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[Q] keep apps active

Hi out there
I don't know if I am the only one with this "problem":
I always was wondering, why no (max 1 or 2) apps are active. Finding out by having a look on the stock widget which shows the active/running apps. Wondering why SGW always starts at the main page (weather information) when returning form reading an article at News & Weather-app. Or why I always have to restart opera when receiving or reading an whatsapp in between.
Mostly I'm using the home button.
Problem now is, that I want to upload some photos to synology disc station. I am using the synology app browsing to the desired folder. While selecting the picture to be uploaded SGW switches to picturegalery in order to choose the file. Hitting the file (selecting) SGW returns to initial screen from synology app where you have to give credentials. So the operation is broken and you have to start again and again unable to upload anything. Same when I use webbrowser.
I guess that SGW kills the synology task while in galery. Same that SGW kills News & Weather while reading article. And so on.
Any solution???
I'm running stock rom 2.3.6, rooted, with V6 supercharger at level 6.
Thanks in advance
holydiver

V6 SC will kill apps in RAM.....to recover for active apps!!
Long press on Home key should bring up list of 6 apps by default.....and you should be able to return to any app.
It works for me, even with Tapatalk....I will leave....Tap Home key....do something else on phone....then long press Home.....be back in a sec!!!! .....
I'm baaack!!!!!
Just checked my Gmail and returned here by long press Home and selecting Tapatalk....brought me straight back where I left off.....
That is my experience!!!
level 6??
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long press on home button brings up the last 6 used apps. Does that mean they are still in RAM?
Why does the widget tell me there are no active apps?
Maybe its an bug (sorry feature ) from the synology app!?
holydiver

holydiver said:
long press on home button brings up the last 6 used apps. Does that mean they are still in RAM?
Why does the widget tell me there are no active apps?
Maybe its an bug (sorry feature ) from the synology app!?
holydiver
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It all depends if there is ram available.... if not, they will not be in RAM.....but you should get back to where you were in App.
Android is not Windows.....see this:
http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/android
4. Task Management Android multi-tasks differently to a desktop OS such as Windows. This is to make better use of a phone's limited resources such as memory and battery. The part of an Android app that you generally open up and deal with (the graphical user interface, or 'Activities') don't multitask. If you press Home and open something else, the app you leave is frozen in memory and stops getting CPU time. Most apps on Android work this way, unfortunately including the stock browser which won't continue updating when you are away from it. Some apps use special threads of execution called 'Services' which always run in the background but don't interact with the screen. Start playing a song in the music player (or start a streaming radio app like Last FM) and hit Home to go do something else. The player interface (which may include a CPU-hungry equalizer visualization) freezes and won't do anything until you switch back into it. But the thread playing the music keeps running and your music keeps playing. Start playing a game and then hit Home. The game freezes and sits in RAM but doesn't take any CPU. You may read and respond to a text message then hold Home and select the game from the popup (or even open it from a shortcut in the launcher/on your desktop!). The game will resume from where it was. Start playing a game and then hit Home (again). The game freezes and sits in RAM. You can now open the browser and load a big webpage so that the phone runs out of RAM, forcing Android to dump your game from RAM. Later you hit Home to switch back into your game but it will restarts fresh, as though you weren't running it before. A variation on that last one: Some apps periodically save your state so they can return you to that instead of sending you right back to the beginning.
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Also, not sure which version of V6 you are using..... this article is slightly outdated, but worth a read.
http://yagyagaire.blogspot.com/2011/10/v6-super-charger-complete-memory.html?m=1
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Auto focus camera button as a gun trigger for games?

I wanted to know if we can use our auto focus half click camera button as a trigger for guns by using some app. If there is such an app could u please give the link?
I have full root and xposed framework installed. Thanks
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Looool, this is the most random question ever. Though i do think that it is impossible

Nothing is impossible. I do believe it can be done, but it would probably recquire changind certain code inside the games. But I believe certain apps and games that have controller compatibility could get such a feature, with some decent coding.
It is possible, the question is is it worth coding it?
This could be an interesting idea for developers to implement in their games.

So the changes have to be done from inside the game rather than on the phone with some apps?
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jmjjaison said:
So the changes have to be done from inside the game rather than on the phone with some apps?
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Either 'could' work. I have no idea how to code it, but I have some ideas that may work with serious coding knowlegde.

easy, use a key mapper to map your key to a virtual button on the screen, you can place where the screen shall be touched when you press your key (if you know what I mean) like have a part of the touch screen that week be pressed when you press your button, for example if that space was to be over top of the shoot button, when you press your camera button your shoot button on screen will be pressed

Tincore KeyMapper: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tincore.and.keymapper
This app recognised all hardware keys.. Phone hardware keys or external game pads as game pad connected on the phone. As soon as u start a game and go to settings it will show that gamepad is found and all u need is click on the requires button for the respective function
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Best Alternative Parental Control App (free) to Amazon's FreeTime

Amazon's parental control Freetime app does not appear to be very useful. It seems to allow me to select only those apps downloaded from the Amazon app store, and not choose from all installed on the tablet (including the ones from Google Play).
has anyone found an alternative? I'd hate to have to go through a paying service (although, Remote Screen Time seems to work best, but still costs $5/month).
thanks!

jco23 said:
Amazon's parental control Freetime app does not appear to be very useful. It seems to allow me to select only those apps downloaded from the Amazon app store, and not choose from all installed on the tablet (including the ones from Google Play).
has anyone found an alternative? I'd hate to have to go through a paying service (although, Remote Screen Time seems to work best, but still costs $5/month).
thanks!
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This one is free and works VERY well!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiddoware.kidsplace&hl=en

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Have you tried the "Screen Time Parental Control" app? I use it.

Kids Place would be great, but the home button can't be locked by the kids place app, because the fire launcher always starts if pressing the home button. So it is not a parental controled app...
Has anyone any idea how to make the lock possible ? Are there root rights necessary ?
Thanks,
Klaus

klsystem1 said:
Kids Place would be great, but the home button can't be locked by the kids place app, because the fire launcher always starts if pressing the home button. So it is not a parental controled app...
Has anyone any idea how to make the lock possible ? Are there root rights necessary ?
Thanks,
Klaus
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I deleted ghee fire launcher and am using another launcher and so the home button works fine on kids place for my son. Yes you need root to delete the fire launcher.

How habe you deleted? Which launcher do you use ? Do you habe the fire 5.1.1 ?

klsystem1 said:
How habe you deleted? Which launcher do you use ? Do you habe the fire 5.1.1 ?
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I use Smart Launcher. My device is rooted and it's running 5.0.1. It was a birthday gift for my 4 year old. I rooted it and disabled updates and deleted the fire launcher after I installed Smart Launcher. So I don't do anything with it now myself unless it's installing some new game for my 4 year old. Is 5.1.1 not able to be rooted? I'm not keeping up with the scene on this tablet because I don't use it myself, only when I set it up for my son, and it was on 5.0.1 after whatever initial update it got when I first turned it on.

Anyone a kids Place or secured APP running on a 5.1.1 fire?

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Anyone a kids Place or secured APP running on a 5.1.1 fire?
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Not yet.
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ok, with supertool (see link at the bottom), just install google playstore and novalauncher. Permanent root is not necessary ! It worked perfectly for me and kids place doing well !
Please notice that a factory reset and a 5.1.1 version is needed before using the super tool from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=64358332#post64358332

I tried AppLock from Qizmodo, has been perfect, but isn't working with 5.1.1 anymore. Really sad. So maybe Mobile Fence will work, website says it is compatible with 5.1.1.
I don't wanna just lock apps, but set a time limit for e.g. games so that my daughter is able to use the musci player all day, but will not play games for several hours. If someone has an idea how to get AppLock running again, would be great. I contacted the company itself, but doesn't seem they are working on the app anymore.

Have you tried supertool to get novalauncher ? Maybe that can cope with applocker.

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Have you tried supertool to get novalauncher ? Maybe that can cope with applocker.
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I don't see the benefit of novalauncher. I can hide unused apps, ok. But I want to use some apps with a predefined time limit. So I installed some nice games, want to define the group "games" and set a time limit for their usage, let's say 1h daily. I find no way to do that with novalauncher...

Try Nester, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.mindquake.nester&hl=en

I used the free version of dinner time, but the pay version(3.99) adds a couple non essential stuff.

petermg said:
I deleted ghee fire launcher and am using another launcher and so the home button works fine on kids place for my son. Yes you need root to delete the fire launcher.
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Same here. But it's still possible for the kids to use "parent apps", when they let list the recently used apps (right symbol after swiping up from the bottom).

chaosp said:
Same here. But it's still possible for the kids to use "parent apps", when they let list the recently used apps (right symbol after swiping up from the bottom).
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You can simply disable that via the Kids Place - Parental Control app!!!

I found a good one: lollipop launcher by mobint. It allows you to lock apps on home screen and hide others on app drawer. It's free too. I recommend it.

petermg said:
You can simply disable that via the Kids Place - Parental Control app!!!
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I can't find this option in the settings of Kids Place (disabling switching between the recently run apps). Where is it?

i use this launcher with my rooted kindle fire for my children
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hootapps.slauncher

Disable the home button completely - is that possible?

Hi. I´m on a rooted AFTV with 5.2.1.1 and I like to permanently block the home button. Is that possible through pm disable [something]?
I accidently press it a lot and the position on the remote is just so annoying. If disabling isn´t possible, is it remap-able, e.g. to pause?
I know I can use firestarter to open other apps with the Action, but not to do nothing, as far as I know.
Thank you for your suggestions.

Use FIrestarter and this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thehellomaker.helloworldtoast
That is, if you are still on a firmeware version, where Firestarter works.
On later versions Amazon specifically prevented all apps from changing button behavior, so you would have to override this with an Xposed module like "Xposed Additions" which also can change button behavior. But that specific module interferes with the way bluetooth controllers works, so its not the be all and end all of solutions. But that module would work as well.
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Just saw that you updated to a far too recent firmware version for firestarter to work. Shot yourself in the foot there.

Thank you for the suggestion. Although firestarter doesn't work anymore on 5.2.1.1., it should be possible to re-enable it, as far as I read, with root, by pm disabling the amazon blacklist. Or what was the other fork called, firestopper?
But about my problem: after starting and closing hello world, will the amazon start menu not come up nevertheless?
My intention is to stay in kodi.
Getting exposed to work on later firmware version would be a dream. I don't want to miss it from my mobile with android 4.3.
I didn't know if it would work on the aftv, so if it does, that's what i'll try. thanks.

No - because amazon also modified adbd so no apps are able to read analyze the log an see when a key is pressed. I could be wrong (take this as a byline, because I never tested it), but I remember that this was part of why I cursed the aftvnews product blogger for propagating the "amazon f*cking you is so fine and eazy" myth - after he went with "great news!" on the amazon starting to put a blacklist service in Android to serve their needs only news beat.
The Xposed module should work regardless though. (Again, untested, because like most people that understood what was going on, I stayed on 5.0.5 -)

Thanks for your answer. It took me some time to notice it.
After installing xposed with the modules HDXPosed 1.3 and RBoxFire TVMods 1.4
and #pm disable pm disable com.amazon.tv.nimh (that is the amazon blacklist ("not in my house") app),
I installed firestopper. (I would have installed firestarter, but that is now called AppStarter, lacks home detection, and the older versions are not available anymore.)
With rbox firetv module activated, firestarter menu comes up after boot and home always jumps back to firestarter. Autostart app after boot works.
Without the module, autostart app works, but home button jumps back to aftv start menu, never to firestarter.
But you are right, no matter what I set in firestarter as actions for home or home button doubleklick, it is ignored.
Another question: Is there also a shutdown command for the box or just reboot?
edit: I guess not! I tried #su -c 'setprop sys.powerctl shutdown' and that just reboots again.
Next: I'll check the modules you suggested. ...
Xposed Additions 3.6.3 doesn't recognize any keystrokes.
But GravityBox [LP] does. xD -> it's possible to set action for long press home, e.g. open kodi, or force close apps with long press return, but it misses an action for simple press home.

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With rbox firetv module activated, firestarter menu comes up after boot and home always jumps back to firestarter.
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What happens if you put a nonexistant app in key_bindings.xml? I haven't tried this because it's pretty dangerous to disable home, IMHO. (how will you get out of locked up apps?)

Xposed Addons 3.6.3 works, just tested it myself. (On 5.0.5)
- You have to have the PRO version (license key) installed (Also you have to have the play store installed on the Fire TV for it to work (licensing). (Puchase it on an Android Smartphone, then sideload it to the FIre TV, if you cant find it in the Play Sore on the Fire TV - it works).
- You have to have Gamepad/Joystick Enabled in the Allow external Devices Setting menu.
(Don't touch the Keyboard entry there, in case you need a fallback.)
After that you can configure all keys on the remote to your liking. There is a disable option that works on its own btw - so you don't need to map the hello world app (allthough you could).
To tie up all loose ends, it turns out that Firestarter also always lets the initial home press "slip through" (which then opens the AFTV Launcher) - even on 5.0.5 and with the adb lookup enabled. So Xposed Addons is the only working solution I know of so far.

xenyz said:
What happens if you put a nonexistant app in key_bindings.xml? I haven't tried this because it's pretty dangerous to disable home, IMHO. (how will you get out of locked up apps?)
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key_bindings.xml seems to be ignored. If sth locks up, it doesn´t matter. I would just open a terminal via adb and kill it.

harlekinwashere said:
Xposed Addons 3.6.3 works, just tested it myself. (On 5.0.5)... . So Xposed Addons is the only working solution I know of so far.
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Thanks for your extensive testing. Yes, of course I didn´t test the pro Version and yet I haven´t installed playstore, but will when I find sparetime.
But as I wrote, Gravity Box xposed module works as well.

Its always good to reduce complexity. Also - if Gravity Box doesn't interfere with BT Gamepad mappings (or lets say because there is a chance, that it doesn't), I'll give it a try myself, one of those days... So thanks for sharing.

Please Help!!!! I Am Looking For The Firmware Of CVTE_MSD_512M Android Smart TV

So I Was Fiddling Upon My Tightly Manufacturer Locked Android TV And I Found A Way Bypass The Manufacturer's Launcher And Found That The TV Has No Status Bar And NavBar , A Settings App With Many Features Missing Like Draw Over Other Apps, Usage Access, Then I Used Button Mapper To Open The Power Menu And Reached Recovery, So I Need The Firmware To Make A Custom ROM
PS - The TV Runs On Test Keys!!!!!

Do anyone even bother

OopsIAmAKnewBie said:
Do anyone even bother
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Unknown model, unknown firmware...what you expected..