Multitasking, Power, Battery & the Atrix

[a4pike]

I am new to Android, and have only limited experience with multitasking via my g/f's original Droid... On the Droid, if I use the browser, and close it or switch to another app, the browser session stays where I left it (i.e. on the page I closed). This is not so on my Atrix, and is a bit of a nuisance.

Additionally, if I close my navigation program on the Atrix, it shuts off after about 5 minutes, and I have to restart it. This is a pain on a road trip. I am guessing that I have a setting incorrectly selected somewhere, but for the life of me I can't find it.

To this point, if I leave the nav open with the Atrix connected to a car adapter (which I bought from AT&T specifically for the Atrix) the phone doesn't charge, and slowly discharges. As an example, driving from KY to DC over the weekend, my phone started at 90% charge. I plugged it in, and used the navigation the entire day. When I arrived in DC, I had a 30% charge. This is ridiculous.

Any help or tips are appreciated.

Cheers

 

[a4pike]

bump.

Also, I just got a new phone, as the old one was doing weird things too much, and the AT&T rep decided to kill it off.

The new phone acts much differently than the first one. It actually acts like it has a dual core processor. I haven't tried charging it and using navi yet though. That being said, the browser does keep session history, which the old one didn't.

 

[Jonneh]

Let us know if the cardock doesn't charge the replacement phone. I had that same issue in the beginning, and I was about to buy a new USB car-adapter thing from walmart or somewhere until one day it magically began charging when plugged in.