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Task Manager Finally!

In the market, and it kills apps!!!

Oh, nice. Tried it and it seems to be working perfectly on my ADP1.

Yes..seems to work...SWEET!!!

def needs refinement but so far looking good.
it needs to seperate between processes and apps.

Def nice start can't wait to see some updates on it.

oDeACoNo said:
Def nice start can't wait to see some updates on it.
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Preferably some graphical updates. It can look neater than what it does. And as stated, seperating between processes & apps would be good

Beast84 said:
Preferably some graphical updates. It can look neater than what it does. And as stated, seperating between processes & apps would be good
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AGREED!
How do you know whats what? I mean if you kill a process you could cause a reset/freeze right?

From what I have seen, it can kill the process for a particular program but it still runs in the background and will possibly crash the phone. Hasn't happened yet but might after trying more programs. The only way it might lock up the entire phone is if you close one of the "stock background processes such as android.process.* " but then again... yes we still need something to kill the entire application. It's a good bit different that WM, when you kill the process for the application, then the application closes.

Beast84 said:
Preferably some graphical updates. It can look neater than what it does. And as stated, seperating between processes & apps would be good
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i hate to correct you but the process' are the applications. you mean Services' which are not listed as of yet... i emailed arron and i have not gotten a reply about that. i told him it would be awesome to list the process' and services linked to them so we could kill it all

Looks like the application was updated and it now kills programs! Excellent application, definitely one the best around now.

Questions about TASK MANAGER?
I have it installed on my g1, obviously because I have root access. I noticed there are some apps that keep coming back seconds after I terminate them. For example Craigslist and self help. Anyone know why craigslist keeps coming back. I understand selfhelp may be a background program. Also I restarted my phone and taskmanager shows these programs are already running? Whats up with that?
The 2nd question is when I terminate some apps like powermanager for example, I can still see it running in my notifications and I know it is still running because when I plug in the g1 my power setting are applied. Because it doesn't show it in the in the taskmanager list.
Does anyone else notice this? Task manager doesnt seem to eliminate some apps from running. It makes question that it really works. Can anyone verify this?

Off topic....mmafighter
Please start reading the threads or use the search feature here.
Thank you

mmafighter077 said:
I have it installed on my g1, obviously because I have root access. I noticed there are some apps that keep coming back seconds after I terminate them. For example Craigslist and self help. Anyone know why craigslist keeps coming back. I understand selfhelp may be a background program. Also I restarted my phone and taskmanager shows these programs are already running? Whats up with that?
The 2nd question is when I terminate some apps like powermanager for example, I can still see it running in my notifications and I know it is still running because when I plug in the g1 my power setting are applied. Because it doesn't show it in the in the taskmanager list.
Does anyone else notice this? Task manager doesnt seem to eliminate some apps from running. It makes question that it really works. Can anyone verify this?
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Yea it keeps coming back because it loads a Service that isn't listed on this program that continues to run the search command. The intervals are not that frequent but it keeps it loaded.

Craigslist checks every few minutes for postings, I believe. You can track particular posts. It's annoying that you can't disable it.

Can´t find it in the market..
Can someone share the app via mail or upload somewhere, please?

brasax said:
Can´t find it in the market..
Can someone share the app via mail or upload somewhere, please?
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Just search for task manager in the market.

I did. It is not there.

brasax said:
I did. It is not there.
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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gxo1bnlsnct

Taskmanager has been removed in favor of the premium app Advanced Taskmanager. It's only $0.99 and is a lot better then the old Taskmanager.

mannyb said:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gxo1bnlsnct
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Thanks!!
(what the heck is that with message too short?!)

Black screen during call

Hi,
I'm wondering to know if you know application to avoid black screen during calls for the HTC Hero.
RucaNebas

Yes. On the app store there is a free app called Shake Awake. It detects the movement of pulling the phone away from your ear and activates the screen. The sensitivy can be adjusted.

Thank you very much for your quick replay Paul.
I installed and it seems to work.
Thank you again.
Do you know where I can find cool applications for our Hero?
RucaNebas

Wow, this works very nice.
Thank you

RucaNebas said:
Thank you very much for your quick replay Paul.
I installed and it seems to work.
Thank you again.
Do you know where I can find cool applications for our Hero?
RucaNebas
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You're very welcome.
I have so far only installed apps from the Android Market.

Excellent find.

Not working on HTC Hero :-((
Do you know why?

Yeah, didn't work on the Hero. I hope they fix that with the update and also that annoying vibrate when the phone connects. While interesting concept it is really not needed. I figure I know when it connects when the other person says hello.

You can use Keepscreen, there is a lite version ;-)

Hi,
you may use the free app calle KeepScreen Lite, too.
This app lets you choose for which apps you want the screen always stay on.
The Hero uses a specific phone app, whose name is different from google standard phone app ... But KeepScreen lets you manually choose the apps you want.
There are two versions of keepscreen : the free one (called lite), which is 'limited' to standard google apps, and two of user's chose. The pay version is unlimited.
edit : bricabrac : you won this one

Thank you guys.
I'm sorry to back again, but I need to understand your explanations.
Do you mean that the KeepScreen Lite application could be installed on the Hero and activates the screen during calls?
Which is the Hero app name that keeps the screen always stay on during calls?

I had already created a thread with regard to the screen switching off during a call here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547736
Shakeawake doesn't seem to work for all and for those it does it can be unreliable.
PowerManager can be set (in a profile) to keep the screen alive when making a call for up to a minute (specify by number of secs... I think) which gives you plenty of time to get past those 'pick 1 to do ... pick 2.... etc' type calls.
Hope this helps

how do i install this " shake awake" program on my foon! new 2 andriod

usoska said:
Hi,
you may use the free app calle KeepScreen Lite, too.
This app lets you choose for which apps you want the screen always stay on.
The Hero uses a specific phone app, whose name is different from google standard phone app ... But KeepScreen lets you manually choose the apps you want.
There are two versions of keepscreen : the free one (called lite), which is 'limited' to standard google apps, and two of user's chose. The pay version is unlimited.
edit : bricabrac : you won this one
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Can anyone tell me what the phone app is called? Thanks.

richds said:
Can anyone tell me what the phone app is called? Thanks.
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KeepScreen

if i'm not mistaken the actual phone app should be named "Dialer"

KeepScreen is now completely free, and has in the free version all functionality

ahm, can anyone tell me how do i turn the screen off again after i awoke it? my ear keeps checking notifications :/

fyi...on my hacked sapphire, keepscreen was a little buggy. it would sometimes still allow dialer app to go dark while on call even with the keepscreen app running as confirmed in both notification bar and running apps. also, when rebooting phone, keepscreen requires restart but that is probably normal. for me, i decided i rather not deal with the problem of occasional face/key-press on long calls and just let the device go dark. i've become familiar with the quick-key presses to handle call-swap, speaker-on, and such...

I have shake awake since a while and it works fine.
Keepscreen is nice to keep applications "awake"

Can't kill apps?? Then kill their receivers

Every Android user is obsessed with battery. Now battery consumption depends on two things
1)How u use the phone/tablet(Obviously)
2)The apps you use(also obviously)
U can get the maximum battery if the apps closed after their use was over or if the apps didn't open when we didn't want them. But fortunately/unfortunately this doesn't happen in android. Instead apps may start on their own using something people call 'Receivers' and keep wakelocks which consumes battery. This maybe good as some apps need to sync. But maybe sometimes there is no need for that.So if we can kill these receivers then we can save huge amounts of battery.
You are going to require ROOT for this method to work. There are many apps which let you kill receivers but most of them kill specific ones. I use Autorun manager which lists all of them. But its not free. So get the full version
1)open the app and go for advanced
2)It will list all the apps with receivers
3)search for the apps which have a receiver for CONNECTIVITY CHANGE and BOOT. U will have to search manually. Click on an app, then click at it receivers to see if they start for connectivity change.
4) now disable only those receivers whose apps don't need to start automatically
5)continue like that. U can also close receivers for package(apk) modification
6) you can close receivers for system apps by enabling in settings but that's risky and don't touch any app unless u r sure that its safe to close its receiver
There are apps (lidroid toolbox and rom toolbox) which will allow you to directly kill receivers for boot and connectivity change but they won't list all receivers. Additionally u can kill other receivers by using own intelligence.
Remember every action has a reaction.

Will this work for my phone galaxy exhibit 4g an can u make a safe list
sent frm budget phone runnin cm9 gon hate lol

Would using a start up manger do the same thing , something like this or this ?
Thanks for the original tip , will be sure to try that one out.

hatememarkz said:
Will this work for my phone galaxy exhibit 4g an can u make a safe list
sent frm budget phone runnin cm9 gon hate lol
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works on every rooted phone and tablet. will soon provide a safe list cheers

Sean_Seany said:
Would using a start up manger do the same thing , something like this or this ?
Thanks for the original tip , will be sure to try that one out.
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Startup manager just disables boot receivers. Rom toolbox is better and easier. But not efficient. it itself has receivers which sucks battery but doesn't allow to disable them

hatememarkz said:
can u make a safe list
sent frm budget phone runnin cm9 gon hate lol
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If You r new to this thing then don't go to system apps modification. limit urself to downloaded apps. This method disables receivers meaning they won't start automatically but u can start them wen u need(that's great)
1)If u use Facebook or friendcaster then disable boot and network change and connectivity change and any other except the C2dm receivers.
2)Some backup managers and file managers have package modification receiver. close that. but don't close schedule receivers
its just using common sense. Don't touch anything which looks important. Like sms receiver for sms apps. If u disable them then u won't get notifications

Dialer on unlock

It seems to me that as smartphones are mostly phones, and after that everything else. so i was wondering if there is a mod, app or somesuch that opens my dialer as soon as i unlock my screen, so when i open my phone it automatically opens the dialer. if anyone can recommend some thing like this, it'd be greatly appreciated .

You should take a look at Tasker (look it up on the forums). You can normally create a profile which opens the dialer once the screen turns on.

GXGOW said:
You should take a look at Tasker (look it up on the forums). You can normally create a profile which opens the dialer once the screen turns on.
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any free alternatives?

Kobro said:
any free alternatives?
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The best alternative is probably Llama (available on Google Play).

Yes!! Try Llama!!

can someone please post the apk for llama?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llama

Split Screen

How can you split screen any app? I love the feature that is included but it's limited so I want it to allow all apps to go split screen or pop-up view.

Nvm! Got it if anyone needs help just message on here and I'll let you know

Mikeali_786 said:
Nvm! Got it if anyone needs help just message on here and I'll let you know
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Hi , I was interested in this as well. How did you get it to work ?

dyson1a said:
Hi , I was interested in this as well. How did you get it to work ?
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For it to work you need xposed. If you already have xposed then download a module called "Wanam Exposed." After your phone reboots open the app and go to system then scroll down until you find "Select Multiwindow Apps."

I would also like to know. Thanks, got it