Stop, stop, or turn off background apps

Stop, stop, or turn off background apps

Many Android apps continue to run just in the background. Must be not problematic, because many services must be constantly active, useful to work. Was it the automatic upload of images or receive messages: these features require a background service. Typically, these functions load the Smartphone only slightly, to many of these services but can slow down the user interface. And sometimes such a background process crashes. At least then it says to stop the process. With our tips easily succeed.

Extend the battery life of your Smartphone
Release memory
Find the app culprit
Not always, it is immediately known what app causes just the problems on the tablet or Smartphone. But it's pretty easy to find out the cause. There are two tools:

Battery meter

A crashed background process often leads to increased power consumption and this is shown in the detail information of the battery. Look for it under settings-> battery-> battery consumption. Here, Android shows what apps or Smartphone features have the most battery power. At the top is usually the display as the biggest consumers of electricity. You have most recently low-use an app, they will still appear on this list, could be something fishy. With a click on an app entry there still detailed information - here you can also terminate the app if the battery and resource consumption is too much.

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The display of the Akkuverbrauchs / © screenshot: ANDROIDPIT
Ongoing services

Before you complete a service, you should consult but still a second source of information. Android offers detailed information about the resource consumption of applications for you under the item of ongoing services. To invoke it, it is first, to enable the developer options.

Developer options enable and turn on
After you have activated the developer options, you can call the point of running services in it. Here you see what app consumes much memory and how much RAM is free. An app has a suspiciously high memory consumption, here so she can choose, and you will find on the following page, which background services were started by the app.

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Detailed information about the memory usage of apps and services / © screenshot: ANDROIDPIT
Measures: App uninstall, disable and stop force
The app culprit is known, a look at the details of the app helps. You see-> apps / applications and there by clicking on the desired app settings. Here are the options found uninstall, disable and stop forcing.

Typical force ranges first, click Stop (sometimes stop force) to tap. This measure should help at least against crashed apps and stops background processes of an application also.

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Uninstall applications or force quit / © screenshot: ANDROIDPIT
Who wants to permanently stop a service, access to disable or uninstall options. Disable means that the app is no longer starts, but she remained in the internal memory. This may be the case for example when supplied apps, because the manufacturer installed these applications as system app that the user cannot easily can delete.

Uninstall in turn does exactly that. It deletes the app from the internal memory of your Smartphone.

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Clean up disk space
Want you purposefully stop a single service of an app, the options in the detail view of the function of running services help you. Here it says however, to take special care, because many apps cope not good, if an individual part is finished.

Further measures

But be careful: you is not quite clear what the app is intended, then you should not rashly Act: because some services are essential for the proper function of Android or other apps. Frequently, then also a restart can work miracles, because Android forces a reboot, restart all running background processes.

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