Facebook Messenger has recently added a feature like Instagram Story called Messenger Day, and with their latest update today, they added message reactions (screenshots attached).
I wanted to get rid of both these features, and revert to an earlier version (also attached), so I uninstalled it and reinstalled an older apk I found online.
Although, despite auto updates being disabled from the Play Store, it updates on its own. On digging through permissions, I found that the app has permission to request install packages.
If someone can patch the older version, or provide a link to a patched apk, I'd be grateful, as these added features are extremely annoying.
Thank you.
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Reactions and Day:
https://s10.postimg.org/xe5hvrh5l/IMG_20170329_115054.jpg
Older version (109 or 110):
https://s2.postimg.org/vcejc6y89/IMG_20170329_114951.jpg
Permission:
https://s23.postimg.org/t10nzfgkb/Screenshot_2017-03-29-11-53-17-734_com.android.s.png
I do not know if you have already solved it, but there are currently procedures to eliminate what you mention, check the threads please.
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Hey people, I rebooted my phone this morning, and then opened up an app I use called "AppMonster" (previously "AppManager"), which shows me all my installed apps and allows me to uninstall them or backup, etc.
I sort the apps in date order, meaning at the top it shows me the latest app i downloaded or updated. At the top of the list today I saw the official android Market app, which I myself did not update, because it never showed up in this app list before, in the same way as GMail and other built-in android system apps. Now it's giving me an option to uninstall the market.
Has anyone else noticed this? Is this another silent update that happened in the same way as the UK Google Maps got updated by itself with navigation recently?
BTW this post isn't because I'm having an issue or anything, just wondering if anyone else has the same thing?
Regards
You could search for Market in /data/app/ directory. If there is com.android.vending.apk , then you are right - you have updated version of Market.
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Is this another silent update that happened in the same way as the UK Google Maps got updated by itself with navigation recently?
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GM wasn't updated silently - that was misinformation spread by Engadget. But Market has its own updater, so it might be updated differently than other apps.
I've been seeing a slight issue with people running Android M and trying to use Snapchat. Remember if you're going to test a developing OS you're going to run into issues and bugs like this one. On snapchat's recent update they changed some user interface. For some reason this caused the app to force close after you login. I have found a temporary solution. If you have the newest update for snapchat you will need to uninstall it and downgrade the apk so is running (Snapchat 9.10.June 16, 2015.) I'm only aware of this issue for the Nexus 5 running on Android M
I have listed the link to the apks location below. I do not support nor participate with the website this is just where I found the apk.
Turn off auto-updates apps!!!
apk4fun.com/history/1299/
If you are like me and you are sick of facebook messenger unecessary featureas and self updates then you are in the right place. I took an older version of facebook messenger and I used lucky patcher to rebuild it with all the activities and services called self update removed (which download and install the new version without you going to the appstore and clicking on update). It is tested and stable on Xperia Z2 D6503. I hate the new design that opens the camera when you swipe down, HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO MANUALLY REFRESH THE MESSAGES? IDIOTS.. and i also hate the snapchat stories that were forced in the app. I liked the material design version so i patched that one. You can use the app I attached or you can do what I said I did.
DOWNLOAD: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxyl-kF42TDWMVlJYXJYUXBPc3c/view?usp=sharing
hey man i had a problem i installed ver. 146 as it the last ver. support substratum but now i stuck with this massage
This version of the app is no longer supported. To get back to all your conversations, install the latest version.
Hey all. Sysadmin here, no developer experience.
We have an app we received from our vendor and we have a strict release schedule, the app is also published in Google Play. In order to avoid the app from auto updating itself from Google Play we resigned the app with our own keystore.
We followed the following article among others:
https://www.xda-developers.com/stop-updates-android-application/
This worked fine earlier this year and the app was not recognized in google play. Today we received a new version for testing and I cant get this to work anymore. Ive resigned the app with a debug.keystore and a custom keystore but the app is still recognized in google play and displaying "updates available"
Anyone familiar with recent changes regarding app signing and debug keystores ? Or alternatively other ways to prevent an app from autoupdating ? We cannot disable store autoupdate because we still require other apps to be on the latest version at all times.
fliptrick said:
Hey all. Sysadmin here, no developer experience.
We have an app we received from our vendor and we have a strict release schedule, the app is also published in Google Play. In order to avoid the app from auto updating itself from Google Play we resigned the app with our own keystore.
We followed the following article among others:
https://www.xda-developers.com/stop-updates-android-application/
This worked fine earlier this year and the app was not recognized in google play. Today we received a new version for testing and I cant get this to work anymore. Ive resigned the app with a debug.keystore and a custom keystore but the app is still recognized in google play and displaying "updates available"
Anyone familiar with recent changes regarding app signing and debug keystores ? Or alternatively other ways to prevent an app from autoupdating ? We cannot disable store autoupdate because we still require other apps to be on the latest version at all times.
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You didnt even need to edit files, Google Play offers the ability to disable updates for a specific app all what you need to do is:
1. In google play go to the desired app you want to disable the updates for
2.will find a three dots option on the top right side of the screen
3.press it and then uncheck "Auto-updates"
I receive a strange error when trying to open play store beta links.
I tried opening https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.catalyst06.fingerprintactionpro which is a beta app that I was invited to.
Clicking on the link gives the following error. (Screenshot attached)
Copying and pasting the URL to chrome for Android also gives the same error.
"to view this content install a web browsing app"
Looking forward to support and suggestions.
I think maybe you should set Chrome as your default web browser.
That does not work. Setting any of (in my experience anyway) 3 browsers as default still does not enable beta links to work.
After noticing the date of the OP, and not having seen this bug myself until buying a new phone just days ago, I figured there might be a link between the Play Store update, and the bug manifesting. It turned out that after disabling the Play Store entirely and allowing the phone to rollback to the previous version of Play Store, I was able to open the beta link that I was having problems with.