Re: Apps can force update against your wishes!

From	The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.android
Subject	Re: Apps can force update against your wishes!
Date	2021-01-20 22:53 -0800
Organization	None, as usual
Message-ID	<rub8dk$16k$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 01/20/2021 02:33 PM, mike wrote:
>   wrote:
>
>> I always set our phones to NOT automatically update anything ever -- I'd
>> rather choose a time and let all the apps update at once.  I'm
>> absolutely livid that my choice can be overridden.
>
> How do they push an update to an app without us doing it?
> Like you I don't update automatically as bad things tend to happen.
>
> One of my apps complained recently it needed an update and wouldn't run
> without that update. I closed the app but no joy when restarted. No joy when
> rebooting.
>
> I deleted it and reinstalled the same old version.
> Seems to work now on that same older version.
> All the more reason to save the old zip installers.
>
> Afterward I searched in vain for how they pushed an update notice to the app
> but couldn't find any settings anywhere to update my apps.
>
> Maybe they time these things in the hard code?

Why not?  Long ago when cell phones were car attachments my company was 
testing a thing that would report home to the base station the location 
of the remote sensor.  Speed, direction, etc.  It had a wake-up feature 
in the windows software that would turn the windows machine on when 
there was something to report.  There may have been some sort of 
hardware thing that actually turned the winmachine on, it's been quite a 
while (windows 3.1).

I seem to remember that ES File Explorer had an option to delete the 
.apk files after installation.  I'd like to unset that, but I can't find 
it.

-- 
Cheers, Bev
   "Everyone ought to stop and smell crayons once in a while."
                                                       -- DA

Thread

Apps can force update against your wishes! The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2021-01-20 09:29 -0800
  Re: Apps can force update against your wishes! mike <this@address.is.invalid> - 2021-01-21 04:03 +0530
    Re: Apps can force update against your wishes! The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2021-01-20 22:53 -0800
      Re: Apps can force update against your wishes! mike <this@address.is.invalid> - 2021-01-21 21:12 +0530
        Re: Apps can force update against your wishes! AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2021-01-21 10:36 -0700
        Re: Apps can force update against your wishes! The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 10:24 -0800
    Re: Apps can force update against your wishes! "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2021-01-22 08:07 -0500
  Re: Apps can force update against your wishes! Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2021-01-21 17:22 +0000
    Re: Apps can force update against your wishes! The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 10:21 -0800
  Re: Apps can force update against your wishes! Yakker <NoMail@IsGoodMail.com> - 2021-01-21 21:18 +0000
    Re: Apps can force update against your wishes! The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 14:09 -0800
      Re: Apps can force update against your wishes! lew <citrustwosac@google.mailer.company.invalid> - 2021-01-22 02:14 +0000
  Re: Apps can force update against your wishes! Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-01-22 10:23 +0200
    Re: Apps can force update against your wishes! mike <this@address.is.invalid> - 2021-01-22 14:28 +0530
      Re: Apps can force update against your wishes! Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-01-22 19:44 +0200
        Re: Apps can force update against your wishes! mike <this@address.is.invalid> - 2021-01-23 04:44 +0530

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