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5. Touch an application to view and update information
about the application, including memory usage, default
settings, and permissions.
The following options are displayed:
• Force stop
: Stops an app that is misbehaving. Restart your
device if stopping an app, process, or service causes your
device to stop working correctly.
•Uninstall
: Deletes the application from the tablet.
For more information, refer to
“Uninstalling an App”
on
page99.
•Clear data
: Clears application data from memory.
•Clear cache
: If the app stores data in a temporary area of the
device's memory, and the amount of information stored is
displayed, touch this button to clearing the temporary storage.
•Clear defaults
: If you have configured an app to launch
certain file types by default, clear that setting.
•Permissions
: Lists the kinds of information about your device
and data to which the app has access.
Running Services
View and control services running on your device.
1. Touch
Settings
Application manager
.
2. Touch t he
RUNNING
tab.
All the applications that are currently running on the
device display.
3. Touch
Show cached processes
to display all the cached
processes that are running. Touch
Show services in use
to switch back.
4.
Touch one of the applications to view application information.
The following options display:
•Stop
: Stops the application from running on the device. This is
usually done prior to uninstalling the application.
Warning!
Not all services can be stopped. Stopping services
may have undesirable consequences on the
application or Android System.
•Report
: Report failure and other application information.
Note:
Options vary by application.