Android :: How To Update Pre-installed Apps?
Jul 23, 2010
I am working on an app that will be shipped on some phones. I have been thinking about how to update them once a new version is ready. How that would work for a pre-installed app? As an initial thought I think I could pop up a message letting the user know there is a new version ready, but if I could avoid unnecessary request to the server it would be better. If a google engineer comes across this please give me a hint as you do this for Google Maps.
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Oct 17, 2010
I have alot (and I mean ALOT) of apps on my Xperia, so I get around 5 app updates a day, which is now starting to agitate me because most of them are the same apps everyday needing updates.
Today I heard about an update for the market that includes an auto update feature for installed apps. But I, like many others, do not see this option on the market.
Does anyone have any idea how to get it? or if I can't get it, when can I?
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Jul 6, 2010
I put a few apps on my micro sd card (via phone mounted to pc over usb) then I opened astro and installed them on the phone. Apps work fine; but I can't update them? All it will let me do is buy them...? WTC?
The apps are 1)Beautiful Widgets 2)Office Suite 3)Switch Pro Widget
Phone: VZW HTC Incredible
Anyone know what the problem is? These apps all show update available but when I go into the market to let the apps get updated it won't let me; all it will let me do is buy...?
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Nov 19, 2010
I have a good ROM that I've been using for months now. The only gripe I have is not being able to update maps, gmail and other preinstalled apps. I also want to uninstall Titanium Backup but am not able to. Is there any way to do these?
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Oct 11, 2010
So I did a hard reset of my Vibrant a few days ago (delete user data). I was able to reinstall most of my apps very easily because the market still had them listed in the downloads section. The only problem is, the preinstalled apps were all reset to their original versions, and I can't update them. The two that I'm concerned with in particular are Google Maps and T-Mobile My Account. If I look at them in the market, the only control available is "Open". "Uninstall" is greyed out and disabled. Basically, the market thinks that I already have the latest version installed, even though I don't, so it doesn't give me the option to update. The My Account app is completely broken. If I try to run it, it just sends me to the market saying that I need to update it. Then of course, the market doesn't give me that option, so I can't use the app at all.
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Sep 16, 2009
On the ROM update details, its states
Warning!
* Please note that this upgrade will erase any data stored on the phone. We recommend that you back up all your data before performing this upgrade.
what will be lost, contacts? photos? apps installed? im guessing SD card data will be unaffected.
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Jul 27, 2010
Is there any way I can extract the .apk for an app I downloaded and installed from the market? So I can store the .apk on my PC
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Nov 8, 2010
I updated the phone to 2.1 earlier, but it's still at 1.6... when I connected to PC Companion prior to the 'update' it said my phone was up-to date so I'm convinced I didn't actually update anything?
When should I be prompted that an update is available via PC Companion? because when I look in the phone settings and check for updates it says there's one available, but not on PCC?
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Sep 23, 2010
I have recently purchased an unlocked HTC Desire. As you may or may not know, here in Australia the only carrier of the Desire is Telstra. However I use 3 mobile so that's the reason I purchased an unlocked device.
My problem is that my phone has about a dozen or more apps which are installed by Telstra and uninstallable. Most of them are 100% useless because I'm not even on their network and I'd like them out of my applications list.
I've had a read around and I saw something about being able to remove them by deleting the file and then uninstalling them using a command prompt program.
Would anyone please be able to give me detailed instructions on how to do this because I'm not sure how to find the system/apps folder and I'm also not sure on how to get the command prompt thing to work.
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Aug 1, 2010
Has anyone noticed that when you install an application manually vs a downloaded one from the market it doesn't update when a newer version comes out?
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Feb 22, 2009
I did an app called "Hello Yahoo" and today I made an update. But users said it can't be installed because the package is not signed correctly. And after that the old version can't even be uninstalled because the device thinks it is uninstalled already. I never experience that, but it is reported by many users. I do use a different keystore to sign it with the update. Is this the case? How can I fix this?
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Nov 16, 2010
Can an Update.zip be installed through ADB Shell?
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Jan 24, 2010
Is there anyway to do this? I hav no us for a couple of the pre-installed apps and would really like to get rid of them to free up space.
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Mar 26, 2010
I have some pre-installed applications on my G1 (IM, HiDialer, some Chinese appplications etc.) But i cannot uninstall them. It just says: uninstall not succesful. I read some other topics about this and there werent many answers. Only thing some people reply is just: get rooted. What if I am rooted? Then how do I uninstall them?
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Jun 25, 2010
How can I get the version information of the current installed apps on my phone. if I do : Package Manager packageManager = getPackageManager(); List<PackageInfo> packs = package Manager. getInstalledPackages(0); int size = packs.size(); apps += " Total apps = "+ size+" "; for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) { PackageInfo p = packs.get(i); apps += "App name: " + p.applicationInfo.loadLabel(packageManager).toString(); apps += "Package name: " + p.packageName; apps += "Version name: " + p.versionName; apps += ""; } tv.setText ("Installed apps:"+apps); I get all the apps currently installed. I wasn't able to figure out how to extract their correspondent version information.
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Jul 27, 2010
I have a general idea of how to do it but would like some instuctions. If im correct first u download astro then use emulator but without guide i wont do it so if anyone can give me instruction i have a droid x.
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Oct 1, 2010
Recently, I had to factory reset my Droid X running Froyo. I had downloaded some nice apps. But, when I restored my data, my apps were gone. Is there a list my downloaded apps stored someplace? Perhaps I missed a setting to do this.
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Aug 17, 2010
I have a HTC desire with Froyo 2.2, I'm not sure whether this is a Froyo issue but some of the apps I install are not visible in my all apps view, when I go to the market screen it says that they are installed and I can open them from there but they do not appear as a widget or app anywhere on my phone. The latest app to not install properly is the droid comic viewer, again I can use it from the market screen but can't find it anywhere else on the phone.
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May 11, 2010
So what's the point in an apk installer? I've installed a few apps without it.
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Jan 22, 2010
A few of my installed apps checks for updates themselves but most don't.Is there an app that can check the market for updates to all installed apps
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Jan 15, 2010
I'm wondering if it is possible to uninstall a couple applications that came pre-installed on my Droid.
Apps such as Footprints and MOffice are just a waste of space and could do w/o.
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Jul 20, 2010
I can't get any of my installed twitter apps to work. Is it just me?
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Jun 7, 2010
I have a situation like this. I have a "A" app which shows on home screen. When I click this "A" app, It will show many other apps which installed or will be installed on the device. ut the problem is I only want to show these apps through the "A" app only.Is it possible?? If installing and hiding icons not possible, I can dynamically download these apps from my own cloud and load them at the request.
Can anyone please guide me some ideas or something?'m so lost here and just no clue at all how to start!
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May 12, 2010
There are several apps that I have tried out and for various reasons the app didn't suit my needs so I uninstalled the app. Some of these apps were very close to what I was looking for so it is possible that a future upgrade to the app would make the app useful for my needs. In these cases, it would be nice to be able to have a list of these apps and get notified when an update is available. Is there a way to get notified of or monitor updates to an app that is not installed? I realize that I could just leave all these apps installed even though I wouldn't use them and then I would get update notifications through the marketplace, but that is just a waste of space and clutters the app drawer.
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May 19, 2010
I installed some apps via my root and they are bogging down my phone so I want to get rid of them but I'm not sure how to do so. I'm not talking about "pre-installed" apps. Ive pretty much avoided my poor droid like a plague because of this so..
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Feb 15, 2010
Hey, guys I installed some apps via my root and they are bogging down my phone so I want to get rid of them but I'm not sure how to do so. I'm not talking about "pre-installed" apps. Ive pretty much avoided my poor droid like a plague because of this.
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Jun 20, 2009
Is there a way to delete installed apps? Dragging them to the dustbin does not remove them, it only removes the copy...
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May 24, 2010
I would like to know if I could access the internal device DB to fetch a list of all installed applications, their version, etc?
How can I read the settings on the device as well? Like email username, server, etc?
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Sep 28, 2009
Firmware 1.6
Mod Cyanogen 4.1.11.1
Build DRC 63
Last week I got and update alert for Google Maps. I tried to install it and got a "Install error" "Package file not signed correctly".
What's strange about it is, I already had the version it wanted me to install. Version 3.1.2. It also doesn't show up in aTrackdog but does show in apps drawer and works fine. The market shows that I don't have it installed. All other Google apps are working and show where they should. This started before the C&D order.
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Nov 7, 2009
Is there any way to remove pre-installed programs?
For example, the following programs were pre-installed:
Amazon MP3
Footprints
Teeter
And maybe some others.
I've just tried:
Settings | Applications | Manage Apps
And noticed there's not always an option to Uninstall on these and some others.
Is it possible to remove, delete, uninstall, or get them off the device?
Is there any way to remove the pre-installed Sprint programs?
Sprint TV
Sprint-Nextel
NFL
Nascar
Are there some "core apps" or "core programs" that can't be removed?
A brief search on this matter on related threads seems to indicate only on "rooted" phones.
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