Guest Drift3r Posted January 2, 2003 Report Posted January 2, 2003 How do you close programs that continue to run in the background after you have loaded them? I realise that the SPV multitasks programs, but what if you wanted to close them down to speed the device up, or even be able to toggle between those that are open? Is this possible? Cheers for your help :wink:
Guest th0mz Posted January 2, 2003 Report Posted January 2, 2003 Tab the red phone button a few times..... You cannot multitask. :D
Guest NXNM Posted January 2, 2003 Report Posted January 2, 2003 Tab the red phone button a few times..... You cannot multitask. :D You can multi-task. Example,im running MSN Messanger whilst playing Tennis Addict, and i can still recieve messages. This is multitasking. To switched to "minimised" apps use the back button when in the home page. End button ends applications as Th0mz said.
Guest Drift3r Posted January 2, 2003 Report Posted January 2, 2003 Thanks for your help. I'm guessing when you say tap the red button to end programs, you can only do this from the home screen and not when viewing an application? because when say in IE, tapping the red button just ends the call... Cheers
Guest muude Posted January 2, 2003 Report Posted January 2, 2003 If you want to multitask, can't you just use the "Home"-button and then enter the other app you want to use? And then when you want to go back to the first app, just press home again and enter the other the program from the Start Menu.
Guest HelloDave Posted January 3, 2003 Report Posted January 3, 2003 You can multitask but you can't close programs manually, apart from some games such as invasion. The red end call button does just what it says - if you're using GPRS it closes the connection, not the program. For example (not a very good one, but the best I can come up with at 3.30 in the morning!) - Open All Exlorer. Notice how only one item is displayed in the folder tree - "Smartphone". Now navigate to any folder you like. Press the red button, press back to get to the home screen and press the red button a few more times for luck. Jump on your SPV if you really feel brave :D Now go back to All Explorer via your start menu or whatever. Notice how the same folder is displayed so the program never quit. "But it just remembers what folder you looked at last!" I hear you cry (or maybe not, but anyway...) OK, now leave your phone for a few hours and run a few other programs in between. Open All Explorer again and it'll probably be back to displaying just "Smartphone" again! Therefore the OS closed the program itself when it needed to free up memory, but you can't quit it manually. All Explorer doesn't remember the last viewed folder after a reboot either, which you would expect it to if it saved the last viewed folder when you quit it. Having said all of that, it's still best to use the back button rather than home to let the OS know you've finished with a program so it will consider closing it for you!
Guest spacemonkey Posted January 3, 2003 Report Posted January 3, 2003 I believe the official behaviour is something along the lines of if you are on the home screen and a background app has been inactive for 15 minutes then smartphone closes it automatically. Which fits in with the behaviour in the previous post. An inactive background app which is waiting to be closed shouldn't affect performance significantly but will be using up valuable run time memory which will be cleared when the OS shuts it down. If a background app is active (such as an Mp3 playing in Media player) then it should stay running regardless. I'm sure I read something like that somewhere anyway.... And of course a reboot shuts down everything...
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