recently opened applications

[Guest aidanj]

hello,

my t-mobile pulse arrived this morning - it already has the hungarian 2.1 update, customisation file, and has been rooted. now, i have a question about android on the pulse. how can i see the six recently used applications? i ask this, because i want to make sure applications like web browsers with no exit option are closed when i have finished browsing. thank you =)

[Guest -Yaya-]

You have to press the shutdown button for 2 seconds.

But for close apps i would recommend a task manager like advanced task manager :)

[Guest de_shepherd]

hello,

my t-mobile pulse arrived this morning - it already has the hungarian 2.1 update, customisation file, and has been rooted. now, i have a question about android on the pulse. how can i see the six recently used applications? i ask this, because i want to make sure applications like web browsers with no exit option are closed when i have finished browsing. thank you =)

N.b. the list shows the most recently started/used applications - it pays no account of them being killed by any task killer (had me confused as to why advanced task killer didn't seem to be killing things!)

Also, there's some debate over the need for killing tasks as Android is meant to handle all this itself - apps load into memeory and stay there - when memory gets short the OS decides which ones are least active and sends them an instruction to save their state and exit - if they resume execution then they simply reload this state and continue. This is a more memory efficient method than simply swapping the whole image out to a swap file (as would be done on a PC) as it only needs to save sufficient info to get back to where it was. The downside is there's more overhead in this plus if apps are badly written and continually sleep/wakeup then you can end up thrashing the memory system. Finally, looks like on the current 2.1 ROMs (at least the standard Hungarian one) memory is now in very short supply and this system has problems and ends up asking things that really ought to be kept running to shutdown