Re: BB10 Multitasking vs Samsung Galaxy S3 (Android) Multitasking
Originally Posted by
greatwiseone The problem with Android multi-tasking is that you have no control over what's running in the background or not. That's the most frustrating part for me. For instance, I am downloading the gazillionth update from Google Play (another problem I have with Android), and I multi-task over to the browser. I'm surfing the web and checking out websites. After a while, all downloads stop, and i'm like wth. You go back to Google Play, and Android stopped the app because the browser needed to use the RAM. The thing about BB10 (and on PlayBook) is that the user has control. Some people might not care, but to me it's a huge deal.
What phone did that? I've had a Galaxy S i9000M, HTC Desire Z and currently a GS3 and that has never, ever happened to me in all the years I've had android devices.
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Re: BB10 Multitasking vs Samsung Galaxy S3 (Android) Multitasking
Originally Posted by
greatwiseone The problem with Android multi-tasking is that you have no control over what's running in the background or not. That's the most frustrating part for me. For instance, I am downloading the gazillionth update from Google Play (another problem I have with Android), and I multi-task over to the browser. I'm surfing the web and checking out websites. After a while, all downloads stop, and i'm like wth. You go back to Google Play, and Android stopped the app because the browser needed to use the RAM. The thing about BB10 (and on PlayBook) is that the user has control. Some people might not care, but to me it's a huge deal.
Google play is on my list of the worst apps ever seen. It has lots of issues, and I'm really mad at Google for not fixing it. However, its problem is not related to Android's multitasking, it's simply a bad program. If you restart your phone, Google play resumes its downloads, but even then, with the phone being idle, it often fails (it also often fails on the server side, btw). My humble guess is they have some timing problems in it, besides not handling exceptions gracefully, but that's just a guess. This said, really crap.
As of the drawbacks of the fully automated memory and task management, it indeed has its drawbacks, as you mentioned, you don't have any control over it (well, you do, but not in an end user apt way), your phone may get "congested". By limiting the number of apps (and obviously, the amount of memory each app is allowed to use), this is solved in BB10. But it also means you're wasting memory by reserving it.
Both schemes have their advantages and drawbacks, I tend to agree with you that limiting is the better approach. That's one of the advantages BB10 has for only running on today's hardware. Back when Android started, this would have been a completely inept approach, remember those phones had 256 MB ram, or even less.
BB10 has this advantage to be looking to the future instead of fixing the past, which makes it really attractive.
Afterthought: if I'm not mistaken, HTC actually takes that approach on their Android phones, limiting the number of active user apps to six.
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Re: BB10 Multitasking vs Samsung Galaxy S3 (Android) Multitasking
That option is also on the Sammy phones, under development options. You can set it to unlimited processes, 6, 4, and kill as soon as you exit an activity.
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Re: BB10 Multitasking vs Samsung Galaxy S3 (Android) Multitasking
Originally Posted by
reeneebob That option is also on the Sammy phones, under development options. You can set it to unlimited processes, 6, 4, and kill as soon as you exit an activity.
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True, didn't think of that. It's basic functionality starting with jelly bean. Thanks for reminding me :)
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Re: BB10 Multitasking vs Samsung Galaxy S3 (Android) Multitasking
Originally Posted by
pb1379 True, didn't think of that. It's basic functionality starting with jelly bean. Thanks for reminding me :)
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It's on ics too. :)
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Re: BB10 Multitasking vs Samsung Galaxy S3 (Android) Multitasking
Originally Posted by
reeneebob It's on ics too. :)
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Lol, yeah, you're right as always! I live messing them up because they didn't increase the major release from 4 to 5.
Just for fun I tried it meanwhile and it's unfortunately not as good as thought. HTC does limit the number of user started apps (foreground apps with views), same as BB10, while the dev setting apparently applies to any app. Services started to disappear :(
Might be particular to my phone and setup, but I now get while it's under dev settings...
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Re: BB10 Multitasking vs Samsung Galaxy S3 (Android) Multitasking
Originally Posted by
pb1379 Lol, yeah, you're right as always! I live messing them up because they didn't increase the major release from 4 to 5.
Just for fun I tried it meanwhile and it's unfortunately not as good as thought. HTC does limit the number of user started apps (foreground apps with views), same as BB10, while the dev setting apparently applies to any app. Services started to disappear :(
Might be particular to my phone and setup, but I now get while it's under dev settings...
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I never had it do it to system processes, only user apps on the gs3... Weird if HTC does that.
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Re: BB10 Multitasking vs Samsung Galaxy S3 (Android) Multitasking
Originally Posted by
reeneebob I never had it do it to system processes, only user apps on the gs3... Weird if HTC does that.
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Well, not system processes, but user background (only) apps.
Glad it works for you on the S3, though :thumbup: :)
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