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Louder Volume Hack v1.0 by Meltus in the market now!!!

yup, it's finally in the market!
if you want to elliminate the tedious adb/terminal commands, then this is the app for you!!
updates coming soon, along with an EQ app!!
cheers for everyone who helped me with this!
everyone who did help messege me!!

cool!
Quick?, safe to use with the dudes 1.3rc2?

Yeah sorry about the force closes, I'm gonna try fixing it tonight.
Spent ages trying getting rid of the force closes, thought id sorted it but evidently not ><
Its odd because it works fine for me off the market.
I should have it sorted by tonight
Sorry again guys

Will you include V5 mod?

Yeah, will be updating it a fair bit soon, just need to get the 'basics' working first

Just read the comments in the market and this made me chuckle a bit
"How does an app that does nothing but force close get a 3 star average?"

DOHCtor said:
Just read the comments in the market and this made me chuckle a bit
"How does an app that does nothing but force close get a 3 star average?"
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A famous quote... "The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."

i've had a few people e-mail me saying that this is 'bull*hit' and 'this will never work' and someone calling me a 'scammer, trying to steal peoples money' (seriously, how could i steal people's money when there's a refund policy lol ><)
gotta love the market.
also, just bought a new sd card (because mine conveniently corrupted itself out of spite) so i'm gonna do some serious testing now.

keep up the good fight!
Looking forward to trying it out once you get it updated.

Hey dan, it force closes for me too. Try looking at the code again and see if you have any invalid pointers(?) or what not.... i dont mean pointers, but you know what I mean. Let me know when you update it again so I can run it and debug it through DDMS and so I can also run a trace on it.

Im super excited about this one! There are 2 things that bother me about my g1. Volume and Battery life. I cannot wait to try this out tonight when you get it fixed!
Whats up with the comment from the user that says you have to have Lucid's Mod? Where did he read that at?
Anyhow, Thanks Meltus! Looking forward to it.

Love the idea for the audio mod app, I've used the terminal commands in the past to get it to work (since it no longer seems to work in TheDude's releases anymore). I'd imagine it still runs through the Terminal shell?

will the eq be included in this app or in a seperate app? I will buy both when they are working for sure- i like to support developers.... eg. bought rockon etc...

People see a lot of junk out in the market, so sometimes even good devs get hit with accusations- especially if accusers do not review XDA to know what is real.
How are you getting past the SDK limits in regards to raw audio? It seems that an EQ would beat the CPU to death trying to work correctly unless more resources were made available in the recent OS update.
This is one of several big reasons Coreplayer team hit a wall with Android. Not to mention video codecs would also kill the CPU and still be a battery hoggin' stuttery mess.

the EQ is not an actual program that modifies the sound, it's a set of files that alter the 'built-in' EQ that HTC never bothered to enable.
i'm just going to make an app that can change it on-the-fly.
but atm i'm stuck at trying to push files from the app to the phone. it seems quite simple but i've been trying for about 6 hours now and got fkin nowhere
any ideas anyone?

Is it something to do with the files you are trying to access the built in EQ? The CPU on the G1 does have the function, but I would have thought a driver would be needed from Qualcomm?

i havn't even started on the EQ app yet, this is just for my audiohack app.
The 'EQ', if you can call it that, is a just file with hex values which control the various different gain settings for the different frequencies.
check my signiture for more info and a how-to.
also, my Volume Hack is now fully working, but, only if you've used my files in the past. which is quite bizzarre. it just refuses to do it with the stock files from any build, but if i replace the stock files with EXACTLY the same files but through adb, it then works fine.
i have no idea whats going on. my app sets the system in r/w mode fine so that can't be it.
i hate java

Meltus said:
i havn't even started on the EQ app yet, this is just for my audiohack app.
The 'EQ', if you can call it that, is a just file with hex values which control the various different gain settings for the different frequencies.
check my signiture for more info and a how-to.
also, my Volume Hack is now fully working, but, only if you've used my files in the past. which is quite bizzarre. it just refuses to do it with the stock files from any build, but if i replace the stock files with EXACTLY the same files but through adb, it then works fine.
i have no idea whats going on. my app sets the system in r/w mode fine so that can't be it.
i hate java
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Just keep plugging away at it. Surely, someone around here wil be able to help you over this speed bump.

Meltus, what it sounds like is just the need for the files to be accessed in the first place. I haven't tried the app yet, but I wonder if it would work since I only used terminal for your audio mods in the past? In which case, you could probably use the same terminal code if that's possible.

I did the mod through the terminal already but I couldn't find it in the market earlier. I figure you pulled it for now due to the problems people are running into but what would I search when it is there. I want to support the community if I can, be it just a simple review.

[Q] Fix_Permissions - needed?

I am on CM 4.0.2. All my apps seem to work fine, but there seems to be some slight hesitation when lifting the app drawer - just slightly choppy. I saw a lot about the fix_permissions in console, does this address that? Or is that solely for apps that are not working? I am under the impression it does NOT help this.... but wanted to be certain. Does this mean I perhaps need to adjust my SD partitions?
Should one run that code even if all of the apps appear to be working correctly?
I did not see steps for running the script in all of the posts I saw... any help on this?

This will not help. You fix permissions to possibly help with FC.
Choppiness comes from not enough memory. Check what's running in the background and adjust accordingly. Check your comcache settings, adjust. Check your swap settings, adjust. Be advised though... there's only so much you can do, we are working with very limited hardware here.
FYI... I would really look into what's running in the background first. I run cm 4.02 with default comcache, no swapper. I have 7 widgets and it only stutters occasionaly, I barely notice. I would REALLY look into your backgrouds. Also, don't forget about GPS/Wireless location issue, that may be causing it too.
Good luck

Interesting... i use advanced task killer prior to rooting and when apps were killed i was around 55MB. Now, after root i can only get around 41MB. I never understood what made this lower... i assumed it was stuff cyan added to make his rom open. I do not use many widgets (3 maybe) and generally leave wifi and gps off.
Thoughts?

Interesting Android App

An interesting (and incredibly useful) idea would be a simple app to toggle screen resolutions and lcd densities. This would alow you to run 90% of your stuff at the Kaiser native 240 x 320 lcd density 120 and toggle to something better to run apps or games that require the andoird native resolution to show the whole screen. Not sure if this would be a simple app to write or if it would be very difficult to do...I'm not a programer...just an observer, but this sort of app would be useful across ALL builds of android.

I'm pretty sure this isn't possible. Someone else could confirm that.

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An interesting (and incredibly useful) idea would be a simple app to toggle screen resolutions and lcd densities. This would alow you to run 90% of your stuff at the Kaiser native 240 x 320 lcd density 120 and toggle to something better to run apps or games that require the andoird native resolution to show the whole screen. Not sure if this would be a simple app to write or if it would be very difficult to do...I'm not a programer...just an observer, but this sort of app would be useful across ALL builds of android.
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I have two HaRET-startupfiles, one with QVGA and one with the resolution from the G1. But switching needs a restart.
Does anyone know how to change resolution in Android manually? Maybe we could make a simple shell script.

Well, if you're using a Kaiser, the fact that it's determined by your default.txt/startup.txt is exactly why you need to reboot - because they're already determined before booting up (that is, each time you boot Android, it looks at what resolution to use). Because it's being determined there, you can't change it while it's booted up. I don't know if it would be possible to have the resolution be determined somewhere else, but that's the way it is at least for now.

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RENAMED: Is it possible to change app drawer icons!

I haven't seen any threads after reading through hundreds of threads about icon packs bettercut virtual desktop you name it still no flashable zips for icons??? Is this even possible I don't understand why it's so hard, themes have icons that work for the app drawer...The only way to change the icon is to decompile it and reinstall it without the right digital signature??? Is there a thread about this? I understand that adw has themes you can make which will switch your app drawer icons but thats not what I'm talking about...

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I haven't seen any threads after reading through hundreds of threads about icon packs bettercut virtual desktop you name it still no flashable zips for icons??? Is this even possible I don't understand why it's so hard, themes have icons that work for the app drawer...The only way to change the icon is to decompile it and reinstall it without the right digital signature??? Is there a thread about this? I understand that adw has themes you can make which will switch your app drawer icons but thats not what I'm talking about...
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This is what you're asking, right?
- Is it possible to create a flashable .zip (flashed from Recovery) that deletes icon.png from all installed applications, switching them out with alternatives provided in the flashable .zip?
It's possible, I guess. It could be done with the general applications that come with most ROMs. Keeping in mind that this is for one specific device, i.e the HTC Desire. But beyond that it'd be pretty hard to create a .zip that does the job. Again: Possible but, hard. I think we'll see other ways of switching out icons rather than a flashable .zip. I'm thinking an application of some sort.

Well I've looked into that to only thing i've been able to come up with is adwex... Now how do they do it? Is it b/c your using that launcher so it can basically display whatever app drawer icon it wants? with the theme...How do themes for roms do it?

Pneuma1985 said:
Well I've looked into that to only thing i've been able to come up with is adwex... Now how do they do it? Is it b/c your using that launcher so it can basically display whatever app drawer icon it wants? with the theme...How do themes for roms do it?
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I have no idea how to theme ADW. Never used it.
ROMs come with standard applications. When people create themes for those ROMs they tend to theme the applications that come with it.

So complicated thought androids were made to be hacked whats goin on here...Guess its a lost cause!

Well, like you said, it's waiting to be done, these devices seem made for tweaking and hacking, so if you you really want it, try to figure it out!
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

Oh I desperately want it I just dont have the coding capabilities to do it lol otherwise believe me I would!

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So complicated thought androids were made to be hacked whats goin on here...Guess its a lost cause!
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You want to make a script that:
- Deletes icon.png from an .apk
- Removes and re-signs the .apk
That's a big goddamn pile of code right there!
This is not iPhone and if you're that fond of changing the app drawer icons you can do it manually, with each application, which is a *****. This seems very important to you so I urge you to actually do some reading and start this process yourself. We're a big community and we all contribute to make Android awesome. Just because there's no easy solution to mass changing icons doesn't mean it's a low-end operating system that can't be hacked. We've done more with Android than you could ever do with any other OS!
Icon-Pack-Changers came to Windows 7 just a brief time ago. That OS has been out for ages now. Have patience enough and wait for someone to make a breakthrough or do something about it yourself. Thinking it's a lost cause helps nothing.

Ok icon pack changer did not recently come to windows 7 they have been out since win7beta. Windows in itself is a completely different file system how it works is completely different and how to exploit its files is completely different. And lots of people love to hack windows because for the most part its a complete piece of garbage and its really easy to hack. I personally found a way to change system icons when I was still on beta and doing a pack change was as simple as hooking the code! You being a deviantart member you should know that icon packs for windows and the software to change them has been out forever on deviantart over a year now at least.
Ok back to the original post...
yes my basic point in posting this was... is anyone currently trying to solve this icon problem that anyone knows about? I understand that getting around this seems to be mind boggling. I was thinking about in a different way is there any way we could possibly do a digital injection of the icon file???? Sort of like how you can do digital injections of files in windows changing the code by injecting the file???Not sure if this would work but I guess the only way to test it is try it!

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Ok icon pack changer did not recently come to windows 7 they have been out since win7beta. Windows in itself is a completely different file system how it works is completely different and how to exploit its files is completely different. And lots of people love to hack windows because for the most part its a complete piece of garbage and its really easy to hack. I personally found a way to change system icons when I was still on beta and doing a pack change was as simple as hooking the code! You being a deviantart member you should know that icon packs for windows and the software to change them has been out forever on deviantart over a year now at least.
Ok back to the original post...
yes my basic point in posting this was... is anyone currently trying to solve this icon problem that anyone knows about? I understand that getting around this seems to be mind boggling. I was thinking about in a different way is there any way we could possibly do a digital injection of the icon file???? Sort of like how you can do digital injections of files in windows changing the code by injecting the file???Not sure if this would work but I guess the only way to test it is try it!
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You actually used more space to tell that the bet... The point is that icon pack changers wasn't even shed light on until some while ago. If you disagree then you're a Windows 7 God and all hail thy great knowledge of teh operating systemzzzzz.
No. All installed applications are signed digtially. If you break/remove the signature you're gonna have to re-sign it. There exists an application for this or you could base your script on APKManager. You cannot simply do a digital injection of an icon file unless you're running some sort of home replacement that caches the icons or something similar.
If you would have focused on the Android part of my comment and not the Windows 7 part you might have got that already.

Well seeing as I was looking at it from a windows user standpoint and not and android coders standpoint and seeing as I'm not an android coder and I just know a little bit about the android file system and a lot about the windows os. an injection doesnt break the digital signature at all ive already tested this on an apk file it's how winrar works when you open an apk replace a file and it still works the reason it works is b/c the file is still signed and your injecting a file into the apk! If that works why wouldnt an injection tool work.

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Well seeing as I was looking at it from a windows user standpoint and not and android coders standpoint and seeing as I'm not an android coder and I just know a little bit about the android file system and a lot about the windows os. an injection doesnt break the digital signature at all ive already tested this on an apk file it's how winrar works when you open an apk replace a file and it still works the reason it works is b/c the file is still signed and your injecting a file into the apk! If that works why wouldnt an injection tool work.
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If it works; Awesome. Share the wealth.

There have been other threads about winrar and its abilities to mod files in an apk thats nothing new ive seen several threads about it and your totally getting off topic man taking it away from the initial point of my post which was to see if anyone knew about a current project to mod app drawer icons. I never said I've been successful at changing an icon for the most part b/c there usually indexed files thus when you go to change them and open the file it changes to much from gimp to photoshop. My question has anyone else actually been able to change them on any level? I've seen others mod apk files with a number of different tools. Not necessarily image files b/c you break the signature on that end thats why i brought up injection and its possibilities... If I had been successful you think I'd be posting this NO ID BE POSTING HEY I FIGURED IT ALL OUT!!!!!!!Got you nay saying me
Injection tools do work I have injected files into digitally signed game files on an xbox and not changed the digital signature so saying that injection doesnt work is a load of crap! I was trying to think about it outside the box thats all and you really wouldnt know unless you tested it in the same environment! And seeing as I don't know how apk signatures work thats why I brought it up.

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There have been other threads about winrar and its abilities to mod files in an apk thats nothing new ive seen several threads about it and your totally getting off topic man taking it away from the initial point of my post which was to see if anyone knew about a current project to mod app drawer icons. I never said I've been successful at changing an icon for the most part b/c there usually indexed files thus when you go to change them and open the file it changes to much from gimp to photoshop. My question has anyone else actually been able to change them on any level? I've seen others mod apk files with a number of different tools. Not necessarily image files b/c you break the signature on that end thats why i brought up injection and its possibilities... If I had been successful you think I'd be posting this NO ID BE POSTING HEY I FIGURED IT ALL OUT!!!!!!!Got you nay saying me
Injection tools do work I have injected files into digitally signed game files on an xbox and not changed the digital signature so saying that injection doesnt work is a load of crap! I was trying to think about it outside the box thats all and you really wouldnt know unless you tested it in the same environment! And seeing as I don't know how apk signatures work thats why I brought it up.
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If you change anything in an .apk the signature is removed.
When the signature is removed the mod becomes temporary
The next time you reboot or anything like that the .apk will be "corrupt" or unusable.
If you modify an .apk with WinRaR you still remove the signature.
EDIT: Unless the .apks are all installed to /system.
But if they're installed to /data they'll be corrupt.
- Mod app drawer icons? .. That's not what I got from the OP and I even asked you what you meant and you nodded saying what I understood from your post was right .. Gah ..

Yeah I want to be able to mod app drawer icons lol thats what I was talking about Now I know that adw has themes but most of them look pretty crappy and rom themes do change them and there is the apk tool posted on xda main page that resigns files without the same signature. What about a work around to take the signature out of the file and reapplying it how big is the encryption on the signature?
Oh and another question are the adw themes just an overlay of the file how does that work?
I may just try to edit a adw theme if I can get a good template using apktool just resign it without the same signature adding my own icons in would that work?

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Yeah I want to be able to mod app drawer icons lol thats what I was talking about Now I know that adw has themes but most of them look pretty crappy and rom themes do change them and there is the apk tool posted on xda main page that resigns files without the same signature. What about a work around to take the signature out of the file and reapplying it how big is the encryption on the signature?
Oh and another question are the adw themes just an overlay of the file how does that work?
I may just try to edit a adw theme if I can get a good template using apktool just resign it without the same signature adding my own icons in would that work?
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Sure. I just don't know of any tool that can modify an .apk without removing and re-signing it.
Haven't checked out anything regarding ADW, so I can't be much help. But dissecting a theme might be a good idea.

Yeah I tried that I resigned the file right and installed the apk now the apk works just fine after multiple reboots it's just it didnt change the file lol.. Even when i go back in and open the apk the file is changed just doesnt appear on my screen to be changed even after removing the data of the theme??? Cant understand it really. I know the file doesnt have the same signature I checked it.
here is the thread about apk tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=640592

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Yeah I tried that I resigned the file right and installed the apk now the apk works just fine after multiple reboots it's just it didnt change the file lol.. Even when i go back in and open the apk the file is changed just doesnt appear on my screen to be changed even after removing the data of the theme??? Cant understand it really. I know the file doesnt have the same signature I checked it.
here is the thread about apk tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=640592
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Your icon.png didn't change? Are you sure you changed the correct one?
- Double check in /data that you don't have multiple .apks (Might be one of them is name apkname-1.apk).

No i just checked it and I'm positive it's the same file theres only so many pngs that are hdpi so it's basically like just look and find it in the res file no other similar images...And I even went to the extend of naming the apk something different so I would know it's installing the proper apk and still nothing on the image end has changed? And its basically pretty simple I'm trying to change the phone apk icon in the theme just as a tester hasnt worked thus far? phone apk still works even after resign but again nothing has changed. An after thought but another thing that would be cool is being able to edit .9 images without going to the ends of the earth or so it seems lol. And I notice people metamorphing which also seems to solve the problem of signed files? Just need more metamorphs

I have to admit that I've been playing around with this idea as well. I don't have any serious coding experience so I've been taking apart adw themes and theme engine themes for CM7. They manage to change app drawer icons without taking apart the apk and resigning.
It's possible to take a theme engine theme and just replace the icons you want (keeping the correct file name of course) before resigning but from what I've seen it will only make a difference to the icons included in the theme which are usually just gapps etc.
Only low tech workaround I can think of is modifying a theme that changes a lot of icons or editing one of the xml files so that you can add your own icons to the package. I'm not sure which file in an apk does this and I know very little about editing them in general so I gave up there. But from seeing iPhone themes it is a bit disappointing that for such a locked down system it's really easy to theme their icons. My rage about it keeps me up at night.
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[Q] No "Black X" Buttons to Turn off background tasks

Brand new Lumia 925 and when I use the back button, I see no black X buttons to turn off background tasks. Did this option change? I got the Nokia Black update. This is my fourth windows phone.
where's the black X?

ugh, I'm old
mrdh said:
Brand new Lumia 925 and when I use the back button, I see no black X buttons to turn off background tasks. Did this option change? I got the Nokia Black update. This is my fourth windows phone.
where's the black X?
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they changed this, didn't they. double tap the back arrow.

Eh? It's press-and-hold Back on my phone. Requires GDR3, which you can get direct from Microsoft even if the OEM firmware isn't available yet. Did Nokia do something weird with the task switcher?

Not that I know of, I have gdr3 and black and have the black x buttons

GoodDayToDie said:
Eh? It's press-and-hold Back on my phone. Requires GDR3, which you can get direct from Microsoft even if the OEM firmware isn't available yet. Did Nokia do something weird with the task switcher?
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Probably. Nokia is really starting to piss me off the way they're breaking standard functionality of windows phones.

jordanmills said:
Probably. Nokia is really starting to piss me off the way they're breaking standard functionality of windows phones.
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it wasnt done intentionally. its intact practically anywhere else. (e.g. my 920 with U3/Black) (they're only added)
Also worth noting it never was necessary, it was just a gesture to appease the masses used to closing every single app after every single use on Android and to a lesser extent iOS. I'll admit the extra control was nice though.
but it is strange how the (X) is missing, have you tried a hard reset? confirmed it is indeed Black onboard?
have you tried tapping where the (X) should've showed up?

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it wasnt done intentionally. its intact practically anywhere else. (e.g. my 920 with U3/Black) (they're only added)
Also worth noting it never was necessary, it was just a gesture to appease the masses used to closing every single app after every single use on Android and to a lesser extent iOS. I'll admit the extra control was nice though.
but it is strange how the (X) is missing, have you tried a hard reset? confirmed it is indeed Black onboard?
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It's kind of necessary. Sometimes you need to close a poorly designed app to make it do something. Or sometimes the app is running wild in the background and you need to make it go away.

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It's kind of necessary. Sometimes you need to close a poorly designed app to make it do something. Or sometimes the app is running wild in the background and you need to make it go away.
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I've yet to find such an app in my own experience, but then again thats just me. (but yea, spamming back was a pain when you did want to close something on a whim)
taming crazy apps in the background is done via the background tasks section under applications in Settings since multitasking is more a la iOS than Android and standard Windows.

xandros9 said:
it wasnt done intentionally. its intact practically anywhere else. (e.g. my 920 with U3/Black) (they're only added)
Also worth noting it never was necessary, it was just a gesture to appease the masses used to closing every single app after every single use on Android and to a lesser extent iOS. I'll admit the extra control was nice though.
but it is strange how the (X) is missing, have you tried a hard reset? confirmed it is indeed Black onboard?
have you tried tapping where the (X) should've showed up?
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I've yet to find such an app in my own experience, but then again thats just me. (but yea, spamming back was a pain when you did want to close something on a whim)
taming crazy apps in the background is done via the background tasks section under applications in Settings since multitasking is more a la iOS than Android and standard Windows.
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tinder unauthorized is one that immediately comes to mind. Viber, too, if you haven't fully set it up.
Not sure about that. I've had issues where I've loaded complex pages in IE, gone to start, then had it still burning the battery even though it's not in the foreground. I think I had issues with nokia maps or drive doing the same. Might have something to do with extra capabilities not available to third party devs.

Also, most apps will be forcibly closed if you re-launch them from Start. It's possible to make an app not do that (make it resume instead) but almost nobody does.