Questions tagged [task-management]
How to manage running tasks and processes on your device. This is not about "todo list" kind of tasks.
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Touchscreen inputs without user interaction?
Consider the following system:
Stock Android 9, unrooted
USB and wireless debugging unavailable
screen permanently turned off
So basically a headless Android device.
Question: Is it possible to ...
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How to (brute-)force-kill selected background apps?
I need an automatic brute-force method for unrooted Android devices to kill selected apps that keep restarting in the background, i.e. an appropriate "automatic task killer". Ideally, such ...
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Does "app lock" on the recents list keep an app alive?
I can't find a clear answer as to what "Lock app" on the recent apps list actually does, other than prevent apps from being killed or swiped away from the recent apps list.
Does it also ...
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How can the power saving feature on Android phones be set not to kill tracking apps?
Those who choose a simpler cyclometer consisting of only a speedometer and distance display, but that does not include a GPS tracker can use their Android smartphone quite nicely with one of many ...
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How can I increase the maximum number of background apps on Android 10+?
The way Android works, there are two cases in which an app is killed.
The device is low on RAM. This is kind of self-explanatory, there is generally no page file on Android, and RAM is finite.
The ...
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How to monitor log app wise usage report RAM CPU Battery and stop RAM resident apps from starting at boot
How to monitor log app wise usage report RAM CPU Battery and stop RAM resident apps from starting at boot
Many time my Android 5.0 & 6.0 mobile become slow while working i checked it In process ...
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How to kill an app in LineageOS 18 (Android 11) by holding the back button
How can I kill an app by holding the back button in Lineage OS 18?
One of the first things I've always done when installing a new Android was to enable developer options, then scroll down to the very ...
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Is it possible to fully restrict/disable apps when they are closed?
I would love to have more control over when apps can run on my Android: I wish that apps can't run in background, unless I whitelist them, or unless I am using them.
"Background Restriction" ...
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Can I kill wifi on my Android, similar to how kill -9 would work on a desktop, to force restart it?
Since I upgraded to Android 10, wifi on my phone frequently "dies" and forces me to restart the phone. Is there a way to achieve something similar to what kill -9 does on a desktop system on ...
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How shall I prevent an app from being killed without using third party tools?
Contrary to the traditional computing world, where programs won't quit without the user asking for it, in the mobile world (and Android in particular), it's generally considered up to the system to ...
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How to log/record system events or phone vibrations - Problem with Huawei Mate 20 Pro
I have a Huawei Mate 20 Pro. Awesome phone, I love it.
I live in Canada, and have the model LYA-L0C.
My phone is set to vibrate, so anytime I get a text or a FB message or messages from other apps ...
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App killed from task manager is called foreground state or background state
If I close app from task manager by doing-- Press home-button for a long time -> see all running apps -> swipe my app aside -> All app killed.
Now those apps I have removed from task manager is in ...
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Android CPU usage: What do the red, green and purple bars and the numbers mean?
The Internet as a truckload of myths about this. Today, it is time to bust the myths.
When the CPU usage bars that can be enabled in the developer options are being displayed, there is a list of ...
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Stop Android from killing Runtastic
Runtastic is an app for tracking the paths you ran, how fast you were, etc. It worked great for me for many years but almost 2 years ago started crashing on virtually any run.
A few months ago, I ...
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Strange issue after restart of one plus two
I have a One Plus 2. After restarting my phone the following symptoms have occurred:
No alerts/notification pop up on the screen for emails or anything
I can no longer switch between apps using the ...
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How to make phone use all available ram
I have an Android phone that has 3gb of RAM available it uses nearly 1.4gb at boot up and max of 2gb on using chrome ,WhatsApp and Samsung Internet and when I switch to recent apps they restart and ...
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How can I keep my clock widget work in background?
I use clock widgets. The problem is that when I lock the phone, all applications are killed (except some system applications) including clock widgets. When I unlock my phone then I see that clock ...
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preventing current app from being killed while screen is off and running off AC power
Is it too much to ask to be able to start an app before I go to bed at night, turn off the screen, and then turn the screen back on in the middle of the night and have it still there, undisturbed? ...
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How to avoid too much running apps?
Meanwhile I have many running apps in my phone and I found that a lot of apps keep running because they "trick". They register as a boot receiver so they start with the phone, then register as a "new ...
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Can multiple androids be paired to work on the same task?
PlayStation 3 consoles were combined to make a super computer. Can the Android phones be modified in the same way? Could I use the processing power of 2 phones to play a movie that 1 would not.
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Where do I find ALL the running processes (apps, background, etc)?
My phone gets pretty slow as I install new apps and when I try to see what is running in order to kill those processes, I kill everything anoying but the phone keeps slow.
Is there an app or screen ...
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What determines how long the task switcher stays up?
Samsung Note II running OctOS M, but I have seen this phenomenon with multiple phones and versions of Android going back to 2.x
When you bring up the task switcher in Android, sometimes it stays up ...
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Disable all blackground apps when using some apps (possibly with Tasker)
Is there a way to disable all background apps (gmail, google notifications, messaging apps, etc...) when a certain/any app is running? I would like to do this because I play a certain game (Sine Line) ...
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WhatsApp MessageService is always killed shortly after exiting the app
A couple of days ago I noticed that I no longer receive WhatsApp messages until I manually start the app, which is when the pending messages get delivered all at once.
I started my investigation by ...
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Phone is killing important background/sync processes (Wiko Lenny 3) – what to do?
My friend recently bought a Wiko “Lenny 3”, which runs Android 6.0.1
After a short while of using it, it seems that this phone is configured by the manufacturer to very aggressively kill background ...
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Shortcut to quickly kill an app
I have Android 4.4.2, it's rooted.
There are some apps that I execute and don't shutdown and I have to kill them. I use GO TaskManager EX widget to get rid of them, but that requires me open its ...
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Keep Hangouts from opening links inside the same task?
I just opened a link to a friend's Medium post inside Hangouts, and when I view all running apps (the recent-tasks list), the task with the Medium post in it is my Hangouts rather than a separate ...
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Show all running services on Samsung Galaxy S3
How can one show all running services on Samsung Galaxy S3?
In system-menu Tinder service for example wasn't shown.
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In what ways is Greenify different from regular task killers?
When I say "regular" task killers I mean the ones that don't use root privileges or Xposed Framework and are often quite simple.
At first I thought that one difference between Greenify and regular ...
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Difference between killing an app by clearing it from Recent Apps menu and “Force Stop”
What is the difference between these two methods when killing apps in Android?
Clearing an app from the Recent Apps menu by swiping it to the right or left.
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Force Skype and Hangouts to keep running
Skype and Hangouts automatically kill themselves after a period of inactivity if it's not in the foreground. As I want to appear online and receive IMs/calls, this is an incredible inconvenience.
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Why are disabled apps still running?
I've noticed that apps (such as Google Contacts Sync) that have been disabled using the stock Android (KitKat) app manager still show up as running when using process observer tools. This is true ...
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Phone's battery is draining unusually fast even when not in use
The hardware I'm using:
OnePlus One, bought late december 2014
Stock Cyanogenmod, version 12.1 - YOG4PAS1N0 (= Android 5.1.1)
no apps to improve battery life in any way
Basically, the battery is ...
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So, what type of process is Android Keyboard?
I've recently installed CyanogenMod 11 on my (now very old) LG Optimus 2X. After some tweaking, I managed to make it work much snappier than the original ROM, one of the main things being setting the ...
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Multiple running application instances
I'm an owner of Android 4.2.2 device.
For a while, I can see identical apps in Settings->Apps->Running:
"Baidu IME" x 2
"Google Services" x 2
"GO Weather EX" x 3
"GO Launcher Z" x 2
"GO SMS ...
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Are there options to modify the task manager for Android's new update Lollipop?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5, and for the past few months I have held back on getting the Lollipop update. One of the big reasons why was because of this- not being able to go to the home screen through ...
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How can I temporarily disable all autostart services while still allowing me to run apps?
Because I'm thinking of installing LinuxOnAndroid on my Galaxy Nexus, an old phone with limited RAM (1GB), I need a way to temporarily kill all background services, so they won't use up memory or CPU ...
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How to give more Java process memory (RAM) to games?
I have a developer background, but this is not a game development question.
I have several games that are struggling to be playable with 128MB of RAM allowed for them in Android. I have a Galaxy S4 (...
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Is it possible to schedule closing a named app
Is there an app (or other way) to schedule the closing of only one named application at a particular time each day? My situation is I use the Night Mode app at night to reduce the screen brightness ...
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How can I prevent apps being killed prematurely on my Moto G 4G?
I have a Moto G 4G (XT1039, Android 4.4.4, non rooted) which aggressively kills apps, even while they are in use. Apparently one of the few Motorola 'enhacements' (read bloatware) compared to stock.
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How to access app menu without app button?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 and my app menu button is broken. (I accidentally destroyed it while replacing the screen.)
Is there any other way to access the app menu or view a list of running apps, ...
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How to read data pertaining to running applications?
On the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean interface of my Samsung Galaxy SIII, I have noticed there seem to be various places where an application's running state is documented. I would like to know what the ...
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How to have the OS launch applications at startup time?
I am running Android 4.3 Jelly Bean on a Samsung Galaxy SIII.
I am trying to figure out how to configure applications such a Skype to start up automatically once the system has gone through the ...
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Is there a way to black out screen for a particular app when viewed via task switcher?
I have a Nexus 5 and I recently installed Android 5.0 (Lollipop).
The task switcher in Lollipop makes is much easier to see the screen contents of each background app as you are switching between ...
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How works exactly the option disable App notifications
Some Apps like Facebook also when aren't used slow down the device because of their associated autostart tasks.
In android settings in Apps section there is the option to enable or disable the ...
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Auto-start slowing me down [duplicate]
My ASUS tablet runs slow. I've stopped using active desktop backgrounds, uninstalled apps that I don't use and changed the animations, but nothing seems to solve the problem. My memory is reporting at ...
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What is the correct way to exit an app [duplicate]
When I open an app and then I'm dong using it I usually just push the home button. The problem is that leaves the app open and if you do that too many times it slows down your phone. My question is ...
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Recent vs Running vs Downloaded apps
What happens when you:
Swipe out an app from Recent section?
Stop an running app by going into Running section?
Force stop an app by going into Downloaded section?
Even if you remove an app from ...
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How does Startup Manager block startup apps?
I am using the market app Startup Manager on Android, but I am a little bit concerned in the way that it operates. Is it effectively runnning every time as a daemon and thusly keeping the apps from ...
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Is it bad to kill tasks in android, by using things such as holding down the home key and selectign "close all"? [duplicate]
I use advanced task killer pro and also hold down the home key until a list of apps open shows up and choose "close all". Someone was telling me this is bad for the device. Is this true? How else can ...
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