ICS keeps asking me what default phone app to use??? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

It is extremely anoying!! atleast 3 or 4 times a day when i hit the phone icon, a window pops up asking me what phone app to set as a default??? is there a way to fix this? or is there an app that locks the defaults??

you should be able to check the default app tick box when the pop up appears, no?

I suggest you go to Menu -> Settings -> Apps. Then find the app you want to use for Default. Tap on it and then clear its cache. Do the same for the other app Androind suggests. Then tap on Phone icon and it should ask you again. Then be sure to mark the tick next to Use for default for this action. This should do it for you.

heavencanwait said:
I suggest you go to Menu -> Settings -> Apps. Then find the app you want to use for Default. Tap on it and then clear its cache. Do the same for the other app Androind suggests. Then tap on Phone icon and it should ask you again. Then be sure to mark the tick next to Use for default for this action. This should do it for you.
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I have chosen some options over time and selected the remember this/my choice button, but now would like to change some of those options. can someone help me to undo those choices. thanks
Menu key -> Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications -> (Select the app you want to change default policy) -> Clear default .
actually, im looking to reset the search key in the lower right of phone, when i hold it down and get my speech/search option.
vonh68 said:
actually, im looking to reset the search key in the lower right of phone, when i hold it down and get my speech/search option.
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Then just do what the above post directs, find google search or vlingo or whatever app you set to the search key, and clear defaults.
The best way I've found is to use the app "DefaultApp Reset". It gives you a list of all apps that have default choices set, and you can easily clear them from there. It's free, from the market.
i have this problem too but with html files which I need to open. And I cant open them now bc I accidentally opened them with browser and due to them which I need being encoded I have to use a weird as app? Idk how to undo it there...

Change a Default

I have a placed a few Apps on the Prime that do same thing like FireFox,Opera and Prime Browser. When you first go to say internet it asks you to choose the Browser you want to use and you can select one as a Default. How to you go back and remove this default and chose another one?
Thanks
RonH54 said:
I have a placed a few Apps on the Prime that do same thing like FireFox,Opera and Prime Browser. When you first go to say internet it asks you to choose the Browser you want to use and you can select one as a Default. How to you go back and remove this default and chose another one?
Thanks
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Hi
Just go into Settings -> Apps and find the app which is currently the default. Click on it, and in that screen you will see a button for "Clear Defaults". Nowm, the next time you use an app in that class, you will get the pop-up again asking you which you want to use.
Hope this helps.
barryflanagan said:
Hi
Just go into Settings -> Apps and find the app which is currently the default. Click on it, and in that screen you will see a button for "Clear Defaults". Nowm, the next time you use an app in that class, you will get the pop-up again asking you which you want to use.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks so much

[Q] Resetting what "People" uses to find images?

On ICS, the People app - I was looking at a contact and wanted to change the picture. By mistake I set the wrong app to open when i change the picture. How do I undo that?
I tried finding the people app int he apps list and clear settings, but it still uses the wrong app?
Go into Settings, then Applications, then Manage Applications, and find whatever app you set to use as default (the one you chose by accident). Tap it, and then on the screen that appears find the button "Clear defaults". Tap it. Then this app should no longer be the default for that task.
SifJar said:
Go into Settings, then Applications, then Manage Applications, and find whatever app you set to use as default (the one you chose by accident). Tap it, and then on the screen that appears find the button "Clear defaults". Tap it. Then this app should no longer be the default for that task.
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Wow that's insane. So instead of removing the setting for the app that USES it, you remove the assassination for ALL apps that use it? Good design there Google.
But thanks for your help!

hello newbie here

Hello guys,
I recently got a note 4 from my brother. I switch from a apple 4s to note 4. I really like the different customization that android allows. I download the themer app. I really like how themer allow me to set different themes. One thing I don't understand is when I first set it to another theme, whenever I click on the message icon it gives me the option to choose between the different messaging apps. however, after I click on one of them it set as default messaging app. Now whenever I click on the messaging icon it just pop up that default messaing app, it no longer gav eme the option to choose between different messenger. I have to manually go look at the other messaging app.
The choice is disappearing because you're setting a default for it to choose every time you press the button.
Settings > Apps > Messaging app you chose as default > Clear Defaults
Then when choosing each app from the messaging button only press 'Just Once' this way it should ask you which app every time!
Hope it helps.
Araytha said:
The choice is disappearing because you're setting a default for it to choose every time you press the button.
Settings > Apps > Messaging app you chose as default > Clear Defaults
Then when choosing each app from the messaging button only press 'Just Once' this way it should ask you which app every time!
Hope it helps.
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Hey Araytha, I didn't choose it as my default. It just pop up the different options the first time and I just click on one. From then on it just set that one as default. It doesn't give me the option for "Just once." Where do I go to do that.

Google on tap, activity or shortcuts

I lost google on tap from the application KSetting (mate 8) to change the button long press Home, but I have no way to return to Google on tap, except to erase all data from mobile, in the application I can choose a shortcut, I wanted to know if there was any activity shortcuts to open google on tap.
Erasing the KSetting app data or uninstalling that app won't fix it...? Not familiar with the app as nothing comes up in a quick Google search for it.
es0tericcha0s said:
Erasing the KSetting app data or uninstalling that app won't fix it...? Not familiar with the app as nothing comes up in a quick Google search for it.
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Ksetting is a apps of Kingvip rom on mate 8, i can't uninsall this and when i delete data of apps, i have the same problem, with QuickShortcutMaker i try to find google on tap activity but nothing...
On Tap is part of the Google app. If you open it and go into the slide out Menu located on the top left for the Settings, you should see the option to enable it there.
es0tericcha0s said:
On Tap is part of the Google app. If you open it and go into the slide out Menu located on the top left for the Settings, you should see the option to enable it there.
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It is activated from the beginning of the world ^^

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