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Telco bloatware

Hi guys,
It may or may not have been covered in this particular forum - I'm hoping someone could point me in the right direction.
I have an Acer Iconia which includes software from my telco (Optus; Australia), and I'm wondering what the best process would be to have the bloatware removed?
I've rooted, and reinstalled the firmware on my SGS - would the process be similar to the Iconia?
Thanks in advance..

Freeze Apps
Best way to (Like Uninstall Bloatware) is to "freeze" them. If you find out that you frooze a certain one needed, you can "De-Frost" it back into ROM.
Frozen Apps will not show up on Apps List. They will show up in Settings - Applications
It will save Resources, make faster, less running aps in background, etc.
Apps that freeze :
"Titanium Backup Root" (Full version)
"MyBackup Pro 3.0.6.apk" (full version)
I like Titanium app, It shows them in Blueish background, easy to see what is frozen.
Best to freeze a few at a time to know what didn't work, to know which one to unfreeze (if you get a FC or error)

thanks for that.. will look into titanium!
Cheers!

ktmdave7 said:
Best way to (Like Uninstall Bloatware) is to "freeze" them. If you find out that you frooze a certain one needed, you can "De-Frost" it back into ROM.
Frozen Apps will not show up on Apps List. They will show up in Settings - Applications
It will save Resources, make faster, less running aps in background, etc.
Apps that freeze :
"Titanium Backup Root" (Full version)
"MyBackup Pro 3.0.6.apk" (full version)
I like Titanium app, It shows them in Blueish background, easy to see what is frozen.
Best to freeze a few at a time to know what didn't work, to know which one to unfreeze (if you get a FC or error)
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To add to this, once you've frozen and tested how the tab runs for a few days and are sure theres no errors that occur, you can completely uninstall them with titanium backup.

Now that I have root, what should I do?

I followed all the instructions and installed CWM recovery, and then installed su and now I have root. It was pretty easy. There is some loss of quality of the camera but I can live with it for now.
What are the suggested modifications now? The main thing I would like to do is purge all the stupid spyware / adware apps on this. What is recommended?
I am hoping there will soon be a CM install for this so I can truly get rid of all the Sony junkware.

Not sure but can you keep us posted on your battery life after installing a custom rom, curious to know if the stock rom has some special battery efficiencies.
Sent from my D5803

Toughdroid said:
I followed all the instructions and installed CWM recovery, and then installed su and now I have root. It was pretty easy. There is some loss of quality of the camera but I can live with it for now.
What are the suggested modifications now? The main thing I would like to do is purge all the stupid spyware / adware apps on this. What is recommended?
I am hoping there will soon be a CM install for this so I can truly get rid of all the Sony junkware.
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I'll tell you what I did:
uninstall all sony bloatware, expecially that antivirus app...
install xposed framework
install titanium backup
Now I'm just waiting for CM or whatever rom

Do you have a list of package names I should nuke? I can't quite match up all the package names with the evilware.
I'm looking at the crazy permissions some of these apps have. Weather Widget can read my call log! wtf!
Thanks

Well, you sure don't want to take a bunch of low-light pictures....

Xposed Modules

There should be am exposed module who can do this for you, it should be called set permissions or something like that... I personally deleted everything from Sony, I use 3rd party apps for weather, calendar and so on... But this is personal taste I just prefer to use the phone for its hardware, not for the Sony brand

Install gesture control and permanently disable the nav bar. That's what I would do gestures are the best way to control a touch device IMHO.

Install Greenify to enhance your battery life. Install Adaway to get rid of ads system wide. Use Tasker to automatically enable/disable pattern unlock based on your location (ie home or not) and also automate the phone putting itself in flight mode when you charge at night.

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Toughdroid said:
I followed all the instructions and installed CWM recovery, and then installed su and now I have root. It was pretty easy. There is some loss of quality of the camera but I can live with it for now.
What are the suggested modifications now? The main thing I would like to do is purge all the stupid spyware / adware apps on this. What is recommended?
I am hoping there will soon be a CM install for this so I can truly get rid of all the Sony junkware.
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I can't wait to install Xposed framework. I can't live without "vibrate on answer", long press tile to go to setting, camera shutter mute, Wanam's Youtube ad-remover, and most importantly GEM Xperia module to hide unwanted apps. Some root apps like Titanium backup, Samba droid, SSH droid, Greenify etc. Fingers crossed for a root exploit.

If you do not really know what to do with root, then I'd really question whether damaging your device is worth it.
This phone is super powerful and the "bloatware" doesn't affect performance - certainly from my user perspective. Just use apex or nova and hide the apps you don't want to see.
TBH, as much as I love tinkering around with my phones, the need for root (as opposed to it being nice to have it) is diminishing as android develops.

Will root for titanium but not much. sony has the battery management that can compare with greenify.

machatta said:
If you do not really know what to do with root, then I'd really question whether damaging your device is worth it.
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I'm hoping to use CM as soon as its available.
machatta said:
This phone is super powerful and the "bloatware" doesn't affect performance - certainly from my user perspective. Just use apex or nova and hide the apps you don't want to see.
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The bloatware is also spyware, and that I do not like.
machatta said:
TBH, as much as I love tinkering around with my phones, the need for root (as opposed to it being nice to have it) is diminishing as android develops.
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My big thing is I want all the spyware to be gone, and I basically do not trust any carrier / manufacturer builds.
Btw the camera is very good, even post-rooting. And battery life is really amazing. I ordered the magnetic charger, and I can probably wait to charge my phone until the new charger arrives. It seems like this phone could go for several days pretty easily. I'm impressed.

Script for Removing Bloatware?

Hey Guys,
I remember in some of my old phones there used to be scripts the community had made to clear some bloatware.
Is there anything like this on the Note 3 Lolipop? I am quite ok to stick with the stock ROM so something like that would be nice if there is anything like that.

Yes, it needs a brain and some of your time. And an application to remove it (such as Titanium Backup).

Honestly, if there was some sort of user friendly interface leaving the choice of debloating to the user, i'd go for it, but so far, every script out there has removed stuff i didnt want to be removed to begin with, and any argument saying i can install it after is as useless as the bloatware itself .
I have made it a habit to manually delete the Folders (or files) of apps i find useless in /system/app and /system/priv-app/, but i have seen people going further with removing modules and drivers, something i have no whatsoever knowledge about.
Having the options to choose what to remove during the debloat would make it a must-do procedure, scripts are not really well understood by the normal user who even roots. A Aroma package through a custom recovery would be way more logical, i think.

Someguyfromhell said:
Yes, it needs a brain and some of your time. And an application to remove it (such as Titanium Backup).
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Yes I know about Titanium and I do use it, the reason I asked is to see if someone has made something such as with an AROMA installer that has already done the hard work on finding what is safe to remove and what not.
I don't think there was any need to get rude or offensive, you can just say No.

Not much point removing the bloat when the partition is still going to be 5 or 6GB depending on variant, you wont be saving any space

Debloating has nothing to do with making space (primarily), as i said, some people debloat to the point of system services. The logic is having less bloat running in memory rather than using space.
I dont get 48 hours battery without debloating, so i definitely remove something that drains "a bit" of battery.

I'm looking for these kind of script also. But you may use SD Maid PRO to remove those you know such knox crap, samsung crap and google's crap.

Look if you want to make a pointless bloat removal root the phone and use titanium.

Removing bloatware from your phone can cause more damage than good, safest is to freeze them.
Trust me, I learned the hard way.

Yup. Use for freezing apps titanium backup

Excessive RAM usage slowing down S7 Edge

Had my S7 Edge for just over a week and absolutely love the phone.
However, gaming is a massive disappointment. Real Racing 3 is often stuttering to the point where it is unplayable.
Fortunately I know why; the RAM usage is hovering around 70-80% seemingly not leaving enough for the game.
Once I close a handful of running apps, the game is smooth for about 2 minutes which is when the apps restart.
Some of the most common apps continuously running/restarting:
Chrome
Word
One Drive
360 Security
Internet (can't delete)
Weather (can't delete)
+ loads of default apps which I am not familiar with. Btw - my phone was not infested with lots of bloatware.
I could delete more apps, but I installed them because I need them. Surely that defeats the point of the phone.
Many apps are advertised as being able to shut down unwanted stuff, but there is no option to permanently disable system apps or event prevent user installed apps restarting. Is rooting the phone my only option?

What version do you have? I have G935F and RR3 is running like a dream on mine with multiple apps open/in ram

I have the same version. How much ram to you usually have free?

Haven't encountered that issue during my usage of the S7 edge, so it could be a software issue. In case you want to disable unwanted apps without rooting, you can try the Debloater tool. Basically, it disables apps, so that they won't run in the background or be accessible at all - it removes them from the app drawer too. You'd have to be careful if there are some services you actually use and don't want to disable them inadvertedly.

Which update is running on your s7?

I have usually 1.6gb ram free before I start playing games...during game play it drops to 1gb ram free....baseband is G935FXXU1APD9. Got the update a week ago

termdj said:
I have usually 1.6gb ram free before I start playing games...during game play it drops to 1gb ram free....baseband is G935FXXU1APD9. Got the update a week ago
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Sounds promising. My baseband is G935FXXU1APD1. What exactly does this new update do? There is not description of it for some reason:
https://samsung-firmware.org/download/Galaxy-S7-edge/7u3f/XFA/G935FXXU1APDH/G935FOJV1APD8/

Uninstall 360 Security ASAP. It's known to be adware, and the app in general is complete garbage. Why on earth would you install it? Don't install any anti virus crap.
Also, the latest version of Pushbullet has a bug that rapes the CPU, so uninstall it too for now, if you have it installed.

root and then run the debloat script. job done

termdj said:
I have usually 1.6gb ram free before I start playing games...during game play it drops to 1gb ram free....baseband is G935FXXU1APD9. Got the update a week ago
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J.Biden said:
Uninstall 360 Security ASAP. It's known to be adware, and the app in general is complete garbage. Why on earth would you install it? Don't install any anti virus crap.
Also, the latest version of Pushbullet has a bug that rapes the CPU, so uninstall it too for now, if you have it installed.
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Thought it might be good to have extra security and it was a top rated app. I guess the default antivirus is sufficient - deleted!
To be honest it didn't consume too much ram - even with that uninstalled it still consumes 70+ %
No pushbullet installed.
Got the EZ Package Disabler which seems to be able to get rid of any app - user- or factory installed - so I just need to figure out which ones are safe to get rid of.
Problem is that I need some of the apps - if I could just prevent them from autostarting rather than deleting

List Of Apps Safe To Freeze?

Does anyone have a list of apps that are safe to freeze? Mainly looking to freeze LG bloat.