Is the multitasking a big issue?

[rlb]

This might be the cause of the HOX multitasking issues, in which case it's a carrier mod that's causing it, not HTC. And that wouldn't surprise me at all.

Read posts # 9 thru 13.

The only cause of the "lack" of multitasking is HTC. They have stated multitasking works as they intended it to. That is how they choose to do things. Plain and simple. It has nothing to do with the carriers as it is this way on all versions.

 

[arterio]

If you load a custom ROM on it, this solves this issue correct?

 

[ScandaLeX]

Seems those who invested money in HOX look for every ill fated reason their phones aren't working better than 300%....even to the point of saying the SG3 will have the same multitasking.

Get over it and just admit HTC messed up royally. You swear by HTC so accept it.

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[rlb]

If you load a custom ROM on it, this solves this issue correct?

I don't know. I'm sure someone at XDA will come up with a way to "fix" what HTC did.

 

[calvin35]

I don't know. I'm sure someone at XDA will come up with a way to "fix" what HTC did.

This is impossible without getting rid of either Sense 4.0, or ICS. Those two combined with 1gig of RAM make for a bad combination. What really kills me is that HTC had to know this and they did it anyway.

 

[axne1]

O.0


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[gdbjr]

It really depends on how you use the phone. The only time I have seen the issue is when I first setup my phone and evernote was syncing the notes locally. It kept killing the evernote process in the background and I had to keep relaunching it to sync.

Other then that is hasn't bothered me, but your usage could be different.

 

[abhijit1289]

If you load a custom ROM on it, this solves this issue correct?

Correct. For example I'm tapatalking with you aaaaaand...... Yup my YouTube video of the AC podcast is still paused in the background at 2:02

Thank me if I helped.... You know I'll do it again Oh, and by the way, Sent from my HTC One X

 

[kkapoorr]

Check this out:
View attachment 28012

HTC Sense appears in recent item menu. And even I flick up to clear it, Sense crashes (naturally). Is Sense supposed to show up here? Mind you, it only happened once.

Sent from my International HTC One X.

 

[calvin35]

Check this out:
View attachment 28012

HTC Sense appears in recent item menu. And even I flick up to clear it, Sense crashes (naturally). Is Sense supposed to show up here? Mind you, it only happened once.

Sent from my International HTC One X.

Wow, hat is odd. I never saw that on my One X when I had it, unfortunately for me. Are you using Sense as your launcher or are you using something else. Why would HTC give you the option to kill their launcher. You got me scratching my head.

 

[kkapoorr]

Wow, hat is odd. I never saw that on my One X when I had it, unfortunately for me. Are you using Sense as your launcher or are you using something else. Why would HTC give you the option to kill their launcher. You got me scratching my head.

This happened only when I was using sense as a launcher. Both times.

Sent from my International HTC One X.

 

[calvin35]

This happened only when I was using sense as a launcher. Both times.

Sent from my International HTC One X.

So if you flick it away to close it what are you supposed to use as a launcher? Hope somebody can chime in and explain it because it doesn't make sense (no pun intended) to me.

 

[kkapoorr]

it doesn't make sense (no pun intended) to me.

Haha lol!
Idk... Sense just reloads...

Sent from my International HTC One X.

 

[anon(819941)]

I still don't understand this one... I am starting to believe it has something to do with some US carrier software, because I am on an international One X and can't see it. I just tried again to reproduce it, following an example another post shared, that of being in the middle of a game and stepping out to message something, then come back... It works perfectly here! The game is right where I left it and the refresh (if there was any) is hardly noticeable. On a different kind of test, I started playing a video, stepped out into Pocket and scrolled down to a certain section of an article. I stepped out of pocked and went back to my video, which, unsurprisingly to me, was just exactly where I left it. I hit play and it resumed from the same spot. I then stepped out back into Pocket, which again was exactly where I left it, on the very same section. Honestly, people, I don't see where the problem is!

The more I read about this, the more I feel people expect multitasking on phones to work as it does on a computer, when that is clearly not the case. I think this article helps understand multitasking on phones, the kinds of things that are a priority on a mobile device with such a small display and how to best squeeze the juice out of those limited resources.

http://www.androidcentral.com/android-z-multitasking

HTC has clearly done their homework and analyzed the issue, and since they value a proper and satisfactory HTC Sense experience (and are aware of the fact that Sense is resource-heavy), they won't leave applications open when those applications are low priority in their queue. In other words, if an application is not visible by the user and not able to receive input and obviously not running a task, it will be frozen... Heck, that's the way it should be! Why would I want an application in the background to be wasting resources when the whole thing can be optimised to give me a better experience on the things I am actually doing?

I decided to try and test some REAL multitasking (not keeping apps running in the background for no reason). I started my music player, then browsed the internet to distrowatch.com and started a download of an ISO Ubuntu image and then went to Google reader and started reading some articles. Music was obviously playing without a glitch and, every now and then, I checked what the progress of my download was, which was obviously running in the background as should be expected, making progress as I was reading articles on Reader.

As such, I think people complaining should really stop doing so, or at least get to the bottom of what is causing their problem, because it seems many of us don't experience it. Multitasking works perfectly in the OneX. Perhaps they have issues with the way HTC chose to prioritize background tasks in order to optimize the Sense experience, but that is a whole lot different from claiming multitasking does not work on the One X!

 

[Johnly]

Simple...how many apps do you need suspended/spun. If you don't mind a millisecond launch to static....then WTFC.

 

[calvin35]

I still don't understand this one... I am starting to believe it has something to do with some US carrier software, because I am on an international One X and can't see it. I just tried again to reproduce it, following an example another post shared, that of being in the middle of a game and stepping out to message something, then come back... It works perfectly here! The game is right where I left it and the refresh (if there was any) is hardly noticeable. On a different kind of test, I started playing a video, stepped out into Pocket and scrolled down to a certain section of an article. I stepped out of pocked and went back to my video, which, unsurprisingly to me, was just exactly where I left it. I hit play and it resumed from the same spot. I then stepped out back into Pocket, which again was exactly where I left it, on the very same section. Honestly, people, I don't see where the problem is!

The more I read about this, the more I feel people expect multitasking on phones to work as it does on a computer, when that is clearly not the case. I think this article helps understand multitasking on phones, the kinds of things that are a priority on a mobile device with such a small display and how to best squeeze the juice out of those limited resources.

http://www.androidcentral.com/android-z-multitasking

HTC has clearly done their homework and analyzed the issue, and since they value a proper and satisfactory HTC Sense experience (and are aware of the fact that Sense is resource-heavy), they won't leave applications open when those applications are low priority in their queue. In other words, if an application is not visible by the user and not able to receive input and obviously not running a task, it will be frozen... Heck, that's the way it should be! Why would I want an application in the background to be wasting resources when the whole thing can be optimised to give me a better experience on the things I am actually doing?

I decided to try and test some REAL multitasking (not keeping apps running in the background for no reason). I started my music player, then browsed the internet to distrowatch.com and started a download of an ISO Ubuntu image and then went to Google reader and started reading some articles. Music was obviously playing without a glitch and, every now and then, I checked what the progress of my download was, which was obviously running in the background as should be expected, making progress as I was reading articles on Reader.

As such, I think people complaining should really stop doing so, or at least get to the bottom of what is causing their problem, because it seems many of us don't experience it. Multitasking works perfectly in the OneX. Perhaps they have issues with the way HTC chose to prioritize background tasks in order to optimize the Sense experience, but that is a whole lot different from claiming multitasking does not work on the One X!

I've seen four at&t One X's, including the one I returned and I can assure you that not only were they not great at multitasking, but they were awfully. I don't know what rock you've been living under. Why don't you do a quick Internet search and see what you find. Now if by some maricle your particular One X is multitasking ok then consider yourself lucky......very lucky.

 

[BlackPrince310]

I was willing to let it slide for the first month or so, but the multitasking issues are really getting annoying. I don't expect to have 20 apps open simultaneously, but if I leave an app for just 1 second and come back to it it has to refresh and reload everything. It's so ridiculously annoying. Literally, I leave an app for a second and everything I was doing is lost.

It doesn't seem like it'd be an extremely hard fix. Just make it so the last 3-5 apps are frozen or something. It's such an obvious issue as there's a dedicated multitasking button on the phone.

HTC isn't in a position where they can act stupid and not fix these issues. I have no respect for a company that says known issues don't exist. It's a slap in the face to everyone who purchased your phone day 1 and recommended it. I recommended it to one of my non tech savvy friends and she loves the phone but after a month she's noticed the constant reloading of apps that it's driving her nuts.

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[steve dave]

It is a huge issue for me. I listen to a lot of audio on apps like MOG and Slacker and Radio.con and they all stop working as soon as you try to use another app like just the browser. It is honestly the worst experience I have had with a phone since the first iPhone. They have essentially ruined android.

 

[adamtalife]

It is a huge issue for me. I listen to a lot of audio on apps like MOG and Slacker and Radio.con and they all stop working as soon as you try to use another app like just the browser. It is honestly the worst experience I have had with a phone since the first iPhone. They have essentially ruined android.

Well, I don't use slacker, but with Pandora radio, I can press the multitasking button and close Pandora while it's running and it'll still continue playing. Will only stop playing if I either press pause or quit the app.

The lack of multitasking can be annoying. But I feel the pros of the phone out weigh the few cons. And the multitasking is a small issue.

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[calvin35]

It is a huge issue for me. I listen to a lot of audio on apps like MOG and Slacker and Radio.con and they all stop working as soon as you try to use another app like just the browser. It is honestly the worst experience I have had with a phone since the first iPhone. They have essentially ruined android.

In my opinion they certainly seem to be trying to. At the very least they certainly don't seem to care about how they alter its functionality. HTC may claim that this is an android phone, but by ruining one of the best features of android just so that Sense can run unfettered I would argue that all Sense 4.0 devices are more like Sense phones and not android phones. I say this in part because I tried out a One S at Costco recently and it was equally handicapped. Hopefully HTC will pay a financial cost for this and be forced to stop their assault on the android operating system.