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[Q] Purchased Apps category on Google Play like there used to be in the Market?

Wasn't it convenient just to be able to scroll to the bottom of My Apps and then look at your purchased but not yet installed apps? Is there an easy way to do this on Google Play? Maybe I'm just stupid but I haven't found anything.

Not really. Other than going to the right page to the all apps.
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They should have three pages imo. Installed, paid, all.
Or at least put all your paid apps first in the "all" list. I've downloaded a lot of apps. My list goes on for damn near ever and I can't find all my paid apps unless I feel like scrolling for over an hour.
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Zeinzu said:
They should have three pages imo. Installed, paid, all.
Or at least put all your paid apps first in the "all" list. I've downloaded a lot of apps. My list goes on for damn near ever and I can't find all my paid apps unless I feel like scrolling for over an hour.
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This exactly! I cannot believe that going from Market to Play they decided not to implement a feature like this that used to be there.
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[Q] How do you stop receiving Go Launcher EX notification ads?

I am so sick of receiving Go Launcher EX ads for "New Themes Arrived!" in my notification bar. I searched through preferences many times and have searched online many times trying to find a way to disable Go Launcher from sending me their annoying spam, but I just can't seem to find how to disable it.
Anyone have a way? I really like Go Launcher and want to stick with it, but if there is not a way, I'm getting rid of it.

beezar said:
I am so sick of receiving Go Launcher EX ads for "New Themes Arrived!" in my notification bar. I searched through preferences many times and have searched online many times trying to find a way to disable Go Launcher from sending me their annoying spam, but I just can't seem to find how to disable it.
Anyone have a way? I really like Go Launcher and want to stick with it, but if there is not a way, I'm getting rid of it.
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Wow - they must really be pushing those notifications the last couple days. I have been googling for the answer, and all I am finding so far is the question, and the date posted is always within the last couple days.
I am another that likes Go Launcher, but the notifications - especially the graphic notifications are extremely annoying.

I haven't used Go Launcher, but the other applications I've used that do that are generally easily replaceable. What I mean by that is I couldn't find a way to turn off the notifications in them, so it was easier and better to replace them.
I do believe Apex launcher can use Go Launcher themes, and it never caused any problems for me. Maybe the Go launcher compatibility is only in the paid version though. I don't recall since I'm just using the standard Trebuchet launcher in CM10.

Airblocker on the play store will block push ads, but I dont think GO is using ads but a notification which I think you can turn off thru settings in the theme store thing, been a while since I used it. Or you could try add on detector from the market to try and remove them, or lucky patcher may be able to strip the notifications
I like to break stuff!

I never found a way to disable those notifications, it's jsut part of the 'free' I guess. I used GO launcher for almost 2 years but I feel like it has gotten a bit bloated and they're trying to make an extension for nearly everything.
I tried a few other launchers but settled on Holo.

Try Ad Away
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mremale said:
Try Ad Away
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or just buy the app and stop expecting everything for free. :good:
EDIT: I have to facepalm myself here since there is no 'no ad' option.

calisro said:
or just buy the app and stop expecting everything for free. :good:
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You can't get rid of GoLauncher notifications by buying anything man.
Personally, I used to use go, but now I like Trebuchet 0.2 that comes with CM/PA waaay better.
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kchannel9 said:
You can't get rid of GoLauncher notifications by buying anything man.
Personally, I used to use go, but now I like Trebuchet 0.2 that comes with CM/PA waaay better.
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I stand corrected. Then my answer would be dont use the app. Apex is good (Trebuchet is fine too)

calisro said:
I stand corrected. Then my answer would be dont use the app. Apex is good (Trebuchet is fine too)
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i tried firewalling all the go apps and even that didn't help.
time to start looking at alternatives.. i assume this is Go Launcher doing this?

I have been experiencing the same. I had to abandoned Golauncher for Apex. Golauncher got absurd with the many updates of their launcher. Many of these updates deleted settings or apps. And made my phone unresponsive. Now Gosms is getting out of hand. I keep emailing them, first about that gochat crap that wouldn't go away. Now these texting of themes. But they don't email you back. I might have to abandoned gosms for handcent...
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I think I may have found the solution, I too was tired of those notifications and was close to switching to another launcher.
Anyway, do it at your own risk.. I'm not so sure this will work in the long run since I just did it 2 days ago... I went into the launchers data found in system root /data/data/com.gau.go.launcherex for my phone (LG Motion 4G not sure if the folder name will be different for others) using the File Explorer app, then I went into the folder named shared_prefs, I then opened all the apprecommended, gostore, and gamecenter, also the autocheck, featuredtheme and msgcenter .xml files with File Explorer's built in text editor and changed where it says standalone='yes' into 'false' saved changes to each one, File Explorer automaticaly saves a backup within the folder incase you mess up then I exited the app so far I haven't gotten any more automatic updated notifications

[APP] All in One Gestures

Really a great gestures app to mimic iOS gestures. I use the navigation gestures option because I could not deal with the navigation bar not matching my keyboard. The gestures work pretty well and I got used to them, but I did not like the Back option. Too many times trying to go back ended up with me opening recents or going home.
I really wanted a gesture to swipe the screen from left to right to go back and this app allows me to. Works great with a few customization options. It was removed from the playstore but the apk can still be sideloaded
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/ys-liang/all-in-one-gestures-2/all-in-one-gestures-2-5-9-release/

Thanks for sharing. IMHO The OnePlus gestures are the best I've tried on any phone. The more options there are, the better off we are.

Thanks for sharing, I love the Swype from the left to go back feature

Hey Guys, if you wan't, you can also try an app called 'Fooview', which is available in playstore (No need Root access) and its amazing, you can set the swipe option from right to left for back in this app as well. it also comes with a browser, file manager, and allow to take screen short of any specified portion on your screen. It will also help to convert the 'letters' in an image to edit/copy. The main advantage is it work with very less battery drain and comes with small in size. this is one of the best app I have ever used. and I'm using this for the last 2 Years. Just try it, it is amazing.

It's asking for some unusual permissions like location

devilrulz4ever said:
It's asking for some unusual permissions like location
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Never mind, Ignore it. It will work perfectly.

I found both of these apps to be scetchy and not any good.
I rather sugest the app called Fluid Navigation Gesture on play store.
It gives you the Miui10 Navigations that work great without any overlay or stuff like that.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fb.fluid&hl=no

ACB369 said:
Never mind, Ignore it. It will work perfectly.
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Never ignore such permissions, it may be a malicious app.

devilrulz4ever said:
Never ignore such permissions, it may be a malicious app.
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Yea, but this will work perfectly without giving the location permission. And this app is available in play-store, which is verified by the google, then will it be a malicious app ?

ACB369 said:
Yea, but this will work perfectly without giving the location permission. And this app is available in play-store, which is verified by the google, then will it be a malicious app ?
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You'd be surprised but there are apps that are not checked more in-depth before being accepted on Play Store

ACB369 said:
Yea, but this will work perfectly without giving the location permission. And this app is available in play-store, which is verified by the google, then will it be a malicious app ?
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There are many apps which get through the checks. Check the news, you'll find many articles about google removing app from the play store every now and then.
Even a seemingly trustworthy app can do a lot of harm. Even if the app is a bit sketchy its better to stay away from it.

ACB369 said:
Hey Guys, if you wan't, you can also try an app called 'Fooview', which is available in playstore (No need Root access) and its amazing, you can set the swipe option from right to left for back in this app as well. it also comes with a browser, file manager, and allow to take screen short of any specified portion on your screen. It will also help to convert the 'letters' in an image to edit/copy. The main advantage is it work with very less battery drain and comes with small in size. this is one of the best app I have ever used. and I'm using this for the last 2 Years. Just try it, it is amazing.
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I agree. I've tried damn near all the gesture apps but I keep going back to fooview. It's like 20 apps in one with an abundance of gesture options.
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mokash34 said:
Thanks for sharing. IMHO The OnePlus gestures are the best I've tried on any phone. The more options there are, the better off we are.
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I find the navbar gestures severely lacking. Swipe from left or right edge up for back? On which planet? Ever tried this swipe on Chrome with a longish text loaded? All you get is a scroll back and not back. Or maybe I am misunderstanding the directions. How difficult is it to add a graphic to illustrate?

If RAM mgmt has been an issue for you, you need to...

update to Oct patchset. I have some awesome news!!! The Oct patchset fixes the Ram mgmt issue on Pixel devices for good. Looks like it was a leak in System UI.
I have tried to reproduce my bug and I can start as many apps as I want and it does not lock up anymore. You can refer
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2019-10-01
for more details.
Edit: I could keep about 20 apps, including camera, firefox, whatsapp, slack, gmail, messages, photos, play store, amazon shopping and so on. They stay put on my Pixel3XL!! Awesome!

Wow. So it took Google just a year to fix this?

mgymnop said:
Wow. So it took Google just a year to fix this?
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Better late than never right.

So how exactly should this feature behave? I've never understood.
It should stay in the Recents drawer and not reload the app when re-opening?

Link in the OP doesn't work. This one has a list of updates, though: https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2019-10-01

Spl1tz said:
So how exactly should this feature behave? I've never understood.
It should stay in the Recents drawer and not reload the app when re-opening?
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Not a feature. If this is true (what the OP is stating), this is how the phone should have behaved on day one. But yes, the apps should remain open after "re-opening" them from your app drawer.

rczrider said:
Link in the OP doesn't work. This one has a list of updates, though: https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2019-10-01
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Fixed.

Yes... I also noticed opening camera app doesn't kill my background apps (like Spotify, Google play music, GPS tracking sw) as often like before... Let's see if this keeps....

Anything like that for pie? Like, a fix I mean...
Any magisk module to help with that? Or something?

Question Is there a secret to hiding the Google discover page?

I just got the 6r and I can't for the life of me find how to discover the Google discover page that comes on the left page
Since I can't use a 3rd party launcher this is already a big enough annoyance to make me sell the phone tomorrow
I absolutely hate having more than 1 page on my home screen

what's Google Discover? is it the one where it tells you the news and can do google searches?

Bertie90 said:
what's Google Discover? is it the one where it tells you the news and can do google searches?
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Yeah
I've never seen a launcher that doesn't allow you to disable it

WOW, RM still has horrific sw. What phone doesn't allow you to change the launcher? WTF?

bs3pro said:
WOW, RM still has horrific sw. What phone doesn't allow you to change the launcher? WTF?
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I mean... you can use a different launcher, but you can't use gesture controls with them. I've had too many oleds get the nav buttons built in to ever go back to use that again.

ah yes I know what you mean. It's the first thing I tried to disabled and found out you can't. I think the Youtube reviews don't reflect how pants this phone is at being a normal phone. It's amazing for gaming, sucks as a phone.

Bertie90 said:
ah yes I know what you mean. It's the first thing I tried to disabled and found out you can't. I think the Youtube reviews don't reflect how pants this phone is at being a normal phone. It's amazing for gaming, sucks as a phone.
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I honestly can't even make sense of why this is a thing
The only way I can figure out to get rid of it is disabling google...which then removes the ability removes google search

I tried that and it still shows on mine. I use duck duck go as a browser anyway. But then I found out that you can't do an app search like on a Samsung where you pull down the screen and it allows you to search for an app. You go in that news feed thing and type on google the app and then it shows it on your phone too.