You need a decent task manager and the best i have come across is TaskSwitcher -- pressing the home key shows all running apps. You tap and hold the app you want to close.
-- //MB 2012/1/9 [email protected] <[email protected]> > Having many apps *installed* is not likely to affect speed either way, > since fragmentation is fairly low with the file system used, and besides > the increase in access time observed with increasing fragmentation in disk > drives does not happen in flash based drives. You might notice a slowdown > in Market and anywhere else where it needs to enumerate the installed apps, > but that's about it. > > One thing which might slow down a smartphone is having many apps running > at the same time. And, of course, the quality of the apps. The Opera web > browser, for example, does not auto-quit even if no page has been navigated > to, and it doesn't even suspend in the background so it will always use > processor cycles unless you either explicitly tell it to quit or force-quit > it. > > -- > Skickat från min Android-telefon med K-9 E-post. Ursäkta min fåordighet. > > Herman Musiitwa <[email protected]> skrev: >> >> One thing that is likely to slow down any smart phone is having many apps >> installed. I can testify with the ideos. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: aredo erasmus [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 11:16 AM >> To: Uganda Linux User Group >> Subject: Re: [LUG] Why Droid sucks >> >> I have used from the cheapest Android i think, The Ideos through to >> the Xperia X10 (Quite powerful by the way ) and now am pushing a >> Samsung galaxy s2. >> >> And not even my Ideos hang at any one point.....Am struck by these >> accusations.. >> >>
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