Is there any way to replicate old behavior of task killers in froyo? (i.e. kill everything associated with an app, including notifications etc. and make it never come back, unless manually restarted)
It can be from command line using root. Thanks On Jun 16, 12:10 am, "Happy C." <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dianne, > > Sorry to bother you. > > Does the "Force stop" in the setting of android 2.2 also use > "KillBackgroundProcess" or use the system level API (developer can't > use directly) to make it? > > I have tried the "KillBackgroundProcess" and adding the related > permission, but it can't stop the running app either or running > service like "Force stop" does. > > //ddms under "Force stop" > 06-15 22:08:10.505: INFO/ActivityManager(62): Force stopping package > com.MyTestApp/com uid=10037 > 06-15 22:08:10.505: INFO/Process(62): Sending signal. PID: 647 SIG: 9 > > //ddms under my KillBackgroundProcess > 06-15 22:05:32.725: INFO/Process(62): Sending signal. PID: 638 SIG: 9 > 06-15 22:05:32.754: INFO/WindowManager(62): WIN DEATH: > Window{43f4b2d8 com.MyTestApp/com.MyTestApp.act1 paused=false} > 06-15 22:05:32.754: INFO/WindowManager(62): WIN DEATH: Window{43fbd930 > com.MyTestApp/com.MyTestApp.act2 > paused=false} > > "Force stop" and my "KillBackgroundProcess" seems to have sent the > same signal 9. but they behave differently. > I don't know why it doesn't work in my "KillBackgroundProcess". > > Thanks very much! > > On 6月3日, 上午6時41分, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > >killBackgroundProcessesworks (you need a permission for it), but it > > > merely restarts the background services, so it's a little poorly > > > named. > > > Actually it does exactly what it says -- it kills a process. If an > > application has a service that it wants to keep running, the normal behavior > > of the system kicks in to restart the service for the app. As the > > documentation says, this allows the app to do the same thing is the out of > > memory killer (killing processes) without breaking applications by causing > > their services to be stopped when they don't expect (or unregister their > > alarms or the other things that fully stopping an app does). > > > -- > > Dianne Hackborn > > Android framework engineer > > [email protected] > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > > answer them. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
