How to stop android market upgrading ?

Moonpie2 · 14 Oct 2011 at 07:34

Long story short.....
The old android market (green and white) ran awesomely and took up very little space on my phone (Desire)
The new android market (grey) keeps crashing runs sluggish, only works through VPN and takes up about 10 times as much space.

Is there a way to stop it from constantly trying to upgrade itself on a non-rooted phone ?

Apart from the annoyance of having to go into my settings and uninstall the new market and flash 11 each time I want to use the market, it's also updating itself when I'm out and about and its eating into my data allowance

I tried deleting the market updater.apk but I don't have the permissions, all I can do is force stop it and then stay well away from the market and hope for the best.

As I say, I need a permanent solution for a non-rooted phone..... I hope there is one !!

Cheers

SKILL · 14 Oct 2011 at 08:48

You touched on it already, you need to delete the maket updater apk, but you need to be rooted to do that (as the /system partition is mounted read-only by default), so without rooting I doubt you'll have much luck...

Simple solution, root and delete...

Steve_bullockuk · 14 Oct 2011 at 11:01

SKILL said:
You touched on it already, you need to delete the maket updater apk, but you need to be rooted to do that (as the /system partition is mounted read-only by default), so without rooting I doubt you'll have much luck...

Simple solution, root and delete...

Where is the APK stored?

bulb66 · 14 Oct 2011 at 11:24

It's stored in /system/app

Zinth · 14 Oct 2011 at 11:29

Even with wi-fi the new android market is so slow -.-. i hope they update it.

bulb66 · 14 Oct 2011 at 11:41

My rooted and Oxygen powered Desire doesn't seem to be to bad on the new market?

SKILL · 14 Oct 2011 at 13:19

Might be worth clearing the data/cache from the market if it's *really* slow, I had that and after clearing it it's nice and quick (although does occasionally slip back into being slow...)

Sumanji · 14 Oct 2011 at 13:41

Yeah new market is pretty rubbish... constant time outs and crashes.

Sort it out, Google

Subliminal Aura · 14 Oct 2011 at 14:36

what version of android market are you guys using.

have to agree this one really sucks

ChrisGTL · 14 Oct 2011 at 14:40

I'm back on the older (green and white) market too, while I like the newer look it was just too slow.

Get it rooted!!

Myshra · 14 Oct 2011 at 14:53

I have no idea how the most recent variant passed QA, it's appallingly designed and slow on nearly every device. If i could be arsed I'd go back to the early 2011 one as this one is just balls.

Bloomfield · 14 Oct 2011 at 15:16

Me in the essential apps thread said:
Well, it's been a week and I've just uninstalled the Market update and then deleted MarketUpdater.apk, going to stick with the old one as it's much better imo.

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Moonpie2 · 14 Oct 2011 at 16:20

Soooooo...... Without rooted permissions there's no permanent cure?

Darn.... :mad:

ChrisGTL · 14 Oct 2011 at 16:20

Moonpie2 said:
Soooooo...... Without rooted permissions there's no permanent cure?

Darn....

You can always un-root it when u've finished.

413x · 14 Oct 2011 at 22:06

Mine always comes up asking me to update and i always click no, once I clicked yes, it updated, took 7 megabytes which, on my unrooted desire, is too much.

I uninstalled it and just keep clicking no.

Bloomfield · 14 Oct 2011 at 22:12

I didn't even get asked if I wanted to update

. Nothing that deleting the updater didn't fix though

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Subliminal Aura · 14 Oct 2011 at 23:05

Omg, now it's also on my tablet... seriously don't want :mad:

Can anyone recommend me a gapps version that I can kang?

Bloomfield · 14 Oct 2011 at 23:07

Happened version you can kang?

Subliminal Aura · 14 Oct 2011 at 23:08

Bloomfield said:
Happened version you can kang?

Droid spell check fail

Bloomfield · 14 Oct 2011 at 23:15

What's the kang part?

You can just uninstall updates then delete MarketUpdater.apk, as the new market was just an update, it didn't change the original market that was on the device

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