"adb kill" - does it need a root'ed device?

[Christian Kuester]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 07:23:04PM +0200, Espen Riskedal wrote:

> The device is not root'ed/hacked (if there is such a thing for
> Android) - anyone else got tips for this?

If you don't have a r00ted;) device your adb user is "shell" not
root, so you won't be able to issue an kill command to kill app_XXX
processes.

Try to go to Settings->Applications->Manage Applications.
There has to be a tab "running application". Select your App and
there has to be a button called "enforce app shutdown" or something
like that (my phone is german).

You might want to consider a task manager from the market. 

ck 
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