Develop Bugs

Hulu and Flash 10.1

I'm sure you guys have noticed that Hulu claims our platform isn't supported. I was wondering if anyone has tried this technique yet to get Hulu to believe the flash player is installed on a windows box? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=794512
I haven't tried it yet, but I know by default I cannot uninstall the Flash 10.1 build that was included on the phone in order to install the fixed apk...

I pretty much decided that since HSPA+ doesn't cover the WHOLE of my city yet then I won't bother with data heavy sites like Hulu on my phone for now.
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this phone only pulls up mobile sites by default? theres no way of changing that like on the n1?

k0shi said:
this phone only pulls up mobile sites by default? theres no way of changing that like on the n1?
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type about:debug in the address bar.. nothing will happen.. go to menu => settings => UAStrings => choose Desktop

Thanks worked awesome
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would there be any drawbacks from doing this ?

Because of no root you have to do it quiet often
bled82 said:
would there be any drawbacks from doing this ?
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this isn't working for me. anybody know any reason there might be for that?
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j.books said:
this isn't working for me. anybody know any reason there might be for that?
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worked like a charm for me, however;
"Unfortunately Hulu is not supported on your platform. We apologize for any inconvenience."

ImSoHungry said:
worked like a charm for me, however;
"Unfortunately Hulu is not supported on your platform. We apologize for any inconvenience."
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hence the need for a flash build that reports itself as a desktop. The browser will report as a desktop if you do the debug trick, but flash itself is still reporting itself as an android phone.
The link I posted at the top had an apk with a custom build of flash that reports as a desktop, but I can't get it to install on my phone.

unxconformed said:
hence the need for a flash build that reports itself as a desktop. The browser will report as a desktop if you do the debug trick, but flash itself is still reporting itself as an android phone.
The link I posted at the top had an apk with a custom build of flash that reports as a desktop, but I can't get it to install on my phone.
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what i tried. used temp root, then got root in adb shell. rm system flash player, then cp new flash to system/app. installed hulu.apk, still same not supported error. also did the about:debug, same prob
whats wierd is after i rm flash, it still shows under manage apps. can it be installed somewhere else as well?
also how could i rm the cache of the stock player?

fastludeh22 said:
what i tried. used temp root, then got root in adb shell. rm system flash player, then cp new flash to system/app. installed hulu.apk, still same not supported error. also did the about:debug, same prob
whats wierd is after i rm flash, it still shows under manage apps. can it be installed somewhere else as well?
also how could i rm the cache of the stock player?
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instead of removing flash using adb, maybe try using Titanium? Sounded like some people on other phones had success that way. I haven't messed around with temp root yet so I can't try it myself.

unxconformed said:
instead of removing flash using adb, maybe try using Titanium? Sounded like some people on other phones had success that way. I haven't messed around with temp root yet so I can't try it myself.
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Good idea. I have titanium installed and got it root access, now how do I use it to remove and install apps, lol

fastludeh22 said:
Good idea. I have titanium installed and got it root access, now how do I use it to remove and install apps, lol
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can you give any insight how to get titanium root access would be much appreciated

mcp2009 said:
can you give any insight how to get titanium root access would be much appreciated
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sure. its a little tricky, lol. read entire first post here, temp root, its been updated: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=797042
as you read you only do stage 1 once (not needed if you have done temp root already)
then before you do stage 2, open titanium, it will say it doesnt have root, thats ok, exit out of it.
complete stage 2, do NOT exit term (sometimes it works if you do, most time not)
long press home to bring up recent apps. click on titanum. most likely will say no root, thats ok.
hit menu and reload titanum, boom superuser request. grant it and your in there for this session!
good luck, have fun, hope this helps...

Thanks man I'll try when I get home.
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Just curious what good is having root right now?
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k0shi said:
Just curious what good is having root right now?
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The only thing I wanted it for right now was to use Titanium Backup to restore my apps w/data from my G1.

Oh so if I made a backup from my nexus one its saved on my sd card and I can just restore from there?!
octobclrnts said:
The only thing I wanted it for right now was to use Titanium Backup to restore my apps w/data from my G1.
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k0shi said:
Oh so if I made a backup from my nexus one its saved on my sd card and I can just restore from there?!
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Yeah, all of the apps and the relevant settings. TB is great that way. I often used to restore between rom flashes on my G1.

[Q] mod or change browser apk

Is there any way I can mod or change the apk on the EC05 Froyo. I cannot stand it. Its always restarting itself even without a force close notification. It makes the phone go soo slow and it only has 4 windows. The stock Enclair browser was so much better. I really don't want to use an alternative like dolphin browser. Please if anyone can help, please do.
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chouston33 said:
Is there any way I can mod or change the apk on the EC05 Froyo. I cannot stand it. Its always restarting itself even without a force close notification. It makes the phone go soo slow and it only has 4 windows. The stock Enclair browser was so much better. I really don't want to use an alternative like dolphin browser. Please if anyone can help, please do.
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If your rooted, push the browser from an eclair rom to /system/app/
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Why don't you give a custom ROM a try? SRF has a modified CM6 browser with no checkerboarding, no slow, no crash, no window limit, and Incognito available!
If you must, you can extract that APK from SRF. But why do that?

use Miren (MIUI) Browser.... Blacked Out
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13346443/BlackedOutMiren2.apk

k0nane said:
Why don't you give a custom ROM a try? SRF has a modified CM6 browser with no checkerboarding, no slow, no crash, no window limit, and Incognito available!
If you must, you can extract that APK from SRF. But why do that?
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I would but I really don't want to wipe my data.
Can I just extract the browser and push it to /system/app? Just like that?
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chouston33 said:
I would but I really don't want to wipe my data.
Can I just extract the browser and push it to /system/app? Just like that?
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You don't have to wipe your data! SRF automatically backs up and restores your data. It's a seamless flash from stock EC05! And help is always available in our IRC channel.
Yes, you can do that.

I tried just replacing the browser apk in root explorer but I got the force close pop up. Any ideas?
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What did u replace it with? Goto applications under setting and wipe browser data then try
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I did that and I still got the force close. any other suggestions
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What's wrong with using an alternative? I wiped my browser from the rom's zip and put dolphin mini instead in the zip
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Shoulon said:
What's wrong with using an alternative? I wiped my browser from the rom's zip and put dolphin mini instead in the zip
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This method didnt work when i tried to use the syndicate browser

k0nane said:
You don't have to wipe your data! SRF automatically backs up and restores your data. It's a seamless flash from stock EC05! And help is always available in our IRC channel.
Yes, you can do that.
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I have given up I think I might just end up using SRF. So just install from zip no wiping data or cache or anything like that?

chouston33 said:
I have given up I think I might just end up using SRF. So just install from zip no wiping data or cache or anything like that?
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No need unless you have issues.

I installed it without wiping anything and my phone never booted past the samsung screen. So I restored to stock ec05 with odin then I restored one of my backups.
Well anyways how can I flash to syndicate rom from rooted ec05 and still keep my data?
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You're not on CWM3. You have to re-root with the newest CWM to flash SFR.

chouston33 said:
This method didnt work when i tried to use the syndicate browser
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I meant why not use an alternate like dolphin? All browser settings can be set to dolphin as default browser.
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Update swype?

I downloaded the swype installer off the web site and it installs, but just recognizes that it is anyway. Is there a way to update to the latest version?
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mister2quick said:
I downloaded the swype installer off the web site and it installs, but just recognizes that it is anyway. Is there a way to update to the latest version?
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I'm assuming you went and joined the "beta" to get the installer...that would be the newest version available. So, if you download the installer and it says you're updated...than you are! I've got the most recent version (I believe) and I'm on v 3.25.91D.31083.t100 (you can find this by hitting menu>settings>language & keyboard>Swype at the very bottom should be the version #.

You may need to uninstall the 'stock' Swype before you can install the beta. I used TitaniumBackup (need to be rooted) and it worked fine. It can autospace one letter words correctly now.

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It can autospace one letter words correctly now.
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Thats the #1 issue i have with the stock swype! Uninstalled with Titanium Backup (one of the greatest purchases I've made) and installing the new version now.
Thanks for the help all!

correct, u have to first uninstall ur stock swype.
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How do you uninstall it with titanium backup?
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You may need to uninstall the 'stock' Swype before you can install the beta. I used TitaniumBackup (need to be rooted) and it worked fine. It can autospace one letter words correctly now.
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click on backup/restore, scroll down to Swype, click on it and press wipe data, click on it again and press un-install...i usually press Menu, more and then clean up the dalvik cache.
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Or you could download this and simply install it like a normal app.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37471265/com.swype.android.inputmethod_30637.apk

I'm using Swype for the original Epic and it works 100% I just renamed the stock Swype with a ".bak" extension and left it in place.

Overstew said:
Or you could download this and simply install it like a normal app.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37471265/com.swype.android.inputmethod_30637.apk
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Ok man you are the best this is awesome, way easier than how I installed it on my previous et4g.
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ravizzle said:
Ok man you are the best this is awesome, way easier than how I installed it on my previous et4g.
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love the look of this nexus version and it autospaces with one letter words. Thanks!

do you still need to uninstall the old version to do this? Thanks

graffix31 said:
do you still need to uninstall the old version to do this? Thanks
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You need to either uninstall the old one or as another poster suggested, rename the stock swype.apk (I opted to keep the stock and renamed it to swype.apk.BAK.) Then install the .apk from the link in this thread and it will work. If you don't uninstall or rename the stock swype.apk, it will revert to stock on reboot.

Is this the all black modded Swype? If not anyone know where I can find it! Been searching high and low, oh yeah already googled

Make sure you delete libswype.so otherwise it will not work
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Sorry Wrong thread.

[App] S Voice from SGS3 *patched apk*

S Voice app from Samsung Galaxy S 3
Note: seems to work on ICS 4.0.4 Roms ONLY.
S Voice app- "Network Error" Fix w/o Changing your build Prop
Note: If you are getting a blank white page for mediafire in your ICS browser, hit the menu key and look for "request desktop version"

nice ... looks like s3 got a "siri"

It works on s2 also

I tried to install the apk on E4GT but the install failed, any ideas?

Tried to push to system not enough memory any ideas
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I'm not sure, I'm on CM9, I installed it normally by just opening apk on phone thru file explorer.
Maybe apk downloads with error
here's a .rar file you will need to extract then install
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8566596/apps/voicetalk.rar

im0rtalz said:
S Voice app from Samsung Galaxy S 3
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Thank you so much im0rtalz; this is awesome. Just installed it on my E4GT running AOKP Build 36 with the FE16 kernel and FE16 modem. It works flawlessly except for one thing: If you try to change the "Wake up command" the app will force close and you'll need to clear cache and data to re-launch S Voice.
Thank you so much again!!!

im0rtalz said:
I'm not sure, I'm on CM9, I installed it normally by just opening apk on phone thru file explorer.
Maybe apk downloads with error
here's a .rar file you will need to extract then install
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8566596/apps/voicetalk.rar
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I'm getting the parse error on both the APK file and the RAR one once I extract it. Can someone provide the MD5 sum for a working copy?

JimSmith94 said:
I'm getting the parse error on both the APK file and the RAR one once I extract it. Can someone provide the MD5 sum for a working copy?
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Are you on ICS? I hearing it's for ICS Roms only, not gingerbread.

worked fine for me, might be the s3 is running 4.0.4 already, observing all the replies on here every1 that has success so far is on a 4.0.4 kernel, might be why, i don't know just guessing

I also tried tar or apk and i get a failed to install message, I'm on stock rooted FE16....

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Are you on ICS? I hearing it's for ICS Roms only, not gingerbread.
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I think you're right. That's what I'm seeing too.

Won't install on gingerbread confirmed. The Flip board app works good though
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im on fe16, first install of apk gave me a bunch of FCs. so i unistalled but also then unstalled vlingo, then reinstalled and it works now.... so maybe vlingo was causing it to crash or maybe bad install.

failed install on fe16 stock rooted with plus kernel
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isaac2k10 said:
worked fine for me, might be the s3 is running 4.0.4 already, observing all the replies on here every1 that has success so far is on a 4.0.4 kernel, might be why, i don't know just guessing
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Im on stock fe16, just tells me app not installed...
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abusedcloth said:
Im on stock fe16, just tells me app not installed...
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The same thing happened to me. I then moved the apk to system/app using es explorer , did a restart and the app appeared in my program list. It works great. I am using fe16 rom.
EDIT: After using this app for a little while, I found that it was not answering my questions like jayhaper08 was showing in next post. I did have Vlingo installed and it was using it for the searches. Even though the apk says voicetalk it should install as S Voice. I uninstalled Vlingo and was then able to install S voice as a regular apk without having to move it to system/app. I now get correct answers to my questions.

Working and installed fine for me in CM9 Alpha4. Just don't try to change the "Hi Galaxy" wake up phrase. It will force close. Loving it so far.
---Jay--- From the CM9 powered E4GT

Tried to reply on the thread in general but it disappeared. lol
This installs fine on Blu Kuban but only gives a blank black screen when you open it then force closes.
Okay taking into account what jay said about trying to change the "Hi Galaxy" line, which of course I tried to do on install. I uninstalled, then reinstalled and now it's working like a champ!
Thanks im0rtalz and jay!

Esoteric68 said:
Tried to reply on the thread in general but it disappeared. lol
This installs fine on Blu Kuban but only gives a blank black screen when you open it then force closes.
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Try uninstalling then placing in system/app using root explorer and see if that works. I'm thinking about going back to ics Blu Kuban to try this lol
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[Q] Titanium Backup Pro can't uninstall stock apps

Hi,
I recently updated my Hercules T989 to Jellybean 4.1.2 via Kies. When I was on ICS, I could easily uninstall the t-mobile stock apps(or any other stock apps) using Titanium Backup Pro. But after upgrading to JB 4.1.2, I cant uninstall a single stock app. I tried updating Titanium backup pro from 4.1 to 4.5.6 but its still the same. It can freeze the apps but one app: 't-mobile accounts' unfreezes itself. I dont know how it happens. By the way, the device is rooted.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Go into preferences and scroll down till you find Chuck Norris mode and make sure the box is ticked.. then they to uninstall the app.. other than that I don't know how to help. I have never had that problem with TB
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I checked. The chuck Norris mode is on. I froze all the stock Bloatware using titanium backup. But this one app: 'T-mobile My Accounts' unfreezes itself. Still can't find any help, anywhere.
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jshresth said:
I checked. The chuck Norris mode is on. I froze all the stock Bloatware using titanium backup. But this one app: 'T-mobile My Accounts' unfreezes itself. Still can't find any help, anywhere.
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I couldn't freeze it either....but I did uninstall it no problem in tibu.
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kj2112 said:
I couldn't freeze it either....but I did uninstall it no problem in tibu.
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Did u do it in jellybean 4.1.2? As I said earlier, I could successfully uninstall/freeze all those stock apps using TB earlier when my phone was on ICS. This problem arose after I upgraded my firmware.
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jshresth said:
Did u do it in jellybean 4.1.2? As I said earlier, I could successfully uninstall/freeze all those stock apps using TB earlier when my phone was on ICS. This problem arose after I upgraded my firmware.
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Did u re root the phone after u updated through kies?, if u didn't kids automatically puts the stock OEM non rooted firmware on ur device and u will have to root the phone again same process
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jshresth said:
Did u do it in jellybean 4.1.2? As I said earlier, I could successfully uninstall/freeze all those stock apps using TB earlier when my phone was on ICS. This problem arose after I upgraded my firmware.
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Yes, on 4.1.2.
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Tb uninstalls any app .
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jshresth said:
Hi,
I recently updated my Hercules T989 to Jellybean 4.1.2 via Kies. When I was on ICS, I could easily uninstall the t-mobile stock apps(or any other stock apps) using Titanium Backup Pro. But after upgrading to JB 4.1.2, I cant uninstall a single stock app. I tried updating Titanium backup pro from 4.1 to 4.5.6 but its still the same. It can freeze the apps but one app: 't-mobile accounts' unfreezes itself. I dont know how it happens. By the way, the device is rooted.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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Are you sure Titanium Backup has root permissions? Check your Superuser app log and make sure they're being granted. You need root access for Titanium Backup to be able to remove/freeze system apps (like the built-in stuff).

soupysoup said:
Did u re root the phone after u updated through kies?, if u didn't kids automatically puts the stock OEM non rooted firmware on ur device and u will have to root the phone again same process
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Yes, I have rooted my phone after I upgraded the firmware through kies. I checked my root status using the app 'Root Checker Basic'. It says my phone as proper root access.

GaidinBDJ said:
Are you sure Titanium Backup has root permissions? Check your Superuser app log and make sure they're being granted. You need root access for Titanium Backup to be able to remove/freeze system apps (like the built-in stuff).
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Yes, I have checked it. TB has been granted root permissions. TB successfully freezes all my system apps. But only one app - "T-Mobile My Accounts" unfreezes itself automatically after a while. I dont know how or why that happens. All my other system apps stay frozen except that one single app. And about uninstalling, none of the system apps can be uninstalled. When I run the batch operation to uninstall, it shows the progress bar but gets stuck at 0%. No progress at all.

rymanh said:
Go into preferences and scroll down till you find Chuck Norris mode and make sure the box is ticked.. then they to uninstall the app.. other than that I don't know how to help. I have never had that problem with TB
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I checked. The chuck Norris mode is on. I froze all the stock Bloatware using titanium backup. But this one app: 'T-mobile My Accounts' unfreezes itself. Still can't find any help, anywhere.

my problem along with a screenshot
TB freezes all my stock apps. but as I mentioned earlier, one app - "T-Mobile My accounts" unfreezes itself after a while. And when I try uninstalling any stock apps, it just gets stuck. The progress bar doesnt move (show any progress). I am attaching a link to a screenshot about what happens.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B05paCZgRaxIbjZYZWlKbEx3eVk/edit?usp=sharing
Please if anyone has found the solution to this problem, I would be very very grateful.
PS. : As other members suggested, I have checked everything. The Chuck Norris mode is on. TB has root permissions. Everything seems to be in order.

jshresth said:
TB freezes all my stock apps. but as I mentioned earlier, one app - "T-Mobile My accounts" unfreezes itself after a while. And when I try uninstalling any stock apps, it just gets stuck. The progress bar doesnt move (show any progress). I am attaching a link to a screenshot about what happens.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B05paCZgRaxIbjZYZWlKbEx3eVk/edit?usp=sharing
Please if anyone has found the solution to this problem, I would be very very grateful.
PS. : As other members suggested, I have checked everything. The Chuck Norris mode is on. TB has root permissions. Everything seems to be in order.
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I have just run into the same problem. T-Mobile My Account will unfreeze itself upon reboot. Any ideas? Would prefer not to uninstall.

HibikiRush said:
I have just run into the same problem. T-Mobile My Account will unfreeze itself upon reboot. Any ideas? Would prefer not to uninstall.
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Sounds like you are using a stock based ROM then. So you will have to live with that app. Otherwise you may cause problems by trying to delete or freeze it. Anybody that is determined to remove it, you can use a root based file explorer and delete the apk from the system/app folder. Backup the app somewhere by copying & pasting it in another folder, so you can replace it later if you start experiencing issues.

hello guys,
by mistakenly I moved my titanium backup pro as system app,
now when I try to move it back to sd card, its not moving..
it says unable to download
pls help...

had same problem, uninstall and install it from google play and it works