Timeline for How do I temporarily disable an app when there is no "Disable" option
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| Nov 14, 2016 at 14:24 | comment | added | Salman Arshad | While I have accepted an answer, the solution that actually worked for me was to uninstall facebook and messenger and use the browser. Task killers (including Greenify) actually make things worse. Facebook and messenger apps have some creepy "wake up" mechanism which consumes extra CPU and memory during the process. My last attempt was to use a "permission manager" app (which extracts, changes and re-packages the permissions file of a package) but disabling the run at startup permission did not work. Without facebook and messenger I always have 250+ MB RAM free and longer battery time. | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 8:05 | vote | accept | Salman Arshad | ||
| S Nov 29, 2015 at 8:02 | history | suggested | Tamoghna Chowdhury | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2015 at 8:17 | history | edited | Salman Arshad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2015 at 3:33 | comment | added | Firelord♦ | @JaskaranbirSingh that may result in app data loss should the device reboots when the APK is not found for the app. | |
| Nov 28, 2015 at 2:17 | comment | added | Jaskaranbir Singh |
If you are rooted you can also just find the apk in /data/app and then change/remove the .apk extension from file. App will be disabled for good and wont ever execute till you change the extension back to original. (ofcourse you can create simple automation scripts).
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| Nov 28, 2015 at 2:16 | comment | added | Firelord♦ |
Is the device rooted? am force-stop PACKAGE would easily work here.Combine it with an automation app and you're good to go.
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| Nov 28, 2015 at 2:11 | answer | added | beeshyams | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 27, 2015 at 22:18 | answer | added | Izzy | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Nov 27, 2015 at 20:46 | history | asked | Salman Arshad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |