Killing Google Navigation App

[Chatten]

Perhaps I'm missing something but I can't find a way to stop Google Navigation once started.  I can fire it from Tasker but if I do a APP-NAVIGATION-STOP it doesn't close.  Galaxy Note ICS/Rooted

 

[J.]

This is a common problem with Android, not Tasker.  Android disallows 3rd party apps to kill others, so you usually have to at the very least root the phone to accomplish this, or get even more invasive after root and kill the PID process.  You can tackle this manually, or you can dowload a little plugin in the market called TaskKill.  It works great and it's the only thing that would work for me.

[Greg Chatten]

I am rooted and can kill other apps.  I was guessing that nav can’t be stopped due to child processes.  What I’ve done is Profile external audio plugged and then fire my music app followed by NAV (in other words I’m in my car with EXT POWER on and EXT AUDIO plugged).  When external audio is unplugged I kill my music app (which works).  My current work-a-round for NAV is to fire the NAV app again which brings up the current screen and then use DPAD to close it which works fine.  I was curious on why NAV can’t be killed and see if anyone else found a way to do it with TASKER.

[Chatten]

J - I installed TaskKill, however, Google NAV doesn't show up as an app in the plugin.  Oddly enough it does show up as an app in Tasker.  I went through the list in TaskKill and didn't see any name related to the navigation app.  Any clue on how to kill it with TaskKill?

[J.]

Navigation is part of Google maps, so kill the Maps package and it should work.  You WILL have to select the 'Hardcore' method in TaskKill, or else Nav will come back!

[Greg Chatten]

I had tried MAPS before but not with Hardcore.

 

No joy with that either:

 

Method=Hardcore; Package=com.google.android.apps.maps

 

NAV is still running.  I don’t know if this makes any difference but I’m on ICS 4.0.4 stock for Samsung I717 and of course rooted.

I also tried the above with MAPS running and it’s still running…

 

I may be stuck with the DPAD method although prefer to kill it in  TASKER…

 

From: tas...@googlegroups.com [mailto:tas...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of J.
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 4:07 PM
To: tas...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Killing Google Navigation App

 

Navigation is part of Google maps, so kill the Maps package and it should work.  You WILL have to select the 'Hardcore' method in TaskKill, or else Nav will come back!

[J.]

Man that's crazy!  It *could* be something in ICS specifically I guess...the Hardcore actually disables the package, which should essentially remove it from the OS until it re-enables it.  Strange how it's holding on to it's state even after that...

[Greg Chatten]

Humm.  Started NAV then I froze MAPS with Titanium and NAV closed immediately.  The only side effect was both shortcut icons are gone from their original position when un-frozen but are still in applications.

 

SO, how are they doing it and I’m wondering if Pent is inclined to add that feature.

 

For now the DPAD appears to be my only quick-fix…

[Scott Miller]

If you're ok with freezing the apps in question, take a look at secure settings. It has some package management ability. I think it refers to disabling an app, not freezing it, but they are the same.

Scott

[Greg Chatten]

Scott – good timing as I just got done trying that.  Secure Settings -> Package State -> Maps -> off

 

Got superuser priv’s

Did not stop NAV

A few seconds later I got

 

“An error occurred while executing action Package State”

 

I have restarted Tasker and also re-booted/restarted Tasker and the same result.

[Scott Miller]

The author of secure settings is sometimes here in the Tasker forums, but he has his own forum over on XDA-Developers. You might try over there and ask about the error you are getting.

Scott

[number4please]

I also use tasker DPAD emulation but you have to take screenorientation into account.