Zombie Apps

leftystrat · July 24th, 2012, 11:10 AM

Taking advantage of ICS's ability to shut off unneeded or unwanted apps, I killed Maps, Google+, and Google Movies.

POOF, they're back from the dead, re-enabled.

I've seen this before and I'm not impressed.

agentc13 · July 24th, 2012, 11:34 AM

Did you disable them (through the manage apps options) or just kill the processes with a task manager?

The OS will load things in the RAM for quicker loading (sort of like caching it), so if you just kill the process it will restart because of that or when another app calls on a process from one of them.

leftystrat · July 24th, 2012, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by agentc13

Did you disable them (through the manage apps options) or just kill the processes with a task manager?

Disabled, thanks.

Harry2 · July 24th, 2012, 11:52 AM

With automatically update set in Play Store settings, the disabled apps may come back again

Harry

leftystrat · July 24th, 2012, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Harry2

With automatically update set in Play Store settings, the disabled apps may come back again

Harry

Excellent call but I have everything set to manual.

Thanks.

agentc13 · July 24th, 2012, 12:35 PM

If you want to root the phone you could just delete them permanently, but if you don't want to I can see if I can find anything else out (not sure what I will be able to dig up if anything, but I will try).

I rooted mine a few days after I got it and never ran into that issue, so I don't have much personal experience, sorry.