Kill a process from ADB SHELL

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Hello.
I have connected my galaxy s2 to the pc and installed ADT Bundle.
I am opening CMD and accessing the adb shell.
I am able to write commands like "top" "ps" "devices" "mkdir"
However "Kill" command not working.
I am running an android project from eclypse and I am able to see its process ID. But when I type
kill 14421 it says operation not permitted.
Is there a way to kill a process from adb shell?
I googled a lot but found nothing.

Posted 19-Jan-14 3:15am

missak boyajian

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Krunal Rohit · Answer 1 · 2014-01-19T03:30:00

Solution 1

Try this :

adb shell kill <PID>

Posted 19-Jan-14 3:30am

Krunal Rohit

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missak boyajian 19-Jan-14 9:59am

I did but its writing operation not permitted

Marco Bertschi 20-Jan-14 3:23am

This happens because you need adminstration rights to kill a process.

Marco Bertschi · Answer 2 · 2014-01-19T21:28:00

adb shell kill <pid>

will do the job for you.
If you don't have tha process name and only know the name of the package, you might want to try

adb shell am force-stop <packagename>

Comming to talk about the issue that a process kill is not permitted: This matter is discussed in this beautiful SO Thread[^]