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Task Switcher for Symbian OS Devices (e.g. Nokia Communicators, Series 60, SonyEricsson P910)

Task-Switcher will let you:

  • list your running applications
  • tell you how big they are in terms of memory usage
  • close applications
  • switch to an application even if it is not a graphical one

Task Switcher for Symbian Devices

the download links are at the bottom of this page

Current Version: 1.6 (2005-11-24)

Changes since 1.5:

  • Minor fix for the 9500
  • Compiling for all architectures again, some renaming

A detailed changelog is included in the zip-file (see below)

Copyright Notice

  • This is OpenSource software © 2001,2002,2003,2005 Knowledge Intelligence AG, Germany. It is protected by the GPL (GNU Public License).
  • It is free in the sense that you need not pay for it's use. You may also use the source code for your own purposes as long as all software derived from it is also GPL'd.
  • Please note that there is NO WARRANTY what so ever for this software.

The Problem

if you have aquired a Nokia® Communicator 9210 (EPOC R6), a Series 60-device or a Sony Ericsson® P800 recently and have been working with Psion® Devices up to now (EPOC R5), you will have noticed that task management is different in two respects

  • Some applications (the standard applications) may not be closed anymore
  • There is no "Open Programs" task switcher anymore. So there is no possibility to switch to applications, which have no graphical interface.
Since these devices tend to have very limited memory, the fact that you can't close some applications is annoying.

If you are a developer, moreover you probably want to use utility programs, which do not have a graphical frontend. But once started, you will not find them anymore. Starting them anew will just start a new copy, which is not what you want, especially with unique resources like serial interfaces.

 

The Solution

Nokia 9210

Nokia 7650

Sony Ericsson P800

Task-Switcher will let you:

  • list your running applications
  • tell you how big they are in terms of memory usage
  • close applications
  • switch to an application even if it is not a graphical one

In short: You regain the "Open Programs" utility, which you originally lost in Symbian OS (formerly EPOC) 6.

To use Task-Switcher, just download the matching sis-file (see below) and install it on your device with the standard Windows Tools.

If you are interested in copying programs to your Symbian device under LINUX, please see the p3nfs page in this tech-corner.

The source code is available here.

Files for download:

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