topic Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo? in Android TV

How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

bradulescu — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 02:17:47 GMT

"Press and hold the HOME button" not working in the Android TV Oreo

Rif.: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

Marino.Manolo — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:27:16 GMT

Press and hold Home
Scroll to the app you want to close and keep the central button on the remote control pressed
Choose "Information"
Choose "Forced shutdown"
Choose "OK"

Manolo

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

bradulescu — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 09:34:19 GMT

not working,

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

Waalpaul — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:09:14 GMT

I fully agree that there is no proper way to find out which apps are open on a tv and a simple way to close open apps. Example, if you have an radio app open and switch to another app with sound, both come through the speakers at the same time! Can the Sony engineers please fix this?

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

Marino.Manolo — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:10:55 GMT

There is no solution or anything to fix, it is a feature that Google has eliminated from Oreo and Sony has adapted.

Manolo

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

Waalpaul — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:27:36 GMT

Hi Marino,

OK, thanks for the fast reply, at least I can stop with looking!

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

PixarAnimated — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 10:59:01 GMT

As said you can Force Stop but this isn’t at all ideal when viewing lots of random content and building up a lot of cache.

BUT

There is a very easy solution.

Once a week.

PRESS HOME

GO TO SETTINGS

GO TO ABOUT

PRESS RESTART

THEN RESTART

This will reboot the TV to fresh and you will not lose any settings in fact it’s easier than closing the apps individually.

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

Waalpaul — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 12:03:45 GMT

Hi PixarAnimated,

Thank you for your suggestion. Yes, that is an option, but that takes too much time. When I have a Radio station app open en switch to another app with sound, that radio app keep on working, so I got two apps blaring through each other. Lets hope that the developers will improve on this in the future.

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

bradulescu — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 15:37:52 GMT

...Lets hope that the developers will improve on this in the future. Unfortunately, today, there is no solution

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

PixarAnimated — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 18:05:40 GMT

You’re right if one app affects another it would take longer to restart than to close an app but for those just wanting to know everything is closed, a restart only takes a minute and is well worth doing occasionally. I noticed a considerable speedup on my set after the first time.

Bizarre they removed such an intuitive feature as simple as closing an app though. It is the first thing I noticed on upgrading to Oreo.

Why do they make these crazy decisions.

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

CADIYATSIA — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 20:04:17 GMT

@PixarAnimated wrote:

As said you can Force Stop but this isn’t at all ideal when viewing lots of random content and building up a lot of cache.

BUT
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There is a very easy solution.

Once a week.

PRESS HOME
GO TO SETTINGS
GO TO ABOUT
PRESS RESTART
THEN RESTART

This will reboot the TV to fresh and you will not lose any settings in fact it’s easier than closing the apps individually.

Scroll to the app you want to close and keep the central button on the remote control pressed

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

PixarAnimated — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 19:08:29 GMT

That does not work on Android TV with Oreo update as previously stated.

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

LightFoot — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 19:53:32 GMT

@PixarAnimated wrote:

As said you can Force Stop but this isn’t at all ideal when viewing lots of random content and building up a lot of cache.

BUT

There is a very easy solution.

Once a week.

PRESS HOME
GO TO SETTINGS
GO TO ABOUT
PRESS RESTART
THEN RESTART

This will reboot the TV to fresh and you will not lose any settings in fact it’s easier than closing the apps individually.

Hi @PixarAnimated Alternatively, hold down the Remote power button until it Restarts.

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

PixarAnimated — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 20:50:08 GMT

Thanks for the top tip

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

Dotuletz — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 14:54:29 GMT

I postponed the update until today... hate the home menu and there's no recent apps, plus I've read some users have ads on their home screen now.

Anyway, I'll install some third party launchers see how it goes. I've read you can downgrade back or at least stop the ads if you have the problem, search for xda forum on this subject.

Going back to the thread, if you go on the Apps tab - find the app you want to close, keep the Ok button pressed then go to Info and Force Close

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

1978tojo — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 03:48:43 GMT

The task manager is still there post Oreo but is not mapped to the home button on Sony for some reason.

However, have found background apps can still be managed easily if using an external BT keyboard.

Switching Apps...

Hold down ALT key and use TAB key to cycle between background apps, then release ALT key to switch to selected app.

Closing Apps...

Hold down ALT key and use TAB key to cycle between apps, then (still holding ALT) use DEL key to close the selected app. You can continue cycling / closing any or all apps while ALT key held down.

Still annoying that not available through factory remote though... Sony, please change this back in next update.

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

romipat — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 15:46:16 GMT

Marino, no google havent removed it from oreo. im running oreo on my nvidia shield's and the home button/ close tasks functionality still works. I'm also running Oreo on my phoneand can close tasks on that too using the home button. the issue is with Sony's build of oreo.

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

romipat — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 20:20:30 GMT

Have installed the latest update and running oreo but still cannot closedown tasks on my xe 9305.

oreo on both phone and nvidia shield tv devices let me shutdown tasks by pressing the home key but cant do it on android tv 😞

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

chdawes72 — Tue, 19 May 2020 16:00:56 GMT

Argh ... finally got round to updating and the first thing my wife says is "where's the close menu gone that was on the Home button' ... very frustrating that Sony has taken this away...

@ Sony if you are reading this please put it back in ...

Re: How Close Running Apps on My Android TV Oreo?

rooobb — Tue, 19 May 2020 23:07:55 GMT

Google took it away... and Android TV is different than Android for mobile. The standard android mobile task manager btw is still present (there is a complex workaround via button mapper app to run it) but it is really of no use