Is there a way to downgrade the Google app? I have tried to uninstall on titanium backup but it will not fully uninstall. It will only downgrade to what I would assume is the stock version the phone came with. I then tried to install my older version but to no avail and the one that came stock on the phone is newer so it can't "update" with a older version of the app.
The reason why I want you to is to use Google voice to unlock the phone perform all tasks. I purposely kept a older version on my previous phone because of this reason. Or is there another way to enable it on a newer version of Google?
as far as I'm aware all versions of google allow voice unlock if you have taught the app to recognise your voice, I just had to stop using it as the phone would recognise my dads voice as me, so it's been a year or so since I used it, since my dad using google home and such when I was there would trigger my phone as well as the google home.
Belimawr said:
as far as I'm aware all versions of google allow voice unlock if you have taught the app to recognise your voice, I just had to stop using it as the phone would recognise my dads voice as me, so it's been a year or so since I used it, since my dad using google home and such when I was there would trigger my phone as well as the google home.
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No it actually doesn't fully unlock the phone. Because it doesn't it doesn't perform version tasks you ask it too. Unless I'm missing something here. Please feel free to fill me in. I have included a screen shot of my old phone with this option.
Well it seems it will not let me add my screen shot
Bump....
Anyone?
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Last night I noticed Play asking me to update an app called Smart Device Manager. Having no idea what the app was, or why it was on my phone, I read the description:
OVERVIEW
Smart Device Manager is an app that runs on the “child” phone in order to power two family safety services on the Sprint Network, Drive First and Mobile Controls. These services allow parents to automatically lock a phone when driving or to prevent phone usage during school hours.
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With a bit more searching, it looks like it's a background utility that comes preinstalled on our phones. It's a helper for parental controls to manage what your children (or employees, I suppose) are doing, as well as lock your phone when you're driving to discourage talking or texting while driving. Accomplishing this requires some pretty nasty permissions. Granted, it's obviously not CIQ, and it shouldn't be doing anything at all unless you activate and pay for the appropriate services, but I still don't want it on my phone, if for no other reason than it may be using up some juice.
It appears there was some sort of bug with the change to Google Play that prompted many (everyone?) with the app to update it, even though you have no reason to update it unless you're actually using the service(s) (Source). As it's a system app, you can uninstall it with Titanium if you are rooted. I've done so and it hasn't hurt anything thus far.
Just figured I'd let a few people know what was up, in case they get the notification as well. And if it's already common knowledge, *shrug* I guess I wasted a few minutes of my life
interesting...
Just read about this.
http://phandroid.com/2012/03/28/spr...are-to-android-devices-heres-how-to-avoid-it/
Thank goodness for custom roms and their bloatware removal.
What's weird is that I'm running Blazer Rom, have never installed this service and google play is reminding me every day that I need to "upgrade it."
Somehow must have been left in Blazer.....
wotan2525 said:
What's weird is that I'm running Blazer Rom, have never installed this service and google play is reminding me every day that I need to "upgrade it."
Somehow must have been left in Blazer.....
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I think it's a Sprint/Google agreement that is going to show up in our market suggestions no matter what ROM we run, the key is just ignore the suggestion and don't install.
Thanks for the info. I missed this one when I was getting rid of the bloatware. Even if it's not activated on my end, I'd rather not give them one more route of easy access to controlling my device. I suppose it's a good feature for parents/employers, but can you imagine if service providers started shutting down your phone (essentially airplane mode) if your were traveling over a certain speed?
You can delete this from system/app and it will stop alerting you in the market. Its actually labelled smartdevicemamager.apk in system/app.
Edit: Pointless post. Sorry.
When i had this app on it would give me slow data then i disable it and now i have full speeds
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Sycobob said:
Last night I noticed Play asking me to update an app called Smart Device Manager. Having no idea what the app was, or why it was on my phone, I read the description:
With a bit more searching, it looks like it's a background utility that comes preinstalled on our phones. It's a helper for parental controls to manage what your children (or employees, I suppose) are doing, as well as lock your phone when you're driving to discourage talking or texting while driving. Accomplishing this requires some pretty nasty permissions. Granted, it's obviously not CIQ, and it shouldn't be doing anything at all unless you activate and pay for the appropriate services, but I still don't want it on my phone, if for no other reason than it may be using up some juice.
It appears there was some sort of bug with the change to Google Play that prompted many (everyone?) with the app to update it, even though you have no reason to update it unless you're actually using the service(s) (Source). As it's a system app, you can uninstall it with Titanium if you are rooted. I've done so and it hasn't hurt anything thus far.
Just figured I'd let a few people know what was up, in case they get the notification as well. And if it's already common knowledge, *shrug* I guess I wasted a few minutes of my life
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updated it last night as well running blazer 4.0, didn't know what it was just don't like "updates available" popping up on boot
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I just deleted it through titanium backup
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Codename havent ever seen it lol
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More info here:
http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/87271?start=0&tstart=0
Sprint reps said the service has always been on the phone but the recent Google Play Store update caused the update to show up. Supposedly Location Labs (the company created the software) is looking into why it is showing up as an update....
Link is already in the OP
Verizon Nexus with stock ROM.
installing Skype and Verizon Skype, both apps didnot startup at boot.
and Verizon Skype didnt even remember login and password.
Yes, I enable autostart in menu of both programs
Yes, I did factory reset and try again.
Just installed weatherbug and reboot my phone. and it didnt start.
How to enable autostartup?
I couldn't find any auto start option on the regular Skype. Found auto login but not auto start.
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it present on verizon skype.
and on this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1148708
and regular skype startup on galaxy s CDMA(stock(2.1, 2.2) and CM7), xperia ray(GB), galaxy note(GB)
You can try this. Although I use it to keep apps from starting up.. I imagine it will do what you want.
Root-Access *is* required to make changes
i do not want to root my phone at least couple weeks. just replace one phone due to random reboots. need to be sure my hardware OK.
problems not only in this, verizon skype didnt remember login info.
i use both skype, one for video and in canada and another in us for voice only calls, cause verizon skype more stable
why dose android pay pop up everytime i use android beam is there a way to disable it some times I can't even beam what I want because the stupid thing just keeps popping up
My phone's rooted as well so I can't use it
I know that you cannot use Android Pay if you have a rooted device. The application does not allow it and you will have to unroot and perform a Data Factory Reset in order to use Android Pay. Your phone does daily scans to detect if it is rooted and Android Pay picks up on this.
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I know that you cannot use Android Pay if you have a rooted device. The application does not allow it and you will have to unroot and perform a Data Factory Reset in order to use Android Pay. Your phone does daily scans to detect if it is rooted and Android Pay picks up on this.
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I don't care for android pay I just want to use android beam without it asking me to set up android pay
darkberry19 said:
I don't care for android pay I just want to use android beam without it asking me to set up android pay
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Have you tried uninstalling Android Pay?
jordancking95 said:
Have you tried uninstalling Android Pay?
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Yup with titanium back up there was still a pop up asking me to set it up
Reviving an old thread....
I've got this problem, and this thread is the best Google result I've found. I don't have android pay installed, but every time I try to pay using a bank app, I get a pop up telling me to install android pay, so can't use the app.
The most frustrating part is I solved this once before, but I had to do a factory reset and I can't remember how I fixed it. ?
Any suggestions?
TIA
Edit it's a ZTE phone, but the same problem described here.
jefmcg said:
Reviving an old thread....
I've got this problem, and this thread is the best Google result I've found. I don't have android pay installed, but every time I try to pay using a bank app, I get a pop up telling me to install android pay, so can't use the app.
The most frustrating part is I solved this once before, but I had to do a factory reset and I can't remember how I fixed it.
Any suggestions?
TIA
Edit it's a ZTE phone, but the same problem described here.
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should be around the same location for you but under settings->wireless&network->Tap & pay, if you set use default as "except when another payment app is open
it might help fix the issue.
other note is, just install suhide and call it a day
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should be around the same location for you but under settings->wireless&network->Tap & pay, if you set use default as "except when another payment app is open
it might help fix the issue.
other note is, just install suhide and call it a day
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Thanks
That was it. Unfortunately I didn't get my email notification that you had replied, so finally solved it on my own, and just came back here to reply in case it happened to me a 3rd time, google would give me answer.
But thanks. When I found it I felt so stupid.
And it turns out I have 3 different apps that all are contactless-ready. Who knew?
Edit: It's actually Settings->Device->Tap and pay, but your instructions would have led me to it.
Edit 2: Ironically, the phone has just - I think - died of the problem that drove me to do the previous factory reset
My nephew just got a "new" Moto Z Play from the Verizon store for Christmas. However when he turned it on there were a bunch of contacts already loaded in the phone and since apps installed that don't seem like the usual Verizon bloat. Is there any way to determine if this phone is used?
Thanks
jcicora said:
My nephew just got a "new" Moto Z Play from the Verizon store for Christmas. However when he turned it on there were a bunch of contacts already loaded in the phone and since apps installed that don't seem like the usual Verizon bloat. Is there any way to determine if this phone is used?
Thanks
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Back in the day (I'm talking early digital cell networks here) many devices had lifetime uptime clocks in them. That's what we used to use to determine this. Not sure if that even exists in Android though...
Is this his first Android phone? During the set up progress you can sign into your gmail and itll will restore any apps or contacts you have synced with your google account.
If the phone did not greet you with a set up progress and just went straight into the phone home screen then yes the phone has been used and has not been factory restored..
Id suggest dont do anything on it and bring it back if so.
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Basically I bought a V20 a little while ago which turned out to be a Chinese variant and I stupidly delayed on getting an unlock code.
It now seems that I have literally no way in which to switch/change the ROM to the global variant or even a custom one. Basically I am stuck with a phone that wont even allow me to use google assistant and is in a lot of ways pretty useless.
Suffice to say I am pretty pissed off but also just disappointed. Its a great phone. Amazing battery life, one of the best cameras I have even used on a phone, lightning fast etc. But it cant do half the things I want it to.
Does anyone have any advice or ways in which I might be able switch the ROM or unlock the bootloader. I am getting kind of desperate and am almost at the point of giving away the phone and buying a Xiaomi/another brand of Android.
I also have an honor view 20 Chinese version and it does everything that a American phone can do including use Google Assistant, is there something that you would like me to tell you how to make work on your phone?
xanderr89 said:
I stupidly delayed on getting an unlock code.
It now seems that I have literally no way in which to switch/change the ROM to the global variant or even a custom one. Basically I am stuck with a phone that wont even allow me to use google assistant and is in a lot of ways pretty useless.
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It's not your fault - from what I understand, Huawei stopped issuing bootloader codes months before the V20 was even released, so there wasn't anything you could have done.
As for unlocking, in the past I've used DC Unlocker before but the caveat is that it charges you money for every bootloader code. Also, I've never been able to successfully flash a different region's ROM without soft-bricking, so YMMV.
DJW35 said:
I also have an honor view 20 Chinese version and it does everything that a American phone can do including use Google Assistant, is there something that you would like me to tell you how to make work on your phone?
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Thanks for the reply, basically at the moment when i open google assistant, every time it tells me to go and set google as the default assistant app. I do that and set it. It then, kinda works (ie it goes back to assistant and it will listen to me while the app is open). As soon as I close assistant or restart my phone and I open the google assistant app again it tells me to do the same thing ( it loses the default setting and I am back at square one, it will never stick.)
Also if i go into the google settings and go to "Voice" and then "Voice match" it is simply grayed out. Which means I cannot train it to recognize my voice/ or say ok google to open the voice assistant.
Also when I hold down the middle navigation button it comes up with HiVoice app that is pre installed on the device.
This link seems to be what I have been having issues with. I need to remove hivoice and actually get hey google to work
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It's not your fault - from what I understand, Huawei stopped issuing bootloader codes months before the V20 was even released, so there wasn't anything you could have done.
As for unlocking, in the past I've used DC Unlocker before but the caveat is that it charges you money for every bootloader code. Also, I've never been able to successfully flash a different region's ROM without soft-bricking, so YMMV.
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Thanks for the reply. This seems a little crazy, seems like one of the only phones that wont let you unlock the bootloader and install a different ROM. :S