When updating an app does it make sense to uninstall first then install the newer app? Thinking it will save space.
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striker59 said:
When updating an app does it make sense to uninstall first then install the newer app? Thinking it will save space.
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Just install it. Old one will be written over.
For some reason I thought installing update would use up more space. I checked the size of Netflix app then installed the update, no change in size.
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Hi,
There's no difference. Except that when you uninstall it, you'll lose your data. That's probably why you think it's saving space, but as soon as you start using it, you'll use the space again.
All in all. There's no difference.
~Lord
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i just bought a galaxy tab 10.1v
i have some small apps installed and one game (stupid zombies) and google body and when i check my installed apps it says i have 10gb in use and only 4 gb free? is this of the entire 16gb?
is this normal or something my fault?
Go to the "Storage" tab in settings. it will tell what is using all of the space.
It says 9.9 gb in use of programs?
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Try using Settings->Applications->Storage Use. That will show you which applications are using how much storage. It looks like the preloaded Dungeon Defenders uses a whopping 631MB. My next biggest app is Fruit Ninja THD (which totally surprised me) at 27.5MB.
Ok i will try but dungeon defenders isnt pre installed on mine?
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I checked it and the program with the most memory in use is galery with 30mb but thats it. Still 9.9 gb in use??? Someone help?
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I would try a factory reset, and check again. Something is definitely not right.
I already tried it yesterday and the same day it saying 9.9gb in use
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There is not a "Total In Use" field in the Storage view of the Settings app.
The fields are "Total Space", "Available" and one field for each application.
What are these fields in your case?
9.9 in Use and 4.2 free
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nielsvg said:
9.9 in Use and 4.2 free
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You are not looking to the Storage view in the Settings app. Where are you getting these values from?
Please, go to the Storage view in the Settings app for real and report what you see there.
I find my values with
Menu
Settings
Apps
Memory use
Do i have to look somewhere else?
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nielsvg said:
I find my values with
Menu
Settings
Apps
Memory use
Do i have to look somewhere else?
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Yes, go to Settings->Storage
Ok found it
Total 14,12gb
Media 23,12 mb
Applications 10,02 gb
Available 4,08gb
And i have no games installed
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OK, now that we know that some apps are consuming the 10GB, go where you went before (Settings->Applications->Storage Use), select All applications and, one by one, check the Total Storage field for each application in the list.
nielsvg said:
Ok i will try but dungeon defenders isnt pre installed on mine?
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My mistake, I thought it was pre-installed, but I don't really remember - my initial startup was a blur because I botched the initial link to my google account and then when I went back to connect to Google it didn't feel compelled to download any of my account's apps and so I spent an hour or so manually installing a bunch of stuff that I don't remember.
the biggest is the original gallery app and it is 30MB
Try to uninstall Google Body, I read somewhere that caused this issue.
i uninstalled it yesterday but the issue is still the same?
Start from here:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/46601?start=0&tstart=0
I don't know, probably this is the same issue.
Sweet ! Also for you ladies and gents that don't know they brought it back But looks like it's only from within the device Play Store App, just touch the little circle with the line through it and its gone from your list of apps!
Removed 50 delinquent app's or so from mine!
Sorry if this is recent common knowledge I just was asking awhile ago and was told that this doesn't exist!
What are you talking about?
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It was implemented in the last update of play store...
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OTAw said:
What are you talking about?
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This!
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I'm guessing clicking "remove" will remove that app from whatever device it's on??
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OTAw said:
I'm guessing clicking "remove" will remove that app from whatever device it's on??
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No! click that option and it never shows up in your Play Store history again, unless you install it again.
Each time you install an app or install a custom ROM with the ROM creators apps of choice it adds those apps to your play store list of app's! and they don't go away, and if you change ROMs and or try an app your list grows and grows whether you use the app or not it was always there in your list now you can clean those unused apps or unwanted apps out of your list so if you try a lot of ROMs you don't have to weed through all those app's!
I have 12 App's that I install and use, but 50 that I've tried and came on ROMs that I've tried now I have only 12 app's in my Play Store app history instead of 62 apps!
It is a list of apps that you have or had installed, so when you start from a new rom or a full wipe you can go to play store and look at the list to see which app you had installed earlier
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Sweet! I already was wondering what to do with the large amount of garbage of previously tested and disgarded apps I would not like to be reminded of again... This is exactly what I needed.
Thanks for telling this. +1 Thanks from me!
fischerben said:
It is a list of apps that you have or had installed, so when you start from a new rom or a full wipe you can go to play store and look at the list to see which app you had installed earlier
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I know what it is and can be useful for but when I have to look at all the free versions of stuff iv'e tried then purchased the full app for example XDA-Developers free app and XDA Premium oh great now I got to buy XDA PremiumHD.....lol, all in my list but I only want 1, now I do!
I wasn't aware of this functionality until this thread, so thanks! Now I have removed all those 'old' and 'trial' installs cluttering up my installed list!
On a PC one would defrag and scan disk.
What's the best thing to do with our phones? Do I flash to much to worry about it?
(I flash every new razbean)
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Tunderpimp said:
On a PC one would defrag and scan disk.
What's the best thing to do with our phones? Do I flash to much to worry about it?
(I flash every new razbean)
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Grab a copy of SDMaid from play store and do a bit of searching on here.
Cracking app, and just what you're after!
Hey guys been looking for an answer but only found a thread on evo 3d forums that doesn't have much activity, anyways I keep getting this file created every hour or so and its really starting to scare me maybe spyware or something. Trying to figure out why and where its coming from. Also attached inside contents.
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drmclove69 said:
Hey guys been looking for an answer but only found a thread on evo 3d forums that doesn't have much activity, anyways I keep getting this file created every hour or so and its really starting to scare me maybe spyware or something. Trying to figure out why and where its coming from. Also attached inside contents.
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I would download Avast from Google Play and scan sdcard and apps. Not sure what it is. Looks like spam-ware.
stelv said:
I would download Avast from Google Play and scan sdcard and apps. Not sure what it is. Looks like spam-ware.
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Thanks for the tip, just tried and avast says all is good. Should I be worried about this?
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Just noticed I scanned it when the file wasn't there. Maybe I'll wait till it gets created then I'll scan?
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I found that in my phone the other day too. I don't know what it is, but it doesn't really do anything.
Could be a log file. I'm not sure what it is. I would scan again once it appears. Not sure if it is I needed file or not. I don't have a nex 4 but was looking into getting one that's why I'm at the forum.
You can try sd maid which has a system cleaner. Or change the files permissions if you are worried about it transmitting data. But I wouldn't mess with it too much until you figure out what it is.
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I suspect it's something to do with adverts in some app on your phone.
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I have that file also, along with three others that I have no idea what they are.
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You guys could wipe your sdcard with twrp if you are worried, but back up all your wanted sdcard data to a computer first. And then put it back on right after. I do that with my Nexus 7 sometime. Not sure if it is the same process on Nex4. It may not be necessary, not sure.
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You guys could wipe your sdcard with twrp if you are worried, but back up all your wanted sdcard data to a computer first. And then put it back on right after. I do that with my Nexus 7 sometime. Not sure if it is the same process on Nex4. It may not be necessary, not sure.
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I actually recently flashed completely back to stock cuz I was so paranoid and then I rerooted and flashed ROM and I still get it now.
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Not sure then, maybe its ROM or root toolkit related.
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I actually recently flashed completely back to stock cuz I was so paranoid and then I rerooted and flashed ROM and I still get it now.
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I think it's coming from an app. what apps did you install?
"We are Mologiq
A stealth-mode startup doing big things in mobile advertising."
http://mologiq.com/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41867789#post41867789
got any of these apps?
Adobe Flash Player
ASOT unofficial
Chase banking app
Franco Kernel Updater
Gmail
GoBackup
Google Play services
Google Search
PowerAmp/ unlocker
Reddit news free
Solid Explorer/ unlocker
Vaulty
XDA app
YouTube
Zedge
also, this may be helpful (from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector&hl=en)
"If your device is running Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" or higher, you don't need this app anymore! You can just press and hold on notifications and your device will tell you who is generating them."
try that on apps with notifications?
LooieENG said:
"We are Mologiq
A stealth-mode startup doing big things in mobile advertising."
http://mologiq.com/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41867789#post41867789
got any of these apps?
Adobe Flash Player
ASOT unofficial
Chase banking app
Franco Kernel Updater
Gmail
GoBackup
Google Play services
Google Search
PowerAmp/ unlocker
Reddit news free
Solid Explorer/ unlocker
Vaulty
XDA app
YouTube
Zedge
also, this may be helpful (from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector&hl=en)
"If your device is running Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" or higher, you don't need this app anymore! You can just press and hold on notifications and your device will tell you who is generating them."
try that on apps with notifications?
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Yup those are the apps I have installed as of now.
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drmclove69 said:
Yup those are the apps I have installed as of now.
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Thanks guys, will try all suggestions and see what happens. BTW I don't use root toolkits I do it all through fast boot
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drmclove69 said:
Yup those are the apps I have installed as of now.
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haha sorry didn't notice you posted that!
Found out reddit news free is what's creating the file. Automatically after opening it up the file appears.
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drmclove69 said:
Found out reddit news free is what's creating the file. Automatically after opening it up the file appears.
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Interesting, I don't have that app installed on my phone?
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I have the following apps installed on my devices and don't have that file, so it may not be these ones:
Adobe Flash Player
Gmail
Google Play services
Google Search
XDA app
YouTube
LooieENG said:
"We are Mologiq
A stealth-mode startup doing big things in mobile advertising."
http://mologiq.com/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41867789#post41867789
got any of these apps?
ASOT unofficial
Chase banking app
GoBackup
Reddit news free
Solid Explorer/ unlocker
Vaulty
Zedge
also, this may be helpful (from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector&hl=en)
"If your device is running Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" or higher, you don't need this app anymore! You can just press and hold on notifications and your device will tell you who is generating them."
try that on apps with notifications?
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I have removed the apps I have installed on my Device from the above list, The first one that springs to mind is the go backup. I would check there first.
Hey guys. Is this normal for me to have multiple apps?
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I haven't seen that before. But they are different versions so it's possible. I'd freeze the older version and see if you run into problems
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that is *kind-of* normal.
All pre-installed apps are installed in "system/apps" folder and cannot be removed unless rooted. Then all updates are stored in the "data/apps" folder along with all user installed apps. This is done so normal users "not-rooted" can delete all their installed apps and updates to get back "stock".
Most apps that list your installed apps, like titanium backup, or the "system settings > applications" normally take this into account and only show you one version. What-ever crap program you took a screenshot of, obviously does not take that into account and is confusing you. I see "safe2remove" beside many of the items in that screenshot, I do not recogize that application you are using. Just some garbage app as far as I am concerned now.
do not freeze either version
I'm looking at system cleanup
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You can delete the older version, but you have to remove the app manually or you'll need to reinstall. Look at the YouTube app in the attached pics. Also, system cleanup is a great app.
I have two play stores, also two Google play services
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Remember to backup before you do any modding
camsurf said:
I have two play stores, also two Google play services
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The 4.82 update for SystemCleanup fixes the issue of apps showing twice