Questions tagged [disable-app]
To temporarily disable an app without uninstalling it, it can be "frozen". This has nothing to do with an "app freezing" in terms of "not responding to input".
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How do some system apps prevent themselves from being disabled?
I have been researching about this for quite some time and frankly I haven't found anything that reproduces this effect in any phone that I have tried, as you know there are a few system apps that ...
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What EXACTLY does "pm uninstall" do on an unrooted Android 9.0 device?
There seems to be confusion regarding the behavior of pm uninstall from the ADB shell, see also here and here.
Question: What configuration files does pm uninstall write to, is it /data/system/...
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Init.d script trouble shooting
I'm trying to run an init.d script when my rom boots to disable system services, and they aren't running.
The script is as follows
#!/system/bin/sh
su -c pm disable com.google.android.gms/.update....
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Turn an old Samsung Galaxy S6 into a GameBoy/eBook reader
I have a Galaxy Tab S6 (I know, old...) and I would like to turn it into something that, once turned on, will do two things:
GameBoy (via an emulator)
Ebook (via the Kindle reader)
I want to make ...
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Greenify ruins my Samsung Keyboard Input Languages
I've installed this Greenify app on my non-rooted Galaxy S3. It really does the magic after hibernating some of the non-system apps (e.g. FB, Twitter, etc.) - phone runs faster, battery drains down ...
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Google Maps unthaws "itself"?
I have a relatively specific question - I'm on a SonyEricsson xPeria Mini Pro (sk17i), using Android 4.0.4 with a rooted Stock Rom.
To conserve battery, I'm regularly freezing some apps I only use ...
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Why do some apps get frozen every time I reboot?
After rooting my Galaxy Nexus (international GSM version), I looked around a bit with Titanium Backup and found several system apps that were frozen. Among them are: Google Earth, Google Play Books, ...
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Cannot remove google account from Samsung android phone. Remove button greyed out
I cannot remove my google account from my android phone. Samsung XCover 4s Android 10.
This is a work phone and I only used my account to download whatsapp for work communication group.
I have deleted ...
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How to enable a disabled app in Samsung
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S9, Android 10, OneUI2.0
After updating my OS last month, the "Enable" button disappears from App info panel(Settings | Apps | (app) | Enable, said How to enable a disabled app)....
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How to safely remove, disable, freeze system apps on rooted device?
How to safely remove, disable, freeze system apps on rooted device (Xiaomi Mi9)?
I tried doing it old school on my Mi9 but after removing just absolute bloatware system doesn't boot, had to reinstall ...
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Disable specific apps access to stock browser?
With a productivity lock in place with an access code that is set by someone else, the phone user cannot directly open the "stock browser" unless Android asks:
Sign into public wifi network
if I ...
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How can Android run a disabled application?
I have just run into a situation described in this blog:
Can any one explain this to me? How can Android run a disabled application? What good do we have from marking applications as disabled, if ...
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Disable system apps without closed-source tools?
After spending more than an hour searching through F-Droid for an app to disable system apps, I gave up. The only thing I was able to find was Disable Manager and that doesn't seem to be able to ...
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Disable disable option
Is it possible to disable the disable option for a system app?
For example, if I turned Google now launcher into a system app, the disable option is grayed out. However, if I do the same for Google ...
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Disabling System Apps that have been updated and User apps [No Root]
How can I disable system apps that have been updated through the Play Store without doing "Uninstall Updates"?
For instance, Maps is a system app, which has been updated. How can I disable it without ...
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