[asr10 user]

Anyone know how to stop google talk? I keep signing out, but somehow someone sends me a msg and I get it. Any ideas?

[funkylogik]

settings, app manager, tap ALL at top, find Talk, tap disable

[Richard Devine]

It's a system app that comes as part of the Android OS. There is a disable button there somewhere or you can root your phone and remove it

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[GSDer]

Perhaps the behaviour has changed with later updates to the OS, but in the version on my Verizon phone the Disable button is there. Be sure you're looking in the All section. Sent from my rooted, debloated, deodexed Sinclair ZX-80 running CM -0.001 using Tapatalk 2

[DaveT2323]

Instructions above work on my GS3 with Jellybean. It drives me nuts that these apps always seem to default to "enabled" or "sync contacts" etc. Why can't I just use my phone without all this sharing or letting everyone know my location or that I'm available to chat? If I want to share phone numbers, friends, or photos I'll make an effort to do it - I hate always having to make sure it's not being done behind my back... It's almost like they want us to be comfortable with no privacy at all...

[trucky]

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Disable is there... Settings, Application manager, All apps, Talk

You can't remove it unless you are rooted.

Punished? For providing a free app?

[meyerweb]

Perhaps the behaviour has changed with later updates to the OS, but in the version on my Verizon phone the Disable button is there. Be sure you're looking in the All section.

If, instead of "Disable" in the screen shot above, you see "uninstall updates," you'll need to tap that first. Once you've uninstalled the updates, then you should see "Disable," as shown above.

[jwp1223]

He's a troll, look at the name. Don't respond to the stupidity.

[NotJustAPhone]

Ignoring posters who are trying to stir things up is always a good practice. Don't give them the attention they crave.

Sent from my Galaxy Note II

[howardtaft]

I have this problem as well, and did click disable. I still get chat requests from strangers. I had to enable it again just so i could block the user. I had never used google talk so it sure seemed an odd place to spam me.

[Franzy1320]

If you don't mind me asking, How were you able to block the msg after you enabled it. Since they show up as an IP address on my phone, I have not figured out where you do the blocking.

[junktext]

Answer: To truly disable Google Talk you need to open up the "Talk" app and then Sign Out of all Google e-mail accounts that you may have. Trying to "Disable" the app in Settings doesn't work as you'll still get chat requests for some reason.

This was tested in Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean) on Verizon's Droid RAZR M.

[timgreen123]

maybe you can root your device, and delete it with rootexploer. sometimes.

[junktext]

Yeah, rooting would solve the main issue of not being able to remove Google Talk at all from many stock Android phones. But, for folks like me who doesn't want to root our phone (for various reasons), my suggestion above works fine.

[Patrick Man]

Instructions above work on my GS3 with Jellybean. It drives me nuts that these apps always seem to default to "enabled" or "sync contacts" etc. Why can't I just use my phone without all this sharing or letting everyone know my location or that I'm available to chat? If I want to share phone numbers, friends, or photos I'll make an effort to do it - I hate always having to make sure it's not being done behind my back... It's almost like they want us to be comfortable with no privacy at all...

I'm with Dave. Come to find out I've been missing messages from coworkers because Hangouts was automatically delivering messages to my droid (without even notifying me!). How hard would it be to have a checkbox "auto login to hangouts on bootup"? Finally had to uninstall hangouts and disable gtalk. Again Google, I only want to check my gtalk messages when I want to check them. Why do you insist on showing me logged in all the time so i can receive messages I'll never see? Yes, I can see why having it work a certain way would be useful to a lot of people, but why do you shove it down the throat of the rest of us?

edit: Someone else successfully solved this by installing some sort of kidsafe app and making google hangouts require a password. *sigh*