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My grandmother's primary method of communication is a cheap Android tablet. It unfortunately includes a preinstalled SMS app that upsells a VoIP SMS service. My
by KiranRao0 2y ago
My grandmother's primary method of communication is a cheap Android tablet. It unfortunately includes a preinstalled SMS app that upsells a VoIP SMS service. My grandmother gets extremely frustrated by accidently clicking the message icon and opening an upsell page. There's no way to uninstall the VoIP app.
So instead of giving up and buying a new tablet or paying for an unnecessary service, I hacked together a way to open WhatsApp instead.
https://github.com/Kiran-Rao/openwhatsapp https://github.com/Kiran-Rao/openwhatsapp
- jraph 2y agoDeactivating the app was impossible too? You can often do that with preinstalled Android junk which is installed on the system partition. Another often possible solution is installing Lineage.
- KiranRao0 2y agoUnfortunately, deactivating wasn't allowed (or at least wasn't easy) by the OEM's ROM. There may be an adb command, but it wasn't worth the effort. I considered a custom ROM, but: * My grandmother is averse to all change * Transferring stuff (apps, settings, pictures) over would have been a pain * It's a lot easier to support a single utility app than support an entire OS