For those that are experiencing battery drain because Maps app keeps opening in the background no matter how many times you force close it, I made a very simple script to completely freeze it (and defrost it if it's already frozen) with one click(technically two lol).
Attached Files:
freeze-maps -- it auto detects if Maps is already enabled or disabled, and does the opposite.
maps-disable -- it simply runs the disable Maps command, won't hurt even if the maps is already disabled
maps-enable -- it enables Maps, won't do any harm if Maps is already enabled
Instruction:
1. Download and Install Script Manager in the market (there's a free version)
2. Download the attached freeze-maps.sh.txt and put it in your SD card, say under Documents
3. Open Script Manager, locate the file (freeze-maps.sh.txt) you just downloaded, open it by long press and open as... Script/Executable
Check "run as root", check "Configure as favorite", Click Save and click Exit
4. You can now quit the Script Manager app
5. On your preferred launcher, create a new widget, choose script manager, and then the freeze-maps.sh.txt script (it should be there, since you bookmarked it at step 3).
6. Now you can enable/disable Maps with just using the widget on your Launcher!
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For those getting an error with freeze-maps.sh.txt, it means your "pm" command doesn't support filter and it won't function as intended. You can either use maps-disable/maps-enable as two separate widgets
or you can do the following(at your own risk):
I attached a copy of my own "pm" executable file that was found in my device, you just gotta replace yours with it.
How-to:
1. Download the attached file - pm.zip
2. Use root explorer and go to /system/bin
3. mount it as writable by pressing the little button says "Mount R/W", it will change to "Mount R/O"
4. rename your pm to pm.bak (for backup) and replace it with the file pm found in pm.zip
5. Long click on the pm file you just extracted here and choose permissions:
Owner = Read/Write/Execute
Group = Read/Execute
Others = Read/Execute
Click Ok
5. Mount your system back to read only by pressing "Mount R/O" and you should be set
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PS: please let me know if there's any error since this is the very first Android script I wrote, Thanks for Looking ;-)
*Disclaimer: As usual, I am not responsible for any damage to your device, it's do it at your own risk. I will try my best to help though.
PPS: The geeky stuff - you can of course edit the script or run the command "pm" in a terminal and use it to enable/disable any annoying process, but you need to know what you are doing!!!! I personally froze the market updater and twitter app and some other bloatwares that came with the streak.
Attached Files:
freeze-maps -- it auto detects if Maps is already enabled or disabled, and does the opposite.
maps-disable -- it simply runs the disable Maps command, won't hurt even if the maps is already disabled
maps-enable -- it enables Maps, won't do any harm if Maps is already enabled
Instruction:
1. Download and Install Script Manager in the market (there's a free version)
2. Download the attached freeze-maps.sh.txt and put it in your SD card, say under Documents
3. Open Script Manager, locate the file (freeze-maps.sh.txt) you just downloaded, open it by long press and open as... Script/Executable
Check "run as root", check "Configure as favorite", Click Save and click Exit
4. You can now quit the Script Manager app
5. On your preferred launcher, create a new widget, choose script manager, and then the freeze-maps.sh.txt script (it should be there, since you bookmarked it at step 3).
6. Now you can enable/disable Maps with just using the widget on your Launcher!
************************************************
For those getting an error with freeze-maps.sh.txt, it means your "pm" command doesn't support filter and it won't function as intended. You can either use maps-disable/maps-enable as two separate widgets
or you can do the following(at your own risk):
I attached a copy of my own "pm" executable file that was found in my device, you just gotta replace yours with it.
How-to:
1. Download the attached file - pm.zip
2. Use root explorer and go to /system/bin
3. mount it as writable by pressing the little button says "Mount R/W", it will change to "Mount R/O"
4. rename your pm to pm.bak (for backup) and replace it with the file pm found in pm.zip
5. Long click on the pm file you just extracted here and choose permissions:
Owner = Read/Write/Execute
Group = Read/Execute
Others = Read/Execute
Click Ok
5. Mount your system back to read only by pressing "Mount R/O" and you should be set
******************************************
PS: please let me know if there's any error since this is the very first Android script I wrote, Thanks for Looking ;-)
*Disclaimer: As usual, I am not responsible for any damage to your device, it's do it at your own risk. I will try my best to help though.
PPS: The geeky stuff - you can of course edit the script or run the command "pm" in a terminal and use it to enable/disable any annoying process, but you need to know what you are doing!!!! I personally froze the market updater and twitter app and some other bloatwares that came with the streak.
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