Stop service belonging to another application on Android

How to stop service belonging to another application on Android? Service is started with START_STICKY so if I kill it's process it gets restarted afte开发者_如何学运维r few seconds. Any ideas (incl. those that needs root access) are welcome.

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Only one way I found it stop service all time when it come back. You can check per few seconds list of running services ( ActivityManager.getRunningServices(int) ) and kill the service you want to kill every time when it found there.

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It is possible to force stop a package until it is explicitly started again by another package (e.g. opened from launcher). This can be done by running the following command as root:

am force-stop package_name_to_stop