Killing android monkey process via adb only

Question

I have a problem with a monkey process. Starting Monkey is easy, but how to stop it? I know how to stop any process, but I have no idea how the monkey process is called. DDMS shows a "?" process, and that's it, but I have to kill it with an adb command.

Any idea?

Throw your phone at a brick wall. That should do it.. – dcow May 14 '12 at 13:37 — dcow, May 14 '12 at 13:37

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 20 '14 at 14:51

3

Command :

adb shell ps | awk '/com\.android\.commands\.monkey/ { system("adb shell kill " $2) }'

worked on android 2.3

edited Jan 20 '14 at 14:51

Alexis Pigeon

7,423
11
39
44

answered Jan 20 '14 at 14:31

Helder

31
3

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 03 '14 at 07:43

1

Do adb shell ps
Search for process name monkey. note down pid of the monkey process (pidvalue)
adb shell kill pidvalue. - where pidvalue is pid of monkey process.

That's all. monkey runner is stopped.

edited Sep 03 '14 at 07:43

2Dee

8,609
7
42
53

answered Sep 03 '14 at 07:12

Satya Ch

11
1

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

0

Just run it with a set number of events:

$ adb shell monkey -p your.package.name -v NUMEVENTS

If you didn't know what you were getting into and ran monkey with a silly number of events (anything with > 3 zeros), you can kill it as described by both the answers in how do I stop the monkey madness!

edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

Community

1
1

answered May 14 '12 at 13:38

dcow

7,765
3
45
65

1

There is no answer for my question, or i may not understand you. sory for that. Just like i said, i dont know how monkey process is called. I have Windows system, ddms is not a solution for me And console doesnt see com.android.commands.monkey process – user1393839 May 14 '12 at 13:51
What do you mean `ddms` is not a solution? It's included with the SDK. If you have `monkey` and `adb` you should have ddms.. – dcow May 14 '12 at 14:10
I need to kill monkey only by adb cmd. I know i can do this by DDMS, but i need only adb command – user1393839 May 14 '12 at 14:25
Then why haven't you tried using the `adb` command in the linked solution: `$ adb shell ps | awk '/com\.android\.commands\.monkey/ { system("adb shell kill " $2) }'` – dcow May 14 '12 at 16:32
ddms is not a solution for me And console doesnt see com.android.commands.monkey process. That's what i wrote yesterday. I tried – user1393839 May 15 '12 at 05:46
So what processes *are* running when you list them with `adb`? It might have changed to something very similar... you should check rather than just floundering around.. – dcow May 15 '12 at 10:07

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Aug 29 '12 at 10:15

0

On an emulator with Android 2.2 the monkey process is called 'app_process'. You can stop it with

adb shell ps | awk '/app\_process/ { system("adb shell kill -9 " $2) }'

edited Aug 29 '12 at 10:15

ЯegDwight

24,821
10
45
52

answered Jul 18 '12 at 20:07

user1136474

203
1
3
11

Killing android monkey process via adb only

4 Answers4