New update to my Alcatel Idol 3 5.5 in 2018/01/18

[Wireless Gadget]

Anyone received this notification of an update? I had thought this phone was forgotten.

 

[Wireless Gadget]

WARNING, this update may slow down your phone even more. it was a great way for the manufacturer to install more useless apps in your phone. grr.

 

[Haldrie]

WARNING, this update may slow down your phone even more. it was a great way for the manufacturer to install more useless apps in your phone. grr.

I'm sure everyone that owns an Alcatel device has been noticing these horrible, ad filled app updates pushed to their devices. I'm going to unroot my phone (after making a nandroid backup of it) and see if I can still revert the ad filled apps back to the stock versions from the previous rom version. Worst case at least I have a backup. I plan on calling up Alcatel tech support at some point to give them my thoughts about them doing this as apparently they don't read the reviews on their own apps or at the very least don't take them seriously. They make great phones but this move is really turning away a lot of people from ever buying them again.

 

[Multitrak]

Yeah I'm afraid to accept the download for these very reasons, when they updated the weather app with ad's I was pissed and reverted it to the stock one.

I have not taken the various calculator /launcher /calendar apps in Google play either, but I know with the persistent nagging to download the update at the top of the screen it's bound to accidentally get downloaded.

What the heck is Alcatel thinking - I would have purchased one of the new models but since they pulled this stunt I will not - ps did anyone ever manage to root this phone?

 

[morami]

Anybody knows if they restored fastboot commands in this update?

 

[Chazz77]

The latest TCL, Alcatel update 7VGS-UES6 duplicates the task bar from the previous update. This has many features duplicated. Wish it could be uninstalled w/o rooting.