EVERY THING THAT IS NEEDED TO RUN AN ANDROID PHONE IN A SINGLE APP
This i basically started as an idea. but i have started working on it. Not a pro dev myself, so am calling all devs to help me out. Credits wil be given to all of those who contribute. Hoping for your support.
[IDEA] everyone here is testing a new rom almost everyday. new rom testing means, installing everything from scrap. In other words it a lot time consuming. so this app is mainly for those who want to test roms, and after flashing they just have to install one app. So they can run all from that.
[app functions]
i dnt knw exactly how much this can be done, but i am tryng to make it work. here are some of the things that it will contain-
1. launcher (themable, fast, without animation,LWP support)
2. messenging (themable, sms backup)
3. task manager
4. file manager (having zip file support)
5. app manager (having backup functions, app2sd move function)
6. terminal
7. flash light
8. gallary viewer
9. QR barcode scanner
10. dialler (including contacts, contact backup)
11. media player (includs both music, video)
some thing i hope to include but might not work-
1. wifi theter
2. busybox installer
3. filesystem explorer (with root)
4. sns
5. power manager
total app size~ not exceeding 25mb
more over this app has to hold some of the apps that are in the market but will be installed through this one. So the developers of the respective app has to be contacted for permissions.
i was hoping that this app to be released as a free app. but if developers come forewad to help me out, then every developers request will be counted.
hoping devs would come to help me.
Hmm..wow that's an interesting idea, I wish I could help (sorry only c# developer ) Now...some things which I thought about though, that might make something like this difficult is, first fitting everything you mentioned into 25mb (lol, that's veeeeerrrry small) Next if I understand correctly, you want to make this like an "All In One App" Basically within the app you can restore or load a launcher, messenger app, and all the other things. So one question, what would make this different than an one quick restore with titanium backup?
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Hmm..wow that's an interesting idea, I wish I could help (sorry only c# developer ) Now...some things which I thought about though, that might make something like this difficult is, first fitting everything you mentioned into 25mb (lol, that's veeeeerrrry small) Next if I understand correctly, you want to make this like an "All In One App" Basically within the app you can restore or load a launcher, messenger app, and all the other things. So one question, what would make this different than an one quick restore with titanium backup?
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well first i was hoping that all this i would have to accumulate in or around 25mb.i have some of the things working and that was around 45mb.
this app will have all the stuff a normal person would need. this can be helpful when one does not have root. if i get everything working here then, i wd create two versions- one for normal use, an other for dev use(which would have many things)
This is for P311x, but may work on other devices
Well, this is a how-to topic for some questions that I see asked periodically. These steps are how I achieve my desired results, feel free to call me out on insignificant steps, post alternatives, or tell me if I'm wrong.
These are the steps I take, and are for the P311X they may work on P3100, but I'm not sure. This is merely meant to be informational, and as I haven't made any of these apps, or scripts, I'm not sure as to long-term effects. Furthermore, I am trying to be is as accurate as possible, but I am not responsible for damage to your device, try these at your own risk.. With that out the way. I hope this helps..
OK, How to use your SD-card for apps:
There a number of ways, depending on what Rom/Firmware you are on.
Pre-4.2x (IE. 4.1.x)
Personally I use the SD-card swap script. It works well on the P331x.
It is found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961097
You can follow the Directions there, as that is what I do. He already fully explained it and I do not want to step on any toes by copying the steps here.
This will only swap your data mount, not your system, so it should not break anything.
Credits: xalien8dx
On 4.2.x:
Use foldermount found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192122 as it is the best option that I know of:
It will not completely swap your sdcard, but it will allow you to move and make links to large folders of data, such as obb folders, from your internal sdcard to your external, which could save a person gigabytes of space.
Credits: madmack
The steps I take are:
1.click add to add a “link”.
2. Name the link something that will identify it well.
3. Chose your source directory: and navigate to the directory you wish to link. Note: you can only link individual obb folders, not the whole directory. Click the check.
4. Choose your destination folder and either create a folder on your sdcard to move it to, or let it do it for you and click the check.
5. Click the check at the top
6. I just let the app move over the data for me, but you can do it yourself if you want.
7. On the main screen either click the pin or the circle plus symbol. If the pins turn green it is linked, if not trace your steps and make sure everything is being linked to the correct folder.
8. Repeat up to 3 times on the free version and as many times on the paid.
How to hide your navigation bar on stock:
What I do is:
1. Download LMT Launcher from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330150 This will give you Pie navigation controls.
2. make sure you set it up, by making sure touch services are started ,and that it is set to boot if you are going to hide your navigation bars at boot, otherwise how will you navigate?
Credits: noname81
3.Use GMD hide bar, from the Google Play, to hide your system bars. I use the “busybox method” in the settings and set it to run at boot. You can toggle the hidden bar either by widget, or from the app. I have heard that there are free alternatives, but I'm not sure how well they work, because I have never used them.
Here is a thread, but he says it is for an older, unmaintained version: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1769761
Credits : StupidIdea
Fake multi-windows. Note: as of writing, there is not any true multi-window ability.
This is easy and does not require root.
1. Download Sidebar or another similar product from Google Play. This will allow one to launch apps from a user defined list, simply by swiping from the side of the screen. You can setup where you want to swipe, how sensitive the trigger area is, etc. This will also allow you to launch floating apps, such as a browser, media player, calculator, etc. in its own window, over running apps.
2. download some floating apps. I use Aircalc (a lot), floating browser, and popcorn player primarily.
Sidebar thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2152373
Credits: Mohammad_Adib
I will have screenshots soon. Also, I will clean this up as I go.
If I have forgoten any credits, I am sorry, I am not trying to take credit from anyone, I have just answered these questions a number of times and am trying to help. If you let me know, I will promptly credit you..
Sorry, no foldermount screens yet. I recently started using kk's blackhawk next kernel, so I just leave my big games and use the swap script on my first/stock rom, and all the small stuff on my second more used 4.2.2 rom, eliminating the need for foldermount for now. Hopefully, the steps alone are enough for now.
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Foldermount screens
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The stock ROMs are shipped with a huge amount of bloatware, from which I see many processes active when opening a task manager. Let's freeze/disable or uninstall crap we don't need You can disable many apps without root from Android's app manager, but you'll need root for many of them. Root is mandatory to uninstall system apps.
You can use this spreadsheet (of moly82) on the new tab named jelbo. I'm collaborating with moly82's generic Xperia Lollipop debloating script. Turns out the Z4 Tablet does have quite some things moved around / added / removed, so it's definitely good to have added support for it. New sheet contains both generic Xperia stuff and Z4 Tablet specific apps. The jelbo tab contains both my findings and the ones from moly82.
In the spreadsheet is a list of all the pre-installed unneeded system apps either I or moly82 has 'frozen' or disabled, without any problems. I've marked some yellow because you might need the functionality, for example DLNA or native Exchange support. It's not finished yet, but you can go ahead and use it as a base of your decisions to freeze/uninstall stuff.
You can debloat manually with apps like Titanium Backup. Here's a procedure to make a label, associate apps to it and batch freeze or uninstall them.
Get Titanium Backup and start it. You probably need Pro.
Go to the tab named Backup/Restore.
Tap 'Click to edit filters' in the top right.
Tap 'Clear' in the top right.
Tap 'Create label ...' in the bottom right.
Type a name, give a color (optional) and tap 'Add/Remove elements ...'
Check the boxes of apps you wish to free or uninstall (based on the spreadsheet for example).
Tap the green checkmark on the top right.
Tap 'Save'.
Back in th Filters section, make sure no filter is active (tap 'Clear'), select the newly created label (check the box) and tap the green checkmark.
Titanium Backup will display a list of the apps you've labeled.
Tap the 'file and checkmark' icon top right to get to the 'Batch actions' screen.
Scroll to 'Freeze / Defrost' and tap the RUN button next to 'Freeze all user & system apps (USE FILTERS & EXTREME CAUTION)'.
Profit.
For anyone wanting to collaborate, send me a PM with your e-mail address and I'll give you edit-rights.
Eventually, when this thing is 'done' I plan to either expand moly82's script or at least share my Titanium Backup 'custom' database with the labeled categories, for easy batch actions.
jelbo said:
The stock ROMs are shipped with a huge amount of bloatware, from which I see many processes active when opening a task manager. Let's freeze/disable or uninstall crap we don't need You can disable many apps without root from Android's app manager, but you'll need root for many of them. Root is mandatory to uninstall system apps.
Here's a Google Sheets spreadsheet I made.
In it is a list of all the system apps I've 'frozen' or disabled, without any problems. I've marked some yellow because you might need the functionality, for example DLNA or native Exchange support.
You can debloat manually with apps like Titanium Backup. Here's a procedure to make a label, associate apps to it and batch freeze or uninstall them.
Get Titanium Backup and start it. You probably need Pro.
Go to the tab named Backup/Restore.
Tap 'Click to edit filters' in the top right.
Tap 'Clear' in the top right.
Tap 'Create label ...' in the bottom right.
Type a name, give a color (optional) and tap 'Add/Remove elements ...'
Check the boxes of apps you wish to free or uninstall (based on the spreadsheet for example).
Tap the green checkmark on the top right.
Tap 'Save'.
Back in th Filters section, make sure no filter is active (tap 'Clear'), select the newly created label (check the box) and tap the green checkmark.
Titanium Backup will display a list of the apps you've labeled.
Tap the 'file and checkmark' icon top right to get to the 'Batch actions' screen.
Scroll to 'Freeze / Defrost' and tap the RUN button next to 'Freeze all user & system apps (USE FILTERS & EXTREME CAUTION)'.
Profit.
/edit: I have added the remaining system apps, so now every system app is on the list. I've marked apps blue @moly82 uses in his/her debloating script I just stumbled across. I'll test with those frozen and if my system stays stable, will add them to the safe to freeze/uninstall list.
For anyone wanting to collaborate, send me a PM with your e-mail address and I'll give you edit-rights.
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Have you tried this one @jelbo? I use it for my Z3 compact and Z3 compact tab and it works well. It can be tweaked to leave some items in too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/wip-debloat-lp-690-correct-functioning-t3076161
Edit: I see you have already found the script and this is an alternative from what I can understand How is TB these days, haven't used it for a while, even though I have a pro key.
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Have you tried this one @jelbo? I use it for my Z3 compact and Z3 compact tab and it works well. It can be tweaked to leave some items in too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/wip-debloat-lp-690-correct-functioning-t3076161
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Yeah, I thought of that script a bit late. I'll have a look at the linked Google Sheet to get more insight in the Sony apps. I figure the Z4 Tablet is a bit of a different beast that might need a different set of safely frozen system apps so my sheet isn't a big waste of time. Took me a few hours though...
Edit: I see you have already found the script and this is an alternative from what I can understand How is TB these days, haven't used it for a while, even though I have a pro key.
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TB is as tedious and gruesome as ever, but it's sadly still the only app in it's kind. Wish the dev would add some much needed features and overhaul the GUI.
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Yeah, I thought of that script a bit late. I'll have a look at the linked Google Doc to get more insight in the Sony apps. I figure the Z4 Tablet is a bit of a different beast that might need a different set of safely frozen system apps so my sheet isn't a big waste of time. Took me a few hours though...
TB is as tedious and gruesome as ever, but it's sadly still the only app in it's kind. Wish the dev would add some much needed features and overhaul the GUI.
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Its looks as though it took some time, so thanks and not wasted. I was hoping there was a way of selecting the key sony features from the script rather than doing it manually, or have config files to load into an app to remove the files selcted in the config files, but never found the time to investigate further.
Yeh, those are the reasons I haven't used it for some time and its a shame as its powerful but not intuitive for me when using it.
I thought the other script actually delted rather than being frozen, but I do recall it recreates a backup folder for the files in case you want to put them back later.
Believe you can delete the backups once you are happy that the changes you made are working.
scoobydu said:
Its looks as though it took some time, so thanks and not wasted. I was hoping there was a way of selecting the key sony features from the script rather than doing it manually, or have config files to load into an app to remove the files selcted in the config files, but never found the time to investigate further.
Yeh, those are the reasons I haven't used it for some time and its a shame as its powerful but not intuitive for me when using it.
I thought the other script actually delted rather than being frozen, but I do recall it recreates a backup folder for the files in case you want to put them back later.
Believe you can delete the backups once you are happy that the changes you made are working.
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Yes, moly82's script moves files to a backup location, making them non-functional but easily restoreable.
I'm not sure still what freezing effectively does, because I once saw some frozen apps in my task manager (OS Monitor). Better to uninstall/move when sure.
Nice!
I personally used the System app remover from playstore and just deleted all the useless stuff and then did a factory reset to get rid of all the *app not found* icons and flashed the smallest package from opengapps but when i reflash the stock FW in the future im sure going to give this a go
jelbo said:
Yes, moly82's script moves files to a backup location, making them non-functional but easily restoreable.
I'm not sure still what freezing effectively does, because I once saw some frozen apps in my task manager (OS Monitor). Better to uninstall/move when sure.
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Prefer to fully remove once I know I don't need and have no fc's
ml11ML said:
Nice!
I personally used the System app remover from playstore and just deleted all the useless stuff and then did a factory reset to get rid of all the *app not found* icons and flashed the smallest package from opengapps but when i reflash the stock FW in the future im sure going to give this a go
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Some slight suspect reviews about this app on the play store.
A similar thing can be done with Sdmaid, which is my go to app for for everyday cleaning and more specific app removal.
Been using it a while and it works well, as an option.
scoobydu said:
Prefer to fully remove once I know I don't need and have no fc's
Some slight suspect reviews about this app on the play store.
A similar thing can be done with Sdmaid, which is my go to app for for everyday cleaning and more specific app removal.
Been using it a while and it works well, as an option.
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Hmmmm... never really looked at the reviews but now that i did i see some ppl complaining about fullscreen ads which there are but not nearly as bad to not allow it to do its job. And the Sdmaid seems to be a nice option, might try it, thanks for suggesting it
ml11ML said:
Hmmmm... never really looked at the reviews but now that i did i see some ppl complaining about fullscreen ads which there are but not nearly as bad to not allow it to do its job. And the Sdmaid seems to be a nice option, might try it, thanks for suggesting it
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Think I'll stick with sdmaid but thx for the suggestion.
Take a look at the sdmaid v4 beta apk available from the devs website.
Looks great and seems to work the same.
Pity v4 sdmaid can't take your file as input Jelbo to remove a batch of files.
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don't understand the need of making another script/list when there is mine and you saw it more then 10 days ago when you posted in my thread in general Xperia section (that can be contributed and kept updated by anyone) that works for all xperias oob or can be adapted very easily but no problem of course thats your choice.
my list is 100% safe though, me and other hundred people running lp on different xperias use(s/d) it without problems (just some features may be missing after applying my script of course but anything can be restored easily) and btw all xperias have almost identical apks just the names may be a little different somewhere that's all..
Never used tb but for sure it is completely different from my approach of completely moving away/deleting stuff, a freeze should be just based on pm unix command or similar that doesn't really touch anything, just disables stuff
cheers
moly82 said:
don't understand the need of making another script/list when there is mine and you saw it more then 10 days ago when you posted in my thread in general Xperia section (that can be contributed and kept updated by anyone) that works for all xperias oob or can be adapted very easily but no problem of course thats your choice.
my list is 100% safe though, me and other hundred people running lp on different xperias use(s/d) it without problems (just some features may be missing after applying my script of course but anything can be restored easily) and btw all xperias have almost identical apks just the names may be a little different somewhere that's all..
Never used tb but for sure it is completely different from my approach of completely moving away/deleting stuff, a freeze should be just based on pm unix command or similar that doesn't really touch anything, just disables stuff
cheers
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I had a quick look at your script back then and saw some differences in apps that I didn't see on my device, that made me think the Z4 Tablet needed it's own approach I guess. Looking back I realise it's pretty much identical and it would have been better with just starting with your work. Ah well. Maybe we can merge our findings somehow? If a file isn't found on the Z4 Tablet it'll just be skipped. I'll PM you my e-mail address so you can add me as a contributor to your sheet. I think it's a good idea to discuss about a good format for both devices beforehand so I won't mess things up.
No problem mate, saw the PM and I've just given you the write access feel free to edit it or make your own as you wish and yes if a package is not found it'll just be skipped so not a problem at all
In my list a few apks i found about recently are missing will update it as soon as i have some spare time available..
Bye!
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No problem mate, saw the PM and I've just given you the write access feel free to edit it or make your own as you wish and yes if a package is not found it'll just be skipped so not a problem at all
In my list a few apks i found about recently are missing will update it as soon as i have some spare time available..
Bye!
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Hi moly82, I'm done with merging my data in your sheet. It's in the 2nd tab named jelbo. What a job, it took me half a day
I've kept your split view (with the grey row) and ordering by path.
I've added missing paths, paths including .apk file and 'friendly names'
█ I've marked entries which I found on the Z4 Tablet, but not on your list as Cyan (left column)
█ I've marked entries which were on your list, but not on the Z4 Tablet as Yellow (left column)
█ I've marked the background of the Friendly Name of entries which were found safe to debloat/feeze/move by either you or me Green
█ I've marked the background and the text of the Friendly Name of entries which I think are surely not safe to debloat/feeze/move Red
█ I've marked the background of the Friendly Name of entries which I think are probably not safe to debloat/feeze/move Pink
█ I've marked the background of the Friendly Name of entries which are probably safe to debloat/feeze/move, but which most people want to keep due to connected basic functionality (phone, camera) as Yellow
On to what can be done:
Your 'Added in LP5.1' entries are moved in between existing entries, while maintaning your Orange color. I guess they can be debloated and made Green?
If it is meaningful, can you add the missing info on the stuff you've come across on other Xperia devices?
Can you have a look at 'unclassified' entries and share your thoughts in the comment field on how safe you think they are to debloat?
Can you update your script with my findings? I'm still testing some 'unclassified' entries to see if it works fine or not.
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Hi moly82, I'm done with merging my data in your sheet. It's in the 2nd tab named jelbo. What a job, it took me half a day
I've kept your split view (with the grey row) and ordering by path.
I've added missing paths, paths including .apk file and 'friendly names'
█ I've marked entries which I found on the Z4 Tablet, but not on your list as Cyan (left column)
█ I've marked entries which were on your list, but not on the Z4 Tablet as Yellow (left column)
█ I've marked the background of the Friendly Name of entries which were found safe to debloat/feeze/move by either you or me Green
█ I've marked the background and the text of the Friendly Name of entries which I think are surely not safe to debloat/feeze/move Red
█ I've marked the background of the Friendly Name of entries which I think are probably not safe to debloat/feeze/move Red
█ I've marked the background of the Friendly Name of entries which are probably safe to debloat/feeze/move, but which most people want to keep due to connected basic functionality (phone, camera) as Yellow
If it is meaningful, can you add the missing info on the stuff you've come across on other Xperia devices?
Can you have a look at 'unclassified' entries and share your thoughts in the comment field on how safe you think they are to debloat?
Can you update your script with my findings? I'm still testing some 'unclassified' entries to see if it works fine or not.
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hi mate, what a good job you did congrats!
honestly I won't have so much spare time available from now on, big changes in my life expected, so can't assure will be able to watch this in the future, if you want to handover and become a debloating guru it would be great :laugh:
I have added at the bottom of my tab some packages I did not include in the script I shared at the beginning, but I added in my local copy, so you can see info about those apks also, it could be helpful
what you mean with unclassified entries exactly? there are too many categories, colours, empty spaces etc not so clear for me
if you want to make a global script, please proceed, no problem for me! don't know if you did look at the script I made already, but if not, I am sure you will understand very easily how I prepared it just working on the com/google/android/updater-script file, so you can use it as base and then add/remove any apps you want from there, or make your own script or whatever, as you wish.
I will keep monitoring the file and your tab also though, hoping to see some new findings I didn't know about, as I'm sure there are still some packages that could be removed but I didn't try myself yet...
let me know!
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hi mate, what a good job you did congrats!
honestly I won't have so much spare time available from now on, big changes in my life expected, so can't assure will be able to watch this in the future, if you want to handover and become a debloating guru it would be great :laugh:
I have added at the bottom of my tab some packages I did not include in the script I shared at the beginning, but I added in my local copy, so you can see info about those apks also, it could be helpful
what you mean with unclassified entries exactly? there are too many categories, colours, empty spaces etc not so clear for me
if you want to make a global script, please proceed, no problem for me! don't know if you did look at the script I made already, but if not, I am sure you will understand very easily how I prepared it just working on the com/google/android/updater-script file, so you can use it as base and then add/remove any apps you want from there, or make your own script or whatever, as you wish.
I will keep monitoring the file and your tab also though, hoping to see some new findings I didn't know about, as I'm sure there are still some packages that could be removed but I didn't try myself yet...
let me know!
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I might take over the list and script, thanks. I'll do some more testing and will attempt to adjust the script.
Mods, if things work out and I and moly82 agree, would it be possible to make me co-author of moly82's OP or something?
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The stock ROMs are shipped with a huge amount of bloatware, from which I see many processes active when opening a task manager. Let's freeze/disable or uninstall crap we don't need You can disable many apps without root from Android's app manager, but you'll need root for many of them. Root is mandatory to uninstall system apps.
Here's a Google Sheets spreadsheet I made.
In it is a list of all the system apps I've 'frozen' or disabled, without any problems. I've marked some yellow because you might need the functionality, for example DLNA or native Exchange support.
You can debloat manually with apps like Titanium Backup. Here's a procedure to make a label, associate apps to it and batch freeze or uninstall them.
Get Titanium Backup and start it. You probably need Pro.
Go to the tab named Backup/Restore.
Tap 'Click to edit filters' in the top right.
Tap 'Clear' in the top right.
Tap 'Create label ...' in the bottom right.
Type a name, give a color (optional) and tap 'Add/Remove elements ...'
Check the boxes of apps you wish to free or uninstall (based on the spreadsheet for example).
Tap the green checkmark on the top right.
Tap 'Save'.
Back in th Filters section, make sure no filter is active (tap 'Clear'), select the newly created label (check the box) and tap the green checkmark.
Titanium Backup will display a list of the apps you've labeled.
Tap the 'file and checkmark' icon top right to get to the 'Batch actions' screen.
Scroll to 'Freeze / Defrost' and tap the RUN button next to 'Freeze all user & system apps (USE FILTERS & EXTREME CAUTION)'.
Profit.
/edit: I have added the remaining system apps, so now every system app is on the list. I've marked apps blue @moly82 uses in his/her debloating script I just remembered, so those should be safe to disable too. I'll test with those frozen and if my system stays stable, will add them to the safe to freeze/uninstall list.
/edit2: I'm collaborating with moly82's generic Xperia Lollipop debloating script. Turns out the Z4 Tablet does have quite some things moved around / added / removed, so it's definitely good to have added support for it. The amount of added Sony crap is unbelievable. Once something will be finished, I'll update this OP.
For anyone wanting to collaborate, send me a PM with your e-mail address and I'll give you edit-rights.
Eventually, when this thing is 'done' I plan to either make a script or share my Titanium Backup 'custom' database with the labeled categories.
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Thanks for taking the time to do this Jelbo, it will be very useful! I couldn't believe the amount of background processes, etc, that were going on either when I have looked into a task manager, for stuff that I have never used and probably never will and has no business eating up RAM when I'm not looking! Not only that, even if you stop whatever is running it just starts up again anyway so the only way is to get it off the device or freeze it.
Keep up the good work mate!
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Thanks for taking the time to do this Jelbo, it will be very useful! I couldn't believe the amount of background processes, etc, that were going on either when I have looked into a task manager, for stuff that I have never used and probably never will and has no business eating up RAM when I'm not looking! Not only that, even if you stop whatever is running it just starts up again anyway so the only way is to get it off the device or freeze it.
Keep up the good work mate!
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Thanks. Yeah it's pretty crazy how much stuff there is and how much more free RAM you have after debloating. By the way, check out the new sheet link in the OP, old one is dead.
I also found this 4pda post that might help in deciding on some tricky ones. @alex009988, do I guess correctly that you are Russian speaking? If so, would you give me some help on some items?
@jelbo
Big thx! Great work!:good::good::good:
Will have to compare now both lists to debloat my Z3 Tablet compact:laugh:
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@jelbo
Big thx! Great work!:good::good::good:
Will have to compare now both lists to debloat my Z3 Tablet compact:laugh:
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You can just use the jelbo tab for now as it contains both my and moly82's findings.
Yes of course, but I think Z3 Tablet Compact stock apps are more like Z3 Compact...think I'll flash the debloating script from Z3C manually and take a look in system/app and system/priv app
Am thinking about using a Note 4 for Audio and Video only (no phone or Internet).
Hope someone else has tried this and has some suggestions concerning reducing Android OS to minimum.
Also instead of reducing the Android OS if it would be better to use a 3rd party ROM?
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KermitJ said:
Am thinking about using a Note 4 for Audio and Video only (no phone or Internet).
Hope someone else has tried this and has some suggestions concerning reducing Android OS to minimum.
Also instead of reducing the Android OS if it would be better to use a 3rd party ROM?
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If you're not interested in internet, yet want reliable audio and video, maybe try old kk roms that are optimized or some lollipop aosp roms. That way the software is at its lightest.
QuoPrimum Thanks for the tips!
Forgot to add that I am new to Android but have been using Windows for a while.
For Windows there are a number of ways to remove unnecessary parts
1. preformed like Micro XP v0.82
2. make your own using nLite
Anything like this for Android?
Also have been searching for a description what each Android file does like Black Viper does for Windows. Windows Services Information http://www.blackviper.com/windows-services/
Hope someone knows about an Android (or even Linux) info similar to this.
KermitJ said:
QuoPrimum Thanks for the tips!
Forgot to add that I am new to Android but have been using Windows for a while.
For Windows there are a number of ways to remove unnecessary parts
1. preformed like Micro XP v0.82
2. make your own using nLite
Anything like this for Android?
Also have been searching for a description what each Android file does like Black Viper does for Windows. Windows Services Information http://www.blackviper.com/windows-services/
Hope someone knows about an Android (or even Linux) info similar to this.
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You could disable/freeze apps with titanium backup or using adb.
QuoPrimum Thanks for the suggestion "You could disable/freeze apps with titanium backup or using adb."
Checked "Titanium Backup User’s Guide" https://www.titaniumtrack.com/kb/titanium-backup-kb/titanium-backup-user-guide.html Was especially interested in 7. Manage Applications List of apps Tapping the “Backup/Restore” button brings you to the application list – or rather the list of available “items”. Here you can see which applications and settings are available on your phone, and what has already been backed up (the symbols to the right tell you the latter – hit your phones menu button and select “Legend” for details on what they mean). Tapping an application brings up a popup from which you can select actions to be taken with the selected item: You can e.g. run an application, back it up, restore it (or its settings). You also may also decide to un-install the application – even if it is a system app! But with the latter, you should be very careful: Remove the wrong thing, and your phone may start malfunctioning. Which is why you should first try whether it’s safe to remove that system application. This can be done by “freezing” it.
Clarification: What type of information is available when select legend.
Also do you know of a beginners guide for Android OS services?
KermitJ said:
QuoPrimum Thanks for the suggestion "You could disable/freeze apps with titanium backup or using adb."
Checked "Titanium Backup User’s Guide" https://www.titaniumtrack.com/kb/titanium-backup-kb/titanium-backup-user-guide.html Was especially interested in 7. Manage Applications List of apps Tapping the “Backup/Restore” button brings you to the application list – or rather the list of available “items”. Here you can see which applications and settings are available on your phone, and what has already been backed up (the symbols to the right tell you the latter – hit your phones menu button and select “Legend” for details on what they mean). Tapping an application brings up a popup from which you can select actions to be taken with the selected item: You can e.g. run an application, back it up, restore it (or its settings). You also may also decide to un-install the application – even if it is a system app! But with the latter, you should be very careful: Remove the wrong thing, and your phone may start malfunctioning. Which is why you should first try whether it’s safe to remove that system application. This can be done by “freezing” it.
Clarification: What type of information is available when select legend.
Also do you know of a beginners guide for Android OS services?
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I don't know of any specific guides, but if you look around xda, there should be a few debloating guides for roms.