Sat 15 Apr 2006
Don’t you know that you can display the running application in S60 phones, just like Windows Task Manager? Symbian OS, the operating system underlying S60, is a multitasking operating system. Although you can only see one application on the screen, actually more than one application can run at the same time.You can display the list of applications that run by pressing and holding Menu key (
). Press and hold Menu key for about 1 second; otherwise the list of applications will not appear.
What can you do with the application list? You can switch between applications. Locate the application you want to activate and then press OK key.
What else can you do? You can kill an application. Locate the application you want to kill and then press C key. It is the key that you usually use to delete a character. This feature sometimes is useful when an application freeze and you cannot access Exit menu.
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April 26th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
Indeed, there’s a way for one-button navigation in the list.
1. Press and hold Menu key to bring the list
2. Each Menu keypress will jump to the next item in the list, and eventually rotates to first item upon reaching the end
3. Press and hold Menu key again to switch to the desired application
PS. Did you already have a post about what happens (on some later S60 devices) when you press and hold #-key in the idle screen?
April 26th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
Oh yes, I have that tip in my old blog, http://mobile.antonypranata.com/2006/02/17/switching-between-general-and-silent-profile/.
I will transfer the tip to my new blog. I think it is useful for most of us too….