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[Q] Uninstalling Switch Pro Widget

Does anyone know how to fully uninstall SwitchPro Widget?
If I use Appmanager (HTC Desire) I can't find it under "All" nor under "On SD card", but if I look in "Running" it's there. If I click it there's no option for uninstalling - the only option is "Stop".
I don't have any widgets up on the homescreen.
I tried uninstalling it using Titanium Backup and it said that it did, but after a restart it's back.
Any help would be appreciated - thanks in advance.
PS I'm using ROM: HiApk (Sensefun) GS v1.1

If you've used the screen off toggle, you activated it as device administrator. I'm on MIUI right now so my settings menu is different, but you need to find Security & Privacy Settings, then Select Device Administrators. Uncheck the app, then you should be able to uninstall it.
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Thanks for your reply-
I haven't used the screen lock, but the 3G toggle.
Unfortunately there is no "Security and Privacy" under Settings on this ROM. There's a "Security" and a "Privacy", but neither has a Device Administrator option. I have searched high and low for it, but it is nowhere to be found ;-(

Perhaps under Accessability? I believe that's where it was on my stock rom.
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Thanks again, but I have tried that. All I get there is a message saying I don't have any accessibility related applications installed.

Did you somehow move it to /system? That's the only reason I can think it wouldn't allow you to uninstall through settings. If you have Titanium Backup Pro, try freezing the app. If not, just try uninstalling through TB again, but wipe data first. If you have Root Explorer, you can delete the apk itself. It should be in /data/app.
Also, have you tried uninstalling through the market?
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root uninstaller could do that for you. Unfortunately its a pay-only-app

Thanks guys,
I tried to go back and uninstall it in TB, but the entry for the SwitchPro is no longer there. It is still running in the background though.
I can't delete it via market - the only option I get there is to upgrade to pro.
I found a trial version of Root Uninstaller which would allow me three tries. When I try to uninstall through there I get an "Uninstall not succesful due to an unknown error". This is getting ridiculous
Hey - I have just managed to "freeze" it in Root Uninstaller and this means it doesn't start up automatically. I'd call that close to success
I would like to see the little bugger totally gone from my phone, but I can live with this solution.
Many thanks for your great help.

Just for the record: Switch Pro hadn't disappeared from TB, but changed it's name to: alei.switchpro. I still can't delete it, though, but as long as I have it froern I'm happy

[Q] YouTube Automatic Updates... stop the madness!

I have been searching all over the place for the last several days for an answer to this issue. I hope someone can help with this.
So I decided a few days ago to upgrade my phone (an HTC Sensation) to ICS. It was previously on Gingerbead. I didn't even know the update was available until I was messing around in the settings.
So the upgrade went well. Didn't lose any data and I thought it was great. Until I decided to watch a YouTube video. Then I locked the screen and the video paused. I know it was not doing this before the upgrade. I subscribe to a few YouTube channels that are just people talking, so I turn off the screen and just listen. So I did a search online and found out a lot of other people were complaining about this as well.
So then I came across a forum post stating they were able to downgrade their YouTube app to an older version and get the play while locked functionality back. I found the APK for 2.1.6 and installed it. Worked great, back up and running with lock and listen.
Then I rebooted the phone. Android "helpfully" decides to re-update my YouTube app to the new "improved" version.
I rooted the phone during the process of trying to fix this. So it has S-OFF, root, and Super SU installed. I also put System Tuner on the phone.
Already checked the Play store to make sure updates are disabled there. I don't have updates enabled for any apps.
How can I stop this automatic upgrading? YouTube is a stock app and from what I understand, Android updates these (gmail, maps, youtube, etc) automatically and you can't stop it on the front end. Any ideas? Something I can do in System Tuner?
Thanks.

TL;DR Try using the search function and you might find something called Titanium Backup which can 'freeze' apps.

Already tried it. System Tuner has this feature. Freezing an app removes it from the drawer and will not allow it to run. Not exactly what I want.

Maybe I didn't make that clear enough. Titanium Backup allows you to effectively remove an app from the Play Store update routine, so it will not update anymore.

SimonTS said:
Maybe I didn't make that clear enough. Titanium Backup allows you to effectively remove an app from the Play Store update routine, so it will not update anymore.
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Thanks for the info. I didn't want to pay for Titanium Backup, but you at least got me going in the right direction. The issue appears to be that YouTube on my phone is marked as a system app and that causes Android to update it automatically regardless of what you select in the Play Store settings. I was able to use an app called "/system/app mover" to convert YouTube to a user app. Now it won't update automatically.

lightfusegetaway said:
Thanks for the info. I didn't want to pay for Titanium Backup, but you at least got me going in the right direction. The issue appears to be that YouTube on my phone is marked as a system app and that causes Android to update it automatically regardless of what you select in the Play Store settings. I was able to use an app called "/system/app mover" to convert YouTube to a user app. Now it won't update automatically.
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There is an app calls Addons Detector from Play Store, you can use it to turn on and off the auto notification and download.
actually under Play Store, you can browse your preinstalled app and untick the "Allow automatic updating" option.

[Q][ROOT] Towelroot troubleshooting

I cannot for the life of me figure out where I am going wrong.
Youtube videos and all online tutorials and guides suggest it should be as simple as going to towelroot.com, clicking the lambda, getting a prompt to download the .apk, install it, let it run, let the phone reboot, and install SuperSU.
But for whatever reason, that doesn't work for me. If I click the lambda in Chrome, I get a prompt to choose what browser to open it in, and selecting Chrome just asks me again after it opens a new tab. It never downloads. If I choose to open it in firefox, FF will render in the browser as if it were a text file. Going back to Chrome, if I long-hold the icon and choose "Save Link", I can get a copy of tr.apk downloaded. Alright, so far so good. Let's just run it... right? WRONG. "Can not open file". My other .apk's like F-Droid opened absolutely fantastically fine.
OK, I'll work around this using a .apk installer. Go over to Google Play, grab "APK Installer" (1.4 mb or so one), run that, select the .apk file to install aaaannnnddd, I get to the usual screen showing what's asking to be installed and what permissions it wants. Yay! I've seen this page before! Aaannd... The Install button cannot be pressed. It cannot be pressed in landscape or portrait. Only cancel works.
I have not found anyone else with all my searching that has had the same difficulties as me. Hell, as the forum checked my title to find similar threads, there's http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785869 which shows this guy managed to install towelroot just yesterday.
Anyone have any clue what to do to get a root without the troubles of wiping? This is absolutely tremendously frustrating.
Edit: I had to kill an app's process. I suspect it's Twilight that had to be killed - an app kinda like f.lux on Windows that overlays the screen with a warm tint to make nightviewing nicer. I ended up killing AdBlock, Youtube, Google Music, and a few others. I was then able to install the .apk using APK Installer from the Play store. And once I had root and superuser installed, I had to go into the superuser settings and disable the Tapjacking Protection (or alternatively kill Twilight - that's why I suspect it was a problem in the first place, as there's non-changeable tapjacking for apk installations) and I could finally grant programs superuser permissions.

Exaskryz said:
I suspect it's Twilight that had to be killed - an app kinda like f.lux on Windows that overlays the screen with a warm tint to make nightviewing nicer.
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Yep. Any screen overlay will interfere with the install button.

[App] Chrome Homepage

Hey mates,
are you missing the "Home" symbol in Chrome? And the effect that Chrome conveniently shuts down when you close the last tab?
There is a small app in some ROMs, called ChromeCustomizations.apk or sometimes ChromeHomepageProvider.apk
Sometimes it works when you pull this file off a ROM and put it in your /system/app folder, but now I am systemless rooted with Magisk and don't want to deal with the partition.
Here is my workaround:
a) Either throw the attached apk in your /system/app folder and enjoy or
b) install it simply as a user app (I have signed it with SignApk) and make a systemless System-app out of it with Magisk and the App Systemizer module. This works like a charm on my 7.1.1 ROM. Should also work on Oreo.
Notice that you will have an additional setting in Chrome called "Homepage" then. By default this is Bing, sorry for that, but you can simply enter your preferred page or use "chrome://newtab" instead. Enjoy!

Hello,
Is there any way to list my all last visited websites and bookmarkes as well. I want to it for more organised work so that I don't have to find specific website from a list of the bookmarks.

How about "chrome://history" ?

It looks like Google have done something with Chrome ver 63.0.xxxx, this doesn't work anymore.
Thanks anyway.
Edit:
uninstall v63 and install this one (v62): https://chrome.en.uptodown.com/android/download
Then flash the Chrome Homeage.zip https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3458071&d=1441043017
All working now.
Ah, Play Store updated it back to v63!!
Anybody know how to stop an individual app from updating?

bick said:
It looks like Google have done something with Chrome ver 63.0.xxxx, this doesn't work anymore.
Thanks anyway.
Edit:
uninstall v63 and install this one (v62): https://chrome.en.uptodown.com/android/download
Then flash the Chrome Homeage.zip https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3458071&d=1441043017
All working now.
Ah, Play Store updated it back to v63!!
Anybody know how to stop an individual app from updating?
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Go to the play store page of the app in question. Tap the three dots menu in the upper right corner and disable automatic updates.

PixelChris95 said:
Go to the play store page of the app in question. Tap the three dots menu in the upper right corner and disable automatic updates.
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Thanks! I looked everywhere else.

Samsung Remote Support?

Am seeing this tab in settings, what apk do I need to debloat to remove this? I've been through my apps list but dont see anything obvious, thanks

I don't have that option. Do you see it Samsung members app?

See grab, no its towards the bottom in Settings menu.

don't have that setting but going via help file it offers to install it via Smart Tutor for Samsung Galaxy app

Thanks, just want to get rid of that tab, any idea how?

do you have that app? uninstall it if yes

Have uninstalled smart tutor but the Remote Support tab remains in settings list. Guess there's no way to get rid of it?

restart the phone?

Still there after restart, was hoping there was an app I could disable etc to remove the heading from settings menu, guess not.

I would be glad to remove it as well, I suddenly got it appearing after the last update on my A52 5G.

Any new idea how to get away with this option in Settings?

A bit late to this post, but the solution is to install the Samsung Tips app which removes the "manual" and "remote support" options inside the Settings app and replaces it with a single "Tips" entry: https://galaxystore.samsung.com/pre...session_id=W_03bb1f02be95e1f7c89bf2450f16277d
You can remove both by having Tips installed and disabling it (not removing it) via "pm disable com.samsung.android.app.tips"

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A bit late to this post, but the solution is to install the Samsung Tips app which removes the "manual" and "remote support" options inside the Settings app and replaces it with a single "Tips" entry: https://galaxystore.samsung.com/pre...session_id=W_03bb1f02be95e1f7c89bf2450f16277d
You can remove both by having Tips installed and disabling it (not removing it) via "pm disable com.samsung.android.app.tips"
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This doesn't work on the S21 latest software, CVDC. It will disable Tips, but the Remote Support option will no longer be removed.

Macusercom said:
A bit late to this post, but the solution is to install the Samsung Tips app which removes the "manual" and "remote support" options inside the Settings app and replaces it with a single "Tips" entry: https://galaxystore.samsung.com/pre...session_id=W_03bb1f02be95e1f7c89bf2450f16277d
You can remove both by having Tips installed and disabling it (not removing it) via "pm disable com.samsung.android.app.tips"
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On my S22+, I already have the latest version installed by default and tried to disable it via PDP app, but it tells me that some critical app can't be disabled.

It's a system app which isn't directly labeled remote support. You will have to use an application inspector to view all system apps then have to narrow down which app it is. I had to do this to remove the Samsung Account in settings, bixby vision, bixby page, software update installer & more.
Make sure you make an apk backup of the system app before you uninstall it incase you mess up your phone or make a setting inacessible that you needed. You can restore the apps by reinstalling them from the apk you backed up with a tap or use adb to install the app.
If you happen to find out which package name it is please reply with the name as I am trying to figure out which one it is on my phone as well. I imagine its one of the ones that begin with com.samsung.android good luck on the hunt & don't forget to let everyone know once you find out.