Everybody wants to download and install apps from the market, but a lot of people is having problems because they remove too much default apps and services from the phone wich are really linked to the market system.
What I know: GTalkService.apk is used to download apps and cannot be removed.
I think gtalk.apk can be removed safely. What about Gmail? What services are needed and what apps can be removed?
Thanks
Hi there, was just curious if anyone has figured out how to get Google Music on the KF, and if it would require rooting.
I have already uploaded ~50GB of music to google and really don't want to have to do the same to Amazon Cloud Drive, especially with the $20 fee.
Thanks!
Once i got working market, which yes requires root, I was able to pull down google music from the market and it works flawlessly.
I was able to get mine working after rooting, i installed market and google music, and the widget. works fine.
I got mine without rooting and just installing the APK's individually. You need a bunch of APK's to get it going right, including the Google framework, Books, and Gmail apps.
See the "side loading apps" thread for more.
I used the sideload thread to get google apps working (didn't do market as its more of a hassle). After that, installing google music is easy. I install on my phone, backup the apk and use dropbox to move to my device.
You can sideload it along with the google framework, and it works perfectly.
If you want to be able to buy music though, you need to load the market, you need to root and follow the insructions in the development forum, it takes like2 minutes...i then unrooted once i got it loaded and everything works awesome.
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I'm curious on what apps/services you guys have disabled in settings.
Mine:
Facelock
Cloud Print
Drive
Earth
Google Korean keyboard
Google Play Books
Google Play Games
Google Play Music
Google Play newspaper something?
Google+
Googles IME for hindi
Googles IME for pinyin
Hangouts
News and weather
Plugin program for HP printing
Printing queue
ArtieQ said:
I'm curious on what apps/services you guys have disabled in settings.
Mine:
Facelock
Cloud Print
Drive
Earth
Google Korean keyboard
Google Play Books
Google Play Games
Google Play Music
Google Play newspaper something?
Google+
Googles IME for hindi
Googles IME for pinyin
Hangouts
News and weather
Plugin program for HP printing
Printing queue
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Just curious why you'd disable the apps that are just as easily uninstallable (ie.Hangouts, GP Books, Games, Music, Drive, Earth)?
If you don't plan on using them....ever....why not increase your storage capacity?
pwrmedia said:
Just curious why you'd disable the apps that are just as easily uninstallable (ie.Hangouts, GP Books, Games, Music, Drive, Earth)?
If you don't plan on using them....ever....why not increase your storage capacity?
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What's the process of uninstalling them? Can't seem to do it in settings?
ArtieQ said:
What's the process of uninstalling them? Can't seem to do it in settings?
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Are you using a custom ROM in which they're baked in? If so, the process for removing system .apks is a bit different, and you may in fact want to simply leave them disabled rather than removing entirely so you don't encounter any potential FC's or loss of functionality.
ArtieQ said:
What's the process of uninstalling them? Can't seem to do it in settings?
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Use titanium backup to uninstall them
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Juansegovia20 said:
Use titanium backup to uninstall them
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Maybe he doen't have root...
ArtieQ said:
I'm curious on what apps/services you guys have disabled in settings.
Mine:
Facelock
Cloud Print
Drive
Earth
Google Korean keyboard
Google Play Books
Google Play Games
Google Play Music
Google Play newspaper something?
Google+
Googles IME for hindi
Googles IME for pinyin
Hangouts
News and weather
Plugin program for HP printing
Printing queue
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You removed facebook ? so you downloaded it and then uninstalled it, madness man madness.
I remove these every CM flash :
STK-SimToolKit ( PoS junk )
Terminal Emulator ( No need if you have a custom recovery )
MMS ( not hangouts )
Movie Editor ( WTF what is this a phone or a PC ? )
All Live wallpapers ( Saves some space, and i don't know anyone who uses them )
Email client and exchange ( don't use exchange because of pin entry swapped to gmail on Android 1.0 )
Any non-google camera related gallery(s) ( for AKOP / AOSP builds )
Sound recorder ( useless for me personally )
Any Browser that's not chrome ( always use linked devices to follow links from home / work )
Google+ / Magazines / Books / movies ( never used these and why bother magazines and books / movies are all integrated into play store, if GAPPS includes these )
You disable Drive? Dang son that's how/where my schoolwork gets done haha.
I'm on stock, rooted.
Disabled:
Email
Exchange services
Face unlock
Google Hindi input
Google Korean keyboard
Google Pinyin
HP print service plugin
IWnn IME
IWnnIME keyboard (white)
News & weather
Wallet
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I generally freeze them in Titanium Backup, but here are a few....
- Android Live Wallpapers
- Magic Smoke Wallpaper
- Email 4.4.2
- Exchange Services 4.4.2
- Face Unlock
- News & Weather
- Phase Beam
- Hangouts
- Sound Recorder
- Nova Launcher (I use GEL)
- Google Play Books
- Google Play Magazines
- Google Play Games
- Google Drive
- Google Earth
- Google Talk
- Face Unlock
- That's what I remember off hand....
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Maybe he doen't have root...
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Check my signature, Cataclysm comes pre-rooted.
hutzdani said:
You removed facebook ? so you downloaded it and then uninstalled it, madness man madness.
I remove these every CM flash :
STK-SimToolKit ( PoS junk )
Terminal Emulator ( No need if you have a custom recovery )
MMS ( not hangouts )
Movie Editor ( WTF what is this a phone or a PC ? )
All Live wallpapers ( Saves some space, and i don't know anyone who uses them )
Email client and exchange ( don't use exchange because of pin entry swapped to gmail on Android 1.0 )
Any non-google camera related gallery(s) ( for AKOP / AOSP builds )
Sound recorder ( useless for me personally )
Any Browser that's not chrome ( always use linked devices to follow links from home / work )
Google+ / Magazines / Books / movies ( never used these and why bother magazines and books / movies are all integrated into play store, if GAPPS includes these )
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No I didn't, not sure if Facelock is the correct word but Face recogonition lock perhaps is.
I flash minimal Gapp so i have to uninstall really few app like
Movie Editor
Email
Magic Smoke Wall
Stock Launcher (after install Nova or TSF)
Some stock google apps disabled and almost all deleted.
Google is doing a good job with Android OS, but their apps are useless crap for me.
almost all google bloats XD
see my list
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48819819&postcount=5
pwrmedia said:
Are you using a custom ROM in which they're baked in? If so, the process for removing system .apks is a bit different, and you may in fact want to simply leave them disabled rather than removing entirely so you don't encounter any potential FC's or loss of functionality.
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That doesn't make sense I'm pretty sure. Disabling an app has the same effect as uninstalling the app. The apk is simply not accessible to the OS, as it doesn't run. So you wouldn't prevent any dependency problems by disabling than by simply removing.
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(shrugs).... you may be right. I would still play it safe before deleting them though, or @ the very least make a backup of the app first.
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Basic Daydreams
Browser [Alternative-Chrome]
Calculator [Alternative-CALCU]
Camera [Alternative-A Better Camera]
Cloud Print
DashClock Widget [baked into SlimKat]
DSP Manager [Alternative-Viper4AndroidFX]
Email [Alternative-CloudMagic]
Face Unlock
Gallery [Alternative-Photos - Severely underrated, including for editing]
Gmail [Alternative-CloudMagic]
Messaging [Alternative-Hangouts - baked into SlimKat]
News & Weather
Phase Beam
Talkback
just the gapps. distribute my personal date as evenly as possible amongst companies
if you want to delete a lot of apps i recomend you try out es file manager ( then root-mode then one tap uninstall ) you can multiple apps so its way faster than doing it one by one.
Most of the bones mentioned in addition to documents
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I'm not a native English person, I'm sorry if you don't understand me.
All begins when I install a file explorer, a day I search on the root directory apk archives, I see a lot of apks, (in that time I don't have root) I see the Android System WebView Apk, I open the apk and I touched reinstall.
Now (and from a long time ago) I have problems to open some apps.
Especially Shazam, Google o do an OAuth from apps like Instagram, or games (to save my progress). I achieved root on my Kindle Fire HD 6 and is now when I need to install Google with Google Now Launcher, but is pathetic because I have problem with the Google app (if you ask, the app closes automatically).
I want to know how fix this bug o error. I don't know if I should do a factory reset or I change names of the folders where are the apks.
Well, I have another problem with this apk, sometimes, the apps close because have ads, and I guess it's and error of WebView.
I want a answer about this, I'm so angry.
Another problem: I can't login in my Google account because Google Services Framework or Google Account Manager (1, 2 or both) use System WebView.
The app is here:
/system/priv-app/com.android.webview/com.android.webview.apk
And other apk:
/system/app/System WebView/System WebView.apk
Data of the app:
/data/data/com.android.webview (this folder are empty)
If you need some pictures, tell me and I send you a zip with the images.
I NEED A SOLUTION!!!!
I have Samsung galaxy a50 ( a505f). I disable or removed all possible google products. I only use google play services and google play store. I do not use any google product. No gmail,youtube calender or sync android. If i also disable google play services and google play store + remove my google account from phone and instal apps from Amazon, appstore,appgalery or as apk from my browser. How will this affect my phone? And i do not know if apps i downloaded not from playstore gonna work normal and stabil. Notifications will work normal??? Are there any apps do not work without google play services? I know google cloud messaging is important. It looks like i only need google cloud messasing for now. How to replace gcm?? Without root.
Installing apps from outside of Google Play Store is a surefire way to put yourself in danger. By installing apps from third-party stores, you're bypassing security measures put in place to vet apps for malware threats, making it much easier for a hacker to infiltrate your device with an infected app .
Here on xda many people using root or open source apps. Let's say i bought a new phone and i did not add google account. I removed all possible google apps. I disabled all other google services i can not remove. I downloaded apps as apk files. Will apps update or send push notifications normally? That is all i need to learn. The apps i use are outlook,twitter,signal,telegram,duckduckgo,yandex navi,onedrive and samsung cloud for sync and back up. I do not use any google apps or facebook,whatsapp,instagram, messenger. I just do not know what will be effected with removing google account from phone and disabling google play services. I just need few apps keep sending notifications.
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Installing apps from outside of Google Play Store is a surefire way to put yourself in danger. By installing apps from third-party stores, you're bypassing security measures put in place to vet apps for malware threats, making it much easier for a hacker to infiltrate your device with an infected app .
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^Truth^
At the very least scan any apks you intend to side load online with Virustotal. Just downloading them onto an Android without installing them isn't without risk. I side load only 2 or 3 apks from trusted sources.
You can download from Playstore then disable it, all apps will still function. I do this all the time.
Google Play Services* is needed for Playstore to run as well as some none Google apps.
You can then use ApkExport to copy your apps so you don't need to use Playstore next time you need to reload the OS. You save system apk updates as well so a full reload is possible with little or no internet connection. I store these on my SD card but a PC can be used.
Use Karma Firewall to block all the Google junk.
You can easily enable apks if needed.
It's freeware and uses very little battery.
*block Google Play Services with Karma Firewall when not using Playstore. A reboot will be needed after it's enabled for Playstore to work. GPS will waste battery by constantly connecting to the internet (4 times @ minute) if not firewall blocked.