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Manage applications
Touch to manage and remove installed applications.
Running services
Touch to open a list of services—applications or parts of applications that
provide services to other applications, or that run even when their main
application isn't running. Examples include the Android onscreen keyboard
and the small portion of Google Talk that always listens for incoming
messages. Above each service, one or more gray bars show what processes
the running service needs and how much memory they're using (how much
memory you would recover if you stopped the service). Depending on the
service, when you touch it in the list it either opens a dialog in which you
can stop it or opens its Settings screen.
Development
The Development screen contains settings that are useful for developing
Android applications. For full information, including documentation of the
Android applications and development tools, see the Android developer
web site (http://developer.android.com).
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USB debugging:
mark the check box to permit debugging tools on a
computer to communicate with your phone via a USB connection.
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Stay awake:
mark the check box to prevent the screen from dimming
and locking when the phone is connected to a charger or to a USB
device that provides power. Don't use this setting with a static image on
the phone for long periods of time, or the screen may be marked with
that image.
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Allow mock locations:
mark the check box to permit a development
tool on a computer to control where the phone believes it is located,
rather than using the phone's own internal tools for this purpose.
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11.7
Accounts & sync
Use the Accounts & Sync settings to add, remove, and manage your Google
and other supported accounts. You also use these settings to control how
and whether all applications send, receive, and synchronize data on their
own schedules, and whether all applications can synchronize user data
automatically.
Gmail, Google Calendar, and other applications may also have their own
settings to control how they synchronize data; see the sections on those
applications for details.
11.7.1
General sync settings
Background data
Mark the check box to permit applications to synchronize data in the
background, whether or not you are actively working in them. Unmarking
this setting can save battery power and lowers (but does not eliminate)
data use.
Auto-sync
Mark the check box to permit applications to synchronize data on their
own schedule. If you unmark this setting, you must touch an account in the
list on this screen, press Menu key, and touch Sync now to synchronize
data for that account.
Synchronizing data automatically is disabled if Background data is
unchecked. In that case, the Auto-sync checkbox is dimmed.
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