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kill services

I understand the rationale behind not killing tasks, but i checked out the bbc news app earlier, and it runs a service (i could see it via a task manager). I couldn't then kill the service by using the bbc app. Should I be not killing services, and if so, aren't I going to end up potentially running several services unneccessarily?

I don't think there's any harm in killing services if you really want to, but the OS is supposed to do a good job of killing services if another application is in need of the resources being taken up by something you haven't actually used for a while.
Some seem desperate to kill every task possible to save an extra few minutes of battery life though.

moshbeard said:
I don't think there's any harm in killing services if you really want to, but the OS is supposed to do a good job of killing services if another application is in need of the resources being taken up by something you haven't actually used for a while.
Some seem desperate to kill every task possible to save an extra few minutes of battery life though.
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I'm happy with the OS doing that sort of thing, but I want control over services which use battery and consume data.

task managers actually end up costing you more battery, having that constantly killing tasks causes them to restart using the CPU which drains the battery. much better to just back out of an app and leave in "idle"
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hager420 said:
task managers actually end up costing you more battery, having that constantly killing tasks causes them to restart using the CPU which drains the battery. much better to just back out of an app and leave in "idle"
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Doesn't really address my question specifically about services, and the data/battery they consume. If I load the BBC news widget/app and it fires off a service to keep the news up to date, then I quit, but I can still see the service running (not sleeping or whatever) then it's using my battery and potentially still get data and I want it to stop. Have you used the BBC news app? Can you see the service running after you've quit the front end? How would you stop it? How about malicious apps?

Since reading that task killers are 'bad' I've got rid of all mine, but I dedided to keep jkAppSwitch on my long press of the search button. Mainly I use it for switching between apps easily but it can be used to manually kill things so that's cool, I rarely kill apps now since what I read here but in special needs circumstances I have that power.
Two birds with one stone and all that.

oursoul said:
Since reading that task killers are 'bad' I've got rid of all mine, but I dedided to keep jkAppSwitch on my long press of the search button. Mainly I use it for switching between apps easily but it can be used to manually kill things so that's cool, I rarely kill apps now since what I read here but in special needs circumstances I have that power.
Two birds with one stone and all that.
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Since my post, I've been playing with Fring, and I've stopped now and logged out. I look at the running services and I can see:
Process: com.fring
CallService
Started by application: touch to stop
Well, I don't want to have to fiddle with settings and kill stuff. I've logged out, then quit (pressed back - there's no 'quit' other than 'log out'). This isn't the only app that does this. I understand entirely the deal with Android managing apps, but it seems that this "service killer":
menu/settings/applications/running services
is required if you want to save cpu time, battery and possibly bandwidth. Should I have to do this? Or is this app badly behaved?

[Q] How can I stop apps from launching themselves ????

I see that when a task killer stops a program (cityid, stocks,etc) I can look right back in there and see it running again and in a minute the page is full again of the same apps that I just killed. Even with autokill on they start while the screen is off. I want to know if anyone has figured out what file or service keeps starting these and if there is an edit to it to tell them to quit it ? I am not comfortable with a device that I do not have control of stuff that starts and goes online by itself. Thanks.

madman34 said:
I see that when a task killer stops a program (cityid, stocks,etc) I can look right back in there and see it running again and in a minute the page is full again of the same apps that I just killed. Even with autokill on they start while the screen is off. I want to know if anyone has figured out what file or service keeps starting these and if there is an edit to it to tell them to quit it ? I am not comfortable with a device that I do not have control of stuff that starts and goes online by itself. Thanks.
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If you're not comfortable with a device you do not have full control of, looks like rooting is for you
Seriously though, rooting your device is the ONLY way to remove City ID, Stocks, etc. from your device. HOWEVER.
You should probably break yourself of the task killer habit. Lifehacker explains it all here: http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them.
In a nutshell, Android is actually really good at preserving memory, and killing apps that will keep popping up drains battery faster. The reason they keep popping up is Android is trying to predict what you're going to use next based on what you just did (or something like that), so potentially anything you have installed that is there on startup will hit that list.
I tried using Watchdog as the article said, but honestly I found in the end I just wanted more control. unrevoked 3.21 and several ROM tries later I'm happy with where I'm at
EDIT: I see by your sig that you have rooted your Dinc.. therefore, it's a very simple process if you want to get rid of the app entirely. If you want to leave it installed, you're not going to find a solution to the constant opening - Android is what Android is.

Most of the apps you see in the task list are not active. They're just loaded in memory so they can launch faster when you need them.
Like the previous poster pointed out, task killers are counter productive. You just get a continuous cycle with the app launching and being killed. Launching again and being killed again. And on and on.
Best just to leave android alone to do what it was designed to do.
If you still feel the need to be more in control use app autostarts. It allows you to block the initial app launch and block based on events.
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Mostly what I want to do is,,,,
,,,To stop applications that come on by themselves and log in even when you set in their settings to not do it, like Skype. I do use Skype to do a calll with a bunch of friends from school, but I want to start it when I want to use it, I am all the time having skype calls come in when I have not even launched the app. I figure that if it is listening for a call then it is useing power needlessly. I do not want to have to log out every time I want it to stop, I just want to close it and it behave and stop useing power. Many apps do that and I think it is a major reason for low battery life. My battery will not hold up a full shift at work, but if I kill the GPS and the 3G the thing has been up for 22 hours and is still at 66% and I have talked for over 2 hours today on the phone, so I think that if more control is gained over app behaviour then we can be happier with our batteries ;-)

madman34 said:
...but if I kill the GPS and the 3G the thing has been up for 22 hours and is still at 66% and I have talked for over 2 hours today on the phone,
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You hit the nail on the head there. It's not the apps killing your battery, it's the 3g and gps.
I leave my wifi on all the time but have it set to disconnect if the phone is idle for 15 min. Bluetooth, gps, and 3g are always turned off except when I need them.
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[Q] Is there an app for that?

Ok, this has been an ongoing longtime frustration of mine with the Android operating system. There are always numerous apps installed on my phone which are running in the background constantly, AND I DON'T WANT THEM TO BE!! I use Advanced task killer to kill them, but you can sit there and watch them all come back within a minute or two. I want something that will keep these apps from ever starting unless I manually start them myself. Is there anything that will do that?

You could get bloat freezer and freeze them. This effectively acts as though they are uninstalled, except you can unfreeze them at any time in case you need them.

This is in the wrong section, but if you use the "back" button or the app's "exit" button it will properly close the app. Don't use the home button or it'll just put the app in the background.
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The problem is not with closing apps. I could restart the phone. Then run task killer and kill all open apps, and 2 minutes later, there would still be 10 or more apps running in the background. I will try this bloat thing.

Your gonna do more damage than help by killing all those tasks. A lot of them are stuff the phone needs to operate properly. And, in general, task killers are just not a good idea for use with Android.
Read up:
http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/
http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
If you wanna get rid of the pre-installed bloatware, thats fine. But don't go killing everything thats running on the phone.

Anyone know of an app that ..

can automatically stop certain programs from auto-starting? I downloaded the wonderful Elixir 2 program and it showed me (and yes, I know that the OS would have showed as well), that apps like Stocks, First Aid, and Trillian were loaded/running even though I had not started these apps since the last reboot.
Is there a way to stop rogue apps from autostarting?

Why do you need to stop them? What makes you think that they shouldn't start?

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Well, I am not sure WHY they need to start, but I am sure that they take up memory. "First Aid" is certainly an app that can start up when needed, no need to run in the background. Same for the others.
That said, the original question remains. Anyone know of an app that can adjust the autostart of apps that have no business starting automatically?

Haven't tried it but may be worth a look:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/autorun-manager/com.rs.autorun

Interesting
First - Thank you for responding to the question! I have downloaded and run the app. It certainly professes to do what I was asking. Stopped some apps from loading, but others seem to be more persistent (does Titanium Backup need to run on boot? MyBackupPro? Don't think so). Thank you!

Read the hundreds of posts on task killers. Unless you are having a problem with a particular app, it is best left alone. If the memory being used for the app in question is "needed", android will kill it on its own.

Deleted because I realized I do not need to stoop to respond to nonhelpful posts (but really, people. when is "read random amorphous posts which are not on topic" a response).

only came across 2 apps that run constantly in background vs cached like their supposed to. Fbook and okcupid. autostart managers sorta work but they break functions

In a perfect world, every app on your device would start at boot and reside in RAM. I've never understood this idea that killing apps somehow conserves resources or saves power, because it does neither. In fact, it does the OPPOSITE. For instance, Trillian: Do you REALLY want to kill it whenever you're not using it, only to reopen it the next time you want to use it? That eats about 4 times more power than just leaving it running. NOTHING your cpu does eats more power than reading and writing to NAND. RAM should be as full as possible all of the time with as many apps as are recently or likely to be used. RAM operations consume FAR less power than NAND operations. Unless the app is simply an abusive piece of crap, like Amazon's market and music apps, there's usually a reason for them to run. Titanium Backup never starts unless it's got a reason to, in my experience, such as scheduled auto-backup operations. The better question to ask is why apps are starting at boot, not "Where can I get one more resource-hogging app to whip bad behavior into shape?"

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In a perfect world, every app on your device would start at boot and reside in RAM. I've never understood this idea that killing apps somehow conserves resources or saves power, because it does neither. In fact, it does the OPPOSITE. For instance, Trillian: Do you REALLY want to kill it whenever you're not using it, only to reopen it the next time you want to use it? That eats about 4 times more power than just leaving it running. NOTHING your cpu does eats more power than reading and writing to NAND. RAM should be as full as possible all of the time with as many apps as are recently or likely to be used. RAM operations consume FAR less power than NAND operations. Unless the app is simply an abusive piece of crap, like Amazon's market and music apps, there's usually a reason for them to run. Titanium Backup never starts unless it's got a reason to, in my experience, such as scheduled auto-backup operations. The better question to ask is why apps are starting at boot, not "Where can I get one more resource-hogging app to whip bad behavior into shape?"
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I agree with this 100%.

Yes But
Yes - I get all that, but it bugs the heck out of me that some of these apps feel the need to auto run and worse still, are classified as "self restarter" by the recommended app.
On a cold power-up (I charge with the power off), and without running any apps (in response to the Titanium reference above), the following apps not only started, but restarted when stopped: Appstore, Ebay, Elixir, Mortplayer Audio Book, MyBackup Pro, ROM Manager, Stocks, Titanium Backup, Trillian, Wordsmith, and XDA. Mind you, I am not including apps that SHOULD start up (swype, timeriffic, lookout, etc).
Why any of those apps start on power-on is beyond me, and why almost all of them are set by their respective authors to restart if they are shut down, is even more perplexing. Hence my desire to try to reign them in, especially since they are taking 20MB each of RAM. That's the story

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Yes - I get all that, but it bugs the heck out of me that some of these apps feel the need to auto run and worse still, are classified as "self restarter" by the recommended app.
On a cold power-up (I charge with the power off), and without running any apps (in response to the Titanium reference above), the following apps not only started, but restarted when stopped: Appstore, Ebay, Elixir, Mortplayer Audio Book, MyBackup Pro, ROM Manager, Stocks, Titanium Backup, Trillian, Wordsmith, and XDA. Mind you, I am not including apps that SHOULD start up (swype, timeriffic, lookout, etc).
Why any of those apps start on power-on is beyond me, and why almost all of them are set by their respective authors to restart if they are shut down, is even more perplexing. Hence my desire to try to reign them in, especially since they are taking 20MB each of RAM. That's the story
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Got me on a few of those, but other ones make all kinds of sense. Any app store sort of app is going to start to authenticate with the service. Amazon is known to do this abusively. The same would probably apply with audio books. MyBackup Pro is probably assuming there's a scheduled function to perform. Stocks is just part of Sense and it doesn't go away. TiBU has never started on any device I've had it on unless 1 of 2 things was the case; I ran the widget or had something scheduled. Trillian SHOULD start up because it's a chat client. If it's not running, it's not much good as a chat client. Not sure what Wordsmith is. XDA will start because it's set by default to sync on a regular basis if you're signed into it.
I don't know what to tell you. You're probably never going to find a way of permanently killing an app connected to a market, and if you do, whatever you use from that market probably won't work right. The best I can say is figure out why those apps you listed do what they do. There's probably a reason that can be fixed or better understood. Some, like Trillian, will self-start no matter what because failure to do so is a MUCH more aggravating issue than the app starting with nothing to do.

only 2 I have that aggravate me is Fbook and okcupid. understandable if both run and autostart for push capabilities but I've disabled sync and push and still runs in background vs cached in background like it's supposed to

dyetheskin said:
only 2 I have that aggravate me is Fbook and okcupid. understandable if both run and autostart for push capabilities but I've disabled sync and push and still runs in background vs cached in background like it's supposed to
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I don't think Facebook is worried about their app being accused of greatness or winning development awards!

loonatik78 said:
In a perfect world, every app on your device would start at boot and reside in RAM. I've never understood this idea that killing apps somehow conserves resources or saves power, because it does neither. In fact, it does the OPPOSITE. For instance, Trillian: Do you REALLY want to kill it whenever you're not using it, only to reopen it the next time you want to use it? That eats about 4 times more power than just leaving it running. NOTHING your cpu does eats more power than reading and writing to NAND. RAM should be as full as possible all of the time with as many apps as are recently or likely to be used. RAM operations consume FAR less power than NAND operations. Unless the app is simply an abusive piece of crap, like Amazon's market and music apps, there's usually a reason for them to run. Titanium Backup never starts unless it's got a reason to, in my experience, such as scheduled auto-backup operations. The better question to ask is why apps are starting at boot, not "Where can I get one more resource-hogging app to whip bad behavior into shape?"
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True however some of the apps that are residing in RAM, pop up and do updates and checks that do eat data and cpu than if they were killed. Most apps don't do this and typically it's bad to kill apps because the act of killing it uses CPU and especially the act of that app starting back up uses more CPU.
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RAM is not an issue so don't even consider it one, even if your RAM is full it doesn't matter. This doesn't run like Windows does where things slow down if you don't have enough RAM.
Most apps that use resources in the background I uninstall, but for others (I think I only do this to 1 app) you can use "autostarts" to disable them from starting upon launch, or stopping them from starting upon other events that may trigger an app to automatically start
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.elsdoerfer.android.autostarts&hl=en
It has much more control over when apps automatically launch than the other app I saw posted on the main page- also it doesn't kill them, just prevents them from starting so it's not like an app killer.
Hope this was what you were looking for.

Let it be
Just let the programs start to let the phone fully awaken
Then kill the apps with any klling apps app task killers and so on

gutiejor said:
Just let the programs start to let the phone fully awaken
Then kill the apps with any klling apps app task killers and so on
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No. Don't do this.

POQbum said:
True however some of the apps that are residing in RAM, pop up and do updates and checks that do eat data and cpu than if they were killed. Most apps don't do this and typically it's bad to kill apps because the act of killing it uses CPU and especially the act of that app starting back up uses more CPU.
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RAM is not an issue so don't even consider it one, even if your RAM is full it doesn't matter. This doesn't run like Windows does where things slow down if you don't have enough RAM.
Most apps that use resources in the background I uninstall, but for others (I think I only do this to 1 app) you can use "autostarts" to disable them from starting upon launch, or stopping them from starting upon other events that may trigger an app to automatically start
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.elsdoerfer.android.autostarts&hl=en
It has much more control over when apps automatically launch than the other app I saw posted on the main page- also it doesn't kill them, just prevents them from starting so it's not like an app killer.
Hope this was what you were looking for.
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I use autostarts also on startup and when I'm running I use auto memory manager both great apps

I have been using Autostarts for a long time now and am very pleased with it.

gutiejor said:
Just let the programs start to let the phone fully awaken
Then kill the apps with any klling apps app task killers and so on
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I read that this is a bad habit carried over from pre-froyo days where memory management was different and this was recommended then. I don't have a link but trust me and don't just kill stuff like that.
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[Q] Task Killers/Freeing Memory Question

From my searching, even on other sites, supposedly this topic has been beaten to death, yet I can't seem to find much about it.
Basically, I would like to keep apps, like Facebook, Email, and Amazon Video, etc., from running until I start them up. Then I would like for them to close, and stay closed, when I'm not using them. In essence, act like a typical app.
All I have been able to find is that you can use a Task Killer to achieve this. But, the average opinion seems to be is that the TKs uses as much, if not more, resources repeatedly killing the constantly restarting apps as just letting the apps "run". Basically, I've yet to find out if it is or isn't possible to keep these apps from constantly restarting on their own.
The reason I want to make these changes is that when my memory gets full, my Fire will lock up, or slow down, for 30 seconds or so... sometimes longer. Supposedly, the O/S is designed to keep as much in memory as possible and it supposedly frees up memory quickly, from apps that you aren't using, when needed. In my experience this is definitely not the case... especially when I click the Task Killer button and my Fire instantly returns back to normal speed... and never did the CPU go above 600Mhz (which is the min I have it set to).... which means it wasn't an issue with the CPU being overloaded.
So does anyone know of a way to keep these persistent apps from being persistent?
BTW, I'm running a pretty standard rooted Fire that I just re-did using the KFU v9.6 and all the "goodies" with it, like the GoLauncher.
TIA

PBFred said:
Supposedly, the O/S is designed to keep as much in memory as possible and it supposedly frees up memory quickly, from apps that you aren't using, when needed. In my experience this is definitely not the case... especially when I click the Task Killer button and my Fire instantly returns back to normal speed...
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It's true that, under normal circumstances, you shouldn't worry about it. It sounds like your system is simply lacking in memory because it has some high priority tasks eating it all away (Carousel + GO Launcher are probably hogging up a bunch already).
Seeing how you're running rooted Stock with Go Launcher and a bunch of other applications - have you considered switching to Modaco? It's based on Stock...
PBFred said:
So does anyone know of a way to keep these persistent apps from being persistent?
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To answer this question, other than applying memory scripts, some task killers can be set to autoclose a pre-defined list of apps when you press a widget button - this may interest you. Look into the settings/options of the task killer you're using.

Maybe give this a shot?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rs.autorun&hl=en

PBFred said:
From my searching, even on other sites, supposedly this topic has been beaten to death, yet I can't seem to find much about it.
Basically, I would like to keep apps, like Facebook, Email, and Amazon Video, etc., from running until I start them up. Then I would like for them to close, and stay closed, when I'm not using them. In essence, act like a typical app.
All I have been able to find is that you can use a Task Killer to achieve this. But, the average opinion seems to be is that the TKs uses as much, if not more, resources repeatedly killing the constantly restarting apps as just letting the apps "run". Basically, I've yet to find out if it is or isn't possible to keep these apps from constantly restarting on their own.
The reason I want to make these changes is that when my memory gets full, my Fire will lock up, or slow down, for 30 seconds or so... sometimes longer. Supposedly, the O/S is designed to keep as much in memory as possible and it supposedly frees up memory quickly, from apps that you aren't using, when needed. In my experience this is definitely not the case... especially when I click the Task Killer button and my Fire instantly returns back to normal speed... and never did the CPU go above 600Mhz (which is the min I have it set to).... which means it wasn't an issue with the CPU being overloaded.
So does anyone know of a way to keep these persistent apps from being persistent?
BTW, I'm running a pretty standard rooted Fire that I just re-did using the KFU v9.6 and all the "goodies" with it, like the GoLauncher.
TIA
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Just let the OS do what it was designed to do, which is manage the apps and memory automatically. Any interference with that setup will only be a detriment to performance and battery life.
These are not full-featured Operating Systems like what is running on your desktop. Android (and iOS, and even Win8 Metro) automatically manages free memory, running processes, and stopping/starting of apps.
If you try to mess with this, it will cost you battery life and performance as the OS will continue to attempt to maintain it's designed status-quo by restarting apps that you've killed, and reassigning memory that you've freed up.
Task killers are only handy if you have an app that runs away and won't allow itself to be shut down (happens less often with every release/update), and even then, just cycling the device is more than enough to clean that up.
tl;dr Task Killers - Don't.

taskillers worked great in cupcake and donut... Using them In ics is just abusive.
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AlexDeGruven said:
tl;dr Task Killers - Don't.
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This may be a dumb question, but I've read that kind of synopsis several times. With the release of ICS however, we have the option of killing previously running apps via the multitasking bar. What's the difference?

BleedsOrangeandBlue said:
This may be a dumb question, but I've read that kind of synopsis several times. With the release of ICS however, we have the option of killing previously running apps via the multitasking bar. What's the difference?
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It's mostly in the way the OS talks to the task at hand. A Task Killer simply yanks the rug out from under the application in question, whether it's in a safe-to-stop state or not, and disregards any background services an app might be using. In many cases, the OS interprets this as a crash and attempts to get the app back into a 'normal' state.
ICS's task management politely asks (for lack of a better term) the app to stop and take any of its background processes with it. Sometimes, only the very foreground part of the app closes, sometimes the entire application and all services stop. But at the very least, you don't have the constant kill-recycle cycle that occurs with task killers.
ICS's method is much preferred, if not necessarily needed in most cases. I use it as a convenience to keep the list of recent apps clear.

androidcues said:
taskillers worked great in cupcake and donut... Using them In ics is just abusive.
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For memory management, yes. For killing wakelock abusers - they still have a reason for existing there.
Mainly Facebook. Facebook STILL holds excessive wakelocks on a regular basis (although it's not as bad as the perma-wakelock it held a year ago), and is the primary reason I keep Advanced Task Killer around.
Never use an autokiller though.
Only use a task killer for managing identified misbehaving apps that you just have to keep around for some reason (like Facebook). Never use a task killer for memory management reasons - only use it on apps that are using excessive background CPU or wakelocks. (usually, apps that are high on the ****list in Settings->Battery.)

There are programs like 'Gemini Task Manager" that will let you edit/modify the automatic startup settings for any particular app. At the very least it will let you see what apps may be causing problems on your device. As far as I know it only edits the startup to keep them from running in the first place rather than constantly killing them when they do like some task managers.

Thanks for all the info. It appears that just leaving it the way it is is what I should do... especially since 95% of what I use the Fire for is for reading books. But I am a Windows/Cisco Sys Eng, so I like to tinker with all my tech devices whenever I can.
That being said, it seems to me that if these "persistent apps" were on a Windows O/S, they would be running as a Service. And if you know Windows, you would know that Services can be set to restart if they are stopped by any means, except through the Service Manager Console itself (or the command line, if you really know Windows). But I have no clue if Linux/Android has the equivalent of Windows Services. I would have to believe that full-fledged versions of Linux/Unix does, but maybe not Android. Just a thought... and maybe it is something people have overlooked when trying to keep these "persistent apps" from being persistent.
Typically, in Windows, you would never ever think of running Facebook as a Service... but you easily could if you wanted to. And it appears that Amazon really wants Facebook, and several other apps, to be running at all times, for no apparent reason.
Oh well, if I had a 2nd Fire, I would "hack" the hell out of it. But since I don't, and I read a lot, I'll just be happy with what I got. And honestly, even after having the Fire since the first day it came out, I'm still loving it.

PBFred said:
Thanks for all the info. It appears that just leaving it the way it is is what I should do... especially since 95% of what I use the Fire for is for reading books. But I am a Windows/Cisco Sys Eng, so I like to tinker with all my tech devices whenever I can.
That being said, it seems to me that if these "persistent apps" were on a Windows O/S, they would be running as a Service. And if you know Windows, you would know that Services can be set to restart if they are stopped by any means, except through the Service Manager Console itself (or the command line, if you really know Windows). But I have no clue if Linux/Android has the equivalent of Windows Services. I would have to believe that full-fledged versions of Linux/Unix does, but maybe not Android. Just a thought... and maybe it is something people have overlooked when trying to keep these "persistent apps" from being persistent.
Typically, in Windows, you would never ever think of running Facebook as a Service... but you easily could if you wanted to. And it appears that Amazon really wants Facebook, and several other apps, to be running at all times, for no apparent reason.
Oh well, if I had a 2nd Fire, I would "hack" the hell out of it. But since I don't, and I read a lot, I'll just be happy with what I got. And honestly, even after having the Fire since the first day it came out, I'm still loving it.
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It's still completely different system paradigms. In mobile OSes, background services are typically in a paused state when not actively in use, where in full-featured OSes, they can be in any one of several states.
As to the fb service running, that has nothing to do with Amazon. That's just the fb mobile developers not knowing what they're doing.
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