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Which google apps and bloatware can I safely remove on my rooted phone?

Hadron
Curious. Many apps used Google's "fused location service", but that is tied to Google Play Services so it's not obvious why removing Maps would affect it. And if it does you'd expect disabling Maps to do the same thing as removing it. So this is a little curious - if GPS works when Maps is installed but disabled but doesn't work with it removed that sounds like Google have made Play Services check whether Maps is installed, which would be a crappy thing to do (because it would be an unnecessary technical restriction serving nobody but Google), but not impossible (either technically or Google being underhand).
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Apps Android6 email

puppykickr
20211016TT said:
The point at the beginnig when I got this phone in my hand was that: some people in the worls have an obsession and some sort of idea that something must be known of every person in the world. And this would be one attempt to know of people to try to collect all the people to register to google and do everything with their spy applications.
I could understand it, but because I know who are the actual people who wants to know about human behavior. I rather give them false information. Their interest is not to help people, but to find weak spots, how to dsstroy their lives.
And think more your self :p
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Then to do what you say here, personally I would set up a G-Mail account to distribute the false information.
Google is the absolute worst as far as spying and distributing your information, and G-Mail is their e-mail app.

For my personal, real information- that which I do not want distributed to everyone/everything with a microchip- I would set up another e-mail address with ProtonMail.

https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-mail-android/releases/download/1.13.34/ProtonMail-1.13.34.apk
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Root Monstro's Rom v10 ZV6 LS660 4.4.2 Fastest and Lightest Rom UPDATED 4/22/2016

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The ROM works for me only until the first phone restart. Afterwards, it's going into the bootloop :(
What I've noticed is that my MEID/IMEI/Baseband is Unknown when I try to look at it from the settings menu. Therefore, I guess the bootloop is somehow radio-module related.
I'm OK using the device without the radio module / LTE (i.e. wifi-only), but it seems that I have to do the user data wipe after each phone reboot, otherwise I get a bootloop :(
I'd use the CM11 ROM, but rotation and camera does not work there... So I wonder if there is any way I can fix this bootloop on the ZV6 ROM
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Any RTS Offline Games for Android??

androidboothblog
Hi,

You may try Castlepoint – Medieval RTS Real-Time Strategy
It's available for Android and you can download it from Google Play and it's really fun and cool!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.EDGYSOFT.CASTLEPOINT

Some of the Coll Featrues of Castlepoint:
● 1vs1 game mode (2vs2 and multiplayer modes will soon be announced)
● our defense strategy game has 15 heroes to choose from
● each hero in the combat strategy has different stats and skills
● there is a time limit for added competitiveness
● play in different eras
● choose from different difficulty levels
● medieval inspired soundtrack and graphics
● play this action rts offline
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Bluestacks and RAM help

mikedt
MagaCarter said:
the reggedit files and the program files.. And I can't reinstall expect on a seperate drive, because the computer says "not enough space".
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I don't use Windows myself these days. I'm totally macOS and Linux since 2006. :) But I know with RegEdit(editing the Registry), if you get that wrong, you could end up with a system that doesn't boot and having to reinstall Windows. So be careful!.

Check the Control Panel > Installed programs, and see if Bluestacks is registered as being installed there, and that might allow you to clear it. You'll find the Bluestacks EXE program itself under /Program Files/Bluestacks, along with the associated files. Try deleting that or moving it to temporary storage off the PC like to a USB hard-drive or USB thumb-drive, and that might give you enough free space to reinstall Bluestacks the normal way.

Bluestacks on a Mac requires about 8GB, I presume it's similar for Windows.
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Free vacuum/air raid siren

olbriar
Most modern vacuums are designed to be mostly maintenance free. Not to say they don't need cleaned and such. The fan motor missing its cover immediately becomes a suspect for the excessive noise. It likely would shield some of the motor noise but I'm guessing the cover was to keep the motor clean. I doubt the motor has any points to lubricate but once cleaned I would make certain of that. If there are places to apply oil.. it should happen. Cleaning and then keeping it clean is the ticket. If there are gears they should be lightly greased. If there is a belt in the vacuum you need to make certain it's in good shape and running true.

I think this is a link to your vacuum's owner manual. https://manualsbrain.com/en/manuals/806451/
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Acer Swift 3

R
It should be mostly online stuff and maybe some wp, with games and movies also ran. I might eventually but right now I still hope to revive the old Moto G Stylus with minimal ADB Fastboot and possibly usb drivers. If nothing else I should be able to do a data scrape and get as much as possible out of the overpriced paperweight. At least I should be able to dump the sd into it. One of the main reasons I would want a computer is to have Calibre after all this time and be able to manage a bunch of ebooks. I just read an article on why ebooks suck and I agree. However, with limited money and probably space they seem to be the way to go for now. There is nothing that can compare with reading a real book or magazine (or cereal box or stop sign) but at the moment I am pretty much putting up with the ecrap. I wonder if it would help to print out some of them and read them in the real world. Anyway, what's important to me, besides price and reliability, of course, are a nice big keyboard, as huge a hard drive as possible, and expandability, most likely externally. My friend is deferring to me on this because he really doesn't know squat about it. I don't want to let him down but that probably won't be a problem because he's mostly planning to watch whatever yucktube shoves at him in that filter bubble and maybe have me help him buy online stuff. I'm sorry it's such a long answer but at least that covers most of it. These days, with the popularity of laptops, are desktops maybe cheaper?
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How do I update a rooted phone with stock rom?

ocnbrze
Yesi Trotamundos said:
Good to know. Thanks for all of your help! Very much appreciated!
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i would like to add that if you are concerned about malware than malwarebytes is something you might want to think about. i dont use it, but many here do recommend it.

website:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/lp/sem...0ZADYu00LYHX7O4-amEUPo_CqbJMqemhoCABIQAvD_BwE

android app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.malwarebytes.antimalware
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HK1 Box and nordvpn

mikedt
Andrea9223 said:
Thanks for your reply, but I need first hand experiences from people who actually did this. And the emulation part is all covered so I would need some heads up on nordvpn specificly
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Well NordVPN is only an app, that you install just like any other Android app, e.g. your emulation apps. And once you've got NordVPN installed, you open it enter your NordVPN account details(username and password), or your access code, and tap connect. I use Express and Astrill msyelf, and those operate just the same as Nord.
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Phone has no os, errors installing custom roms with twrp

svim
You'll have much better luck using just the stock Android operating system if you also want to continue relying upon the stock OTA security updates. Once you root your device than using OTA updates involves more risk, and when your phone is running a custom OS you should avoid OTA updates (you update your system when the custom ROM developer releases them, if they do.)
The entire Android upgrade/update process is based on very convoluted, complicated interactions between Google developers and phone manufacturers, made worse by carriers being involved too. But it's all tied to the assumption the Android OS is altered only through themselves. Once you root and/or use a custom ROM, that changes the entire relationship -- at that point, the responsibility for maintenance is all yours now.
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Permanently cancel selected Google Assistant reminders

C
I have never used the Google Calendar.

I have not received a reminder for the past year (since my OP) because I disabled Google Assistant Reminders.

However, all those old reminders I mentioned are still present in the Google Assistant reminder list, and I still can't get rid of them.

I can relate to your frustration with some of these apps, I would happily use another app, but, as far as I know, there are no other voice activated reminder apps. Can you recommend such a tool?
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Errore pubblicazione nuova release

Unforgiven
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Danilo Pazzelli said:
Hi everyone,
I have a problem with posting a new release for my app.
Important premise, at the time of the first publication, I had never done it, I had activated the internal tests and my first release (version code 20000) was discarded due to an "SSL Error Handler" problem.
After several tests I was able to deactivate the internal tests and publish the first release of my app.
So far everything ok, after that release I published 2 more without problems.
Now I have to publish another one, but when I try to implement it in production (I have already done 3 tests), after a few minutes I get an email from Google telling me that they rejected my App, but in detail of the errors found c 'is the problem related to the first release ever the one with code version 20000 which has been replaced by the other versions that I have published later without problems.
I am putting you one of the part of the Google email which refers, I don't know for what reason, to the first apk uploaded ever.
The only thing that seems strange to me is the "Past expiration date" ie June 8th, I would not want me to know for any reason that I am in this situation because I have not solved the problems on that apk by that date? but what's the point, after I uploaded a new version I have no way to go and touch the release with version code 20000.
Can you help me understand how to unlock this situation?
A thousand thanks
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PS, moved to the development area :)
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