I am having problems with getting MS Intune and Outlook to work on my phone.
Doubt has been cast upon the flavour of Android that Oppo installs on its phones however recent software behaviour suggests that the issues I am experiencing relate to another app or other apps I use.
I'd like to do to a Factory Reset and then just install the basic apps but Google accounts, very helpfully, remember which apps you have and automatically install them after I log on to a "new" device.
Is there an easy way to stall the auto install of my apps whilst I test the phone with the very basics plus Intune and Outlook.
Navrig said:
I am having problems with getting MS Intune and Outlook to work on my phone.
Doubt has been cast upon the flavour of Android that Oppo installs on its phones however recent software behaviour suggests that the issues I am experiencing relate to another app or other apps I use.
I'd like to do to a Factory Reset and then just install the basic apps but Google accounts, very helpfully, remember which apps you have and automatically install them after I log on to a "new" device.
Is there an easy way to stall the auto install of my apps whilst I test the phone with the very basics plus Intune and Outlook.
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Upon factory reset, go into Play Store settings and select "Do not auto-update apps".
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I use a Backup and Restore app and keep all my Apps copied to my Sd card in the phone. There are several on the Playstore.
Then when I do a Factory reset I skip all the Auto setups and then install what I want as I go along. A few won't re-install this way but they can just be re-downloaded.
Also in the Playstore App you can click on the 3 bars> My apps&Games> Library and there's a lit of what you have used.
HTH
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When i first bought this tablet, i logged on with my main gmail account used on my G2, because i naively thought all my apps would synch over from my phone. Didnt happen.
Since then i installed vegan tab and have been adding apps one by one. Finally got netflix to work. Yay! Now that netflix works, i was going to give the tablet to the kids.
But i can't. Because i can't delete my personal gmail account from the tablet. The kids don't need to read my email and i'm worried they might delete something.
I dont mind reinstalling apps under a new gmail account, but i am worried what factory reset would do to vegan tab.
What to do?
Sent from my VEGAn-TAB-v1.0.0B5.1 using Tapatalk
As an alternative you could use an app that locks the use of other apps via password or there is even one that does facial recognition. Then you could always check your gmail when you wanted to by entering a password.
Do a Factory Reset.
Factory reset does not do anything to the ROM, just the data (accounts, apps downloaded, etc..).
there is no "factory ROM" sitting on the device so a Factory Reset can only reset the current ROM you have running. So if you are on VEGAn5.1.1, a Factory Reset will reset the device to be just like you installed VEGAn5.1.1 with no accounts associated with it, no apps installed, no settings configured.
Your /sdcard data is still there....so you'll want to clean that up as well (backups, downloaded files/apps/music/pics/etc..
Thanks tim and tcrews!
Tim, Can you recommend a facial recognition app? An application startup password app?
If I had those, I could keep my blog app on the tablet after I give it to the kids to use for netflix. IF I can ever get Wordpress to load. (other thread on wp)
Your explanation makes sense, tcrews. I'm learning all the time.
Thank you for helping me!
factory reset worked just fine
I'm still wanting an app that blocks the use of other apps by a password or facial recognition.
any suggestions?
techbabe said:
I'm still wanting an app that blocks the use of other apps by a password or facial recognition.
any suggestions?
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I'm not aware if anything like that exist for Android, though I've honestly never looked at it.
Try searching the Market https://market.android.com/ and search for something based off your keywords...
Factory reset is not working
tcrews said:
Do a Factory Reset.
Factory reset does not do anything to the ROM, just the data (accounts, apps downloaded, etc..).
there is no "factory ROM" sitting on the device so a Factory Reset can only reset the current ROM you have running. So if you are on VEGAn5.1.1, a Factory Reset will reset the device to be just like you installed VEGAn5.1.1 with no accounts associated with it, no apps installed, no settings configured.
Your /sdcard data is still there....so you'll want to clean that up as well (backups, downloaded files/apps/music/pics/etc..
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Hello! I have had a similar problem with my Hannspad tablet- I cannot remove the google account we put on there when we rooted it. I need to remove it so I can sell it on. I have tried factory reset like you suggested but when I do it, it shuts down and then when it begins to reboot I get an image of a warning and a cartoon of a man in a hoody which is a part of the root menu. If I then turn it off and on again it is working but my account is still there.
Any ideas of how this can be fixed will be much appreciated and sorry if this has been asked elsewhere; I did search, I promise.
BW, Kelly
Hi,
This is going to be such a "noob" question & I apologize in advance.
I have an Orange UK branded HTC Desire HD running stock firmware & NOT rooted. Since the fairly recent 2.3.5 update with Sense 3.0 I have found that I am regularly seeing Sense restart upon exiting an app and returning to the home screen. This is not related to a particular app, as it can happen when returning to home from ANY app. My wife is seeing the same behaviour on hers too.
Having posted on both HTC's & Orange's Facebook pages, I have been advised in no uncertain terms that as a first step I should perform a factory reset.
This is something that I have not done since I got my DHD (my 1st Android - plenty of hard resets on WM ). I have had a bit of a tidy up - clearing unnecessary data, uninstalling apps I don't use, etc. Pretty much ready to reset (but aware that there is SOME data that I will lose). However, there is one thing that I am unsure about...
I have previously moved a number of apps to the SD card. If I leave them there, will the existing data be recognised upon reinstalling the apps? Or will it cause me problems? Or will the existing data just be orphaned? I.e. should I move all apps back to the phone before performing the reset?
Thanks in Advance
Saving them SD leaves a bit on your phone, so that wont help. Just back them up with your google account!
The apps and system data will be wiped regardless of it being on the sdcard or not. You can perform a manual backup by enabling debugging and using adb to pull the apps from your phone to your computer.
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Ok, thanks RTContent. I think that answers my question. So I needn't worry about moving stuff back, which is good.
I have no experience of using ADB. Would this backup just the APKs? Or the settings & user data too?
AlwaysDroid: "Just back them up with your google account" - Not sure I get what you mean. Are you referring to the way Google Play will auto restore apps from your install list? TBH, I was banking on this working correctly. Hopefully it will only reinstall those that were on the device, and not ALL previously installed apps. Especially as some of those were from my tablet only.
Not sure that now is the time to start dabbling with ADB, so will probably just go ahead with the reset and lose non synced app data.
Thanks.
So I cut off the wake up path for a few apps when they opened Google play store for inapp purchases.
I later realised this broke it for all apps and not just the apps I cut off the wake up path to. After doing this I can no longer access any kind of in app purchases in all apps.
I degreenified Google play store instead of reattaching the wake up path. That didn't fix it, I couldn't find Google play store in the hibernated apps or anywhere to reattach the paths.
I disabled the xposed module, uninstalled greenify and this still didn't fix it, none of the apps are able to open the in app purchase window.
I know this might be a strange problem but any help would be really appreciated since the only option I see now is to wipe/flash the Rom again.
Here's an example, not all apps show an error they just get stuck in the loading screen when accessing any in app option.
Example
Well, tried to reinstall greenify, doesn't work now, have the donation package installed, no network problem just the Same problem as all the other apps.
I think that the only option is to wipe and reinstall the ROM. I once had a similar issue where Play Store simply vanished and Google Play Services refused to function. I did a wipe and nandroid install which solved the issue. All other attempts failed.
Greenify should have re-attached all cut-off paths before de-greenify an app.
Try removing /data/system/packages.xml (backup first!) and reboot.
WARNING: To anyone coming here with a more recent version of Android (Android 11 in my case) -
DO NOT TRY TO DELETE /data/system/packages.xml
Will effectively reset the phone and remove ALL APPS on reboot!
DO NOT TRY TO RESTORE THE OLD PACKAGES.XML FILE EITHER! Everything including SystemUI will crash and you'll have no other option than factory reset!
Hello,
I've a problem with my Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge.
OS is 6.0.1.
No root, no system changes.
From the beginning (even with Android 5) i had regular nightly reboots (not every day, but not seldom) AND only a few (around 6) app's data are backuped to google drive.
So I find it quit logical, that during the nightly backup an app crashes the backup process forcing the backup to end unexpectedly
and causing the unwanted reboot.
So, any ideas how to find the causing app?
Are there any log's available?
My favorite suspicious is LightFlow, but this is an unsubstantiated conjecture...
Thank you for answering...
Annoyingly without root is hard to grab logs, why not uninstall the potentially bad app and see if the phone behaves differently? Do it one app at a time and then you can determine which one is causing it.
Couldn't hurt to do a factory reset anyway.
Seems to be one of those: Android System, NFC or Google Play Store backup. As it happens with my wife's phone too.
Very strange. My phone only reboots at the deliberate interval I set in the settings.
Some very weird things started happening on my phone earlier today. It's a Nexus 5X, running 8.0 Oreo, with the October security patch. I'm not rooted and I'm careful about what I install. The phone is fairly new, from this summer.
I will begin with describing what I did in the hours before this started. I can think of two things that possibly could have started it:
1) Two of my Facebook contacts sent malicious links to me an hour before. It looked like Youtube videos but was not. I did NOT open any of these links, knowing directly they were harmful (not sure if you can be affected by just receiving them, not clicking on them?). I received them in the Messenger Lite application (an official app from Facebook with scaled-down functionality).
2) A few hours before the Facebook links, I sideloaded an APK containing the new Pixel Launcher. I got the APK from Android Police/APK Mirror.
Can't attach links, but Google for: Hands-on with the updated Pixel Launcher, including the new Pixel 2 features [APK Download]
The APK was working fine and nothing seemed odd with it (I used the launcher for a few hours). As long as Android Police know what they uploaded, this shouldn't be the cause for my problems. I bet on Facebook Messenger instead. (People that click such malware links typically get their Facebook accounts hacked, however my account seems fine and my account didn't spam others with the same link. I did not change password or did anything else to "recover" my account yet).
So what happened after this on my phone?
Here is the first thing I noticed. I open Play Store to install updates. It turns out I have one update pending, it's called BankID. This is a major Swedish app used by nearly every smartphone user in the country, and it's for signing into government websites, bank websites, insurance company websites, and much more. When I click update in Play Store two things happen almost instantly:
1) Six pictures are downloaded from Messenger Lite to my phone. That makes no sense, how could clicking a button in Google Play trigger something to happen in Messenger Lite? In fact I tried it three times, with the same behavior every time. (Well, actually opening the Messenger Lite photo album, there are only photos there I already downloaded, so nothing new seems to be added there - but the photos were probably re-downloaded I believe).
2) The BankID update downloads to 100 % (the downloading takes a little longer than expected), then it halts and does nothing, i.e. it's not installing. No error message, it just stops there. I can choose to abort and try again, which I do three times or more, with exactly the same behavior.
Also, I now notice Play Protect hasn't run for two days, but when I try to run it, it seems to be down. After ~30 seconds of scanning it says "App verification temporarily down". "App verification temporarily down" could very well be connected with the halted update I just described? It still says it hasn't run for two days after this.
When I experiment, I notice other things that are very weird indeed.
1) Notifications in Gmail, Snapchat and possibly other apps aren't coming through. By opening the apps, I can sync manually.
2) When I move a file to a new folder using the Downloads app (Files app, stock one) I get a error message saying the move operation failed. This also triggered the photo notifications from Messenger Lite (same behavior as described above, with six photos). However, after a while the moved pictures are indeed in the right folder, even though the error message saying otherwise.
3) After some time I remove "app data" for the Google Play app. When I open it after that, there are now three app updates pending (e.g. Google Wifi also). But the same behavior occurs, when I try to download one or all of them, I get the Messenger photo notifications and the updates halt at 100 % without installing. So the BankID app - which could be targeted by attackers for obvious reasons - could just be a coincidence. It could have happened with any app I suppose, this was the only one pending right then. But still, why couldn't Play Store detect other pending app updates until I refreshed it the way I did? Was Play Store blocked from connecting to Google (or forced to connect to some other server, perhaps?).
What did I do after all of this?
I uninstalled three apps:
-Facebook Lite
-Facebook Messenger Lite
-Pixel Launcher APK
However the uninstall process was very odd. A process called "Package Installer" had a notification saying "Uninstalling Lite" and "Uninstalling Messenger Lite". It didn't seem to be working, it was stuck after some time. I restarted my phone and the apps seem to be gone now, at least they aren't listed in Settings --> Apps. So the uninstall process was successful I suppose, even though it didn't seem to work.
After I restarted my phone I also noticed:
-When I install Messenger Lite from Play Store now, it's easy to uninstall it the way it should be - in mere seconds.
-When I open Play Store, updates are now installing fine. Play Protect is also scanning fine now.
Everything looks back to normal now. But I'm not trusting my device. I'm gonna factory reset it. Before I do, I wonder:
-Can I feel safe the wipe would erase whatever malware I might have had on the phone?
-Is there something I could do to let us know what caused this? Upload a log here somehow?
The only piece of advice I have received as of now is: "Try restarting in safe mode, installing some AV software, and generally looking for suspicious processes." I haven't done that yet, would it still be a good thing to do? Must I install AV software before rebooting into safe mode, or could I install it directly from safe mode? (App suggestions, AV software?).
Usually I'm very careful and security-minded. I haven't had something like this happen before. So I'm very intrigued and mad about this. I'm gonna change my Google account and Facebook account passwords later on I think (I already have 2-factor authentication enabled).
One last thing: When I install Pixel Launcher on my non-rooted phone, it's not running as a system app if my understanding is correct. (At least it shouldn't be). But none the less, when I wanted to uninstall it I had to go into Settings --> Apps and tap "Show system apps" to find it in the list. Is that normal? Perhaps it doesn't mean anything, I just want to know.
Thanks for your advice in advance. Anything else to add? What should I do know? All you might have to say is appreciated.
Come on now guys, someone must be able to help?
If I factory reset the device, will it be clean? I didn't mess with custom ROMs, root, the bootloader or something else. (I suppose the bootloader is locked).