[ale] AARG! Warning - backup up android apps weekly

[Jim Kinney]

Default installed os comes with crap. Root system to flush them off.
On Feb 27, 2013 1:51 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:

> How did you get apps on your phone "which I didn't install and which you
> cannot uninstall"?  Surely you have S-OFF on your own phone?
>
> -- CHS
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
> atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Yet another one of my app developers for android has chosen to butcher
>> and dumb down their UI, ruining the app for me.  I promptly turned off auto
>> update for that app and installed the previous version from a backup that I
>> just made, coincidentally, yesterday.  Now I have the app I like back.  It
>> was the PocketCasts podcast downloader.  Unfortunately, I'll never get bug
>> fixes or updates now.
>>
>> Astro file manager (older version) has an application backup feature that
>> backs up all the APK files.  I like to use that weekly.
>>
>> Let's think like a developer:  I have an app that lots of people like and
>> depend on.  It's useful, functional, and gives them lots of information and
>> control.  I have lots of positive reviews.  I think I'll screw up the UI,
>> make it harder to use, remove information from the screen, give the user
>> less control, OH and remove the widget!
>>
>> AARG!  Nothing like wasting half an hour of your life undoing someone
>> else's screw up of an app you bought from them.
>>
>> I now have auto updates turned off for Astro File Manager, PocketCasts,
>> and WeatherBug Elite.
>>
>> By the way, is there a way to selectively turn off auto updates for
>> individual apps on Mint / Ubuntu?  That would be cool.
>>
>> Another maintenance tip.  Select settings, apps, all.  Scroll through
>> that list and force stop then disable any apps that don't need to be
>> running.  I think I have 21 of them disabled which I didn't install and you
>> cannot uninstall.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Sent from my Android Acer A500 tablet with bluetooth keyboard and K-9
>> Mail.
>> Please excuse my potential brevity if I'm typing on the touch screen.
>>
>> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
>> call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
>> mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new email messages very
>> quickly.)
>>
>> Ron Frazier
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>> linuxdude AT techstarship.com
>>
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