Entirely. I disabled the panel, turned off everything I could find, but it still interferes.
If I am on a Bluetooth device and use voice commands to tell it to play music, it will only use Spotify, I don’t want Spotify, I don’t like Spotify. I will never use Spotify.
I have 500 songs on the device itself and I use Samsung music.
I have google assistant as my default assistant, but any commands via Bluetooth start bixby up and it’s utterly useless.
I delete the Spotify container and when I tell it to play music it comes right back. Samsung has a partnership with them and so they try to force you to use it, and I never will.
How do I disable or truly remove this crap from my unrooted phone.?
SquireSCA said:
Entirely. I disabled the panel, turned off everything I could find, but it still interferes.
If I am on a Bluetooth device and use voice commands to tell it to play music, it will only use Spotify, I don’t want Spotify, I don’t like Spotify. I will never use Spotify.
I have 500 songs on the device itself and I use Samsung music.
I have google assistant as my default assistant, but any commands via Bluetooth start bixby up and it’s utterly useless.
I delete the Spotify container and when I tell it to play music it comes right back. Samsung has a partnership with them and so they try to force you to use it, and I never will.
How do I disable or truly remove this crap from my unrooted phone.?
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Try this on a computer if you have adb set up
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 "apppackagename.com"
It will remove it from the root folder bixby might reinstall with an update idk but that should atleast stop your spotify issues.
Luke357 said:
Try this on a computer if you have adb set up
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 "apppackagename.com"
It will remove it from the root folder bixby might reinstall with an update idk but that should atleast stop your spotify issues.
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Cool, that is a good start. I have ADB but to be honest, haven't used it in years.
Anyone know which Bixby files I need to get rid of? The actual names of the packages?
SquireSCA said:
Cool, that is a good start. I have ADB but to be honest, haven't used it in years.
Anyone know which Bixby files I need to get rid of? The actual names of the packages?
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Bixby Service "com.samsung.android.bixby.service"
Bixby Voice com.samsung.android.bixby.agent
Bixby Routines com.samsung.android.app.routines
Bixby Vision com.samsung,android.visionintelligence
Bixby Vision Framework com.samsung.android.bixbyvision.framework
Those are all the ones I found the first 2 seem to be the ones most worth uninstalling. Bixby vision might be important to camera some functions so be careful.
Luke357 said:
Bixby Service "com.samsung.android.bixby.service"
Bixby Voice com.samsung.android.bixby.agent
Bixby Routines com.samsung.android.app.routines
Bixby Vision com.samsung,android.visionintelligence
Bixby Vision Framework com.samsung.android.bixbyvision.framework
Those are all the ones I found the first 2 seem to be the ones most worth uninstalling. Bixby vision might be important to camera some functions so be careful.
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Cool, I will start with the first one and test and stop when I get the result that I am looking for.
I type in ADB Devices and it shows my phone, but says that it is unauthorized. So I think I missed a step. haha
EDIT: I figured it out, and now when I trigger voice commands from my bluetooth system in my helmet, it goes straight to Google Assistant rather than Bixby. Perfect, thanks!
SquireSCA said:
Cool, I will start with the first one and test and stop when I get the result that I am looking for.
I type in ADB Devices and it shows my phone, but says that it is unauthorized. So I think I missed a step. haha
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You will need to go into developer options and enable usb debugging first forgot to mention that. :laugh:
It works! I got rid of the first two, and now it goes right to Google Assistant. It was still asking me to unlock my phone when I would tell it, "Shuffle my music on Samsung Music", but that was easy to get around by just adding my helmet as a "Trusted device" so that it automatically unlocks when I turn on my helmet's communication system.
Thanks for the help, this was driving me nuts!
Me too its about time on real
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Finally figured out why saying "OK Google" wasn't launching Google assistant on Note8
This has been extremely frustrating, but I figured it out. On ALL my other phones (N4, N7 S7E, S8+) saying "Ok Google" opened up google assistant as it should. But not on the Note 8. I had it working for a little while yesterday, but did not know HOW I got it working. Today it stopped working again. I have spent a couple hours today fiddling with every setting, disabling/re-enabling Bixby with BK, etc, etc to get "Ok Google" to work. Well, I figured out why it wasn't working. On the Note 8, if you have your phone on any of the battery saver modes (I had my S8+ and my N8 on the "mid" saver mode), OK Google does not work. Turn off battery saver mode and it works.
So for whatever reason, Samsung changed the battery saver mode on the N8 from what the S8+ had. I always had mid mode turned on with my S8+ - it gives you about an hour more battery life. But on the S8+ OK Google voice still opened up the assistant. Not on the Note 8. Just a tip for anyone else who couldn't figure out why they couldn't open up google assistant with voice command.
This is pretty standard, since battery saver restricts most background services. Thanks for the confirmation!
It wasn't standard on the Note 7, S7E or S8+ - I have all of those and mid battery saver does not deactivate the "Ok Google" voice activation. Samsung must have changed that on the N8.
BTW, I am getting a software update downloading from VZ as I speak... maybe they will address this in the new update? I'm always nervous accepting pushed factory updates. It is installing now, so I will know soon!
so n00b q for you then since your well above me (coming from a note 3)...
I didn't enable "OK Google" cuz I thought Bixby was to replace it.. so that isn't the case? so get ok google working again then....
off to google to read up on what Bixby is for then... LOL
TeleFragger said:
so n00b q for you then since your well above me (coming from a note 3)...
I didn't enable "OK Google" cuz I thought Bixby was to replace it.. so that isn't the case? so get ok google working again then....
off to google to read up on what Bixby is for then... LOL
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Yes, the intent of Bixby is to replace the Google Assistant. But, many people (including myself) have found Bixby to be rather lacking in the assistant realm. It may get better with updates over time (depending on how much money Samsung want to throw at it) but for now, I prefer ok google.
TeleFragger said:
so n00b q for you then since your well above me (coming from a note 3)...
I didn't enable "OK Google" cuz I thought Bixby was to replace it.. so that isn't the case? so get ok google working again then....
off to google to read up on what Bixby is for then... LOL
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Samsung wants to force you to use Bixby instead of google assistant. I am not fond of Bixby and much prefer google assistant. Below are the steps to get rid of Bixby and make Google Assistant your default assistant app.
BK disabler app is what you need. DL it from the play store. Once you do that you can disable all bixby functions - just search for Bixby with BK Disabler and disable all of the bixby apps. Doing this will also disable the Bixby button from doing anything. Now you can set your google app to open up when you say "Ok google". Also, you can remap the Bixby button to open up the google assistant with BK disabler's advanced settings menu which is up in the top right corner of the BK disabler app.
TeleFragger said:
so n00b q for you then since your well above me (coming from a note 3)...
I didn't enable "OK Google" cuz I thought Bixby was to replace it.. so that isn't the case? so get ok google working again then....
off to google to read up on what Bixby is for then... LOL
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teegunn said:
Samsung wants to force you to use Bixby instead of google assistant. I am not fond of Bixby and much prefer google assistant. Below are the steps to get rid of Bixby and make Google Assistant your default assistant app.
BK disabler app is what you need. DL it from the play store. Once you do that you can disable all bixby functions - just search for Bixby with BK Disabler and disable all of the bixby apps. Doing this will also disable the Bixby button from doing anything. Now you can set your google app to open up when you say "Ok google". Also, you can remap the Bixby button to open up the google assistant with BK disabler's advanced settings menu which is up in the top right corner of the BK disabler app.
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I use both though. I disabled wake up for Bixby voice but google assistant and Bixby work fine side by side. I just feel like from reading your post people might assume google assistant doesn't work like normal with Bixby still running.
Bixby has some neat tricks up its sleeves, but Google is still the king of internet search. Bixby is better at controlling your phone hands free.
RaymondPJR said:
Bixby has some neat tricks up its sleeves, but Google is still the king of internet search. Bixby is better at controlling your phone hands free.
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I dunno. Maybe I need to retrain it because I have to call it three times to get it rolling but while I'm watching tv it sets itself off repeatedly with the sensitivity down.
Also I have to speak slower to get it to recognize what the hell I am saying when I use it to voice text. I turn around and say something in a noisy room to google quickly and it catches every word and adjusts words based on the context of the entire sentence.
pcriz said:
I dunno. Maybe I need to retrain it because I have to call it three times to get it rolling but while I'm watching tv it sets itself off repeatedly with the sensitivity down.
Also I have to speak slower to get it to recognize what the hell I am saying when I use it to voice text. I turn around and say something in a noisy room to google quickly and it catches every word and adjusts words based on the context of the entire sentence.
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If Samsung doesn't improve it like it just left S-Voice as a mess, I won't use it either. It can become something great if Sammy just supports it.
Very pleased to see that OK Google works from lock screen on AND off !!Finally Samsung !!
laureanop said:
Very pleased to see that OK Google works from lock screen on AND off !!Finally Samsung !!
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Can you elaborate on this? I would really like ok Google to work with the screen off, but I don't have that option.
I can do Ok Google when screen is ON. But when off, it will detect my voice but will not respond.
I can see Ok Google Edge light up when being called.
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Bixby-Ok Google
teegunn said:
Samsung wants to force you to use Bixby instead of google assistant. I am not fond of Bixby and much prefer google assistant. Below are the steps to get rid of Bixby and make Google Assistant your default assistant app.
BK disabler app is what you need. DL it from the play store. Once you do that you can disable all bixby functions - just search for Bixby with BK Disabler and disable all of the bixby apps. Doing this will also disable the Bixby button from doing anything. Now you can set your google app to open up when you say "Ok google". Also, you can remap the Bixby button to open up the google assistant with BK disabler's advanced settings menu which is up in the top right corner of the BK disabler app.
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Hello
I use both - I love that I can give multiple commands in one Quick Command, and Bixby will perform them without a hitch. But I also know that for websearch etc, I use OK Google. I think this is the best of both worlds.
thanks
Every time I disable "Find My Device" under device administrators, it re-enables itself whenever I reboot my phone. In the phone settings, I turned off location and went to Google->security->Find My Device and toggled off. Then I went to my Google account on my PC to remove the device. Nope! Makes no difference. WTH?! Come on, Google! you creep up on my phone. I have to disable it because when it's enabled, it causes issues with MacroDroid app. My phone is rooted. I'm on Marshmallow 6.0.1 Any solutions? Google makes me wanna rip out my hair. Ugh, this is a nightmare. Same issue on another phone
Can confirm this too.
See that since Yesterday... Android Oreo and/or Pie! Makes no difference... Zte Axon7...
Thanks to Google for this funny new Feature :good:
It might help if you mention either of the phones you're talking about, just in case this is a device specific issue.
If it's re-enabling itself on reboot, it doesn't sound like you're disabling it properly. Try freezing it using Root Uninstaller to freeze the app.
free_axon said:
Can confirm this too.
See that since Yesterday... Android Oreo and/or Pie! Makes no difference... Zte Axon7...
Thanks to Google for this funny new Feature :good:
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Thank you for confirming this. The feature disappears when I disable Google Play services but I can't leave it disabled
Redline said:
It might help if you mention either of the phones you're talking about, just in case this is a device specific issue.
If it's re-enabling itself on reboot, it doesn't sound like you're disabling it properly. Try freezing it using Root Uninstaller to freeze the app.
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Firstly, my device and running system are in my post, as you meant me too. I'm quite sure it's not device related... This "issue" appears as soon as i update to the new beta of gplayservices and disappears as soon as I downgrade!
One after another in by friendships have it now, too. So it's rolling out with stable, because none of them is beta tester or it comes over another backdoors...
Redline said:
It might help if you mention either of the phones you're talking about, just in case this is a device specific issue.
If it's re-enabling itself on reboot, it doesn't sound like you're disabling it properly. Try freezing it using Root Uninstaller to freeze the app.
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Right now I'm using LG Volt. Another one is ZTE Warp 7. It's the feature, not the app. If It were the app, I would uninstall it. I tried disabling the feature under Google Play services via the app called "Disable Application [ROOT]" by BIZKAI Apps but it asked me to pay for it pfftt
Hi, did anyone manage to solve this issue? I'm trying to disable Google's device admin access but it keeps turning on by itself
The settings might not be saved to your Google account properly , try connecting your device to a stable internet connection and disabling it .. might work, usually same happens with my device when enabling adb(debug security settings) if internet connectivity is poor.
If you're still looking for a fix, I've finally found one! https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/module-universal-gms-doze-t3853710
Fyi...it seems the GmsIntentOperationService service in GooglePlayServices is what is causing it to re-enable at boot. If you are rooted and disable this service it stops re-enabling at boot. Google should fix this....not cool Google.
fish312 said:
If you're still looking for a fix, I've finally found one! https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/module-universal-gms-doze-t3853710
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I've tested that Magisk module on a Blu Life One X3 phone, rooted with TWRP as bootloader and Magisk as root. It does indeed permanently disable 'Find My Device' (and removes it from the Device Administrators list), but on this particular phone, it messes up the WiFi connection... it flips between 'Connected' and 'Connected, No Internet', and doesn't transit any data.
I uninstalled the 'Universal GMS Doze' Magisk module, and WiFi functionality returned to normal, but 'Find My Device' was re-enabled. I did this three times, just to be sure, same each time.
For now, to save battery, I'm using 'Enable Doze for GMS Magisk Module' Magisk module, but it doesn't disable 'Find My Device' like 'Universal GMS Doze' does.
I'm now looking at using Disable Application [ROOT] (package:/data/app/com.iamaner.oneclickfreeze-1/base.apk=com.iamaner.oneclickfreeze) to stop the Google Play Services from setting a Device Administrator... you should check out that program, it's awesome. It's a paid program, but it's well worth the coinage.
Here's the Google Play Services activities:
https://github.com/alt236/apkdetails/blob/master/sample_output/google_play_services_11.9.49.md
We have a few avenues to explore in turning off 'Find My Device' permanently:
com.google.android.gms.mdm.receivers.ActivateDeviceAdminUponUnlockReceiver
com.google.android.gms.mdm.receivers.MdmDeviceAdminReceiver
android.permission.MANAGE_DEVICE_ADMINS
{forgive the spaces in the above... the xda-developers.com editor adds them, for some reason}
s00thsayer said:
GmsIntentOperationService service in GooglePlayServices is what is causing it to re-enable at boot.
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How's it possible to fetch that Service, with non-root? Best I can get on Android One is:
I'm not sure you can do it, non-root. I'm trying to figure out the ADB command to disable 'Find My Device' permanently... it's got to be related to what I posted above. Still experimenting.
Turn off the find my "device"
If you would like to remotely locate, lock, ring or erase your device, view this info.
Notes:
Find My Device Android allows you to remotely locate, lock, ring or erase your device.
A GmailTM account must be set up on the device to utilize Find My Device.
Log in to the Find My Device Device (URL: google.com/android/find) to access these services.
From a Home screen, navigate: Apps > Settings > Google (Google services).
To allow the device to be remotely located:
Tap Location.
Ensure the Location switch (located in the upper-right) is set to the ON position.
Tap Security.
Tap the following switches to turn on or off:
Remotely locate this device
Allow remote lock and erase
Hope: It will helps.
That doesn't work for me, as I've disabled Google location features in build.prop and disabled Captive Portal Login connectivity checking (which checks with a Google server to switch your WiFi icon to 'Connected' from 'Connected, No Internet'), as I explicate here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ge...bootloader-t3812910/post79374402#post79374402
So Google can only see if the phone is online or not. It can't locate it, nor can it communicate with 'Find My Device'.
But good news! If you install AFWall+ and disable:
[10014] Google Play Services, Google Services Framework, Google Account Manager
[10023] Google Play Store
for both Data and Wifi in the firewall, Google can't even tell when your phone is online.
What I did was to set up three profiles in AFWall+, one with the basic connectivity enabled and Google enabled, one with basic connectivity only, and one lockdown profile (nothing enabled). Set up AFWall+ so it shows a notification, press that notification to take you to the AFWall+ window. Just below the green header, you'll see a drop-down box where you can quickly switch the profile. Or set up the widget to do the same thing.
Heh, leave it to Google to make permanently disabling "Find My Device" as unintuitive as possible.
Go to Settings > Google > Security > Find My Device > Turn it off
If you simply go to Settings > Security > Device Administrators and disable Find My Device, it'll re-enable itself upon reboot.
futuretricks
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Lusty Rugnuts said:
We have a few avenues to explore in turning off 'Find My Device' permanently:
com.google.android.gms.mdm.receivers.ActivateDeviceAdminUponUnlockReceiver
com.google.android.gms.mdm.receivers.MdmDeviceAdminReceiver
android.permission.MANAGE_DEVICE_ADMINS
{forgive the spaces in the above... the xda-developers.com editor adds them, for some reason}
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I can't find any of them to disable.
i had the same problem, every reboot option returned on. i fixed with this command from terminal emulator. i use TERMUX APP.
type "su" then enter and allow root
type "pm disable com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.mdm.receivers.MdmDeviceAdminReceiver" then enter.
this makes DISAPPEAR the total row of the option find my device. and disable 4ever. tested now on lenovo p2, havoc 2.9 pie
realista87 said:
i had the same problem, every reboot option returned on. i fixed with this command from terminal emulator. i use TERMUX APP.
type "su" then enter and allow root
type "pm disable com.google.android.gms/com.google.android.gms.mdm.receivers.MdmDeviceAdminReceiver" then enter.
this makes DISAPPEAR the total row of the option find my device. and disable 4ever. tested now on lenovo p2, havoc 2.9 pie
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I did this, worked for 3 days then my phone rebooted by itself (which has never happened before). When it powered back on, Find My Device came right back in an enabled state. I have a HTC 10 and almost positive this is what causes the horrific battery life. Once its disabled, my battery history is fairly flat. Every 3 days or so it will re-enable itself and its fairly obvious when it happens -- my battery starts draining much faster. There has to be another way to block this completely, I've already disabled it in my Google account, on the phone, and unchecked it in device admins but again, 3 days later its enabled again like a bad virus.
Can I disable permanently Google play protect? Or Google play protect not allowed to uninstall an app I want.
Hello Arist!
Here are some instructions i found by googling. Does it help you?:
How to Disable Play Protect
Settings.
Google.
Security.
Google Play Protect.
Tap on Cog-wheel.
Select Scan apps with Play Protect to turn it off.
Source: https://www.technipages.com/how-to-enable-disable-google-play-protect-in-android
is it possible to disable google play protect on android tv 9?
I'd like to know any way to disable it on Android TV (shield) as well. I've seen posts saying to turn off verify apps in settings but this doesn't work.
Although I had never turned on Play Protect, tonight I got a notification from Google Play Protect telling me to uninstall a malicious app.
It seems that my device is being permanently monitored by Google, despite deactivating the service.
How can this be prevented?
I would like to be able to determine who is allowed to scan my device and who is not.
And when a service is deliberately deactivated, my expectation is that it is actually switched off.
psychofaktory said:
Although I had never turned on Play Protect, tonight I got a notification from Google Play Protect telling me to uninstall a malicious app.
It seems that my device is being permanently monitored by Google, despite deactivating the service.
How can this be prevented?
I would like to be able to determine who is allowed to scan my device and who is not.
And when a service is deliberately deactivated, my expectation is that it is actually switched off.
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I also cannot get Play Protect to stop scanning even though I have double, triple, quadruple checked the settings. It is toggled off. Yet it won't stop telling me that I have one app that isn't safe (I know it is, so I'm not concerned)...
Has anyone figured this out yet?
You can try adb
adb shell settings put global package_verifier_user_consent -1
To re-enable play protect:
adb shell settings put global package_verifier_user_consent 1
About an hour ago the freakin' Play Store, which for whatever reason I had defrozen, informed me that “for security reasons” or whatever it had removed permissions from a bunch of apps. Of course Google Play Protect (or maybe is it Google Pay Protect? LoL!) was disabled, as it has always been, but it still removed permissions from my apps. Well, that was enough, my patience ran out.
So, I fully uninstalled Google Play Store. This is the real way to disable Google Play Protect. No more @#$% in my system now.
zecabra said:
You can try adb
adb shell settings put global package_verifier_user_consent -1
To re-enable play protect:
adb shell settings put global package_verifier_user_consent 1
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Did it work when you tried it?
As far as I remember, when you install a file, they warn you about the danger of downloading viruses, but you can ignore this warning and download anyway.
Does Google Play protect identify payloads created with msfvenom ? I just bought a phone with android 12 and play protect on it. I wanted to install a back door in my phone
I have just brought a Realme GT 5G and wonder if I should send it back.
First I had to discover that some preinstalled apps, not only can't be uninstalled, but also not disabled (without root): YouTube, Netflix, Google. The last I had to disabled on previous phones because it became active out of itself.
The second problem is that the Camera app asks rather strange permissions and exits when I don't give it. Why should I give a Camera app permission to read my phones state?
From: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission#READ_PHONE_STATE
"Allows read only access to phone state, including the current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device."
Not something you need to make a picture.
They claim that they need it to know if it is functioning properly.
Sound like nonsense. Where do they use it for?
I can see one valid use case for READ_PHONE_STATE, if you are in a call and go to take a picture, generally the camera is full screen so it makes it hard to end the call, dial, or other phone functions.
Very weak argument but that is all I have.
If you really want to disable the apps you can use Device Owner to disable them. If you don't trust an app you can use the Google Test DPC app.
RRiVEN said:
.. .If you really want to disable the apps you can use Device Owner to disable them. If you don't trust an app you can use the Google Test DPC app....
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I found that you can do something like
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.googleassistant
Only for disabling a component of an app, root seems to be required.
My Tab 7 will randomly take multiple pictures without any input from me - I have deleted as many as 900 pictures of the inside of the case and been woken at night by the shutter sound going off continuously.
I have tried removing permissions for Camera to disable it but now get multiple notifications that I need to allow permissions in order for Camera to take pictures (46 notifications when I opened the tablet just now).
Can anyone tell me how to prevent either of these behaviours?
I am seriously considering switching to an iPad.
fircroftstar said:
My Tab 7 will randomly take multiple pictures without any input from me - I have deleted as many as 900 pictures of the inside of the case and been woken at night by the shutter sound going off continuously.
I have tried removing permissions for Camera to disable it but now get multiple notifications that I need to allow permissions in order for Camera to take pictures (46 notifications when I opened the tablet just now).
Can anyone tell me how to prevent either of these behaviours?
I am seriously considering switching to an iPad.
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Remove the case. See if the behavior continues.
Arealhooman said:
Remove the case. See if the behavior continues.
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No effect - and I still get multiple notifications from Camera about re-instating permissions.
Maybe uninstall and reinstall with ADB?
Pardon my ignorance - ADB?
Android Debug Bridge. Download platform tools. Enable dev options (Google how to). Enable ADB debugging. Connect to PC. Run platform tools in power shel. Do ” adb devices “ to verify your device is connected. Then do “ pm uninstall -k --user 0 package name” replace package name with that apps package name, which you can find using the package name viewer app. Then reinstall with “ pm install-existing package-name “. If you did not get how to start ADB you can Google a better guide, but those commands are how to uninstall and reinstall.