Hello everyone,
I was reading through some posts and a member mentioned Package Disabler Pro, so I checked it out and the app removes bloatware.
I was wondering, are there bloatware packages/apps on the phone that are useless, drain battery and should be disabled?
Is all about personal preference on what you decide to debloat. There are a few good debloat threads that give great insight to the task at hand. I personally used adb to remove unwanted/uneeded apps then use package disabler Pro to disable other apps and bloatware. I hope this helps and have a great day.
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Please can someone help me and explain to a newbie the best way to remove the bloat ware and the why and how of freezing apps, because of all your help I have decided to invest in the tab s instead of the note 10.1 2014.
and also can u still use 4 way multiwindow & floating multiwindow on the tab s
i thank u all for your time:good:
This topic has been brought up so many times it's ridiculously shameful of Samsung to continue practising this when consumer consensus shows that everyone hates bloatware. Even Samsung's homeland Korea sued the company for preinstalling bloatware that can't be uninstalled and they've won. Americans should do the same fight back.
Anyhow, the only way you can completely remove the bloatware is to root your device first and delete them manually. The 2nd alternative without rooting is to disable the app and if that can't be done the only thing is to hide them. Disabling or hiding is still obtrusive because it's still taking up memory and may still be running in the background.
The 12.2" pro can do 4 windows multitasking. So far this 10.5 can only do 2 windows at at time.
which apps are regarded as bloat?
NixxonExxo said:
This topic has been brought up so many times it's ridiculously shameful of Samsung to continue practising this when consumer consensus shows that everyone hates bloatware. Even Samsung's homeland Korea sued the company for preinstalling bloatware that can't be uninstalled and they've won. Americans should do the same fight back.
Anyhow, the only way you can completely remove the bloatware is to root your device first and delete them manually. The 2nd alternative without rooting is to disable the app and if that can't be done the only thing is to hide them. Disabling or hiding is still obtrusive because it's still taking up memory and may still be running in the background.
The 12.2" pro can do 4 windows multitasking. So far this 10.5 can only do 2 windows at at time.
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Pretty sure if you disable them they don't run anymore. But not all apps can be disabled without root.
Anyway, without the ability to resize the partitions, deleting them doesn't give us back any device memory. So root and use Titanium Backup to freeze those unneeded crap.
Of course, some brave soul who can figure out what crap can be frozen safely will also help.
I have seen a couple root apps posted that are good to have, I have a few apps that I have installed on every phone that make life a whole lot easier for root functions. I have no ties to any of these developers, and I have not created any of these apps. I just want to share some apps that I find are useful.
SD Maid, by Darken: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.thedarken.sdm
This app is great, This is my favorite root app. The feature list is jam packed with things it can do to help you change your Rom to better suite what you want. It makes clearing out corpses of removed apps (system or not) clearing your cache, and it even allowes you to uninstall or freeze system apps, you can even delete an app but leave its data in case you want to reinstall it later without having to reset up everything. You can toggle auto starts, look for duplicate files, and check your system info. it is a free app, with a paid unlocker for the pro features, and it is totally worth it to unlock the pro features.
CSC Feature Expert for Samsung, by Wanam: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ma.wanam.cscexpert
This app is great for modifying hidden features that carries change within the stock Sammy rom such as removing that annoying wifi notification in the drop down menu (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6-edge/general/quick-guide-enabling-hidden-features-t3087506 for some great ideas)
SQLite Editor, by speed software: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speedsoftware.sqleditor
This app allows you to edit the SQL for some great mods and tweaks like removing the brightness slider bar in the drop down menu (http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-galaxy-s6/general/tweak-remove-brightness-slider-t3088329)
GSam Battery Monitor, by Gsam Labs: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm
This app has a companion app for root users that makes it a system app with all the permissions needed to keep a close eye on battery usage. Tells you how long your average usage is for each app and the longer you have it installed the better it gets at telling you what is going on.
ROM Toolbox, by JRummy:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.liberty.toolbox
This app is a combination of like 8 apps that JRummy has created rolled into one easy to use package, for about 80% less than buying them separately. Most of the features of this app are not very useful for our phones, I think it is more leaning towards CM based ROMS but it still has a few features that we can use like a great file explorer, a easy to use app manager, a build.prop editor, task manager, Terminal emulator, and a DNS shanger.
Thats my list of must have root apps, what are some root apps you guys are using? I am sure there is an app out there I have not seen that would end up on my list, so reply with your favorite apps for root! :highfive:
greenify
titanium backup
flashfire
better battery stats
adaway
just to name a few...
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greenify, by Oasis Feng:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify
Great for shutting down apps that like to run in the background. Great thing for the S6 is you can set the home button to greenify and lock the screen by holding the home button for 2 seconds.
titanium backup, by Titanium Track:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup
I personally dont like titanium back up. and SD Maid does everything Titanium back up does and more all in one app for less money.
flashfire, by Chainfire: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.flash
This is a new app for me, I have started using it for flashing on my S6 Edge, but never used it before that. It is a great app, and a necessity for us s6 users with locked bootloaders.
better battery stats, by Sven Knipsel: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asksven.betterbatterystats
No free or trial version so I have never tried the app. It looks like a useful app, but no better than the Gsam, and gsam is free.
adaway, by sufficientlysecure: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934553157
Adaway is a necessity for all root users! it does what it says and makes the ads go away. I didnt include it in my origional post because I was going to stick with Play store apps but it is more than worth of the list.
To add another useful app, is another app store, fdroid. https://f-droid.org/
Fdroid offers some apps that the play store wont allow such as adawy. I have never had or heard of any malware issues using Fdroid, but I dont see alot of people talking about it around here.
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greenify, by Oasis Feng:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify
Great for shutting down apps that like to run in the background. Great thing for the S6 is you can set the home button to greenify and lock the screen by holding the home button for 2 seconds.
titanium backup, by Titanium Track:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup
I personally dont like titanium back up. and SD Maid does everything Titanium back up does and more all in one app for less money.
flashfire, by Chainfire: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.flash
This is a new app for me, I have started using it for flashing on my S6 Edge, but never used it before that. It is a great app, and a necessity for us s6 users with locked bootloaders.
better battery stats, by Sven Knipsel: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asksven.betterbatterystats
No free or trial version so I have never tried the app. It looks like a useful app, but no better than the Gsam, and gsam is free.
adaway, by sufficientlysecure: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934553157
Adaway is a necessity for all root users! it does what it says and makes the ads go away. I didnt include it in my origional post because I was going to stick with Play store apps but it is more than worth of the list.
To add another useful app, is another app store, fdroid. https://f-droid.org/
Fdroid offers some apps that the play store wont allow such as adawy. I have never had or heard of any malware issues using Fdroid, but I dont see alot of people talking about it around here.
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better batt stats has a free xda version
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As the topic says. I'm pretty sure most of the Metro crap is safe to remove. The LG stuff I'm freezing to see if it causes issues. The Google stuff I'm removing. What else can go?
Well, all of google stuff except services framework and store is safe to remove, also your career bloat is safe to remove. But other LG stuff like lg backup is safe to remove but it will crash your settings when you go to backup & reset, however removing any of lg apps won't get you too much benefit in resources because they don't consume much space and also there is chance that you will delete something you shouldn't.
ok, stock deodexed, debloated metropcs rom posted. also posted the stuff i removed. this should give you an idea on whats safe. the rest is simply preference on what you prefer, to debloat though it's best to freeze things and see what happens. if it doesn't break or remove a feature it's pretty much safe to remove. anyway. have given you guys a base to start with. enjoy
Hi there. I'm a visually impaired user of a5 but my prefered TTS engine "ETI eloquence" sound is not fine on this phone. I observed that its a result of its conflict with sound alive feature of the phone, therefore, i'm looking a way to completely disable, or remove sound alive for better investigating this problem. Is there any way through which i can remove/disable it completely? my phone is already rooted with latest super su SR3.
Try to use package disabler pro from play store to freeze those unwanted apps
If you already root your phone, try to use titanium backup to remove those unwanted apps
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Hello,
I've decided to come back to Android after seven years using iOS and the one thing that bothers me the most is the excessive amount of preinstalled bloatware (in Samsung devices, to be more precise).
Searching at the forum, I've seen some posts about CCSWE, Package Disabler Pro, and ADB, which seem to do the job.
However, I was looking for a more "lazy" solution to disable such apps, meaning that I do not want to root my device or installing ADB.
Hence, my question is: can I disable every single bloatware by simply accessing Settings > Apps? If not, can either CCSWE or Package Disabler Pro do the trick? Do they need root access?
Thanks in advance for your sage advices
aacury said:
Hello,
I've decided to come back to Android after seven years using iOS and the one thing that bothers me the most is the excessive amount of preinstalled bloatware (in Samsung devices, to be more precise).
Searching at the forum, I've seen some posts about CCSWE, Package Disabler Pro, and ADB, which seem to do the job.
However, I was looking for a more "lazy" solution to disable such apps, meaning that I do not want to root my device or installing ADB.
Hence, my question is: can I disable every single bloatware by simply accessing Settings > Apps? If not, can either CCSWE or Package Disabler Pro do the trick? Do they need root access?
Thanks in advance for your sage advices
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Non of those options require root
Some / most of the bloatware can be disabled from settings > apps > apps info page
Some can't and needs one of the above options
aacury said:
Hello,
I've decided to come back to Android after seven years using iOS and the one thing that bothers me the most is the excessive amount of preinstalled bloatware (in Samsung devices, to be more precise).
Searching at the forum, I've seen some posts about CCSWE, Package Disabler Pro, and ADB, which seem to do the job.
However, I was looking for a more "lazy" solution to disable such apps, meaning that I do not want to root my device or installing ADB.
Hence, my question is: can I disable every single bloatware by simply accessing Settings > Apps? If not, can either CCSWE or Package Disabler Pro do the trick? Do they need root access?
Thanks in advance for your sage advices
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I use PD MDM: https://www.packagedisabler.com/
Buy direct from their site. Been running it for over 3 years, with over 1 year on the 10+, it's stable, very low power consumption.
This is the lazy way plus it will disable apks that you can't kill in settings.
The optional interactive widget allows you to toggle checked apks on/off by touching the widget. Useful for apps like Playstore that you use but don't want running all the time. Will block carrier updates too.
I recommend PD.
Alright, guys.
Thanks for your inputs.