C500 and theTask manager

[Guest Gism0]

This is really odd. When I first got this phone, I could press the back button to exit programs, and if i wanted to exit everything, i could just press it a few times.

Recently I had to do a hard reset to fix my volume button, which stopped working, and now programs don't seem to quit anymore! After a days use, i'll try to use the camera or something and it'll tell me i'm out of memory, so I go check the task manager and it's full of programs, i have to manually kill them :(

Any ideas?

phone is an Orange SPV C500, running the latest orange update as far as i can tell (4.1.1.4)

edit: wow that keyword thing really messed up the title of this topic :( edit: thanks to whoever fixed it :)

Edited January 6, 2005 by squall

[Guest Disco Stu]

There's the Free Memory application, or you could use Xbar

[Guest Gism0]

But it's surely a bug or something that the programs don't ever quit?

[Guest Confucious]

Programs have never quit in windows on Smartphones or PPCs. The oS is designed to manage the memory which is why there is no exit option on mostr s/ware (according to MS there shouldn't be one on ANY s/ware)

Pressing the back button wiill get you to the homescreen but not exit a program, why are you worried about it? It is functioning as designed.

[Guest Gism0]

Pressing the back button wiill get you to the homescreen but not exit a program, why are you worried about it? It is functioning as designed.

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I am worried because it is not functioning as designed at all. It did it before, and now I keep running out of memory after using more than 4 different programs, it doesn't let me take pictures because of lack of memory!

using a program to free memory or manually killing the programs is a work-around, definatly not normal behaviour

[Guest ga!nusha]

the phone is multitasking...that's the ideea...to have more programs working at one time....u don't have to worry...just remember to close any progs that you don't wanna use anymore....

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Pressing back will not exit an application but put it into the background.

This has always happened since the first SPV.

Only applications that have an exit option or using Task manager will

properly end a process.

[Guest Disco Stu]

the phone is multitasking...that's the ideea...to have more programs working at one time....u don't have to worry...just remember to close any progs that you don't wanna use anymore....

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Which is how / why we can listen to music and play games at the same time :D

[Guest ga!nusha]

Which is how / why we can listen to music and play games at the same time  :D

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i was just gonna say that... :D

[Guest Disco Stu]

i was just gonna say that...  :D

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And you could be browsing MoDaCo on your PC as well until THEY made it faster. :evil:

Now that was multi-tasking heaven 8) :D

[Guest ga!nusha]

And you could be browsing MoDaCo on your PC as well until THEY made it faster.  :evil:

Now that was multi-tasking heaven  8)  :D

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i was just gonna say that... too :D :P

[Guest Gism0]

okay I see this, but surely randomly running out of ram is a bad thing? It certainly didn't do that before