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busted bones

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Ok MoPhos, at work I'm allowed to listen to music on my phonethe whole time. Well after 45 minutes of streaming digitally imported radio it will pop up asking if I want to kill the app. Is there anyway to add this to a do not kill list or lengthen the amount of time this can run before it asks me? TIA
 
Skrillex said:
Why on earth are you using a task killer??? Totally unnecessary.
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The phone comes with one and you can't uninstall it, without rooting of course. After 45 minutes of continuous streaming it asks you if you would like to shut down the app. Kind of annoying but fairly innocuous since it's just an alert.
 
edlex said:
The phone comes with one and you can't uninstall it, without rooting of course. After 45 minutes of continuous streaming it asks you if you would like to shut down the app. Kind of annoying but fairly innocuous since it's just an alert.
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Yeah, I was just wondering if there is a way to put this on a do not kill list or something.
 
There doesn't seem to be a way to white list apps from Moto's task manager. However, you might be able to disable the notification.

Open Task Manager -> Menu -> Settings -> uncheck Notifications
 
I have used that exact app for more than 45 minutes and never had a notification pop up... not sure what the difference may be here.
 
Citizen Coyote said:
There doesn't seem to be a way to white list apps from Moto's task manager. However, you might be able to disable the notification.

Open Task Manager -> Menu -> Settings -> uncheck Notifications
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The notifications are for high cpu and ram consumption not that something has been running for x amount of time. It was also unchecked on my phone already.
 
busted bones said:
The notifications are for high cpu and ram consumption not that something has been running for x amount of time. It was also unchecked on my phone already.
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Right, I thought maybe the app you are using was somehow triggering the alert after 45 minutes. If the box isn't checked though, then obviously not. Is this a stock app or something different?
 
So weird, I never had any such notification and to the best of my understanding the stock app killer/task manager is not enabled unless you set it up... right???
 
busted bones said:
Ok MoPhos, at work I'm allowed to listen to music on my phonethe whole time. Well after 45 minutes of streaming digitally imported radio it will pop up asking if I want to kill the app. Is there anyway to add this to a do not kill list or lengthen the amount of time this can run before it asks me? TIA
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Just curious, are you sure it's not the actual app that's asking you that?

Did you check the settings on which ever streaming app you're using to see if there's some sort of reminder or a way to keep in on all the time when it's being used?
 
drexappeal said:
Just curious, are you sure it's not the actual app that's asking you that?

Did you check the settings on which ever streaming app you're using to see if there's some sort of reminder or a way to keep in on all the time when it's being used?
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Its not the app. Its the phone. If you watch Netflix it will give you the same warning. There seems to be no way of disabling the notification. The task manager, menu , settings, disable notification does not work. This thing is very annoying as when it pops up it pause netflix. 45 minutes later it does it again.
 
whatsitsname said:
Its not the app. Its the phone. If you watch Netflix it will give you the same warning. There seems to be no way of disabling the notification. The task manager, menu , settings, disable notification does not work. This thing is very annoying as when it pops up it pause netflix. 45 minutes later it does it again.
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hmmm...Thanks for clarifying. I haven't watched or listened to music long enough to have seen that message come up.
 
Skrillex said:
Why on earth are you using a task killer??? Totally unnecessary.
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How so?

I have TasKiller installed on my phone specifically for the Task Bar that comes with the app. I like being able to see what's open without going into the phone settings, how much memory I have, and being able to kill all open tasks with a tap.
 
Streptovsky said:
How so?

I have TasKiller installed on my phone specifically for the Task Bar that comes with the app. I like being able to see what's open without going into the phone settings, how much memory I have, and being able to kill all open tasks with a tap.
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The android operating system is designed to be far more capable of managing applications than a task killer ( manually used or automatic). Gingerbread puts live apps which are not in the foreground into hibernation which maximizes performance and battery life. When you force an app to stop you are being counter productive using up processing power and battery life. Many apps are designed to instantly go back to a "live" state as soon as you shut them down . Gingerbread hibernates them. If you constantly kill them you are wasting power, performance and time. Which is why you always see them in the live list even though you never opened them. Developers create task killers for people who don't understand these principles so they can sell advertisements and push them on you and also so their "task killer app" can steal your info and analytics and sell them to advertisers. Nothing but a Trojan horse...

Even rogue apps which go unresponsive can be force-stopped in the android settings menu. Task killers are counter-productive.
 
Skrillex said:
The android operating system is designed to be far more capable of managing applications than a task killer ( manually used or automatic). Gingerbread puts live apps which are not in the foreground into hibernation which maximizes performance and battery life. When you force an app to stop you are being counter productive using up processing power and battery life. Many apps are designed to instantly go back to a "live" state as soon as you shut them down . Gingerbread hibernates them. If you constantly kill them you are wasting power, performance and time. Which is why you always see them in the live list even though you never opened them. Developers create task killers for people who don't understand these principles so they can sell advertisements and push them on you and also so their "task killer app" can steal your info and analytics and sell them to advertisers. Nothing but a Trojan horse...

Even rogue apps which go unresponsive can be force-stopped in the android settings menu. Task killers are counter-productive.
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I used to have the same ideas as him until I read EarlyMons report as to why they are counter productive and havent used on since. I do find it odd you use the same app as me and never have had that issue. Do you switch channels alot or leave in on one station and just go? I think, but am not sure it only does this when Im listening to a live set like Trance Around the World, ASOT, or another long set and dont touch the phone at all.
 
busted bones said:
I used to have the same ideas as him until I read EarlyMons report as to why they are counter productive and havent used on since. I do find it odd you use the same app as me and never have had that issue. Do you switch channels alot or leave in on one station and just go? I think, but am not sure it only does this when Im listening to a live set like Trance Around the World, ASOT, or another long set and dont touch the phone at all.
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Do you have any of the "data saver" options turned on maybe? Play around in settings. I will keep a conscious watch for the 45 minute mark next time I use my DIR app.
 
Skrillex said:
The android operating system is designed to be far more capable of managing applications than a task killer ( manually used or automatic). Gingerbread puts live apps which are not in the foreground into hibernation which maximizes performance and battery life. When you force an app to stop you are being counter productive using up processing power and battery life. Many apps are designed to instantly go back to a "live" state as soon as you shut them down . Gingerbread hibernates them. If you constantly kill them you are wasting power, performance and time. Which is why you always see them in the live list even though you never opened them. Developers create task killers for people who don't understand these principles so they can sell advertisements and push them on you and also so their "task killer app" can steal your info and analytics and sell them to advertisers. Nothing but a Trojan horse...

Even rogue apps which go unresponsive can be force-stopped in the android settings menu. Task killers are counter-productive.
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When I read this, all I think of is someone spouting conspiracy theories at the street corner.

I like using TasKiller. I like being able to see what's running. And it allows me to bring a task I minimized to the foreground (i.e. playing angry birds and had to go to the home screen for something)
 
Streptovsky said:
When I read this, all I think of is someone spouting conspiracy theories at the street corner.

I like using TasKiller. I like being able to see what's running. And it allows me to bring a task I minimized to the foreground (i.e. playing angry birds and had to go to the home screen for something)
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Why not just create a shortcut to the running services menu item? You are running an application to find another running application... and you make it sound so practical... kinda redundant and conspiratory.
 
Streptovsky said:
When I read this, all I think of is someone spouting conspiracy theories at the street corner.

I like using TasKiller. I like being able to see what's running. And it allows me to bring a task I minimized to the foreground (i.e. playing angry birds and had to go to the home screen for something)
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Actually, that's been heavily discussed since the first Android phones came out. It was one of the questions I had when I first got my EVO last year, regarding using a task killer vs. not using one. I read so many different threads about it, but the more I read, I came to the conclusion that Android was much more intuitive than Windows Mobile was. On Windows Mobile, without a doubt, you had to stop apps from running in the background. With Android, everything I read was pointing to there being no difference in battery life when killing tasks (which is basically the whole point of the task killer).

I read a bunch of horror stories about phones starting to get screwed up because of the task killers and apps closing when people were still using the app, just because the task killer had cached trends of how the person would kill the app. I've gone without a task killer since I first got the EVO last year (I had pretty good battery life compared to others) and on the MoPho, I still haven't changed patterns and the MoPho gets even better battery life.

To go beyond that, my relatives all got Android phones (coming from Blackberries and iPhones) because I loved my phone so much and they loved the 4.3 screen. All of them were recommended, by AT&T reps to download a task killer. Their battery lives sucked! Then, I told them to remove the task killer and their battery lives increased. Like I mentioned, just more horror stories than "good" stories when it came to task killers.
 
I use TasKiller mainly for the task bar, so I can see what's running at a glance without having to open the running applications page, through settings OR a press on the screen.

I like it. I've been using it since I got my HTC Droid Eris in December of 09, and I've never had issues with it. Not once. It was on my Eris for almost two years and it never once screwed the phone up.
 
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