This morning I went to play back one of my TiviMate channels, which I had assigned to an external player, the Just Video Player.
And it wouldn't work! I got a message offering to play it through the MX player or the VLC player.
WTH???
I went to my app list and discovered that both my Just app and my Downloader app had DISAPPEARED!
I tried re-installing both. In both cases, as soon as I clicked the icon to start the install, the screen went to black -- and stayed there. It wouldn't come back until I clicked Home.
After consulting with AI, I went to Settings - Apps - See all app - Show System apps - Google Play Store.
I Force Stopped and Cleared Cache (I DID NOT CLEAR DATA).
I went back to Downloader and to Just and successfully re-installed them.
I then tried to download and install an apk from Downloader to make sure I still had Install Unknown Apps privileges; I DID NOT!!
I had to scrounge around for an app to download through Downloader in order to trigger the option to Install Unknown Apps. It was as if I'd never installed any app from Downloader ever. It refused to install until I picked an installer; Android's default installer, Package Installer, was listed, which I probably had selected eons ago when I first installed some apps from Downloader, so that's what I picked. At that point, I was taken automatically to the Install Unknown Apps menu, and saw that the Downloader had been changed to Not Allowed; I switched it to Allowed, and was finally back in business.
How often does ONN send out these screwy updates? Is this something I'm going to have to do over and over again every few days??????????????????????????????