11.7Applications

You use the Applications settings to view details about the applications installed on your phone, to manage their data and force them to stop, and to set whether you want to permit installation of applications that you obtain from web sites and email.

Unknown sources

Mark the check box to permit installation of applications that you obtain from web sites, email, or other locations other than Google Play Store.

To protect your phone and personal data, download applications only from trusted sources, such as Google Play Store.

Manage applications

Touch to manage and remove installed applications.

Running services

Touch to open a list of services—applications or parts of applications that provide services to other applications, or that run even when their main application isn’t running. Examples include the Android onscreen keyboard and the small portion of Google Talk that always listens for incoming messages.Above each service, one or more gray bars show what processes the running service needs and how much memory they're using (how much memory you would recover if you stopped the service). Depending on the service, when you touch it in the list it either opens a dialog in which you can stop it or opens its Settings screen.

Storage use

Touch to view available memory and the memory used by applications on your phone.

Battery use

Touch to view the amount of power consumed by your phone. It also shows which applications consume the most battery power. For more information, refer to section 11.16 About phone.

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