What is up with this? The Galaxy Apps app is installing all kinds of applications, by itself, without a prompt whatsoever. And most of them don't even show up as an app installed on my device? Is there a way to stop this from happening and way to uninstall them? I couldn't find anything within the app.
I'd like to know that answer as well.
Go into the Galaxy Apps app and then go into Settings.
Disable "Auto update apps" by setting it to "Turn off".
You can even disable notifications about updates.
On the AT&T version of the Note 7, you cannot disable or uninstall the Galaxy Apps app.
So I just killed it from doing anything.
rjohnstone said:
Go into the Galaxy Apps app and then go into Settings.
Disable "Auto update apps" by setting it to "Turn off".
You can even disable notifications about updates.
On the AT&T version of the Note 7, you cannot disable or uninstall the Galaxy Apps app.
So I just killed it from doing anything.
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Hmmm, I swear I tried to find this on my Verizon phone and couldn't. I'll take a look in a few and let you know. Thanks.
Wow, no idea how I missed that on my phone. It's there. LOL.
WTF. I swear it wasn't before. Thanks again.
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Anyone know how to shut this off? I have about 40 apps that are repeatedly trying to reinstall themselves daily. I obviously don't want them to andnindont prompt them to. So annoying. Can I shut this off somehow?
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Try going into Settings > Backup & Reset and untick automatic restore.
I have the same issue but unchecking that setting didn't work. Still installing the apps over and over again.
djUniversal said:
I have the same issue but unchecking that setting didn't work. Still installing the apps over and over again.
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Are you using another app store, like app brain or the Amazon app store?
EP2008 said:
Are you using another app store, like app brain or the Amazon app store?
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Nope. Only the android market. I tried clearing the cache and turning off the auto update. The only thing I haven't tried (yet) is a factory reset. I haven't figured out what is triggering it yet either.
Have u tried clearing data from Market and Google Framework Services?
or settings inside app market?...
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kichard said:
Anyone know how to shut this off? I have about 40 apps that are repeatedly trying to reinstall themselves daily. I obviously don't want them to andnindont prompt them to. So annoying. Can I shut this off somehow?
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If you are talking about apps automatically updating, then go to the Market/Menu/Settings and uncheck Auto-Update. And while there, if you don't want to be notified when an app has an update, uncheck the notification check box too.
But be aware that apps are usually only updated to correct issues or to add/improve features.
Good luck.
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If you are talking about apps automatically updating,
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Nope This is fully installing.
Event history
- Start phone (1st time)
- Enter account
- All previous apps install auto
- Delete the apps I don't want anymore
- (Randomly) All deleted apps re-install
- Delete the apps I don't want anymore
- (Randomly) All deleted apps re-install
- Pull out hair
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Have u tried clearing data from Market and Google Framework Services?
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No, but if I do what other data will be deleted? Google accounts?
You won't lose anything, just delete the data and reboot (you're deleting locally, not from the servers). Account will reset it's self. You may still get the auto download, but once you uninstall they should stay uninstalled...
Hit the settings button in the pull down. Select Apps, use the All tab and the clear data button will be under the apps I mentioned...
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You won't lose anything, just delete the data and reboot (you're deleting locally, not from the servers). Account will reset it's self. You may still get the auto download, but once you uninstall they should stay uninstalled...
Hit the settings button in the pull down. Select Apps, use the All tab and the clear data button will be under the apps I mentioned...
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I'll give that a go and let you know, thanks for the tip.
Edit: Seems to have worked!! Thanks ya danger rat! (I hit your button)
Each time a new page is loaded in the stock browser, I get this voice message saying "Loading started" and then "Page loaded". Totally useless, disturbing and stupid.
I searched everywhere and I can't find the switch to stop it. Can Someone help me?
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i couldnt find answer either but i stopped using stock browser and the voice doesnt happen on chrome
Either talkback is enabled or something else under accessibility. I had this problem using the app iphone notifications. I froze both the Samsung text to speech and google text to speech using titanium backup and it has stopped.
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I have the same issue. Do you have Light Flow installed? If you do, I believe it is a bug with that app and/or TalkBack.
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I have the same issue. Do you have Light Flow installed? If you do, I believe it is a bug with that app and/or TalkBack.
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can confirm that its a bug with light flow.
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions.
I tried disabling Lightflow and Talkback and the problem remained.
I also revised tbe Accessibility options and saw nothing that would cause this. I tried both Samsung and Google Text-to-speech - unfortunately there is no option to disable it.
Guess I'll switch to Chrome... When the designers try to make a phone too intelligent, it becomes stupid!!!
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I have the same problem...
I have also Tasker in accessibility, and from some quick tests I think that if any of accessibility items (TalkBack, LightFlow or Tasker) is on "yes" then the problem occurs
I will do more tests in this evening ...
It's very annoying ... !
Had the same issue. Try turning off all of the "Services" under your accessibility settings. Even those that seem unrelated. For me in was a notification service for a dashclock widget. Wasn't very obvious, but simple enough. Of course, you can turn them back on one by one to determine the culprit.
Problem solved
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Had the same issue. Try turning off all of the "Services" under your accessibility settings. Even those that seem unrelated. For me in was a notification service for a dashclock widget. Wasn't very obvious, but simple enough. Of course, you can turn them back on one by one to determine the culprit.
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Yes, this is the cause. Lightflow is doing this. I switched to Chrome and the problem is solved. Samsung are good at hardware but not very good at software.
Thanks for your reply
J
Have you tried actually uninstalling it? I had to do that before the issues went away.. I love lightflow, but the bugginess is just too much of a pain right now.
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Thank you all for your comments and suggestions.
I tried disabling Lightflow and Talkback and the problem remained.
I also revised tbe Accessibility options and saw nothing that would cause this. I tried both Samsung and Google Text-to-speech - unfortunately there is no option to disable it.
Guess I'll switch to Chrome... When the designers try to make a phone too intelligent, it becomes stupid!!!
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This is discussed over in the Pebble forums. Apparently Samsung has a few bugs in their software, various parts of the system treat "any app that is using accessibility" to mean "talk back is activated" and behaving accordingly. A few problems were noted on earlier phones and those have been fixed (pending new updates being pushed by the carriers), but meanwhile the S4 ships with some new bugs along those lines, including annoying voice prompts on the browser and the stock gallery.
Even worse, the workaround for prior models was to disable Samsung and Google TTS services, but the stock S4 ROM refuses to let you disable the Samsung TTS service so there is no way to get rid of this (sans rooting).
The S4 Touchwiz ROM also turns off many features that don't work well if Talkback is activated, but does so if any accessibility app is active even if TB is turned off.
Apparently using a non-Touchwiz launcher can fix it, as can using a non-stock browser.
References:
http://forums.getpebble.com/discussion/1312/accessibility-question-on-android
http://www.productigeeky.com/faq/#1
http://forums.getpebble.com/discussion/3215/samsung-talkback-issue-and-pebble
http://developer.samsung.com/forum/thread/samsung-devices-and-accessibility-services/77/204387
Does anybody know a list of pre-installed apps that can be safely "turned off" in our device? This is of course referring to pre-installed apps that can't be uninstalled.
I've read that sometimes turning off certain apparently inoffensive apps may bring instability to the device.
For example, I was just checking my location settings and I saw that AT&T Navigator had been requesting location (with high battery usage), but I don't use that app at all, so I'm plan on turning it off, but I wonder in what other apps that can be done safely.
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Does anybody know a list of pre-installed apps that can be safely "turned off" in our device? This is of course referring to pre-installed apps that can't be uninstalled.
I've read that sometimes turning off certain apparently inoffensive apps may bring instability to the device.
For example, I was just checking my location settings and I saw that AT&T Navigator had been requesting location (with high battery usage), but I don't use that app at all, so I'm plan on turning it off, but I wonder in what other apps that can be done safely.
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Generally the asps that allow you to "disable" them are all okay to turn off.
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I disabled anything that had to do with att.
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The only thing I've found that I had to enable was S Voice, I kept getting a pop up on the camera because it uses it for the selfie camera trigger.
Same here. Disabled everything AT&T and left S Voice active.
Everything ATT except MyAtt and s voice
I've disabled all att stuff and a few other things like s health, s voice, galaxy apps, Samsung account, Samsung billing, Samsung link, remote, print services, ANT services, milk, yahoo weather
I left S Voice alone (other things make use of it), and also Galaxy Apps (allows you to update S Health)
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I've disabled all att stuff and a few other things like s health, s voice, galaxy apps, Samsung account, Samsung billing, Samsung link, remote, print services, ANT services, milk, yahoo weather
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How do disable the Samsung stuff? I can see how to stop it but I don't see an option to disable or turn off.
Also, anyone knows how to disable Lockout? All the options in app info ate greyed out, even force stop
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How do disable the Samsung stuff? I can see how to stop it but I don't see an option to disable or turn off.
Also, anyone knows how to disable Lockout? All the options in app info ate greyed out, even force stop
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Update the app then go to application manager and turn it off.
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Update the app then go to application manager and turn it off.
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Awesome, that worked! Weird that you have to update it to disable it
I realize this is an older thread, but for others that stumble upon it via search, here's a discussion that includes an extensive list of apps to safely be disabled.
(same link as above) http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-att/general/apps-to-disable-removed-att-note-4-t2943779
lebertian said:
Does anybody know a list of pre-installed apps that can be safely "turned off" in our device? This is of course referring to pre-installed apps that can't be uninstalled.
I've read that sometimes turning off certain apparently inoffensive apps may bring instability to the device.
For example, I was just checking my location settings and I saw that AT&T Navigator had been requesting location (with high battery usage), but I don't use that app at all, so I'm plan on turning it off, but I wonder in what other apps that can be done safely.
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You can install package disabler pro for a small fee.. great app but be careful when u use their auto bloatware disable feature because it can disable some stuff that your phone needs to function.. but this app let's you disable stuff that is greyed out in your app manager like music player for example.
Here is another list which I have followed. Not all of them, but quite a few. It definitely made a difference.
Now, I think many of those you would need to be rooted to do. And of course we know that's not much good now for AT&T phones.
I'm on a T-Mobile Note 4, rooted, so I was OK to try. I did the TIBU/Freeze method.
Hi Everyone,
I have a Samsung S20+, but this pertains to all Samsungs.
There are certain apps that cannot be disabled or uninstalled on my phone (Ex: Samsung Internet and Microsoft Your Phone Companion). The options to Disable are greyed out and there is no option to Uninstall like other apps.
When going to these apps within Google Play, however, I see the option to uninstall both. I don't want to mess anything up on my phone, but does anyone know if it's safe to uninstall from Google Play and not mess up your phone?
Thanks in advance.
You can use adb to disable both of these.
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Hi Everyone,
I have a Samsung S20+, but this pertains to all Samsungs.
There are certain apps that cannot be disabled or uninstalled on my phone (Ex: Samsung Internet and Microsoft Your Phone Companion). The options to Disable are greyed out and there is no option to Uninstall like other apps.
When going to these apps within Google Play, however, I see the option to uninstall both. I don't want to mess anything up on my phone, but does anyone know if it's safe to uninstall from Google Play and not mess up your phone?
Thanks in advance.
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Yes it's safe.
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Yes it's safe.
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Awesome, thanks!
Hi, pixel 6 pro here and I am having issues with my apps auto-updating.
1. I went to settings>auto updates at anytime is selected.
2.google play store>app info>battery>unrestricted
3. I have forced stopped>clear data>disabled> reboot>enabled
Nothing is working and I have to click manage apps>update all.
Double-check one of the particular apps that don't auto-update. On the app's page in the Play Store in the upper right corner click the 3-dot menu button. Is "Enable auto update" checked?
I just checked one of my apps at random and it wasn't checked. The app in question, at one time I didn't want it to auto-update because they were making changes I didn't like, and the setting was saved by Google across many phones and I just didn't notice. I may have other apps that I don't have set to auto-update, but I don't think there's a way to explicitly display them all (and not display ones you already have set to auto-update). I just looked at my "Pending downloads" in the Play Store and the first app listed was also set to not auto-update, so I'll just have to remember to go through each app for a while when there are apps listed here. It's definitely showing ones not updated yet that are set to auto-update as well - they just hadn't yet.
Edit: Found 3-4 more apps that were set to not auto-update including one that I don't even particularly remember using, but I might've tried a very long time ago and I definitely only recently reinstalled it. Shame you have to individually go into each one to find out how I have it set.
Went to store now, auto update still not working. I checked three dots for the app and enable auto update was already updated but not updating itself
Does everyone else's auto update apps for the play store work?
Just to be clear, I don't think that apps ever auto-update just as soon as it's available. For an example like you gave, does it go for over 24 hours without auto-updating any apps?
What about the two Play Store settings "App download preference" and " Auto-update apps" below it?
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Just to be clear, I don't think that apps ever auto-update just as soon as it's available. For an example like you gave, does it go for over 24 hours without auto-updating any apps?
What about the two Play Store settings "App download preference" and " Auto-update apps" below it?
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Yes mine is the same. Also was not aware apps don't update immediately. I'll wait 24hrs and see what happens then. Ty for the response and hope u having a good weekend.
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Yes mine is the same. Also was not aware apps don't update immediately. I'll wait 24hrs and see what happens then. Ty for the response and hope u having a good weekend.
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Cool. I assume they don't update immediately in case the developer pulls the update due to bugs. I have no idea what the particular logic is of when it how often is. Hopefully whatever apps are listed available for auto-update tomorrow at the same time aren't necessarily the same apps listed for you now.
You're welcome, looking forward to hearing. You're welcome and your too!
Does not tend to poll these app updates once you're actually plugged in charging and usually on Wi-Fi, but you can set for other networks?
Apps have been Auto updating past 48hrs, as mentioned above takes about 24hrs
Hi, so over the last 48hrs apps have NOT been updating automatically. Can anyone help me with setting to auto update apps in play store?
My apps are automatically update and I don't want to. I only have the settings because I had absolutely no notifications that there are updates available. I had to check manually and it was a nightmare.
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Does everyone else's auto update apps for the play store work?
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I dont think mine ever have to be honest and when i am sorting out phones for elderly relatives they always have about 2 million apps that need updating.