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Android® Fully Loaded, Second Edition
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Android® Fully Loaded, Second Edition

by Rob Huddleston
February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 54m
English
Wiley
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Troubleshooting

The Skim

Killing Apps images Forcing Your Device to Reboot images Formatting Your SD Card images Booting Into Recovery Mode images 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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