Hello friends,
I can’t uninstall OsmAnd, which I installed with F-Droid. I was able to remove the uploaded maps, but the app is still there. Neither via settings nor via the context menu, which doesn’t even appear.
Do you have any tips for me?
Many thanks and regards,
huedroid
can you detail what you want to do exactly?
It does not have any maps when installed, you need to download them locally or it uses the Internet to pull the map tiles that you see.
Thank you for answering.
I tried to “wipe off” the OsmAnd-Navigation-App.
But like other Apps it cannot be removed the standard way:
there is no icon in the App-Overview to hold on and reach the “Remove App”-Option.
So I tried to remove all maps first successfully.
But the App itself is already untouchable.
What should I do?
My mobile ist a Volla-Phone with VollaOS (Andr. 12) on it.
Android Settings - Apps - Osmand - Uninstall? Attach some pics too
Okay, I will upload 3 pics:
- the settings-overview (OsmAnd is shown here)
- the options of organic map above (deinstallable)
- the options of OsmAnd (just deactivisable)
sorry for the not-english language
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according to https://www.reddit.com/r/Volla_Phone/comments/v4iixm/hows_gps/
Volla OS comes with osmand as navigator/map app and seems to be working fine and pretty fast
so that is normal, as system apps can’t be uninstalled, only deactivated
so not a bug
Thank you, Licaon_Kter, … that’s the reason!
OsmAnd works fine, but the navigation itself needs a lot of time to calculate the routes and there are some security issues,
so I tried the organic…
calculation speed depends on you device speed, organic maps might be faster, but less flexible
location lock depends on your device GPS too, nothing the app can do about that
which security issues exactly?
On OsmAnd~ | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
I found at the bottom:
Anti-Features:
- NonFreeAssets - Artwork, layouts and prerecorded voices are under a non-commercial license
- NonFreeNet - May use maps and download images from non-free online services
- Tracking - An unique installation ID is sent alongside map download requests, No setting to disable: download sends unique user tracking UUID & number of days since install · Issue #15058 · osmandapp/OsmAnd · GitHub
- UpstreamNonFree: Build removes Google Billing and In-app purchase, Amazon In-app purchase, Google ratings, Telegram integration, Google Location, ANT+ integration, pre-built binary deps are rebuilt from sources/
This may not really be serious, who knows.
But organic is lightweight and - I my eyes - pretty fast.
Thank you for your advice!
none of those are “security issues” in any way 