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[Q] How to remove default app links on a rooted phone..??

Hello Frnds,
Recently I rooted my phone as I wanted to remove my stock SMS app due to missing functions as described in my previous post and also to remove the stock contact app as there is no provision to add birthday. After rooting, I removed these two apps and some of unwanted apps provided by SE. I installed new phonebook app and Handcent SMS app and I was happy unless I needed to add a new contact to my phonebook. When I click on add new contact , it showed me an error message saying application not found to handle this. When I again reinstalled the removed Contacts app back and click on add new contact from my new phonebook app, it opened the add new contact page of the Contacts app i.e. without Birthday entry. I was so annoyed to see that I landed up on the same path from where I had started.. Can anyone tell me how can I chagne the default link so that I can use the Add Contact funtion of new app Phonebook and not of the Contacts app.

Most of such replacement apps, especially messaging ones, need to work along with the corresponding default one. As far as I know, only GO SMS can work individually, but again, it's not recommended to uninstall such vital system apps because they are deeply integrated in stock ROM.
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Thanks for ur reply.. But as u must know that there is not provision to add birthdate in the stock contacts app and even if I add some other app from market which has provision to add birthday and click on add new contact, it again opens the same stock contacts app's add contact page...

mandarjoshiin said:
Thanks for ur reply.. But as u must know that there is not provision to add birthdate in the stock contacts app and even if I add some other app from market which has provision to add birthday and click on add new contact, it again opens the same stock contacts app's add contact page...
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That last part is the third-party app's issue.
See, there are three elements in a Contacts app: the dialer, the contact list and the contact viewer.
Some apps include only the first two, thus when you open a contact, stock app (and more specifically InfiniteView) appears.
As for birthdays, if you sync your contacts with Facebook inside Xperia, you'll get them.
Or you could add a note to each contact with their birthday.

How to get ZenUI dialer and contacts work for Lineage OS on OP5

Hi,
The Google or stock dialer are crap, have no dual sim support to remember the default sim for contact. I previously was using Zenfone and thought the dialer would work for Lineage. Installed it from Play store and tried to set default app for phone from settings, but the options show only contacts app but not the phone app of ZenUI dailer & contacts. when i go ahead and make the contacts app default for phone, I would endup in a situation where i'm unable to make and receive calls. There must a way we can get this to work, ZenUI dialer and contacts app is quite user friendly, it would be great if someone gets this to work for Lineage OS.
Regards,
Sid

Where is MI Mail App?

I have updated my Redmi note 5 pro to latest MIUI9 buy default MI Mail app is missing. How do I install it?

Just got it on MIUI forum, link is http://en.miui.com/thread-984561-1-1.html

Hello,
Your app is probably just disabled.
To re-enable it :
1) Go the the settings
2) Scroll to "installed apps" in the APP SETTINGS section and click on it
3) In the apps list, scroll down to the Mail app you should see a red icone next to the app name that tell you it is disabled.
4) Click on the app and down the screen you should see three buttons, the middle one is the "enable" button.
5) Click on it and your app should be visible now on your phone.
Let me know if it helps
Regards

Wrong, the mail app. is not present

"Contacts do display" option where?

Hi guys,
Bought a A2 Lite yesterday and on the dial contacts I can't find the option of "Contacts to display" like I'm used to find in all android phones, and also working on Xiaomi A1/A2.
https://youtu.be/TCYsVVr4alQ?t=71
Where is the option? On the google contacts app I can choose on my left dashboard to show only some contacts, but it doesn't affect the contacts showing on the dial app

Both dialer and contacts are standard Google apps. Perhaps you are used to some other vendor's apps? You can get alternatives from the play store.
Google Dialer has favourites, which is a subset of contacts you select (plus recent contacts you've called). That sounds like what you are describing?

Do you have a A2 Lite to see this issue?
I know they're Google apps but it should have a "Contacts do display" option, as present on A1/A2 phones. Adding to the Favorite list one by one (I have about 250 contacts that I need to add) is insane!! Or can we select several contacts to the Favorite List at once? (can't find it)

Prel!m said:
Do you have a A2 Lite to see this issue?
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Yes. I have the latest stock pie. The dialer and contacts apps have had many, many updates since I got the phone. I couldn't tell you if the feature was previously present or not.
If you have labels in contacts there's a choice to customize view and select a label. Maybe that's what happened to the feature?

I'm also on Pie (latest update) and have labels on my Google contacts (I have a label created for the SIM contacts that I usually use on my android phones). As I said, I can select to show only that label on the "Contacts" but not on the "Dial contacts"

Cannot Set Gallery's Default App on Miui 12.5.3 India

Hello
I upgraded my redmi note 8 pro india yesterday to the latest version of the Miui 12.5.3 stable beta
so i noticed that I have 2 issues
- The small issue was the absence of Bubbles option in developer options so i can't enable it in order to use messenger's bubbles
also i didn't find any options in the notification section of the bubbles in the settings
so when i click to the message notification it redirects me to messenger app and not opening a new bubble
but It isn't a big problem
- The big problem/issue is not being able to set gallery as gallery default app
and when i use apps like pixellab it redirects me into Files app and when i click on a picture it doesn't appear in Pixellab
like the operation was canceled or something like this
(same issue with ImageSearchMan when i try to search by images)
but when i use apps like messenger and Picsart which seem like they have their own file( manager and not using the Files app) the pictures get imported without any problem
only the Gallery Default App option have this issue
other ones like Messaging default works well
so please tell me if i can do something to fix it or I'll just wait until the Stable miui 12.5 releases because this is a Stable Beta version
and thanks
Edit : everything got fixed after I turned on the Miui optimization from developer options

I tried to turn the optimisation off thereafter it displayed the gallery & I could access it but another problem came along when I click a picture to import it's not importing to pixellab and not displaying at all

Zenon17 said:
Hello
I upgraded my redmi note 8 pro india yesterday to the latest version of the Miui 12.5.3 stable beta
so i noticed that I have 2 issues
- The small issue was the absence of Bubbles option in developer options so i can't enable it in order to use messenger's bubbles
also i didn't find any options in the notification section of the bubbles in the settings
so when i click to the message notification it redirects me to messenger app and not opening a new bubble
but It isn't a big problem
- The big problem/issue is not being able to set gallery as gallery default app
and when i use apps like pixellab it redirects me into Files app and when i click on a picture it doesn't appear in Pixellab
like the operation was canceled or something like this
(same issue with ImageSearchMan when i try to search by images)
but when i use apps like messenger and Picsart which seem like they have their own file( manager and not using the Files app) the pictures get imported without any problem
only the Gallery Default App option have this issue
other ones like Messaging default works well
so please tell me if i can do something to fix it or I'll just wait until the Stable miui 12.5 releases because this is a Stable Beta version
and thanks
Edit : everything got fixed after I turned on the Miui optimization from developer options
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my device 's RAM 8Gb

Ayeshazara said:
I tried to turn the optimisation off thereafter it displayed the gallery & I could access it but another problem came along when I click a picture to import it's not importing to pixellab and not displaying at all
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Ayeshazara said:
I tried to turn the optimisation off thereafter it displayed the gallery & I could access it but another problem came along when I click a picture to import it's not importing to pixellab and not displaying at all
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when i enabled miui optimization everything worked fine
+I am a pixellab user too

Did you try mod version?