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Hi all,
Im new to Android but I have done a fair bit of developing with Windows phones. I have recently bought a LG Optimus 4X HD and the first thing I want to do is install PhoneLocator Pro for security.
In Windows I used to install security software to the extended ROM so if it was factory reset the software would stay. PhoneLocator Pro says it can do this if the phone is rooted. I have read the guide to rooting and im ready to give it a go.
My question is after I have rooted it, installed the software and removed the bloatware is it then possible to unroot the phone to protect it from accidental deletion and also to increase the security by not allowing deletion of PhoneLocator Pro when it is installed to the ROM.
I have done a lot of reading up on rooting but cant find anything on unrooting. I have also searched but when you search for "ROOT" a lot comes up.
Thanks
parf said:
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PhoneLocator Pro
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ult#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5ydm8ucGxwcm8iXQ..
"5th. Automatically turns on the GPS giving you greater accuracy. Available only on phones with ROOT"
Soo, if you unroot the phone, the app won't work...
Stock apps can be uninstalled from the phone, and if you unroot there is no problem.
We can't have everything...
Thanks for your help.
If I leave the GPS activate all the time it should still work though shouldnt it?
How do I unroot and then i can try it?
parf said:
Thanks for your help.
If I leave the GPS activate all the time it should still work though shouldnt it?
How do I unroot and then i can try it?
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In "SuperSU" you have the option "Remove root completly".
About the app... I don't know if only needs root for that option or to work normally. I never tried that app.
Thanks RuedasLocas.
In your opinion what freeze app software do you consider the best. Im thinking of trying App Quarantine and AntTek App Manager. From what I can see a few havent been updated for a while and therefore dont run so well on ICS.
parf said:
what freeze app software do you consider the best
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Sorry if I steal the answer to this question but you can use the free app SDmaid. It also has an App management menu where you can freeze apps.
Or use Titanium Backup Pro Root.
parf said:
Thanks RuedasLocas.
In your opinion what freeze app software do you consider the best. Im thinking of trying App Quarantine and AntTek App Manager. From what I can see a few havent been updated for a while and therefore dont run so well on ICS.
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Well... I use Root Uninstall Pro and AntTek Explorer, now, if they are the best or not...
They're very easy to work with and very effective.
RU allow to uninstall or freeze, give the app file location and directory thru AntTek Explorer.
AntTek Explorer allow to see and manage hidden files on the device.
If you plan to do some more Android stuff (especially flash roms what might be possible soon), I'd recommend you to buy Ti Backup.It's great for backups and can freeze, root uninstall, fix market links and more. I have never regretted buying it because you can do so much with it.
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Any way to revert to the google talk app from google hangout in 4.3?
I tried to manually install the gtalk apk, but it won't install.
mgl888 said:
Any way to revert to the google talk app from google hangout in 4.3?
I tried to manually install the gtalk apk, but it won't install.
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yup badly needed... solution?
mgl888 said:
Any way to revert to the google talk app from google hangout in 4.3?
I tried to manually install the gtalk apk, but it won't install.
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Wait, you deleted hangouts, then tried to install talk as a system app and it didnt work?
mssam said:
Wait, you deleted hangouts, then tried to install talk as a system app and it didnt work?
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Oops I thought they were two separate apks.
Deleted hangout with root and installed gtalk. Worked like a charm. Thanks!!
Isn't there way to check online status of anyone on hangout app ? Coz I can't see anyone's status ...
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
Can you give the procedure for installing gtalk along with links for gtalk apk
Sent from my GT-P6200 using xda premium
Seriously thinking of going back to 4.2.2
This hangouts app is terrible compared to gTalk. Is there any way I can install it on 4.3 without having to get root?
I am interested in this as well. My wife hates hangouts and her GNex is not rooted.
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Google Talk from 4.2.2 can not be installed any more
First thing that I tried after updating my Nexus to JB 4.3 was to remove Hangouts and install back Google Talk from JB 4.2.2 but with no success. Application can not be installed any more. If anyone find solution for reverting back to Google Talk on JB 4.3 please let us to know. Hangouts are really terrible
mgl888 said:
Oops I thought they were two separate apks.
Deleted hangout with root and installed gtalk. Worked like a charm. Thanks!!
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Any chance for a solution which does not require root access?
jerry311 said:
Any chance for a solution which does not require root access?
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Pfff same here I just got the 4.3 on Galaxy Nexus, and BIM ugly Hangout.
I guess now is a good time to root the phone :/
Paraladoxa said:
Pfff same here I just got the 4.3 on Galaxy Nexus, and BIM ugly Hangout.
I guess now is a good time to root the phone :/
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Hi,
Saw in youtube an option to uninstall it from google play->my apps
Does it work cause this is the only thing that keeps me from updating
rakavka said:
Hi,
Saw in youtube an option to uninstall it from google play->my apps
Does it work cause this is the only thing that keeps me from updating
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I tried it but it only uninstalled updates and not the whole app.
google talk
TunerX said:
I tried it but it only uninstalled updates and not the whole app.
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Same issue. Any way to get google talk on 4.3?
I'm in the same boat. Don't wanna root the device, but don't want to stick with this ugly Hangouts either.
Anyone got a link to working Talk.apk for 4.3?
I uninstalled Hangouts.apk using Root Explorer (EStrongs), then I copied Talk.apk to /system/app
Set the permission to rw-r--r--
Reboot
It works, I got Talk notification ...
But, the Talk app is not shown in the app gallery
UPDATE:
Wiped Dalvik cache and Cache, doesn't help
Did all of that here too. Same results. It seems that Google is actively disallowing Talk.apk somehow.
gogol said:
Anyone got a link to working Talk.apk for 4.3?
But, the Talk app is not shown in the app gallery [/B]
UPDATE:
Wiped Dalvik cache and Cache, doesn't help
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Talk working
Guys im on stock 4.3 and rooted.
I was also playing around to get talk back... and i got it running "version 4.1.2-485486" even video call and sound is working just tested it.
what i did was download de gapps "gapps-jb-20121011-signed" deleted everything inside i dont want so just system\app and the lib files are in there.
Flashed it with twrp and it worked.
Got the zip here you can flash it but make a backup just in case.
Code:
http://speedy.sh/bcNdM/gapps-jb-20121011-signed-Talk-working.zip
And with titanium backup you can detach talk from the market so you wont get the update notification for hangouts.
please more details for newbies dear sir
mrrtys said:
Guys im on stock 4.3 and rooted.
I was also playing around to get talk back... and i got it running "version 4.1.2-485486" even video call and sound is working just tested it.
what i did was download de gapps "gapps-jb-20121011-signed" deleted everything inside i dont want so just system\app and the lib files are in there.
Flashed it with twrp and it worked.
Got the zip here you can flash it but make a backup just in case.
And with titanium backup you can detach talk from the market so you wont get the update notification for hangouts.
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Could you please provide more details what my steps should be to "flash it with twrp"? After I root my nexus 4 (which is well documented, I just looked up) and downloaded twrp & your gapps version. Thanks a lot in advance.
mrrtys said:
Guys im on stock 4.3 and rooted.
I was also playing around to get talk back... and i got it running "version 4.1.2-485486" even video call and sound is working just tested it.
what i did was download de gapps "gapps-jb-20121011-signed" deleted everything inside i dont want so just system\app and the lib files are in there.
Flashed it with twrp and it worked.
Got the zip here you can flash it but make a backup just in case.
Code:
http://speedy.sh/bcNdM/gapps-jb-20121011-signed-Talk-working.zip
And with titanium backup you can detach talk from the market so you wont get the update notification for hangouts.
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Yep, that worked for me however i got the latest version of gapps for 4.2.2 instead of 4.1.2, slightly updated version of gtalk...dont know what the difference was.
Before i flashed gapps though i uninstalled hangouts with titanium...don't know if that was neccessary...also can't detach talk from the market without the paid version of titanium...maybe i should get that, i still have credit left from when i got my nexus 7 last year
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kazyaffka said:
Could you please provide more details what my steps should be to "flash it with twrp"? After I root my nexus 4 (which is well documented, I just looked up) and downloaded twrp & your gapps version. Thanks a lot in advance.
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If you've installed twrp, when the tablet is on put the zip file on the sd card, reboot into recovery (twrp), select install, navigate to the sdcard folder and select the gapps zip file. it should install.
i also go to advanced and fix permissions after, don't know if it's needed or not.
I also used titanium to uninstall hangouts first, again i dont know if i needed to do this.
I have installed both recent version of microG and YT Vanced (non-root versions). YouTube Vanced just gets stuck at the boot page (the YouTube Logo) forever. I tried reinstalling several times. The exact same version and procedure worked on my previous OnePlus 6 perfectly.
Edit: I did a factory reset and reinstalled without changing any settings and yet it didn't work.
Is anyone else facing this too, and are there any fixes?
Especially ROG 2 Indian variant users, please comment if it works for y'all.
Edit: It actually takes forever to load the app the first time. Wasn't this way on my other phones but I just had to wait a couple of minutes. It works now!
Thanks to the awesome XDA community anyways. Y'all very supportive.
vygneys_vyg said:
I have installed both recent version of microG and YT Vanced. YouTube Vanced just gets stuck at the boot page (the YouTube Logo) forever. I tried reinstalling several times. The exact same version and procedure worked on my previous OnePlus 6 perfectly.
Is anyone else facing this too, or are there any fixes?
This might do something with battery saving and background restrictions maybe? Although I tried removing all battery and memory optimisations for those two apps alone.
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I do not have any issue on YouTube Vance and microG. I have them installed and works fine
ram4ufriends said:
I do not have any issue on YouTube Vance and microG. I have them installed and works fine
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Oh okay and thank you. Looks like it's some battery and memory optimisation of other apps messing up with YT Vanced. I probably need to reset some things.
Working fine here.
iampatricktan said:
Working fine here.
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I did a complete factory reset and installed YT Vanced without changing anything, yet still gets stuck. You guys are using the non-rooted version right? Can you please share the procedure to install it? I just directly installed both APKs without disabling YouTube or anything and this worked fine on my OnePlus 6.
vygneys_vyg said:
I did a complete factory reset and installed YT Vanced without changing anything, yet still gets stuck. You guys are using the non-rooted version right? Can you please share the procedure to install it? I just directly installed both APKs without disabling YouTube or anything and this worked fine on my OnePlus 6.
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Make sure to install microG first and then YouTube Vanced.... installing YouTube Vanced first crashes it...
vygneys_vyg said:
I did a complete factory reset and installed YT Vanced without changing anything, yet still gets stuck. You guys are using the non-rooted version right? Can you please share the procedure to install it? I just directly installed both APKs without disabling YouTube or anything and this worked fine on my OnePlus 6.
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Be sure to install the latest micro. Also try after resetting your device and then install first the micro and youtubevanced, check if its working. If yes then maybe conflict with other apps you installed
iampatricktan said:
Be sure to install the latest micro. Also try after resetting your device and then install first the micro and youtubevanced, check if its working. If yes then maybe conflict with other apps you installed
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Thank you guys, and yes, I did install microG first then YouTube Vanced next. I did that right after factory reset, so there were no other extra apps installed. I also removed all memory and battery optimisations for both of the apps, tried disabling YouTube and Chrome, yet no difference.
Can't live without Vanced lol
Re download micro and vanced
My phone is running Vance well after i uninstalled micro.
All working fine here, vanced 14.21.54 and micro g 0.2.6.17455
Note, 0.2.6 was needed instead of 0.2.4 versions
I used the 0.2.6 version only. Redownloaded and Reinstalled many times. Tried installing only Vanced without microG. Still no luck.
Is there any specific YT Vanced version for this phone?
I just got the common one in the XDA site.
I've got the Indian ROG 2 variant. Maybe something got to do with that?
vygneys_vyg said:
I used the 0.2.6 version only. Redownloaded and Reinstalled many times. Tried installing only Vanced without microG. Still no luck.
Is there any specific YT Vanced version for this phone?
I just got the common one in the XDA site.
I've got the Indian ROG 2 variant. Maybe something got to do with that?
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Working fine here
You mentioned you didn't disable the original YouTube app.
Try deleting Vanced and MicroG and make sure you clear data before deleting them
Then open original YouTube app , then close it and then disable the app entirely. Then try installing Vanced and MicroG
still_living said:
Working fine here
You mentioned you didn't disable the original YouTube app.
Try deleting Vanced and MicroG and make sure you clear data before deleting them
Then open original YouTube app , then close it and then disable the app entirely. Then try installing Vanced and MicroG
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Thank you. I tried this and yet no luck. I tried several combos and still the same result. Tried all these right after factory reset too. I'm starting to feel this has something to do with the ROG Indian ROM or something.
vygneys_vyg said:
I used the 0.2.6 version only. Redownloaded and Reinstalled many times. Tried installing only Vanced without microG. Still no luck.
Is there any specific YT Vanced version for this phone?
I just got the common one in the XDA site.
I've got the Indian ROG 2 variant. Maybe something got to do with that?
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I didn't do anything special using imported tencent version from China. Just the regular app from xda. Haven't disabled the standard version either.. Not sure what to suggest
still_living said:
Working fine here
You mentioned you didn't disable the original YouTube app.
Try deleting Vanced and MicroG and make sure you clear data before deleting them
Then open original YouTube app , then close it and then disable the app entirely. Then try installing Vanced and MicroG
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I am on ROG Indian version as well and no issues...
Well thanks a lot to all of you guys. I finally got it to work!
The boot screen actually took a couple of minutes to get through. I just left it on the Vanced boot screen unknowingly for a long time and was opened the time I came back xD.
IDK what caused the delay but anyways now I can have a peace of mind. Thank you all!
vygneys_vyg said:
Well thanks a lot to all of you guys. I finally got it to work!
The boot screen actually took a couple of minutes to get through. I just left it on the Vanced boot screen unknowingly for a long time and was opened the time I came back xD.
IDK what caused the delay but anyways now I can have a peace of mind. Thank you all!
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Glad you got it working
reg66 said:
Glad you got it working
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Glad y'all helped me
Without hijacking this thread, could someone point me into the general direction of how to microG this phone ?
I'm used to nanodroid, but I haven't figured how I am supposed to deal with pre installed gapps' roms.
Hey there,
I have been trying to debloat my phone but whenever i uninstall AVG the phone can not boot to the system. I am on the latest firmware 47.2.A.11.228 and i am uninstalling apps using Titanium Backup. My phone is also unlocked and Magisk is my root of choice.
maciek12 said:
Hey there,
I have been trying to debloat my phone but whenever i uninstall AVG the phone can not boot to the system. I am on the latest firmware 47.2.A.11.228 and i am uninstalling apps using Titanium Backup. My phone is also unlocked and Magisk is my root of choice.
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Son of a *****! This always happened to me when I've installed Pie but hadn't pinpointed it to this app, I thought it was just Pie being glitchy with TB so have stuck with Oreo. Might give Pie another whirl this week and try and figure that out.
SXUsr said:
Son of a *****! This always happened to me when I've installed Pie but hadn't pinpointed it to this app, I thought it was just Pie being glitchy with TB so have stuck with Oreo. Might give Pie another whirl this week and try and figure that out.
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Actually I found out that other people had a similar problem and it's just best to freeze AVG.
One other thing I found out is that if you plan on using Gmail app you need to keep Chrome browser at least frozen. If you delete it Gmail won't work.
Weird I didn't come across this when I removed it. I deleted the AVG folder from system apps via TWRP though and not from TB.
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see my video it will solve your problem in a second
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Hi, i tried to follow your instructions regarding my Huawei P40 pro,
but could not found any backup software to uninstall. Its just not listet in Apps/Apps.
If i try to install the apk file the installation aborts because its an older version (5.0) than the installed one (6.0).
Any solution for a P40 Pro?
Thanks
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Splico7 said:
Hi, i tried to follow your instructions regarding my Huawei P40 pro,
but could not found any backup software to uninstall. Its just not listet in Apps/Apps.
If i try to install the apk file the installation aborts because its an older version (5.0) than the installed one (6.0).
Any solution for a P40 Pro?
Thanks
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i see, i will try to find P40P locally and will try to use this guide, hopefully i can find someone to be volunteer
blegs said:
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thanks you for your efforts
i tried your method on m'y matepad pro WiFi version. I get to uninstall but when installing the version i downloaded i get error saying i have newer version of the app.
any ideas?
w_gharbi said:
thanks you for your efforts
i tried your method on m'y matepad pro WiFi version. I get to uninstall but when installing the version i downloaded i get error saying i have newer version of the app.
any ideas?
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Apologies if you already did this, but before uninstalling the newer version of backup - try clearing cache and data a few times, force stop and then uninstall. This method has helped me with other apps in the past when wanting to downgrade and getting an error about newer version even when uninstalled.
Why you should I do this? I updated Backup app from AppGallery and I also got the last version of sistem update and everything works ok with GMS installed. Is there something that I must check or .....?
alexxutzu said:
Why you should I do this? I updated Backup app from AppGallery and I also got the last version of sistem update and everything works ok with GMS installed. Is there something that I must check or .....?
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If everythings works fine for you there is no need to do anything. This is for those that cannot install google services on a P40 Pro after a recent update....
Thanks works as charm :good:
Help!
Hi i have a Mate 30, my problem is i can't uninstall Play Services.
I cannot do the following steps. for not being able to remove it; it gives me an error.
I have tried stopping the process, cleaning the data and cache and nothing
kranneo said:
Hi i have a Mate 30, my problem is i can't uninstall Play Services.
I cannot do the following steps. for not being able to remove it; it gives me an error.
I have tried stopping the process, cleaning the data and cache and nothing
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You can still do a hard reset.
Ok I faced the issue before watching Ur video
What i did is I just went airplane mode before running the app first. Activate and gave permission normaly. Went back to my internet and the rest of the steps went fine
Backup and Restore GMS
firlando said:
anyone getting trouble to restore lzplay?
see my video it will solve your problem in a second
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I previously had GMS via old LZPLAY method. If I backup my phone using HiSuite, can I restore GMS later?
firlando said:
anyone getting trouble to restore lzplay?
see my video it will solve your problem in a second
Dont forget to subscribe and follow my youtube channel
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I got the new MatePad and unfortunately, the backup app APK cannot be installed.