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Hi guys,
I flashed the Gingerbread stock ROM, courtesy of Chainfire (see thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1073854) and noticed there are no threads about apps that are safe to freeze/remove from the system to improve performance and (maybe) battery life as well.
Therefore, here is my compiled list, along with some info on what the apps do. Please note that this list of safe to freeze apps apply to the Galaxy Tab running the stock 2.3.3 ROM only. The list of apps is different than the one on the 2.2 ROM, although some are the same.
Note: I use TitaniumBackup to freeze apps. These apps are safe to freeze no matter what app you use to freeze them.
Note2: Safe to freeze (in the following list) means your Galaxy Tab will work fine without it and other apps won't crash / not work if you freeze something. The apps you freeze will no longer work until you defrost them, though. Where dependencies exit, I will note them.
So, here goes the list (alphabetical). First, the "no dependency apps":
AccuWeather Clock => widget
AllShare => DNLA client/server
[BOOKMARKS] Browser 2.3.3 => Chrome Browser. Freeze if you use another
Calculator => simple calculator
Calendar Clock => widget
Daily Briefing => widget
Date, time and weather => widget
Date time or weather => widget
Digital Frame => nightstand app. Freeze dependencies as well if you don't use it
Dual Clock => widget
Google search => widget,app. Freeze of not used
Home screen tips => widget
Live Wallpaper Picker => Freeze if you don't use live wallpapers
Magic Smoke Wallpapers => live wallpaper
Music Hub => Samsung app
Music Visualization Wallpapers => live wallpaper
News & Weather => widget
Pico TTS => Text to Speech (reads text for you). Freeze if not used
Pulse => news reader. Freeze if you use another
Readers Hub => paper, magazine and book reading app. Freeze dependencies as well if not used.
Samsung keypad => Freeze if you use only Swype
Sketch Memo => simple drawing app
Social Hub => Samsung app (frontend for email accounts). Accounts work normally without it.
Talk => Google talk application
ThinkFree Office => office suite. Freeze if you use another or don't use it.
Voice Search => Google voice search
World clock => simple world clock management app
Y! Finance Clock => widget
Youtube => youtube app
Now the list of apps that others depend on. Only freeze these apps if you plan on freezing the parent app as well or don't use it:
eBook => ebook reading app. Readers Hub depends on it.
Kobo => ebook reading app. Readers Hub depends on it.
Music => standard music player. Digital Frame depends on it. Freeze if you use another music player.
My Files => email app depends on it. You can't attach files without it.
PressReader => newspaper reading app. Readers Hub depends on it.
Program Monitor => widget. Samsung Home depends on it
Samsung Apps => samsung market. Supposedly updates samsung apps. Freeze if you don't use samsung home or apps installed via Samsung Apps.
Samsung Home => Freeze ONLY if you have another home replacement app (another launcher / home).
TTS Service => Pico TTS depends on it
TwWallpaperChooser => samsung wallpapers
Video => Video player. Freeze if you use another video player
Zino Reader => magazine reader. Readers Hub depends on it
Blocking all of these WILL NOT give you more space on your device drives. It will, in some cases increase the amount of RAM available. Currently, I have not blocked all of the above as some of them I actually use (like youtube, lol).
I have 242 MB free RAM after a clean boot-up. Also note that a clean boot for me includes ADW, Pure Messaging scroll widget, Beautiful Widgets, 3G Watchdog, SwypePad, WidgetLocker and Multitasking Pro all started at the same time. All of them are memory hogs, so your restuls may be better than mine after you freeze all unneeded apps.
Only a couple of the apps in the lists above actually use up RAM. Best things to freeze (if not used), should be:
Pico TTS & TTS Service
Everything related to Samsung Home (wallpapers, widgets etc.)
Y! Finance Clock (for some reason it runs in the background even if not used)
Readers Hub (for some reason it runs in the background even if not used)
Music Hub (for some reason it runs in the background even if not used)
Pulse (updates news in background as service)
News&Weather (runs a service in background)
AllShare (runs a service in background)
User reported successful freezes without noticeable impact:
[SMS/MMS PREFS]Messaging 2.2 => messaging app. Thanks to Sef_P1000 for reporting this.
Street View => google maps extension. Thanks to pendevous for reporting this.
Maps => maps application. Freeze if you don't use or have a different GPS app. Thanks to pendevous for reporting this.
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Apps part of making ANDROID work. DO NOT FREEZE ANY OF THESE, OR YOUR TABLET MAY BECOME UNSTABLE.
BluetoothTest
wssyncmlnps
WlanTest
Security Storage
Android System
Software Update
com.sec.android.app.lcdtest
MTP Application
Factory Test
Mobile tracker settings
Google Backup Transport
Mobile Tracker
com.samsung.InputEventApp
License settings
PhoneSetupWizard
PopupuiReceiver
Settings
Error
VPN Services
Perso
DRM content
Service mode
Settings Storage
PhoneUtil
Status Bar
Task Manager
Account and Sync Settings
Preconfig
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That's it! Hope the thread is useful to some of you. Post some results / improvements / updates if you find any issues or want to add other apps to the list.
Best regards and happy freezing!
CM.
You can set the Pulse to not run any updates in the background. I froze almost all. A reboot gives me 276 free ram with widgetsoid, player pro widget, twicca, adw launcher ex and thumb keyboards running.
Gmail can also be frozen if you use a different email app. Same goes for the default email app.
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I use GOsms for messaging. is it safe to freeze the stock sms app?
- [SMS/MMS PREFS]Messaging 2.2
Thanks on the way!
My Pulse still runs some service in the background after disabling automatic news updates. I don't have a problem with data usage; RAM is golden for me on the other hand.
Regarding the messaging app "[SMS/MMS PREFS]Messaging 2.2", don't disable it!!!
On top of managing your messages and showing you a list of them, it also manages the SMS center information and distribution of messages. So, even if you don't need the front-end you will still need the back-end.
Hope this helps!
CM.
cheatman said:
Regarding the messaging app "[SMS/MMS PREFS]Messaging 2.2", don't disable it!!!
On top of managing your messages and showing you a list of them, it also manages the SMS center information and distribution of messages. So, even i yo don't need the front-end you will still need the back-end.
CM.
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I just did. goSMS still works. It's so much better now. Before, when I receive an SMS, I get TWO notifications, one for each SMS app. Even if I open the msg from goSMS, the notification for stock SMS is still there. Now it's fixed.
I will do more observation, including MMS. Thanks anyway!
I have updated the first post to include your report. Thanks a bunch!
However, in theory you COULD still encounter issues at least when changing SMS/MMS setup such as message expiration time, sms center number etc. On the other hand, how often would you actually do that?
Probably never, but you should write an update in case you notice anything funny :-D
cheatman said:
My Pulse still runs some service in the background after disabling automatic news updates. I don't have a problem with data usage; RAM is golden for me on the other hand.
Regarding the messaging app "[SMS/MMS PREFS]Messaging 2.2", don't disable it!!!
On top of managing your messages and showing you a list of them, it also manages the SMS center information and distribution of messages. So, even if you don't need the front-end you will still need the back-end.
Hope this helps!
CM.
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That's pretty weird. Have you updated to the latest version of pulse? I updated it at once. After closing it, it doesn't show in my "running" apps, nor can I force close it (since it has already been closed).
You can also freeze Maps and Street View, btw.
wow, ive been looking for something like this for ages! thanks!
@pendevous: after a reboot, the service was not started anymore (defrosted it, disabled updates). Guess something wasn't stopped correctly or got hung up.
PS: updated main post.
Thx for the tips.
CM.
Why install pulse and then freeze it? Why dont you just not install it in first place if you dont want to use it.
Am I missing something here?
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Why install pulse and then freeze it? Why dont you just not install it in first place if you dont want to use it.
Am I missing something here?
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Updating to gingerbread will you give you the old version of Pulse included. I think that the op thinks it's part of the system.
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Even if it was you can use a program like SystemApp Remover to uninstall it. Much better then freezing.
Kinda... The 2.3.3 ROM comes with Pulse by default. Although I kinda like Pulse, I've moved to Taptu for the time being. Similar interface, but smaller footprint.
Update: I know it's not system app, lolz. Point is, if you remove it outright, will you be able to update later? It is part of the ROM and by all standards considered bloatware. Should be frozen unless used. I highly NOT recommend removal.
PS: why not remove Samsung Home as well if not used?
Anyway, there you have it )
CM.
TheATHEiST said:
Even if it was you can use a program like SystemApp Remover to uninstall it. Much better then freezing.
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Titanium can also uninstall system apps . Freezing is a way to "hide" an app and reduce mem usage without really uninstalling it. It's like putting the app in cold storage!
Yes Titanium can also unfreeze just in case an issue comes up that you will need the freezed app....
Good to know thx for this thread
I removed all the bloatwear from system/apps using root explorer all working great no force closes now i have it the way it should be.
Hi Guys,
On HTC HD MINI running Android,
firstly, plz install 2 apps
- Task Manager: Disable apps running at startup
- Startup Manager: Kill apps process
Secondly, remove some apps go with the OS because some of them will run at startup automaticlly.. such: Twitter (Peep), Facebook, Stock, Car Panel, Voice Dialer, Weather, News, Gmail, .. etc...
Could anyone test and reply ?
Hi Everyone,
Bit of an Andriod noob here, but learning fast. I have installed gingerxperia v23 on my phone (stock kernel) and I am using link2sd to manage my storage problems. I have noticed though that a lot of "pre-installed" apps in the mod are hogging RAM and I want to freeze / un-install them to help keep things streamlined and smooth.
The problem is that I am not totally sure if they are safe to do so or if I will just experience a whole of lot of random issues!!
Here is a list of the possible targets below and some notes on each,
+Downloads (UI) - not sure what it manages as I would of thought the browser / market would handle these?
+DSPManager - not sure if freezing this would kill sound, you can not kill the process
+Email - I use the GMail app
+File Manager - I use Astro / Root Explorer
+Liveware Manager - useless??
+Music - I use Mixzing
+Notes - I use Catch
+Timescape - No need for it
+Xperia Events - No need for it
Some system stuff
+Calendar.apk, Widgetcalendar.apk & CalendarProvider.apk - I use Jorte Calendar, Gtasks & Simple Calendar Widget
+EventStream.apk - Experia events related ???
+Infiniteview.apk
+Livewallpaperspicker.apk - I don't use live wallpapers
If I need to provide any more details just ask, any advice is greatly appreciated
DJJ
You can freeze all of this except this one coz im not sure about downloads, calendar and infiniteview
Hi dsaklein,
Thanks for your advice. I have now frozen all the apps listed with the exception of downloads, calendar and infiniteview.
DSPManager would not freeze and I had to force quit link2sd, I am guessing this relates to the fact that the process cannot be killed. It must be important
DJJoker249 said:
Hi dsaklein,
Thanks for your advice. I have now frozen all the apps listed with the exception of downloads, calendar and infiniteview.
DSPManager would not freeze and I had to force quit link2sd, I am guessing this relates to the fact that the process cannot be killed. It must be important
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No its not, actually you can delete manual just use root explorer go system-app and delete it from there, after that just restart you phone
What I did to get rid of the random jitters that is sadly on the Note 4. For those of us who hate three second lags
Caution: Not responsible for ANYTHING that happens to your phone
Root Requirements:
Tip One: Freeze / completely remove any unwanted bloats you have no use for. I prefer to freeze, never know what the future holds
Tip Two: I disabled both eMMC Entropy contribution as well as SDCard entropy contribution. Using any kernel modifier app (I'm a fauxclock kind of a girl)
Next Two is Thanks to @megalomanic14 Per @eduardmc recommendationTip Three: Uncheck Force Gpu Rendering in developer options
Tip Four: Use Wanam xpose to deactivate Dvsf under Advanced
It did not do any major hit on my battery, Been running average 6 hour battery since receiving my note, and I have done the same screen time Yesterday and by the way things are going today, Will be achieving the same.
Frozen Apps
AllShare FileShare Service
Ant Hal Service
Ant Radio Service
Ant+ Plugin
BlurbCheckout
Briefing
Bubbles
Demo Stub tmous
DirectShareManager
Email 4.4.2
EpsonPrintService
FWUpgrade
Hp Print Service
IMS Settings
IMSLogger +
KLMS Agent
Knox
Knox Notification Manager
Knox SetupWizardClient
Live Weather
Lookout
Mobile Print
MobilePrintSVC-Cups
Nearby devices
Print spooler
Samsung Print
Samsung Push
Screen Mirroring
Smart Remote
Tmobile My account
Tmobile Name ID
Tmobile TV
TalkBack
Visual Voicemail
Changed All Google apps to User apps for greenification
Will Update this as more people provide tips (Assuming they want to)
Try it out and let me know!
P.S Not a kernel expert, so feel free to correct
mgbotoe said:
What I did to get rid of the random jitters that is sadly on the Note 4. For those of us who hate three second lags
Root Requirements
Tip One: Freeze / completely remove any unwanted bloats you have no use for. I prefer to freeze, never know what the future holds
Tip Two: I disabled both eMMC Entropy contribution as well as SDCard entropy contribution. Using any kernel modifier app (I'm a fauxclock kind of a girl)
It did not do any major hit on my battery, Been running average 6 hour battery since receiving my note, and I have done the same screen time Yesterday and by the way things are going today, Will be achieving the same.
Will Update this as more people provide tips (Assuming they want to)
Try it out and let me know!
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Thanks for the tips! We should start a thread (or I can hijack this one) where we talk about the stuff that we are able to freeze without any side effects. Would you mind going through some of the stuff you froze?
bam099 said:
Thanks for the tips! We should start a thread (or I can hijack this one) where we talk about the stuff that we are able to freeze without any side effects. Would you mind going through some of the stuff you froze?
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Sure, feel free to add I haven't frozen many actually, haven't had the chance to actually sit down
Ant stuff is for fitness accessories and if you print from your device, probably don't want to freeze those.
Compusmurf said:
Ant stuff is for fitness accessories and if you print from your device, probably don't want to freeze those.
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You callin' me fat?
Lol jk.
Thanks OP
Compusmurf said:
Ant stuff is for fitness accessories and if you print from your device, probably don't want to freeze those.
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I got no use for either But I do hope people read down and see your post lol
Which apps are safe to disable if I haven't rooted my N910T quite yet?
inco9nito99 said:
Which apps are safe to disable if I haven't rooted my N910T quite yet?
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Whatever touchwiz allow you to disable, can be disabled
devynbf said:
You callin' me fat?
Lol jk.
Thanks OP
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Nope, but I am a bit heavy and use the fitness tools and accessories. I have an ANT+ compatible heart band and an ANT+ digital scale that lies. I swear it lies!!!!!
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These I froze/removed completely
I have no use for them.
BlurbCheckout
Briefing
Bubbles
Demo Stub tmous
Email 4.4.2
FWUpgrade
KLMS Agent
Knox
Knox Notification Manager
Knox SetupWizardClient
Lookout
Tmobile Name ID
Tmobile TV
However some folks may need email and Lookout. I prefer Cerberus over lookout and only use GMAIL on my device.
as far as the google apps and greenify, if you use Xposed and use the Greenify module, no need to change to user.
Also if you use Xposed, and S-Health, make sure you make the changes from the other dozen threads or you'll self induce lots of lag.
I wonder if to add any battery tip lol
mgbotoe said:
What I did to get rid of the random jitters that is sadly on the Note 4. For those of us who hate three second lags
Caution: Not responsible for ANYTHING that happens to your phone
Root Requirements:
Tip One: Freeze / completely remove any unwanted bloats you have no use for. I prefer to freeze, never know what the future holds
Tip Two: I disabled both eMMC Entropy contribution as well as SDCard entropy contribution. Using any kernel modifier app (I'm a fauxclock kind of a girl)
It did not do any major hit on my battery, Been running average 6 hour battery since receiving my note, and I have done the same screen time Yesterday and by the way things are going today, Will be achieving the same.
Frozen Apps
AllShare FileShare Service
Ant Hal Service
Ant Radio Service
Ant+ Plugin
BlurbCheckout
Briefing
Bubbles
Demo Stub tmous
DirectShareManager
Email 4.4.2
EpsonPrintService
FWUpgrade
Hp Print Service
IMS Settings
IMSLogger +
KLMS Agent
Knox
Knox Notification Manager
Knox SetupWizardClient
Live Weather
Lookout
Mobile Print
MobilePrintSVC-Cups
Nearby devices
Print spooler
Samsung Print
Samsung Push
Screen Mirroring
Smart Remote
Tmobile My account
Tmobile Name ID
Tmobile TV
TalkBack
Visual Voicemail
Changed All Google apps to User apps for greenification
Will Update this as more people provide tips (Assuming they want to)
Try it out and let me know!
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Notice some of your suggestions for freezing will disable kies connection via pc, so if people have that problem they know why. Thanks for the share
By chance did you see a free up of ram by removing these apps? I'm currently sitting at 2.1 with no apps running on stock non rooted
cds36 said:
By chance did you see a free up of ram by removing these apps? I'm currently sitting at 2.1 with no apps running on stock non rooted
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I actually haven't looke. To me a free ram is a wasted ram
cds36 said:
By chance did you see a free up of ram by removing these apps? I'm currently sitting at 2.1 with no apps running on stock non rooted
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That's pretty high for stock. I'm at 1.5 stock rooted not debloated.. and with that list she has debloated, most definitely should lower ram usage.
Guys, I think this may be a big part of what you're describing...
http://gs5.wonderhowto.com/how-to/f...es-when-using-xposed-your-galaxy-s5-0157344/#
I just followed the steps listed there, and all of my apps started responding like new, and the 2-3 second freezing I was experiencing is gone as well.
Turns out it was Xposed Framework, and a build.prop line that needs to be changed from true to false.
Give it a try, and see if that doesn't fix your issues as well. I was just about to wipe and start over, when I thought, "Let me google that..." and found the link above.
erkme73 said:
Guys, I think this may be a big part of what you're describing...
http://gs5.wonderhowto.com/how-to/f...es-when-using-xposed-your-galaxy-s5-0157344/#
I just followed the steps listed there, and all of my apps started responding like new, and the 2-3 second freezing I was experiencing is gone as well.
Turns out it was Xposed Framework, and a build.prop line that needs to be changed from true to false.
Give it a try, and see if that doesn't fix your issues as well. I was just about to wipe and start over, when I thought, "Let me google that..." and found the link above.
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Will add the fix up as soon as I can, thanks
thanx, follow this guide and the phone is really responsive now. Very Smooth (but i think i could be smoother coming from the htc m8). installed xposed and wanam, did not have a problem with Shealth since i previously disabled it. Don't use it - dont need it. Everyone who wants the smoother faster experience right now should follow this guide.
I removed a bunch of these as described in OP. I've also gona a lot further and removed a lot of other apps and processes. I was able to get every app installed on the phone, down to just one page and freed up 1Gb of data. From a fresh reboot, I'm only using 1.16Gb of RAM. After some useage and being idle, it's about 1.65Gb. Before I was normally sitting around 1.80Gb used and over 2Gb after light useage. So this list definitely helps and I haven't lost any functionality or get any errors.
OP Should add this to the list.
it actually increase the performance BY ALOT .
THANX TO
"MEGALOMANIC14" FIREKATN4
"1. Uncheck Force Gpu Rendering in developer options...about phone, click MegaKat V10 (whatever build your on) 10 times to unlock dev options
2. Use Wanam and Xposed to deactivate Dvsf under Advanced in Wanam...dramatic boost in responsiveness, lower running temp, no screen dimming or cpu throttling
3. Change Animation and Transition settings in developer options...set all 3 from 1.0x to 0.5x. ..another huge boost to responsiveness and speed of any launcher
4. Greenify all downloaded user apps...Dont touch system app/don't activate greenify xposed mod
5. Disable the follow apps
Samsung Push Service
Google Chrome
Google Books
Google Magazines
Google Music
Google Hangouts
Google Plus
*obviously unless you use any of the above
6. Install latest Google Play Services apk...def seems to have lower battery drain that previous few apks ...thanks pierriotis for the new apk
https://mega.co.nz/#!6JpBAaYZ!xyyIch...hb-U1960ZaLhaQ
7. Disable google location history and location reporting...doesn't affect maps or g now at all only stops a ton of data mining and wake locks
8. Do not use power saving mode...it defeats the optimizations and tweaks I've done to make the battery life so awesome
Enjoy the new build...latterly for those who want v1 on crack and steroids...use multicore controller or setcpu to max throttle the cpu to 2.7 ghz full time on performance governor lol then you're head will be spinning"
Hello,
I'm a previous iPhone-user and swiched to Samsung now
I never had an android mobile before so I don't really know which mods/apps/tweaks are useful.
Which apps/tweaks would you advise to enable when installing Phoenix ROM/which ones did you enable?
Apps:
Google Chrome
Google Maps
DropBox
Flipboard Briefing
Google TalkBack
Google Hangouts
Mobileprint services
S Health
GeoLookout
YouTube
Kids Mode
Game Features
ES File Explorer
Genie widget
Google Music
Google Search
Kies
Samsung Apps
SMemo
S Voice
Samsung Gear Support
Samsung Gear VR Support
Video Editor
Google Drive
Google TTS
Car Mode
My Files
MirrorLink
OperaMax
Tweaks:
EXT4 Tweaks
OpenVPN Tweaks
SQLite Tweaks
Tweak: Force Launcher into memory
Tweak: 3G Tweaks - Speed up 3G connection
Tweak: Net Speed Tweaks - Tweak to speed up internet connection
Tweak: Latest Seeder thx to lambgx02 his thread
Scrolling tweaks - Better, faster and stronger scrolling
Flash-Led Tweaks - Better flash-led intensity and camera-flash quality
Video-Streaming tweaks - Smoother and faster internet video streaming
I'm not sure which tweaks I should use and which I shouldn't combine (because of battery-life and performence/stability).
I know this question is a "little bit" stupid (sorry^^).
Another question: Is it possible to bind Google Now voice to the long homekey-press so voice control launches immediatley without having to tap the microphone/saying "OK Google" (like Siri)?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Nestade
Apps:
Google Maps
YouTube
ES File Explorer
Samsung Gear Support
Samsung Gear VR Support
Video Editor
Google TTS
My Files
MirrorLink
Tweaks:
OpenVPN Tweaks
Tweak: 3G Tweaks - Speed up 3G connection
Scrolling tweaks - Better, faster and stronger scrolling
Flash-Led Tweaks - Better flash-led intensity and camera-flash quality
Video-Streaming tweaks - Smoother and faster internet video streaming
at Tweaks , dont enable all tweaks , maybe its problem with system.
at apps, my is favo. you can use own apps
IronChrome is better as Chrome - more privatly