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[Q] Anyone else cannot confirm OK with PackageInstaller ?

No idea if this is a ICS custom rom thing, but I remember it happened on stock as well.
When trying to install an .apk from sdcard (sideloading), I get the PackageInstaller confirmation window. Sometimes the right side where the OK button is, is non responsive (left side on Cancel can be clicked). After some trying, it works. Now, I have no idea what causes this, but it's ****ing annoying and seriously makes me want to throw the phone up the wall.
Anyone else noticed this ?

Did you enable installation from Unknown sources?

kοng said:
Did you enable installation from Unknown sources?
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Um, yeah, the issue is in the Package Installer, I wouldn't even get to it, if I hadn't enable that.

That happens to me if I have the app Screen Filter enabled/on.
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kyouko said:
That happens to me if I have the app Screen Filter enabled/on.
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Hm, I've got Lux installed (manages lowest auto-brightness setting, because stock ICS is too dim). Perhaps that could be the issue. I'll try it out, thanks

madd0g said:
Hm, I've got Lux installed (manages lowest auto-brightness setting, because stock ICS is too dim). Perhaps that could be the issue. I'll try it out, thanks
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I'm the developer of Lux. PackageInstaller shouldn't have any issues with Lux installed provided you haven't turned off 'compatibility mode' in settings.

kyouko said:
That happens to me if I have the app Screen Filter enabled/on.
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Oh man, you're a genius. I've had this problem time and time again and always wondered what it could be. I've ran around the problem using a "silent" installer.

Cyb3rGlitch said:
I'm the developer of Lux. PackageInstaller shouldn't have any issues with Lux installed provided you haven't turned off 'compatibility mode' in settings.
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I tried uninstalling Lux and responsiveness was suddenly back, it recognized the touch everytime.
Compatibility is on -> screenshots
When I restored Lux back again, the responsiveness went back to nonconsistant, sometimes it works fine, mostly it ignores the touch.

polobunny said:
Oh man, you're a genius. I've had this problem time and time again and always wondered what it could be. I've ran around the problem using a "silent" installer.
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Haha you're welcome. It drove me absolutely crazy] trying to figure that out with my old Hero
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kyouko said:
Haha you're welcome. It drove me absolutely crazy] trying to figure that out with my old Hero
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Seems like some kind of Android protection to disable side loading lol, when an app with certain "screen manipulation" functionality is running

madd0g said:
Seems like some kind of Android protection to disable side loading lol, when an app with certain "screen manipulation" functionality is running
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As you said I believe that's the case so you don't install malware thinking you're installing something else. Click hijacking isn't cool, kids!

madd0g said:
I tried uninstalling Lux and responsiveness was suddenly back, it recognized the touch everytime.
Compatibility is on -> screenshots
When I restored Lux back again, the responsiveness went back to nonconsistant, sometimes it works fine, mostly it ignores the touch.
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You might have to wait a couple of seconds before Lux disables itself. Lux needs to poll to check the current foreground app and disable itself. It polls every 3 seconds, unless it has detected the same app a few times in a row, in which it slows polling down to 9 seconds.

Cyb3rGlitch said:
You might have to wait a couple of seconds before Lux disables itself. Lux needs to poll to check the current foreground app and disable itself. It polls every 3 seconds, unless it has detected the same app a few times in a row, in which it slows polling down to 9 seconds.
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I see, maybe I was trying to hit the OK too fast, because now it seems that it works after waiting couple seconds. Thanks.

madd0g said:
I see, maybe I was trying to hit the OK too fast, because now it seems that it works after waiting couple seconds. Thanks.
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No problem. I wish there was a cleaner solution, but alas the Android API doesn't provide an intent which warns apps that a secure view is being shown.
Really Android should be drawing secure fields above everything else, rather than disabling the view - whoever thought that was a good idea isn't very intelligent.

[Q] Disable Pedometer to save battery

Is there any way to disable the pedometer? I would not use this feature and am thinking it will save battery if it is disabled.

ericdmiller said:
Is there any way to disable the pedometer? I would not use this feature and am thinking it will save battery if it is disabled.
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You can start/pause it. As long as it's paused it's not going to keep track of steps. Also noticed that having minimum background running apps will increase life by a lot. It was like draining last night and closed all apps and now lasting 2x longer haha Maybe that was just me.
Gear 2 + GS4

Thanks. How do I set a minimum number of background apps?
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ericdmiller said:
Thanks. How do I set a minimum number of background apps?
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Long press with two fingers will pull up the recent(running?) apps list. Select "Close All"

Lizardchest said:
Long press with two fingers will pull up the recent(running?) apps list. Select "Close All"
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Oh I thought he was referring to apps on the gear.
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ericdmiller said:
Oh I thought he was referring to apps on the gear.
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I think he was. I was referring to the gear(long press/2 fingers on the watch). That's what I thought you meant, in order to save battery on the watch, don't have a lot of things running in the background(on the watch).

Lizardchest said:
I think he was. I was referring to the gear(long press/2 fingers on the watch). That's what I thought you meant, in order to save battery on the watch, don't have a lot of things running in the background(on the watch).
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Hey guys sorry, Yeah referring to apps running on gear not phone. You can long press it or set up the double click to open recent apps to close.

Uninstall "System Apps" without root

Is there a way to uninstall apps such as Instagram without root or better yet to root without triggering knox to not allow me to use samsung pay. I want to install these apps through the app store since then I am able to set smart manager to optimize them and close them in the background when not in use.

Unfortunately, no. There is no way to actually uninstall bloatware without root, and from what I understand, there's no way to root without tripping KNOX since root requires a modified kernel.

You can disable them though
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Package Disabler Pro - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ospolice.packagedisablerpro&hl=en
This will do exactly what you're looking to do. Root is not required, it does not trip Knox, and you can disable ANY app. But be careful. Disable the wrong thing(s) and you may negatively affect performance.

Akw6190 said:
Unfortunately, no. There is no way to actually uninstall bloatware without root, and from what I understand, there's no way to root without tripping KNOX since root requires a modified kernel.
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Actually your wrong, you can do it now with package disabler pro

ThC23 said:
Actually your wrong, you can do it now with package disabler pro
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This disable not uninstall
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Package Disabler Pro - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ospolice.packagedisablerpro&hl=en
This will do exactly what you're looking to do. Root is not required, it does not trip Knox, and you can disable ANY app. But be careful. Disable the wrong thing(s) and you may negatively affect performance.
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Disable and uninstall is different. All depends if the user need more storage or simply disable
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egren58 said:
This disable not uninstall
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Disable and uninstall is different. All depends if the user need more storage or simply disable
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You won't get any space back in the user partition even if you do uninstall system apps, because they reside in the system partition.

CafeKampuchia said:
You won't get any space back in the user partition even if you do uninstall system apps, because they reside in the system partition.
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+1. System apps are in the system partition and therefore deleting them won't give you any storage back. Honestly, in this case there's really no difference between disabling and uninstalling, I just forgot all about package disabler pro.

Akw6190 said:
+1. System apps are in the system partition and therefore deleting them won't give you any storage back. Honestly, in this case there's really no difference between disabling and uninstalling, I just forgot all about package disabler pro.
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Problem is the OP said he wanted to reinstall them from the market. No way to do that if they are only disabled.
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pcriz said:
Problem is the OP said he wanted to reinstall them from the market. No way to do that if they are only disabled.
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Ah true that. His whole point was wanting to optimize them though, which essentially means if they go unused, that they'll be hibernated, which is almost the same thing as disabling them.

Akw6190 said:
Ah true that. His whole point was wanting to optimize them though, which essentially means if they go unused, that they'll be hibernated, which is almost the same thing as disabling them.
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I dunno I wouldn't call optimizing and disabling the same thing. One you simply have to open to resume normal function. The other you have to disable, then re-enable when you want to use it, and then disable again...
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pcriz said:
I dunno I wouldn't call optimizing and disabling the same thing. One you simply have to open to resume normal function. The other you have to disable, then re-enable when you want to use it, and then disable again...
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Yeah you're right. I was just comparing them since a hiberbated app and a disabled app still basically do the same thing, which is absolutely nothing.

I wouldn't worry about attempting to move to userdata in order to optimize the apps. With the long list of apps I froze using Package Disabler Pro, my battery life improved at least 10-15%. Now on the new update yesterday, it's borderline insane how much better my battery is lasting. And nothing has been optimized yet since the default period is 3 days and we haven't reached 72 hours post-update yet.

NotATreoFan said:
I wouldn't worry about attempting to move to userdata in order to optimize the apps. With the long list of apps I froze using Package Disabler Pro, my battery life improved at least 10-15%. Now on the new update yesterday, it's borderline insane how much better my battery is lasting. And nothing has been optimized yet since the default period is 3 days and we haven't reached 72 hours post-update yet.
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Maybe he wants to use some of those apps.
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pcriz said:
Maybe he wants to use some of those apps.
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Sure. But if you use it on a regular basis, it won't be optimized anyway. The app has to sit idle before anything happens.

NotATreoFan said:
Sure. But if you use it on a regular basis, it won't be optimized anyway. The app has to sit idle before anything happens.
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You can adjust how long that takes, though. Down to 1 day I believe.

NotATreoFan said:
Sure. But if you use it on a regular basis, it won't be optimized anyway. The app has to sit idle before anything happens.
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I think we are speaking on semantics. Frankly we don't know how he uses his phone. For instance I check my Instagram maybe 3 or 4 times a day. Far too often for me to be enabling/disabling apps just to check my feed.
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pcriz said:
I think we are speaking on semantics. Frankly we don't know how he uses his phone. For instance I check my Instagram maybe 3 or 4 times a day. Far too often for me to be enabling/disabling apps just to check my feed.
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Absolutely true.
The way I see it, we're all just offering alternatives since he does not want to root and/or lose Samsung Pay.

"Disabled in background when not in use" tells me he wants them there when he needs them but he doesn't really need them cranking down data or cycles on the cpu when he isn't using them. How well the optimization works or doesn't is neither here nor there.
Not to mention disabling and optimizing are two different things and not really an answer to the ops question.
Frankly without root I don't think what he is trying to accomplish will work.
My question is why do you think optimization won't work on system apps?
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app called 10292

Hi, I think I'm probably being thick (easily done) but could anyone tell me what the app called "10292" is and what it does?
It's drained 10% of my battery but I can't find any info on it anywhere (yes, I've googled :good

Im not sure what this is
If your phone is rooted perhaps you can use a 3rd party app to find out what this is
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Thanks - it's not rooted, (I'm trying to resist, my first android phone that I have never rooted, although I am feeling the urge again!!)

You still could try some 3rd party apps
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Alpsp said:
Hi, I think I'm probably being thick (easily done) but could anyone tell me what the app called "10292" is and what it does?
It's drained 10% of my battery but I can't find any info on it anywhere (yes, I've googled :good
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Holy s*it i also have it but it's not called 10292.. what could cause this?!

calvinerico said:
Holy s*it i also have it but it's not called 10292.. what could cause this?!
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Whoa, suddenly it changed to system ui.. so is this a bug or something else?

calvinerico said:
Whoa, suddenly it changed to system ui.. so is this a bug or something else?
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It weird - mine isn't there today either!

This has happened to me a lot. It usually happens when you remove an application which was on that list, the OS can't find it anymore so it shows the app ID or something like that.

S-Health wakelock battery drain

Hi all!
I would like to know if other users have a high wakelock of s-health. On my end, using BetterBatteryStats, com.sec.android.app.shealth has about 1 wakelock per minute! I think it's to track the steps, but it's waaaaay too much! What I did before is sync every night and that's it, I don't need to sync all the time, except ofc the notifications.
These wakelocks reduces the deep sleep of the phone, hence battery drain.
Anyone has a method to reduce this wakelock? I'm on a OP3 running LAOS 7 rooted.
Thanks!

Yes i have that problem a couple days a go when i got my watch. Greenify took care of it for me.

frigidazzi said:
Yes i have that problem a couple days a go when i got my watch. Greenify took care of it for me.
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Whats settings do you use for greenify? I'm using it as well, but apparently it's not enough to clean it
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matssa said:
Whats settings do you use for greenify? I'm using it as well, but apparently it's not enough to clean it
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Just standard root option. And greenify the Samsung health app. Then i "cut" the wakeups when they pop up.

frigidazzi said:
Just standard root option. And greenify the Samsung health app. Then i "cut" the wakeups when they pop up.
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How do you cut the wakeups? Did you activate the aggressive​ doze with the wake-up tracking and cut-off?
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matssa said:
How do you cut the wakeups? Did you activate the aggressive​ doze with the wake-up tracking and cut-off?
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Just checked. It looks like that's what i am doing.

frigidazzi said:
Just checked. It looks like that's what i am doing.
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Ok thanks, I did the same, will check tomorrow

Without Greenify there is no other way to control that battery drain? Shame because awesome watch but this sucks...