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In /data/app
folder make a
new folder
with name

com.android.vending-1.apk
(to make the folder use a le manager app or the command "su"
followed by "mkdir /data/app/com.android.vending-1.apk" with
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a Terminal Emulator app and Busybox installed.
NOTE: Making a new folder in /data partition require root ALL-TIME
permissions so the Andriod system must be rooted rst)
That's it!
2 That could be done, of course, but still there's a
loss of 2MB of …

halnovemila OP 2014-Nov-24 6:27

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interesting to note …
Hello everyone,
halnovemila OP 2015-Dec-31 6:38
owners of smartphone with very limited internal storage, like
Galaxy Y, will likely end up to be concerned of every single MB 1 I noticed sequence: I created
of free space lost; and the more the concern as the free space is com.android.vending.apk-1 folder. …
getting closer to zero. pranciskus2 2015-Dec-30 13:47

So there I am too. 1 (quote) Hi Aaren11 I don't know a single thing

about M7, except …
I've put lot of e ort to optimize the use of my Galaxy Y internal
storage (/system, /data and /cache partitions all together) and halnovemila OP 2015-Dec-12 23:57

I'm proud to have more than 50% of internal storage free and I
1 Wow, sneaky! This is obviously a far superior
like to have it that way for as long time as possibile. solution to my …

lexelby 2015-Sep-04 3:09

One day, few weeks ago, I got very disappointed when I

realized that I suddenly lost 15% (actually 15MB) of free space
for some unknow reason
Later, it turned out that the reason was that the Google Play
Store had been silently updated in the background without any ANALYSIS & OPINION
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Actually the footprint of newer version of Google Play Store is
only 4MB bigger but as the previous version was installed in i-Blades Modular Smartcase (1TB
/system partition then the update process doesn't actually of Storage?) at CES 2016 – XDA TV
perform a replacement of the old installation with the new one,  January 8, 2016
but it just add the newer app leaving the old installation
untouched (that means leaving in place the old apk le along
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with its davilk-cache le) but marked as disabled. Certified Hardware List Released
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Uninstalling the update (that in my opinion, for my needs and  January 8, 2016
usage, was useless) was just a matter of tapping one button...
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but then another background update would have happen soon
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So, as I didn't nd any related option in Google Play Store
settings, I immediately started a Google search to nd a way to CES 2016 News! Free Jide Remix OS
for PC, SHIELD TV Receiving
prevent/avoid/stop any further self update.
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What I've found is only two solutions:
- one is about to freeze/disable the app that manage the More XDA News 
update of Google Play Store; but this app doesn't longer exist or TOP FORUM DISCUSSIONS
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- the other one is to make a "dummy" le in /data/app that will DIY Ballistic Kickstand Case
make the installation of the update to fail as the required name  January 8, 2016
for the new apk is already in use by the dummy le.
Unfortunately for those smartphones, like the Samsung Galaxy HTC One X9 Sub Forums Now Available!
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Y, where the /data partition is formatted RFS (Robust File
System from Samsung; basically a FAT 16/32 based le system Chat Hub for the Gear S2 Lets You Send Messages
with a sort of journalling system on it) this solution doesn't work Without a Notification
because RFS doesn't support the immutable le attribute and  January 5, 2016
therefore the "chattr +i" command will fail.
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task will be able to delete it and make the new apk in /data/app  January 4, 2016
folder.
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As an attempt to make the second solution, the "dummy le
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solution", to work with my Galaxy Y, I made the immutable
dummy le in another partition then I created a link in Chainfire Releases SuperSU 2.66 BETA, Fixes
/data/app pointing to that le. Deep Sleep on S6’s Marshmallow
But that didn't work... same as for the not immutable dummy  January 3, 2016

le, the link can be deleted by the installation task that will then
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proceed till completion.

So what to try next?

From what I've read around seems that there's no solution;
owners of Galaxy Y (that didn't reformat the /data partition
with a Ext2/3/4) and other smartphone with RFS lesystem are
simply out of luck.

True?
No! False!
I then remembered the days I used to make a autorun.inf folder
in the root of my FAT32 formatted USB thumbdrive to prevent
removable drive spreading viruses to make their own
autorun.inf le in the thumbdrive.
So... why not to try the same trick to make the installation of the
Google Play Store update to fail due to the impossibility to
make it's own com.android.vending-1.apk le in /data/app
folder?

Tried it...
 and tested...

SUCCESS!

As a side note I want to point it out that this trick doesn't

prevent the Google Play Store to try to self update and
download the latest installer in the /cache folder.

Anyway I've observed that after the rst failure of the update
there are no further update attempts neither new downloads...
at least for a while (maybe till next new version will be
released?)

I don't know how long it takes, after the rst update failure, for
the downloaded apk in /cache folder to be automatically
deleted... if ever; so I advise you to give a look at the /cache
folder and manually delete it if still there.

That's all folks!

Bye!

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TheFixItMan  
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 24th November 2014, 09:53 AM | #2  

Why don't you just integrate update to system with link2sd app

It will just replace the system app with the new update - you
get the latest update and you not using any extra space with
two versions of the app

Root required & restart after integrating (or it will force close)

Last edited by TheFixItMan; 24th November 2014 at 09:56 AM.

halnovemila  
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24th November 2014, 12:27 PM | #3  

That could be done, of course, but still there's a loss of 2MB of

free space in /data and 2MB in /system due to the bigger
footprint of the latest version.

Anyway is completely up to a personal choice if to upgrade or

not.
The point here is that if someone doesn't want Google Play
Store to self update now there's a known way to do so

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spunker88  
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10th December 2014, 04:34 PM | #4  

Another way to do this is to did a modded play store apk here

on XDA. A modded apk has been signed with a di erent key
and therefore it cannot be updated by Google.

Uninstall any updates to the Play Store and put the modded apk
in the system apps folder replacing the one on your phone,
make a backup just in case. Reboot and you should have a play
 store that doesn't update.

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vin2m  
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19th December 2014, 01:26 AM | #5  

good trick bro

save quota internet

halnovemila  
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19th December 2014, 05:00 AM | #6  

Quote:
Originally Posted by vin2m

good trick bro

save quota internet

Thanks for the high ve bro

Anyway I'm afraid that, as I pointed out at the bottom of my 1st

post, even if the trick makes the update to fail (same as per the
immutable "dummy le" trick) but it doesn't prevent Google
Play Store to download the newer version (9MB of data or
more) for the upgrade attempt; so the Internet quota is still
a ected.

XDADEVX  
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10th July 2015, 08:44 PM | #7  

How to stop updating play store WITHOUT root .. I need to have
4.x.x. installed but it auto updates to 5.x.x how to stop it
(cannot root my phone)
thnx

halnovemila  
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11th July 2015, 12:57 AM | #8  

I'm sorry but I'm afraid that without root privileges there's no
way to avoid the self update of Google Play Store as this app is
designed to self update and doesn't expose any option/settings
that the user might use in order to disable that function.
So, as the self update can't be disabled by power of user
account, it's required to operate at system level and therefore
root privileges are needed.

XDADEVX  
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11th July 2015, 09:38 AM | #9  

Quote:
Originally Posted by halnovemila

I'm sorry but I'm afraid that without root privileges

there's no way to avoid the self update of Google Play
Store as this app is designed to self update and doesn't
expose any option/settings that the user might use in
order to disable that function.
So, as the self update can't be disabled by power of user
account, it's required to operate at system level and
therefore root privileges are needed.

Fuking google bas****ds are they ?

lexelby  
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 4th September 2015, 09:09 AM | #10  

Wow, sneaky! This is obviously a far superior solution to my

chattr method. Wish I'd thought of it!

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9th December 2015, 02:32 PM | #11  

this x is no longer working it still forced the new version

right after the commands
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