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

[mingw android]

Is this common across all devices? Ive always rooted my phones out of the
box, but was hoping to not have to on my s2.
On Jun 21, 2011 7:07 PM, "Christian Kuester" <c.kuester at tarent.de> wrote:
> 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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