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Stupid design, cannot disable updated app

In ICS, one of the new feature is to disable app you don't want.
For example, I don't use Google+ and I want to disable it.
However, I cannot disable it because it is updated.
The uninstall-updates button replace the disable button, I have to uninstall it to disable the app.
What a stupid design!
Read this issue and star it, urge Google to fix this stupid design.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25380&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars

Such a non issue...

*Facepalm*, just uninstall the updates then disable it. I can't believe you are whining about this.

This really is something that should be changed, but I don't think we should be pulling out the pitch forks and torches as it is a minor annoyance at best.

It had to have taken you longer to post than it did to uninstall updates & disable the app.

Maybe not an ICS issue, but I get perturbed by annoying app update emails. Wish I knew a way of turning that pig off. I always select manual app updates. It seems many apps have no update at all and are just trying to increase their download count/marketing visibility.

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miketoasty said:
*Facepalm*, just uninstall the updates then disable it. I can't believe you are whining about this.
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I just think it is stupid design forcing me to re-update the app when I enable it.
I don't see a problem pointing out a bad interface design.

Booker-T said:
I just think it is stupid design forcing me to re-update the app when I enable it.
I don't see a problem pointing out a bad interface design.
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I am going out on a limb here and guessing that their use cases for "Disable" an app didn't include people disabling and re-enabling apps for periods of time. It's more of a disable bloatware / undesired apps than a use toggle.
For your use case it's not ideal, that is correct. Whether or not it was designed with that use case in mind is another question.

krohnjw said:
I am going out on a limb here and guessing that their use cases for "Disable" an app didn't include people disabling and re-enabling apps for periods of time. It's more of a disable bloatware / undesired apps than a use toggle.
For your use case it's not ideal, that is correct. Whether or not it was designed with that use case in mind is another question.
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I have to agree with this guy. The assumption is that if you disable an app, you don't want it. If you don't want to use an app for a little bit.... Don't use it. It's not going to hurt your phone being in your app drawer, I promise.

Twitter Notifications Borked?

I have already posted about this in my Google+ profile, but Twitter notifications have not been working for quite a long time on my Galaxy Nexus, across a wide variety of AOSP based ROMs. Whenever I try to change my notification settings, I get the message "there was a problem updating notification settings".
Anyone else experience this or know how to fix it? I've already tried clearing out all my partitions and stuff, and as an FYI, I always do a full wipe before installing any ROM.
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I have already posted about this in my Google+ profile, but Twitter notifications have not been working for quite a long time on my Galaxy Nexus, across a wide variety of AOSP based ROMs. Whenever I try to change my notification settings, I get the message "there was a problem updating notification settings".
Anyone else experience this or know how to fix it? I've already tried clearing out all my partitions and stuff, and as an FYI, I always do a full wipe before installing any ROM.
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Notifications have been broke for me also mate. Frustrating as hell, in addition when I tweet and go @ it does not load my full list of contacts.
Edit: btw when this became an issue someone suggested removing and adding my acct again and this did work temporarily. Maybe you can give it a try, might help you.

FYI, the solution was given to me. Turns out you have to sign out of the account, revoke access to the app through Twitter.com and sign back in.
Reference links:
https://plus.google.com/116414067936940758871/posts/7zH9dAbLwjs
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/30164-twitter-notifications-borked/#entry819161

codemonkey85 said:
FYI, the solution was given to me. Turns out you have to sign out of the account, revoke access to the app through Twitter.com and sign back in.
Reference links:
https://plus.google.com/116414067936940758871/posts/7zH9dAbLwjs
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/30164-twitter-notifications-borked/#entry819161
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OMG it works. Thank you for this. I can't believe I failed to come across. As I said earlier wiping acct and signing in did work.

What if I freeze "calendar" with TB?

I'm using Calengoo and syncing with Google Calendar. I was getting two audio notifications when it's time for a notification to go off. I've frozen the built in calendar function with Titanium Backup and that solved the double notification sound problem. Am I likely to see any problems after doing this? Are there any functions etc. that depend on the default calendar app?
Thanks for any info on this.

Can I ask why you didn't just go into the Calendar settings and turn off notifications?
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kettir said:
I'm using Calengoo and syncing with Google Calendar. I was getting two audio notifications when it's time for a notification to go off. I've frozen the built in calendar function with Titanium Backup and that solved the double notification sound problem. Am I likely to see any problems after doing this? Are there any functions etc. that depend on the default calendar app?
Thanks for any info on this.
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On Stock ICS 4.0.4, I cannot even find my original calendar. I may have deleted it entirely. I use CalenGoo as well. But with TiB, you cannot freeze "Calendar Storage" or your dates will disappear. Other than that, you should be good.

Dave the Knave said:
Can I ask why you didn't just go into the Calendar settings and turn off notifications?
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I just unfroze it and turned off notifications so thanks for the suggestion. When I add an app that replaces a stock app (using Calengoo instead of stock Calendar in this case) I like to "get rid" of the original app if possible. I don't know that there's any kind of savings in memory or cpu cycles, but to me it's like taking the un-used china and putting it into a closet rather than wasting space in the kitchen for something I'm not using. Also it doesn't show up and get selected by accident. But there's always that chance that something else in the system depends on it so I posted my original question. I can say that while it was frozen, nothing else seemed to be affected. However, like a later poster in this thread, I did find that freezing calendar storage caused problems.

I tend to freeze any apps that do not need to be available to reduce ram consumption especially if the app is preloaded into ram at boot time. Also, this will speed up the boot process as well. Keeps my app drawer less congested too.

[Android 4.3] How to open app ops function

Android 4.3 has a hidden feature! It's called "App Ops" and it lets you selectively disable some permissions for your apps. Is some misbehaving app constantly pinging your location and draining your battery in a few hours? You can fix that now.
It's not really ready yet, so Google has hidden it. It seems to work though. You can download App ops Launcher from here, this tool is help to launch the hidden "App Ops" from android, but it only works for android 4.3.
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Tap the icon and you'll see something like this. There's list of all your apps and the permissions they use, categorized into 4 handy tabs. The tabs are broken down into "location," "personal," "messaging," and "device," so it's easy to see what app uses the permissions you're concerned about. On the right is a timestamp for when the app last used a permission.
Once you pick an app, you'll get a screen with easy on/off buttons for each permission. Don't want Facebook to know your location? Just hit the "off" switch. The app will still work, it just won't have any idea where you are. This screen also tells you the last time each individual permission was used.
The one problem I see (and hopefully the reason why this isn't a user-facing feature yet) is that there is no explanation for why your location is broken in Facebook. A system notification that says something like "App Ops is currently limiting this application's permission access" would probably stop some tech support nightmares.
The way this list works is actually highly annoying. Rather than just read the declared permissions in App info (above), App Ops tries to do "detection" for certain permissions.
For some permissions, the app has to make use of them before they will show up in App Ops. For instance, on the left is my permissions list when I first fired up Facebook; in the middle is the list after I told it to import contacts; on the right is the list after I posted a picture from the camera. You have to go and hunt down all the permissions and make the app use them before you are allowed to disable them. That's a lot of work. Is this list complete? Will it ever be complete? There's really no way of knowing.
That's about it for App Ops. Just please, take care when you mess with this, and keep in mind it's not ready yet, so you might run into problems. Also, even when it does work, you are messing with settings the app developer never intended for your to have control over. If you happen to horribly break something, don't blame me!
And if you want to try to launch the "App ops", you can scan this QR to download and start it, enjoy yourself!

Samsung Edge Lighting App Doesn't Work

So one of the things I was excited about when I got this phone is that the Edge Lighting app would not include hole punch camera notifications. But when I reinstalled the app it wouldn't work! Wouldn't even open! I found this especially odd cuz why wouldn't an app developed by Samsung work on a Samsung phone? I ended up uninstalling it since it didn't work. Now I can't even find it in the Galaxy Store. Only 3rd party apps.
Has anyone else had this issue?

It was always a bit twitchy.
Make sure it has all needed permissions, notifications. Global power management may also screw it up ie adaptive battery and such.
Edge Screen is in settings under display if that's what you're referring too. At least on the N10+/Pie variant.
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blackhawk said:
It was always a bit twitchy.
Make sure it has all needed permissions, notifications. Global power management may also screw it up ie adaptive battery and such.
Edge Screen is in settings under display if that's what you're referring too. At least on the N10+/Pie variant.
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On my S9 Plus I had the Edge Lighting + app which gave additional animations. Those look to be standard on this model. So I guess the reason the app didn't work is cuz all those features are included now. I was able to find it. It's moved in settings to Notifications. In the pop up settings you have to select Brief to get the Edge Lighting now & then got into Brief Pop-up Settings to select which effect you want.
I was going to delete this thread but don't see the option. If a mod can delete it please do.

Scorpion34 said:
On my S9 Plus I had the Edge Lighting + app which gave additional animations. Those look to be standard on this model. So I guess the reason the app didn't work is cuz all those features are included now. I was able to find it. It's moved in settings to Notifications. In the pop up settings you have to select Brief to get the Edge Lighting now & then got into Brief Pop-up Settings to select which effect you want.
I was going to delete this thread but don't see the option. If a mod can delete it please do.
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Good thread. If I do a search in settings for "Edge Lighting" I pull up that that page in my previous but also this one.
I can navigate to it through search but not otherwise. It's hiding
It may interacting with Good Lock which is firewall blocked to keep it from updating.