Is it possible to end, or "kill", a process?
On Windows if an application is acting up we can force it to close, is there something like this in Windows Phone?
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On Windows if an application is acting up we can force it to close, is there something like this in Windows Phone?
With the GDR3 Update to Windows Phone 8, you can now quit applications by holding ← (back) and then clicking the Ⓧ (circled X) that appears in the top right corner of the application.
Since 8.1, users can also swipe down on an application in this view for the same effect.¹
¹ Source: Wikipedia entry for Windows Phone 8.1
Not as you describe it, however:
Back
ing out of an application will exit the processstart
, search
or camera
)So while you can't terminate the process per se, it's not really necessary.
1 With the exception of background agents, which may run for 25 seconds every 30 minutes. Badly behaving background tasks (running too long, throwing errors) are automatically unscheduled after 2 strikes.
start
button doesn't return you to the start screen within 10 seconds, it sounds like the phone has locked up. If it continues doing so, send it in to be fixed, as it is indicative of a driver or hardware fault.
– Richard Szalay
May 2 '12 at 23:55
The back double tap trick.
You can keep doing this until there are no more recent apps in the list.
I don't know if this does anything more in terms of memory use or force quitting than just pressing the back button or start button, but it does bring some peace of mind that the app is probably not still running.
back
in the double tap is handled by the application and it simply returns to the previous page in the app.
– Richard Szalay
May 5 '12 at 2:59
From the new Windows 8.1 update, you can kill a process or an app by long pressing the back button. After a long back button press, tap the circled (x) button at the top right corner of the app you want to close as mentioned by @Tyler James Young.
Another method is, after a long back button press, you can kill/close any app by just swiping down that app!
You can press the windows/search/camera button to jump out of the application that is acting up. This will take you to the home/search/camera screen and the application that was running/acting up is made dormant.
Keeping the back button long pressed will show you all the dormant applications. If the system needs additional resources or if the program isn't reactivated after some time then the program is killed and it's resources are reclaimed.
If your application is acting up, you could also restart your phone to clear all dormant applications.
The only way to truly exit an application is to keep pressing the back button till you're out of all the application windows.
Or, if the problem is that you are just too deep in the navigation stack and you would have to press the back button a million times to quit it, you can just relaunch the app - press start button and launch your app (from start screen or from app list). This will start a new instance of the application with empty navigation stack and old instance of application (with big navigation stack) is thrown away.
From there is just one back-button-press to quit it.