Hi All,
Not a newb, but certainly a newb to the Play. My question is about the Mobile Care app installed by Verizon. I've rooted and removed it because every time the Play is powered off, and powered back on, it runs a Software Update that never seems to really happen (before and after rooting). I removed the app because it basically provides full permissions to everything (apps, data, your first born child).
So my questions are:
Is this app behaving normally, that is, it always tries to update software if powered on?
What will I lose by removing the app?
Mobile Care
Mobile Care is the updater (as in OTA)
if you are using the stock ROM then you have it
I believe if your rooted you can't upgrade anyway without bricking your phone
I can't get it to work for me either (no root [yet]) and have contacted Sony Ericsson
Related
I know Google claim that Google claim no data will be lost during update. Let's post here what will be lost.
I lost APN
Not exactly data loss but I lost a couple of applications: Power widget and Tell2me
I didn't loose anything, except for the apps I manually deleted before the upgrade, in order to free enough space for it.
Nothing lost here at all.
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I lost absolutely nothing. Everything stayed in place.
SMS, Contacts, Calendar, Gmail, Apps, Settings.
A few issues:
* Interface switched to German (from Switzerland English in 2.1). But can be switched back in the settings;
* Some of the old alarm clock ring tones seem missing, check your settings.
But the rest is working well, very well...
Panoramio killed the camera app for me after I updated to froyo. Removed Panoramio and all was well again. So I suppose I lost that...
I lost my apn settings as well!
I did a 2.2 update via custom rom with built in root and the data i have is on the sd and now just looking at restoring it back. shouldnt be that hard to do
Whats the go with the marketplace apps we can no longer install/download (even paid apps)?
I uninstalled a bunch of stuff and now can't re-install.
Anyone know when this will be fixed or how it will be fixed. Whats stopping the devs creating a completely new entry of the app and making everyone pay again?
I didn't lose anything! That's so good because I'm used that it gets reset whenever you update/flash it (had an Sony Ericsson C510 before)
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zlayaa said:
I didn't lose anything! That's so good because I'm used that it gets reset whenever you update/flash it (had an Sony Ericsson C510 before)
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Whoa, old skool button phone!
Yep
Got my Desire this Friday so my wait for FroYo hasn't been long!
I just love everything with this phone! =D
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I have the AT&T branded Xperia Play (r800at) and the Messaging Application that I assume is of Sony's own design, (This is my first Android phone.) has been force closing or stuttering everytime I open up the application.
I've had this phone since Day 1 of its release on the AT&T network and as far as I can remember this problem has plagued me. If anyone has any idea how to fix this I would be extremely grateful.
(My phone has the ZergRush root on it, but the problem has been on my phone prior to the rooting.)
Install a new messaging app and uninstall the default one.
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Hey everyone,
Got randomly (?) searched at the airport and they took my phone into the back room to "check" things.
I don't know about you guys, but I don't like people going through my things- especially when I don't know what they're doing. So now I would like to know if anything was changed or added, as unlikely as it may be.
How can I go about finding out if anything was installed or modified?
Rooted on ViperX
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Re: [Q]3rd party used my phone: How to check for modified/added files
Go through your apps and go through your files. Simple as that.
Wipe and reflash ROM to be sure.
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Hey everyone,
Got randomly (?) searched at the airport and they took my phone into the back room to "check" things.
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It could happen anytime you leave your device unattended. Make sure you're using a screen lock with a reasonably short time of auto activation. If you're not rooted, check your list of apps. Devices without SU binary (rooted) should not be possible to be hacked badly within few minutes, or hidden spyware apps be installed, passwords revealed.
Hi all,
I've been using my arc S for over a year and I like it a lot. However, recently I've been experiencing frequent crashes, and sudden hanging of the system whereby I need to force restart the phone.
I'm not good with Android development, but managed to root my phone using doomlord method, and am using Nova launcher with it. It's currently on ics 4.0.3
Is there any way to find out what's wrong? For example, I'm surfing using boat browser, and without any warning,the browser app just closes. Another time I was reading on pulse news app,and it auto closes by itself. I used ezpdf and often it hangs while reading pdf files. It wasn't like this when I first updated it.
Can anyone tell me is it the problem with the system or hardware?
I'm reluctant to change to a new phone.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Do a factory reset, or repair via seus or pcc
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Yep a repair with a pc companion should do the trick.
Thanks, I've done an update via PCC, and factory reset to clean up everything. Re-rooted and everything. I will continue to monitor for the next one month.
Hello Guys,
I have been having this problem from quite some time now (And frankly I don't remember since when).. Whenever my apps are getting updates from the Google Play Store, my mobile becomes painfully slow and lags majorly. It like as if you are using Jellybean on a device meant for Android Eclairs! My system is neither rooted not modified. I had the same problem even on 4.1.2 so it is not the firmware issue. My Note II has Kaspersky antivirus installed which checks every new and updated app. I thought it may be because of this so I uninstalled the app but still no effect Toggling Power Saving Mode On/Off does not make any difference either
I have no idea what is causing it and it is really troublesome.. I have A LOTT of apps and sometimes it updates almost 10 12 apps in a go which is really irritating with the lag!!
Have have chosen any option that is causing this?? Or any app??
Please help me with this
Cheers!
I have the same issue and I thought it started with update to Android 4.3, but it is probably due to update of Play Store application, now that you say you also had this problem on 4.1.2... Everything is smooth (ROM) except when I'm updating apps, it freezes so much I'm unable to do anything and I remember I used to run "update all" and then go back to Launcher and did other things while update run in the back... now it is slowing down the system... I wondered if it is a problem with XPrivacy module, but probably not...
Has anybody got any help on this?
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