Disable V CAST Media Manager Web Pop Up?

[NickP]

Hi,

Every time I connect my Droid Incredible to my pc, my PC's web browser launches the V CAST Media Manager download page (http://products.verizonwireless.com/index.aspx?id=fnd_mediamanager_video).

This is an big annoyance and I would really like to disable it.  Any idea on how to do this?

Thanks,

[robguttman]

My HTC Droid Incredible just upgraded to Froyo this morning and now the same thing is happening to me.  How can we get this new tab to stop automatically opening?

[NickP]

Hi,

If you have Win XP, try disabling auto-play (might work for windows 7 as well):

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/disable-autoplay-of-audio-cds-and-usb-drives/

This is really annoying and you should be able to disable it on the phone itself rather than having to do this.

Good Luck!

[Fibraplex]

That worked in Windows XP. Thanks. I cannot believe Verizon would do this crap.

[robguttman]

THis worked for me, too, under Windows 7.  Windows 7 has a comparable mechanism called AutoPlay under the "Hardware and Sound" Control Panel -  but same idea.   I narrowed down the problem to the "Software and games" AutoPlay option - so setting that to "Take no action" turns off this Verizon nagware while retaining the other Autoplay options (if you want that).

Thanks for the pointer!  Verizon should have at least disabled the "pop up" after the first time it's shown - bad form, Verizon.

- Rob

[NicoleHamilton]

Not sure why I can't give you any Kudos for this, but I can say thanks.  That worked for me on Win7.  I agree this was **bleep**, especially as I'm on 64-bit Win7, which doesn't support that silly V Cast Media Manager that noisy screen nags you to download.

[eieioh]

Unfortunately, turning off the Autoplay on All Drives on my win xp pro did not disable the vzw website pop-up to Backup Assistant Plus.

The drivers listed on the device manager on my pc do not have a VZ icon, are an icon with the Motorola M with the title: MotoHelper.

Seems there be more information to be obtained and perhaps consider switching to a different wireless provider when my contract expires.

[jdg]

Thanks for the tip. I guess it never occurred to them that anyone might not want to use this completely unnecessary piece of software.

[tmr]

Experienced the same issue since the 2.2 update. And my phone is set to "charge only" rwhen plugged in ather than connect as a disk drive. Typical Verizon douches.

[MrElk]

What I found with this is that when the dialog to install the software is up if you check windows device manager you will see another cd drive.  if you right click that drive for the properties you can disable it so on future usb connections the software will not try to load.  This way you do not have to disable auto start for everything on the PC.

[MrElk]

One more thing the first time you conncect to your PC after the upgrade you are prompted to install the drivers for the CD.  It will have VZ Icon.  My guess is that like me most people are just clicking okay and the default is to install the drivers and always run software from this drive. 

[MKULTRABLIZZARD]

is there any way to remove this garbage from the phone? it's stuff like this and bloatware that, imo, totally defeats the purpose of what Android really is. if Google ever decides to sell another one of their phones ala Nexus 1, i think i may jump ship just so i don't have to deal with all this junk. as much as i love Froyo, all this extra baggage that came with it just S U C K S.

[Tidbits]

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MKULTRABLIZZARD wrote:

is there any way to remove this garbage from the phone? it's stuff like this and bloatware that, imo, totally defeats the purpose of what Android really is. if Google ever decides to sell another one of their phones ala Nexus 1, i think i may jump ship just so i don't have to deal with all this junk. as much as i love Froyo, all this extra baggage that came with it just S U C K S.

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Have you ever read Google's ToU? Read it sometime.  Google loads the bloatware themselves.  I can attest to that while holding my Nexus One.

[MKULTRABLIZZARD]

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Tidbits wrote:

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MKULTRABLIZZARD wrote:

is there any way to remove this garbage from the phone? it's stuff like this and bloatware that, imo, totally defeats the purpose of what Android really is. if Google ever decides to sell another one of their phones ala Nexus 1, i think i may jump ship just so i don't have to deal with all this junk. as much as i love Froyo, all this extra baggage that came with it just S U C K S.

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Have you ever read Google's ToU? Read it sometime.  Google loads the bloatware themselves.  I can attest to that while holding my Nexus One.

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i haven't, but based on the fact my phone got a slew of Verizon branded goods, i thought VZN was behind it. as far as i knew, the N1 came bare bones. guess not.

[Tidbits]

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MKULTRABLIZZARD wrote:

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Tidbits wrote:

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MKULTRABLIZZARD wrote:

is there any way to remove this garbage from the phone? it's stuff like this and bloatware that, imo, totally defeats the purpose of what Android really is. if Google ever decides to sell another one of their phones ala Nexus 1, i think i may jump ship just so i don't have to deal with all this junk. as much as i love Froyo, all this extra baggage that came with it just S U C K S.

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Have you ever read Google's ToU? Read it sometime.  Google loads the bloatware themselves.  I can attest to that while holding my Nexus One.

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i haven't, but based on the fact my phone got a slew of Verizon branded goods, i thought VZN was behind it. as far as i knew, the N1 came bare bones. guess not.

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If you have friends with a Nexus One.  It has a whole slew of apps a lot of people don't use.  I wouldn't mind deleting a lot of them.  I believe the only apps Verizon puts on the phone is Vcast stuff, and Skype.  Everything else is from Google and from the manufacturer(HTC, Motorola, etc.).  Nexus One is as bare as you can get though.

[TheGreatOne]

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Tidbits wrote:

If you have friends with a Nexus One.  It has a whole slew of apps a lot of people don't use.  I wouldn't mind deleting a lot of them.  I believe the only apps Verizon puts on the phone is Vcast stuff, and Skype.  Everything else is from Google and from the manufacturer(HTC, Motorola, etc.).  Nexus One is as bare as you can get though.

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All the android phones come with preinstalled apps. Good luck of trying to buy a Nexus One though. It got discontinued pretty quickly

[Tidbits]

You can always buy them from the Dev store it is more expensive. Also I am selling mine as soon as my contract is over with T-Mobile.

[jmsample]

This is crap. How to you stop this thing from launching internet explorer?? It also give the fake CD drive a drive letter, so as you are mountint the SD card and the phones internal memory it gives those different drive letters.

If I wanted an iPhone I would have bought an iPhone!!!!

Remove this junk from my phone!

[adam3914]

this was so annoying i had to find a way to fix it without disabling auto play for my whole computer.

Found this solution on another forum, works great.

dial ##7764726
Hit Call
Type Password 000000 (that's 6 zeros)
Hit Feature Settings
Choose CD ROM
Click Disable
Hit menu, commit modifications (it will say no item changed)

[budone]

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adam3914 wrote:

this was so annoying i had to find a way to fix it without disabling auto play for my whole computer.

Found this solution on another forum, works great.

dial ##7764726
Hit Call
Type Password 000000 (that's 6 zeros)
Hit Feature Settings
Choose CD ROM
Click Disable
Hit menu, commit modifications (it will say no item changed)

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THANK YOU!

[Tidbits]

I believe if you have the drivers installed and you go you notifications in the bottom right of windows you can turn off auto play for your device.(At least for motorola devices).