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mole81

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Hi All, Ive just come over from the dark side (iphone 3gs) to a Samsung Galaxy SII :) so am a total newb!

For the life of me i cannot work out the screen timeout though!

I want the phone to be pin protected but not straight away after i lock it, say after ten mins but whatever setting i change as soon as i lock it within 1 second i try to unlock, it asks for the pin!! any ideas?

Also whats the best app for reminders, dont find the built in calendar too great!

Cheers all!
 
ok, my girlfriends desire s doesnt though...you can lock it then unlock it and you dont get prompted for the pin for say 15 mins, which is what i want to do?

does astrid need to be runnimg to work?

thanks!
 
What exactly do you mean "does it have to be running to work"? I mean put in a reminder there, then it will alert you when time comes. You can also use a widget on the homescreen for it to see your upcoming reminders (I use Android Agenda to show my Astrid tasks along with my calendar events).
 
If you manually lock the phone, the lock will immediately go into effect.

If you let the screen time out, then you can choose how long it takes for the lock to go into effect.
 
running as is the app has to have been started? if i killed it via task manager would it still work?

any more thoughts on the lock screen timeout?
 
thanks Baldilocks that makes a bit more sense letting it time out itself though doing this leaves the phone open to key presses in the pocket lol! Is there any way to time the pin code request after pressing the lock button or even a third party app?
 
You shouldnt use task manager on Android, and if you kill it it would just restart a few seconds after you kill it. It runs on bootup. Apps of certain types do, especially those with active widgets.
 
any more ideas on the screen lock issue or am i stuck with it lol? or alternatively any good screen lock apps out there?
 
Ignore chancham, I use Task Manager everyday, to kill active/inactive apps before locking the phone and putting in pocket. The less RAM tied up = less battery consumed. So if you have eleven tabs open in Browser and just put the phone in your pocket without killing Browser, your battery is going to drain. A tip: press and hold the home key, and you can tap Task Manager from the popup screen. As for the pin the only time it doesnt ask me is if the screen timed out by itself, so youre outta luck it would seem.
 
adaaaam said:
Ignore chancham, I use Task Manager everyday, to kill active/inactive apps before locking the phone and putting in pocket. The less RAM tied up = less battery consumed. So if you have eleven tabs open in Browser and just put the phone in your pocket without killing Browser, your battery is going to drain. A tip: press and hold the home key, and you can tap Task Manager from the popup screen. As for the pin the only time it doesnt ask me is if the screen timed out by itself, so youre outta luck it would seem.
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WRONG. Apps that are on RAM do not use battery in a noticeable degree. Android is designed to kill apps by itself after a time of unuse. Furthermore, the built in "task manager" is not a true task manager. Its just a RAM clearing app. I was talking about the task managers that you get off the market that let you kill backround running tasks which the inbuilt task manager doesnt show you because they should not be killed. For example, the task manager on the home button does not show you the calendar app running, but on third party task managers, it is seen with a force close button. So basically, you don't know what you are talking about yet. :-)
 
A task manager essentially ends tasks, clearing RAM. How is one different from the other? And you truly believe tied up RAM does not consume battery? Open Dolphin with 16 tabs, do NOT kill it, and put it in your pocket. Your battery is gonna eat it, buddy. I had a feeling you were referring to task killers, not Samsungs Task Manager, which is a very useful app, so I just had to stop you from giving bad advice to the op (in not using Task Manager). Its perfectly fine (though still highly debated) to advise against task killers, though.

Edit: However I just realized English might not have been your native language and if thats the case, this is just all a big misunderstanding. The op said he used Task Manager and you must have assumed atk or some th ing similar
 
Also, I read the same article you did on apps killing themselves. Apart from being written ages ago, what it says is apps kill themselves only when RAM is needed. So if you have Dolphin with two tabs of Flash content running, lock your screen, put phone in pocket, and pull it out ninety minutes later, Dolphin will still be runnung with two tabs of Flash content. In other words, Dolphin was never killed by Android because it didnt need RAM for other apps, and since you didnt kill it, Flash was draining your battery for ninety minutes. Try it out, youll see what I mean. Im sure ICS might handle it differently, but I prefer this 2.x behavior bexause I want to control when to lose my precious tabs and when Im gonna pick up and read my pages again.
 
Not if you make it something simple with only four dots, with visibility disabled. Youll probably draw it at least twenty times a day, so youll remember, and itll be much faster than a pin
 
adaaaam said:
Also, I read the same article you did on apps killing themselves. Apart from being written ages ago, what it says is apps kill themselves only when RAM is needed. So if you have Dolphin with two tabs of Flash content running, lock your screen, put phone in pocket, and pull it out ninety minutes later, Dolphin will still be runnung with two tabs of Flash content. In other words, Dolphin was never killed by Android because it didnt need RAM for other apps, and since you didnt kill it, Flash was draining your battery for ninety minutes. Try it out, youll see what I mean. Im sure ICS might handle it differently, but I prefer this 2.x behavior bexause I want to control when to lose my precious tabs and when Im gonna pick up and read my pages again.
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Never happened to me yet. Dolphin gets reloaded from scratch, not staying in memory. Must be a difference in our usage, but again I point out, sitting in RAM doesnt make it eating battery. It eats battery if its running CPU as well. If you yourself look at the built in task manager, you'd see the other processes there saying 0% cpu. I run my phone pretty extensively and I go weeks without opening the task manager.
 
*moved to Samsung Galaxy S2 (AT&T) forum*

Since you were coming from the 3Gs, I assumed you stayed with AT&T. If I'm mistaken, PM me and I'll move it to the right forum.
 
chanchan05 said:
Never happened to me yet. Dolphin gets reloaded from scratch, not staying in memory. Must be a difference in our usage, but again I point out, sitting in RAM doesnt make it eating battery. It eats battery if its running CPU as well. If you yourself look at the built in task manager, you'd see the other processes there saying 0% cpu. I run my phone pretty extensively and I go weeks without opening the task manager.
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Well I notice your model is the SL, and I don't know how much RAM.you have, but my S2 with 1GB tends not to kill processes because it never reaches a threshold of low memory for me (a good thing, allowing me to view stuff, not blank pages). Since the OP and I both have 1GB, it is useful for us to use the manufacturer provided Task MANAGER. I've also tested your CPU theory, and you seem to be wrong on that too. I left tabs open, launched Task Manager, locked the screen, turned it back on later, and TM showed CPU usage was at 20.0%, indicating battery was definitely being used, because I didn't end the process.

Baldilocks said:
Yeah, those 'Advanced Task Killers' do more harm than good and actually can cause you to use MORE battery.
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Agreed. However we were discussing Samsungs TM not ATKs which can be harmful because they allow users to schedule the ending of processes/services, including those that may relaunch, causing excess battery drain, something Samsung TM is incapable of.
 
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