I've downloaded two Android apps via appworld now, and both are freezing solid on a regular basis. The freeze appears to be the player itself, as I am unable to launch any other Android apps until I restart my PlayBook.
Does anyone know of a way to force close the Android player, such that a full restart isn't necessary? Am I alone in experiencing this issue?
Had the same problem today, had wordpress & a podcast app open, both android apps, both froze and all I had was a screen saying recent applications, wouldn't let me select anything had to do a restart
I've downloaded two Android apps via appworld now, and both are freezing solid on a regular basis. The freeze appears to be the player itself, as I am unable to launch any other Android apps until I restart my PlayBook.
Does anyone know of a way to force close the Android player, such that a full restart isn't necessary? Am I alone in experiencing this issue?
An update: I found that the player does eventually reset itself, if closed and left alone long enough. This doesn't make it convenient, especially if you actually want to use an Android app, but it does, eventually, save you a restart.
I'll reiterate the question though, is anyone aware of a way to force close the player, thus permitting timely use of frozen Android apps?
I have this same problem. The Android player and apps work great when you initially start them, but then the player freezes and you only see "Recent Applications". This is kind of a big issue considering it's one of the selling points.
Same here .. and it gets worse if you try to go into full screen mode with one of the books ....very hard to get back out of full screen let alone close it down
Yeah, me too, on Android, you have the ability to force close apps, only way I figured on the Playbook is to reset.
On a side note, I'm a little disappointed in tapatalk for pb. I have the paid Android version on my phone, I also downloaded the paid pb version, thinking it would be pb native, but its not. It opens in Android player. The app world should differentiate between Ports and native pb apps.
The frequency of freezing is pretty bad. I haven't found a way around it besides restarting which we all know takes an eternity. Makes me afraid to open my Android apps.
Same here .. and it gets worse if you try to go into full screen mode with one of the books ....very hard to get back out of full screen let alone close it down
swipe down can bring up the menu bar of the android player, which has a back button on the left, which can help you quit the full screen mode.
It probably takes a couple of minutes for the android player to reset itself. Just as a word of caution, one android app at a time, and better close other applications before opening another one.
android is not like qnx, but I like the android player, and have been playing ondemand videos within the android player for hours w/o issues. Also the converted es file explorer runs stable within the android player, and I was able to transfer >1gb data via sftp w/o interruptions. Of course, I have the native email open all the time, occasionally check/manage emails at the same time.
Thank god, I like multitasking. Android/iOS itself in no way could do those.
Having similar issues...it seems I have to take caution when opening Android apps. It usually freezes with a black screen, and I am unable to open any other sideloaded apps utilising the Player as it just ends up opening the same screen. Does installing the Android Task Killer app to terminate these apps work? But if it utilises Android Player I won't be even be able to open it.
Add me to the list.
This is extremely disappointing to me as the ability to use android apps was the ONLY thing I cared about OS2. :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:
Add me to the list.
This is extremely disappointing to me as the ability to use android apps was the ONLY thing I cared about OS2. :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:
It took me ages to recover from the last freeze.
Just get an Android tablet will solve your problems if you you only care about android apps in os 2.0
Had mine freeze a couple times so far. Using a 3rd party killer as suggested above isn't a good solution because android apps have a tendency to repeat the problem once you reopen one that was force closed until you reboot. I have to reboot my android phone because of this same issue occasionally and it's running the same version of android this player was based off of.
I've noticed that the android player freezes quite often rendering all android applications useless. The only option left is to restart the playbook. And it freezes for no apparent reason while running an Android app like taptu or bord etc. If it's working, you can't freeze it by say quickly moving between different android apps or quickly entering multiple commands. It just freezes randomly when you would least expect. Also if I close it and leave it it does recover in 15 minutes or so saving a restart. It's frustrating nonetheless.
You can't, the Android Player is freezed and Ghost Commander will not launch in this case.
That's very true. The problem is not with applications freezing but it's about the android emulator freezing. It's rather very disappointing and frustrating. Can't even buy applications from app world because you don't know before hand whether it's a ported android app or an actual native playbook app.
I hope we get native apps. The only reason I cared about android was for people to get apps they want. If it is this bad, I'm not using them, then it sounds like RIM has a bunch of work and updates to release. Good thought with poor execution.
So this is even with the ones in app world and not just side loaded?
Yeah, I'm getting the same problem. I only care about Kindle and it's constantly freezing. What a PITA.
I hope there is a way to fix this soon, you think?
I hope we get native apps. The only reason I cared about android was for people to get apps they want. If it is this bad, I'm not using them, then it sounds like RIM has a bunch of work and updates to release. Good thought with poor execution.
So this is even with the ones in app world and not just side loaded?
This is with the android apps officially available in blackberry app world.
