<p dir="ltr">Default installed os comes with crap. Root system to flush them off.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 27, 2013 1:51 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>How did you get apps on your phone "which I didn't install and which you cannot uninstall"? Surely you have S-OFF on your own phone?<br><br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com" target="_blank">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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Yet another one of my app developers for android has chosen to butcher and dumb down their UI, ruining the app for me. I promptly turned off auto update for that app and installed the previous version from a backup that I just made, coincidentally, yesterday. Now I have the app I like back. It was the PocketCasts podcast downloader. Unfortunately, I'll never get bug fixes or updates now.<br>
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Astro file manager (older version) has an application backup feature that backs up all the APK files. I like to use that weekly.<br>
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Let's think like a developer: I have an app that lots of people like and depend on. It's useful, functional, and gives them lots of information and control. I have lots of positive reviews. I think I'll screw up the UI, make it harder to use, remove information from the screen, give the user less control, OH and remove the widget!<br>
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AARG! Nothing like wasting half an hour of your life undoing someone else's screw up of an app you bought from them.<br>
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I now have auto updates turned off for Astro File Manager, PocketCasts, and WeatherBug Elite.<br>
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By the way, is there a way to selectively turn off auto updates for individual apps on Mint / Ubuntu? That would be cool.<br>
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Another maintenance tip. Select settings, apps, all. Scroll through that list and force stop then disable any apps that don't need to be running. I think I have 21 of them disabled which I didn't install and you cannot uninstall.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Ron<br>
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Please excuse my potential brevity if I'm typing on the touch screen.<br>
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call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy<br>
mailing lists and such. I don't always see new email messages very quickly.)<br>
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Ron Frazier<br>
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