I have been finding this program running on my Android Incredible the past couple of days when I open Advanced Task Killer, the Program is called (POOR), wtf is this program? virus?
OK this program is google maps, that has been renamed.
I uninstalled the updates and it went away.
Does anyone else have this?
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Hi guys,
Not too sure if this is the correct section to post this, but i'm not too sure what would be the best place..
For the last 3 nights my phone has been doing something very strange...
Without any confirmation from me ALL applications I have ever downloaded from the market are being redownloaded, all at once, and filling up my app memory, im talking like 80 apps..
Even if I delete the apps (one-by-one, anyone who has done it knows its sooo slow), sure enough I wake up the next morning and there are 70+ notifications of apps downloading and they are all there again..
I just don't get why its doing it, and its bl--dy annoying.
I have asked 2 of my friends if they are having this issue and they say they are not.
am I alone, anyone else's phone seem to be possessed by a night ghost?
Any ideas welcome.
Thanks
Karl
No, you are not alone!
I, too, had this strange behaviour 3 days ago. My G1 was hibernating, I unlocked the screen and saw the notifications with all the applications I ever installed from the market beeing installed (and some still installing). I uninstalled all from "My Downloads" with the option "I need more space ...", did a hard reset, re-configured the G1, and installed all my "must have" APKs with a file manager (downloaded via market).
And luckily today I only see the file manager which I've installed via the market, and the rest of the "My Downloads" history is gone (what a pity ).
So, I can't tell you why the phone was installing all the software again without my permission, and I also can't tell you how or why the "My Downloads" history is clean now.
thats freaky man, ive only had items randomy start downloading if i went to update it, and it got stuck on downloading and i forgot about it, the next time i turn on my phone ill have 3 or 4 updates downloading at once lol
I bought and downloaded Advanced Task Manager for my myTouch (thanks t-mobile for the crappy name) and noticed an app called "Contacts and myFaves". I force closed it and it freed up about 20mb of memory on the phone. I have no need for the app, so I tried to uninstall it but the phone wouldn't allow it. I'm assuming it's because I don't have root privileges. Has anyone else come across this? Does anyone know of a way to force uninstall it?
I noticed the same thing...it hogs at least 10meg of memory...i wish we could uninstall it.
That is a good question about the root access allowing it, can anyone else touch on that?
i would like to get rid of this pest too.
I did One Click Root on My Tush from Timo and on Cyanogen 4.01 it is not there anymore.
Hello,
Not sure if this is possible in Android but, can you kill/exit for good an android app?
I keep using Adv Task Killer but the damn apps keep on restarting after killed...can anyone advise? Its driving me nuts! I liked that tweak in winmo where you long press x and the program is gone for good.
Thanks for enlightening me!
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No one knows the solution?
Startup Auditor
I donwnloaded a program called Startup Auditor from the market. It will allow you to disable a program on startup and keep it diabled.
I also deleted the Footprints app (useless) by getting the root explorer app (costs money) that will allow you to delete the app. This is the only explorer I have found that will let you uninstall pre-installed apps.
**BE CAREFUL** removing some apps like Friendstream, mail, messages, etc could mess up your phone, because they are tied into the system.
Google it thats how I figured it out.
Search in market for developer "Gpc". They have a tool called SuperManager for free with great functions such as Root Explorer. In market you will find it with a desktopsymbol icon and japanese letters! no worrys.. whole app can be set to english :d Second entry i think if you search for Gpc. No need to pay for rootexplorer root/data/app/ think there are the apps like footprints you want to deinstall/delete
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digitalhater said:
Hello,
Not sure if this is possible in Android but, can you kill/exit for good an android app?
I keep using Adv Task Killer but the damn apps keep on restarting after killed...can anyone advise? Its driving me nuts! I liked that tweak in winmo where you long press x and the program is gone for good.
Thanks for enlightening me!
Sent from my ANDROIDED HTC HD2 using XDA App
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This always happens, the easiest way to do it is just to go the manage application in the settings and force the close, the app should not restart after this regardless what the task killer says. Some apps will restart too if you have background data on within the background.
Hope this helps.
I use autostarts. Its capable of stopping the app from loading during boot, and you can block recurring starts through the options. Easy to use. Click on app then disable. It will boot if you run the app, but will not autorun on startup.
You should NOT USE any app killers the are bad for the battery and the memory dont even install them. Next time you update or change your build leave the app killers out like the DEV intended or they would have added 1 for you
Stop looking at the running apps list. Problem solved. If them sitting in that list worries you then uninstall the app. Android isn't winmo, having apps sitting in that list is nothing to worry about.
I updated today to Froyo on my Droid X and now everytime I use advanced task killer to close the browser and reopen it, it does not open to my default google homepage, but instead opens the last webpage I was viewing. Any way to fix?
Uninstall task killer. You don't need it. I used it @ first & I don't see any batt. life improvement. The Android OS is smart, it auto closes what it doesn't need. Task Killer makes the OS continually restart the processes it needs that task killer keeps stopping. Hope that helps some.
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Task killers are still useful for manually force closing apps that aren't working properly or are causing problems. Just don't set them to autokill. And despite rumors I've heard about Froyo disabling task killers, my ATK still works fine after the 2.2 OTA update.
kizer8 said:
I updated today to Froyo on my Droid X and now everytime I use advanced task killer to close the browser and reopen it, it does not open to my default google homepage, but instead opens the last webpage I was viewing. Any way to fix?
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This has always been my "default" experience. This is the behavior i am used to as well. If I want my homepage I have to manually go there. So I would be interested to know if there were some sort of setting to accomplish this.
Btw- I have never used a task killer on my DX. I started NOT using one just as an experiment. Coming from WinMo it was very difficult at first to "minimize" every running app with out really "Xing" it out. But I am used to it now and I just let Android handle it. If I absolutely need to - I can just reset my phone. With WinMo I used to HAVE to do that 10X a day (literally)- so yeah - just thought I would throw that in there.
[Q] "Application is not installed on your phone" after restart [G1/SuperCSDI (1.6)]
Hey,
so the other day, out of the blue, I noticed that my desktop shortcuts to Twicca and Google Reader displayed the generic "gears" icon and when I tapped them it says "Application is not installed on your phone". I believe this happened after a restart, but I'm not entirely sure when exactly. I haven't done any major updates to the phone, and I've been using the SuperCSDI (Donut) ROM for a few weeks now without any issues.
The applications are not in the launcher either. In the Market, the option to Open the application is greyed out. If I go to uninstall them in "Manage applications", I get "Application not found". The only way to uninstall them is via another application manager (I'm using ES File Explorer), which has a shortcut to Uninstall, and that works. And after uninstalling, I can install them again through the Market.
But this has happened twice already, and to the same apps (Twicca and Google Reader). What gives?
I ran fix_permissions and that didn't do anything. I'm also using apps2sd, which I heard has had some similar issue.
What causes this and how can I fix it?
Thanks in advance.
MNS
Happened to my roommate, you need a new sd card....his still worked in that he could listen to music but all the apps were f'd.
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Happened to my roommate, you need a new sd card....his still worked in that he could listen to music but all the apps were f'd.
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Really? But how come it happens to the same two apps? Everything else works fine. I'll look into it, but I doubt it's the SD card...
More importantly, WHY does this happen? I don't know much about Android's internals (nor about apps2sd), but is there something that gets corrupted? How can I check this?
Thanks for your help.