I downloaded a live wallpaper from the google store and noticed that along with the wallpaper i got a little search widget along with it. I uninstalled the wallpaper and deleted the widget but noticed that every time I use the internet browser which I am still using the original my home page is now seachmobileonline. I have went into settings and changed the home page to my usual vodafone and set it but still the searchmobileonline is the the homepage. How can i get rid of this?
have a look at this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1435956
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Not having much luck getting rid of this. Have installed lookout airblocker and lbe and found nothing yet my homepage is still search mobile online
Try Avast! ? It scan scan for malicious apps.
Hi, I have a Nexus 7 tablet and I need to prevent my little brother from installing apps from the Google play store and from other sources.
There's an option in the play store to require a pin code but that's only for app purchases, I need to also prevent the installation of free apps. How can I do that? tnx.
Don't think that's possible, but you have 2 ways to prevent this that I can think of.
1) Disable Google Play Store in Settings-Apps, and enable it when you need to use it.
2) Use a launcher like Apex Launcher free, Holo Launcher HD, CM's Trebuchet or ADW Launcher, which allow you to hide apps from the app drawer.
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Yeea, I`m looking for same... Something to lock/pass protect google market...
kingarthas said:
Yeea, I`m looking for same... Something to lock/pass protect google market...
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I actually am looking for oposite (how to disable it )
YOu can use this application to password protect package-installer: Smart AppLock
Maybe someone can help me out with this one:
I have tried to replace PackageInstaller.apk with generic one, but did not help. This shows up even when I try to install apk using ADB. I have rooted the tablet and I can install apps by copying them to /data/app/
Hi guys, as of last week I installed a beta APK on my Note 4 that basically gave my Google now launcher the Android M app drawer and everything was fine up until about 3 days ago when all of a sudden my Google now cards aren't showing up. I'll only get weather if I'm lucky. I even uninstalled the apk and my launcher still has the Android M look. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Okay guys so, about a month ago I saw this video from highonandroid that allowed people to try out the new Android M launcher for the Google now launcher. It was an apk so I downloaded and installed it from their site and after about a week I didn't like it and thought that deleting the apk and reinstalling Google now launcher would solve my problem. It didn't. So now my Google now launcher is permanently stuck with the M look and idk what to do. I tried installing previous versions of the launcher from androidapk and I can't get it to work bc the downloaded apk won't open when I tap it from the notification shade. It also won't go away when I swipe. It just keeps coming back. What do I do guys? I'm stuck and getting frustrated that nothing is working.
Good Evening/Hello/Hi,
I own a Nexus 5X and I am running Android O Preview 3 using the Nova Launcher 5.2
Phone is not rooted and bootloader is still locked.
I recently downloaded the Android O Preview 3 OTA update directly f System Update settings. I was just before the OTA update running Android 0 Preview 2.
Problem :
Once the device updated and rebooted everything is working like a charm. Except, I found out that some of my widgets on my home-screen are not working anymore.
I can only see a grey rectangle with an Play icon and under written Setup. (see image attached)
I had 3 of those widgets and they were all "My Play Library" (One for My Movies, My Books and My Newstand).
When I try to re-add it from the widget menu. It's nowhere to be found it completely disappeared.
Any other people have this problem. Got a way to fix this ?
It was working correctly on Android 0 Preview 2.
I even tried to reboot and wipe the cache partition, tried also to change to another launcher like google now launcher to see if problem was related to Nova Launcher but still it's not there at all in either cases.
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kindastuff said:
Good Evening/Hello/Hi,
I own a Nexus 5X and I am running Android O Preview 3 using the Nova Launcher 5.2
Phone is not rooted and bootloader is still locked.
I recently downloaded the Android O Preview 3 OTA update directly f System Update settings. I was just before the OTA update running Android 0 Preview 2.
Problem :
Once the device updated and rebooted everything is working like a charm. Except, I found out that some of my widgets on my home-screen are not working anymore.
I can only see a grey rectangle with an Play icon and under written Setup. (see image attached)
I had 3 of those widgets and they were all "My Play Library" (One for My Movies, My Books and My Newstand).
When I try to re-add it from the widget menu. It's nowhere to be found it completely disappeared.
Any other people have this problem. Got a way to fix this ?
It was working correctly on Android 0 Preview 2.
I even tried to reboot and wipe the cache partition, tried also to change to another launcher like google now launcher to see if problem was related to Nova Launcher but still it's not there at all in either cases.
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Thank You
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Woke up this morning and mine was gone too. Looked exactly like your screenshot. I didn't install any updates though, I'm still stuck on Marshmallow, it was just gone. Google probably just killed it out of nowhere, as Google does.
This also happened to me. I'm wondering if it will ever come back. Any ideas for an alternative widget in the meantime?
Happened to me today as described. Sucks as it was my favourite feature to have all my books on my home screen.
Current solution was to add a folder using root explorer to data/app called com.android.vending-1.apk then go to airplane mode and force stop Play Store and uninstall updates. That reverted my Play Store app and prevented it from auto updating which will do for now.
Will link source to that tip when not on mobile.
Also interested in alternative widgets for this purpose.
Yeah, I noticed mine was gone too. I hope they add it back...
Adding more. Happen on my old nexus 7 2013. Definitely linked to Google removing the widget from the play store apk. Dammit it was a great widget. I could easily see my movies books and magazine. I'm pissed they did this without notice.
got the same problem on my galaxy S7 edge running Nougat, it's a right PITA
What a bummer! Gone for me too, on a completely stock Galaxy Tab S3 running Nougat. I used it for the digital magazines I subscribe to in Google Play Newsstand and it just disappeared without any notice.
Dammit Google. I used that for books too, on a 12" tablet, full screen. It was awesome. Why not fix it instead of removing it just like that? There are many of us who liked it a lot. Geez.
Anybody able to create a widget app that could replicate what the 'my library' app did?