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avoid AT&T apps from pushing to n5?

swerveb

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Nov 6, 2013
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Powered by n5 last night.... coming in from a GS4. How do you avoid the various carrier apps to keep coming to N5 upon restart? I have a ASUS tab and another verizon GS4 (work) all tied to my gmail account. When I restart I see the asus apps, verizon apps, and at&t apps loading....

Thanks.
 
N5 (at&t) is a carrier free pure android so a carrier cant push anything to it. OTA comes from google not at&t

Thanks.... but for some reason whatever ATT installed on the GS4 is listed as downloads in google.com/play. So when I loaded the phone up... all the annoying att branded software also came through. As did ASUS and Verizon stuff.

Is there a way to delete the carrier/manufacture specific apps from the play store? Luckily N5 is a pure android phone they do uninstall.
 
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Thanks.... but for some reason whatever ATT installed on the GS4 is listed as downloads in google.com/play. So when I loaded the phone up... all the annoying att branded software also came through. As did ASUS and Verizon stuff.

Is there a way to delete the carrier/manufacture specific apps from the play store? Luckily N5 is a pure android phone they do uninstall.

When you signed into your Google account, you allowed it to backup/restore your data. That is why it began downloading all of your last used apps from the Play Store. Disable that and it won't happen anymore.
 
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When you signed into your Google account, you allowed it to backup/restore your data. That is why it began downloading all of your last used apps from the Play Store. Disable that and it won't happen anymore.

^this is exactly the reason why. Since you have a log in Google play of either updating our downloading these AT&T apps, Google attempts to install them on your nexus 5.
 
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