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Really hate the new play store design

I really don't like the new play store design. First off, I can't see everything from left to right because I guess my phone screen isn't wide enough or maybe the custom dpi i'm using is throwing it off. I know I could turn the phone on it's side and that would solve this problem, but I prefer to keep it vertical. Secondly, I hate having to swipe left and right to scroll through the apps available in each category. I guess I just prefer to old school up and down method. I have tried reverting to version 5.10 with the old school design, but the play store keeps auto updating me to version 6.
Is there any way I can keep this from happening so I can stick with one of the 5.0 versions of the market? I searched around the net and saw a few suggestions, but most of those were a few years old and must not work on lollipop. Is there an updated way to do it? And yes I am rooted if that means anything using either Bliss or Tesla ROM.
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Same. Totally sucks. Unfortunately I think we're stuck with it being that it can't function without the auto update. I could be wrong and hope I am because the new UI is a pile of crap.

flyinjoe13 said:
I really don't like the new play store design. First off, I can't see everything from left to right because I guess my phone screen isn't wide enough or maybe the custom dpi i'm using is throwing it off. I know I could turn the phone on it's side and that would solve this problem, but I prefer to keep it vertical. Secondly, I hate having to swipe left and right to scroll through the apps available in each category. I guess I just prefer to old school up and down method. I have tried reverting to version 5.10 with the old school design, but the play store keeps auto updating me to version 6.
Is there any way I can keep this from happening so I can stick with one of the 5.0 versions of the market? I searched around the net and saw a few suggestions, but most of those were a few years old and must not work on lollipop. Is there an updated way to do it? And yes I am rooted if that means anything using either Bliss or Tesla ROM.
Thanks....
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i really dont know wich new playstore you talk about as i use the team black out paysstore and i think it never updates cause if they do ill change the black color..

raptorddd said:
i really dont know wich new playstore you talk about as i use the team black out paysstore and i think it never updates cause if they do ill change the black color..
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I don't know what team black out is. If it's a theme then the theme would carry over to a new play store update. All of my themes carry over. It could be a hacked version of the play store you are using which might explain why it doesn't auto update.
EDIT: I found a thread here on XDA that talked about modding the playstore apk by signing it with a different key and that would prevent google from updating it. Problem is, 'm not sure what that means. I'm comfortable with making changes to system apps because I used to do that all the time in the past to theme apps before the theme engines came along, but I have never signed an app with a different key so I don't know what that means. Going to have to do some searches to see if I can figure out how to do it.

flyinjoe13 said:
I don't know what team black out is. If it's a theme then the theme would carry over to a new play store update. All of my themes carry over. It could be a hacked version of the play store you are using which might explain why it doesn't auto update.
EDIT: I found a thread here on XDA that talked about modding the playstore apk by signing it with a different key and that would prevent google from updating it. Problem is, 'm not sure what that means. I'm comfortable with making changes to system apps because I used to do that all the time in the past to theme apps before the theme engines came along, but I have never signed an app with a different key so I don't know what that means. Going to have to do some searches to see if I can figure out how to do it.
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Try it, download the updater search for your android version and its flashable. i did it over the existin playstore but mine didnt update i did it before update i just reflashed my rom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2283828

Google Emoji Flipfont?

Hi all,
Those Samsung emoji are really bugging me after being on a fully-rooted, xposed-heavy, super-customized phone. I found some apps in the Play store that promised the ability to change emoji, but (at least for me; maybe you've had better luck?), they're incompatible with my device.
I'd love to see Roboto + Noto Color Emoji and am contemplating trying to modify an existing Flipfont to add them both, but no idea if that would be successful.
Has anyone found a way to replace the emoji on our rootless devices?

Bump!
I would like to know this as well... I *hate* the Samsung emoji set! I've tried downloading different Emoji fonts from the Play store, but none of them seem to work. :sigh:
Keeping my fingers crossed for a root solution... As that would be the answer I think we're all looking for (in the US at least. )

How to disable Keyboard forever

Since the Nougat Update, I noticed, that I can also disable the build in Samsung Keyboard, if I have a separet Keyboard like Gboard installed. However after some time, the Samsung Keyboard seems to enable itself again.
Is there some way to let the Samsung Keyboard disabled all the time, without rooting the device?

Lifear said:
Is there some way to let the Samsung Keyboard disabled all the time, without rooting the device?
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One of those Package disablers should do the trick, check Google Play.

There is a Problem with Package Disablers i come across the last times i used them. If i disable the Samsung Keyboard with them, then the Sync also for Google Keyboard (or Gboard) seems to be disabled also. Maybe there is some dependence, maybe not, i didn't know exactly. But if i disable the internal Keyboard via the hard way, it disables Sync for Gboard also.
So i was surprised and exited to found such a switch in the official settings of the S7 Edge.
BTW: The only reason why i would like GBoard more is, that i haven't found a way to type Special Characters like ³ and ² with the Samsung Keyboard. I didn't use the GIF Features or such things with GBoard. If you know a easy way to type such Special Characters with Samsung Keyboard, i could switch back.

Gboard crashing all the time.

Stock rom no root. After google updated the keyboard to gboard it crash at every moment. Every time, sometimes it get stuck and don't reset so i can't write and have to restart the phone. Really anoying. Is someone else experiencing the same problem?
After months of suferring i uninstalled it and download google keyboard latest version before gboard and now my phone is a lot lot lot more faster and there are no more crash.

gboard is complete garbage and so are many keyboards, I find it unbelievable that most android keyboards use more RAM than chrome

any information about this gboard problem? i whant to keep it stock.

p605sve said:
any information about this gboard problem? i whant to keep it stock.
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Gboard work like crap. Just download google keyboard latest version before Gboard and you will be ok. It is Stock, just don't update it.

zenui launcher

since the phone is in stock android. there are no other apps overlaying the ui. i like the zenui launcher actually over the stock android so i tried installing it. but google now feed won't show if i try to swipe left even if it is on(activated) in settings. am i missing something?

Try latest working version from apkmirror maybe? My best guess is, it does not support particular feature on 8.1. Switch to older version of google feed might be worth trying.

sanctitude888 said:
Try latest working version from apkmirror maybe? My best guess is, it does not support particular feature on 8.1. Switch to older version of google feed might be worth trying.
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i'll try this one. see if it works. thanks @sanctitude888 for responding my query.

Try converting it into a system app and see if you get it working