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Help Cannot fully uninstall Snapchat

Vicvo101
Hadron said:
Unless you somehow installed it to system uninstalling it will mean uninstalling, end of story. If you did install it to system then with an unrooted device you'd not actually be able to uninstall it, and I've met, albeit many years ago, cases where an app that had been moved to system appeared to uninstall but would come back if e.g. you rebooted the phone. But of course you should also need root to install anything to system - though Android 5 may have vulnerabilities that would allow this without rooting the device, and as noted I don't entirely trust anything downloaded from Aptoide.

On that note though, if the problem were that it has somehow been installed to system a factory reset wouldn't fix it: that just erases user-installed apps and data, and does nothing at all to the system partition. So before you resort to a reset you should try to work out what the real situation here is.

A couple of things to try:

1) reinstall it then try rebooting into "safe mode". That should disable user-installed apps, so if SnapChat still works in that mode then your phone thinks it's a system app (though if SnapChat is invisible I'm not sure that definitely proves that it's not installed to system: after all, we know it is giving you the option to uninstall, so the phone clearly doesn't regard it as a system app in other respects).

2) try uninstalling it and then reboot the phone. If it appears to have reinstalled that will almost certainly mean that it is in the system somehow.

The reason I'm focussing on this is that the apk just lying around by itself won't result in the beta version being installed. It needs to be in a specific place where the installer would find it and (somehow) not find the version that the Play Store downloaded - though if somehow a file were in that location then a reset might be your best bet at clearing it. But I don't think that would explain why an apk install fails, which is why i'm wondering whether the problem is that it's not actually uninstalling at all (I don't suppose you noted what error message the apk install produced when it failed: that might give a clue).
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I tried uninstalling and rebooting it, and it did not reinstall. So i reinstalled it, and yet again, it installs to the broken beta build. I tried safemode, and it would not open, it was invisible so it isnt rooted in system. By the way, i'm running android 9.
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Issues adding a button

F
I am new at Android Development and I installed Android Studio 4.1.1. I created an app then I put a button on the screen and changed the attributes. Had some issues so I decided to exit Android studio and then start a new App.

In this new app, I added a new button, but it kept the attributes of the previous button. How does this happen? If I accidently changed the default attributes for all future buttons, how can I change it back to default?

Thanks.
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anyone knows what theese apps are ?

Hadron
Tiny, blurry, indistinct. The one on the right might be a weather app notification, the one on the left could be almost anything.

Assuming that, as is usually the case with these questions, they come from a screenshot from someone else's phone, the best bet is probably just to ask them if it bothers you that much. If by any chance they are from your own phone, pull down the notifications to find out.

To put it into perspective, there are literally millions of apps in the Play Store, so they won't all have distinctive notifications. This makes it very hard to get a positive ID on anything but the commonest or most distinctive icons (and the latter still need to be common enough that there's a chance that someone has come across them). Edit them into 2 files with one icon each and try a reverse image search is the only other idea I have.
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Hardware shortcut to mute mic while in call (using volume rocker sequence)

Trom
Ali Alp said:
I know exactly what you are saying and I am in all the way :)
In fact, there are a lot of apps out there which facilitate the creation of some extra functionalities to your phone.
I have developed the Muter only because I couldn't find any app to "mute/un-mute my phone with volume keys at any situation only while i am in a meeting or during the working hours" :)
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I love tinkering with gadget apps, and I didn't notice that you'd made one to address the issue, which I'll take a look at, thanks, Ali!
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End of the Note line?

The_Chief
I'm hearing that there will, in fact, be a "sunset" Galaxy Note 21 released in Q3 alongside the Z Fold 3 or shortly thereafter! With the Z Fold 3 scheduled for a June announcement, perhaps Samsung wants to say "farewell" to the Note at IFA Berlin in September, where the Note was traditionally revealed. I would expect a single Note model this year, based on the S21 Ultra's specs... so watch the Unpacked event in January to get a good idea of what to expect in Samsung's flagships for the rest of the year.
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Android phones for maintaining a healthy report

The_Chief
Samsung Health, Google Fit... there are any number of health-focused apps out there. Counting calories, however, requires a user to input all food, beverages, snacks and treats into the app. How many people will take the time to do that? An alternative is if an app allows a user to snap a photo of their food prior to eating: and through machine learning the app will try to identify the food; analyze the amount; calculate the calories and add them in. That would be far from accurate, though, and would require the app to know virtually everything about every food a person could possibly consume. How many developers will take time to do that?
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Forced updates, 911 , bad timing

Hadron
Yeah, Android doesn't force updates, but many US carriers do. If you live in the US and only buy phones through your carrier you might not realise that your situation is not normal.

In addition there is no central "android" that produces updates for your phones. Google release updates to the core OS, your phone's manufacturer adapts those to their devices (those that they choose to update), adds their own changes (and bloatware), then your carrier takes this and adds their own changes (mostly bloatware, but also the change that allows them to force updates on you), and finally the carrier pushes the update out. So even if we were the Android team we would not control what happens to your phone. You need to complain to your carrier (who will ignore you - though as you are American maybe you could threaten to sue them for what happened? ;)).

But we aren't Google either. This is a forum for android users, nothing more. So you are quire right, we can't do anything about it.
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