I find it annoying that the uninstall utility on Windows Mobile lists the programs in the order they where installed, from newest to oldest, which makes it a pain to find a particular program.
Am I missing something? Is there any way to show the list alphabetically?
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Is it possible to uninstall some of the pre-installed apps that I don't use. ie. Google Talk, Email, News and Weather. Whenever I try my Nook just says that it was unable to uninstall them. I also tried using adb uninstall but that doesn't seem to work either.
what rom are you running?
I used the auto-nooter 2.12.25.
I would imagine that you could use ADB to remove anything you wanted to, but I'm not exactly sure what that would do to the stability of the thing.
I'm using stock 318 US version of the Streak. I have many programs on my phone. I keep installing and uninstalling new programs all the time. Recently I've discovered that about 10 or so programs, which I never uninstalled has been uninstalled. I don't remember uninstalling them. I know they're not there cause I can't find them in the app drawer, plus when I open Titanium Backup, it shows the programs as uninstalled. The funny thing is, when I tried to install one of those programs again, it gives me a warning to say this will replace an existing program?
All my programs are installed on the phone by default (I just install them, I don't move them to SD or anything like that).
Has anyone else come across this? Or have any idea what's going on?
I like to try apps. I think most of you do, too.
The problem is it's really difficult to uninstall an app in Android. I have an iPod Touch, and I can't say uninstallation on iPod Touch is that easy, but Android is worst.
Is there any app (with root privilege), that can uninstall multiple apps without confirming at each app? I tried many apps on the market, but non of them worked like that. One app could remove multiple system apps without confirmations, but it couldn't do that for user apps.
Please tell me if there is a way to achieve this.
And, Google should provide an option to turn off the uninstall confirmation + the useless "uninstalled" message boxes. Or add a way to uninstall multiple apps with only one confirmation (not at each app).
Titanium Backup - you can do batch installs and uninstalls of apk files.
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I tried the trial version of Titanium Back Up. It did have a menu for that, but executing it did not work. It just hung at 0% and did not progress.
I have these two different apps(?) that have shown up in my app drawer and I'm not sure what to make of them. One's named "mainline_train_primary" and the other's "trichromelibrary" or something along those line.
I use Ruthless launcher and they're only visible when I enable the option to show apps that are being installed in the app drawer. They're not there when I try other launchers or disable to the option.
They're also not actually installed so it doesn't do anything when I try to uninstall them. They both open up in Play Store when I click on them, but returns the message "To view this content, install and set up a web browsing app". I can manage to open them in a browser when I change the way Play Store opens up supported links. They both lead to market.android.com/details?id=[the name of the app]%[some numbers] but just wind up as 404 pages.
What confuses me is that they're both actually something related to Google, but I'm not super savvy, so I'm not sure if these are legit or are just some viruses mimicking the real thing.
I've already tried several factory resets as well as re-flashing the stock firmware, but either one or the other would eventually show up after a while.
I'm on the Essential Ph-1. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Is there any way in Google Play Store or Settings > Apps to determine if an app is pre-installed on Android?
Yes, you can just look at a specific application, if your device does not enable you to uninstall, it is a pre-installed device.
In a pre-installed device, you can only disable the application but can't uninstall it.
I hope you find it useful, and if I come across any applications, I will make sure to share them with you.
seancannery88 said:
Yes, you can just look at a specific application, if your device does not enable you to uninstall, it is a pre-installed device.
In a pre-installed device, you can only disable the application but can't uninstall it.
I hope you find it useful, and if I come across any applications, I will make sure to share them with you.
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Well it's not as simple as that. You can always uninstall updates and revert back to the pre-installed (ROM) version.
I frequently have to uninstall Google and Google Maps to allow me to install updates to other apps because the calculation of the space required in Google Play Store and more so in Samsung's Galaxy Store is flawed. Once I have updated the the other apps, I update the Google apps to bring them up to date. I know that with those two apps I won't lose any data or settings as these are stored in the cloud of my Google account.
However, sometimes it is necessary to do something similar with other apps in order to update them but if they are not pre-installed and you uninstall them, you lose any configuration and settings when you reinstall. It would be nice to know in advance which apps are pre-installed and will therefore likely retain data and settings if you revert them and then update them.
As a side note, it always amazes me what is pre-installed in one phone and has become obsolete by the time that phone's successor comes along.