Most of us want to remove bloatware, so we root our devices. But for those who don't want to root just yet (like me), you can disable unwanted apps. It's would still be there but frozen or inactive. Best of all you won't receive updates notifications for it.
Here are the steps...
1. Go to settings - apps
2. Select the all apps tab
3. Click on the specific app.
4. If it's an updated system app click unintelligible updates. If not click disable.
Hope this helps someone. B-)
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Didn't think I could do this unless I was rooted and had titanium backup. Thanks buddy!
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I disabled stock internet browser, cause i never used it. So now i decided to give it another try, and decided to re-enable it, but i cant, because it doesnt let me to press enable button. Any way i can change that?
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Settings /apps/ all tab find app to remove
Click disable... Click Ok to confirm
Works for... Most...unnecessary system apps
Apparently Ics now allows this feature
Where before... On gb you would need root access
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Thnx on the tipp will thry it as soon i get my nox back from service:thumbup:
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My sister is running Tazz ICS, and there are some HTC apps that she doesn't use so I am disabling them in settings->apps. However, there are a few where the disable button is not able to be pressed. Is there a permission I can change so that I can disable them. One I can think of off the top of my head is HTC Location or Location Launcher.
I know titanium backup can freeze them, but I would rather use the built in ICS app disable instead of buying an app to do it.
Dermen said:
My sister is running Tazz ICS, and there are some HTC apps that she doesn't use so I am disabling them in settings->apps. However, there are a few where the disable button is not able to be pressed. Is there a permission I can change so that I can disable them. One I can think of off the top of my head is HTC Location or Location Launcher.
I know titanium backup can freeze them, but I would rather use the built in ICS app disable instead of buying an app to do it.
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Use a root file explorer, go all the way to the / directory, go to system>app, and delete the apks of the apps u don't want
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nitsua98 said:
Use a root file explorer, go all the way to the / directory, go to system>app, and delete the apks of the apps u don't want
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Thanks, I just found that. Too bad the .apk files aren't all named the same as the apps. I was hoping to find a way to just disable them in the settings->apps menu, but I looked at the permissions for the ones you can't disable and they are the same as the ones you can.
Can't you do that with titanium backup ? I think I saw that a while back
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XAlexander_AlexanderX said:
Can't you do that with titanium backup ? I think I saw that a while back
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Yeah, you can freeze them. Might need pro though, don't remember. If you don't want to do that, just say what apps you want removed and we can tell you what the apk name is.
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You need Titanium Pro to freeze apps and I didn't want to pay for it. I found the apks and just renamed them. It just seems like having HTC be able to block their crap from being disabled defeats the purpose of the ICS option to disable unwanted apps.
Coming from evo lte, it was nice to disable apps like Google plus. Without rooting, is there anyway to do this?
Plus there is there no way to move part of apps to external memory? Items like Google plus are close to 40mb? I miss this feature.
Rooting would be the only way to go, I think
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Go to settings and application manager. Go to the app you want to disable. Click it. Click delete updates or disable. Not sure if you've been updating them. But if you have to click delete updates, you'll have to go back into the settings a second time and disable the app. I had to go into the "all apps" list to find out the second time. I don't know why people keep saying you need to root.
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keekah said:
Go to settings and application manager. Go to the app you want to disable. Click it. Click delete updates or disable. Not sure if you've been updating them. But if you have to click delete updates, you'll have to go back into the settings a second time and disable the app. I had to go into the "all apps" list to find out the second time. I don't know why people keep saying you need to root.
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Awesome. Thank you very much.
Am using cm 10.1 build 18, i cant get into 'Apps' section in settings panel, whenever i click on Apps the phones performnce is utter slow. Cant even select the uninstall button, but other than this issue all is well. Any recommends for this?
If you have many apps installed it may take a while to load them after you select apps in the menu. You can also use titanium backup to uninstall apps.
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thanks for the suggestion. let me try it ...
How in the heck can we stop this monster short of rooting and debloating? Everytime I try anything with contacts there it is and I have to hit the back button to escape. There doesn't seem to be a way anywhere to kill this atrocity of an app.
Okay, call me stupid, it gives more options NOT to use it once your SIM is active. So used to HTC Dev Editions, or GPE. Mods can delete.
You should be able to disable it through Apps in Settings. What I usually do is just have it set up then in contacts under settings manually uncheck it so it doesn't sync anything.
Ivizoid said:
You should be able to disable it through Apps in Settings. What I usually do is just have it set up then in contacts under settings manually uncheck it so it doesn't sync anything.
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They don't let you disable it on the G2, I doubt they'd do so on the G3. One of the reasons I ordered a T-Mobile version.
You'd probably have to do a root-debloat to get rid of it.
I rooted and it's gone after some debloating.
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Pilz said:
I rooted and it's gone after some debloating.
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Any scripts yet? I don't know how to debloat manually.
hack14u said:
Any scripts yet? I don't know how to debloat manually.
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Download titanium backup and freeze all of the AT&T apps this way they can be unfrozen when you need to do an OTA.
Simple....root it and use a root uninstall app. No reason not to root
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Might be too late but here it goes
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How in the heck can we stop this monster short of rooting and debloating? Everytime I try anything with contacts there it is and I have to hit the back button to escape. There doesn't seem to be a way anywhere to kill this atrocity of an app.
Okay, call me stupid, it gives more options NOT to use it once your SIM is active. So used to HTC Dev Editions, or GPE. Mods can delete.
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On my LG G3 I had the same problem and later on a friend asked me to do this and it worked perfectly.
Go to the dialer and type *#*#2666#*#*
Select "Registration" and choose "Completed"
And you should be ok.