How to find associated app downloads that have residual pieces under "Downloads"
hi there,
asking some expert dev his opinion on this.....
I noticed that i have some files listed in my Downloads of my Galaxy S8 which came from an app (PDFs and one downloadfile.bin) which are impossible to find anywhere with any file browser for deleting them, yes i looked in system files too. i'd like to get rid of them.
Now, i had a couple of other PDFs and i remembered which app saved them....found something interesting....let's say X banking app downloaded those PDFs, and if you uninstall that app that downloaded them in the first place, then when i check the list they're gone. simply reinstall the app and everything is fine.
since i dont want to uninstall every single app i have, is there a way for identifying what app saved an X file shown in recent? is that in logcat?
many thanks,
Gabrio
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I've been using a GTD app to keep track of things. My business partner will be joining me soon with an android device. I'm wondering if it is possible to run two instances of this GTD app so that I can have one for personal and one for business. The business one would be so that he can also run the app and we can sync our schedules.
Thanks,
PEZ
for schedule, you can make another one Gmail account for it. Both phone sign in with this account will receive the same schedule
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Yeah but I don't want to use google and I want to run two instances of my GTD APP
As far as I know its impossible because every app has its own name its known by to the system, eg testapp.com, so what happens is when you click an app to try running a second copy it naturally just resumes it instead because your asking it to run an app you already paused.
Dave
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It would be possible if you were to decompile the .apk , edit the manifest file to rename the app to something else so the system thinks its a different apk, then compile, sign it, and install to phone, hassle free.
Not too hard
gr4ndm4st3r_bl4ck said:
It would be possible if you were to decompile the .apk , edit the manifest file to rename the app to something else so the system thinks its a different apk, then compile, sign it, and install to phone, hassle free.
Not too hard
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i like your algorithm. maybe this could be made into an app
I'd like to know as well
I use the logitech alert security system at multiple locations and it's a pain to keep logging out and logging on with another account
I use "Parallel Spaces", but have a lot advertisment and run not so god ...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lbe.parallel.intl&hl=es_419
In case anyone is still looking for a solution: there an app in the Google Play Store called "App Cloner" that works really well for my purposes.
So I haven't quit looking into what actually causes the market "My Apps" issue. While I do feel it truly is the database I have a slightly more detailed theory as to why it does it. However in order to test this theory I need to take a general poll.
How many of you discovered this issue after using some sort of Root tool (ie: Rom Toolbox, Root Tools, Titanium Backup)?
How many of you have accidentally or on purpose used the Market Fix that supplement these programs?
The reason I'm asking is semi obvious I suppose. While these programs can do great good it would appear that if not done correctly they can also do bad. Last night I decided to play with it a bit more and I Linked ALL system apps and user apps to the market. After a few minutes or a reboot I would get the error again.So I went ahead and broke all links again, deleted the .dbs file and started all over again. This time only doing system apps and user apps that I knew were updatable. This lead to the market functioning much better. However I'm not finished yet. I want to figure out what apps and programs trigger this. At this point in time most User apps are okay but I have found I have linked considerably less system apps to the market. What I would like to ideally do is narrow the list down to just a few apps that shouldn't be linked.
Also if anybody would be so kind as to copy and share their database file that would help tremendously. This file needs to be completely stock having NEVER used any of these programs to edit the market links. Sharing this could potentially help all Android users having this extremely annoying issue. If you would like to keep the amount of users who this down to just me you can PM me or even send it to me over Skype or some other messenger with a file share tool. Thank you all in advance.
For those of you currently having the issue I have posted a fix here: http://rootzwiki.com...market-my-apps/
What issue?
DirkGently said:
What issue?
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With the "My Apps" being a blank page and not containing any of the apps from the account.
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Hey, I realized we have Polaris when I opened a word doc from dropbox.
Plus I found the actual apk when looking at our installed system apps with es file explorer.
Is there a way to add a short cut to the app menu and eventually home screens, so we can independently launch and use the app?
Thanks
StrangeShadow said:
Hey, I realized we have Polaris when I opened a word doc from dropbox.
Plus I found the actual apk when looking at our installed system apps with es file explorer.
Is there a way to add a short cut to the app menu and eventually home screens, so we can independently launch and use the app?
Thanks
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So I clicked on the System Apps apk a couple times but every time it would say, can not install. But low in behold, when I checked a shortcut was added to my app menu automatically, and I could launch the app and use it and make new docs, etc...
...about 2 weeks later, just now, I push the short cut and it now says, app not installed...and the attempt to install again from the system's app folder has no effect.
Any help would be appreciated...if anyone's alive out there...reading these posts... ;P
When I installed Nova Launcher the icon showed up and has been functioning since. It appears AT&T has their grubby hands in this...
Just a quick question, i rooted my z2 the other night, mainly to remove a few system apps..... facebook you gotta go lol
Anyway i was wondering, with the new changes in kitkat, i dont remember full details but there was something about uninstalling apps also uninstalling associated folders files etc to do with said app, how does this affect system apps, are there now useless inbuilt apps that were previously safe to remove that now maybe arent coz they share a folder with an important app or anything like that i should be aware of before i start removing things, maybe thats why 'disable' option was added?
sorry for spelling/grammer, im tired n cant be bothered t check things
Hmm im not sure what your asking but
Disabling apps doesent remove their data
Removing apps via root deletes the app not the data, the OS should remove the data
Could you specify your question or problem?
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In the end he is looking for a list of applications, that are safe to remove.
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deepflash said:
In the end he is looking for a list of applications, that are safe to remove.
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In the end yeah a list would be cool..... but what i mean is: say you install a picture editor, edit a couple of pics then delete app. On earlier versions of android only the app would be removed, and apparently on kitkat it will remove app, edited pics, any folders app created etc....
I was just wondering if any system apps share folders or resources or whatever, thereby possibly altering functionality/performance of one app when i uninstall a different one.
I had a picture editor and i edited a pic, deleted the app and the pic was still there
I have never heard of this before and i dont think its a easily possible to implement in android
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numskull said:
Just a quick question, i rooted my z2 the other night, mainly to remove a few system apps..... facebook you gotta go lol
Anyway i was wondering, with the new changes in kitkat, i dont remember full details but there was something about uninstalling apps also uninstalling associated folders files etc to do with said app, how does this affect system apps, are there now useless inbuilt apps that were previously safe to remove that now maybe arent coz they share a folder with an important app or anything like that i should be aware of before i start removing things, maybe thats why 'disable' option was added?
sorry for spelling/grammer, im tired n cant be bothered t check things
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I think if you use Titanium Backup to delete apps it removes all the apps related files too. Except user created files.
numskull said:
say you install a picture editor, edit a couple of pics then delete app. On earlier versions of android only the app would be removed, and apparently on kitkat it will remove app, edited pics, any folders app created etc....
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This should only happen if the app stores the edited pics in its own private folder.
If it uses the common public Pictures folder that won't happen.
illphone said:
This should only happen if the app stores the edited pics in its own private folder.
If it uses the common public Pictures folder that won't happen.
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yeah, i know i just used pics as an example, i remember reading about it when i was looking to get a new phone, something about the system cleaning itself up after uninstalling, so you're not left with all the useless pics (on my galaxy note, a couple of emulators created a folder in my gallery for all the on screen buttons n stuff, which i had to delete 1 by 1 after uninstalling the apps) n folders n backgroud processes n whatnot.
Back when i first rooted my note, i referred to a list of things safe to remove, some of these were like background processes or something but if i remember correctly, a few of them were used by more than one application, so if was wondering if system/root apps behave the same as user installed ones when uninstalled on kitkat with the cleaning up, and if they do maybe something that would have previously been safe to remove, now isnt because it would clean up (delete) something that was also being used by a different app
In the last few days, somewhere in the xperia Z2 section I saw a thread with a list of system apps/bloatware that are safe to remove or freeze. But I can't find it now.
I have these two different apps(?) that have shown up in my app drawer and I'm not sure what to make of them. One's named "mainline_train_primary" and the other's "trichromelibrary" or something along those line.
I use Ruthless launcher and they're only visible when I enable the option to show apps that are being installed in the app drawer. They're not there when I try other launchers or disable to the option.
They're also not actually installed so it doesn't do anything when I try to uninstall them. They both open up in Play Store when I click on them, but returns the message "To view this content, install and set up a web browsing app". I can manage to open them in a browser when I change the way Play Store opens up supported links. They both lead to market.android.com/details?id=[the name of the app]%[some numbers] but just wind up as 404 pages.
What confuses me is that they're both actually something related to Google, but I'm not super savvy, so I'm not sure if these are legit or are just some viruses mimicking the real thing.
I've already tried several factory resets as well as re-flashing the stock firmware, but either one or the other would eventually show up after a while.
I'm on the Essential Ph-1. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.