{"id":4506,"date":"2012-07-17T21:51:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T02:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2012-07-17T21:51:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T02:51:52","slug":"how-to-kill-a-task-or-force-quit-an-application-on-the-galaxy-siii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/17\/how-to-kill-a-task-or-force-quit-an-application-on-the-galaxy-siii\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Kill a Task or Force Quit an Application on the Galaxy SIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from iPhone, everything is taking a learning curve, but less than you might imagine, as each year, Android gets better and better, and this Galaxy SIII, as I write seems to be the phone of the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not that I understand the rationality behind how the pages are ordered or where they put the icons on the page or even the concept of &#8220;Widgets&#8221;, but out of the box, which is pretty much the way I&#8217;m using it now, if you &#8220;swipe&#8221; enough pages you&#8217;ll come across an icon that is &#8220;gear shaped&#8221; called &#8220;Settings.&#8221; On mine its at the bottom of the page, bottom right, to the right of &#8220;All Share Play&#8221; &#8220;S Memo&#8221; and &#8220;Gallery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So you click settings and about half way down the page is &#8220;Application Manager,&#8221; and then that shows you all of your apps running. Click any app and you can click &#8220;Force Stop,&#8221; which will do the trick.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, I mean I love spotify, but there seems to be something buggy about the app, both on iOS and Android. Especially when switching between Wifi and Mobile data. It&#8217;ll just stop working. Doesn&#8217;t handle the hand off for some reason. And then it&#8217;s like you have to kill the app and re-open it. ANNOYING!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s weird is, even before I learned how to &#8220;kill an app&#8221; on Android, the Spotify app would suddenly come on and go off seemingly at will, for no reason that I could think of. The bars on my Wifi would be full (I&#8217;m not 10 feet away from the wifi router) and one minute Spotify would act like there&#8217;s no connection and then 10 minutes later as I&#8217;m working on something else, having forgotten about it, it would suddenly come on. I tend to think it&#8217;s a Spotify issue, as I had similar issues even on iOS with it.<\/p>\n<p>Love Spotify though, just hope they&#8217;ll fix this bugginess soon.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I&#8217;ll put some screen shots up of this whole process once I figure out how to do that on Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from iPhone, everything is taking a learning curve, but less than you might imagine, as each year, Android gets better and better, and this Galaxy SIII, as I write seems to be the phone of the moment. &nbsp; Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/17\/how-to-kill-a-task-or-force-quit-an-application-on-the-galaxy-siii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[404,403,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-mobile","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}