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I just disabled Google Play Services on my Android phone to increase privacy... then I started to get spammed with about 10 notifications every 10 seconds (not
by EastOfTruth 5y ago
I just disabled Google Play Services on my Android phone to increase privacy... then I started to get spammed with about 10 notifications every 10 seconds (not a joke) to tell me that those 10 apps would not work properly without Google Play Services enabled even if they did work properly... Google and/or LG allowed me to disable 7 of these apps, but the others could not be uninstalled or disabled using the GUI... I had to use ADB to remove them. One of those apps, believe it or not was the LG phone clock and another was the calculator.
After I removed all apps that were complaining about missing Google Play Services and installed alternatives for the ones that I needed like the calculator, everything was working fine. (thanks to f-droid for helping me find viable alternatives)
- mdp2021 5y agoWhich Android version? Some of us have no Google Play Services and no relevant notifications on older devices.
- EastOfTruth 5y agoAndroid 10 on an LG device
- mdp2021 5y agoWell, time to really ditch newer Android for either older versions or customizations, or open alternatives.
- EastOfTruth 5y agoI might go with a Pixel and LineageOS... I just hate to have to buy a new phone to be able to install it.
- krageon 5y agoDon't disable google play services, run something like microg (easiest way to do so is probably https://lineage.microg.org/ https://lineage.microg.org/ ). Apps are written to expect you to be spied upon and in order for them to not push you to "fix" that, you must lie to them. Moving entirely to f-droid is not an option for most people, as they use their phones to communicate and doing so involves a certain amount of dirtying yourself.
- EastOfTruth 5y agoI don't see why you say not to remove the Google Play Services because I found alternative apps that work just as good, but either way, it was I think my only option because my LG G8 is not supported by LineageOS/microg.