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What does "x process and x service(s)" mean?

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rbohan44

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When I look at "Running" apps, each of them says "1 process and 1 service" or "1 process and 2 services". I'm not sure what that means. What's a process? What's a service? How do I know if they should be running or not?

If I "Stop" an app, will I mess things up?
 
By stopping an app you wont damage anything but as a general rule (on recent android versions anyway) you should just trust the operating system to know what its doing unless youre getting sudden dramatic battery drain which could be caused by a "rogue" app :thumbup:
Stopping (killing) an app thats crucial to the OS will just waste battery because Android will just have to restart it. Killing an app that you use regularly will also waste battery because its more efficient to have it sitting cached "suspended" in memory, doing nothing than having to fully restart it next time.
I dont know the difference between a process and a service but someone else will. They just mean that the app is actively doing something though i think and therfore using resources/battery so it could be a crucial system app doing important stuff or a user app like facebook syncing for example (i think lol) :)
 
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