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Remove all Bloataware apps

From Settings/applications/all i've deactivated these apps , and my Maxx is more superfaster :
Amazon MP3
App-Shop
Audible
Caller Name ID
IMDb
Ingress
Migrate
Migrate Reader Library
Migrate Writer Library
My Verizon Mobile
NFL Mobile
Quickoffice
Voicecall
Verizon Mobile Security
Verizon Tones
Viewdini
VZ Navigator
if you know about other bloataware , welcome

Ingress isn't boat lol jk thanks for the list

For me Ingress is ****
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Just disabled them to see what I get.. Cant hurt i guess lol

Hate to split hairs, but disabling is not removing. Will making sure these dont inadvertantly start up and chew on cpu and memory help performance? Possibly. But removal also gets you that much needed storage back.
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Redwolf379 said:
Hate to split hairs, but disabling is not removing. Will making sure these dont inadvertantly start up and chew on cpu and memory help performance? Possibly. But removal also gets you that much needed storage back.
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That list is probably about 100-200 MB of storage. Are you really that starved that 0.1-0.2 GB makes a difference?

Does anybody know how to remove the Verizon pre-loaded contacts? It's been mentioned that Verizon has locked them down, too. You used to be able to delete them but not anymore. I remember that you can freeze com.partnerbookmarks (apologies if that file name isn't 100% accurate) on older phones to get rid of the carrier-provided bookmarks and was wondering if there was something similar to get rid of the Verizon contacts. Not a dealbreaker, but just curious.

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Does anybody know how to remove the Verizon pre-loaded contacts? It's been mentioned that Verizon has locked them down, too. You used to be able to delete them but not anymore. I remember that you can freeze com.partnerbookmarks (apologies if that file name isn't 100% accurate) on older phones to get rid of the carrier-provided bookmarks and was wondering if there was something similar to get rid of the Verizon contacts. Not a dealbreaker, but just curious.
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You can't remove them. But, in People, menu, contacts to display, hit customize, then disable the Verizon Wireless preset contacts.

doogald said:
You can't remove them. But, in People, menu, contacts to display, hit customize, then disable the Verizon Wireless preset contacts.
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That's good enough for me - thanks so much!!

This is my list. Some of them are needed for the Moto launcher but I use Nova Prime. Everything seems stable after removing them.
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I thought they was fast as it without removing them. im waiting for root method to remove them permanently instead of freezing them.
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This is my list. Some of them are needed for the Moto launcher but I use Nova Prime. Everything seems stable after removing them.
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Has anyone rooted and removed bloat apps?? If so did you compile a list that can be posted. I know we have rw access now but I am not 100% sure what needs to be removed. Really I just wanna get rid of the amazon stuff and some of the little bloat apps like city and migrate and audible
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I'm rooted..but I haven't removed anything yet....I have the system dump on my computer so I'm going to experiment.. Problem is that once you delete apps...it breaks OTA updates... Once we get a custom recovery and Roms..this won't be a problem.. Hope to get a working 4.3 soon
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dano1282 said:
I'm rooted..but I haven't removed anything yet....I have the system dump on my computer so I'm going to experiment.. Problem is that once you delete apps...it breaks OTA updates... Once we get a custom recovery and Roms..this won't be a problem.. Hope to get a working 4.3 soon
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Im actually very happy with it stock as is. I would love bootloader unlock only because everyphone i've had was able to be. Im loving active display and touchless control. The camera is great compared to what i had (droid razr hd). Using the Xposed framework allowed me to have the little UI tweeks i like. I would just love a stock 5x5 or 4x5 launcher. I would use nova and always did on AOSP, but I like the Circles widget, it just will not work with 3rd party launchers. Wish we could figure that out too

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Im actually very happy with it stock as is. I would love bootloader unlock only because everyphone i've had was able to be. Im loving active display and touchless control. The camera is great compared to what i had (droid razr hd). Using the Xposed framework allowed me to have the little UI tweeks i like. I would just love a stock 5x5 or 4x5 launcher. I would use nova and always did on AOSP, but I like the Circles widget, it just will not work with 3rd party launchers. Wish we could figure that out too
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what kind of UI tweaks can you do with xposed. Ive seen people talking about it..but I haven't messed with it myself...

dano1282 said:
what kind of UI tweaks can you do with xposed. Ive seen people talking about it..but I haven't messed with it myself...
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wrong thread ... but who am i to judge .

Khanusma said:
wrong thread ... but who am i to judge .
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Haha yeah..I realized that after...but oh well..I found the right one lol and I'm quite happy with what I found
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Yeah let's get this thread going on a detailed list of what can be frozen or removed now that we have root. I despise the vzw backup assistant!
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Franzie3 said:
Im actually very happy with it stock as is. I would love bootloader unlock only because everyphone i've had was able to be. Im loving active display and touchless control. The camera is great compared to what i had (droid razr hd). Using the Xposed framework allowed me to have the little UI tweeks i like. I would just love a stock 5x5 or 4x5 launcher. I would use nova and always did on AOSP, but I like the Circles widget, it just will not work with 3rd party launchers. Wish we could figure that out too
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I'm the same way.. I went from a Motorola electrify to a gs3 on uscc and was excited to finally do what I wanted with my device but with the radio problems of the Samsung devices I opted for Motorola device when switching to Verizon. I do miss that I cannot use my SD card and I only have 11 gigs of free space but I have awesome coverage no dropped calls and now my gs3 is more of an mp3 and game device.
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So...does disabling a bunch of apps do the same thing as freezing them?
I was able to go through and disable most if not all of the bloat on this phone and I guess I just assumed it was taken off line. Is that not the case? If it is the case, I highly recommend it as it doesn't screw you out of future stuff.

Android system

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anyone has this issue of Android system eating the battery ?
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Yes, I had. It could be anything. Use wakelock detector to trace it.

i got same thing
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Wakelock only works with root though to give proper results so idk
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It is common with all US variants... the eyxnos versions do not have this issue
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KAsp3rd said:
It is common with all US variants... the eyxnos versions do not have this issue
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I've disabled almost all advanced features such as smart stay and stuff that normally uses your front camera to identify that we are looking at the phone. I don't understand what else to disable. I even disabled edge features but still no response. I've factory reset it several times to no change
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tavito05 said:
Wakelock only works with root though to give proper results so idk
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No root

There are many threads discussing the battery life of the US variants, nothing has been found to correct the Android battery drain. Even disabling some system packages has caused worse battery drain.
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disable Facebook. It is contributes to that drain.

ShrekOpher said:
disable Facebook. It is contributes to that drain.
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That was the first thing I disabled along with Facebook messenger and background data for chrome to prevent it from pushing notifications
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So nobody is getting good battery life with the US version? Mine seems to get outstanding battery life.
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ShrekOpher said:
disable Facebook. It is contributes to that drain.
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Yelp facebook drains my battery. I log out now, seems to help

Richieboy67 said:
So nobody is getting good battery life with the US version? Mine seems to get outstanding battery life.
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There seems to be a lot of variability out of the box. Mine has always had mediocre battery performance, even with no additional apps installed. I should have exchanged it when j had the chance, but I thought an update might fix it. Disabling this and that can make small improvements, but nothing I do has ever made it outstanding. There are some with great battery performance but I personally believe that with the exception of a few horrible apps (like facebook) there's only so much a user can do to influence battery for US devices. Either you have a good one, or you don't.

bailyc said:
There seems to be a lot of variability out of the box. Mine has always had mediocre battery performance, even with no additional apps installed. I should have exchanged it when j had the chance, but I thought an update might fix it. Disabling this and that can make small improvements, but nothing I do has ever made it outstanding. There are some with great battery performance but I personally believe that with the exception of a few horrible apps (like facebook) there's only so much a user can do to influence battery for US devices. Either you have a good one, or you don't.
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Yeah I totally agree. I have friends who have outstanding battery performance and no matter how much i try, I still get very inconclusive results. I'm big into development and nothing has solved the issue with the limited resources that we have without root
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World First Galaxy S7 Qualcomm Root

well here's some proof of concept of my successfully rooted Galaxy S7 Edge. There's still lots of bugs but most root apps work.
Suck it Samsung
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No ETA yet..

This is awesome! The future is looking brighter already.

Hasn't root been out for Exynos versions for a while now? If this is a SD820 version then awesome.

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Hasn't root been out for Exynos versions for a while now? If this is a SD820 version then awesome.
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SM-G935P...Sprint Qualcomm

Wow...this is amazing.....YOU ROCK Sir.....

I think you should probably inform people of whether or not this method your working on requires no OTA to have been taken. I know a lot of people have been holding off, and other have been upgrading ASAP

Nv1dia said:
I think you should probably inform people of whether or not this method your working on requires no OTA to have been taken. I know a lot of people have been holding off, and other have been upgrading ASAP
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This is true. I literally gave up on hope for root two days ago and took the plunge. Fingers crossed! It's great to know that there are devs that go above and beyond to bring us root!

Is this just root or did you actually get the bootloader unlocked? Don't get me wrong, root by itself would be amazing, but I dream of being able to slap an AOSP ROM on this device.

I've been looking to replace my 3 year old, battered, yet trusty and still excellent S4, and the S7 has been the only worthy phone which checks enough boxes in terms of features and physical size, but without root I won't do it. Perhaps Samsung will be getting some business from me after all. Ideally, unlocked bootloader would be the preference, but rooted stock will give me enough of what I need. Any idea if this would work on the standard, non-Edge S7?

[email protected] yeah looking great

Still locked bootloader
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should this be able to work on the tmobile variant?
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Sunderwear said:
Still locked bootloader
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Does the locked bootloader effect the phone after root?
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csimms said:
should this be able to work on the tmobile variant?
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It will be able to work later on since both the Sprint and T-Mobile variant share identical hardware.
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Holy sh** you are awesome!!!!!!
I am sprint s7 not edge and i have taken zero updates cant wait!

Looks great we now have hope getting root on this awesome phone?
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Root would be good enough for me. I don't really care about loading ROM's at this point. S7 has been sitting in the box since I got it, waiting for root.

Finally looks like good things are coming. Much appreciated and looking forward to rooting my s7

I'm still a bit skeptical but to be honest at least he's given some kind of proof. We shouldn't be bugging him for any information since we all know that Samsung is reading and doing everything that they can to stop this from happening. Let's keep it on the down low and just wait to see what gets developed. I would like to know if Samsung Pay still works, if we can flash a custom recovery, if root sticks after a reboot, etc but if the OP reveals too much... Samsung might get wise. Smartest thing here is to keep it to a small group for testing and then go from there. Rest of us just need to be a little patient.

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It will be able to work later on since both the Sprint and T-Mobile variant share identical hardware.
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Is there a chance that it will work on the vzw variant?

Gear fit 2 and v20 set up???

A lot of us came from the Note7 and have the gear fit 2, has anyone set it up on the v20 and if so could you post a tutorial here? Or better yet make a how to thread in the news and guides section. My problem here is I only have one hand atm because of a recent surgery and in not sure I want to open this box if its a pain in the butt. This way I can sell the watch easier if I'm not so moved to set it up! lol thanks in advanced.

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A lot of us came from the Note7 and have the gear fit 2, has anyone set it up on the v20 and if so could you post a tutorial here? Or better yet make a how to thread in the news and guides section. My problem here is I only have one hand atm because of a recent surgery and in not sure I want to open this box if its a pain in the butt. This way I can sell the watch easier if I'm not so moved to set it up! lol thanks in advanced.
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You download Samsung gear app. When you open it it will have you download 2 other plugins. You will have to download SHealth if you want too. I already set up my Gear S2 classic.
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Will the Lg fit app work with it or is the s health app best? I appreciate your help!

No the LG app will not work with SHealth. You need to download the Samsung one in order to use those features.
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Awesome to hear the app can be downloaded on the LG. I was asking myself the same question as the OP before I seen this thread.
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Awesome to hear the app can be downloaded on the LG. I was asking myself the same question as the OP before I seen this thread.
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Is there any place where all the different health apps are compared? We got SHealth, LG Fit, Google Fit... never mind dedicated apps like Runkeeper vs Runtastic (I don't know the difference between those either, except that I have used Runkeeper and not Runtastic).
I don't mind manually entering stuff. I don't really trust the calorie estimates on my Gear Fit 2, and I only use it to track steps, something I don't necessarily need aggregated. If I did need it aggregated, of course, I could probably be bothered to enter it manually if one app was markedly better.
I feel like all I'm seeing right now are just "22 best fitness apps" and they don't really care about apples-to-apples comparisons, even.

I don't use them so I wouldnt know. I just installed it to ensure it works lol
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I don't use them so I wouldnt know. I just installed it to ensure it works lol
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I get my cast off tomorrow and it'll be replaced by manageable brace so I'll set it up and check it out! You helped me decide to keep it. Thanks for helping out!

No problem. A lot of people were wondering. I have the Gear S2 classic, but I assume all Gear S2 would support the same thing since they are all the same OS and stuff.

We have Gear Fit 2's and got our V20's last night and in no time at all got them setup with no issues.

Tidbits said:
You download Samsung gear app. When you open it it will have you download 2 other plugins. You will have to download SHealth if you want too. I already set up my Gear S2 classic.
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Is that a theme from smartworld or whatever? I was trying to find one that would be darker than the bright white status bar that is there now

TriBeard said:
Is that a theme from smartworld or whatever? I was trying to find one that would be darker than the bright white status bar that is there now
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Go into the theme settings. That one is preinstalled
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Has anyone taken the update yet out of the box?

All it says is "11A".
I deferred it for now until someone has some advise. I don't want to not be able to achieve root or something because I took an update out of the box. Haha

dbornack said:
All it says is "11A".
I deferred it for now until someone has some advise. I don't want to not be able to achieve root or something because I took an update out of the box. Haha
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Yea I got screwed like that with the Note7 replacement... Smh I'm with you.
I just got the V20 today, loving it so far, a lot to get used to coming from Samsungs all these years.
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DLovo313 said:
Yea I got screwed like that with the Note7 replacement... Smh I'm with you.
I just got the V20 today, loving it so far, a lot to get used to coming from Samsungs all these years.
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Yeah, definitely going to take me a few days. Came from Droid Turbo and 5.1.
Cool on the update, I figure unless there's some functionality broken out of the box, no need to take it until someone can tell us what it is.

I'm getting constant nag notifications for this. I turned off notifications for updates and it just sits in the notification drawer.
Anyone know how to permanently not take updates so I'm not bothered?

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I'm getting constant nag notifications for this. I turned off notifications for updates and it just sits in the notification drawer.
Anyone know how to permanently not take updates so I'm not bothered?
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WELCOME TO VERIZON,talk about a double-edged sword:
Great coverage & network (YMMV of course),but,man the rest of their practices,not to mentionusing the bastard CDMA technology,is more than anyone should have to tolerate,especially when no real viable options are available.
Can you not disable VZW's bloatware (VZW apps)?
At minimum,I'd disable DT Ignite,not sure if that will help in the nagging,but,it's one less crapware app needlessly running on your phone..............

dbornack said:
I'm getting constant nag notifications for this. I turned off notifications for updates and it just sits in the notification drawer.
Anyone know how to permanently not take updates so I'm not bothered?
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I disabled in my settings, application manager, show system. It no longer nags. Force close the on that does not let you disable
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I disabled in my settings, application manager, show system. It no longer nags. Force close the on that does not let you disable
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Problem for me is I disabled that one yesterday....thought it was good, but nope, started nagging me again today, it still shows disabled too.

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Problem for me is I disabled that one yesterday....thought it was good, but nope, started nagging me again today, it still shows disabled too.
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I forgot, I also went into developers options and turned off automatic system updates. Mine does not nag anymore even after reboot

DLovo313 said:
Yea I got screwed like that with the Note7 replacement... Smh I'm with you.
I just got the V20 today, loving it so far, a lot to get used to coming from Samsungs all these years.
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How do you like the screen compared to Samsung devices.
That's honestly the only thing that keeps me using Samsung phones.
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donharden2002 said:
How do you like the screen compared to Samsung devices.
That's honestly the only thing that keeps me using Samsung phones.
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I came from a Note 4 and then S7E to the V20. AMOLED has such a tremendous saturation of colors that no LCD will ever be able to compete on that front. But, the brightness level and clarity is about the same. But it has taken me a few days to get back to accepting this as the new norm. Everytime I load CoC I think something is wrong until I remember I'm on a new device.

I took the update. I think it got rid of app pinning in recents.
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anyone has LG VS20 VS995 IMEI?

The IMEI is a unique identifier for your phone,no two phones will have the same IMEI,regardless of carrier &/or model:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mobile_Station_Equipment_Identity
If you're asking how to find your IMEI,look in SETTINGS > ABOUT PHONE > STATUS