How to stop android service from a adb

Question

am startservice com.xxx/.service.XXXService

i can start a service through the command above , but the am manual doesn't say anything about stop service.

how can i do that?

lman · Answer 1 · 2015-12-02T12:58:42.617

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adb shell
ps | grep -i com.example.service
run-as com.example.service
kill -9 pId
exit

if your service work in the same process as your app. tested on android 5.1

edited Dec 02 '15 at 12:58

answered Nov 24 '15 at 16:01

lman

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 21 '12 at 10:06

If you intend to stop a service you developed yourself you can add a second service to your app that is only responsible to stop the other service.

Its onCreate() method only contains three lines of code:

public void onCreate() {
  super.onCreate();
  stopService(new Intent("<ActionIDofServiceToBeStopped>"));
  stopSelf();
}

This way you can stop your service by just starting the second one via adb:

am startservice '<IDofStopperService>'

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