My son had an old Moto G running KitKat. On that phone, I set up an app locker to block the Google app because there was no way to restrict the "safe image search" on that app. Instead of him potentially being exposed to explicit images, I just blocked the app entirely. That phone broke last week, and I just bought him the new Moto G (2015). Evidently, in Lollipop, you cannot block the Google search app using an app blocker. Accordingly, there is no way to keep my son from searching for and finding explicit images using the Google search app. I have searched the internet for a solution, but cannot find one. Does anyone know whether there is any way to block the Google search app on Lollipop?

I am trying to make a calendar also automates a to do list. (why we are doing this in google sheets and not an app that does so easily for free is an excellent question that I have no answer to. Like Mongo I am just a pawn in the game of life.) so have been the doing the dumb old cell = correspondent cell on the calendar and a filter to only display the cells that have actual info. so I've been using this code to continually refresh my filter here https://medium.com/google-cloud/automatically-refreshing-basic-filter-on-google-spreadsheet-using-google-apps-script-e9728826bbd8 . This works great on computer - filter instantly updates, all that good stuff. The problem is that is doesn't work on Google sheets mobile. It will change already displayed data just fine but not display anything else added to calendar without manually refreshing to the filter. Any tips on fixing this would be greatly appreciated. Note, I have tried the () filter function, but it doesn't quite suit my needs. To see the the worksheet in question (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s0K2wWvC9JI4WF1xrtOhVsrsapXR7ELdH-dPooVeq6E/edit?usp=sharing) Please let me know if this isn't the right spot. I've already be bounced around a few communities by other users trying to figure out the right one for this oddball question.

The Google app on my Pixel 6a just updated, and now ALL of my Google things I added to my home screen are GONE. I had SO MANY important things. Is there any way to get them all back?

Most of the Google apps (nearly all) require Google Play Services to run, like YouTube. I never liked Google Play Services and Play Store, but I've to keep them because I can't run Gmail and YouTube without them. Is there any way to run those apps without Google Play Services? P.S.- Device is rooted, Xposed enabled, runs on CM12.1.

I have a Hudl 2 tablet and it is running out of space. I have just bought an SD card, but it seems I am very limited with what I can move to the SD card. Also, it seems I can not install new apps directly onto the SD card. So I am trying to delete as much data as possible from the existing apps. I am considering deleting all data from the Google app, but I am concerned it may be linked in some way to the Chrome app, and I do not want to lose my Chrome bookmarks or any IDs/passwords I have in Chrome. Will deleting all data from Google affect in any way anything I have in Chrome?

A long time ago, I opted to watch the scores for one game on my phone. It allowed itself to draw over other apps, and was cool. I want to turn this feature off, but I can't find anywhere to do so. Reportedly, it's from the Google app itself. I have denied the permissions, but every time there is a game on, I get the following popup (typed for ease of searching): > Update your device settings > > Pinned matches lets you follow sports games and scores even while you > are using other apps. Turn on permit for drawing over other apps How do I get this to stop popping up without allowing the scores to stay on? In case it matters: Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G (SM-G781W), running Android 13.

When I press the applications icon (circle with 6 dots) on Samsung Note20, I get a list of apps that are installed. If I type in - S, I see contacts from Snapchat - L, I see contacts from Linkedin Is there a way of stopping this lunacy.

I have a personal Gmail (Google) account created some years back for my Android phone. Recently I have been given access to a new Gmail account by my employer. When I open the Gmail or Gdrive apps they both show the two accounts and allow me to easily switch between them (Gmail has a useful combined *All inboxes* option too). So far, so good. However if I open a mail sent by my employer to my work Gmail account and click on the *Save to Drive* icon on the attached PDF, the pop-up dialog box allows me to save the attachment only to my personal Gdrive account; it doesn't list my work Gdrive account at all. So how do I directly save an attachment from my work Gmail to my work Gdrive? " class="img-fluid rounded" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin: 10px 0;" loading="lazy">

Memory on my phone was low, so I went to the apps and deinstalled some. Among these apps was “Google—A handy search for underway”, and since I also have Firefox, I decided that I don’t need the Google search, so I deinstalled it. And it worked, the app got deinstalled. But it was not only a search app, it was the whole home screen app, so my home screen didn’t show up anymore, and I could only switch the phone off. I booted it again, and now it shows the “Android is starting”, subtitle “Apps are starting”. This takes about 30 minutes now. I did not root my phone or do anything else, and still I could deinstall the Google app. How can I get my phone working again?

WhatsApp is the only Google-dependent app on my phone. I was removing various Google services from it with adb and as a result, WhatsApp is the only app that doesn't work - it crashes instantly on any interaction. My fault is that I don't remember all the services I uninstalled, but here are some: gsf, gms, gmsconfig.asi, gmsconfig.gsa, gmsconfig.comms, and more. Which Google services does WhatsApp depend on? Maybe I would just sideload them for the time I plan to use WhatsApp.

I want to link Google Home with Tuya Smart Life, but when I click the accept prompt in the Tuya app, it shows "Google has stopped". I tried removing the app and linking it with the browser, but it also showed an error. I also tried updating the Google app but it still crashes. Any help is appreciated. Update: I updated my phone to Android 9 and Google is not crashing anymore at that point, but the agree link button in the Tuya app opens Google Home's home screen.

I am going to install Lineage and I need to decide which version of open Gapps to use. I use lots of Google apps (Google Play Store, Gmail, Calendar, Photos, Music, Google search, Translate, Keep etc.). But, I am fine with installing them one by one, from Google Play store. So, I prefer a minimalist version so that, I don't need to keep anything that I don't use. Therefore, my first thought was Pico Gapps. But, this version does not include offline speech recognition files. Can these be installed later from the google store? Or, if I want to be able to use the "ok google" voice command, do I need to install Nano Gapps? Also, are there any other obstacles I am not aware of? I want to be able to install anything else from the play store (and not to be forced to flash anything later).

Can anyone tell me what this notification icon is from?

I've seen that there are quite many different modular packages of the Gapps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2397942 and I was wondering if I can install the nano and add the other Gapps one by one through the Play Store. Or if there by chance some Google apps that can't be retrieved with the Play Store? I'd like to start with a very minimal set of apps if possible (and not to install Google Now).

When I was playing with settings on my Nokia 6.1 Plus running a stock ROM Android 10 with bootloader unlocked and rooted with Magisk v21+, I noticed that **Firebase App Indexing** that comes under **Google Account Preferences** was collecting all of my *personal* data. Of course, **GMS** was the culprit. Here's the proof: This was the message that I received from the bank for the transaction that I made yesterday. Every message that I sent and received had been collected in this given format. Also, many apps that use Firebase API sent these kinds of information. I'm a guy who thinks about user privacy all-day, so I've used: - [Nuked_Script](https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/module-tool-atteryerformancerivacy-t4131715) Magisk script that is used to disable trackers and ad services. - AFWall+ for Firewall (root). - Bouncer - Temporary App Permissions. - AdAway for nullifying ads (root) - ads on Gmail, Twitter, Instagram still exist though - Bromite webview and browser (Webview Switcher module). When I turned the developer options off, Firebase App Indexing options also turned off (_I mean **hidden**_). So, does it mean that it stopped collecting my data? I still doubt that. How can I stop this from happening? P.S: I'm used to using Google Apps. But I don't want to give them such personal data.

I've got a Motorola Moto G4. Bootloader unlocked, TWRP installed, LineageOS installed, Open Gapps installed, non-rooted. Been using it for about a year. I want to try [LineageOS for microG](https://lineage.microg.org/) . I want to keep my current data/apps (including some end-user Google apps like their PDF viewer) as much as possible and migrate to microG, removing only the "core" Google stuff a user doesn't generally care about directly that will be replaced by microG. So, I'm following the dirty install process. --- I have none of the listed apps installed. I have tried removing Open Gapps, but it doesn't seem to work. Using the aroma installer to choose settings until the config at the end is "Include" with *no* apps listed, some Google apps are still installed (notably, the Play Store) after rebooting. The Open Gapps installer process also mentions removing existing/obsolete apps for only a short time, then moves to the next step "installing Gapps" which takes a long time. This seems to contradict the settings I gave it, namely to leave none installed, but is consistent with the fact that they don't seem to get uninstalled. I have also flashed https://github.com/CHEF-KOCH/Remove-Gapps to try to get rid of them, but some Gapps (like the Play Store) still survive. --- After any combination of attempts to follow the instructions and remove the Gapps, I flash the key migration zip followed by the lineage-microG.zip for my device (athene). I also make sure to wipe the Dalvik and cache partitions before rebooting. After all this, every time I reboot, my system is almost *exactly* like it was before I did anything: Google services installed (though the Play Store does not actually work, it's still there), the microG settings app is not installed, etc. A few things are broken (some notifications of apps crashing) but overall nothing noteworthy has happened. I've resorted to even wiping /system before a migration attempt, but even this achieves nothing. --- I got a partial success once by manually going through /system/app, /system/priv-app, and /data/app and removing anything that looked Google-y, then performing the migration. Upon rebooting, the microG settings app was present and the self-check section looked like it should look on a clean install, but the Play Store was still present. I don't know to what extent this migration was a success. I'm not familiar with the Android/Google ecosystem's insides and app politics, just the userland, so when I'm manually going around deleting files, I have little knowledge of what I'm doing, so I don't consider this attempt a success. --- Now that all the info has been laid out, could someone please help me cleanly perform the migration to lineage-microG, without excessive butchering of my system or leaving things that should not be left? Why does the dirty install procedure laid out by the lineage-microG team fail? Why do the Gapps removal tools fail? What exactly is necessary to correctly and cleanly migrate lineage to lineage-microG?

My google account and app data are not syncing on my Realme C2 (Android 9). The data of a few apps like Chrome and Calendar is syncing and showing up when I select my google account under "Accounts and Sync", but the data of other important apps like Gmail, Drive, and Keep is not syncing. The "Sync Now" button is unresponsive. I tried removing and re-adding the google account, clearing the data and cache of all google apps, uninstalling and reinstalling them, and rebooting the device. But nothing seems to work. Please help me with this. Thanks a lot!!

When I first open Maps, I see a Search bar at the top where I can type in a place to go, I can click on the default quick-searches (Coffee, Restaurants, etc.), or I can just scroll on the map to look around. But if I start going deeper, e.g., looking at photos from restaurants, at one point I have to close a bunch of screens using a combination of back arrows, X's, and down-arrows to get back to the start screen. I know they added a magnifying glass search icon on some screens to quickly search for another place, but then I miss out on scrolling around with access to the default quick-searches. Besides killing the app and reopening, **is their another way to quickly (with one tap) get back to the start screen?** I've started to use Google Maps Go so I can open that and get to its start screen once, but after that it's the same problem. --- (Mini rant: I find this particularly frustrating because a Go Home feature would be immensely useful in many Android apps, yet it basically doesn't exist as far as I can tell. But on websites, where it is almost completely useless, there's usually a pointless "Home" button.)

I have flashed a lineage OS 18.1 custom ROM on my Samsung A30 device. I am able to boot into the system successfully. However, I am facing issues while flashing Open Gapps. I have followed below steps: 1. Flashed Lineage OS 18.1 (lineage-18.1-20220414-UNOFFICIAL-arm64_bvS.img.xz) using TWRP recovery. (selected System Image) 2. Booted into the system. 3. Enabled 'USB Debugging' in developer options. 4. Turned off the device. 5. Booted into Recovery mode (TWRP) 6. Install > Install Zip > OpenGapps.zip 7. Got the error code 70 (insufficient space) 8. Again went back to home screen of TWRP 9. Wipe > Selected 'System' > Advanced Wipe > Resize File System. 10. Got this error - /sbin/e2fsck -fp /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 process ended with ERROR: 4 Unable to repair system 11. Tried changing file system of 'System' to EXT2 and then back EXT4. [I am little bit skeptical of this step, since I feel this would wipe out the entire partition (owing to my experience in installing Arch Linux, where the user should format a file in ext4 partition for /home). Nevertheless, I followed this because it was mentioned in of the forums] 12. Boot into system. Now the device is stuck in boot loop. I am not quite sure, where I am going wrong. I am using TWRP 3.3.1-0. Any help is greatly appreciated.

A friend of mine just asked me a nice question: His (stock) Samsung Galaxy S4's Youtube is draining his battery. He said, that he hasn't been in the app today, and this morning he had the phone booting up. Now, Youtube drained 51% of his battery. I know, there are many possibilities, to "solve" this, like: - Rebooting the Phone to get rid of the wakelock - Terminating the Youtube-app via the Settings -> Apps menue - Clearing Cache/Deleting Data - Uninstalling Updates and deactivating the app But **besides** these workarounds: Is there any fix for this issue? What could one do, if he'd have to terminate the app everytimes he boots up his phone? Is there even something to do? **/NOTE** We try to achieve a better information about what exactly in the YT-app causes the battery drain using Better Battery Stats. Stats will follow.