Root what is UID 10120?

[cyaiphone]

this is found under partial wake times in battery history inside spare parts. What is this nonsense?

 

[akazabam]

The UID is the userid. In a typical Linux/Unix system, each user has a numerical user id. Even if the user has an actual name. For example, the user root has a UID of 0. In Android, most processes run under their own UID. Here is a list of some of the reserved UIDs and what processes run under them. As you can see from that list, UID 10000 and up are user apps, meaning that they are apps that you've installed (most likely) and won't be system apps (probably). You can use something like Quick System Info to correlate processes to the UIDs that they are running as. When you see a UID in spare parts, it usually means an app running under that UID is holding a lock or using data, or whatever the case may be for the section you are looking under.

 

[cyaiphone]

The UID is the userid. In a typical Linux/Unix system, each user has a numerical user id. Even if the user has an actual name. For example, the user root has a UID of 0. In Android, most processes run under their own UID. Here is a list of some of the reserved UIDs and what processes run under them. As you can see from that list, UID 10000 and up are user apps, meaning that they are apps that you've installed (most likely) and won't be system apps (probably). You can use something like Quick System Info to correlate processes to the UIDs that they are running as. When you see a UID in spare parts, it usually means an app running under that UID is holding a lock or using data, or whatever the case may be for the section you are looking under.

aza to the rescue! thanks!!!

 

[mecampo]

i believe you can use os monitor, free from the market to determine what app or process is that UID.

 

[akazabam]

Yeah, OS monitor can probably do it, too.

 

[geewhiz]

OS monitor gives me PIDs for proceeses but I don't see where to get the UID.

 

[akazabam]

Try the app I suggested, then. It will give you a list of processes, which you can long press on, and get the UID. Unfortunately, it makes it difficult if you know the UID, but not the process. You kind of have to guess. I don't know of an app that just gives you a list of UIDs and the processes that run under each one. There might be a way to do it from the terminal.