Hi,
Have a Samsung Note 3 with Android v4.4 that only use for multimedia (audio and video) no Internet or wifi.
Would like to reduce the bloatware so did some searching but did not find anything on the Samsung Note 3 Forums, but did find "List the Bloatware you'd recommend to get rid off !" by kartrikpal, Senior Member on 6th March 2018.
There I also found a post by iunlock, Senior Member "No, the things that I've listed are tried and tested. There is nothing that is broken for my usage. It is advised that people use common sense in not disabling things that are needed for apps that they use....It's not as scary as it seems once you get a handle on it. For me this has been a long time in the making with previous phones and understanding what I need and what I don't need. If you need any help or have any questions, feel free to ping me."
Hope iunlock and other Note 3 experts have some recommendations concerning removing bloatware on the Note 3!
While I have never done this for Android OS have done it for Windows XP.
Thanks
Ken
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thats too much. you think its a good idea to cut back to something like 120?
stuff to consider
1-archiving many old forums
2-combining old device subforums into one
3-combining accessories forums of all devices.
4-combine software and temes forums of diamond,diamond2,touch pro, Tpro2,X1,HD. all devices are QC7200 based and are almost the same internally
I think it's completely organized. As long as your search it should be fine. I've gotten used to it lol
THE GRIZZ said:
thats too much. you think its a good idea to cut back to something like 120?
stuff to consider
1-archiving many old forums
2-combining old device subforums into one
3-combining accessories forums of all devices.
4-combine software and temes forums of diamond,diamond2,touch pro, Tpro2,X1,HD. all devices are QC7200 based and are almost the same internally
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Person 1:
Member Name: The GRIZZ
Join Date: February 2009
Post Count: 56
Person 2:
Member Name: JimmyMcGee
Join Date: January 2008
Post Count: Over 2000
Someone wants to make sweeping changed to the forum, even though the forum has been the same for many years. Guess What, It is Not Person 2!
The Grizz, you are relatively new to XDA. Why do you keep wanting to change it? I'm not saying your opinion doesn't matter. I'm just saying you are only "one month old" as a member here. Give it some time to realize the importance as to why XDA is the way it is.
When I start at a new Job, I don't rearrange the furniture the first day I get there, or ever for that matter. I take the time to get to know where the furniture is and adapt to it.
And if for some reason I totally cannot accept how the business owners have the furniture set up, then maybe that's not the place for me.
XDA has 170 forums because we have 170 legit reasons to provide 170 different types of information. And believe it or not, there are still people who have and use the Blue Angel (or other older device) forum.
if its that hard for you to locate the threads for your device from the main page just bookmark the relevent device threads its not hard or learn to use the scroll button/ page dn
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Person 1:
And believe it or not, there are still people who have and use the Blue Angel (or other older device) forum.
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Like me, for starters
Besides, don't say "BA" like it is a useless device... we just got a new version of WM6.5 (latest leak) with a working copy of Titanium... so for the most part, we still have an up to date BA
Just so you know, I also have a Wallaby, which I might pick up at some point...
@The Grizz,
The fact that there are 170 forums shouldn't matter to you unless you have to search for your stuff throughout the 170 forums, in which case, I would suggest to use the XDA search function or Google.
With your criteria, maybe someone should reorganize the dictionary because it has too many categories (letters)...
Just take it and enjoy it as it is
At leas for me, when deciding for a new phone, one of the biggest if not the biggest factor is how active is that device on xda. But this is quite hard to determine. Only statistics I have found was total number of posts, which does not help much as 3 year old device will probably have more total posts than 3 months old one.
So I made little application that crawled over development forums and counted all posts made in last month, to see which devices are most active. Here are my results:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Bs4Gb7Pc
I hope that helps anyone deciding for a new device. And I also hope that feature like that would be integrated directly into xda, since its interesting to see how active devices are.
This is exactly what I was looking for. It would be nice to have this integrated in the xda website.
What is device Name¿
That's very interesting, no surprise on the Nexus devices.
This is a neat idea. We'll work on it. Might take a couple of months, as there are a lot of other todos around here
This is missing legacy devices? Because i couldnt find Galaxy Y & other phones which are in legacy devices..
But a great chart none the less..!
All device that appear on first page when you select ALL are included.
matejdro said:
At leas for me, when deciding for a new phone, one of the biggest if not the biggest factor is how active is that device on xda. But this is quite hard to determine. Only statistics I have found was total number of posts, which does not help much as 3 year old device will probably have more total posts than 3 months old one.
So I made little application that crawled over development forums and counted all posts made in last month, to see which devices are most active. Here are my results:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Bs4Gb7Pc
I hope that helps anyone deciding for a new device. And I also hope that feature like that would be integrated directly into xda, since its interesting to see how active devices are.
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Hi matejdro,
Can you provide the app source or update the data?
Thanks.
Sorry I lost the source. I attempted to recreate it few weeks ago but it looks like XDA forums has put some heavy bandwith control on their servers and I can only crawl through about 1 page per second which is way too slow to get results in meaningful time.
Great idea thanks!
I know this is a really old post, so apologies for bumping.....However as it is the only post that I have come across that shows what the most active devices are, I would like to see if there is any way of resurrecting the discussion and the application itself!
As stated by the OP, this is a major factor for me in deciding what phone to purchase as we can see what sort of support any particular phone is getting, so I was wondering if there was any outside chance of this being updated??
I know it is a long shot but can always hope
Hi There I have scoured the XDA forums for up to date information on either the LDU S10 or Note 10 device range. Unfortunately there seems to be very little information on hand, which is unusual considering there are loads of threads about previous Galaxy S series LDUs and retail mode disabling.
If anyone has information about disabling retail mode on the current generation devices, your help is much appreciated.
Note: The password 5444 trick that used to work no longer does, which would allow factory reset and MDM removal. Now I don’t plan on taking a gamble using ODIN to try and flash stock N975F onto my N975X device for fear of bricking. I have successfully flashed S6 devices in the past but I’m a bit more reluctant with the lack of info on hand.
Any help is much appreciated, those of you who might be inclined to post ‘This is a retail device, you shouldn’t have it’ - I would politely state I bought this on ebay as a legitimate listing and would like to use it for Android Studio App development for my final year college project. I have used LDUs in the past as an access point to development on Android as my daily driver is iOS and I wanted to break away from Xcode for a different challenge. I do computer science and have a passion for smartphones so spending 1200€ to do App testing on a Note10 Plus is not an option when I paid similar for my daily driver.
To clarify when I say a ‘legitimate ebay listing’ - if I can purchase on ebay with my own money that is my business and clearly satisfies eBays user agreement. Thanks in advance, all info welcome.
Same here
Hey Stephen, Please let me know if you have any developments with this as I am in the same boat as you
Will do bud ?
Hopefully hear something soon.
JAMOS1 said:
Hey Stephen, Please let me know if you have any developments with this as I am in the same boat as you
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i heard from note9 and below you cannot flash stock firmware or it will brick the phone. but note 10 is okay to flash with stock firmware, but the imei#00000000 which u cannot use it as a normal phone untill you repair the imei.. hope this hellp..
Hi guys, I found in another posts these codes to be used to remove demo mode... any of you has ever tried?
galaxy
ruletheair
rethink
demomode exit
instoredemo
unlimited
remove cod
nationwider
People, I just returned to the Samsung "fold" after a hiatus of several years. It's a Note 10+ 5G, with T-Mobile. While the improvement from my previous LG (AT&T) phone and experience is absolute (T-Mobile has turned out to be a wonderful surprise), what I was really hoping for was, among other things, the flexibility of rooting which I had with all of my previous Samsung phones. In fact, I had come to almost rely on rooting for some very simple reasons: to keep Google, Samsung and whatever other providers of hardware and software from becoming my life's "partners" within my phone! A simple example is Google's need to know my bodily functions, my contacts and my schedule even though all of that is well handled by other, non-Google systems. If I choose not to share my life with Google, the phone continues to function as required. But it (and Samsung, for that matter) keeps trying. I am reasonably proficient with ADB and use the work arounds with some success but it is annoying. Again, I am not out to subvert any system; I simply don't want to share my life with the hardware and software providers, at least, no more than is needed. My phone is unlocked. Is there any hope of getting root for the non-exynos version of this phone?
EBRJR said:
People, I just returned to the Samsung "fold" after a hiatus of several years. It's a Note 10+ 5G, with T-Mobile. While the improvement from my previous LG (AT&T) phone and experience is absolute (T-Mobile has turned out to be a wonderful surprise), what I was really hoping for was, among other things, the flexibility of rooting which I had with all of my previous Samsung phones. In fact, I had come to almost rely on rooting for some very simple reasons: to keep Google, Samsung and whatever other providers of hardware and software from becoming my life's "partners" within my phone! A simple example is Google's need to know my bodily functions, my contacts and my schedule even though all of that is well handled by other, non-Google systems. If I choose not to share my life with Google, the phone continues to function as required. But it (and Samsung, for that matter) keeps trying. I am reasonably proficient with ADB and use the work arounds with some success but it is annoying. Again, I am not out to subvert any system; I simply don't want to share my life with the hardware and software providers, at least, no more than is needed. My phone is unlocked. Is there any hope of getting root for the non-exynos version of this phone?
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Taking the time you look on the forum would have answered your question. One thread in particular has a pretty active discussion (including from one rather knowledgeable person).
The summary of the whole "if this phone will have root" is basically this.. Samsung got it's act together with this phone. Will root be possible... Someday maybe, but not anytime soon.
scottusa2008 said:
Taking the time you look on the forum would have answered your question. One thread in particular has a pretty active discussion (including from one rather knowledgeable person).
The summary of the whole "if this phone will have root" is basically this.. Samsung got it's act together with this phone. Will root be possible... Someday maybe, but not anytime soon.
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I appreciate the admonishment about "taking the time" and I actually considered that I had. Unfortunately, my limited reading here and elsewhere resulted in the same conclusion that you reached, minus the aspirational portion! I guess I was hoping that, indeed, my reviews were truly insufficient and missing some obvious and positive answer.
Well, I got my answer! Much appreciated.
I've read through the several relevant threads on side-loading, changing CSC, etc. methods to get these features on Tizen 4.0.0.8, and now bring BP into Tizen 5 updated watches. I have BP problems, and this would be of great help to me, if only to just see how its changing during the day, activities, etc., without paying much attention to the relatively inaccurate absolute numbers. Just knowing its going up, maybe fast and alot, is all I need.
I'm a pretty good engineer, long-time phone hacker, and can't make heads or tails out of what I need to do to get BP on my WA2 now that I've updated to Tizen 5 here in the US. Apparently many other members are not following either.
So, this is a request for some charitable, nice member who could succinctly summarize the steps necessary to get BP functioning on a USA version WA2 for those of us who can't distill it out of hundreds of pages of thread discussion about it. Snarky comments about searching, or read it myself, or any of that sort of incivility isn't needed, or welcome. Just move on if this isn't of interest to you, please.
If there is someone well-versed in the steps/process that is willing to take a half hour or so and craft some clear instructions for the rest of us, it would be greatly appreciated (and will get a small thank-you $$ from me, at least), please do... Thanks in advance!
Please refer to this post by me & see if it helps you.
This is just a summary of or redirect to useful posts regarding this topic.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=83750353
You didn't mention what variant is your watch, bluetooth or LTE?
Paired with a samsung or a non samsung phone?
But this should help you nevertheless.
In my experience, to get bp working, you need to sideload bp app on tizen 4.0.0.7, in your case, you need to downgrade.
Updating OS might leave bp app non functioning.
Thanks.
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