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Micha 2012-05-24 20:44

How do I kill background running apps
 
I want to be able to kill certain apps that hang, for instance Ebuddy XMS is closed with the swipe down, but sometimes stills draining my battery in a few hours because of a bug and remains running in the background.

I want to be able to kill apps still running in the background.

Is there some sort of app/task killer?

catbus 2012-05-24 22:17

Re: How do I kill background running apps
 
use terminal? maybe? kill -9?

"Some programs just like to run backround... like cars like when someone drives and houses when someone living in..."

coderus 2012-05-25 06:38

Re: How do I kill background running apps
 
install htop
or use ps aux and kill -9
and learn linux terminal.

Micha 2012-05-25 07:26

Re: How do I kill background running apps
 
Thanks, will check this out.

cddiede 2012-05-25 12:31

Re: How do I kill background running apps
 
What bother to install htop when top will do?

Why bother with top, when you can grep the ps -ef output?

The OP seems to have already concluded that his ebuddy XMS program is failing to close all the way. If that's true then why not type something like:

ps -ef | grep -i ebud

Then just kill -9 the resulting pid. No extra software installation required.


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