Safe to remove bloatware apps? - Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II

i didnt see any thread in here for the safe to remove apps on the Note 2
anybody have a list?

I think this is a legitimate question. For those of us that choose to remove system apps without using an Aroma type program we can really mess up functionality if we delete the wrong stuff. I would like to see a thread where a qualified Dev makes a list of all the system apps that come pre installed and tells us whether they are safe to remove or not

IIRC that stupid Sprint Connections Optimizer can at best only be frozen...if you try to remove it bad things happen. Most of the other bloat you can live without ime.
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Yeah I've seen lists made for other devices
Earlier I removed one I was almost was harmless to remove but then my notification bar disappeared. Luckily I recovered it
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Titaniums Backup is your friend. Backup everything, then freeze, test. If ok, then delete and test. If ok, cool. If not, restore or unfreeze.

Masturbatoe said:
i didnt see any thread in here for the safe to remove apps on the Note 2
anybody have a list?
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Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1910885

s4pat said:
Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1910885
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Thanks much!
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[Q] i root my play

after rooting which apps i can use now that Req root ?
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and one more question how i can backup and restore roms ?
i realy need it
thnx for the helppers
Oh wow it is just amazing how people these days can't do a search and read and figure it out. Go check the Dev section and do some reading you'll find all the answers you need
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thatsupnow said:
Oh wow it is just amazing how people these days can't do a search and read and figure it out. Go check the Dev section and do some reading you'll find all the answers you need
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More to the point, why do people root, when they have no reason to..... If you want to know things you can do after root, there is no real need to root.
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Now that your rooted you can get rid of bloatware by using an app called root explorer, navigate to the folders stored on your phone and delete everything you see. Bloatware will be gone
swebosdev said:
Now that your rooted you can get rid of bloatware by using an app called root explorer, navigate to the folders stored on your phone and delete everything you see. Bloatware will be gone
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Personally, I think Titanium Backup is better for removing bloat because it removes data associated with the bloat too
Also, to backup and restore your rom you need an unlocked bootloader. Root won't help you with that
I think you might have missed the sarcasm, if im not mistaken
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And also, this should have been in Q & A not general.
Titanium is awesome.
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get titainium backup and freeze everything. Then get app 2 or sd and move some stuff over
Good Luck
i saw app that change the command of the R and L buttons
but i cant find her now
Maybe it's time for a sticky thread about the best apps with root access? I think that would be a great idea. I wanted to root for a couple reasons (WiFi tethering, Six Axis controller, and removing bloatware) but there were still some things that I didn't know about that I do now because of a previous thread I made like this one.
AndroHero said:
More to the point, why do people root, when they have no reason to..... If you want to know things you can do after root, there is no real need to root.
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Yea exactly if you have to ask then you obviously don't need root and should just leave it be. Good point man
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I cant wait to root my verizon phone. Mostly I just want to take the bloatware off of it.
Guys, can i know what bloatwares exactly mean, and where can i exactly find those.
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vdciii said:
Guys, can i know what bloatwares exactly mean, and where can i exactly find those.
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Bloatware is any app installed on your phone by a service provider that you don't want, but without root cannot get rid of. (i.e. On verizon, they include vzw navigator, a pay-to-use navigation system; backup assistant, a "service" that works the exact same way as any android automatically syncs your contacts with your gmail account; and visual voicemail, a pay-to-use voicemail system that is equivalent to google voice)
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paxChristos said:
Bloatware is any app installed on your phone by a service provider that you don't want, but without root cannot get rid of. (i.e. On verizon, they include vzw navigator, a pay-to-use navigation system; backup assistant, a "service" that works the exact same way as any android automatically syncs your contacts with your gmail account; and visual voicemail, a pay-to-use voicemail system that is equivalent to google voice)
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As a fellow verizon R800X user what did you remove from your phone? I got a list form loismustdie555 but Im just wondering if you removed more.
vdciii said:
Guys, can i know what bloatwares exactly mean, and where can i exactly find those.
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Aww come on people, xda search button fail is 1 thing but google fail takes the cake. Now you must be trolling.
Whats next? Are you going to ask how to find google in the dev forums?
Hey dude. If you dont want to answer then just shut up. If i am really trolling then who cares, if other people know im trolling they wouldnt answer me and it is fine with me. Just freakin mind your own business and dont take opportunities to show off that youre better than any of the xda mate here.
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cpnismo said:
As a fellow verizon R800X user what did you remove from your phone? I got a list form loismustdie555 but Im just wondering if you removed more.
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Nothing
I'm keeping mine as close to stock as possible so once updates come out I can keep figuring out how to root the R800x
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Dude go take your fustrations out on your wife or kids, if you think im showing off because i know how to read then that really doesnt say much about you.
Like the majority of people here, if i do not know something i will go look it up, not ask others to do it for me. Your either super lazy or just plain stupid.
If paxchristos already answered then its over right. Why would you add up on things on which is already answered. Isnt it showing off. Why would i be frustrated? It is you who should be frustrated because nobody cares about how you show off here. I bet youre also doing it on others. Theres a problem with your attitude man. And stupidity is not even enough to describe. Maybe its just reasonable enough to take that frustration out on yourself. This is a place of information, from basic to advance. This isnt a place of showing off.
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Bloatware

I'm going to be rooting mine and my girlfriends phone in the next few days. I wanted to see about removing the Bloatware on the phones once they are rooted. Is there anything special I need to download to be able to remove them? I have most of them disabled but would like to totally get rid if them. I searched all over for an answer but was unable to find one.
Thanks in advance.
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Titanium backup. Just download it from the play store and that will do the trick. Search the forum to see which apps are safe to remove tho.
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Titanium backup. It allows you to uninstall anything. If you are not sure about a program, you can freeze it, which will not allow the program to run, then if no problems occur it can be uninstalled. if you search, you can find an ongoing list of programs safe to delete
Thank you guys, I ended up getting the pro version and will search for that list of apps you talkrd about and go from there.
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Frost0113 said:
I'm going to be rooting mine and my girlfriends phone in the next few days. I wanted to see about removing the Bloatware on the phones once they are rooted. Is there anything special I need to download to be able to remove them? I have most of them disabled but would like to totally get rid if them. I searched all over for an answer but was unable to find one.
Thanks in advance.
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you can try getting a stock rom that's been cleaned of bloatware?
Thanks, I didn't know I could do that with tb gonna try it
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You can't do that with TB. Find these bloatware-free ROMs in the android dev forum.

Is this phone dead in the water?

Hey guys, I just got an S3 3 days ago, just got paid again and was wondering if I should go ahead and spring for the note 2 but everyone keeps telling me since the note 2 has exynos, it will be hard to develop for or something? I've had an iPhone for 5 years so I'm a clinical retard when it comes to android stuff. It almost seems like the people saying that are kind of jealous that they don't or can't get the note 2. I was just wondering if you can easily root the note 2 and flash CM10, because I hate bloatware and love CM10 sounds. If CM10 isn't available is it possible to de bloat it at all?
De bloating is no problem. CM10 will lose the S-pen functionality on this monster.
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meleii said:
De bloating is no problem. CM10 will lose the S-pen functionality on this monster.
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Thanks for the reply brother. Another quick question, I used a very easy toolkit to root my S3, I don't remember who made but it was in green text and in console. Is there anything like that available for the note 2, it was amazingly simple to use and easily un rooted my S3, I've been on Android for all of 4 days so excuse my nubishness. Lol
Right now it is a little more difficult to root than a 1 click method...but in time I bet the developers will make it happen..
MY honest opinion...get the Note II...
Mac
Mac11700 said:
Right now it is a little more difficult to root than a 1 click method...but in time I bet the developers will make it happen..
MY honest opinion...get the Note II...
Mac
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Yeah I'm gonna go ahead and spring for the note 2, couple more questions and once again my apologies for being so noobish, is there a way to de bloat and get the quick reply texting, like CM10, without rooting?
*EDIT* Also is there way to get the CM10 sounds? I love the ringtones and sms notifications.
No.
I got tones on zedge
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drochro said:
Yeah I'm gonna go ahead and spring for the note 2, couple more questions and once again my apologies for being so noobish, is there a way to de bloat and get the quick reply texting, like CM10, without rooting?
*EDIT* Also is there way to get the CM10 sounds? I love the ringtones and sms notifications.
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Yes you could. Get someone with cm10 to extract them for you. I can do this later when I get home if you cant find them
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Titanium backup to be bloat
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kleeman7 said:
Yes you could. Get someone with cm10 to extract them for you. I can do this later when I get home if you cant find them
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That would be awesome bro, I also heard you can disable bloatware from the native note 2 file manager. Guess there's no need to root....yet.
drochro said:
That would be awesome bro, I also heard you can disable bloatware from the native note 2 file manager. Guess there's no need to root....yet.
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I rooted within 5 minutes of getting the phone, but I would imagine that this only applies if you're rooted. AT&T doesn't want you taking its bloat/spy/malware off, so I really doubt they'd let an unrooted user go through and delete the apps.
I'm waiting for the Multi-view update before rooting. Save myself from having to unroot. And as for bloatware, you can just "disable" it - without rooting.
And as for it being "dead in the water".... what you talking about? News to me...
drochro said:
Hey guys, I just got an S3 3 days ago, just got paid again and was wondering if I should go ahead and spring for the note 2 but everyone keeps telling me since the note 2 has exynos, it will be hard to develop for or something? I've had an iPhone for 5 years so I'm a clinical retard when it comes to android stuff. It almost seems like the people saying that are kind of jealous that they don't or can't get the note 2. I was just wondering if you can easily root the note 2 and flash CM10, because I hate bloatware and love CM10 sounds. If CM10 isn't available is it possible to de bloat it at all?
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As far as rooting goes... There is a method on here that literally takes about 3 mins from beginning to end.. very easy. Once rooted, just download and install Cleanrom Lite 1.0...this rom is debloated and extremely fast/smooth. There are plenty of sms apps that provide quick reply... gosms/chompsms/handcent are just a few. This is one awesome phone and I wouldn't worry too much about development, or lack thereof.
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drochro said:
That would be awesome bro, I also heard you can disable bloatware from the native note 2 file manager. Guess there's no need to root....yet.
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No need to root to de-bloat. I'm on the stock ROM, haven't seen a need to root yet.
1. Go to: "Settings | Application Manager" and swipe over to the "All" tab.
2. Find what you want gone (i.e. all of the AT&T apps) and tap it.
3. Clear data, Clear cache. Some apps might also require you to "uninstall updates".
4. Force stop.
5. Disable.
You're done. If you later want to re-enable something, scroll down to the bottom of the "All" list ... it has everything you've disabled listed there. I've disabled about 32 things that came preloaded, including almost all the Samsung cloud stuff, GMail, all the Google Sync services, all the Google additional services (apps like Google+ and Google Play Magazines/Movies & TV/Music, not Android system services), with no issues whatsoever.
powerwagon said:
As far as rooting goes... There is a method on here that literally takes about 3 mins from beginning to end.. very easy. Once rooted, just download and install Cleanrom Lite 1.0...this rom is debloated and extremely fast/smooth. There are plenty of sms apps that provide quick reply... gosms/chompsms/handcent are just a few. This is one awesome phone and I wouldn't worry too much about development, or lack thereof.
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Is there an SMS app with Quick Reply that preserves the look of the stock Jelly Bean SMS app? I really like the way it looks already loaded on the Note 2 so I don't want to take away its aesthetics.
UserNamer said:
No need to root to de-bloat. I'm on the stock ROM, haven't seen a need to root yet.
1. Go to: "Settings | Application Manager" and swipe over to the "All" tab.
2. Find what you want gone (i.e. all of the AT&T apps) and tap it.
3. Clear data, Clear cache. Some apps might also require you to "uninstall updates".
4. Force stop.
5. Disable.
You're done. If you later want to re-enable something, scroll down to the bottom of the "All" list ... it has everything you've disabled listed there. I've disabled about 32 things that came preloaded, including almost all the Samsung cloud stuff, GMail, all the Google Sync services, all the Google additional services (apps like Google+ and Google Play Magazines/Movies & TV/Music, not Android system services), with no issues whatsoever.
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Exactly correct. A nice touch on sammys part
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erick161 said:
Exactly correct. A nice touch on sammys part
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Its actually part of android 4.0.
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drochro said:
That would be awesome bro, I also heard you can disable bloatware from the native note 2 file manager. Guess there's no need to root....yet.
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yes go to setting-application manager slide to the right until u see all apps then scroll down to any app u want to debloat select then disable. Boom the app will disappear. Remember this method only disable the app if u want to delete them then need root. Learn about Odin stuff that easy for new noobs. Good luck

[Q] De-bloating OTA 4.3

Hello Everyone,
Since it looks like I will be stuck on OTA 4.3 version for awhile,I might as well play with it for awhile... I was just wondering what would be the best way to de-bloat this sucker? I am rooted already and have CWM 6.0.4.3 installed. Has there been a script developed already like Ashman's for this new version?
Thank you in advance!
thawte said:
Hello Everyone,
Since it looks like I will be stuck on OTA 4.3 version for awhile,I might as well play with it for awhile... I was just wondering what would be the best way to de-bloat this sucker? I am rooted already and have CWM 6.0.4.3 installed. Has there been a script developed already like Ashman's for this new version?
Thank you in advance!
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Install titanium backup then delete whatever apps you want.
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Florad77 said:
Install titanium backup then delete whatever apps you want.
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Is there possibly a "safe" list for the new version?
Thank you
thawte said:
Is there possibly a "safe" list for the new version?
Thank you
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I haven't seen one yet but you can definetly delete carrier apps like my account etc and google apps like google maps safely.
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Also, make sure you make a nandroid backup before you delete any system files with titanium. There is no other way to go back if you delete the wrong app and/or softbrick.
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old list
thawte said:
... I was just wondering what would be the best way to de-bloat this sucker?
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I haven't seen a new list or script. An old list I came across has a post to a docs spreadsheet for the SGS3
docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?pli=1&key=0AqTvctlW89DtdC1qVUlLeVFTV3ZOdUtDclpBdVRQOUE&f=true&noheader=true&gid=0
attributed to the xda member 1234568
Please understand that I am not vouching for anything on that list, even the things I have frozen with TiBu
Thank you all for your help with this. I got rid of a bunch of apps I didn't want and things are running smoothly
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I have found as others have if you turn off Paper Artist that Gallery force closes when you attempt to share a picture. Not sure if using Tibu will cause the same issue, I haven't re-rooted yet. You may want to test if you got rid of Paper Artist. Just a thought.
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I uninstalled a bunch of stuff and was getting a bunch of force closes. I then decided to switch to quantum room and kernel for the debloating they did and the speed and reliability
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What bloatware is safe to delete?

How much and what bloatware is safe to delete?
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Depends, how clean are you trying to make it?
I remove a ton of stuff, but I do actually use a few of the Asus apps.
I'd also like to see if we could create a list of everything you can uninstall, personally until CM12 comes to the ZF2 I'd like to uninstall every single non-essential ASUS application to the point where my device is as close to stock android as possible. Anyone know of such a list?
Harfainx said:
Depends, how clean are you trying to make it?
I remove a ton of stuff, but I do actually use a few of the Asus apps.
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Fairly clean tried a few asus apps some seem like they'd be useful but a lot aren't
But there is loads of crap apps
I'm not going to be updating with OTA anyway so even some system apps are gone already
Just needing to know what i can get shut off safely
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I'll get some things put together for app/location. There's a lot that can be removed but causes the Asus experience to suffer. There's a lot that just shouldn't be there.
I'll try to get a list with things organized by impact. There's a bunch of stuff that's installed but doesn't even show up. Straight up junk.
Harfainx said:
I'll get some things put together for app/location. There's a lot that can be removed but causes the Asus experience to suffer. There's a lot that just shouldn't be there.
I'll try to get a list with things organized by impact. There's a bunch of stuff that's installed but doesn't even show up. Straight up junk.
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Appreciated mate
I can't believe some of the crap they have in system files unbelievable
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When in doubt, just freeze it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/help/apps-to-freeze-t3142954
Haven't rooted. So every time I uninstall one of those pieces of crap it reinstalls alllll by itself. Like it's possessed.
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Haven't rooted. So every time I uninstall one of those pieces of crap it reinstalls alllll by itself. Like it's possessed.
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If you're unrooted, you can't uninstall system apps with the regular uninstall process. It will only uninstall updates back to the stock build version. Then it will update again from the Play Store, which is probably what you're seeing.
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When in doubt, just freeze it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/help/apps-to-freeze-t3142954
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Nah i like to remove it completely
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geegs8 said:
Haven't rooted. So every time I uninstall one of those pieces of crap it reinstalls alllll by itself. Like it's possessed.
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Rooting has it's advantages even if you don't want custom roms kernels or recovery
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Are there any options other than rooting
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wschase said:
Are there any options other than rooting
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You can disable some apps, but that's about it for ones that it won't let you fully uninstall.
wschase said:
Are there any options other than rooting
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Yes go to play store type asus apps
Found out it let's you uninstall most of them
Once deleted reboot if it seems stuck on splash screen press power button till it powers down
Then power on your phone HEY PRESTO ALL THE CRAP GONE
To get them Back just reinstall from play store
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I posted a ROM with a list of what I removed.
Please feel free to let me know about more things that can go.
Plus I'm still expanding on it. This is an early pass of what can go.
List can be seen HERE under the hidden content button (didn't want to blow up the post too much).
Harfainx said:
I posted a ROM with a list of what I removed.
Please feel free to let me know about more things that can go.
Plus I'm still expanding on it. This is an early pass of what can go.
List can be seen HERE under the hidden content button (didn't want to blow up the post too much).
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Yeah I've seen your post mate nice touch
More or less the same as I've got rid of was thinking about talking software update out of system but not sure if I'd get away with that
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Hello, if i removed (actually deleted some bloatware) and want to factory reset my phone, will that cause a softbrick of the phone?
darcsacka said:
Hello, if i removed (actually deleted some bloatware) and want to factory reset my phone, will that cause a softbrick of the phone?
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It hasn't on my device.
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Thanks for the answer Man

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