[Q] "My Magazine" Will Not "Turn Off" - Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm trying to follow the tip to fully turn off "My Magazine" other users here and on the web have been having success but it is not working for me.
When I go to the My Magazine app on my Galaxy S5 "Turn Off" is grayed out and not able to be selected. I have turned it off from the home screen (swiping left doesn't bring it up anymore) but the app still runs because if I "Force Stop" it within 10 minutes or so "Force Stop" is available again.
Any ideas? I have been all over the web an everyone seems to find "Turn Off" (or Disable, depending on region) available but it is not for me.

If you turned it off it should turned off. Why you use force stop even when apps is turned off???
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comp9 said:
When I go to the My Magazine app on my Galaxy S5 "Turn Off" is grayed out and not able to be selected ...
Any ideas? I have been all over the web an everyone seems to find "Turn Off" (or Disable, depending on region) available but it is not for me.
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If it's greyed out that suggests that it is in use or another app is interferring. Try disabling it immediately after rebooting your phone. Other ideas.. try force stop of any magazine reading apps or anything else that you think might interfere, then force stop my magazine. Clear the my magazine cache and data from the applications manager screen, restart my magazine, then check the disable option again.
Failing that, see if restoring a backup will fix the anomaly. If you are rooted, then you have great options including freezing it with Greenify or Titanium Backup Pro. Simply removing the app or even moving to a custom ROM that doesn't have it.
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I can confirm this same issue on my unrooted, stock S5. My Magazine's "turn off" is grayed-out.
Jake

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Nice discovery.
I might have to try that next time I switch back to watch Netflix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1414614
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[Q] Galaxy S4 Voice Over on Browser and Gallary Selection

I get voice alerts on very few actions. Currently they are when I use stock browser. It say,"page loaded" or "loading started" and with gallery "the check box is currently checked". I have tried everything to turn off. I can't seem to find the option for it. It'd rather annoying!
Do you have light flow installed.....
Doing a search comes up with a few threads with same issue
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not sure whats light flow ?
StolenVW said:
Do you have light flow installed.....
Doing a search comes up with a few threads with same issue
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk 2
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Its an app to control the color of the notifaction led
You only have it if you downloaded it from the play store
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Isn't that Talkback? Disable or turn it off in settings.
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capcrunk said:
I get voice alerts on very few acs Currently they are when I use stock browser. It say,"page loaded" or "loading started" and with gallery "the check box is currently checked". I have tried everything to turn off. I can't seem to find the option for it. It'd rather annoying!
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Look in your accessibility settings (my device> accessibility> services). If you have any services besides "talk back" listed (they don't have to be active, just listed) it will activate talk back for a few actions (like selecting items in the gallery), even if talk back is disabled. This is a notorious Samsung glitch. The only work arounds are to either uninstall apps that use accessibility or to freeze both Samsung and Google text-to-service apps (which will also disable other text to speech services, like vocal navigation directions when driving, etc). It blows, I know. I just avoid apps that use accessibility.

Accessibility Services Issue

Hi all,
I tried to enable a couple of my accessibility services today, and I get a warning message saying:
"Talkback and the options below cannot both be enabled. The options below will be disabled.
Air Browse
Air View
Multi-Window
etc. etc."
Any ideas why I would have to lose these samsung options? Also I removed Talkback using Titanium Backup I think...
I would also like to know this, very frustrating as i bought the phone for some of these features + more -.-
Try tinkering with the app/service settings, sometimes the disabling option can be found there instead.
jopat said:
Try tinkering with the app/service settings, sometimes the disabling option can be found there instead.
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Sorry could you please elaborate?

Mobile data turned off notification removal

If you toggle data on and then off, a notification appears saying
"You will no longer be able to use applications such as Internet, Email, or other apps that require a network connection, unless you connect to wifi etc."
The message however remains there even with Wifi on.
There is no option to clear the notification and then an Icon appears in the top left hand corner reminding you of the fact.
That top left corner of the screen is usually used for many other temporary notifications which can now no longer be displayed.
If the phone is started with data off then everything works as it did with Android 6 until data is toggled again.
Anyone know how to get rid of this notification?
I actually have found this to be a nice change, as toggling on data after turning it off, is much easier now. That being said, a normal toggle like wifi or bluetooth has, would be much preferred. Dont know how to get rid of the notification, other than restarting the phone with data off (like you said).
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I miss this data on/off toggle feature from the quick menu that I had on my LG G3 and other earlier Android phones.
I now use the usage manager widget on my home page or edge menu to toggle data on and off.
I have reached out to my contacts at AT&T to try and find out why they did this and if they intend to make this notification selectable like almost every other one is.
Hasn't ATT been doing this for a long time? I had to add the data toggle via root and script edit on my old ATT note 3 I remember.
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It's not the absence of the quick toggle I am talking about here it's the fact that a notification comes on when you turn data off but there's no way to remove the notification once it appears or a setting to stop it from appearing at all.
I have the same issue. It only started after I downloaded and installed the Android 7.0 update late last week.
Did anybody find a solution to this yet? This can be quite frustrating as I just switched from an international s7 edge and that even had a mobile data notification toggle. Thanks in advance!
After you toggle data off, reboot the phone. It goes away for me after a reboot.
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Kill the phone app
It's a bit cumbersome but better than rebooting / restarting.
Slide the 'data off' notification right to expose the gear icon
Click gear
Click green 'phone'
Now 'force stop' the phone app
I know it sounds scary but this works (until the next time you enable & disable data).
Yeah I've got the same complaint with my S7, can't slide off or clear the notification after turning data off unless you restart. Let us slide the option off. I want a button I can just click to turn on/off data. "OH WAIT, THAT WOULD BE AWESOME AND CONVENIENT, WE CAN'T DO THAT!" -Samsung
I hate this notification
Is doing this too harmful for the phone app? I just got a Galaxy S7 that had AT&T as a carrier, but I'm not on the AT&T network. I just tried a hack from XDA that allowed me to get the mobile data toggle but the notification started popping up when i disabled data. It's very annoying but I haven't found any other ways of disabling it. I just want to know if force stopping the phone would be bad for me in the long run. I'm wondering why i upgraded if it was going to be so much trouble.
jbrown123 said:
It's a bit cumbersome but better than rebooting / restarting.
Slide the 'data off' notification right to expose the gear icon
Click gear
Click green 'phone'
Now 'force stop' the phone app
I know it sounds scary but this works (until the next time you enable & disable data).
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anybody got some way of disabling that annoying notification?I have S8 Active AT&T,i am on android 8,there is an option in notifications settings to disable it,but it wont work,it should be AT&T ****,all i am able to do is to slide notification to the right and get settings gear and notification icons,choosing ringbel lets me snooze it for max 2 hours,not completely off.Maby there is some way to disable it with permission via ADB,as i did it without root to add more language and enable Mobile data toggle,which was not present.Maby there is some genius that can help with that,i am ready to donate for that help
On my Note 9, Android 10, oneui 2.5:
1. Go to settings.
2. Search for "Call Settings".
3. Tap "Call settings" under "Apps>Apps info".
4. Under "App settings" tap "Notifications ".
5. Under "Other" tap on "Mobile networks ".
6. Slide "Minimize notifications" to on.
7. Say "Thank you".
Nothing work for me, using S21 5G, Android 13, OneUI 5

Disabled apps not showing in application manager

I have disabled the stock messaging app on my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge as I have been using Textra instead.
However I now want to enable messages again but have found that its not showing in the disabled apps in the application manager.
I have followed these steps but as I said, there are no disabled apps showing. I'm running Android 7.0 and not rooted. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this please??
Launch the Settings Application.
Scroll Down and Tap on the 'Applications' Option.
Then Tap on the 'Application Manager' Option.
Tap the 'All Apps' Drop Down Menu.
Tap on the 'Disabled' Option.
Locate and Tap on the Application You Want to Enable.
Then Tap on the 'Enable' Button.
Did you disable it in the app manager, or using a third party tool like Package Disabler?
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I have disabled the stock messaging app on my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge as I have been using Textra instead.
However I now want to enable messages again but have found that its not showing in the disabled apps in the application manager.
I have followed these steps but as I said, there are no disabled apps showing. I'm running Android 7.0 and not rooted. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this please??
Launch the Settings Application.
Scroll Down and Tap on the 'Applications' Option.
Then Tap on the 'Application Manager' Option.
Tap the 'All Apps' Drop Down Menu.
Tap on the 'Disabled' Option.
Locate and Tap on the Application You Want to Enable.
Then Tap on the 'Enable' Button.
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what about System Apps section?
did you try to go on developer mode and tap on "disabled apps" at the bottom of the menu?
If you try there maybe you will find all the stuffs you're looking for
Thanks for your replies but gave up and did a factory reset! I will bare those options in mind the next time I have a similar problem Thanks again

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