This is such a bizzare finding. I used Titanium Backup to completely uninstall Facebook and Google Maps from my phone. Then reinstalled them from the Play store so they would be user apps instead of system apps. I do this so I can use Greenify to hibernate Fb and Maps.
After a reboot, BOTH apps become system apps again!
Facebook as a system app is: /system/app/Facebook_Client.apk
Maps as system app: /system/app/GMS_Maps.apk
Anyone have any idea why, after a reboot, both maps and facebook become system apps again?
are you using a custom kernel that allows changing to /system to be permanent ? if not that would explain when they popped back up
ahh that must be why, ill haev to flash a new version of HTC button
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on my MT3g, especially sprint nav and dolphin browser always seem to launch on their own, before I wipe is this typical for apps to do this?
Yes, some applications run in the background. You can get an app called autostarts from the Market to specify which apps you don't want to run on startup.
I was just wonderin if it was just me (my ROM) or if this is typical for Android. I downloaded that app, ill try it out thanks.
Hi.
Im using android mate and I see that I have 12 apps running on startup – google maps, Navigator, Locations and that other app which sends your location to other.
All are google apps.
I have this autostart killer app but these apps are still running and I'm sure they consume battery power and eat up some RAM.
Someone has an idea?
P.S. – I don't want to uninstall them.
my google maps is allways running i cant se it running in "running proceses" but if i check wats eating my battery in "batery use" google maps is top of the list whit 35%
also if i do a factory reset will it delete the preinstaled programs that the phone came whit also(google maps,youtube etc)?
and in running proceses it shows 78 mb used and 214 mb free.....wasent it suposed to have 512 mb of ram?
funstuffalex said:
my google maps is allways running i cant se it running in "running proceses" but if i check wats eating my battery in "batery use" google maps is top of the list whit 35%
also if i do a factory reset will it delete the preinstaled programs that the phone came whit also(google maps,youtube etc)?
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No, the pre-installed programs like Maps and YouTube shouldn't be impacted, they're in the /system/app folder, not the /data/app folder (where user installed apps go). Even if the Google apps were deleted, they're all available in the Market, so no big deal to download them manually if necessary.
The DATA for the pre-installed apps will get erased, though.
Your battery usage pointing to google maps may be related to running the Latitude portion of google maps...it's constantly on and tracking your position. go into the settings for google maps (layers perhaps) and make sure Latitude is turned off.
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and in running proceses it shows 78 mb used and 214 mb free.....wasent it suposed to have 512 mb of ram?
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The missing memory is used by the system and not available to you; this confuses many people, but you should be okay.
google latitude is not on
i cant clouse maps even in battery use if i click on maps and force stop it then refresh and its still there
funstuffalex said:
google latitude is not on
i cant clouse maps even in battery use if i click on maps and force stop it then refresh and its still there
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Non-rooted, you might try going into Settings/Applications/Manage Applications/ All then finding Maps and uninstalling updates. Also, clear data, clear cache, etc. This might help you out.
Are you rooted?
The way Android works, killing tasks isn't advised. One of the reasons is exactly what you're seeing (I think what you're seeing)...if you kill an app that Android thinks you're going to use again any time soon, it just re-opens it in the background. It shouldn't be sucking up any significant resources in that state, though. Android doesn't like a lot of free memory..the linux mantra is "free memory is wasted memory".
Anyways, if you're rooted, you can try getting Autostarts off the market and tell it to keep Google Maps from autostarting on boot.
Also, if you're rooted, you could use Titanium or Root Explorer to delete the Google Maps apk and then re-download it from the Market.
What he's experiencing is a growing problem with Google Maps. There's currently a ton of people commenting about it in the market and I've seen it first hand.
I sat down with a bunch of friends the other day (all of whom have one Android device or another) and we all checked our battery usage has Google Maps at either the first or second position on the list. In the group was my Nexus S, a Captivate, a Nexus One, and a G2. It appears to be a problem with the newest update, probably related to the caching its doing with the map data, but that's just a guess.
Hi All,
Being on Note 4 and Note Edge had made me forgot things I can do being rooted. To my understanding, the default application manager can disable apps, and titanium backup can go beyond that list from the default application manager. I have also got Greenify. Would anyone care to share what they have disabled/froze in TB and also what they have added on the Greenify list? Thanks in advance!
I basically greenify everything except apps that I want running in the background (desired notifications, watch apps etc). If something doesn't work right, just ungreenify it. The more the better I always say.
I don't have a list for freezing apps, but right off the bat you want to freeze sdm.apk so you don't get updates. I freeze knox and ITIgnite as well. Then of course i remove any games/verizon/Amazon/google play software i dont want.
I'm on Oxygen OS 5.0.3 on a OnePlus 3T with Magisk 16.4, earlier i noticed a peculiar behavior, everything works just fine at start but as soon as I uninstall some bloat apps, everything starts FCing even though the apps that i uninstall have nothing to do with the ones FCing.
I use SD Maid Pro's App Control to Uninstall apps such as Google, OnePlus Icon Packs, Openwnn, Email, Gmail, Duo, Chrome etc.
As soon as i finish that and reboot, and try to start up any app, it simply force closes, apps such as Amazon Shopping, Fleksy and PayTM none of which have no relation to the ones i uninstalled whatsoever. One thing that came to my mind was SD Maid might be messing with some permissions on the data/app block, but that seems to be fine as well.
I'm not sure whats going on, the same thing happens on OB28 as well. For now I'm Freezing the Apps instead of removing them and everything is working just fine.
Any idea whats going wrong when i remove the apps?
Thanks!
Do not remove Chrome as it acts as WebView for many apps
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Do not remove Chrome as it acts as WebView for many apps
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But shouldn't Android System WebView help with that ? Previously, I never used chrome, and most custom roms don't include it either.
I uninstalled everything, as expected, Amazon stopped working, downloaded Chrome from Google Play, moved it to System/priv-app along with libs, rebooted and Amazon started working again.
Guess I'm stuck with chrome ey?
Thanks!