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Troubleshooting
The Skim
Killing Apps 
Forcing Your Device to Reboot Formatting Your SD Card Booting Into Recovery Mode Rooting Your Phone
While there are a lot of great things about modern mobile devices, one disputable issue is that they are, in the end, computers, and just like every other computer, they will occasionally run into problems. Most of the time, the issues can be best solved by rebooting your device, but in some cases more steps may be required.
KILLING APPS
Before I discuss how to kill a misbehaving app, I want to take a moment and discuss when not to kill an app. Applications that exist to kill other applications — called task killers — have been a staple of the Android market practically from its inception, and I cannot tell how many of my friends, upon first getting an Android device, ask me which one is best. My answer is always the same: none of them.
The perceived need for a task killer comes from two things: first, the lack of any obvious way to stop or close ...
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