"Theo" <
theom...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote
| GBoard is Google's keyboard. I would guess that you have that installed,
Ah. Yes. I can't uninstall any of this stuff. Everything I can
uninstall, I have uninstalled. I can disable some things, but
not remove. Then there are things not in apps that also
complain about Google Play, such as "Carrier Services" and
"Device Health". It's a parade of complaining popups.
In my last phone I installed a Microsoft keyboard. In this
phone, despite being disabled, GBoard is still working!
At any rate, I was hoping to disable the popups altogether.
It's a Tracfone. TCL. I mostly only use it for occasional phone
calls. I suppose I can replace GBoard, but that won't solve
the popups. I'm guessing that there's some legal reason that
Google can't force their store to be used, so they're just
harassing people into turning it on.
| If the phone very old? It's possible something has upgraded itself in a
way
| with something not compatible with eg the hardwired apps that come with
your
| phone. Letting everything upgrade could fix it.
|
The phone is fairly new. Maybe a year old. Letting it
upgrade was what started this problem. :)
| I'm not sure - Google Play Services is 'special' in that it has more
| privilege than most other apps. I don't know how you control things at
that
| level.
|
I looked the problem up online and found that others
have had the same issue of demands to enable Google
Play, but I found no answers. Thanks for your time,
anyway.
This is one of the reasons that I avoid regular
cellphone use. It's too hard to control and too much
work to figure it out from scratch. There's a pile of
Google apps that I can't remove. And the hidden settings
are like a cave system. After you told me what GBoard
was, I opened Firefox to bring up the keyboard, then I
found a small settings icon along the top of it. That led
to a discovery that by default I was enabling GBoard to
report my keyboard usage. All that from an app that's
officially disabled!