The Kindle Facebook app sucks. It just opens a web browser to mobile facebook.
I found a version of the regular facebook app that actually works great (besides the first post saying there is a newer version of the app but then you click on it and it says it cannot find it in the Amazon App store).
I would like to delete the kindle facebook app but extract the icon it uses as it looks better than the icon the regular facebook app.
I cannot uninstall it from settings-->applications
I did a search with root explorer and found this directory
/data/data/com.amazon.kindle.facebook
but there is nothing in it.
Any idea?
wat about /system/app (or equivalent?)
Try Titanium Backup, it can usually uninstall anything.
kenhen93 said:
The Kindle Facebook app sucks. It just opens a web browser to mobile facebook.
I found a version of the regular facebook app that actually works great (besides the first post saying there is a newer version of the app but then you click on it and it says it cannot find it in the Amazon App store).
I would like to delete the kindle facebook app but extract the icon it uses as it looks better than the icon the regular facebook app.
I cannot uninstall it from settings-->applications
I did a search with root explorer and found this directory
/data/data/com.amazon.kindle.facebook
but there is nothing in it.
Any idea?
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Which version of Facebook are you using? The .apk I used consistently gives me this error "[!] Login; An error had occurred during sign in. Please try again later."
Here is the apk I am using. I think I got it in another xda forum for another device. I searched fro facebook tablet.
So the facebook app goes to the m.facebook.com page (which kinda sucks).
The best thing to do is go to your web browser setting and force it to always use desktop web pages, then book mark facebook.com, this is WAY better than any facebook app.
SifJar said:
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I deleted Facebook and other apps I don't use with Titanium.
I deleted the amazon facebook app with the root exporer (r/w mode) and took the recent facebook app from another android phone. Works perfectly.
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I have Mobile Firefox (FF) installed. The latest version lets you synch FF desktop bookmarks to your FF on your mobile device. This is handy, but I would also LOVE to be able to export those bookmarks over to the stock android browser.
There are several bookmark synching (cloud based) apps out there - Xmarks (pay app), etc. However I don't see anything that specifically allows you to just import a bookmark set into Android. That functionality is also not built into the stock browser.
Surely, by now, there has to be a quick/easy way to import FF/IE/Chrome bookmarks directly to the Android Browser on your mobile device?
Nevermind. I did not read the OP carefully enough.
Edit: I also am looking for a solution to this. Supposedly Gmarks can do this but I could not figure out how.
lancemoreland said:
Nevermind. I did not read the OP carefully enough.
Edit: I also am looking for a solution to this. Supposedly Gmarks can do this but I could not figure out how.
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MyBookmarks app (free in Market) will do this. You export your bookmarks; upload them to their site; import them to your device. Supposedly works on all phones (I have a Toshiba Thrive) and IE, Firefore, Safari, and Chrome.
ritchea said:
MyBookmarks app (free in Market) will do this. You export your bookmarks; upload them to their site; import them to your device. Supposedly works on all phones (I have a Toshiba Thrive) and IE, Firefore, Safari, and Chrome.
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I appreciate the response, I did a market search but this app must not have been popular enough to come up in the first 10-15 bookmark related apps.
I'll give it a try, there is a Free and Pro version.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rerware.android.MyBookmarks
Downloaded this mybookmarks app. Uploaded ff bookmarks on the website then imported them with the app. Said it was successful but the android native browser has the same bookmarks as before. Nothing new imported. Strange. Anyone else get this to work with synergy or gb based rom? Not sure why it's not importing them to the browser correctly.
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No idea why this app doesn't work for me? Says it imports but my bookmarks are the same.
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Alpine- said:
Downloaded this mybookmarks app. Uploaded ff bookmarks on the website then imported them with the app. Said it was successful but the android native browser has the same bookmarks as before. Nothing new imported. Strange. Anyone else get this to work with synergy or gb based rom? Not sure why it's not importing them to the browser correctly.
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Same with me.
And I'm getting really upset that I can't transfer my Firefox bookmarks to my HTC. I have allot of them, and use them for work also.
Since I'm going on a business trip, I'll need it all on my DHD.
It's a pain in the ass to create one by one manually.
Safely?
I'm looking at taking off Audible and IMDb.
There is no qualified up-to-date list that I know of, but I would think you can safely remove the following apps:
Audible
Facebook (which is just a link I believe)
IMDB
Pulse
Quickoffice
ScoreCenter (if it was installed by default, which I don't believe it is)
I would NOT recommend removing any Amazon/Kindle based apps. Although you could possibly do so, they are tightly integrated into their launcher, and could break other things in their ecosystem.
Thanks for the list(somewhat)
I have uninstalled
Audible
Facebook link
Pulse
Quickoffice
And did not touch any amazon app.
Pulse I actually liked so kept it.
Scorecenter was not installed by default.
Do tell, sir...
abhishekagrawal said:
Thanks for the list(somewhat)
I have uninstalled
Audible
Facebook link
Pulse
Quickoffice
And did not touch any amazon app.
Pulse I actually liked so kept it.
Scorecenter was not installed by default.
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How did you do it? I've been looking everywhere to no avail. I want to remove the facebook link, audible, and quickoffice.
CodenameDeadpool said:
How did you do it? I've been looking everywhere to no avail. I want to remove the facebook link, audible, and quickoffice.
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Go to amazon.com and log into your account and go to "manage kindle" then on the left hand side down towards the bottom go to manage applications and then you can delete apps from there. Once your done...you hit sync on your kindle and it will refresh.
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Go to amazon.com and log into your account and go to "manage kindle" then on the left hand side down towards the bottom go to manage applications and then you can delete apps from there. Once your done...you hit sync on your kindle and it will refresh.
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FB isn't even listed on there...
CodenameDeadpool said:
How did you do it? I've been looking everywhere to no avail. I want to remove the facebook link, audible, and quickoffice.
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I used titanium backup to make a backup and then uninstall the said apps using that. The backup also synced to my dropbox just if I need it ever again.
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CodenameDeadpool said:
How did you do it? I've been looking everywhere to no avail. I want to remove the facebook link, audible, and quickoffice.
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If your rooted then just go to system/app then delete the ones you don't want
If its rooted ccleaner will unistal anything you want
Amazon fire Phone Problem
I have recently uninstalled my some pre installed apps in amazon fire phone and by mistake i unistalled amazon default picture how can i re installed it please help :crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
Hey guys. Super annoying issue here. When I click on a PDF link, my tablet refuses to download it. Usually, you click on the PDF and it will download and ask which app to open it with. Now, however, it tries to open it in the browser, but fails to do so. It also tries to download it, but fails doing that as well. This functionality still works with Firefox. I have uninstalled adobe reader, adobe flash, and uninstalled chrome updates but still no dice. Anyone know what's going on? I'm non rooted stock. Please help!
Same problem here. Long click and click save link as. O
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Same problem here. Long click and click save link as. O
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Any idea what's causing the issue? At first I thought an update to chrome, but I've uninstalled all updates and it persists. Can't think of any other app that would cause this...
sorry pal, i do not use chrome browser in android...
better opera... or dolphin...
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Any idea what's causing the issue? At first I thought an update to chrome, but I've uninstalled all updates and it persists. Can't think of any other app that would cause this...
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I'm also using Chrome and I can't figure it out. Right now I've just been clicking 'save link as' but cannot open the files from the notification area. I have to manually go to my pdf reader and choose the file from there.
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Have you tried clearing defaults for Chrome in Application Manager?
jinda628 said:
Have you tried clearing defaults for Chrome in Application Manager?
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Chrome isn't selected for any defaults. I've completely uninstalled and reinstalled it. I'm now thinking it's not chrome. When I click on a link for PDF, the web page will redirect to a black screen will pop up quick with an adobe PDF symbol and a status meter bar. The page will then redirect back to the original page and I'll get a notification in the notification pull down that says "error downloading file." Seriously don't want to factory wipe, but this is driving me mad. If I long press the link and save it, it saves it as HTML, not PDF. Wtf!!!
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Chrome isn't selected for any defaults. I've completely uninstalled and reinstalled it. I'm now thinking it's not chrome. When I click on a link for PDF, the web page will redirect to a black screen will pop up quick with an adobe PDF symbol and a status meter bar. The page will then redirect back to the original page and I'll get a notification in the notification pull down that says "error downloading file." Seriously don't want to factory wipe, but this is driving me mad. If I long press the link and save it, it saves it as HTML, not PDF. Wtf!!!
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Looks like there is an app assigned as the default app to open your PDFs and is acting up. You got to figure out what app was that.
When I open a PDF from a browser on my 10.1, it asks me whether to open it using Acrobat, Polaris, HP Eprint or any other apps capable of reading PDFs.
You can try identifying what apps you got who can open a PDF and clear their defaults.
So I went through literally every single app on the device looking for defaults. Not one app is set as default. I finally deleted data, cleared cache, uninstalled updates and disabled the app. This finally did it. By disabling the app, it somehow reset it where uninstalling updates did not. This has worked for now, hopefully it sticks...
So, every device I've owned, I've had to use Messenger since they started it, as the messaging portion of the original app is disabled. There are workarounds for rooted phones to re-enable messaging without messenger.
I found a way to do it on my stock Sprint LS991 G4. I went into the play store and hit disable auto updates, went into app settings and uninstalled updates to both facebook and messenger, then I disabled messenger. Since then I've had full access to messaging in the native app, not a single popup asking for me to install messenger.
Don't know if anyone else is interested in this, but I figured I would post it, as a lot of people hate messenger.
Using m.facebook.com allows messaging without the app too.
Any faster fb chat app then massanger?
lisaquach said:
Any faster fb chat app then massanger?
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Messenger not fast enough?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2934179
I would use TinFoil for Facebook. Not a battery hog too!
Even if I click on the link for Facebook Lite or search it directly on the play store it doesn't come up. I've been able to find a workaround and since it's free and legal I've put the download link below. Looks like they've just pushed it out to a few countries.
You can download the latest version of Facebook Lite here:
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=Facebook+Lite&fdid=org.indywidualni.fblite
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You can re-enable the facebook chat, no root required. Just did it on my brand new phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-facebook-chat-enabler-t2934179
So Gmail started this thing (not sure when), where it uses a built in browser to handle all links and URL. I assume this is based off chrome, and that's fine if it worked.... BUT IT DONT!
Half the time I get this (see pics) when trying to open a link, and when it does manage to load a page, objects/links all over the page refuse to work. This sucks as I use my Gmail for ALOT of things.
I've tried long holding the links and selecting "open in browser" but I get this stupid built in thing again. Sometimes I can copy the link and open and paste in chrome, but sometime it will just copy the image instead of the link so I end up downloading a picture of the link I want to visit.
I've tried disabling the browser option in Google settings for Google search, but it seems to not affect gmail.
For example today I got an email saying a bill was due, it had a "click here to pay" link. I click on the link, but only get this continuous loading screen. I tried to "open in browser" same thing. So I tried coping URL and pasting in chrome, but only managed to download "xxxx/xx/x/payment.jpg" I wasn't able to actually visit the link hours later when I was near a PC.
So In short my question is.....
How can I disable Gmail's useless built in browser.
Sorry for repeating a bunch of things.
settings, general settings, uncheck open links in Gmail
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IIIIkoolaidIIII said:
settings, general settings, uncheck open links in Gmail
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Sadly I don't have this option. Attached is a screenshot of my available options.
** Running the latest image, and all apps are updated. It is not a modifed Gmail app, it's just themed with substratum
noidea24 said:
Sadly I don't have this option. Attached is a screenshot of my available options.
** Running the latest image, and all apps are updated. It is not a modifed Gmail app, it's just themed with substratum
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looks like it's a change they're in process of rolling out
have you tried eating cache from Gmail and chrome ?
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This is strange. I don't have the option to uncheck, but none of my links open with a built in browser. They all open with full fledged Chrome.
JAYNO20 said:
This is strange. I don't have the option to uncheck, but none of my links open with a built in browser. They all open with full fledged Chrome.
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I wonder if this has to do with the default handling of links? As in, under Android Settings, Apps, App Settings, "Browser App".
So I have found out it's a chrome thing, not Gmail. Noticed this when I went to open a link in an app and I got the same window.
I cleared all data from chrome, went to Gmail and tried to open a link, and it presented me with full screen chrome, but after logging back in to chrome and reopening the link in gmail again it gave me that bull crap floating windows thing. It reminds me of paranoid androids halo feature.
Anyways, I can't find anything in chrome regarding this.
noidea24 said:
So I have found out it's a chrome thing, not Gmail. Noticed this when I went to open a link in an app and I got the same window.
I cleared all data from chrome, went to Gmail and tried to open a link, and it presented me with full screen chrome, but after logging back in to chrome and reopening the link in gmail again it gave me that bull crap floating windows thing. It reminds me of paranoid androids halo feature.
Anyways, I can't find anything in chrome regarding this.
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Do you use Chrome as your browser, or are you using something else for browsing the web?
OK I think I found what might be causing this issue. Make sure your settings under Developer Settings are the same as mine here:
JAYNO20 said:
Do you use Chrome as your browser, or are you using something else for browsing the web?
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JAYNO20 said:
OK I think I found what might be causing this issue. Make sure your settings under Developer Settings are the same as mine here:
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Chrome is the only browser type application I have installed, and my settings are the exact same as pictured. Sadly I'm still having the problem. I guess I'm going to swap out chrome for another application. Possibly yubrowser or some "Qualcomm optimized browser" to see if it persist.
noidea24 said:
Chrome is the only browser type application I have installed, and my settings are the exact same as pictured. Sadly I'm still having the problem. I guess I'm going to swap out chrome for another application. Possibly yubrowser or some "Qualcomm optimized browser" to see if it persist.
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Is "Android System WebView" frozen in titanium backup for you?
Something interesting. I was browsing this thread and noticed this...
If I scroll down and select the link to download the latest version, I get the windowed thing (see attached pic), but if I select the changelog link or the link to the stable releases, it opens normally.
JAYNO20 said:
Is "Android System WebView" frozen in titanium backup for you?
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No it is not. I only use titanium to freeze and defrost my smart watch apps (pebble, martian notifier) so I don't have persistent notifications. Thanks for the help but this is getting irritating.
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Correction, it is!
However it's weird because I personally didn't freeze it, and it's not allowing me to defrost it. I can see the option "enable web view" in the play store, but when I select it nothing happens and it remains frozen/disabled.
noidea24 said:
No it is not. I only use titanium to freeze and defrost my smart watch apps (pebble, martian notifier) so I don't have persistent notifications. Thanks for the help but this is getting irritating.
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OK I didn't freeze it either, the system does. That's why I'm asking... if it is NOT frozen, then try freezing it and see what happens.
JAYNO20 said:
OK I didn't freeze it either, the system does. That's why I'm asking... if it is NOT frozen, then try freezing it and see what happens.
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Check my edit above. Titanium is reporting as frozen, and when I attempt to defrost it, it throws a toast notification saying "app was defrosted" but it remains frozen
noidea24 said:
Check my edit above. Titanium is reporting as frozen, and when I attempt to defrost it, it throws a toast notification saying "app was defrosted" but it remains frozen
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OK. You want that to remain frozen. I'm pretty sure you need to change the Developer Options I posted earlier in order to actually defrost it, but it wouldn't help you in this situation anyway. I can find a few other threads of people having a similar issue, but with no fix listed.
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is your Chrome app up to date? Are you using the Chrome Dev/Beta app?
Looks like I'm just going to flash a factory image.
Check this out.
And yes, chrome is up to date, and no i tend to stay away from beta/dev versions.
noidea24 said:
Looks like I'm just going to flash a factory image.
Check this out.
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Yeah that was one of the websites I came across which is why I was asking if your Chrome app was up to date. It's odd that people are experiencing this and not getting it fixed. The thread just dies... I wonder if anyone has figured this out yet.
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Yeah that was one of the websites I came across which is why I was asking if your Chrome app was up to date. It's odd that people are experiencing this and not getting it fixed. The thread just dies... I wonder if anyone has figured this out yet.
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Doesn't look like it. Well I'm going to keep this updated with any info i find. I may try rolling back chrome a few versions.
It seems I'm also no longer able to open play store links through the play store either, This stupid browser implementation takes it over without asking a thing. No defualts are set, this is taking away some real functionality from my device.
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Just received an update in the play store for chrome, taking it and I'll report back.