In my stock rom that is rooted I have many of the original apps frozen.
Is there any advantage to removing these apps vs freezing them. There is plenty of space on the system partition and I don't think that having the extra files in the system partition slows the phone down.
king200 said:
In my stock rom that is rooted I have many of the original apps frozen.
Is there any advantage to removing these apps vs freezing them. There is plenty of space on the system partition and I don't think that having the extra files in the system partition slows the phone down.
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Not really, unless you need space.
Personally, I freeze apps I want to use later (like Maps) but uninstall everything else.
Uninstall apps you feel you would never use.. Examples are default live wallpapers cos I never use them.
Freeze you don't use normally but feel you may use once in a while... Examples here would be like maps.
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Like the topic states. Ive just downloaded Titanium Backup and i cant see myself using any of the other features besides forcing apps like Chrome Beta or Tumblr which use alot of internal memory to the SD. So far those apps i moved to the SD work fine, but is it stable to keep them there? or is there another app that will work even better than TB? Im rooted with 4.0.4 btw
Titanium backup is the best all rounder app for rooted devices
its safe to move user apps..but not the system apps..u can move wat all u have downloaded without any worry..
Good to know, thanks but it makes me wonder why the developers dont allow all their apps to transfer to the SD by default.
You could always try making them system apps which Will save space.
Long press on app, and from pop up menu select make system app.
System space is separate from internal, titanium main Screen will show how much space available.
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is it better to make them system apps than to move to the SD? will it matter in terms of performance?
oh, one problem im facing moving apps like Beautiful Widgets and Chrome to the SD...the widgets wont show up. Will i face this same problem if i make them system apps instead?
The only rule: Dont move/push/link apps to sd which you want to use as widget!
cool. makes sense. thanks
I have a GS3 16 gb coming in the mail tomorrow. I heard we only really have 8-9gb free.
Can I delete all those useless apps to free up my space?
I know I would have to root just wondering if it will screw up my phone if I delete those useless apps.
Yes you can. But make sure you dont touch system files
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Deleting apps didn't help me gain much storage. The only benefit is that you can get rid of certain apps that run in the background and tax your resources. Other than that, there is little benefit in deleting apps. You can simply hide them in the drawer.
And yes, please, be cautious not to delete certain apps. Otherwise, you'll get force closes. There is a post in here that lists apps that are safe to remove.
But again, there is almost no benefit in deleting apps that don't run in the background by default.
Yes I know what that means but I was doing this way and I was wondering if it did the same thing.
I was disabling the apps instead of uninstalling them; are they the same in the sense, to save battery
kevinrubio1 said:
Yes I know what that means but I was doing this way and I was wondering if it did the same thing.
I was disabling the apps instead of uninstalling them; are they the same in the sense, to save battery
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My understanding is that disabling (freezing in TiBu, etc) has the same outcome as uninstalling... just one method frees up space while the other one doesn't.
lordcheeto03 said:
My understanding is that disabling (freezing in TiBu, etc) has the same outcome as uninstalling... just one method frees up space while the other one doesn't.
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Check here. Its a very easy way to debloat any TW rom including stock :good:
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My understanding is that disabling (freezing in TiBu, etc) has the same outcome as uninstalling... just one method frees up space while the other one doesn't.
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This is true.
The advantage of freezing an app is that it can be quickly and eaasily unfrozen to get it back. Though backing up an app, uninstalling it, and reinstalling it accomplishes the same thing.
The advantage of uninstalling is that the app is gone. It's not taking up space. It can't be accidentally turned back on. It's gone. Done. History.
So it's more of a preference than anything else.
I will say that if you're talking about a custom rom that you're goign to update somewhat frequently and it comes with apps that you consider bloat, it's better to freeze them than uninstall them. Otherwise when you install the next update of that rom, the system apps you uninstalled will come back. But if you freeze them, the frozen system apps will stay frozen after the update. So it eliminates the step of having to get rid of them again.
For instance Cyanogen comes with a CM Wallpaper app that has a bunch of CM wallpapers. I will never use it. I don't want to see the icon for it. So I freeze it once. When I update the next nightly, it's still frozen. If CM puts out a stable release that I plan to keep fro a couple months, maybe I'll uninstall the Wallpaper app completely.
Also for help debloating, consider Alka Seltzer. Plop plop. Fizz fizz. On what a relief it is!
Just wanted to know how many downloaded apps you currently have on your Note? I have 113 currently.
tweaked 2.0, after wiping dalvik, says optimizing app * of 317. that's the most I've ever had on any device I think. My app drawer count is 65.
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tweaked 2.0, after wiping dalvik, says optimizing app * of 317. that's the most I've ever had on any device I think. My app drawer count is 65.
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I was up right around 320 user+system apps too, a couple weeks ago. Then I started running out of internal storage (32GB) for large updates and was too lazy to use FolderMount to move the big games over to external storage so I just decided to uninstall a bunch of crap I never used and now I'm down to "only" 292.
Rather than just uninstalling, I use TitaniumBackup to apply an "Archived" label, then I use its one-click Backup->Verify->Uninstall menu option to get rid of it, but keep it locally frozen and hidden from my normal non-archived apps list. Wish TiBu or some other app had a way to make it even easier to freeze/unfreeze, so that you could, for example, have 1000 games "on your phone", but the vast majority are just archived on your external SD and only the last 50 recently used are actually installed on your phone. (anyone dev reading this feel free to steal the idea)
At one point I had close to 900 active apps, nowadays I still have close to 950 tho there all backed up thru titanium and I only install what I feel like playing at the moment then uninstall. Only important apps I keep on my phone 100% now and rarely have games installed for too long.
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as someone who has hardly any need for gplus, facebook, etc... how much of the app memory is lost to that?
in practice, how much i can install until disk full messages?
bonus [Q2] any easy way to remove that bloat easily?
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as someone who has hardly any need for gplus, facebook, etc... how much of the app memory is lost to that?
in practice, how much i can install until disk full messages?
bonus [Q2] any easy way to remove that bloat easily?
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There's about 12 gb internal storage... Lots of space for apps i guess...
Removing bloat will need root...but you can disable the unneeded apps in settings-apps... Disabling won't free up space but it will prevent them from running and hide them from the drawer...
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Memory is not as big of an issue with this device, as you've got an SD slot and your flavor of sizes to pick from.
I've said before and I'll say it again, I think the Sony ROM is one of the best stocks around. It does have some apps I never use (and freeze with Titanium), but it's not half as imposing as others like HTC. It's very easy on the eyes and has options I like.
The idea of softkeys on this phone defies logic to me, but I got rid of those on every ROM I've been on in favor of PIE. I want the screen space...