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I've just noticed some strange behavior on my OS2.0 Playbook and can't determine if it's the Playbook itself or software. After opening/closing up to 6 apps, they seem to remain seated in the background of "Recent Applications" 2.0.0.56 and I am unable to open a seventh app or more. There seems to be no way of clearing this cache (assuming that's what it is) without rebooting.
While I'm on the subject... I purchased my playbook approximately 4 months ago. As far as you know, have there been and hardware changes to the Playbook since that time? Not referring to specs like RAM or anything. I just wondered if there was any chance the BB Playbook has had any product tweaking that I may have missed out on at all.
This thing does a few things that it shouldnt be doing. For instances the backlight seemsto have a mind of its own regardless of manual setup. Sometimes out of the blue the screen will suddenly brighten up or down for no reason and at other times, applications start and then dissapear within a split second of starting up.
It's been like this since I bought it and wiping and reinstalling makes no difference.

I have seen this before as well. To explain it I think it is the android player in which the apps you see are android apps. They always seem to be open in this recent list even after you remove them from the home screen. I have asked the development team if they would be able to make it easier to find out what apps are android or blackberry playbook apps. However they didn't see why we wanted to know the difference.
For now I just don't install ones I think are android apps because even now it seems very experimental. I love the playbook but I wish they would open it up more and give developers more of an edge for developing not just through an api.

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