Hi all,
I've been a long time user of Titatium Backup but having moved to a more stock based rom i've just started using it to freeze bloatware apps. The apps i freeze are showing up in application manager as disabled so i assumed all was working as it should. However if i click on one of the disabled apps in application manager it gives me the option to "force stop" the app (the button is not greyed out like i would have expected with it being frozen). This is true even after a reboot.
Is this how it should be??
Thanks!:good:
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Just rooted and installed Perfect Storm. What app or program can I use to freeze and remove apps as well as dump bloatware?
My original rooting had a pair of apps that did this but when I switched to Perfect Storm, I seem to have lost them.
Any input would be appreciated!!
Titanium Backup, but you must buy the Pro version to be able to freeze and unfreeze! Good Luck....
I actually have titanium pro. I wasn't aware that it had bloatware removal.
THANKS!!!!
I just rooted myself and have TiBU installed. When freezing apps, it will show "Freezing [app name]" and then just sits there with the circle animation.
The app does not respond with the "menu" or "back" softkeys, and only after pressing the "search" key does it go back to the TiBU screen, with the selected app now being "frozen".
It's not a huge issue as the app does it's job, I just don't know if there's an issue when other functionality is needed.
Anyone else having this problem?
I think I may have set it up wrong like restore or something. But everytime I exited the play store it starts downloading EVERYTHING from the playstore that I've ever downloaded.
How can I stop this from happening?
Open the playstore, slide from the left edge of the screen, my apps, click stop.
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This is just a guess, check Settings -> Backup & Restore and disable "automatic restore".
Also, when you first set up the phone, there is an option that asks if you would like to keep the phone backed up with google, which, if selected, also restores the phone from any back up google may previously hold.
Un check it, and it wont start downloading any apps when you first turn it on
definitely one of the irritating things about android. that backup/restore functionality sucks. I think i read they were going to revamp it?
Seems dumb that an app that is installed on another device or long removed from current device would install on a new device.
There's an easy fix for this. Go to the play store, swipe the left of the screen, click "My Apps", click the "All" tab. Any app in that list that isn't installed on your phone already will have an "X" in it's box. Click it and it'll ask if you want to remove the app for your apps list. That will stop it from auto downloading when you restore anything, as long as you don't download it again. Otherwise, you'd have to remove it again.
I just now figured out that a lot of bloatware can be disabled through the app management section in settings. After rooting and going s-off, I found that titanium backup has those apps listed as frozen. I was just curious if it's essentially doing the same thing as titanium backup as far as freezing is concerned?
Thanks in advance.
i do see that too - freezing in TiBu marks them as disabled in the app settings, but system apps have the disable button greyed out, so you need TiBu. I checked a few system apps i hadn't frozen and i couldn't disable them.
Hello,
so far I did not find a similar problem anywhere.
I did a backup of all my apps, played a little bit with some custom ROMs and now I am back on my initial ROM (dokdo).
My problem is: I can only restore very few apps.
If I choose the batch mode several apps are simply skipped without any error message. During the restoration within the "restoration is running" window I see the name of the skipped app for a very short time and the immediately the name of the next app.
When I go to the menu where I can manually restore single apps I noticed that only apps with a smiley at the end can be restored and the ones with a tick not. Unfortuantely again no reason is shown...
By the way: I updated the "super su" app.
Does anyone have an idea what goes wrong?
Cheers
oetzi
Anyone an idea?
Did you Google the meaning of those smileys?
I am assuming it has something to do with them, since if an app wasnt correctly backuped, you would be simply stuck while restoring that app...
Good hint, I only googled for "apps cannot restored".
Under menu -> legend you can see what the symbols mean and the ticks stay for "only data available" which confuses me even more since that means that the backup did not really work...
Hi. I have Alcatel 5054D with Lollipop (5.1.1) on board. I noticed that many apps are not starting on boot or on events that are fired by the OS. For example, when my phone was not rooted I tried to install Truecaller, Truemessenger and Textra. They simply didn't work just after reboot or if I removed them from the recent apps list. What is worse SMS apps won't start on new incoming SMS, it just disappears without any reaction from Textra or Truemessenger. But everything works fine when I start these apps manually and keep them in the background.
Then I rooted my phone, installed Link2SD and noticed that it fails to start after a reboot too! I have to launch it manually for the paths to be rebinded.
I installed autostart manager and it showed that all the events (receivers) for these apps are enabled.
On the other hand standard SMS app, Whatsapp, Viber, GMail do autostart and work properly.
I have no task killers installed and cannot figure out the reason of the issue.
Try wiping your cashe partition and reboot, if that doesn't work BACKUP YOUR DATA and perform a factory reset and see if it solves it.
Press thanks if it helped.
RESOLVED
It's not a bug, it's a feature: restricted apps. This can be found in Settings - Apps - (several swipes to right). Also, it seems that an app can be restricted only if it is stored in the internal memory.