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Rooted and Removed ALL Bloatware - Amazing!

My phone is much much faster now. Had absolutely no problems deleting ALL of the bloatware and verizon crap. My phone is ATLEAST 3x faster now. No more response lag. Before rooting and removing bloatware, I averaged 80-110mb free ram...after root and bloatware remove i now have 200mb free. I am blown away with how fast it is now...
Now I'm just wondering how long we will have to wait for custom roms like cyanogen...?

Could you maybe give us a guide on how to remove "bloatware". Could be very helpful for us less advanced users.

Once you are rooted, download Titanium Backup from the market. Open it up and delete these according to your taste:
Amazon Kindle
Blockbuster
Books
Citrix Receiver
City ID
GoToMeeting
Motoprint
My Verizon Mobile
NFL Mobile
Skype mobile
Slacker
Social Location
V CAST Media Manager
V CAST Music
V CAST Tones
V CAST Videos
VZ Navigator
ZumoCast
Backup assistant
DlnaSystemService
Backup Assistant Client
Social Networking
Help Center
Social Status
News
Picasa Authenticator
Social Messaging Service
Social Messaging
Social Sharing
DLNA
Guided Tours
IM
IM Presence

driftinaway said:
Once you are rooted, download Titanium Backup from the market. Open it up and delete these according to your taste:
Amazon Kindle
Blockbuster
Books
Citrix Receiver
City ID
GoToMeeting
Motoprint
My Verizon Mobile
NFL Mobile
Skype mobile
Slacker
Social Location
V CAST Media Manager
V CAST Music
V CAST Tones
V CAST Videos
VZ Navigator
ZumoCast
Backup assistant
DlnaSystemService
Backup Assistant Client
Social Networking
Help Center
Social Status
News
Picasa Authenticator
Social Messaging Service
Social Messaging
Social Sharing
DLNA
Guided Tours
IM
IM Presence
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Don't delete any apps, simply rename them to .bak or move them to another folder. Deleting them means you won't be able to get any OTA updates.

how do you rename them without root explorer? is there a free app that allows you to do the same thing?

pharaohoner said:
how do you rename them without root explorer? is there a free app that allows you to do the same thing?
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adb would let you rename and/or move them.

droid 3 rebot
I have a droid 3, I made the root, and delete some applications and then now every time I turn it on, it restarts and keeps restarting, help please

Any commentary on effect on battery life? I saw some guys in the dev section of the forum reporting really good battery life, but I believe they were undervolting or downclocking the cpu as well.
Also, when you say prevent you from getting OTA, do we need to rename bak's back to apk when we hear of an OTA in order to get it? I have heard OTA would likely undo root, so it may be a trade-off between fixing the blue tinted camera and having good speed/battery life.

Besides the dangerous suggestion of deleting apps, the OP must have had some apps killing his device, since I am not seeing any plausible way to get three times the performance. Device is responsive, 2500 Quadrant (FWIW) and this is in spite of no root yet, plus 1.3gb of apps installed.
Also, some the apps in the list to delete are interdependent on some stock apps, based on the rash of "help me!" posts that are starting to appear in forums.
Freeze them, yes, but do not delete them.

C'mon guys...we are smarter than this. Yes, having root is awesome but I just took delivery of the D3 for my wife last week and it is a quick and snappy phone all stock. The only real reason I see to root is that she was a bit disappointed that she couldn't tether. But we were able to get that working very simply by modifying the radio. Yes I now have free tether without root. I will not deny that I am just itching to root and unleash the power of this beast but I think it wise to wait or at least warn of potential consequences till we have a functional sbf available before just going ape-**** with the delete button and instructing how to do so? I have already seen a couple of threads by noobs pleading for a fix because they deleted something and bricked their device. It sucks! We need to warn there is no sbf or any other way of undoing **** ups yet.... just sayin
Sent from my DROID X2 using XDA App
Sent from my DROID X2 using XDA App

Battery life
After freezing all the bloatware my battery life went up from 6 hours to 30 hours. I can't believe the difference. The main culprit may have been DLNA.

I still have no idea what dlna was supposed to do. Anyone?

haberbe said:
I still have no idea what dlna was supposed to do. Anyone?
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I guess it's the DLNA support function

but what is dlna?

haberbe said:
but what is dlna?
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It's a service that allows you to stream videos/movies to DLNA enabled devices.

Anyone have problems with Contacts FCing when selecting a name from the list?
I only unistalled all the VZ apps, now I'm having this problem.
I have the D3 system dump ready to go, but I'm not sure what app could have caused a symptom like this.
Any ideas?
*EDIT*
Logcat gives the Error:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Couldn't find authenticator for specific account type
**EDIT**
Resolved.
Damn yahoo app integration.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1237423&highlight=Contacts+force+close

I ran the remove script on this thread to rename all of the bloat. The op included a restore script, too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238472

Just ran the Remove Bloatware script and the phone is running like a champ.
Only thing i miss is Swype. Anyone know who I can get the back?

jwish said:
After freezing all the bloatware my battery life went up from 6 hours to 30 hours. I can't believe the difference. The main culprit may have been DLNA.
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Are you sure is the DLNA the main culprit? Is the only one I didn t remove with the script,
Thank you
Sent from my DROID3 using Tapatalk

Is it safe to delete the two games form Com2us? Even though I uninstalled them from the apps menu, their data still resides in the /preinstall/app folder and its taking up almost 250mb of data

deleted a lot of things =p

I was new to the deleting of bloatware and when I got root I would see that people were saying which was safe to "remove". So i downloaded titanium back up. I then made a backup of everything I had on my phone. Took a few minutes for it to make a back up of everything but I figured if something went wrong I'd be able to just back it up. I then deleteddddddd everything that people said it was safe to remove. And I've had no problems with the phone since, BUT my problem is now that I saw people said you should FREEZE instead of REMOVE I went and downloaded titanium back up PRO with 4shared. I'm now using pro and i've gotten some of the applications restored and frozen, but now when i try to restore the rest it just keeps loading and nothing happens. ANY IDEAS and why is it so bad to remove instead of freeze the app.
P.S I dunno what OSA means (I saw that in another thread)
Applications frozen/removed
Amazon Kindle
Blockbuster
Books
Citrix Receiver
City ID
GoToMeeting
Motoprint
My Verizon Mobile
NFL Mobile
Skype mobile
Slacker
Social Location
V CAST Media Manager
V CAST Music
V CAST Tones
V CAST Videos
VZ Navigator
ZumoCast
(all were restored and frozen)
(the next are all still deleted)
Backup assistant
DlnaSystemService
Backup Assistant Client
Social Networking
Help Center
Social Status
News
Picasa Authenticator
Social Messaging Service
Social Messaging
Social Sharing
DLNA
Guided Tours
IM
IM Presence
CarDock

Please dont talk about warez at zda

R u ispencer from hawaii?
Sent from my DROID3 using Tapatalk

ahah ummm no???. I'm Spencer from California

why freeze
Simply put, you should freeze as opposed to delete in case you accidentally brick your phone before a .sbf file is available to rescue you. Of course u can apply some common sense to this and be relatively sure deleting blockbuster apk isn't going to throw a wrench in your system, but some of those moto files are a bit riskier. Best bet play it safe bro...btw thanks for putting up a good list of the bloatware to delete/freeze for others.
Sidenote: if u r ispencer from honolulu, nice to see u on the android side of things. I was an iphone hacker and jailbreaker right down the street from the ispencer store...I. hosted a few cydia repos for the simple mobile mms fix

Wow well there is an ispencer in honolulu..he is an iphone unlocker lol....sorry I assumed u were him what r the chances of 2 ispencers lol

I delete bloatware. I always have.

Heelfan71 said:
I delete bloatware. I always have.
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Not to sound badass but...
I unplug my USB devices without using Safely Remove Hardware.

Phone Tracker

Sorry if this has been asked before but I'm struggling to find any tracker app that can actually provide my phones location. I've searched through the forum but can only find old posts.
All apps (lookout, wheres my droid, android lost) can all send messages to email accounts but none can pinpoint my position!
This used to work, I'm starting to think it must be a frozen app (that is needed) or ROM issue etc.
Has anyone managed to get their GPS position working?
I am on odexed JVR (with loads of apps removed/frozen)
Thx Dudes.

I would also like to hear about the same.

If you provide a list of the apps you have frozen, I'm sure someone could let you know whether or not one is necessary.
Personally, I use SeekDroid to remotely locate my phone, and I have absolutely no problem acquiring its GPS location.

List of frozen/removed apps
Here is my list of frozen/removed bloatware/apps...!!!
aldiko
allshare
android live wallpaper
buddies now
chocouk
com.sec.android.samsungapps.una (Kies etc)
control freak
daily briefing
DRM* X 3
days 1.0
DRM***
dual clock
email 2.3.4
feeds and updates
Galaxy Tuner 2.3
Gallery (Use Quickpic)
Google Search
home sc creen tips
layer 4.0.4
live wallpaper picker
magic smoke wallpaper
mini diary
MTP (connects to Kies)
press reader
print via Bluetooth
roseeuk
Samsung account
Samsung apps
sns 1.0
sns account
social hub
software update 1.5.0
talk 1.3
write and go
wssynclnps (Kies)
Y! Finance

Hmm... does Google Maps work? Or is your GPS troubles specific to those lost-phone-finding apps?

Google maps and navigation work really well, GPS accurate to 10m most of the time
Sent using geek power

gsw5700 said:
Sorry if this has been asked before but I'm struggling to find any tracker app that can actually provide my phones location. I've searched through the forum but can only find old posts.
All apps (lookout, wheres my droid, android lost) can all send messages to email accounts but none can pinpoint my position!
This used to work, I'm starting to think it must be a frozen app (that is needed) or ROM issue etc.
Has anyone managed to get their GPS position working?
I am on odexed JVR (with loads of apps removed/frozen)
Thx Dudes.
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TekTrak works for me

i'm using phone locator, this works ok, and had some great features.
Thx for replies.
Sent using geek power

list of safe apps to remove/freeze?

i was looking around didnt see it also after i root is there anything else i need to do to install apk,s from sd card? thanks

LIST OF SAFELY FREEZE-ABLE BIONIC BLOATWARE:
WARNING: Once frozen, you cannot use these apps or their related services. You'll have to unfreeze them.
Backup Assistant 2.3.4
Backup Assistant Client 1.0
Citrix Receiver 2.1.1059
City ID 1.1.7
GoToMeeting 1.0
Guided Tours 2.3.4
Help Center 2.3.4
IM 3.0.4.6
IM Presence 2.3.4
MOTOPRINT 2.0.0.38
News 2.3.4
Slacker 3.0.535
Social Location 2.0* [do not disable if you use any of the Social widgets or other Motorola social tools]
Social Messaging 2.3.4*
Social Networking 2.3.4*
Social Status 2.3.4*
Sticky note 2.3.4
Swype 3.21.87.27685
Tasks 1.0
V CAST Media Manager 4.4.1.0
V CAST Music 03.72.110
V CAST Tones 4.5.11
V CAST Videos 5.72.008
VideoSurf 1.0.10
VZ Navigator 7.2.0.353

djr4x4 said:
LIST OF SAFELY FREEZE-ABLE BIONIC BLOATWARE:
WARNING: Once frozen, you cannot use these apps or their related services. You'll have to unfreeze them.
Backup Assistant 2.3.4
Backup Assistant Client 1.0
Citrix Receiver 2.1.1059
City ID 1.1.7
GoToMeeting 1.0
Guided Tours 2.3.4
Help Center 2.3.4
IM 3.0.4.6
IM Presence 2.3.4
MOTOPRINT 2.0.0.38
News 2.3.4
Slacker 3.0.535
Social Location 2.0* [do not disable if you use any of the Social widgets or other Motorola social tools]
Social Messaging 2.3.4*
Social Networking 2.3.4*
Social Status 2.3.4*
Sticky note 2.3.4
Swype 3.21.87.27685
Tasks 1.0
V CAST Media Manager 4.4.1.0
V CAST Music 03.72.110
V CAST Tones 4.5.11
V CAST Videos 5.72.008
VideoSurf 1.0.10
VZ Navigator 7.2.0.353
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thanks, is rooting all i have to do to install apps from sd card? or what do i need to do? thanks

I would say yes.. I installed bootstrapper from my sd card..

djr4x4 said:
I would say yes.. I installed bootstrapper from my sd card..
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what is bootstrap? is it something i need to do?

Visual voicemail disappeared
I froze the majority of the apps on this list, and while my phone does run much faster, my visual voicemail app seems to be gone. None of the apps I had the option to freeze said anything about visual voicemail, so I'm wondering if it is linked to another app/service that I froze maybe? Any tips on this would be great.
I have the Bionic on Verizon, rooted and using the Liberty ROM. Looking for the factory installed visual voicemail app, unless someone has a suggestion for a better one... Thanks in advance for the help!

djr4x4 said:
LIST OF SAFELY FREEZE-ABLE BIONIC BLOATWARE:
WARNING: Once frozen, you cannot use these apps or their related services. You'll have to unfreeze them.
Backup Assistant 2.3.4
Backup Assistant Client 1.0
Citrix Receiver 2.1.1059
City ID 1.1.7
GoToMeeting 1.0
Guided Tours 2.3.4
Help Center 2.3.4
IM 3.0.4.6
IM Presence 2.3.4
MOTOPRINT 2.0.0.38
News 2.3.4
Slacker 3.0.535
Social Location 2.0* [do not disable if you use any of the Social widgets or other Motorola social tools]
Social Messaging 2.3.4*
Social Networking 2.3.4*
Social Status 2.3.4*
Sticky note 2.3.4
Swype 3.21.87.27685
Tasks 1.0
V CAST Media Manager 4.4.1.0
V CAST Music 03.72.110
V CAST Tones 4.5.11
V CAST Videos 5.72.008
VideoSurf 1.0.10
VZ Navigator 7.2.0.353
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Adding to your list, these are additional ones I have frozen:
Amazon Kindle
Blockbuster
Bluetooth Share (I don't use Bluetooth and noticed these were "running" regardless)
BluetoothDun
LetsGolf
MS Exchange (I don't need it)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238472 This is in the droid 3 forum section but this also works for the bionic. I used it when I had the stock ROM on mine and it worked with no problems.

going to ask a very stupid question.
what's the difference between uninstalling them and freezing them with titanium?
and i do not have the pro version are most of the apps there okay to uninstall if i'm pretty sure i won't be using 99% of them.

nerdyplayer said:
going to ask a very stupid question.
what's the difference between uninstalling them and freezing them with titanium?
and i do not have the pro version are most of the apps there okay to uninstall if i'm pretty sure i won't be using 99% of them.
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You can unfreeze with the touch of a button.
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk

nerdyplayer said:
going to ask a very stupid question.
what's the difference between uninstalling them and freezing them with titanium?
and i do not have the pro version are most of the apps there okay to uninstall if i'm pretty sure i won't be using 99% of them.
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Geezer Squid said:
You can unfreeze with the touch of a button.
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk
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Yeah. If you uninstall, there's no way to get it back without pushing/installing the apk manually (Which is really bad if your phone needs the uninstalled app to run).
If you just freeze it, it has all the effects that uninstalling does (keeps the system from reading/using it) except if you need it back, just press unfreeze and all is well.

Google Voice, YouMail
I Hate Import Cars said:
I froze the majority of the apps on this list, and while my phone does run much faster, my visual voicemail app seems to be gone. None of the apps I had the option to freeze said anything about visual voicemail, so I'm wondering if it is linked to another app/service that I froze maybe? Any tips on this would be great.
I have the Bionic on Verizon, rooted and using the Liberty ROM. Looking for the factory installed visual voicemail app, unless someone has a suggestion for a better one... Thanks in advance for the help!
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I actually have never seen the verizon visual voicemail app on my Bionic. Hard to believe, I know. So, are you paying for the Verizon VVM service?
When I was waiting for a Google Voice invitation I found a pretty cool VVM app called YouMail; it allows you to set different answering machine greetings for different people or groups. I think I just wanted Google Voice so bad, I didn't hang long enough with YouMail. Both are totally free!!

Location to download deleted stock APK's?
I am a noob to XDA but I rooted my Bionic right when I got it about 6 months ago. After I rooted it I deleted a few of the bloatware app's that I thought I would never need, but I did not realize that it would mess up OTA updates. I now want to get the .902 update but it keeps failing. I am assuming it is because I deleted City ID, Slacker Radio, V CAST Media Manager, V CAST Music, VCAST Tones, and V CAST Videos. I have looked all over XDA and the web and have not found them anywhere to download. Can anyone send me these files so I can get the update? I could do a complete restore but I would prefer to do it this way. If you have any other suggestions please let me know. Thanks.

dholmes2004 said:
I am a noob to XDA but I rooted my Bionic right when I got it about 6 months ago. After I rooted it I deleted a few of the bloatware app's that I thought I would never need, but I did not realize that it would mess up OTA updates. I now want to get the .902 update but it keeps failing. I am assuming it is because I deleted City ID, Slacker Radio, V CAST Media Manager, V CAST Music, VCAST Tones, and V CAST Videos. I have looked all over XDA and the web and have not found them anywhere to download. Can anyone send me these files so I can get the update? I could do a complete restore but I would prefer to do it this way. If you have any other suggestions please let me know. Thanks.
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http://www.droidforums.net/forum/mo...-5-893-fxz-901-902-compatible-902-update.html
or this
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/13105-a-easier-way-back-to-the-update-path/
There are other ways to get back on the OTA update path. Just look around and you'll find them.
Good luck

djr4x4 said:
LIST OF SAFELY FREEZE-ABLE BIONIC BLOATWARE:
WARNING: Once frozen, you cannot use these apps or their related services. You'll have to unfreeze them.
Backup Assistant 2.3.4
Backup Assistant Client 1.0
Citrix Receiver 2.1.1059
City ID 1.1.7
GoToMeeting 1.0
Guided Tours 2.3.4
Help Center 2.3.4
IM 3.0.4.6
IM Presence 2.3.4
MOTOPRINT 2.0.0.38
News 2.3.4
Slacker 3.0.535
Social Location 2.0* [do not disable if you use any of the Social widgets or other Motorola social tools]
Social Messaging 2.3.4*
Social Networking 2.3.4*
Social Status 2.3.4*
Sticky note 2.3.4
Swype 3.21.87.27685
Tasks 1.0
V CAST Media Manager 4.4.1.0
V CAST Music 03.72.110
V CAST Tones 4.5.11
V CAST Videos 5.72.008
VideoSurf 1.0.10
VZ Navigator 7.2.0.353
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GertBFrobe said:
Adding to your list, these are additional ones I have frozen:
Amazon Kindle
Blockbuster
Bluetooth Share (I don't use Bluetooth and noticed these were "running" regardless)
BluetoothDun
LetsGolf
MS Exchange (I don't need it)
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After the .902 update, I found some new apps listed in TBP as not backed up. I'm assuming these are the new apps added with the update (apps I've frozen are bold):
Amazon MP3 2.0.15
Apps 2.00.54
Emergency Alerts 2.3.4
MOG Music 1.0.1
Music 2.3.4
Slingbox 1.0
Videos 1.4.2
VZW Package Installer 1.0
I'm not sure what the 2 unfrozen apps do, so I left them alone.

thecolorsduke said:
After the .902 update, I found some new apps listed in TBP as not backed up. I'm assuming these are the new apps added with the update (apps I've frozen are bold):
Emergency Alerts 2.3.4
I'm not sure what the 2 unfrozen apps do, so I left them alone.
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Emergency will allow your carrier to send you Emergency Alerts based on your geographic location. It's part of the new national Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). The Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) - so essentially you're carrying a weather/emergency radio around with you - and you don't have to "opt in" to the area you're in. Traveling through a blizzard/tornado warning area, it will vibrate and have an audible alert to let you know.
It's been a long time coming & as an emergency preparedness/response professional, I love it. Please don't disable it as bloatware, it's far from it.

our3rotts said:
Emergency will allow your carrier to send you Emergency Alerts based on your geographic location. It's part of the new national Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). The Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) - so essentially you're carrying a weather/emergency radio around with you - and you don't have to "opt in" to the area you're in. Traveling through a blizzard/tornado warning area, it will vibrate and have an audible alert to let you know.
It's been a long time coming & as an emergency preparedness/response professional, I love it. Please don't disable it as bloatware, it's far from it.
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Thanks for the explanation. I'll keep it unfrozen. Could prove useful someday

I uninstallEd a couple of apps "bloatware" which I honestly don't remember the needle of, is there any way to get them back?? "restore bloatware"
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using xda premium

The emergency alerts will also let you know when there is an amber alert, or at least it is supposed to.
Sent from the Evil Empire

dholmes2004 said:
I am a noob to XDA but I rooted my Bionic right when I got it about 6 months ago. After I rooted it I deleted a few of the bloatware app's that I thought I would never need, but I did not realize that it would mess up OTA updates. I now want to get the .902 update but it keeps failing. I am assuming it is because I deleted City ID, Slacker Radio, V CAST Media Manager, V CAST Music, VCAST Tones, and V CAST Videos. I have looked all over XDA and the web and have not found them anywhere to download. Can anyone send me these files so I can get the update? I could do a complete restore but I would prefer to do it this way. If you have any other suggestions please let me know. Thanks.
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Yes, that is why your update is failing. If you search around, you can fix the issue (like the link below yours says).
-Adam

Disabled Apps List

I'm starting to disable apps, here is my list so far I'll probably add to it once I can use the phone as my DD later in the week.
Settings, Device Tab, Applications, Application Manager, All
3DTourViewer
Amazon
AT&T Family Map
AT&T Hot Spots
AT&T Live
AT&T Locker
AT&T Mail
AT&T Mobile Locate
AT&T Mobile Transfer
AT&T Navigator
Caller Name ID
Device Help
Dictionary
Digital Life
DriveMode
Facebook
Family Utility
Galaxy Apps
Galaxy Apps Widget
Hancom Office 2014
Instagram
Keeper
Lookout
Memo
Messenger
Milk
Milk Video
Mobile TV
myAT&T
OneNote
Pages Manager
S Beam
S Voice
Samsung account
Samsung Billing
Skype
Smart Limits
Smart Remote
Uber
Voice wake-up
YP
With Root, Apps Frozen:
AT&T Software Update
AT&T Remote Support
Music 6.0
My interests 1.0
My Places 1.0
SysScope 1.3.x
Obviously if you use Facebook, Instagram etc you wouldn't disable these but most of this is pure bloat. Why I wish GPE devices were more common...
Let me know if you have other things you disabled and if it had any side effects.

mrRobinson said:
I'm starting to disable apps, here is my list so far I'll probably add to it once I can use the phone as my DD later in the week.
Settings, Device Tab, Applications, Application Manager, All
AT&T Family Map
AT&T Hot Spots
AT&T Live
AT&T Locker
AT&T Mail
AT&T Mobile Locate
AT&T Mobile Transfer
AT&T Navigator
Caller Name ID
Device Help
Dictionary
Facebook
Family Utility
Hancom Office 2014
Instagram
Keeper
Lookout
Messenger
Milk
Milk Video
Mobile TV
myAT&T
OneNote
Pages Manager
S Beam
S Voice
Samsung account
Samsung Billing
Skype
Smart Limits
Uber
YP
Obviously if you use Facebook, Instagram etc you wouldn't disable these but most of this is pure bloat. Why I wish GPE devices were more common...
Let me know if you have other things you disabled and if it had any side effects.
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-Amazon
-digital life
-Google play games
-Google play movies and tv
-Google play music
-Google play newstand
Still testin these out when disabled
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G925A using XDA Free mobile app

rafael707 said:
-Amazon
-digital life
-Google play games
-Google play movies and tv
-Google play music
-Google play newstand
Still testin these out when disabled
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G925A using XDA Free mobile app
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The google play stuff I'd hope people understand and are IMO, stock, so I won't put them on my list. Amazon I overlooked cause i actually had on my GPE device but its def not stock. Digital Life I just missed, good catch.

If you are not using the samsung weather widget also disable Weather Daemon it uses a lot of location battery.

What apps won't let u disable.. I've read there are a few.

crea78 said:
What apps won't let u disable.. I've read there are a few.
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A LOT! More than there should be certainly. Can not disable built-in EMail and it's 4 sub apps for instance

What is this ant + services?? Nevermind just searched and found

_Infamous_ said:
What is this ant + services?? Nevermind just searched and found
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Yea and one you can't disable. I've updated OP with more i've disabled with no negative side effects for me.

NOTE Edge debloater
I can't find the link, but, someone mentioned that the Edge Note debloater WILL work, and does.
Without root you can only hide apps, but, it allows you to hide some that you cannot using the built-in method, like EMAIL, BROWSER, ETC.

dirtyballoonot said:
I can't find the link, but, someone mentioned that the Edge Note debloater WILL work, and does.
Without root you can only hide apps, but, it allows you to hide some that you cannot using the built-in method, like EMAIL, BROWSER, ETC.
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Right, using the UI you can click disable to disable apps. For the ones that you can't disable you can "hide" with adb shell (or that tool).
That tool I think is only windows but i'd imagine it's simply leveraging the "pm" binary on android.
For example if i drop into an adb shell on my edge and run
pm hide com.sec.android.app.sbrowser
Then that samsung browser is now gone.
Just remember which you hide as they won't show up and the only way to bring them back is to run
pm unhide on it.

mrRobinson said:
Right, using the UI you can click disable to disable apps. For the ones that you can't disable you can "hide" with adb shell (or that tool).
That tool I think is only windows but i'd imagine it's simply leveraging the "pm" binary on android.
For example if i drop into an adb shell on my edge and run
pm hide com.sec.android.app.sbrowser
Then that samsung browser is now gone.
Just remember which you hide as they won't show up and the only way to bring them back is to run
pm unhide on it.
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So if im correct. When i "disable" an app using the actual phone, this will also keep the app from running (or any of its services) But using the Debloater app and i "hide" them the app can still run (or its services) correct?

krolla03 said:
So if im correct. When i "disable" an app using the actual phone, this will also keep the app from running (or any of its services) But using the Debloater app and i "hide" them the app can still run (or its services) correct?
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Correct but I thought the debloater would disable at least the ones you didn't need root for.

mrRobinson said:
Correct but I thought the debloater would disable at least the ones you didn't need root for.
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Damn i thought i was actually disabling them.

I've disabled Samsung Push Services and Visual Voicemail (I use Google Voice for my VM), and haven't run into any problems.

I am having a problem attempting to download a theme from the Theme Store and when I click on the download link, a white box will pop up and immediately disappear. I didn't disable anything I shouldn't have to make this occur. However, the Samsung apps I disabled are 3D TourViewer, Family Utility, Galaxy Apps/Widget, Smart Limits Anyone else have this problem??
Edit: Looks like Samsung Acct. isn't working for some reason. Under "Accounts" there is a grey circle and when I press on it, nothing happens, but kicks me to the previous screen...

crea78 said:
I am having a problem attempting to download a theme from the Theme Store and when I click on the download link, a white box will pop up and immediately disappear. I didn't disable anything I shouldn't have to make this occur. However, the Samsung apps I disabled are 3D TourViewer, Family Utility, Galaxy Apps/Widget, Smart Limits Anyone else have this problem??
Edit: Looks like Samsung Acct. isn't working for some reason. Under "Accounts" there is a grey circle and when I press on it, nothing happens, but kicks me to the previous screen...
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If you disabled Samsung Account (it is on OP's list), then it won't work. Go to Disabled, find it, and re-enable if you are using things that require it.

Got it to work by doing a factory reset

So it's been a while with all these apps disabled, my battery life is decent..
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The debloater app can actually restore all at once if you mess something up

Now that we have root what would be the best way to remove these apps