Biden2020prez Right, that would make sense because it's signed by tcl (or tcl approved) but it's likely that the smartphone is running a different architecture (different phones have different architectures, some are armeabi-v7a Arm86-v8a x86 etc. It's basically the type of processor, there are different versions of every app for different processors, if it's the wrong one it may not install or may crash)

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      lgexalter1
      armeabi-v7a

      processor : 0
      Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
      model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
      BogoMIPS : 40.08
      Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32
      CPU implementer : 0x41
      CPU architecture: 7
      CPU variant : 0x0
      CPU part : 0xd03
      CPU revision : 4

      Hardware : MT6739CH

        It's blocked in code using system properties, going to be very hard to get around even if the app is signed by alcatel

        Apps4Flip-Admin We really appreciate it!

        lgexalter1 If I could install the settings APK from another phone (like LG can), it's exciting because I can try to allow APK installation. But there is no real maila of installing the camera APK, it was just an experiment.

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                Biden2020prez If you open files with
                am start com.android.documentsui/com.android.documentsui.ViewDownloadsActivity
                and you select on an apk it opens the installer and asks if you want to install from unknown sources and gives you the option to click continue, which than proceeds to try to install the app, it ends off with message 'App not installed'. So I dont know what you would gain by putting on a different settings app.

                lgexalter1 [Login to see the link] is the system/framework folder

                      It was a tracfone one. The issue is that the property is not set, meaning if it would be set to true then package installation would be allowed.

                      lgexalter1

                      darth I can disable apps: adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 org.chromium.chrome
                      Disables the browser.

                      lgexalter1 How do I figure out the architecture?

                      darth True, in general a smartphone settings app would be nice to have because it'll include more capabilities.

                                there is another method to disable apps after enabling developer settings but ill have to add the steps later

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                                  Biden2020prez Almost all of the settings can be accessed on this phone. Go to Developer options>Running services>Android Services Library (its the last one by me...)>Settings> Than using scrcpy or [Login to see the link] Select on the Search icon. This allows you to search for more settings. Im sure there are other ways to do this, if you get to any place in settings that has a search icon you can find more settings.
                                  lgexalter1 What error are you getting? Either way you can disable the browser in settings by using the above method. Interestingly you cant disable texting through settings but you can through the adb command I provided.
                                  lgexalter1 see darth

                                            darth thats basically the method i was planning on writing about

                                              darth If you disable through settings on the phone, I assume you can re-enable it the same way?

                                                  Techgen I had the same thoughts. And uninstall seems to not work on all TCL (and probably Alcatel, maybe even Nokia, I can check if someone cares), including smartphones.

                                                  I really think this would be a great phone.... if it had root access.

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                                                        Biden2020prez I agree that root access should definitely be the goal here. I just cant get the phone into download mode. Does anyone here have experience shorting pcb boards into download mode?

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                                                            Biden2020prez
                                                            darth
                                                            lgexalter1
                                                            So I guess that's not really a great option. Sounds like Suspend is a better option. I've never heard of suspend, what does it do, is it similar to disable-user? Can it be "unsuspended" through adb?