Task Manager Solution for WM 6.5.1 ROM's
 

Like many of you I'm sure, I too found the lack of an easily accessible Task Manager in the newer WM 6.5 builds to be quite irritating to say the least, and NO, trying to poke around the upper right-hand corner hoping to get lucky and pull up the HTC task manager is NOT a solution! :angry7:

I tried Task Facade 4.
Verdict: Too slow, and occasionally glitches.

I tried e-Natives Technology ShowcaseSuite-1.1.0.
Verdict: Doesn't play nice with TF3D in the newer builds, preventing it from launching altogether depending on build, and also doesn't work with every app, and occasionally doesn't come up at all.

I tried FdcSoft TaskMgr wm2005
Verdict: Not very finger friendly (and this is essentially what comes with most WM ROM's anyways as a default task manager)

I tried AEBPlus for mapping buttons to alt-tab, close, etc, but most newer phones just don't have the hardware buttons needed, and it's a crapshoot trying to get the buttons mapped properly anyhow.

I tried WkTaskL_1202. I tried QuickMenu WM 6.5 by utak3r, I tried Duttys Task Manager 2.1.19183631, I tried...well, basically you name it, I tried it. :read:


They all had problems in some way, shape, or form. Be it lack of finger-friendliness, crashing, failure to launch, failure to show all open apps properly, conflicts with newer WM/Manila builds, etc.


Then I found the solution, and I can't take the credit for it, as it was posted over at XDA-Developers

Here is the result:
http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/Screen01.png

Compare that to the default task manager included in WM and on most newer 6.5.x ROM's (which I already tweaked to show just Apps and nothing else except for About, which can't be removed, yet it still didn't cut it):
http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/Screen02.png

Big difference in terms of usability!


On my Touch Pro, I've mapped this task manager to long-hold on the talk button, so it pops up after about a second, and I don't have to fool around with thumbing through the start menu anytime I want to access my open apps, or close them for that matter.

Double tapping on any item will switch to it. You can kill all tasks as well as individual tasks with this task manager. It's finger friendly, and it just plain works!

Hope this may be of use to some of you who were just as frustrated as I.

Re: Task Manager Solution for WM 6.5.1 ROM's
 

well i tried mapping task facade to the windows hardware key on my tp2, but it is too slow to be usable... task facade is great, but as far as i know development is stalled.....

i once sent a message to the task facade dev but never got a response.... here it is


task facade would be a great solution if it wasnt so slow.

Re: Task Manager Solution for WM 6.5.1 ROM's
 

Agreed.
That was my experience with it as well.
Nice to look at, but too slow. Perhaps the HD2 with Snapdragon will change all of that, but it's not very usable in its current state, not pragmatically anyhow.

The solution above is super quick though, pops up within a second after being mapped to a key. :)

Oh, and it's finger-friendly as well.

Re: Task Manager Solution for WM 6.5.1 ROM's
 

Funny how the simplest and oldest solutions sometime are the best.

Re: Task Manager Solution for WM 6.5.1 ROM's
 

Indeed. ;)

Here is the exact file you need to access from File Explorer:

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/Screen03.png

Re: Task Manager Solution for WM 6.5.1 ROM's
 

I will elaborate on this topic as it seemed to generate some confusion in another thread.

I just copied and pasted my post from the other thread below.

Re: Task Manager Solution for WM 6.5.1 ROM's
 

Is this what everyone is using to switch between apps. I really miss the task man in the upper right had corner. That's what I used to multitask and switch between open apps. Is there a solution to this?

Re: Task Manager Solution for WM 6.5.1 ROM's
 

QuickMenu seems to work nicely on 6.5.1.
Just click where the old start menu used to be.

Re: Task Manager Solution for WM 6.5.1 ROM's
 

thanks

Re: Task Manager Solution for WM 6.5.1 ROM's
 

I still use taskfacade. It isn't too slow for me, usually launches pretty quickly. The only problem I have with it, is that it crashes pretty often. Someone really needs to take up development on that. If a few issues could be worked, I'd pay for a working version.