How to fix “process is bad” error for an Android Widget?

Question

I have developed an Android Widget, and it was working fine. I added some extra functionality and pushed an update through the Android Market. Now people are complaining tha

Answer 1

The "process is bad" is due to multiple crashes of the app (or BroadcastReceiver, Service, or other component). After a few of these the system decides it's fed up with that behavior and prevents the process from starting again.

A reboot will clear the crash count but it can also be cleared by killing the system server:

adb shell killall system_server

This will effectively do a "soft reboot." I find it much quicker than an actual reboot.