I have an old HTC Desire, which I've rooted and installed Cyanogenmod 7.2.0.1-bravo. It works fine, but I'm running out of space in the onboard memory.
Is there any way to prevent Google Market updating to Google Play? This takes 9Mb of space on my phone, and is preventing me from updating any of the apps I have installed. When I am alerted to the fact that there are app updates, I go to the market app and this then updates automatically to Google Play, taking 9Mb of space and preventing me from updating any of the other apps. I'm not interested in updating to Google Play, I just want to be able to update the applications I've already bought.
I've tried freezing the market updater using Titanium, and also the command "pm disable com.android.vending.updater" under su in the terminator emulator. Neither seems to work.
Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
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Has anybody had an issue with google play store not working? I tried clearing the cache, then the data, then removing/adding my account. After this failed, i installed the google play app over the system app. It fixed the issue of the store failing, but all my apps that were installed fail to show up in the installed apps under "my apps".
My question is this:
Is there a way to reattach the apps back to the market? Or am I going to have to download them all over again?
*EDIT 1*
So, I used an "updated" apk to update my google play store. About 30 minutes later the app started to crash just like before. I uninstalled the update. Next, I got a warning that I had 46 updates. Seems after uninstalling the updates every app decided to reattach to the market. I am now updating apps. I will post if app market crashes again. wish me luck.
*EDIT 2*
Well, short lived victory. As soon as my apps required to be updated it worked ok. But when i exited the update page (which i navigated to by the notification) and tried to open google play store, it crashed. Thoughts? I have not tried to install the apk again, and i have pushed the goo.im packages with no success. help?? i'm stumpped...
Hey people!
I just flashed the Gapps Manager generated zip intended for my Samsung GT-S6102 (Android 2.3.6) over TechnoDUOS1.5 S1525 and everything went down without any trouble.
I had no problem updating Hangouts and installing Youtube, besides Google Market upgrades itself automatically to Play Store.
However, whenever I try to install Google Play Services through play store, it pops up an error 941. This is needed to run both Youtube and Hangouts. Google Maps on the other hand, pops up a different error: "Not compatible with other applications that use the same user-shared ID"
I've already tried almost everything, from blocking Market store from updating, to placing the Google Play Services apk manually to both /data/app and /system/app and changing the permissions manually. All to no avail. I also tried editing /data/system/packages.xml and experimented deleting all <shared-user> tag related to google services framework (which I take is the entry related to google play services). Still nothing.
Is there anything else I can try?
Thank you
I tried running my phone without GApps but very quickly realised that I needed access to Google Play.
There are ways to download apks from the Play store without an account but then you never get any updates.
I am not philosophically opposed to the Google services but I am trying to reduce the number of background apps running.
Is there a way to freeze and only turn on Google Play services when opening the Play store and once a week to check for updates?
If your phone is rooted go for "greenify" i guess.
That helped my search.
I found this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2552570
Thanks!
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