I am running the latest stock COS 13.1 rom (the one with mods), but I choose to uninstall the mods, they are considered as bundled user apps, which can be uninstalled easily with android itself (no root required).
I uninstalled most of these apps, including Boxer mail, but this last one keeps popping among my installed apps every couple of days. all the others remain uninstall except Boxer (in addition to the boxer onenote mod).
anybody knows a way to remove it forever?
Same here... I managed to successfully uninstall all the unwanted mods&apps, but both Boxer Email and the onenote mod keep reappearing...
I finally found the way to make it disappear for good. I was also annoyed by these ghost apps appearances and kicked it !
Another strange thing was random halts of my One+ 1, some odd reboots, due to the infamous BoxerPluginOneNote trying to incite me to install MS OneNote !
For that you must delete/uninstall some Cyanogen apps located in system/priv-app (you may loose some functionality BUT one of it is responsible for respawn) :
AmbientCore.apk
AmbientUpdater.apk
CMLogger.apk
CyanogenStats.apk
DeviceManager.apk
Plus the ones you don't want in system/vendor/bundled-app
A reboot and that's done !
Anyway I ended installing Boxer which is a good Gmail and IMAP mail client with Boxer Calendar...
Deleting from bundled-app is obvious, but I don't want to alter the system partition, want to keep it stock for updates. I also tried decompiling them all, none of them contains any references for boxer.
the other apps doesn't seem to have any relation to boxer, they are just cyanogen apps that track stats and device, you disabled them for privacy more than just stop boxer from coming back.
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So I did a bad thing, in my ultimate conquest to remove things I didnt need/want/care for, I deleted the default messaging app as I use handcent.
Here is the issue:
Now since this is my first android phone I dont know if this is standard across all overlays or just touchwiz, but in the phone/contacts app, when you touch someones picture, it opens up a popup of all the ways you can contact someone.
Before it showed messaging, and when I hit it I could use handcent as the default. Now nothing is there. I have the same issue with the launcher pro People widget.
Am I screwed and its time to restore (again ><) Any way to get this functionality back?
You could try grabbing the messaging app's .apk from a rooted stock system backup (I think there's one in the Captivate dev forum), and then sideloading it onto the device to see if it fixes your problem. You can sideload using the Sideload Wonder Machine (just google it, it's the easiest way I've found to sideload apps so far).
Guys, at some point, not sure when, my check boxes to select sync options on Google accounts is missing. If I go to Menu>>Settings>>Accounts and select my Google account, the options for checking/unchecking Calendar, Contacts, etc. is missing. Any idea why they went missing? Phone is rooted using Z4Root and I do have gmail.apk renamed to gmail.bak. Not sure why this is happening. There could be a few other files renamed to remove bloatware.
Any ideas? I want to add another Google account and turn off sync for everything except Reader.
Android Version: 2.2
System Version: Version.2.4.330.A956.Verizon.en.US
Thanks.
Being that you renamed one of the main programs it would sync to, it prob thinks that it has nothing to sync. I would suggest reinstalling the Gmail app, as it is not in any way bloatware.
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Being that you renamed one of the main programs it would sync to, it prob thinks that it has nothing to sync. I would suggest reinstalling the Gmail app, as it is not in any way bloatware.
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Do you know if the Gmail.apk package is used to sync contacts and calendar as well? Thanks for your advice. I will try it soon and report back.
negative, renamed Gmail.bak back to Gmail.apk with no success.
Any ideas?
Naming it back does not actually reinstall it. I found that out the hard way when I very first rooted my phone. You'll actually have to go thru the market and redownload and install.
As for it actually syncing, it there are other packages there that handle the syncing, how directly or indirectly I am not sure though. However, it is very likely that they still interact with each other, which means you just suddenly stripping it of something it expects to be there is quite likely to cause an array of possible problems.
I recently installed CM12 on my Moto G and haven't yet migrated my Outlook Contacts & Calendar items onto it yet. I am surfing the web to become familiar with the due diligence of apps permissions first. From a comment at http://www.androidcentral.com/android-permissions-privacy-security, I found that I can an apps entry in Settings allows me to see the permissions for an app. I haven't yet installed any apps, but the native browser has the permission to access my Contacts. Is this normal for browser? If I draw an analogy with my computer, I wouldn't expect Firefox to be able to delve into my Outlook contacts.
Then again, I was warned that people can freak out at permissions without understanding them. So maybe there are reasons for the browser to be able to access contacts?
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I recently installed CM12 on my Moto G and haven't yet migrated my Outlook Contacts & Calendar items onto it yet. I am surfing the web to become familiar with the due diligence of apps permissions first. From a comment at http://www.androidcentral.com/android-permissions-privacy-security, I found that I can an apps entry in Settings allows me to see the permissions for an app. I haven't yet installed any apps, but the native browser has the permission to access my Contacts. Is this normal for browser? If I draw an analogy with my computer, I wouldn't expect Firefox to be able to delve into my Outlook contacts.
Then again, I was warned that people can freak out at permissions without understanding them. So maybe there are reasons for the browser to be able to access contacts?
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This is why they "officially" need these permissions...
Read contact data – You can send a code using the built in share feature. This enables the program to get your contacts so you can share it.
Write contact data – When you send something, if you send it to someone that isn’t in your phonebook, it will save the data for you to insert later.
In CM12 you can block these permissions.
I am trying to install the BlackBerry Calendar on my device, but it seems there is an issue with the calendar. I had a similar issue with the keyboard, but uninstalling it as a system app, and reinstalling it as a normal app seems to have cleared up the problem. (which was the keyboard simply not showing up).
With the calendar, I can view all views and add/edit events, but when I click on an existing event it crashes. I thought I would try to also uninstall this as a system app, and reinstall as a normal app but I am now getting some sort of weird permission issue.
This is likely more of an android question rather than anything to do with a specific app. The problem I am seeing in the logs is: "attempting to redeclare permission com.blackberry.pim.permission.WRITE_TASKS already owned by com.blackberry.hub"
I do have BB Hub installed as a system app.
Other than looking at the log files I am not really sure how to proceed and do some troubleshooting. SS of log attached.
Have you tried wiping dalvik cache? And if that doesn't work remove the apps and try again.
Personally I think the contacts provider (and other providers)in Android is a huge security risk. Every app and it's brother wants full access to your contacts so they can mine them for usable information. This can be just to add easy links to friends or to spam them with advertisements or offers to identity theft.
I've started using a pim manager that does not access Androids contact provider, calendar provider , tasks or other providers in it's operations.(And I really wish it was open source)
I have already removed the Google sync apks from my device and have removed contacts, calendar in the past. But not the providers.
It might cause some badly written apps to crash.
But I can't forsee any other serious problems.
Ideas? Thoughts?
Honestly sounds like a good idea..
Myself I decided to go for a while without any gapps and any other "store" installed on my phone.
My contacts are imported from a .vcf file which i update manually when needed.
I also have installed AFWall+ and i blocked the internet access to pretty much all the other apps including the system ones.. (everything i could get away with basically )
This could be a solution as well but it's rudimentary one at the moment.
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Personally I think the contacts provider (and other providers)in Android is a huge security risk. Every app and it's brother wants full access to your contacts so they can mine them for usable information. This can be just to add easy links to friends or to spam them with advertisements or offers to identity theft.
I've started using a pim manager that does not access Androids contact provider, calendar provider , tasks or other providers in it's operations.(And I really wish it was open source)
I have already removed the Google sync apks from my device and have removed contacts, calendar in the past. But not the providers.
It might cause some badly written apps to crash.
But I can't forsee any other serious problems.
Ideas? Thoughts?
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I already don't have Google apps on my device.
Everything blocked with afwall+ using profiles so things only get net when I'm using them on the net.
Fdroid is where I get 90% of my software and from the internet for much of the other 10%
I have a old phone with nothing on it personal at all. Which has play store for the 3 or 4 paid apps I need, it does updates for them and a few free ones. I copy the apks over to my daily driver.
I constantly hound developers on play store to support offline devices and not to implement features that break the app when there is no internet. Even app I don't use lol.
(I have 2 tablets and far too many old phones.only two devices are online(some are local lan only))
Someone should start a offline foundation. But being online it might be ridiculous..
I too removed contacts by using /system/app mover from f-droid. It was unintended as I wanted them as a user application but they wouldn't work like this and the icon vanished, that was fine with me for a long time. The other day I wanted contacts for signal (and telegram also won't work without them). I restored the application files from a backup,
For reference in /system/app/ the missing files were
SecContacts.apk
SecContactsProvider.apk
Other contacts programs like Simple Contacts can't run without a system permission called com.android.contacts and without those files in /system/app the permission doesn't get created at boot. The result being that no contact creation is possible.
What I would really like is a modified version of the system app that passes contacts data to the calling program depending on individual contact entry permissions with regard to each calling app; one list for telegram, another for signal etc. I gather that recent android versions above 6.0.0 have functionality to check calling application certificates so something along these lines should be possible. For earlier versions it might be necessary to switch between multiple contacts databases before starting the messaging app and also removing it from the autoboot list.
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/permissions/defining