T-Mobile And Verizon (And Possibly Other Carriers) Are Using A New System App To Silently Install Bloatware Onto Phones

2014-12-01 03_31_17-cVP0Pp6.png (1440×2560) Welcome to the latest edition of "What the hell is wrong with carriers?" In this installment, we discuss the newest carrier attempt to further monetize customers (that's us) with a service called Digital Turbine Ignite. This service is already being included on a few T-Mobile and Verizon phones, and it allows the carriers to push new apps to your phone without warning. It almost goes without saying users are not happy about this one bit.





T-Mobile And Verizon (And Possibly Other Carriers) Are Using A New System App To Silently Install Bloatware Onto Phones was written by the awesome team at Android Police.




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Titanium Backup root 6.2.0.1 APK

The Titanium Backup Android app has a few new features for its many users to check out, thanks to its just released version 6.2.0.1 update that also has some under-the-hood performance improvements.






Titanium Backup root is a great backup and modification program, must Have tool for every Android root user. This is the first app that you can count on to bail you out of the dreaded factory reset when you flash a new ROM. The app is well known and essential for people that constantly switch custom ROMs.



If you root your phone, this should be the first app installed. Titanium Backup is the tools that made everything easy. Don't worry about the data of your apps, just back it up and then restore it. Getting the Titanium Backup pro version is worth the money it makes restoring the apps really easy you just click a button and leave it to do it for you.



The app is good, it does everything you want, even make a flashable zip. It also works without problems on Lollipop. Yes, it's works on Android 5.0, make sure you enable unknown sources in Security settings and then side load any apk from another source. Once you have done this, Titanium Backup restore will work perfectly.



A new update has been pushed to the Play Store, the developer respond to users queried really quickly and helped us solve the issue. Read past the break for the change log, and follow the APK File button below to update or download.



Titanium Backup root has provided a quick change log of the Android update:

- Minor fixes.

- Display a warning if using SuperSU with the "mount namespace separation" setting enabled, which caused "Insufficient free storage space" errors for many users.

- Updated translations.



Requires Android: 1.5+

Download File: 7.3MB (Titanium Backup root APK)






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