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[Q] Contacts doesn't close properly

I'm using the stock 2.2.1 firmware which works great apart from one bug..
When I open contacts.. it doesn't close properly and runs in the background. If I go to task manager and kill it the whole GUI restarts itself.
Also if I leave contacts open it seems to eat up memory (upto 80MB at times)
Does anyone know a way to fix this?

I like to know also....

Same thing happens on the vibrant. A fix would be really nice
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This happens if you installed the update to the samsung task manager through samsung apps. Uninstall the update to revert back to the original version and it will close the contacts app

^Thank you veryyyyyy much. This also removed lag when entering contacts for me!!! B)

How to remove system apps phone, internet etc

Hi everyone I want to remove the default phone and internet app from my phone. I know how to remove others by just deleting the apk in system/app like the gallery and FM radio, but the phone app is different you get force closes.
I'm using dialler one and opera instead but the default ones still pop up sometimes and because I've changed my dpi to 192 the phone app looks crap and annoying.
Can someone help with this please I did a search and couldn't find anything but to be honest the search in the xda app is below par.
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Hi, i use Titanium Backup for this. It can backup, freeze and uninstall any app.
First i freeze system apps i do not like, so they are still there are can not be used by user or system. If there is no side effect after using mobile and reboot i uninstall app.
Hope this helps - Cheers

You need to be rooted to remove system apps.

Yeah thanks I am rooted used titanium never even thought of trying that have done the phone app but still unsure on the android browser.
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Hi
then first freeze it with Titanium, it doesn't hurt

How do you uninstall stock applications???

Like the title says. How do you uninstall stock applications on the Thrill?? For example...I want to use GO SMS or Handcent...so I want to uninstall the stock messaging application. How would I go about doing that?

You first need to acquire root. Then you have a couple options.
I personally just remove the apps I don't want from ROM zip. I heard there is some GUI that does this for you, but its not hard to delete a couple files.. Located in /data/app or /system/app
After that, sign your zip and flash away.
Or you could download a program from the market and 'freeze' the application. It basically remove it but keeps a hard copy as a backup. I don't know the name of the app, but a simple search will tell you.

Titanium backup
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There's an app called "NoBloatFree" in the market. It requires root, and will backup anything you wish to disable/delete, just in case.

If you freeze or remove the phones native messaging app you will not receive any new text messages. I tried and that's what happened.
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Certain system apps like messaging should not be frozen or removed as they may cause unwanted consequences. There's some third party launchers (I know LauncherPro does it for sure) that will allow you to hide apps from showing up in your app drawer.

SpellronHD said:
Like the title says. How do you uninstall stock applications on the Thrill?? For example...I want to use GO SMS or Handcent...so I want to uninstall the stock messaging application. How would I go about doing that?
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Follow above methods for removing system apps. For the record you CAN remove the stock mms.apk and run gosms with no problems at all. I have deleted the stock mms.apk and use gosms and it handles sms and mms just fine. Handcent however can't handle mms without the stock messaging app but it will do sms just fine without it.
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[Question] Some games run in the background at boot? How to disable them from booting

So apps such as; MP3 Music Download, Pulse, some games etc. They always seem to pop up in my task manager, even though I don't run them. Is there any way to stop them from running in the background and ONLY run when I actually open them?
*Note, they are not widgets, and I have disabled push notifications in the app."

Use autostarts or the autorun function in Gemini app manager!(both require root)
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Can you help me, like tell me what I should tick to make it so IT doesn't auto run when I don't want it to? Such as booting, and not even opening the app.

iamjerry123 said:
Can you help me, like tell me what I should tick to make it so IT doesn't auto run when I don't want it to? Such as booting, and not even opening the app.
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Download Gemini app manager from market!open it --long press on the app--configure autorun--ensure the indicator is green in*boot completed!
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Also try to remember that just because they show up in your task manager, doesn't mean they're actively using RAM.
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HTC ONE task manager

Not sure if I am missing something but on my one s I had a task manager to see my running apps. Is there a task manager in this phone?
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double tap on Home button, there you go buddy
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I have seen that and used that but even after removing them from there they seem to be still active for example I was on XDA app and double tapped home then removed it but it was still open. Tried it with Pandora and Google play music and neither stopped playing music after being removed.
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andyt315 said:
double tap on Home button, there you go buddy
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That's not task manager dude, that's recently used apps.
You need to go into Settings -> Apps -> Running apps to see your running programs. however, it's quite generic. RomToolBox has a better task manager. I'm pretty sure any task manager is better than the stock.

Actually swiping away apps like that is a task manager of sorts. Back when Google first introduced the swipe away feature in android, they stated this action kills the apps activity but not it's service (if it has one), hence why the music app didn't stop playing music, because that's a service not an activity.