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How do I remove Application History after I remove some system apps.

Hi,
When I go into adb and remove some system apps such as quickoffice, twitter, etc, they still show up under "manage applications" even though they are not installed anymore. How can I remove that?
Thank you,

Just a stab in the dark, have you re-booted your phone?

Yeah, rebooted it, wipe cache , dalvik cache, all that good stuff, but those links are still there, even though the apps are not installed. it's not big deal but it's frustrating When I click on one of those dead links, it just give me the Force Close message.

Ok, another stab in the dark,lol, sorry if this isn't helping! Have you tried getting es task manager and killing the processes? Or if you mean the list of applications in the settings, possibly its actually not the Facebook.apk but the com.HTC.Facebook.apk I am not really sure though.

Correct, the list of applications under setting is what I mean. I removed amazonmp3, twitter, and a bunch of others, but yet, when I go into the list of installed applications under settings, they still show up there, even though they are not taking any space, they are empty links. When I click on any of them, it just gives me a Force Close error.

Hmm. Maybe check the folder contents of app-cache through shell?

nothing in there just com.android.browser ... oh well. Hopefully I will figure it out eventually.

I am sure you will. Or someone else will comment on it. Worst case, take the rom zip file, extract it, remove the apk's that you don't want, zip it back up and flash it lol. Thats worst case if you can't figure it out. Or try someones ROM that has it removed

[SOLVED] Can't clear Notifications list

I seem to be having a problem with clearing my Status Bar>Notifications.
I know the Clear button is right there in the top-right corner of the the list. I hit it, the list appears to be blank. But when I go to Market, or if I download any files, the whole list comes back and all the old items are still on there.
Why won't that old stuff actually Clear?
Is this list "saved" somewhere, like in a file?
UPDATE: Solution is to Clear Data for the Download Manager app.
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(Desktop) Menu>Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>(Tab) All>
(scroll down and choose Download Manager)
Click [Clear data]​

Reboot?????

You need a reboot. Happened with me too, particularly when you install lots of apps.

Reboot doesn't work
Thanks for the suggestion, but I actually already tried that. It did not help.
Any other ideas? I'm not an Android Ninja, but I could manage something a little more technical than Reboot. Happy to provide any other debugging info that would be useful

are you rooted?
if so, go into recovery and wipe dalvik cache and reboot.

I am rooted, and I have already tried wiping the Dalvik Cache (through CWM).
That also didn't work.

you tried to remove the battery for a few seconds?
edit: clear the download manager app data

SOLVED
It's been a while, but...
I just checked in on this thread again to see if anyone had come up with a solution to my continually nagging problem.
dfs_ said:
edit: clear the download manager app data
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That does in fact seem to have worked, thanks! I don't know the exact "cause" of this problem, but at least here is a perfectly good work-around.
Perhaps this will helps someone else. If I ever figure out anything more about WHY, I'll post it here and be sure to post it here, as well as passing it along to the appropriate Devs (Cyanogen, or whomever).
As a bit of additional diagnostic info, when I Install or Update Apps from the Market, I can download them just fine, and they install fine too, but the Market app status gets stuck on "Installing..." with a gray scrolling bar. The Notifications indicate that the process is complete. Not sure if this is in any way related.

Malware or overreacting?

Last night I downloaded an app from the market: Anttek App Manager. I didn't really need it, I just came across it & it seemed like a good program that I could use to replace a couple of other apps.
I opened up the program & didn't do anything. I did grant it superuser permissions when it opened, but did nothing else except browse through & get a feel for the interface.
Suddenly I was having a force close party all over the screen. Market, maps, settings, homescreen, anything system was force closing. I tried opening settings to uninstall the app but it force closed immediately. Tried with Market, same result. I could get into user apps to uninstall but when it tried to uninstall through the system uninstaller it would force close. I finally uninstalled through Titanium Backup. I was still getting force closes so I rebooted. After the reboot I could open system apps again. I checked my apps in settings & the app was gone from he downloaded tab but remained under the all tab. I uninstalled again. I checked through root explorer & it wasn't there, but in protected apps there was a downloadfile.apk that was timestamped with when I rebooted. I emailed it to myself to check out later if needed & deleted the file.
What do you guys think? Was it just something buggy that I'm blowing out of proportion or is it something to worry about?
Edit: I'm running cyanogenmod 6.1.2 if it matters.

I honestly dont know if it was something malicious or not. I had an issue when I downloaded an app (Don't remember what it was) and it downloaded 300+ downloadfile.apk. As you probably guessed it filled up my sd card. In my case I found it prudent to do a complete wipe and reflash my ROM. I set everything back up and havent had any more issues.
I would probably wipe and start over or Nandroid back to before you downloaded the app. Just my opinion...

Yeah, I think I'm just going to restore from a backup. I just don't want to have to reflash my theme & font, but it doesn't take that long, I'm just lazy.
I was wondering if there's anyway a virus could go deeper than what is changed by wiping/flashing/restoring? I'm somewhat technologically literate but when it comes to the deep down stuff I'm lost.

[Q] Removed com.lge.sui.widget, bricked settings

I removed this "widget" without backup because I incorrectly assumed it was one of those widgets you put on the home screen. Anyways my settings app is bricked (I get "Unfortunately settings has stopped working" whenever trying to open settings) and after digging around on google I found removing com.lge.sui.widget is the issue.
Is there anyway I can restore this dependency? I have a stock backup on my computer that I'd rather avoid using it if possible.
Alternatively, is there any way I can change input methods without going through settings? I cannot enable any new keyboards because they require me to go through the settings > language & input service, which causes an error message whenever I try to access it directly or through my keyboard apps. However I can switch between the keyboards I currently have enabled just fine.
I found a 3rd party app that changes wifi settings without going through the settings app, is there any similar app for enabling keyboards? If there was such an app, I wouldn't need to go through settings for anything else saving me the trouble of finding this com.lge.sui.widget or reinstalling android.
My phone is LG D850 (G3)

Just flash the kdz again without the wipe option, is the only way.. I made that error in my G2 and g3

Downlod .zip file of your ROM, copy .apk to location and set its permissions. Then reboot your phone and it should work.

Question How can I disable grayed out permissions on some of the installed and system apps?

Recently I got this new phone and I very stupidly updated to android 12 to check it out, expecting that I can revert back to android 11 with a simple factory reset (why doesn't it revert to factory settings, but instead stays on the update wtf???). That's an annoyance and I could live with it if it weren't for the grayed out permissions on some apps which I can't turn off. I don't remember all the apps / system apps that have this, but the "Settings" app is one of them and also if you go to the file manager, there will be apps which are normally not found in the standard app viewer and one example that has grayed out permissions is an app that has "12" as an icon and might be the theme for android 12 or something related to it. How do I completely turn off location for both of these for example? Is that even possible? Would I have this same problem of grayed out permissions even if I had stayed on android 11? Please someone help me, thank you.

howtodo512 said:
Recently I got this new phone and I very stupidly updated to android 12 to check it out, expecting that I can revert back to android 11 with a simple factory reset (why doesn't it revert to factory settings, but instead stays on the update wtf???). That's an annoyance and I could live with it if it weren't for the grayed out permissions on some apps which I can't turn off. I don't remember all the apps / system apps that have this, but the "Settings" app is one of them and also if you go to the file manager, there will be apps which are normally not found in the standard app viewer and one example that has grayed out permissions is an app that has "12" as an icon and might be the theme for android 12 or something related to it. How do I completely turn off location for both of these for example? Is that even possible? Would I have this same problem of grayed out permissions even if I had stayed on android 11? Please someone help me, thank you.
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Hello,
It was never possible to restore to an older version of Android by factory resetting the device. Factory reset only removes user data. Doesn't remove the OS, doesn't downgrade it.
I haven't tested this particular thing, but it's very likely that Android 11 might have had the same permissions. And yes, some of the permissions can't be changed, since they are used by the system.
However, at least for what Location is concerned, you should be able to simply disable Location access altogether. Not sure if those system apps can still access your Location even when turned off, but that's another story.
Hope the answer above help you at least a little bit.