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Re: How to stop "game service must be updated ..." messages

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On 08/08/2016 18:35, VanguardLH wrote:
> nospam wrote:
>
>> This is becoming annoying. I don't play games and want to stop this
>> update message but I can't find a way to do it ("previews" are set Off
>> and "hide on lock screen" is On) ... any suggestions?
>
> Application Manager
> Slide over to the All column.
> Scroll down to the Google Play Games app.
> Tap on it.
> Deselect the "Show notifications" option.
>
> Different Android version may have different navigation and menu names
> and groupings.  I'm on 4.4.4 Kitkat.
>
> I'm guessing "games" means the Google Play Games app.  If you have other
> gaming apps, you'll have to do the same to get to their "Show
> notifications" option to disable it.
>
> I've never used the Google Play Games app.  I just tried but it halts
> its use (which prevents me from looking at its settings) by first
> demanding that I create a gamer ID.  Since I'm not going to use it, I'm
> not going to bother creating a gamer ID that I will never use.  So the
> above is how I would go about disabling ALL notifications by that app.
>
> If you never intend to use the app, and because you are not allowed to
> uninstall it (unless rooted), another choice would be to "Turn off" that
> app.  No point in wasting any memory or CPU cycles on a service or
> background process that you will never use.  Less memory used, less
> resources used, less chance the smartphone will bog down.  Actually, for
> the Google Play Games app, once you select the "Turn off" option, it
> then prompts if you want to uninstall it.  Hmm, maybe you can uninstall
> this app while not rooted.  I didn't try to do the uninstall to see if
> it really works (it's a new smartphone, my first, so I'm not yet ready
> to be uninstalling anything other than what I installed since getting
> back the pre-installed apps probably requires a reset which means losing
> all the user-installed apps).  For now, just disable its notifications,
> then decide later whether or not you want to turn it off (which might
> uninstall it).
>
Thanks, but it's already disabled, has no permissions and has 
notifications blocked ... but still I get update notifications! Grr!

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How to stop "game service must be updated ..." messages nospam@thanks.com - 2016-08-08 14:22 +0100
  Re: How to stop "game service must be updated ..." messages VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-08-08 12:35 -0500
    Re: How to stop "game service must be updated ..." messages nospam@thanks.com - 2016-08-08 22:31 +0100
      Re: How to stop "game service must be updated ..." messages B00ze <B00ze64@hotmail.com> - 2016-08-08 20:03 -0400
  Re: How to stop "game service must be updated ..." messages Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2016-08-09 14:51 +0000
    Re: How to stop "game service must be updated ..." messages nospam@thanks.com - 2016-08-09 16:52 +0100
      Re: How to stop "game service must be updated ..." messages nospam@thanks.com - 2016-08-17 13:47 +0100
        Re: How to stop "game service must be updated ..." messages AL <noemail@none.com> - 2016-08-17 16:15 -0700
        Re: How to stop "game service must be updated ..." messages B00ze <B00ze64@hotmail.com> - 2016-08-17 20:50 -0400

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