What's the deal with LogsProvider?

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IpwnNubs4444

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Phone: Samsung Intercept w/ 2.1

When I go into something like taskiller or similar control app, I see the process LogsProvider. I kill it. That kills my icons, and then and it starts back up in a few minutes. I don't think I saw this before in the list of processes running all the time.
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Is this process passing my call logs to another application?

Thanks for any help
 
"LogsProvider" is exactly what it says -- it is a logs provider. In other words, whenever an app outputs a log file statement, it gets tossed over to the LogsProvider to write in the background so it doesn't slow down your foreground application.

In Java you log debug statements, errors, warnings, etc and that gets stored to a log file on the file system. This is important for crash reporting, debugging an issue, etc.

In general you do not want to kill anything with "com.sec.android" in it (in general you shouldn't need a task killer as well). These are system services and you can crash out the whole phone.

If you kill the logger all the apps calling that instance at that time will likely crash out.
 
The only reason I got a process viewer/killer was because my phone started getting slow at times, and I suspected one of the apps I got might have been spyware (I suppose it could have just been a crappy app too)...

Anyone have ideas on how to detect whether or not an application/process is "overactive" on your Android system? Third party software?

Are there any good resources out there on how to deal with possible spyware?

Thanks
 
Also... I another thing that made me suspicious is the up/download icon seems a little "too" active (or at least a lot more in the last few days). Are there any apps/things-to-do that allows a person to see what is "sending" out information from my phone...
 
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