Rogue apps? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

In my settings under manage applications, I have 2 apps (wolfram alpha and blood brothers) that seem to have a slight... problem.
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According to link2sd and launching blood brothers from a homescreen shortcut, those 2 apps are not installed. Yet, when I sideload blood brothers (not officially compatible with my phone but works nevertheless) it gives me the prompt saying this app will replace another app and all data will be saved. Then I hit install and it says "application not installed"
So I decided to open up settings and uninstall them from there, but it FCs every time I tap on either one of them.
Then, I went into /data/app, deleted both apks, went into /data/sdext2/data and deleted the data files for both of them. I also went into /data/data to delete all data. I also think there were apks in /data/sdext2 which I deleted. Anyhow, from screenie you can see both apps have 0.00 bytes of storage taken up, which I assume means I've cleared everything.
But they're still there, I want to use the apps and its annoying me to have those show up in settings.
So I went into TiBackup. They didn't show up. Like stated before, link2sd said nothing.
The Play Store says wolfram alpha is uninstalled, but here's the weird thing. I refunded the app (because it is not worth $3!) And it has this weird residue left over. Couldn't care less about it right now, but gimme blood brothers!
Any ideas as to what could have caused this?
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Can you Help identify this app?

I saved a note app in titanium, but I don't have any idea how to identify it to install it. And by that I mean, while titanium does install it, it force closes.
Any idea where I can find this app?
It looks like this in the drawer, bottom left.
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In Titanium, it looks like it has 3 files to make it function.
It starts off like this.
But always ends up like this.
Blah. The titanium image is at the bottom. My bad.
The reason you are getting FC is probably because the libs are not installed. I'll attach a zip with the apks and libs. Just push the libs to system\lib through root explorer and set permissions to rw-r-r. Reinstall the apks with titanium without data and reboot. Should work. Good luck!
HTC Notes App
That's the HTC Notes app that seems to be quite popular.
Do I win anything for identifying it?
Here's some bonus info for you.
ramjet73
I believe that's the HTC Notes app. It comes with the ROMs. I'm not sure why you are getting the FCs. Maybe the app has to be installed to /system/app and the permissions might need to be fixed (usually rw-r--r--).
Edit: They beat me to it. I guess that's what I get for loading the page and then leaving to put my kid to bed.
Thanks everyone! Now I can start up my journal entries with this again.
As for prize, if you're near Savannah GA or Columbia SC, first drinks are on me.

[Q] Google Account Apps Management

Im looking for an app or the way to manager account apps. I have a lot of apps that were downloaded and installed but currently not used or even not welcomed. I can remotely delete them from the account by pressing DELETE button in MY APPS in Google Store, like on screen:
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But this way is a pain in the ass and Im looking for more easier way to delete unneeded apps. There is no way to do this via google store web page on PC
I'm affraid this ain't possible.
I also have been checking the Play Store website, but even there you can't remove them from the list.
On the other hand, why is it irritating you? You can easily see which apps you have installed in Settings > Apps
It is irritating cause I cant delete them. I just want to get rid of them from my account history.
I know I can manage apps for example from Titanium Backup but only those installed
DustEater said:
It is irritating cause I cant delete them. I just want to get rid of them from my account history.
I know I can manage apps for example from Titanium Backup but only those installed
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http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=28964
There's a big request going on since a long time. And it seems Google doesn't really care yet...
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I see. April 2012. Google doesnt even care. But I thought about some independent app which could exist.
thanks for information
I have found the way to remove it fast. Its kinda stupid but who though about such thing?
Long press on one app, then multiselect other apps. Like selecting few elements then DELETE button
I got rid off 2000 unused apps

Infected with malware via chrome

Hey guys.
When I was exploring the Internet via chrome my phone has been infected. The new tab opened by itself, phone started to vibrate and page said that my phone is infected and that I should download Antivirus (but this page was similar to other pages with slogans "YOU WON 100K$ CLICK HERE etc.) so I ignored it. Now after every call (only then) Clean Master is saying that I already installed "Games " so I can delete apk file. Sometimes I press YES or sometimes I press No and sometimes it appear on desktop as game (last time it was yahoo logo) sometimes it doesn't. Clean Master Says That is malware with ".bf" extension. I tried every AV, even Avast didn't find anything. I tried also looking for this file by my self but no results (CM Antivirus also find nothing) . (gonna add name of virus for better tagging)
NAME OF VIRUS:
Android .Troj.tb_downloader.bf
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I think that is ads... Btw to be safe you can always format your phone, be sure backup your data and contacts.. If you are rooted use adblocking software.. If not use browser which supports adblocking features..there are many in playstore
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk
Ghostery is a great adblock browser

Some apps suddenly stopped working since yesterday

Hello,
I'm facing a weird issue: since yesterday circa 5:30 p.m., some apps suddenly stopped working for no reason and just won't open or rapidly forceclose when I try to launch them: Gmail, Google, my bank app, Feedly, Amazon shopping, Steam, Xbox, Google Rewards, etc.
I first noticed that issue while I was running Android Auto and wanted to check my emails, the Gmail app force-closed without any message when I tried to open it.
On the Google app for instance, as soon as I try to type something in the upper-bar, BAM, force-close. And I get this weird message instead of my usual Discover feed at launch:
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I also noticed that I can't open the Google settings: all I get is a white page, so I'm thinking it might be related to my account in some way... but some other Google apps, like Google Music or Maps, work just fine.
There's no common denominator between the apps that work and those that don't.
For those which don't work, I cleared the cache and even rest app data, uninstalled those I can and restored to stock the system apps, but no result, those specific apps just won't open.
I also tried wipe cache from the recovery.
For the record I'm running android 10 and even flashed a more recent OXM firmware (keeping HOME_CSC) to make sure it wasn't due to system file.
Do you have any guess??
Eventually decided to do a factory reset and everything works fine now
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Possible Adware appcloud_oobe_motorola-release_V6.3.23.0. apk on Motorola Phones

Hi guys,
I hope everyone is doing well!
Recently, I saw this app appcloud_oobe_motorola automatically downloaded and installed on my phone (Moto Z2 Play) in com.aura.oobe.ml file folder. Does anyone has any idea why this app is getting installed automatically? I feel this is an adware but not sure about it. With the name, it seems like a legit motorola app.
Does anyone else saw this app on their phone? I have even factory resetted my phone a couple of times but still this app gets downloaded and installed automatically.
I would really appreciate it if someone could share any info regarding this apk
Thanks in advance and I look forward to your replies.
it turns out that AppCloud is a complete piece of junk that’s trying to install unwanted apps on your device.
If you want to remove this crapware completely, then simply select Uninstall from the bottom of the screen, as shown below
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xXx yYy said:
it turns out that AppCloud is a complete piece of junk that’s trying to install unwanted apps on your device.
If you want to remove this crapware completely, then simply select Uninstall from the bottom of the screen, as shown below
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Thanks for your reply! Actually, the problem is it is getting installed again automatically after uninstalling which is insane. I have even uploaded the apk on virustotal to check whether there is a virus and the results were clean. I am seeing this apk on my device for the last 10 months when I downloaded another apk from a website before that I have never seen this on my device. I have even factory resetted my device a couple of times and still this apk gets installed.
Anyone else who has any insights on this

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