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Re-enabling apps in 4.1.2

jefboyardee

jefboyardee

Extreme Android User
Just got a ZTE Savvy. I'm new to it and Jellybean. It keeps launching my SD music when I unplug the charging cable. I have to tap Pause in 'Music' and back out of it. I don't want music to launch all by itself in inappropriate situations so I disabled 'Music' and 'ZTE_Music,' thinking that should end the madness.

But the music still starts, this time via Google Play Music. So, deducting that the two apps I disabled were not the problem, I set out to re-enable them. But now they don't appear in apps>all, so I can't re-enable them. 'Music' does appear in the app launch menu but doesn't work.

How does one find and re-enable disabled apps in 4.1.2?
 
Here's a twist. Between that and other things I didn't like about the ZTE Savvy, I stopped by Walmart and asked, literally, if I could return it just because I wasn't thrilled by it. She said that's no problem. So it's gone, along with the subject of this thread.

They more or less pushed me onto a Samsung Centura, which, although it has plenty of data space, it had the same tiny 3.5" screen my Ascend did and changed its look depending on viewing angle, like the Savvy did. But the killer was that it had some sort of internal sd card which just confused everything; nothing would load right. So back it goes.

I ended up getting an LG Optimus Dynamic 2, just because I started with an Optimus and that has some romantic value, I guess. And although it has required more work that all the others, I think it's gonna be poifek.

As for the 'more work,' somehow my 8gb sd got zapped and my PC couldn't even format it, so I'm making do with a 2gb to get me going. I still don't know how the Opti will accept all that incoming...

Except for the unknown, I am truly jazzed about its size, the image quality, all the stuff that was bugging me about the other ones. And it was fun to see the Walmart folks work their tails off, three times this week!

Anyway, sorry to wander off without the subject of this thread.
 
Lol I think mate you should try your hardest to save for a decent phone . Just because it seems like you're one of us.. An androgeek.
How about something like a nexus 4?
 
This dual sd problem is back, and I think it's me. I can't get LauncherPro or AppMonster to find them on the sd, I can get winexp to see them via MTP, which I think is where I'm missing a point or two. I can't even get my old workhouse Windows FileCommander to see them.

Pretty confident that something I don't know is what's wrong with these phones, I am NOT going to return this one. I am going to sit in my thumb and wait for you guys to edumacate me...

New to me, coming from gingerbread, is when I connect a usb cable, I have to choose between charge only, media sync MTP or camera PTP. MTP seems like the obvious choice here, but I'm lost.
 
If you're on XP you have to have a recent version of Windows Media Player installed to allow MTP to work. Later versions of Windows have MTP natively but XP does not, nor does the version of WMP it ships with.

I no longer have a XP installation to check the details but others may be able to help if you still have problems further down the line.

To be honest I think you're better off using a phone-based file manager (like ES File Explorer) that has a built-in FTP server (it calls it "Remote Manager") that you can connect to from Windows explorer without worrying about cables and MTP incompatibilities. Works perfectly with any OS that has FTP support, even Windows XP :-)
 
How about something like a nexus 4?
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I played around with one of those a couple-ish years ago and it had the same transfer protocol crap this one does. It's getting to be like a secret club that I don't know the password for.
 
Later versions of Windows have MTP natively but XP does not, nor does the version of WMP it ships with.
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I have W7HP 32bit. Windows File Explorer can see the SD contents from the phone, but some of the phone apps recognize it as 'the' SD card. For instance, when I try to restore my desktops with LauncherPro, it says, "An error occurred while trying to restore the backup. Please make sure that the SD is available."

And backups of today's installs, created by AppMonster, allow me to choose a location for backups, either /storage/sdcard0/ or /storage/sdcard0/Android/data/com.think_android.appmanagerpro/files. I've tried both, but neither can see my former life.

I do have links for my ninety apps so I suppose I can -- and probably will -- start over, using stuff like Apex instead of the decrepit LauncherPro, and putting everything where it 'belongs.'

Or I suppose I could just go back and exchange this phone again for the Savvy I started with since I already know it works, but this Optimus is just too nice to give up. It really is, to the point that I'm willing to start over and learn this MTP crap just to join the club.
 
Or I suppose I could just go back and exchange this phone again for the Savvy I started with since I already know it works, but this Optimus is just too nice to give up.
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I never got the Optimus or the PC to differentiate between my and the built-in, invisible SD card, so back it went -- three exchanges in twenty-four hours! I still had reservations about the screen on the Savvy. so I went for its little brother, the Valet. Tons of space, Jellybean 4.1.1, same tiny screen.

I apologize, Walmart, but I hope I at least entertained you guys...
 
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