Have the pixel xl, does anyone know why when i go to google play and uninstall gmail, it says uninstalled but then it says in Google play open or update. Also when I check the app drawer, gmail is still there. I thought we were supposed to be able to uninstall google bloatware? Bought pixel from Google store?
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Can't tell if you forgot /s at the end or what!? Google bloatware on a Google phone, lol. Love it.
But it does seem slightly hypocritical.
Of course, if you root you can uninstall anything you like.
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Of course, if you root you can uninstall anything you like.
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I don't really want to root if i don't have to, is there any other way to uninstall these apps?
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jreink01 said:
I don't really want to root if i don't have to, is there any other way to uninstall these apps?
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You can disable pre-installed apps. Doesn't remove them from your phone, but they won't show up in your app drawer anymore. Just go to app info and select disable.
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Have the pixel xl, does anyone know why when i go to google play and uninstall gmail, it says uninstalled but then it says in Google play open or update. Also when I check the app drawer, gmail is still there. I thought we were supposed to be able to uninstall google bloatware? Bought pixel from Google store?
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What you uninstalled, was an UPDATE to it, reverting it to the factory installed version.
As others have mentioned, you need to just go and *disable* it.
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Anyone else have the issue where Market is gone after "Google Play" update? I found the apk and pushed it with adb but still, it's a little odd. Not really running anything "Custom" just some mods to the stock 2.3.6.
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Anyone else have the issue where Market is gone after "Google Play" update? I found the apk and pushed it with adb but still, it's a little odd. Not really running anything "Custom" just some mods to the stock 2.3.6.
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Market was simply replaced by Google Play. Just go through your apps and you'll see Google Play, that's the new Market.
Market is called Google Play now . It should be in the app launcher.
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Works fine here.
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Yup, your old App Market icon will show not working, then will disappear upon reboot. New icon says Play Store.
I understand all of that and expected it, but what I am saying is there is no Play Store, no GooglePlayStore.apk, nor Google Play anywhere on the device. Pushing the apk resulted in no change, restoring /system.
Update:
Something must have just got borked in the OTA upgrade, I after restoring /system I forced the upgrade and we are good to go.
Yes, it is called "Play Store" now. weird name, i feel it doesn't appeal to a bigger audience.
I'm stock and mine still shows the Market. Doesn't show Google Play in the app drawer yet.
Go to application and clear data in market and then go back to market
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Go to application and clear data in market and then go back to market
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Cleared data, went back to market, clicked Accept when the Google Play notification came up, and it took me into the market. Restarted the phone and it still shows up as "Market" in the app list and no icon for "Play Store" shows up.
Would it matter that I'm using Zeam Launcher?
Clear zeam cache or data. You will lose your customizations but it should show up
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Clear zeam cache or data. You will lose your customizations but it should show up
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Can I just switch back to Touch Wiz launcher and do it there, and then after it is done, move back to Zeam?
Edit: Tried clearing market data from inside TW and then selecting market. Still gave me the Google Play disclosure, which I accepted, and then it still loaded the Market. Still doesn't show Google Play in the App Drawer, still shows Market, and Market still works.
I guess it doesn't matter all that much what it is called as long as I can access the market?
Same here, it's still Market for me even after I accepted the terms of Google Play.
If were running full custom, I'm assuming we don't need to change it or are they disabling the Market app entirely for this
Yes i did i downloaded it again from 4shared
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Same here, it's still Market for me even after I accepted the terms of Google Play.
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Neither mine or my wifes changed, but accepted the terms. Odd.
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Yeah I'm running NexusMod 4 and I hit accept on the information but still 3.4.4 Market, which works. Odd.
Psychosi42 said:
Yeah I'm running NexusMod 4 and I hit accept on the information but still 3.4.4 Market, which works. Odd.
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Yeap same thing here, running NexusMod 4 and still showing old Market but it still works. I accept the new Google Play prompt, but its still called Market. Hope they dont disable this soon and then I got no Market or Google Play.
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A few days ago I was running Silver rom. That's when my market icon was replaced with the Play icon. Flashed Red Sonja and now stock, both of which have the market icon back. Weird.
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Neither mine or my wifes changed, but accepted the terms. Odd.
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Mine finally updated to Play Store today.
Hi all,
I've installed custom ROMs many times, and always used Titanium Backup (Pro) to re-install all my apps and settings automatically.
I was suprised today after installing PAC-ROM 22.1.0 (Jelly Bean 4.2.2) to have the Play Store automatically re-install all my apps. I did not have to use Titanium this time...
Is that a new feature from 4.2.2 ? Or from the Play Store itself ?
Thanks for your thoughts
regards
No google store is restoring your last installed apps free not quite sure how many apps are being installed. Figure around last 60 apps. I wish they wouldn't i test lots of apps. I would say i get about 20 junk apps installed every time
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Hi all,
I've installed custom ROMs many times, and always used Titanium Backup (Pro) to re-install all my apps and settings automatically.
I was suprised today after installing PAC-ROM 22.1.0 (Jelly Bean 4.2.2) to have the Play Store automatically re-install all my apps. I did not have to use Titanium this time...
Is that a new feature from 4.2.2 ? Or from the Play Store itself ?
Thanks for your thoughts
regards
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It's an option that you enable or disable when setting up a Google account on a device.
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It's an option that you enable or disable when setting up a Google account on a device.
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What is quoted below is directly from Google play store! So how did you come to your conclusion?
Permanently removing uninstalled apps
At this time, there is no way to permanently delete or remove apps from the Google Play website (My Orders/My Android Apps) or from the Google Play Store app (My Apps) that you’ve previously downloaded but have since uninstalled.
Uninstalling apps using the Google Play website
To uninstall apps from play.google.com, simply visit the My Android Apps section. Click on your desired device, then click the trash can icon (to the left of the INSTALLED button) next to the app you'd like to uninstall. Click UNINSTALL to confirm.
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Some apk's of the playstore in gapps packages have auto restore where, as someone stated earlier, youre most recently installed apps are reinstalled. In some cases all of them. Its usually just something the dev who created the gapps package puts together. Ive never heard of it being an option in google settings.
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What is quoted below is directly from Google play store! So how did you come to your conclusion?
Permanently removing uninstalled apps
At this time, there is no way to permanently delete or remove apps from the Google Play website (My Orders/My Android Apps) or from the Google Play Store app (My Apps) that you’ve previously downloaded but have since uninstalled.
Uninstalling apps using the Google Play website
To uninstall apps from play.google.com, simply visit the My Android Apps section. Click on your desired device, then click the trash can icon (to the left of the INSTALLED button) next to the app you'd like to uninstall. Click UNINSTALL to confirm.
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First of all, the OP is not asking how to uninstall apps via Play Store. My conclusion is from experience. Flashing many ROMs and having to setup my google account with every new ROM. After entering your Google username and password you are prompted by a checkbox that asks to keep this device backed up on google. Enabling it causes the behaviour the OP is reporting.
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sob372 said:
Some apk's of the playstore in gapps packages have auto restore where, as someone stated earlier, youre most recently installed apps are reinstalled. In some cases all of them. Its usually just something the dev who created the gapps package puts together. Ive never heard of it being an option in google settings.
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I never said it was an option in google settings. I said it was an option presented when setting up your google account on a device.
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First of all, the OP is not asking how to uninstall apps via Play Store. My conclusion is from experience. Flashing many ROMs and having to setup my google account with every new ROM. After entering your Google username and password you are prompted by a checkbox that asks to keep this device backed up on google. Enabling it causes the behaviour the OP is reporting.
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I never said it was an option in google settings. I said it was an option presented when setting up your google account on a device.
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Understood what you said hoping you knew of option to stop apps from reinstalling after google account was already setup!
I guess i should have asked in a question. Did not mean to get you on defensive. My Second android phone was hoping that google by now would have seen these pitfalls in reinstallion of apps and customers need to experiment.
I wish google would get its act together realize 90% of apps i dont want are free in the first place. Its annoying to see free apps being reinstalled. I could understand paid apps being reinstalled but free apps come on Google Play Store!
But thanks for the reply!
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Understood what you said hoping you knew of option to stop apps from reinstalling after google account was already setup!
I guess i should have asked in a question. Did not mean to get you on defensive. My Second android phone was hoping that google by now would have seen these pitfalls in reinstallion of apps and customers need to experiment.
I wish google would get its act together realize 90% of apps i dont want are free in the first place. Its annoying to see free apps being reinstalled. I could understand paid apps being reinstalled but free apps come on Google Play Store!
But thanks for the reply!
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Unfortunately I don't know how to stop the reinstallation, sorry. I don't normally use that feature anyways. Google seems to be getting too big for their britches too. As for me being on the defensive, it's all good .
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Unfortunately I don't know how to stop the reinstallation, sorry. I don't normally use that feature anyways. Google seems to be getting too big for their britches too. As for me being on the defensive, it's all good .
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I've probably misunderstood the issue here but if you want to stop the restoration of apps on each new ROM flash then just go to settings>backup & restore and uncheck the boxes for keeping the phone backed up and restoring the phone each time. If you mean that you want it only to install the paid apps and not free apps then I have no clue, sorry.
EDIT: whoops, quoted the wrong person.
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Flashing many ROMs and having to setup my google account with every new ROM. After entering your Google username and password you are prompted by a checkbox that asks to keep this device backed up on google.
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Agreed, same experience so far... I always answer yes/ok
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Enabling it causes the behaviour the OP is reporting.
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However, as i said, it's the first time my apps get re-installed by themselves. Anyways, does this mean that Titanium Backup became obsolete ?
Btw, since play store v3.9 or so, one can remove the apps from the account (except he paid ones). One can even select as many apps as required and remove them all at once. Go to my applications>all apps.
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I tell you one thing: it's never worked well. If I try to move over onto WiFi so that my battery won't be violated and it won't be downloading for half a day it always stops reloading them and it won't work again. This would be a great feature if it worked well.
please help to get rid from this error. I have tried many solutions like clear catch data, reinstalled, updated from play store but nothing to be work. I am using cm 10.2 by jenkins.:crying:
Same error
Kalim Siddiqui said:
please help to get rid from this error. I have tried many solutions like clear catch data, reinstalled, updated from play store but nothing to be work. I am using cm 10.2 by jenkins.:crying:
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I am also getting this error on ICS icysnap V2.0. I think this error is occurring due to some bug or incompatibility of latest google play service apk with our device. I have submitted the error report to google. I hope they will fix this soon. For the time being i have uninstalled the google play service. By going to Security > Device Administrator then uncheck the google admin. After this you can uninstall the application in usual way.
Previous version of google play services working fine.
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I am also getting this error on ICS icysnap V2.0. I think this error is occurring due to some bug or incompatibility of latest google play service apk with our device. I have submitted the error report to google. I hope they will fix this soon. For the time being i have uninstalled the google play service. By going to Security > Device Administrator then uncheck the google admin. After this you can uninstall the application in usual way.
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I also think that this error occurred from latest google play services because previous version of google play services that is 4.3.2.4 working fine but when i downgrade it to previous version it automatically update again. any way to disable auto update of google play services. i am disabled auto update apps in google play settings but not working. Thanks.
Downgrade the services and try Titanium Backup :> 'detach from market's
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Latest Google play services working fine.
Thanks, I will try. BTW I recently installed latest Google play services 4.8.4.4 from xda portal. It's working fine.:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
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I have also experienced this. Mostly happened while Gmail is syncing. Happened on cm-9, cm-10.1.6, and affected apps on cm-7.But Play Services works perfect on official stock gingerbread. So I think it's a combination of causes. Authentication of apps and services running on unofficial roms,and APIs that are built for armv7 devices. But I'm only guessing. Haven't had time to study my logcats yet. May 14 update seems to be a little better. But it's still not fixed.
Edit: May 16 update, still not fixed. Have read and verified that it works better on WiFi. On WiFi, Gmail, after syncing (and caching that sync) will not cause Play Services to close. But on mobile network, it does.
May 19 update to Google Play Services (version 4.4.52):
I think it's fixed
Updated several apps and synced Gmail. Did not get annoying message. Running cm-9.2.0 (hephappy).
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Yea, you are right. Now Google play services working flawlessly on cm 11 also.
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Kalim Siddiqui said:
Yea, you are right. Now Google play services working flawlessly on cm 11 also.
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I uninstalled a heap of Google stuff using titanium backup now Google play services has stopped working.
I have re installed this service but it still not work.
maids said:
I uninstalled a heap of Google stuff using titanium backup now Google play services has stopped working.
I have re installed this service but it still not work.
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Need gmscore.apk in /system/app. That enables play services. Set permissions to 644 (rw-,r--,r--). Google play services with automatically update after a few minutes.
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ibub said:
Need gmscore.apk in /system/app. That enables play services. Set permissions to 644 (rw-,r--,r--). Google play services with automatically update after a few minutes.
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I am no expert. where do i get this and where do I put it please?
maids said:
I am no expert. where do i get this and where do I put it please?
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Use a file manager and go to / system/app, and look to see if gmscore is still there. Long press on it to select and view properties. Properties should include permissions, which should be set to:
User: rw-
Groups: r--
Others: r--
The binary representation of this is 644
If gmscore is not there, then you may have it in your backups from TiBU.
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Managed to fix it but I had to reinstall all the apps I had removed one by one as TB would not do a batch.
Kept throwing an error.
I really need to know what I can and cant remove as I rooted this phone to get rid of some of the apps I dont use they just clutter the whole system
Same bug after reinstallation of the firmware. I think there are some issues on Google's side.
FIXED!!! Finally Found This Fix!
I was unable to listen to my music for 48 hours, which is hell to me as I'm ALWAYS listening to music. This also looks horrible on Google/Android as I just left iOS (which honestly is a better OS than Android, but Android has come a long way so I'm optimistic about its future...and I also love my Moto X and prefer Android to iOS overall (minus these little annoying issues)). Anyway, finally fixed it by Uninstalling the update made on the Google Play Music app.
Go to Settings - Apps - Google Play Music - and select Uninstall Updates. Hope this helps.
Alex
Alex Nobbe Toussaint said:
I was unable to listen to my music for 48 hours, which is hell to me as I'm ALWAYS listening to music. This also looks horrible on Google/Android as I just left iOS (which honestly is a better OS than Android, but Android has come a long way so I'm optimistic about its future...and I also love my Moto X and prefer Android to iOS overall (minus these little annoying issues)). Anyway, finally fixed it by Uninstalling the update made on the Google Play Music app.
Go to Settings - Apps - Google Play Music - and select Uninstall Updates. Hope this helps.
Alex
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This seems to have fixed the issue for me. Uninstalled Play Music, then reinstalled, and has been working fine since. Good thing too, as it was popping up twice in quick succession every 30 seconds almost. Very frustrating!
Anyway, thanks
EDIT: Seems I spoke too soon
im still umable to do it
I also have this problem, using most recent gapps.
Same problem
I've been having the same problem up until a couple of days ago Play Services worked fine but when ever i open the Google Keyboard the message pops up "Unfortunately Google Play Services has stopped working" and idea what the problem might be. My version is 7.0.97 (1791429-034)
Thanks for the help.
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Thanks, I will try. BTW I recently installed latest Google play services 4.8.4.4 from xda portal. It's working fine.:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:/QUOTE]
That one is really old, may cause other, but thankfully quieter problems. Would like to downgrade to a 6.6 version if I can find the link, however...
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Back to version 7.* and the problem recurs. Need to defeat its auto upgrade, but this is not a normally-listed app on Play. Maybe after the audo-upgrade happens, one can get to its setting from "my-apps" pane, recently upgraded.
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Is there an app that backs up the market links to installed apps? I dont want an app that backs up the app themselves, like their apks. I just want to back up the market links
Doesn't the google play store do that automatically? Or am I misunderstanding you
phsar said:
Doesn't the google play store do that automatically? Or am I misunderstanding you
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Really? Can you tell me how google play store saves your apps? I'm thinking about rooting my phone. And I want to restore all the apps I had after I root it.
yahanna said:
Really? Can you tell me how google play store saves your apps? I'm thinking about rooting my phone. And I want to restore all the apps I had after I root it.
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Open the play store, press the 3 lines on the top left, select My Apps, and then All. Or do it on your browser, go to the google play site and click My Apps
not found such one yet
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Open the play store, press the 3 lines on the top left, select My Apps, and then All. Or do it on your browser, go to the google play site and click My Apps
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But that shows all the apps I ever installed. I want back the apps I got currently installed. Not the ones I had previously.
Got to playstore> My apps It shows the apps which you've curently installed. And the 'All' section shows the all apps you've ever installed in your device. If you really want to keep a track of all the apps besides this method, take out a notebook and start writing them
The pre-installed Google Keyboard with stock ROM appear to be not from Google. If I search for Google Keyboard in Google play store then I get "Install" instead of "Update" as if both versions are different. Is this normal? Any insights?
Also Google Keyboard consumed about 20+ GB of traffic in just few days before I disabled an option to improve the keyboard service. I don't think I typed much to generate gigabytes of data! This look suspicious to me.
Indeed, there is a strange thing about the pre-installed Google Keyboard. I uninstalled it months ago.
Hmmm... How did you uninstall it? Mine can only be disabled. It is the same for the majority of Google apps. Only few of them can be uninstalled.
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Hmmm... How did you uninstall it? Mine can only be disabled. It is the same for the majority of Google apps. Only few of them can be uninstalled.
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Sorry, it appears that I disabled it and not uninstall it as you suggested.
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Hmmm... How did you uninstall it? Mine can only be disabled. It is the same for the majority of Google apps. Only few of them can be uninstalled.
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Root ftw :good: