kill a process inside an Android device
suggest changeSometimes Android’s logcat is running infinitely with errors coming from some process not own by you, draining battery or just making it hard to debug your code.
A convenient way to fix the problem without restarting the device is to locate and kill the process causing the problem.
From Logcat
03-10 11:41:40.010 1550-1627/? E/SomeProcess: ....
notice the process number: 1550
Now we can open a shell and kill the process. Note that we cannot kill root
process.
adb shell
inside the shell we can check more about the process using
ps -x | grep 1550
and kill it if we want:
kill -9 1550
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