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I just updated two google apps, on my phone.
meh.
I'll probably revert them to factory settings, within a week.
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I allow most things to update, but not "play music".
And I install very few apps.
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The thing about google's own apps is that they bloat like crazy (just look at the size of the basic "google" app, which just simply [NOT!] puts a search box on your screen -- which I removed).
If you have 3 or 4GB core memory, they soon fill it up with their own apps -- what purpose they serve, I neither know nor give a cr@p .
Even talkback (which they've killed, AIRI), has been updated in the last week. WTF do I need a couple of meg more of it for, if it's deprecated?
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Too much information. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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You forgot to add: "Mr. Bond".
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Two Words:
Flip Phone
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I have a smart phone: about the only app I have installed on it is "Here Maps" for sat nav.
I used to be happy with clam shells, but ... the smart phone works inside the house, instead of just in a 2m diameter circle in the garden...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You should probably have gotten a more upscale flip-phone, like my $US 20 LG . Seems to work everywhere - of course, no one but the Mrs. ever calls.
For now, at least, I do my navigation by knowing where I am! (and printing a google map when needed.)
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Hmm, looks like I may need to upgrade from my $12 Samsung!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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We're in a "signal hole" between two hills, and the house has two-foot thick granite walls, so getting anything that picks up a signal is a bonus!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's a bluddy good point.
My last "feature phone" did almost everything I do with my current "smart" phone.
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Luddite 
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It's a shame there's no double-upvote!
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I always keep the Google apps on my Android tablet up to date.
But that's only because I can't delete them (without rooting the OS).
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You can revert them to factory settings (it's the delete option), which makes them about a thirtieth of their size.
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...but leaves them vulnerable to anything that's already been patched, and since they're Google apps, you know they're always running, despite not explicitly launching them...
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Shirley, but I firewall them, too, so that they can't contact the mothership.
You're right about them running without being explicitly opened, though. The firewall I use automatically blocks everything I don't white-list, and shows an alert whenever an app that's neither white- nor black-listed tries to visit the Interwebs.
I had to black-list them, to stop all the alerts.
The only ones I update, and let through, are translate and maps.
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Sounds like more trouble than I'm willing to put myself through for the sake of a tablet.
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Funny thing, it happened while I wanted to create backup of my data. I wanted to backup my screenshot folder with robocopy script. Destination folder also contained some older screenshots. What I forgot about, that since the last backup I reinstalled my notebook and to save some space I didn't restore the Screenshots folder. That was stupid from me, now I had newer screenshots with the same filenames, which meant robocopy rewrote them all.
To be honest, this was not some super critical data, that why I was OK to have it at one place. So, maybe it was a fair price to learn for ever, that I have to be really careful with robocopy even when I'm not using the /MIR option.
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Never overwrite backups immediately: Always keep a "grandfather...father...son" relationship so you can avoid things like this. It's also a good idea to keep several different physical backup media which you rotate each time you do a backup, and keep them physically disconnected from the computer once the backup is complete. That way you are insured against a single hardware failure, and against ransomware which can also encrypt your backup devices if they are on-line.
I run several 4TB USB drives, and do a full image every two weeks, with a different drive each time, and I keep a "historic" 8 or so images on each drive. But then, I've been called paranoid before, so it doesn't bother me... 
I'd also recommend AOMEI Backupper - but I may have done that here once or twice before!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You're right, I have to do something. I've never done restructuring of my data, so I have couple of external hard drives , which contents are partially copied to others (really awful attempt of backup). So, it's worse than you might think...
I really appreciated your comment, I got extra inspiration to clean up my messy pile of data and do a proper backup scheme
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Seriously, have a look at AOMEI - it does images, incremental images, and you can load images are virtual drives to restore individual files if you need to, or rewrite the whole HDD from a boot WinPE disk. It compresses, it's got a free edition which does everything you want, pretty much, it's really damn good. The only thing I wish it handled was eMMC so I could image the WookieTab ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm downloading it right now .
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'd also recommend AOMEI Backupper - but I may have done that here once or twice before!
I tried it after your tip and I find the software itself nice, but their recovery CD is quite crappy... I have had problems with legacy booting the laptop after using it. I don't discard bad usage from my side, but I think that even I was testing I didn't do anything that bad.
I tried Macrium Reflect after that and it is the way around. The software is not so intuitive (I don't have any problem with that, but my father in law...) but their CD is running like charm. And you can choose the target OS when doing it, I mean it doesn't generate a boot CD depending on host OS.
OriginalGriff wrote: I run several 4TB USB drives, and do a full image every two weeks, with a different drive each time, and I keep a "historic" 8 or so images on each drive. But then, I've been called paranoid before, so it doesn't bother me...
I am thinking on doing the same. A friend of mine has a very fancy NAS with redundant backups internally and so on (4x8TB HDDs = 3 for data, 1 for backup) but if they get one of those encripting malwares... I am not sure that it will keep them safe. I prefer your system... After all, that you are paranoid doesn't imply you are not being followed
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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second the vote of macrium over aomei, tried aomei first but it didn't play well network shares forwards or backwards (and couldn't restore from a hidden network share: no option to key in a path - must use [their] navigate - how amateurish is that? - and their helpdesk was clueless on that.)
Sin tack
the any key okay
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