Task List? Task Killer?

[James Bell]

Is there a way to get the N1 to show a list of running tasks? And possibly kill or switch to some of them? Typically this is a long press on some button but I have not found it.

If Google skipped having this, does anyone have a favorite small task program from the Market?

 

[informale]

TasKiller.

Auto-kill all on screen off w/exception list. Kill all with single click w/exception list.

TasKiller free (w/ads)

TasKiller Full (0.7 euro)

 

[LansdowneMike]

How does this compare to EStrong Task killer (if you've tried both)?

 

[informale]

I did not use EStrong much, but it requires selecting tasks before killing. I don't remember if it has kill all button like TasKiller. Just try both and see for yourself.

 

[illutionz]

I used advanced task manager paid version and it works great

 

[shaun76]

Glad this came up. I'm new to Android....can someone explain Task Killing to me? I remember dealing with this on WinMo phones years ago, but I installed Advanced Killer (?) and when I open it, it shows tons of apps running that I never opened.

What happens when I kill them? What are some of the ones that should be ignored? I currently have the IM client and Music ignored, but not sure what else should be left alone.

 

[illutionz]

Glad this came up. I'm new to Android....can someone explain Task Killing to me? I remember dealing with this on WinMo phones years ago, but I installed Advanced Killer (?) and when I open it, it shows tons of apps running that I never opened.

What happens when I kill them? What are some of the ones that should be ignored? I currently have the IM client and Music ignored, but not sure what else should be left alone.

These are the applications I put on the exclude list
Google Partner Setup
Messaging
Voice Search
Email
Bluetooth Share
Google Pinyin
Music
Voice DIaler
Clock
Sync feeds
Gmail
Launcher

Obviously your mileage may vary depending on what apps you installed

 

[shaun76]

These are the applications I put on the exclude list
Google Partner Setup
Messaging
Voice Search
Email
Bluetooth Share
Google Pinyin
Music
Voice DIaler
Clock
Sync feeds
Gmail
Launcher

Obviously your mileage may vary depending on what apps you installed

GREAT! This sort of goes along with my question. You exclude gmail...but why? So far, I've noticed that when I kill gmail, I still get notifications. What exactly is going on when I kill an app like gmail or Voice Search? Why should they be excluded?

 

[illutionz]

GREAT! This sort of goes along with my question. You exclude gmail...but why? So far, I've noticed that when I kill gmail, I still get notifications. What exactly is going on when I kill an app like gmail or Voice Search? Why should they be excluded?

I also excluded Google talk btw sorry didn't notice that.

Now, I never really tried to kill gmail app but im sure for those app that requires notification, they have services running in the background to do the notification. I exclude Gmail because sometimes I'm in the middle of reading email and going back to home. IIRC if you close it, it won't save your state which means I have to go from the beginning again but I might be wrong. I am just carrying over my settings from HTC Hero to my N1