Has the multitasking behavior changed at all on the HOX...

[saintforlife]

...since launch? Sorry I haven't been keeping up. If it is still the same, does anybody know if HTC will make any attempt to change this in the future or they just happy keeping it the way it is?

 

[anon(819941)]

...if HTC will make any attempt to change this in the future or they just happy keeping it the way it is?

It really depends on what your understanding of the issue is... It has been demonstrated that the behavior is not consistent across all versions of the HOX available. According to testimonies here, it seems certain versions from carriers in the US suffer more than, say, the international version I have.

In any case, there was a partial fix that was shared on another thread in this forum, related to a setting around keeping activities, that seems to have made a big difference for users who suffered from this problem. In my international version, this fix didn't make a significant difference (because the multitasking problem was not that acute to begin with), but the phone is slightly faster after applying it.

In my experience, the only application I have had issues with is youtube, which will indeed force a video reload when coming back to the app. I don't play games on my phone often, but I think they can reload too, which can be frustrating if you have not saved your progress, but given the nature of phone games, I don't see that as such a big problem, not to me anyways.

Any other test I have completed (and I have done many), always behaved as I would expect. I never lost a message in progress, never lost a web form I left partially completed to go do something else, I have never seen anything like that. Again, mileage may vary depending on the version of the phone you get, but unless you are very picky, I think you should be more than OK with the HOX, it is an awesome device.

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

Are you rooted? If so there are custom roms that go a long way with fixing the problem, and as soon kernel source is released it should get fixed completely.

 

[rnich120]

Just a matter of waiting......

 

[wantabe]

All the credit for this goes to "scrosler" and "Calkulin" over at XDA!!!

With Root Explorer go to system/etc and open "init.qcom.post_boot.sh" by long pressing the file and choosing "Open in Text Editor"

Change; echo "0,2,4,7,9,12" > /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj
case "$hardware" in "elite")
echo "7746,9720,11694,13742,15715,24709"

To; echo "0,1,2,4,7,15" > /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj
case "$hardware" in "elite")
echo "2048,3072,4096,6144,7168,20480"

I use; echo "0,1,2,4,7,15" > /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj
case "$hardware" in "elite")
echo "7746,9720,11694,13742,15715,24709"
I use these settings because I rarely need to have more than 2-3 apps open at anytime, whereas the other setting will allow 4-5+ apps open from what "I" have seen.