125