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[Q] Can't Click Install Button While Installing Downloaded APK App

Hi XDA,
Tried installing downloaded APK App on my phone but the INSTALL BUTTON won't work, cannot be clicked, the CANCEL BUTTON is fine. I had tried several App APK but they are all the same. My is not rooted. JB 4.1.2 Please help ... :crying:

Restart ur device once n try
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It happens if you are using some screen adjusting app like Screen Adjuster. You will have to turn it off to make the install option activate.

AppWidgetDisplay
Also AppWidgetDisplay for Sony Smartwatch causes such behavior.

I wish saw this a few months ago
jujuburi said:
It happens if you are using some screen adjusting app like Screen Adjuster. You will have to turn it off to make the install option activate.
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Yup, I have a Note 2 - the OLED screen can be problematic for my artwork without toning down the red. I imagine I'm not the only artist to use a Note as a quick and dirty, extemporaneous and backup portfolio.
Sure enough "Screen Adjuster" which allows RGB color balancing also makes the Install button unclickable when directly installing APKs. Drove me nuts - always found a temporary solution - rebooting, stopping Play Services, clearing caches for Services and the Play app (plus Aptiode, etc.) but these were hit and miss. Turned it off and it worked without any other hoops to jump through.
Glad I came across this - I don't usually install APKs at this point as my Note 2's apps/uses are pretty stable at this point, but for those days when you have 15 Xposed Framework APKs to install... and. clicking! stabbing! the damn! install button. does. nothing. ...yeeesh.
Figured this out from an Phandroid thread that listed similar apps:
Easyeyez Screen Filter
Twilight Filter
...and other screen dimming filter apps. The post is long because it's been a hassle for a long time... and hopefully to make it a bit easier for someone to find, including the above apps.
God that was annoying. Now to fix my memleak/lag issues.

Rotation manager is causing this too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2405849

Echo Lock Screen was the culprit for me.

Happened to me a few times I reboot and if that doesnt work then I clear the caches. Its been a while since I have seen that.

Wow unimaginable
This is unimaginable. Who could think something like a display app (Twilight for me) could create such a condition.
I checked and checked my security settings to confirm I have set the option "to install from unkown sources". I also tried various developer options, but all futile! Also tried rebooting the phone! Nothing worked :crying: until I hit this post! :laugh:
Lots and lots of thanks to this post. I can now turn of the Twilight app and install other apps.
:good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good:

sehradinesh said:
(Twilight for me)
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Same here. This is the oddest thing I ever seen on my Android till now.

fernandovg said:
Rotation manager is causing this too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2405849
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@fernandovg did you ever find a solution or alternative app for this? if it wasn't for your post about this, i'd still be scouring the internet for answers to button functionality being broken. Also, did you experience any apps that you allowed to rotate not rotating? ie - i set chrome, youtube, reddit, any other app i may view video in to enable rotation so i can have full screen, but that function was broken too the app worked 100% for the first while i had it installed then just crapped out on me for some reason. I messaged the creator of the app for a response so i'll see where that takes me. did you notice malfunction around the time of flashing any roms with stagefright patches by chance? it's the only thing i can think of that was out of the ordinary that i did around the time i notice malfunction. thanks for your input.

wave unlock
i had the same issue, stopped Wave Unlock - app using sensor to wake up my phone (screen on). it worked

Also lux can do this
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How do I do so?

cypherlwind said:
Hi XDA,
Tried installing downloaded APK App on my phone but the INSTALL BUTTON won't work, cannot be clicked, the CANCEL BUTTON is fine. I had tried several App APK but they are all the same. My is not rooted. JB 4.1.2 Please help ... :crying:
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Might be because of an screen overlay
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Do you install any "Screen Filter"? If the the app install, try to disable the screen filter first, then try install the apk.

thahim said:
Might be because of an screen overlay
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It happens to me because of overlay browser.
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Hi,
My friend also faced the same problem, and then he asked me if I could help him fix this.
Then I made some research, and finally I was able to find a solution to this problem.
Solution:
1. If you use any application "Screen Filter" , please disable the screen filter.
2. Then you try to install the application, then re-enable your screen filter. (It is up to you whether you want to re-enable or not, if enabled you should turn off your screen filter if you want to install an apk.
Press Thanks if I helped.

kecahh said:
Hi,
My friend also faced the same problem, and then he asked me if I could help him fix this.
Then I made some research, and finally I was able to find a solution to this problem.
Solution:
1. If you use any application "Screen Filter" , please disable the screen filter.
2. Then you try to install the application, then re-enable your screen filter. (It is up to you whether you want to re-enable or not, if enabled you should turn off your screen filter if you want to install an apk.
Press Thanks if I helped.
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Thanks it work. [emoji106]
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cypherlwind said:
Hi XDA,
Tried installing downloaded APK App on my phone but the INSTALL BUTTON won't work, cannot be clicked, the CANCEL BUTTON is fine. I had tried several App APK but they are all the same. My is not rooted. JB 4.1.2 Please help ... :crying:
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Overlay
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unable to complete previous operation due to low memory

I was trying to upload a picture to a forum and it kept Chrome kept giving me the message "unable to complete previous operation due to low memory". Why does it do this and how can I successfully upload the image? I took the image with the camera on the Tab so it's not too big.

Usually low memory means you have low ram storage the best thing to do is to use app killers if you are rooted or just close apps when you are done with them aka instead of using the home button press the back button
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one solution
swishbucket1 said:
I was trying to upload a picture to a forum and it kept Chrome kept giving me the message "unable to complete previous operation due to low memory". Why does it do this and how can I successfully upload the image? I took the image with the camera on the Tab so it's not too big.
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I figured one solution for this that has worked for me. While I was working on an issue with the android stock browser, I realized there was an issue with clicking on a hidden form field using jQuery. I used this method on a file upload spot so I could style the upload form.
Developer fix:
The way around this is to set opacity to 0, position absolute and hide the form element. Hope this helps.
User fix:
I have not seen a user fix as of this point.

Hey just found a solution to this one
All you have to do is go into developer tools and uncheck the box which says don't keep activities.
Worked instantly for me
Hope this helps
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It works
sumeraanand said:
Hey just found a solution to this one
All you have to do is go into developer tools and uncheck the box which says don't keep activities.
Worked instantly for me
Hope this helps
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Thank you.
I was trying to upload an excel file to a website and got this error on a Note 4.
This method works perfectly.

sumeraanand said:
Hey just found a solution to this one
All you have to do is go into developer tools and uncheck the box which says don't keep activities.
Worked instantly for me
Hope this helps
Sent from my XT1052 using XDA Free mobile app
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thanks buddy .. perfect solution
as soon as i unchecked it the upload went fine

Best solution!
sumeraanand said:
Hey just found a solution to this one
All you have to do is go into developer tools and uncheck the box which says don't keep activities.
Worked instantly for me
Hope this helps
Sent from my XT1052 using XDA Free mobile app
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Worked for me too.

So where do I find 'Developer tools' on my Nexus 5?
The above suggested solution has not worked for me. I have cleared all history, shut down all tabs, updated to the latest version of Chrome. I have even uninstalled apps I have recently installed such as AVG protection (not even sure I need that, can anyone tell me?) ..and I tried to install an app killer and boot manager, both of which won't work without first installing Xposed Framework and when I tried to install that (after half an hour trying to find it) my phone went mad with warnings about bootloops and bricks and asked me if I was sure..fair frightened me to deaths and I abandoned the whole idea!
Now can anyone help me to solve this problem?
I can upload to Facebook fine but any other forums I'm still getting the 'Could not perform previous operation due to low memory! I have over 11GB of storage and plenty of memory as I'm not running anything. As stated I have a Google Nexus 5 on Lollipop Help!

it woork thanks so much
aloften said:
I figured one solution for this that has worked for me. While I was working on an issue with the android stock browser, I realized there was an issue with clicking on a hidden form field using jQuery. I used this method on a file upload spot so I could style the upload form.
Developer fix:
The way around this is to set opacity to 0, position absolute and hide the form element. Hope this helps.
User fix:
I have not seen a user fix as of this point.
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Thanks indeed. It wotks fine for me.
With best regards,
ManeeHighV

+1 developer options .. uncheck the DO NOT KEEP ACTIVITIES..
NOTE 3 unrooted.

Where is the developer tools??? In chrome or setting??? Please help I can't find the developer tools!!?

sumeraanand said:
Hey just found a solution to this one
All you have to do is go into developer tools and uncheck the box which says don't keep activities.
Worked instantly for me
Hope this helps
Sent from my XT1052 using XDA Free mobile app
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Thanks much! Worked like magic!

Where do I go to find "Developer Options"?

To get devoloper options open,
goto settings,
about device or about phone.
Then start tapping on build version or build number until developer options becomes available.
press the back button.
you should now be in settings and developer options should be near the bottom of the list.

sumeraanand said:
Hey just found a solution to this one
All you have to do is go into developer tools and uncheck the box which says don't keep activities.
Worked instantly for me
Hope this helps
Sent from my XT1052 using XDA Free mobile app
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Yep. That did it for me as well. What the hell? That is just weird they require that to be off. You can download a video, but not upload a picture? I can also upload it to the actual apps. But when I tried on the browser....... Nope. Tf?! lol. But yeah. Thanks for posting that. I would've probably been forever lost trying to find out why it wont.

Figured out
Removed the option to kill apps after use in developers options and it all worked fine for me

Thank you!

Solution worked here, too!
Makes sense to me. As soon as you select the photo, the system dumps the procedure, causing it to fail, and giving us yet another cryptic error message.
sumeraanand said:
Hey just found a solution to this one
All you have to do is go into developer tools and uncheck the box which says don't keep activities.
Worked instantly for me
Hope this helps
Sent from my XT1052 using XDA Free mobile app
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:good::good::good:

This setting on my Lg G5 running Android 7 was already off but I still encounter this same problem. I have plenty of free RAM. Worse of all, I am trying to upload on Google Docs form using Chrome. Google should be able to handle this.

Is your calculator speaking the numbers pressed?

How do you get the calculator to stop speaking the numbers. I have search all thru my phone and can't get it to stop. Please help!??
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Search xda

rbmittag said:
How do you get the calculator to stop speaking the numbers. I have search all thru my phone and can't get it to stop. Please help!??
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Settings > Device > Personalization > Accessibility > Vision > Talk Back > Settings > Talkback Settings > Never Speak Typed Keys
well you were deep in the settings weren't you
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soraxd said:
Settings > Device > Personalization > Accessibility > Vision > Talk Back > Settings > Talkback Settings > Never Speak Typed Keys
well you were deep in the settings weren't you
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Thanks for the suggestion, but...
I have the same issue. The path to the settings on mly phone does not exist as typed above. I do find:
Settings>Device>Accessibililty>Vision>Talkback.
Talkback is off, still having the issue.
I've looked through the other menus (only at main level), and do not find a Personalization option.

If you really want for the calculator to stop talking:
Settings - Device - Accessibility then under Services switch off Keeper Fastfill
I use Keeper a lot for auto login so switching this off is not an option for me.

Suntzupa said:
If you really want for the calculator to stop talking:
Settings - Device - Accessibility then under Services switch off Keeper Fastfill
I use Keeper a lot for auto login so switching this off is not an option for me.
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INteresting. Doesn't turn it off for me. I had Keeper disabled. So I re-enabled it, turned off Keeper Fast Fill, still get numbers announced.

Disable calculator and download the one in play store called calcu far nicer than stock.

Reinaldo33897 said:
Disable calculator and download the one in play store called calcu far nicer than stock.
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Actually I have already downloaded one. Calcu looks very nice. I was thinking it didn't have a memory , but, the pull down looks like it will serve for that.
For some reason I can't disable the stock calculator. But it's no big deal.

ewingr said:
Actually I have already downloaded one. Calcu looks very nice. I was thinking it didn't have a memory , but, the pull down looks like it will serve for that.
For some reason I can't disable the stock calculator. But it's no big deal.
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I use nova launcher which gives me the option to hide apps from drawer. Like I use ex dialer too so I hide the phone and contacts.

Do you have greenify installed by any chance? That was causing the issue for me and uninstalling fixed it.
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Also, two other calculator i recommend: mobicalc and myscript calculator.

Yes what mdemirha said. It was greenify making it speak. Greenify also turned off s voice talk back for my phone. Uninstalled and both went back to normal

ripper4209 said:
Yes what mdemirha said. It was greenify making it speak. Greenify also turned off s voice talk back for my phone. Uninstalled and both went back to normal
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Not worth it to me. Keep Greenify, and download a different calculator. (I personally don't use s-voice)

Mine's doing this too and I don't have Greenify installed. Went through accessibility settings and couldn't find anything that fixed it. I downloaded a new calculator, so it isn't a big deal. Still wondering if this is a bug, a setting, or a conflicting app.

Maybe if those that are experiencing this issue can post their a installed apps it may help?

I suspect that if accessibility is enabled for particular softwares like Keeper or LastPass the issue with the calculator pops up. I'm sure there are other apps that could cause it as well. Since I needed lastpass more than the stock calculator I installed calc+ and use that instead. I ran it through mw pen enabler to process its apk to support multi window mode.

muzzy996 said:
I suspect that if accessibility is enabled for particular softwares like Keeper or LastPass the issue with the calculator pops up. I'm sure there are other apps that could cause it as well. Since I needed lastpass more than the stock calculator I installed calc+ and use that instead. I ran it through mw pen enabler to process its apk to support multi window mode.
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Found what it was on mine. Pie Control.....
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for me, it was keeper. The thing about it was that I had "turned off" keeper so i couldn't access the settings. I had to turn it back on, go into the settings, change whatever it was that was causing the speech, then turn keeper back off. Then it was fine. So weird how you can turn off an app but the settings still apply.

This is NOT a bug.. per se.
These apps that are causing this to happen, are not even close to using Android as it was designed. They have found a back door to access certain functions in a way that used to require root. They use a work around, and that work around causes the speaking apps. They are definitely not using the accessibility services as they were designed to be used.
That said, those apps do extend the function of the device for a minimal negative impact. So as with all the things that make android great... its a personal decision on how to manage your device, and what you prioritize. Keep the functionality of these apps and work around the "bug" or uninstall the app and silence the calculator.
They will not fix the "bug" because it caused at the root level and the devs have no way to make changes there, and Google doesn't support these features using the accessibility services as a a backdoor way to automate the phone. Most likely they will close the loophole at some point.. the most definitely will not formalize it.

nyydynasty said:
for me, it was keeper. The thing about it was that I had "turned off" keeper so i couldn't access the settings. I had to turn it back on, go into the settings, change whatever it was that was causing the speech, then turn keeper back off. Then it was fine. So weird how you can turn off an app but the settings still apply.
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This speaking key number annoying me like a lil *****... Sorry for my language
Edit: Found it. Disable Fast Fill
Have to turn it back on because another app needs service on. Lil Bi..as

note 4 calculator speaking problem
rbmittag said:
How do you get the calculator to stop speaking the numbers. I have search all thru my phone and can't get it to stop. Please help!??
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There is a bug in the app keeper fassfill, turn it off in you settings , I found the calculator only speak when keeper fassfill is on

Data toggle for Lollipop 5.1.1. Work around?

Today, I took the plunge and update to 5.1.1 from 4.4. I know data toggle will not work. Any work around???
Using Nova and make a shortcut to Data Usage but still 3-4 click to disable or enable data.

There's an app in the play store called Quickpanel Manager. It's not free but it will enable the data toggle in the drop down notification window. I even uninstalled the app and it is still available so it must remove the stock ROM's block. When I left the app installed, a reboot would change the app's settings.
It's worth the couple bucks it costs. Hope this helps.

jack man said:
There's an app in the play store called Quickpanel Manager. It's not free but it will enable the data toggle in the drop down notification window. I even uninstalled the app and it is still available so it must remove the stock ROM's block. When I left the app installed, a reboot would change the app's settings.
It's worth the couple bucks it costs. Hope this helps.
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thanks alot for this guide on how to enable the MobileData toggle for the At&t Note 4 , everyone see this should hit thanks for you because you deserve this .

jack man said:
There's an app in the play store called Quickpanel Manager. It's not free but it will enable the data toggle in the drop down notification window. I even uninstalled the app and it is still available so it must remove the stock ROM's block. When I left the app installed, a reboot would change the app's settings.
It's worth the couple bucks it costs. Hope this helps.
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Thanks. Worth $1.49

jack man said:
There's an app in the play store called Quickpanel Manager. It's not free but it will enable the data toggle in the drop down notification window. I even uninstalled the app and it is still available so it must remove the stock ROM's block. When I left the app installed, a reboot would change the app's settings.
It's worth the couple bucks it costs. Hope this helps.
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Thanks jack man! It won't let me actually thank your post. The app says "Post thank action deny."
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Nexus 5x - "Allow" button (permission)

Hi everyone,
Can't push the a "Allow" button when an app asks for a permission. (any apps)
Is it a known issue ? or it can be fixed somehow ?
Thanks again,

Do you have any apps running that do things like dim your screen or changed the color? Many of those are known to interfere with the package installer which I think comes into play when you press those buttons.

No,
The phone has been Factory reset lately....

rose10 said:
No,
The phone has been Factory reset lately....
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There is an app overlaying that is causing the issue.
Go to:
Settings > Apps > Configure apps (cog button at the top) > Special access > Draw over other apps
(note the path may be different on your phone, this is how its done on android N)
Turn off Permit drawing over other apps for the apps listed. Do it one by one. Between turning it off for each app, check and see if you can hit "OK" for new permissions.
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Got marshmallow...

rose10 said:
Got marshmallow...
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So? The settings are the same just located in a slightly different location. Do yourself a favor and look for it in the settings of your phone.
Like the XDA noob that I am, I googled it for you and found that the setting is in the same location for MM the it is for N.
Go, flip the switches...

Didn't fix the problem
Thanks anyway....

rose10 said:
Didn't fix the problem
Thanks anyway....
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Do you have any app that has been enabled in Accessibility?
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rose10 said:
Didn't fix the problem
Thanks anyway....
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I wonder if you did it right. So, to clarify, you denied all of the apps listed in the Draw over other apps menu the ability to draw over other apps? All switches to the left and grayed out? Then you tried to open an app that requests some kind of permission? The permission dialog opened but you were still unable to select "Allow"?

Had similara behavior. In my case it was the File Manager HD app.
Only appeared after OTA back to M from N preview.