To promote your business and products through the VKontakte social network, you can use three types of advertising campaigns, differing in formats and placements:
- Targeted advertising on pages.
- Targeted advertising in the news feed.
- Advertising posts in communities.
Today I will describe step by step and show an example of setting up advertising in the VKontakte news feed, taking into account the latest changes and additions to the functionality of the advertising account - read, apply.
How to disable automatic application updates on Android!?
How to disable automatic application updates on Android if constantly installing new data consumes a large amount of traffic and phone RAM?
You can disable the function using the built-in functions of your gadget.
Content:
When releasing software, developers cannot make it perfectly adapted to all devices. That is why the program may often not work correctly on certain smartphone models. Noticing such inaccuracies, programmers correct the flaws, test the resulting product and release new components. By installing them, the user will receive a more advanced version of their favorite game or other type of software.
Each update has its own digital designation - version number. It is written in 1.0, 2.0, 2.1 and so on. When you first install something on your gadget from the Play Store, you get the latest version of the update. Over time, more and more improvements to the program will appear.
To prevent the user from uninstalling and installing it again, the store provides an update function - you simply press the appropriate key and get the latest version in a few seconds. All user data and files will be saved. In the Google Store window, you can see what's new and what features have been added to your favorite application.
Rice. 2 – view information about new components on Google Play
Often, in the Android store, the function of automatically updating the software installed on the phone is already activated. This feature will allow you not to monitor the constant releases of components, because developers create them almost every week. If the background installation interferes with your work with the device or consumes a lot of Internet, you should disable the function.
Return to menu
If you do not want to install additional utilities that are designed to work with updates in the Android system, use the standard Play Market. With its help, you can also configure the operation of updates. Follow the instructions to prevent automatic downloading and installation of new components:
- Open the application store;
- The store home page will appear. Open the menu by flicking to the right or clicking on the corresponding icon;
Rice. 3 – home screen in Play Market
- At the bottom of the menu list, select “Settings” and go to the window for changing the program configuration;
Fig. 4 – main menu of the store
- In the general settings category, click on the “Automatic software updates” option. A window for selecting an update method will open. Select "Never" and close the window.
Rice. 5 – disabling the update
Return to menu
By installing any game or program, you accept the user agreement that the software may have access to built-in system functions and other programs. Even if you have disabled updates in the store, the installation of a new version may not be carried out by the Market, but by the application itself. This happens if the automatic software update function is activated in the smartphone settings.
To disable the feature, follow these steps:
- Go to the gadget settings;
- Click on the “About device” icon;
- Select the "Software Update" option;
Fig.6 – “About device” window in Android OS
- In the new window, deactivate the checkbox next to the “Auto-update” item.
Return to menu
By downloading the latest news and versions of your favorite programs manually, you can reduce traffic consumption and simply speed up the operation of your smartphone, because the background processes will not constantly be downloading data. Manual work with updates is suitable for those users whose phones have too many applications installed, and the phone’s resources do not allow them to perform many background operations.
Also, constantly enabled updates quickly reduce the battery charge and make the gadget work slowly. After disabling the installation of new data, you should periodically carry out updates yourself. You can do this as follows:
- Go to Google Play;
- Click on the menu icon in the upper left corner of the application;
- In the list that opens, select “My applications and games”;
- Go to the “Installed” tab;
Fig.8 - viewing and updating installed applications manually
- An “Update” button will appear next to the software for which an update is available. You can start the process of downloading a new version of the utility for one application or for all at once. Just click "Update All" at the top right of your open store tab.
After clicking on the “Update all” button, the process of downloading and installing the latest program data from the store server will begin. This may take a long time, depending on how much software is on your gadget.
For each program, the process of installing new components through the Google Play Market will begin:
Fig.9 – installation of new components
The advantage of this method of working with applications is that you choose the installation time of the components and they will not start downloading at the wrong time, when there is little traffic on the phone or a low network connection speed.
Another update method is to monitor system messages in the running application window. When a developer releases important security or functionality updates, and the user ignores them, immediately after launching the software, a window will appear notifying them of the need to install a new version of the game/utility. In this case, just agree to the installation, check your Internet connection and download the developer data package so that the program works stably.
Even if you have turned off automatic updates, the Play Market will periodically notify you about the availability of new versions of games and utilities. One or more messages will appear in the notification center with information about new features of the program and a button for installation.
Fig. 10 - notification center in Android
Please note that if the Google Play window does not have a button for updating specific programs or all installed data, you should install new components for the store itself:
- Go to the device settings;
- Open the “Applications” - “All” - “Play Store” window;
- Start the update process and also delete the cache to prevent errors.
Fig. 11 – Play Market update
Return to menu
If the update has already been installed, but after it there were difficulties in using the application: freezes, errors, bugs, or you simply did not like the new design. On Android you can always return to the previous version of the software. To do this, disable automatic updates and in the settings do the following:
- Open the list of all programs;
- Select the desired application;
- In the window that opens, click on “Uninstall updates”.
Fig. 12 – deleting the update
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Not everyone knows that Google Play may have an option to automatically update applications. This can lead to unexpected expenses if you have a tariff package with payment for Internet traffic. This screencast shows you how to disable automatic app updates.
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Why is the VKontakte news feed inconsistent?
The fact is that after updating the site, by default, visitors are first offered interesting news. Fortunately, you can disable this feature and read all the news one by one. For users who use a browser, you need to toggle the button in the upper right corner, or rather turn off the “interesting first” function. Voila, all the news is now displayed in order - first the latest, from the most recent to the oldest.
In the VKontakte application, this function is disabled a little differently. To do this, launch the application, then click “News” at the top. In the menu that appears, we see a button, the already well-known “Interesting first” button - this is what you need to disable. After such a simple manipulation, all the news in the news feed will be displayed one by one.
We hope that we were able to answer the question and now in your VKontakte news feed all the news is displayed out of order. If anything is not clear, do not hesitate to ask questions in the comments below. Stay tuned, there is still a lot of interesting things ahead.
How to disable Android app updates
05/07/2017 for beginners | mobile devices
By default, automatic updates are enabled for applications on an Android tablet or phone, and sometimes this is not entirely convenient, especially if you are not often connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi without traffic restrictions.
This instruction provides details on how to disable automatic updating of Android applications for all applications at once or for individual programs and games (you can also disable updating for all applications except selected ones). Also at the end of the article - how to remove already installed application updates (only for those pre-installed on the device).
Disable updates for all Android apps
To disable updates for all Android applications, you will need to use the Google Play settings (Play Store).
The steps to disable will be as follows
At this point, the shutdown process is completed and updates will not be automatically downloaded.
In the future, you can always update applications manually by going to Google Play - Menu - My apps and games - Updates.
How to disable or enable updates for a specific application
Sometimes it may be necessary that updates are not downloaded only for one application or, conversely, that despite updates being disabled, some of the applications continue to receive them automatically.
You can do this using the following steps:
After this, regardless of the application update settings on your Android device, the settings you have specified will be used for the selected application.
How to remove installed app updates
This method allows you to remove updates only for applications that were pre-installed on the device, i.e. All updates are removed, and the application is restored to the state it was in when the phone or tablet was purchased.
You may also find the instruction How to disable and hide applications on Android useful.
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Why does the VK application update itself?
Many of us were perplexed when, quite recently, the VKontakte application on our smartphones updated itself, even when auto updates were disabled in the Google Play Market. Today we will try to answer you why the official VKontakte application updates itself and how you can disable and get rid of the auto update function forever.
Why does the VK application update itself?
Everything here is quite simple: I use the official version of the VKontakte application downloaded from the Google Play Market, you download the full distribution kit which has forced update functions, as a rule, this function is used extremely rarely and is used only in the event of: a critical update is released with bug fixes, errors or holes, and the second case is when users are transferred to new functionality and some APIs that the program uses are disabled, which will lead to unstable operation of the application.
If he is talking about a specific VK application, then the reason for the forced update is simply to abandon the music cache and transfer this functionality to a separate application on a paid basis.
And even if you find an old version of the program on third-party resources, for example on 4pda, then after a few days or even hours it will still be automatically updated for you. But there is a way out and it’s quite simple.
How to disable forced auto update of VK application
To prevent the VK program on a smartphone running Android OS from being able to force updates, we need to:
- Find the latest stable version of the application suitable and compatible with our version of Android.
- Install it on your phone after first deleting all other installed versions.
- Turn off the Internet for a while.
- Remove link to Google Play Market.
- Reinstall the application.
In order to remove the link to the Google Play Market, you need to install Lucky Patcher and have root rights on your phone. (It may work without root, but we don’t guarantee)
In Lucky Patcher the procedure is as follows:
- Select the VK application.
- Patch menu.
- Create a modified apk.
- Apk with cut out license verification.
- Check the Remove dependencies checkbox.
- The process takes from 2 to 10 minutes depending on the power of your phone.
- As a result, you will get a VK application with a music cache and auto-update disabled.
- You will only need to reinstall your application.
If you know other methods, please share in the comments, ps. Unchecking auto-update in the playmarket does not remove the forced automatic update of applications.
By default, the VKontakte news feed is a collection of everything
possible updates from friends and groups.
It includes all
new publications, uploaded photos, reposts, and advertising.
Do you like the content of the feed?
If your feed has grown too large and it’s difficult to find really interesting materials among the many posts, it’s time to start cleaning up.
From this article you will learn how to set up your VKontakte feed.
Based on your interests, how to create “Favorites”, remove unnecessary messages, quickly see what friends liked, and turn off auto-playing GIF animations.
What does the VKontakte feed consist of?
First, let's go to the feed and see what is where →
- In the top field you can write something.
- In the central part are the publications themselves. We'll tell you in what order a little later.
- On the right is the menu. This is what will help you customize your feed.
- Below the menu there is a “smart ribbon” switch.
VKontakte uses two selection
news to feed:
- chronological (top - newest publications)
- “smart feed” mode (at the top are the most interesting publications).
With chronological everything is clear. And here is the “smart tape”
requires clarification. An internal algorithm analyzes user behavior in communities.
Taken into account:
- activity of the user and his friends in the comments
- number of views of photos and videos in community albums and on the wall
- likes and reposts
- time to watch community news
- number of link clicks
- other indicators (information from the official VKontakte blog).
The more active a user is in a community, the more useful and interesting this community is (according to the selection principles embedded in the algorithm). This means that the news from this community deserves to be included in the top positions in the feed.
Smart Tape mode is enabled by default. But if you don’t rely too much on the VKontakte mechanisms and want to choose what news to read, move lever 4 (see the picture above) and configure the feed manually.
How to advertise in the VKontakte news feed
This makes it possible to catch the user’s attention with creative offers, but do not forget that the ads are moderated by VK, which, as usual, is very strict
Everything here is the same as in setting up a targeted campaign - go to “advertising - campaigns - create an ad”, click “post in the community”. We are asked to choose an ad format.
I won’t describe everything, I’ll tell you about some.
- The carousel consists of several cards (up to 10 pieces). Setting up an ad is simple - after choosing this format, click on the plus sign, enter a link to: the website page with the product, community or application, or you can add a phone number. Then upload the image and write the text.
- The universal entry speaks for itself - here you can upload one or more images, gifs or videos.
- In posts with a button, you can add an active element with a call to action - as a rule, such a “trifle” significantly increases the number of transitions to the desired resource.
- Collecting applications allows you to recruit subscribers through a form in a created ad (described in detail in one of the articles in this section).
- An external website is the most used format for advertising a product or service in news. It does not require linking the site to the community, that is, you can advertise any resource within the permitted VK.
Creating an ad
Next, I will show you how to set up an advertising campaign in the VKontakte feed using the last point as an example. Click on the “Site Advertising” format, enter the link below, click “Open” to check and “Continue”.
We place an ad in the news feed.
And so, you can upload an image or video and write a title and description for it. Character limits are specified for texts, so you can't go wrong.
In addition, a button with a call to action is added - unfortunately, the choice of label on the button is limited, but, in principle, it is enough.
After setting up an ad for the news feed, you select targeting to target the VK target audience.
How to create your “Favorites” on VKontakte
Easily organize your bookmarks in your browser or Evernote. But few people know that VKontakte also has such a function. You can create your own news groups
:
- by topic (for example, all news from content marketing communities)
- by friends lists (for example, all news from colleagues)
- by selected friends (for example, all the news from the trainers of the Academy of Correct Copywriters).
Surely you will come up with other options. This is done like this:
- Click the plus sign in the right menu (see picture).
- In the menu that opens, select “Add Tab”. You will see a window like this. Come up with a name for your new newsgroup.
- This list first
displays all your
friends
, then all groups and pages. Next to each item there is an empty circle for a check mark. Check the box for the groups where they publish materials on the selected topic, and all new publications from these groups will be reflected in the created tab (in the right menu), and other posts will not appear there.
- In the “Actions” drop-down menu, you can select only groups or only friends, and then act by elimination, unchecking unnecessary boxes. Don't forget to save changes
(button below the list)!
- The tab you created is customizable. To do this, you need to click the plus sign again, and then click on the gear next to the name of the tab in the menu. You can delete the tab there. Tracking news has now become easy!
What is news in contact?
News in contact is a kind of news feed that contains all the updates that occur on the pages of your friends, groups or communities to which you are subscribed. In general, the functionality is reminiscent of the well-known microblog Twitter.
In addition to someone's updates, various alerts are also reflected in the news. For example, you added someone as a friend, after this person accepts your application, you will receive a notification in the news. The same goes for comments on posts and photographs; in short, nothing will go unnoticed.
Now let's click on the “My News” button in the left menu.
If you don’t have this item in your menu, then click “My Settings”, check the boxes on the links that you need, and they will immediately appear in the left menu!
Well, this is roughly what the news looks like in contact:
As you can see, there are three tabs at the top: “News”, “Answers” and “Photos”, but the latter may change, I’ll tell you why later.
Well, now let’s look at the main one, this is “News”.
This tab displays posts that are published specifically on walls, i.e. when one of your friends or in the community you are subscribed to updates their wall, it will be displayed on this tab.
In my case, you can see that new pictures have appeared on the walls of three different groups. And since updates happen quite often, there is always something to read and see. But not all records are interesting; we’ll also talk about how to get rid of them.
For now, let's return to our image:
In the upper right corner there is a “News Search” button; by clicking on it, you can enter any words to be searched.
Just below is a field for entering your news, it is the same as on the wall of your main page, and performs the same functions, everything you write here will appear on your wall and, accordingly, in your friends’ news.
How to find out what your friends liked
In the same menu (by clicking on the plus sign on the right) there are several more interesting functions. For example, viewing only photos. Or news from friends.
If you check the “Like” box and then select it in the menu, then in your feed you will see posts, photos and videos that you or your friends have liked or commented on.
You can customize this feed using a filter.
Of course, if your posts meet article quality criteria, the likelihood of receiving likes and comments increases significantly.
How to remove unnecessary messages from your feed
Not all news is equally useful. If you want to keep your subscription
on a community or a person, but
their publications
remove
unnecessary messages . This is done like this:
- In the right menu, already familiar to us, there is a funnel icon between the word “News” and the plus sign. This is a filter. Click on it and you will get this window:
It is similar to the tab customization window and works the same way. Only here the entire list of friends and groups is initially shown.
- Uncheck those groups (or friends) whose news you don’t need in your feed.
- If you uncheck the “Show copies” checkbox (below), then reposts will no longer appear in your feed.
- Save
your changes.
Features of advertising in the VK news feed
Initially, this format was conceived to promote business through a social network - to expand coverage, owners of groups and public spaces have the opportunity to set up the display of individual community posts to a wider audience.
This is done using targeting to narrow the target audience - that is, in essence, it is the same target.
The difference between advertising in VK news is that some ad formats allow you to promote only posts published in your group, or created on behalf of the community directly in the advertising account, but provided that you have administrator rights.
What is the interest here from an advertiser's point of view?
- The ability to configure the display of advertising in the feed of any VKontakte users - without spam, legally.
- The news hangs for as long as you like, unwinding happens slowly.
- The ability to receive likes and reposts, which means viral spread.
You should know that you are allowed to create one ad for one post in the community, no more. Therefore, most often such advertising is used to attract attention to new discounts, promotions or events. It is also an effective way to increase awareness of your brand or to announce a new product.
Entries from closed VKontakte groups for advertising in the news feed are not accepted, which is quite logical - that’s why they are closed..
A post in the feed is marked as advertising and alternates with simple user posts no more than 1/25. This alternation makes advertising in the news native - it does not become an eyesore and does not provoke rejection.
Example.
How to disable automatic playback of GIF animations
I don’t argue that GIF pictures (those that move) can be very interesting. They attract attention. That’s why advertisers love GIFs. But I prefer that only those files that I launch myself are played. You too?
In the new VKontakte feed, all animated images are by default
made large and “self-playing”. That is, they do not require activation by clicking the mouse. And the feed may suddenly start showing a mini-video.
If you are not happy with this situation, you need to disable autoplay of GIF animation. This is done simply:
- Go to the menu (arrow next to your avatar, displayed in the upper right part of the page)
- Select “Settings” and immediately go to the “General” tab (see picture)
- In the second item - “Page Settings” - you need to uncheck
“Automatically play GIF animations”
- Ready. Changes to page settings are saved themselves.
In fact, you can quickly set up your VKontakte feed. with your own hands once.
. Let's start right now→
- Select a topic (for example, copywriting)
- Create a newsgroup tab in your feed
- Title it
- Gather thematic communities there
- Save changes
- See how it works!
Did everything work out for you? Write in the comments which newsgroup you created first. And, of course, ask questions.
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The news of the social network VKontakte displays friends' publications, community posts, and advertising posts. We are so accustomed to periodically scrolling through the feed that when VKontakte news does not work, we begin to panic and feverishly look for the reason. There are few options, and the problem can be solved quickly and with virtually no effort.
In March 2021, clients of the third-party application Kate Mobile, which provides access to a page on the popular social network Vkontakte, faced restrictions on the news feed API from company representatives.
And why? VK users who are using the full version know how much advertising there is now. So the Kate Mobile developers decided to earn extra money by posting promotional publications without first coordinating them with VKontakte. The latter did not like it: they wanted a percentage of the placement, under the pretext of violating the rules of the social network (harm to health, hazardous substances, etc.) they asked to limit the appearance of advertising, but the dialogue did not take place, and the feed was turned off.
On March 15, employees of the social network disabled access for the Android application. The first complaints came: the VKontakte news feed did not work. This went on for several months; when you clicked on the “News” tab, a text was displayed that said, “The Administration apologizes, but we can’t display it.” And lo and behold, in August the tape started working (apparently, a compromise was reached). Kate Mobile users, as before the shutdown, can view publications from friends and communities they belong to. More advertising posts have appeared, but this is tolerable.
Solution: If your news feed is not yet enabled, update the application to the latest version or reinstall it via the Play Market, and the problem will be solved.
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That's not all. You also have the ability to filter media news - watch only photos or videos. In addition, there you can find quick access to:
- recommendations - by clicking this button, all posts that are gaining popularity or, in other words, posts that have become interesting to your friends will be displayed in the news feed;
- search – here you can find the news we need in the news feed;
- updates – here you will see information related to the actions of your friends, that is, who joined which group, which friends they added, etc.;
- articles – in this case, you will see news with articles;
- comments – this place displays the latest comments on objects that interested you.
So we gradually moved on to the last possibility and will try to answer the question:
VKontakte news feed does not load
When you go to the “News” tab, sometimes an access error pops up and there are no entries.
Solution: Log out and log back in.
Various problems with the news feed, updating posts, and loading attached pictures arise when the Internet connection speed is insufficient.
If we are talking about the mobile Internet, you may have left a good coverage area, exceeded the daily limit, ran out of money in your account, or have ordinary connection problems. Check each option.
Internet providers may experience difficulties with the operation of the equipment, problems on the line, the problem may be in the router or network adapter, hence the low speed. You can check the connection speed using one of the World Wide Web services, and then the technical support of the provider. If only you have a problem, they will send a specialist, but all subscribers have a problem - you will have to wait a little.
VKontakte news feed is not working now
VKontakte is an Internet site that, like others, lags, slows down, is updated and improved. The difference between a social resource and others is in the frantic traffic: millions of users are active every second: listening to songs, scrolling through the feed, sending messages, uploading the latest photos and videos. All this puts a strain on the servers, and even the most powerful equipment sometimes needs to be rebooted. Then similar problems arise: sometimes the video doesn’t load, sometimes the music doesn’t load, sometimes the news doesn’t load on VK.
Solution: ordinary users will not be able to solve the problem with servers on their own, since it is completely out of our control. All that remains is to wait until the technical work is completed.
What to do?
Another option why the news feed in VK does not work is making changes to the system hosts file, which is responsible for the normal operation of the site. The presence of unnecessary information in a document indicates the possible presence of a virus, and also means a disruption of the social network in one form or another.
Solution.
There are plenty of reasons for the problem, but for every reason there is a solution. If none of the proposed options worked, perform a system restore by rolling it back to the moment when the tape worked, or reinstall the operating system (for very extreme cases).
Constantly updating the VK page
First of all, you should understand that social. The VK network is a fairly popular resource and, as a result, often suffers from problems on the server side. Although this reason is the least likely, a constant update can still be triggered by precisely such problems, the presence of which you immediately need to confirm or deny, following the appropriate instructions.
In addition to the above, you need to check not only VKontakte, but also other resources on the Internet for constant updates, and after that you can safely move on to solving problems.
Method 1: Removing the virus infection
The most popular problem in which largely unknown problems occur in the system is infection of the OS by viruses. In this case, the only solution for you will be to check the system for the activity of virus programs and then remove them.
Do not forget that it is best to clean the operating system from viruses offline in order to protect yourself from possible loss of access to your personal profile.
Method 2: Clear the hosts file
Today, few Internet users have not heard of the system hosts file, modifications of which can cause problems with the Internet or specific sites. This problem is especially relevant in relation to social networks, since it is precisely such resources that people visit most often.
The hosts file is practically unchanged regardless of the OS used, which is why it is quite easy to return it to its basic state.
Please note that if for some reason it is difficult for you to clear the hosts file, you can simply delete it and reboot the system.
Method 3: Cleaning the system of debris
In addition to the methods described above, if the problem persists in the same form, it is recommended to perform an in-depth cleaning of the operating system from the cache of various browsers. For these purposes, you can use the special CCleaner program, following the instructions from the corresponding instructions.
If for some reason you cannot use the specified software, you should clear the cache manually using basic Internet browser tools.
Method 4: Reinstall the browser
Since the problem of constantly refreshing the page occurs in the browser, reinstalling the browser you are using may help. This method is best used as a last resort and combined with all other methods.
Please note that after removing a web browser, quite a lot of traces of its activity remain on the system, which is why you will definitely have to clean the OS of garbage. Otherwise, all actions may be performed in vain.
