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This worked on my Motorola Citrus to install "Mint Finance" and I suspect other people might find it useful on other devices...
First you will need 2 android devices:
In my case, my wife has a LG Vortex(unrooted), and I have a Motorola Citrus(rooted but unrooted will work to).
*Warning some applications are phone specific, example I've installed ADW Launcher on a Huawei S7 the end result was locking up the device and requiring a force quit of ADW Launcher.. ADW Launcher works great on other devices but it had compatibility issues with the default launcher on the S7 causing neither to display*
1.in my case we installed "Astro File Manager", and the application desired on the other device(my case LG Vortex)
*Side note my wifes Vortex is on 2.2 and app might have been moved to the SD card, if any issues cause this to fail consider rooting the other device, or moving the app to be installed onto your SD card if you are on 2.2*
2.After it was all installed you launch Astro File Manager, hit the options hardkey with the square or squares depending on the device, and select tools. now select application manager. select the app you want to get on the other device(my case Motorola Citrus) hit backup...
3.Once finished use Astro File Manager and navigate to the following folder /sdcard/backups/apps
hold your finger on the application, then hit send and email the application to your device you want the app on(my case to my Motorola Citrus)...
4.Now switch devices (in my case I used my Motorola Citrus) install from market "Easy Installer"
now when you goto your email and download the attachment(I used Yahoo Mail, havn't tested gmail it should work...) once it is finished downloading Easy Installer will run and offer to install your application.
So far in my experience the results where 50/50 I tried this on 2 apps "Mint Finance" and "RBFCU Mobile" only mint finance worked, "RBFCU Mobile" failed to install..
I'd post the mint apk file but due to it sensitive use, I think everyone is better getting it themselves

proof
Heres all the evidence to the skeptics...

Issue: Where is Recorder.apk from?

Hi,
Recently I found an issue with my oneplus 3. In the file manager where the apks from the third parties are stored I found an apk called Recorder.apk. It was a voice recording app similar to the one found in the stock oneplus phone. The size was also the same(1.86mb). The apk was just sitting there but not installed. But I dont know how it came there. I always install my apps from the play store and also my installation from unknown sources is turned off. My phone is also not rooted. I have Sophos antivirus on my phone.
Please help.

Cannot install APK file on Unrooted Note 8

I started getting full screen pop-up ads so I begin trying to figure out which app was causing. I uninstalled a few including my Zenui Launcher which I loved!!! I found the problem app and tried reinstalling Zenui launcher from APK Mirror with Unknown sources allowed and the new per app permission turned on. The APK file is on my SD card in "my files" and it runs, acts like it is installing then gives me a message of "application not installed" anyone else have this issue lately? I loved that launcher... it allowed me to organize my Apps into categories.

Please don't try to delete any system app!

I'm on US998 20H.
I deleted Chome folder in /system/app/, restart and some apps couldn't run, they just crashed. These are bank apps and some apps that requires the phone's system to not be modified in order to run.
I thought it was because of the new version of Magisk Manager since I updated Magisk Manager to ver. 7.3.4 right before that.
After a couple times trying to uninstall, reinstall Magisk through TWRP (which caused my phone to not be able to boot up and I had to restore the TWRP backup many times), I tried installing Magisk but not deleting the Chrome folder, and things were back to normal.
This is weird to me because I've done this on other phones but didn't got into bootloop.
So I just wanted to warn you guys to not delete anything in /system/app or /system/priv-app in order to get rid of system apps.

minhntp said:
I'm on US998 20H.
I deleted Chome folder in /system/app/, restart and some apps couldn't run, they just crashed. These are bank apps and some apps that requires the phone's system to not be modified in order to run.
I thought it was because of the new version of Magisk Manager since I updated Magisk Manager to ver. 7.3.4 right before that.
After a couple times trying to uninstall, reinstall Magisk through TWRP (which caused my phone to not be able to boot up and I had to restore the TWRP backup many times), I tried installing Magisk but not deleting the Chrome folder, and things were back to normal.
This is weird to me because I've done this on other phones but didn't got into bootloop.
So I just wanted to warn you guys to not delete anything in /system/app or /system/priv-app in order to get rid of system apps.
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Chrome can function as "Webview Implementation" in "Developer Options". You just have to reinstall Chrome which will go into /data/app and set "webview implementation" in "Developer Options" to Chrome and it'll be fixed. A lot of apps require this to work including Gmail, Amazon, Banking apps, etc. Android System Webview is another app that can function instead of Chrome and all the variants (Chrome stable, Chrome Dev, Chrome Beta, Chrome Canary, etc.)

HueyT said:
Chrome can function as "Webview Implementation" in "Developer Options". You just have to reinstall Chrome which will go into /data/app and set "webview implementation" in "Developer Options" to Chrome and it'll be fixed. A lot of apps require this to work including Gmail, Amazon, Banking apps, etc. Android System Webview is another app that can function instead of Chrome and all the variants (Chrome stable, Chrome Dev, Chrome Beta, Chrome Canary, etc.)
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What if I still delete chrome, but then I enable and update Android System Webview? Will it work then?

HueyT said:
Chrome can function as "Webview Implementation" in "Developer Options". You just have to reinstall Chrome which will go into /data/app and set "webview implementation" in "Developer Options" to Chrome and it'll be fixed. A lot of apps require this to work including Gmail, Amazon, Banking apps, etc. Android System Webview is another app that can function instead of Chrome and all the variants (Chrome stable, Chrome Dev, Chrome Beta, Chrome Canary, etc.)
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Thank you so much.
I enabled and updated Android System Webview (I disabled Google Chrome before that) and switched to Android System Webview in Developer Options/WebView implementation.
I now be able to delete Chrome folder in /system/app without causing the other apps to crash.

Still feel like mentioning that: the idea to delete some files with a root file manager without having any kind of backup sounds pretty stupid to me. I hope you learned a lesson otherwise I suggest to disable root ...

minhntp said:
So I just wanted to warn you guys to not delete anything in /system/app or /system/priv-app in order to get rid of system apps.
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What do you want to achieve deleting system files? Did you want to debloat? there's someone here build debloated h932 20s. If you don't have 932 variant, the list of debloated apps might be a good start.
daniu said:
Still feel like mentioning that: the idea to delete some files with a root file manager without having any kind of backup sounds pretty stupid to me. I hope you learned a lesson otherwise I suggest to disable root ...
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It's common people frightening, after doing wrong. It even scarier when backups that we have won't help much (usualy app related to carrier, related to telephone, dialer, contact, etc still give you error after restored, and must reset the phone). Froze the app would be safer method to get rid of bloat

Cann't install apps anymore on Pixel 2XL

Hello all,
I cann't find a solution to install apps in sideload on my Pixel 2XL.
It was after flashing version 10 in the beginning of september.
After a lot of trying I give up and hope someone else here can help me.
My Pixel 2XL is unlocked but not rooted.
Normally I do the sideload by transfer an apk to my dropbox. After that I start it up and do what the system tells me.
Nowadays I got a return of a message in dropbox that -it is impossible to open the apk and download an app to open the apk-.
After that I download the apk to my download folder to try again. Then, when trying to startup, I get a popup with the name off the apk, the version nr, the size and packagename.
There is also a button to view apk content. When I push that button the right folders of the apk are indeed visible.
There are also 3 options. One to install, one to go to playstore and one to stop further actions and go back.
When I try to use the button install the result is that nothing happened, no signal, no message from the system, no popup, really nothing.
You all know that this is not what I want. I just want to install the apk. I have tried it with a few other apk's with the same results. :crying:
Before the last OTA upgrade to android 10 it was normal to install with these methods.
Thanks for who can helping me and others for trying to help me.
Greetings.

retaliator said:
Hello all,
I cann't find a solution to install apps in sideload on my Pixel 2XL.
It was after flashing version 10 in the beginning of september.
After a lot of trying I give up and hope someone else here can help me.
My Pixel 2XL is unlocked but not rooted.
Normally I do the sideload by transfer an apk to my dropbox. After that I start it up and do what the system tells me.
Nowadays I got a return of a message in dropbox that -it is impossible to open the apk and download an app to open the apk-.
After that I download the apk to my download folder to try again. Then, when trying to startup, I get a popup with the name off the apk, the version nr, the size and packagename.
There is also a button to view apk content. When I push that button the right folders of the apk are indeed visible.
There are also 3 options. One to install, one to go to playstore and one to stop further actions and go back.
When I try to use the button install the result is that nothing happened, no signal, no message from the system, no popup, really nothing.
You all know that this is not what I want. I just want to install the apk. I have tried it with a few other apk's with the same results. :crying:
Before the last OTA upgrade to android 10 it was normal to install with these methods.
Thanks for who can helping me and others for trying to help me.
Greetings.
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Have you enabled install apps from unknown sources? You'll also need to enable apps to install apps from what I can see in android 10. If you pull up an apps indignation you can expand the options and there will be an option to allow it to install apps, which Dropbox may need. The first one needs to be enabled to install apks from the download folder.

wgrant said:
Have you enabled install apps from unknown sources? You'll also need to enable apps to install apps from what I can see in android 10. If you pull up an apps indignation you can expand the options and there will be an option to allow it to install apps, which Dropbox may need. The first one needs to be enabled to install apks from the download folder.
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Thanks for helping me.
I did all these settings before.
Now I tried to open another filemanager (Google Files) and that did the job.
I don't know why installing in dropbox or installing in es file explorer doesn't do the same with equal settings.
Maybe an idea to uninstall and re-install these apps?
Anyway, a lot of thanks for your answer.
grts

retaliator said:
Thanks for helping me.
I did all these settings before.
Now I tried to open another filemanager (Google Files) and that did the job.
I don't know why installing in dropbox or installing in es file explorer doesn't do the same with equal settings.
Maybe an idea to uninstall and re-install these apps?
Anyway, a lot of thanks for your answer.
grts
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Android 10, install from unknown sources is like an app permission now, you have to grant it to things like chrome (download apk and install) and file managers rather than a global setting for phone. Safer as you trust an app o do it rather than letting some malware in background filling your phone with crap.

retaliator said:
Maybe an idea to uninstall and re-install these apps?
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Uninstalling and reinstalling will not work, as I've done that with my modded version of ES File Explorer. This is a change in Android itself.
Go to Settings > Apps & Notifications > Special App Access > Install Unknown Apps. A list of apps will appear. Select an app and toggle the switch.
NOTE: Dropbox is on the list, but at least on my device my modded version of ES File Explorer is not.