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

  • darthLevel 6 - Platinum Elite Member

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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.

                        • darthLevel 6 - Platinum Elite Member

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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?

                              • TechgenLevel 6 - Platinum Elite Member

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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?

                                    lgexalter1 Yeah yeah, I wasn't knocking it that it can be undone with adb (on the phone itself is a much bigger problem) I was just trying to figure out what the suspend command is for.

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                                      lgexalter1 ah i see. That's right. Although it was backported to 4.14, it's not expected to work before 5.8. I bought this on accident thinking it was the KaiOS phone but hopefully if we get apps or root it'll be better.

                                          Apps4Flip-Admin what was used to decompile? I'm only getting bytecode back for preparePackageLI which makes it hard to follow. was trying to see what is going on with mIsMPBranch as well.

                                            [Login to see the link] so I was using jadx-gui and I checked off the box in preferences titled "show inconsistent code". If you don't check that box then you can't view the code properly of the preparePackageLI method

                                            looks like all the good stuff is read-only. after poking around for a day I did find one useful thing:

                                            settings put global hotspot_entitlement_check_mode 0

                                            That let me turn on hotspot.

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