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[Q] What are these apps doing?

Hello.
I just installed Cyanogenmod on my Xperia Z and I'm deleting some of the apps that comes with it using Titanium backup. There are just a few apps I don't what do, whats it for and if it safe to remove.
What are these apps and their function:
Photo Screensavers
Profiler Playback
Tags
Talkback
Picasa Uploader
Basic Daydrems
Cell Broadcasts
Fused Location
Search Applications Provider
Downloads
Download Manager
Thanks in advance.

Tags
- this is needed for NFC.
Talkback
- optionally, for reading out loud texts
Picasa Uploader
- optionally, for uploading photos to Picasa (Google)
Use this app to deactivate apps. It shows which apps can be removed or deactivated.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SystemCleanup.Inteks.org
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Dreiundachzig said:
Tags
- this is needed for NFC.
Talkback
- optionally, for reading out loud texts
Picasa Uploader
- optionally, for uploading photos to Picasa (Google)
Use this app to deactivate apps. It shows which apps can be removed or deactivated.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SystemCleanup.Inteks.org
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Whoa. That app is awesome. Just what I need. Thanks for the answer.

Still, what does the other apps do?
I most interesting in Profiler Playback

[Q] Apps Crashing | Album, Movies, Walkman, Play & More

Hi all!
I've followed XDA Developers for some time now; back when I first had the HTC Desire and again when I had the HTC Sensation XE. However, after a very poor experience with the HTC Sensation, I vowed that I would never have another HTC again. Thus, I turned to Sony and the Xperia Z offering. The device is amazing, it looks gorgeous, feels snappy and is a hell of a turn-around from Sense UI that I've been bogged down with for years.
I've had the phone approximately a month now and for the most part it has been a positive experience. However, I get very device specific issues regarding a few apps on the phone, they are as follows:
Sony's own media-specific applications: Walkman, Album, Movies & Camera.
Google's own: Play Store, Play Movies, Play Music & all of the other offerings (books, magazines, etc.)
Lastly, the official Twitter application and Amazon MP3.
They all crash! I can be looking at photos or videos or even listening to music using ANY of the apps listed above and I just get booted back to the home screen with no crash report. It doesn't say "Walkman has stopped working", just instantly crashes and boots to the home screen.
At first, I believed it might be the Mobile Bravia Engine as I was experiencing the issue heavily within the first days of use on the Sony's media apps (before I installed Twitter, etc.), so I turned off the MBE and nothing. The device still booted me back to the home screen whilst viewing photos or videos or listening to music.
I started to believe that maybe the SD card was at fault so I hooked it up to a Windows PC and ran all of the checks and there appears to be nothing wrong with the SD card after I repaired it (initially there was the error pop up that says to fix the device). And when I installed Twitter, it was an indication that maybe there was more of an underlying problem than a dodgy SD card anyway (since that doesn't store or operate from the SD), whenever I am typing a Twitter message, I get instantly booted out to the home screen... again, no crash reports.
Any tips?
The only thing related to this strange problem that I have found is on the Sony Mobile site that says there was a corrupt font in Taiwan... which obviously does not affect me as I live in the UK.
For a list of apps installed:
Adobe Reader, Alarm & Clock (S), Album, All Stars Island, Amazon, Amazon MP3, Astro File Manager, Back-Up & Restore (S), Box, Calculator (S), Calendar (S), Camera (S), Car Mode (S), Chrome, Contacts (S), Cover Art Grabber, Cracked Lite, Diagnostics, Dictionary, Dodol Wallpaper, Downloads (S), Dragon Fly!, DroID3Tagger, Dropbox, Earth, eBay, Email (S), Engadget, Facebook, File Commander (S), FM Radio (S), G+ Photo, GMail, Goggles,, Google, Google Settings, Google+, Hangouts, IMDB, Joystiq, Let's Start PSM (S), Local (S), Maps, McAfee Security (inactive), Media Remote (S), Messaging (S), Movie Studio (S), Movies (S), Music Unlimited, Name[dot]com, Navigation (S), NeoReader (S), Netflix, News & Weather (S), Notes (S), NowTV, O2 Priority Moments, O2 Priority Tickets, OfficeSuite, Phone (S), Play Books, Play Magazines, Play Movies, Play Music, Play Store, PlayMemories Online, PlayNow, Playstation, Playstation Mobile, pocket BLU, Settings (S), Shazam, ShopTo, Sky News, Sky+, Slices, Smart Connect (S), Socialife (S), Sony Select (S), Speed Test, Steam, Support (S), Tone Picker, TrackID (S), TweetCaster Pro, Twitch, Twitter, Update Centre (S), Video Unlimited, Voice Dialer (S), Voice Search, Walkman (S), Wikipedia, Wimbledon, Wisepilot for Xperia (S), WWE, XDA, Xperia Link (S), Xperia Lounge, YouTube
(S) = System default apps from Sony
Here is miscellaneous information regarding the phone:
Model Number: C6603 (Sony Xperia Z)
Android Version: 4.2.2
Build Number: 10.3.1.A.0.244
Any help you can give will be much appreciated!

Repair your firmware using pcc.
Gesendet von meinem Xperia ZL

Freezing Bloatware

What did you freeze on your Xperia SP? Post here.
I froze a number of apps, but some have cryptic/non-descriptive names, no GUI and/or I'm not sure what they do, so I left them alone... for now.
This is the list so far on 4.1.2, 12.0.A.2.254:
Account manager
Auto upload(photo)
Car mode
Chrome //too heavy to use
com.sonyericsson.startupflagservice
Diagnostics
Facebook
Gmail
Google Play Books
Google Play Movies
Google Play Music
Google Play Newsstand
Google+
Home Screen Tips
Japanese keyboard layout
Movie Studio
Music Unlimited
News & Weather //made a ton of wakelocks
Picasa Uploader
PlayMemories Online
Retail Demo
Setup Guide
Socialife
Sony Select
Support
Talk (Hangouts)
TalkBack
Update Centre
Weather widget
Xperia AppShare
Xperia Calendar Sync
Xperia FB Setup
Xperia Friends' Music
Xperia Music Likes
Xperia Proxy //Facebook icon
Xperia Proxy //twitter icon
Xperia Share
Xperia Social Engine
Xperia Social Engine Photos //FB icon
^---------------------------------------^ //Picasa icon
^---------------------------------------^ //Sony icon
Xperia Social Engine Sharing //FB
^---------------------------------------^ //Twitter
Xperia Twitter Setup
Xperia Chinese keyboard
Haven't encountered any problem yet and got rid of some of the unwanted background processes at the same time.

UsernameWasTaken said:
What did you freeze on your Xperia SP? Post here.
I froze a number of apps, but some have cryptic/non-descriptive names, no GUI and/or I'm not sure what they do, so I left them alone... for now.
This is the list so far on 4.1.2, 12.0.A.2.254:
Account manager
Auto upload(photo)
Car mode
Chrome //too heavy to use
com.sonyericsson.startupflagservice
Diagnostics
Facebook
Gmail
Google Play Books
Google Play Movies
Google Play Music
Google Play Newsstand
Google+
Home Screen Tips
Japanese keyboard layout
Movie Studio
Music Unlimited
News & Weather //made a ton of wakelocks
Picasa Uploader
PlayMemories Online
Retail Demo
Setup Guide
Socialife
Sony Select
Support
Talk (Hangouts)
TalkBack
Update Centre
Weather widget
Xperia AppShare
Xperia Calendar Sync
Xperia FB Setup
Xperia Friends' Music
Xperia Music Likes
Xperia Proxy //Facebook icon
Xperia Proxy //twitter icon
Xperia Share
Xperia Social Engine
Xperia Social Engine Photos //FB icon
^---------------------------------------^ //Picasa icon
^---------------------------------------^ //Sony icon
Xperia Social Engine Sharing //FB
^---------------------------------------^ //Twitter
Xperia Twitter Setup
Xperia Chinese keyboard
Haven't encountered any problem yet and got rid of some of the unwanted background processes at the same time.
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The bold ones are the ones I've freezed.
No issues here... But Update Center is for updates (you can disable notifcations and keep the app enabled...
But I don't know what you wanted to ask/know?

mrjraider said:
The bold ones are the ones I've freezed.
No issues here... But Update Center is for updates (you can disable notifcations and keep the app enabled...
But I don't know what you wanted to ask/know?
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I wish to know which applications, besides these, are safe to be frozen, removed even, and not to interfere with phone's functioning. I'm asking other members to share their list, if they did it.
As for Update Centre... updates to what? Judging by the icon, it's a Sony program, meaning firmware updates. PC Companion labeled my phone as already running the latest FW, before I froze UC. And 4.3 is junk. No loss there.

Well some app updates can appear via Update Center

What apps are those?

Walkman, album, movies, Update Center self, apps from your operator.

mrjraider said:
Walkman, album, movies, Update Center self, apps from your operator.
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I don't use any of those, anyway. Besides, being on 4.1, I have older versions of those apps and I don't see what differences that makes, even if I did use them. And I can get newest by sideloading them, if I wished.
But, that's fine, leave Update Centre out of freeze list, if you want. Everyone has their own preferences.

[Q] Sony Xperia E1 Kitkat 4.4.2 Disabling or deleting bloatware + RAM BUG

Hey,
I was wondering is there any difference in disabling system apps(bloatware) or removing them?
Also I have something like a bug with the RAM, my device is showing that I have almost 400MB of free ram and there is almost no ram being used. This can t be real. Must bee some kind of bug. Does anyone else have something like this?!

-scarface- said:
Hey,
I was wondering is there any difference in disabling system apps(bloatware) or removing them?
Also I have something like a bug with the RAM, my device is showing that I have almost 400MB of free ram and there is almost no ram being used. This can t be real. Must bee some kind of bug. Does anyone else have something like this?!
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There is.
I'm using the Russian version, downloaded from XperiFirm and flashed with Flashtool
If you disable or delete bloatware, or system apps you can feel the difference between when you remove it, and when you don't. The phone can withstand 5-6 days without doing anything to it. (14-19hrs If you play games, listen to music, etc..)
That must be a Software bug, I suppose.

Kizoky said:
There is.
I'm using the Russian version, downloaded from XperiFirm and flashed with Flashtool
If you disable or delete bloatware, or system apps you can feel the difference between when you remove it, and when you don't. The phone can withstand 5-6 days without doing anything to it. (14-19hrs If you play games, listen to music, etc..)
That must be a Software bug, I suppose.
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So I can gain more free ram and extra battery life? Maybe you know a list of apps safe to delete for E1?
Mostly this ram bug appears when I play games. I had it on older updates and with the latest update.
Thank you for replying
Edit:
So here is the list of system apps(crap)that I deleted so far:
Account Manager
Black Hole
Bubbles
Drive
Email
Enhanced forest
Exchange Service
Google lyrics extension
Google Play Books
Google Play Movies & TV
Google Play Music
Google Play Newsstand
Google Search
Google+
Hanguts
Magic Smoke Wallpapers
Maps
News & Weather
Phase Beam
Play Games
Podcast
SenseME slideshow
Smart Connect
Social live
Support
TalkBack
Wikipedia extension
Wikipedia extension
Xperia Calendar Sync
Xperia Music Likes
Xperia Share
Xperia Social Engine Photos
Xperia Social Engine Sharing
Xperia Social Engine Sharing
Xperia Lounge
Xperia Lounge Pass
Xperia with Facebook
Xperia with Twitter
Youtube extension
Youtube karaoke extension

-scarface- said:
So I can gain more free ram and extra battery life? Maybe you know a list of apps safe to delete for E1?
Mostly this ram bug appears when I play games. I had it on older updates and with the latest update.
Thank you for replying
Edit:
So here is the list of system apps(crap)that I deleted so far:
Account Manager
Black Hole
Bubbles
Drive
Email
Enhanced forest
Exchange Service
Google lyrics extension
Google Play Books
Google Play Movies & TV
Google Play Music
Google Play Newsstand
Google Search
Google+
Hanguts
Magic Smoke Wallpapers
Maps
News & Weather
Phase Beam
Play Games
Podcast
SenseME slideshow
Smart Connect
Social live
Support
TalkBack
Wikipedia extension
Wikipedia extension
Xperia Calendar Sync
Xperia Music Likes
Xperia Share
Xperia Social Engine Photos
Xperia Social Engine Sharing
Xperia Social Engine Sharing
Xperia Lounge
Xperia Lounge Pass
Xperia with Facebook
Xperia with Twitter
Youtube extension
Youtube karaoke extension
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You shouldn't delete Account Manager, now you can't download any apps from Google Play

Kizoky said:
You shouldn't delete Account Manager, now you can't download any apps from Google Play
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who told you that?
I can download apps just fine, even after restart

So I can confirm this ram bug appears whenever I am playing games, the more I play the more free ram I get I mean WTF?
Updated list:
Account Manager
Black Hole
Bubbles
Chrome
Drive
Email
Enhanced forest
Exchange Service
Google lyrics extension
Google Play Books
Google Play Movies & TV
Google Play Music
Google Play Newsstand
Google Search
Google+
Hanguts
Magic Smoke Wallpapers
Maps
News & Weather
Phase Beam
Play Games
Podcast
SenseME slideshow
Smart Connect
Social live
Support
TalkBack
Wikipedia extension
Wikipedia extension
Xperia Calendar Sync
Xperia Music Likes
Xperia Share
Xperia Social Engine Photos
Xperia Social Engine Sharing
Xperia Social Engine Sharing
Xperia Lounge
Xperia Lounge Pass
Xperia with Facebook
Xperia with Twitter
Youtube extension
Youtube karaoke extension

Sony music & photo app

Are those apps available as a seperate download, the Sony music and photo gallery on the 1 ii?

Sony music is there. Album app is discontinued and replace by google photo.

niaboc79 said:
Sony music is there. Album app is discontinued and replace by google photo.
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I think Album can be downloaded from Google Play Store
Can you please confirm if my comment right ?

It can't be found in Play Store, so you can't install it. If you find it through Play Store on Chrome you can't install it because it is not compatible.

I've got this issue too. I've tried taking the album apk from xperia 5 and it installed on my new 1 ii but force closed whenever I opened it. Does anyone know of a way to get it working? I really miss the old album app

I've got the same problem....would like a Sony video player as well, do they make one?

Look for Sony cross device section and install an universal apk.