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Hey everyone!
Has anyone else started disabling some of the Samsung bloat? I've disabled these without any problems, so far:
Animated Photo
BlurbCheckout
ChatON
Google Play Games
Google+ (caused Hangouts and a couple other Google Apps to crash, but everything seems to be fine after a reboot)
Group Play
SNS (Not exactly sure what this is, but it uses the Facebook logo)
TripAdvisor
Twitter
Has anyone had any luck disabling anything else?
Just in case anyone else is pursuing similar things, I've had success disabling these too:
Active Apps Manager
Bubbles
PageBuddyNotiSvc
Phase beam
Photo Screensavers
Picasa Uploader
S Translator
S Voice
Samsung Apps Widget
Samsung Link
Samsung Print Service
Screen Saver
Travel Wallpaper
How do you disable them exactly?
JCT1212 said:
How do you disable them exactly?
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In settings select the "General" tab and then select "Application Manager." Once in the application manager you select an app and click "Turn off." You'll get some warnings, click through them and the app will be disabled. Some apps will have updates and it'll say something about uninstalling the updates. I normally hit force stop and disable notifications as well.
Hopefully Samsung re-optimizes touchwiz so we don't have to be disabling stuff on a 600 dollar tablet
have you seen performance/Battery increases by disabling these apps? is there any major functionality lost?
Is there a way to get rid of or disable the magazine thing? I've gone in through the application manager and turned it off along with the other my magazine thing, but it's still enabled. I really don't know why I would want the magazine thing.
I thought it'd be nice to build a list of apps to disable when picking this up stock from Verizon. Here's my list so far and I'd be happy to compile any additional ones others feel can be safely disabled.
Amazon app suite
Amazon Kindle
Amazon Music
Android live wallpapers
Appstore (Amazon)
Audible
Badger
Black hole
BrowserMessage
Bubbles
Call my Droid
Caller Name ID
Camera (and install Google Camera)
Cloud
Cloud Print
Command Center
Device Management
Droid Zap
Face Unlock
FamilyBase Companion
Google keyboards Hindi, Korean, Hindi
Google Playbooks, Movies & TV, Newsstand
Help
HP service plugin
IMDB
IWinn IME and keyboard
Message+
Mobile hotspot
Moto actions, display, voice
Moto Flipcase
Moto
Motorola Connect
My InfoZone
My Verizon Mobile
NFL Mobile
Slacker Radio
Softcard
Talkback
Verizon Login
Verizon Support & Protection
VZ Navigator
MY list is the same as above but added the following:
Android live wallpapers
Audible
Badger
Black hole
BrowserMessage
Bubbles
Call my Droid
Caller Name ID
Cloud Print
Command Center
Device Management
Face Unlock
Google keyboards Hindi, Korean, Hindi
Google Playbooks, Movies & TV, Newsstand
HP service plugin
IMDB
IWinn IME and keyboard
Mobile hotspot
Moto actions, display, voice
Moto Flipcase
Talkback
Straight from my list of disabled apps so there might be some duplicates
*Some I disabled because I never use them but don't have to be disabled
Amazon
Amazon app suite
Amazon Kindle
Amazon Music
Android live wallpapers
Appstore
Audible
Audio Effects
Black Hole
Bubbles
Call My Droid
Caller Name ID
Cloud
Cloud Print
com.android.wallpaper.holospiral
Command Center
Device Management
Droid Zap
Email
Family Base Companion
Google Hindi Input
Google Korean keyboard
Google Pinyin Input
Google Play Books
Google Play Games
Google Play Movies & TV
Google Play Newsstand
Google+
Hangouts
Help
Home Screen Tips
HP Print Service Plugin
IMDb
Magic Smoke Wallpapers
Message+
Mobile Hotspot
Moto Voice
Motorola Checkin
Motorola Connect
Motorola FlipCase Services
Motorola Migrate
Motorola Notification
My InfoZone
My Verizon Mobile
NFL Mobile
Phase Beam
Slacker Radio
Softcard
Verizon Location Agent
Verizon Login
Verizon Support & Protection
VZ Navigator
VZWAVSService
Added more to the list, that is a huge amount of bloat removed and seems to be running fine without it! Definitely seems much more stock Android as well.
Good thread but quick question pls. I see many of you are disabling the hot spot. One of the top things i use is the a hot spot for my daughters homework while in the car and such. Is there a secondary hot spot youre using?
Thx
KevTN said:
Good thread but quick question pls. I see many of you are disabling the hot spot. One of the top things i use is the a hot spot for my daughters homework while in the car and such. Is there a secondary hot spot youre using?
Thx
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Not that I know of, but if you need it, just don't disable it
The idea here is to get to stock Android, then perhaps enable the things you needed from Verizon.
I'm a little shocked anyone would disabled the moto features. I guess this thread is about the most stock experience. But if the moto apps were on the market, & I was rocking a nexus. I would still have it downloaded lol
Yeah I may still re-enable some of those.
Also disabled the Camera app and installed the Google Camera. No reason to have two
I have disabled most of these apps. Now I can not answer my phone when it rings. The phone rings, but no animation comes up to let me swipe or any way to choose to answer it. What have I disabled/changed that would cause this? Every thing else seems to work fine.
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I have disabled most of these apps. Now I can not answer my phone when it rings. The phone rings, but no animation comes up to let me swipe or any way to choose to answer it. What have I disabled/changed that would cause this? Every thing else seems to work fine.
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Post your list and maybe we can figure it out. My guess is maybe you only disabled some of the Motorola specific ones? I have the full list as advertised in the first post and have no prob answering from a screen off.
Sorry, I was unable to post them. I did go into settings and enabled every one that I had disabled with my wife periodically calling me. I also randomly turned the phone off and on a few times. Still nothing. The phone rings, but the answering icon does not appear and I can not answer. Is there another way to answer the phone? Could I have turned something off that would affect this or maybe download an app?
I just went into recovery and wiped the cache partition, reboot. This did not fix the problem. Don't know what else to try? I'm thinking it is something simple. I will take it into Version tomorrow.
That's really strange. Maybe it wasn't related to the disabling?
Possibly. I've been trying to remember what I may have done. I received a call yesterday morning just fine. Yesterday afternoon, I received a call and could not answer it because I do not get the answer phone icon. Most of the time in between those two calls, I was driving and not messing with the phone. ?
Full List
96 disabled / 117 enabled / 213 total. Droid Turbo 4.4.4
Amazon
Amazon app suite
Amazon Kindle
Amazon Music
Android Live Wallpapers
Appstore
Audible
Basic Daydreams
Black Hole
BrowserMessage
Bubbles
Call My Droid
Caller Name ID
Clock
Cloud
Cloud Print
com.android.providers.partnerbook
com.android.wallpaper.holospiral
com.motorola.devicemanagement
com.qualcomm.interfacepermissions
com.qualcomm.qcom_qmi
com.verizon.permissions.appdirecte
com.verizon.permissions.vzwappapn
Command Center
ConfigUpdater
CQATest
Device Management
Downloads
Drive
Droid Zap
Email
Emergency Alerts
Face Unlock
FamilyBase Companion
Google Hindi Input
Google Korean keyboard
Google One Time Init
Google Partner Setup
Google Pinyin Input
Google Play Books
Google Play Games
Google Play Movies & TV
Google Play Newsstand
Google Search
Google Text-to-speech Engine
Google+
Hangouts
Help
Home screen tips
HP Print Service Plugin
IMDb
iWnn IME
iWnnIME Keyboard (White)
Magic Smoke Wallpapers
Manage SIM card
Market Feedback Agent
Message+
Mobile Hotspot
Moto
Moto Actions
Moto Voice
Motorola Checkin
Motorola Connect
Motorola FlipCase Services
Motorola Migrate
Motorola Notification
Motorola One Time Init
Motorola Sensor Services
Motorola Services
Motorola System Services
Music Visualization Wallpapers
My InfoZone
My Vrizon Mobile
NFL Mobile
OMA Client Provisioning
Phase Beam
Photo Screensavers
Picasa Uploader
Preset
Print Spooler
Setup
Setup Wizard
Slacker Radio
SmartcardService
Softcard
Sound Recorder
Tags
TalkBack
Translate
Trusted Devices
Verizon Location Agent
Verizon Login
Verizon Support & Protection
VZ Navigator
VZWAPN
VZWAVSService
Wow. That's a lot. Update on my problem. I took the phone into Verizon this morning. The lady that helped thinks I probably uninstalled something to cause this.
What she did to fix the the problem was to do a complete default wipe.
That seems to have resolved it.
It was working properly when I left the store. In now I'm the process of restoring all my apps. That takes a little while.
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Glad you were able to get it working.
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That's strange, because you can't really uninstall anything, only disable.
itanas, wow that's a big list. I think some are stock Android apps, so that's cool that you can disable them, but I don't know that it gets us the pure Android.
I'll note for anyone reading that I re-enabled the Moto, Moto Activity, and Moto Display apps so I could have the notifications back (since this phone has no notification LED w/the stock software).
Also updated the first post with Camera.
http://www.rootjunky.com/motorola/motorola-droid-turbo/
Has any one tired this yet?
I've been into recovery, but just wiped the cache partitions.
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Hi guys,
I just got my Note 4 few days ago and everything fine, but lately I'm noticing that the device is getting warm and battery life is not as good as I thought when I read battery is 3200 mAh. Looking at the processes I notice something called GPSD consuming even more than OS and screen.
This is the list of apps that I have installed on my phone:
Phone
Contacts
Messages
Internet
Gallery
Camera
Music
Video
Clock
S Planner
S Note
Scrapbook
Email
Calculator
Settings
Voice Recorder
My files
Galaxy Apps
S Voice
Evernote
Chrome
Gmail
Drive
Youtube
Google
Voice Search
Play Store
Google Settings
Swiftkey
PlayerPro
Swarm
Aldiko
Spotify
Elevate
Tagstagram Pro
Word Lens
WPS Office
Outlook
Amazon
Banesco (online banking)
BG (online banking)
Repost for instagram
Metrobus (related to the public transportation in my country)
Photo Grid
Dropbox
QQPlayer
Shazam
Foursquare
Instagram
Whatsapp+
ES File Explorer
Samsung Gear
And the rest of the garbage apps that came with the rom such as Claro Juegos, Claro Music, 3DTourViewer, Calendar Storage, Facebook, Flipboard, Google Play Books, Google Play Games, Google Play Music, Google Play Newsstand, Hangout, Live weather, Maps, PEN.UP, Portal Claroideas, S Healt, Street View, Talkback, Unified Daemon are already turned off.
Does anyone see an app that might be causing the problem? BTW, I'm from Panamá and my carrier is Claro Panamá, so you see a lot of Claro garbages apps preinstalled.
My phone is not rooted (because of warranty stuffs, etc). Please if someone has had this issue before and know how to solve it I'd appreciate it. I've done pretty mucho all I can (factory reset, flash rom via odin)...
Anyone, please?
Turn off location services or at least switch them from high accuracy to power saving mode. You dont realy need hps to be on until you use navigation program
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darekz said:
Turn off location services or at least switch them from high accuracy to power saving mode. You dont realy need hps to be on until you use navigation program
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Already did both of them. Nothing seems to work.
Hi I noticed somtimes my idol 4 gets super slow but I found the solution first go to settings apps disable all the apps that you don't need after disabling the app force stop app and clear data if you don't do that the app is still running in ram you must clear data and force stop each app try it now my phone is super fast better battery life
This is after disabling all the pre installed apps that I didn't use this is a list
Amazon
Stock browser
Chrome
Compass
Deezer
Google drive
Email
Gmail
Google app
Google books
Movies
News
Games
Google plus
Hangouts
Keep
Little Star
News whether
Google photos
Smar suit
Tizr
Vr launcher
Vr store . In this picture the phone is running YouTube
Facebook
messenger
snap chat
Samsung browser
camera
dialer
Am online radio
Pandora
do a test before and after with a ram monitoring app and you'll see the difference
I really hope this phone gets rooted and perhaps a ROM. I came from the OnePlus 7 Pro and yikes! The stock s20 says it has 520 apps installed, which includes my usual apps. My OnePlus 7 Pro has my identical apps installed, and it is under 150 for system and user apps.
The phone is crazy fast, but it would be ridiculous with a semi-stock Android.
mycomputerisjunk said:
I really hope this phone gets rooted and perhaps a ROM. I came from the OnePlus 7 Pro and yikes! The stock s20 says it has 520 apps installed, which includes my usual apps. My OnePlus 7 Pro has my identical apps installed, and it is under 150 for system and user apps.
The phone is crazy fast, but it would be ridiculous with a semi-stock Android.
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You can uninstall the apps with ADB.
https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/
Here is how to do it without root access, maybe Samsung and OnePlus count differently?
Disabled apps
You can use adb or if you are lazy like me, you can buy a package disabler for 3€.
The apps I disabled are in the attach. You can disable more for better battery, but I still want the Samsung experience.
Maybe someone can suggest more apps that can be disabled without touching the Samsung experience.
I recommend using CCSWE App Manager rather than deleting via adb. You get the same effect, but if you need to restore an app/service, all you have to do is toggle a button, which is much more convenient than using adb.
sublimaze said:
I recommend using CCSWE App Manager rather than deleting via adb. You get the same effect, but if you need to restore an app/service, all you have to do is toggle a button, which is much more convenient than using adb.
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Hi,
Do you happen to have a list of what you disabled using CCSWE that's safe
and/or not needed for a smooth setup. CCSWE has color coded system files
in red, are these safe to disable????
Ken
kenfb1 said:
Hi,
Do you happen to have a list of what you disabled using CCSWE that's safeand/or not needed for a smooth setup. CCSWE has color coded system files in red, are these safe to disable????
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All system files are potentially dangerous to disable/uninstall.
I disabled the following with no issues whatsoever:
Bixby routines
Bixby voice
Bixby voice stub
Briefing
(Samsung) Calendar
(Samsung) Contacts
Facebook
Facebook app installer
Facebook app manager
Facebook services
Game launcher
(Samsung) Launcher
Messages
Netflix
Samsung Daily
Samsung Galaxy friends
Samsung Internet
Smasung Internet panel
SmartThings
Voice wake-up
Obviously, if you use any of those apps/services, then don't disable them. I use Google Calendar & Google Contacts, so the Samsung versions are unnecessary. And I use Pulse SMS, so no need for Messages app.
sublimaze said:
All system files are potentially dangerous to disable/uninstall.
I disabled the following with no issues whatsoever:
Bixby routines
Bixby voice
Bixby voice stub
Briefing
(Samsung) Calendar
(Samsung) Contacts
Facebook
Facebook app installer
Facebook app manager
Facebook services
Game launcher
(Samsung) Launcher
Messages
Netflix
Samsung Daily
Samsung Galaxy friends
Samsung Internet
Smasung Internet panel
SmartThings
Voice wake-up
Obviously, if you use any of those apps/services, then don't disable them. I use Google Calendar & Google Contacts, so the Samsung versions are unnecessary. And I use Pulse SMS, so no need for Messages app.
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Thanks,
I'll give them a try,
Ken