I used to be a 7650 user... There was a multitasking system and you could also close applications... But in p800, I don't know how is it. There is no command to close an application and there is not tasking button like 7650 or windows taskbar...
Please help I'm very new
thank you
Get something like File Manager or Handy Day (the former is free, the latter isn't) -- these both have task lists in them.
the idea is that you don't have to close anything, the p800 will manage its own memory.
In practise it doesn't work 100% so you're best off getting something like filemanager (in downloads) which has a task list.
This is in the faq and plenty of other threads i am sure.
You don't have to worry about this! When you change to another app the first app actualy closes itself down (if the developer has done his / her job properly). When you switch back it loads all it needs back from memory and continues as if nothing had happened!
Whilst the system does manage memory, it is a finite resource. If you have enough programs running eventually others will not start and some may get memory allocation errors. This used to happen occasionally on Psion 5's.
A program that lets you exit programs is handy to have. Get the file manager. Its free & is useful for other purposes too.
Most applications that are written correctly will use no memory or resources when that are not in use. If you notice, all the standard P800 apps do not have an exit button. This is beacuse they completely close down when they are not active. Symbian strongly advise that all applications are written in this way. However, not every app can do this (telephony for example). Its sad that we have to rely on 3rd party apps to do this!!
The "written correctly" bit is where I would worry!
Actually I doubt that most apps do actually write their entire state to "internal disk" when losing foreground context. Stuff like Handy Day, Sal etc specifically cannot, because the mist remain active, and I notice that Opera and Browser will continue to load a page even if you switch away from them.
I don't purport to know the Symbian OS, but would suspect that a lot of stuff only flushes it's heap to disk when it gets an exit event rather than a focus event, and given the crap sync software, I wouldn't bet that the heap manager is particularly good at keeping itself tidy on disk.
I will sit corrected if anyone actually knows what the heap/disk architecture is in Symbian.
The Switcher does it for me. You can terminate any applications running the in the background. You can find it here.