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Going to town with disabling apps...

Hello,
I just recently got my htc sensation temp. rooted and have been disabling apps. So far, I have just taken care of the obvious ones, but I see people going to TOWN on this phone! I also see people talking about having huge increases in performance. I have seen slight improvment, but nothing great. Are there any particular apps that people are stopping that I should be aware of, or is it due to people nearly clearing the phone of everything on it?
Ive been going through the task manager, and looking for things running that I dont need. (Found apps such as google maps running little sub programs that I dont want for instance). I try to find the name of the program, and then pm disable. Is this what everyone is doing, or are you guys just wiping stuff and seeing what happens?
BTW-I have zero experience with this sort of thing, yet still figured out how to get where I am, thanks this forum.
Matt

http://files.virtuousrom.com/~rmk/pyramid_apk_details.txt
Please search next time. This was in the first "Remove bloat" thread in development section.

No offense, but I wasnt asking for any lists...I was asking for something much more specific.
I saw that list...
What I asked was whether or not there is a method to the madness, or are people just removing EVERYTHING that they can despite whether or not they want it? I saw several apps in there that id like to have, such as the calculator.
Matt

I think people are just disabling what they don't want: carrier apps & other preloaded crap

Hello,
I am now running into a snag...Everything I try to disable, only says "killed". I can still enable a process that I disabled, and then disable it again, but no new disabled processes? Is this due to the root being weak, like it is, or something else?
Thanks,
Matt

Bloatware and how to get rid of it.

I thought that I would ask this question and then see what everyone has to offer.
I recently rooted my LG Volt phone and all is well. My next step is to take off some of the 'Bloatware' that came installed on the phone from VM.
My Question is HOW? and WHAT?
I know I would like to remove CHROME browser but not sure how. I know there are a lot of other apps that could come off that I'm not aware of that just slow down the phone and take up space. Has anyone ever developed a definitive list of the 'possible' bloatware that is installed on phones.
I'm afraid to remove some things incase it is required to operate the phone. So something that is critical to the phone operation should not be included on the list.
Once a list is developed than I could check against it to see what it is possible to remove.
Second part is how. Since my phone is rooted it should be fairly easy but not sure exactly how and to make sure I got all of a piece of software removed or am I leaving something behind that is more wasted space.
This, I would think, would be very useful to amateurs like myself.

JimReid said:
I thought that I would ask this question and then see what everyone has to offer.
I recently rooted my LG Volt phone and all is well. My next step is to take off some of the 'Bloatware' that came installed on the phone from VM.
My Question is HOW? and WHAT?
I know I would like to remove CHROME browser but not sure how. I know there are a lot of other apps that could come off that I'm not aware of that just slow down the phone and take up space. Has anyone ever developed a definitive list of the 'possible' bloatware that is installed on phones.
I'm afraid to remove some things incase it is required to operate the phone. So something that is critical to the phone operation should not be included on the list.
Once a list is developed than I could check against it to see what it is possible to remove.
Second part is how. Since my phone is rooted it should be fairly easy but not sure exactly how and to make sure I got all of a piece of software removed or am I leaving something behind that is more wasted space.
This, I would think, would be very useful to amateurs like myself.
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install app called (system app remover) ....about WHAT : you need to un-install the apps that you don't need but doesn't harm the phone ....like if you are on Samsung phone or sony....you need to un-install chrome and Samsung store ....play groups...
simply my man you can un-install all the apps that shows in your app drawer ...else than that don't remove any thing
good luck :good:

User Installed CA sprfw01 - what is it?

Hello,
I have a lg ls775 and under the user security certificates there is one called sprfw01. I have no idea why or what its for. Im on the sprint network. Is there a way i can inspect the cert or atleast figure out whats using it? Any info is greatly appreciated. Thnx guys!
Could this be from pairing my phone with some device ie. Smart watch or another phone?
Its actually under User credentials. Hope that can jog anyones memory as to what this may be.

I'm currently using the same phone as you and on the same carrier, and just noticed this user credential the other day as well. I didnt recognize it so I deleted it. I'm afraid I cant tell you if it really affected my device as it was already giving me some issues before I deleted the credential. At the time, and again today, I looked for the same answer as you and haven't found any additional information on it, so I can't be much help with exactly why it's there or what put it there.
However, I may be able to help put your mind at ease since I did happen to do a factory reset today and even though I deleted it before, it was back afterward. So my guess is that its not dangerous. (again, thats my opinion, hopefully someone can confirm if I am correct)
Some details to that lead me to think it's safe:
My LG G6 isn't rooted, and was not before the redo. (so technically nothing should have been able to reinstall it that was nefarious)
I didn't install any potentially shady apps when I did the factory reset ( at time of writing this, just a few big name apps from the play store, no random restored apks or anything like that).
I pulled my SD card out before the wipe and haven't put one back in yet, so that rules out something left over on there working itself back in somehow.
I allowed google to "restore" my most recent backup it made, but the most recent backup was AFTER I removed the credential so it shouldn't have been on there (google backups seems to restore very little anyway, and requests all backed up app downloads from the Play store) .
I have connected it to my home secured wifi.
No bluetooth connections yet.
No sharing to any devices or NFC usage, etc.
So from all of that, I believe it is either a Sprint thing, an LG UI thing, or something specific to the LG g6 model, and built into the factory settings. That's just my thoughts, but I thought maybe my experience might make you feel a little more at ease. Hopefully someone can reply with what the heck it actually is though, because little things like not being able to figure out the source of this drive me crazy even after all of that.

Just an update, I was looking through my LG V30+ and found the same credentials stored on this device too. No additional details on it's purpose were really gained from it though. Picture attached.

"User Credential" "sprfw01" also on LG ls 775
I saw the same thing and I searched "sprfw01" . I was wondering what it was. I also have this "User Credential" on an LG ls 775 on Sprint.

Passwords Saved Credential
I did some research into this and what I see is it's a credential from when you saved your passwords for an example unlock screen & any passwords like I have to specific websites.
Jusy my thoughts...
*Any good unlock or root for the ls993?

HoW dO yOu ReMoVe those stubborn unused apps?

I have searched for answers. Several say a change has to be made in Device Administrators under Security. I do not see anything like device administrators and I have so many apps taking up space. I know you can disable them but they are still taking up space. Several, the Disable button is greyed out so that you cannot disable them? What the heck? Why are buyers made to accept these they do not want.
Is there any help here? Thanks! ":-Dx jack

Once device's Android got rooted you can remove those apps.

Thank you. I have heard of rooting for a number of years. I have no idea how to do it. Looked into it but the rhetoric concerned me that I might do something wrong and so I never did. I could google how to root my LG phone. I guess your phone service provider is not worried about this?

I agree with @jwoegerbauer.
You'll have to root your android device at first in order to remove pre-installed apps.

James_Watson said:
I agree with @jwoegerbauer.
You'll have to root your android device at first in order to remove pre-installed apps.
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I see I have just asked this question again. I don't know if I missed you fella's answers. But "rooting" . . . I've heard of but seems to be a tech option. I am not an IT. Is there a relatively easy way to explain now to "root" an android phone and it's side effects. This phone holds my only number, no land line, and I don't to lose my number or phone service via the Android change. This last 4 of my numbers have been the family's for 74 years. Thanks, sorry I did not catch this back in May 2021.

Is my Girlfriend is a computer hacker?

Hi, I am not new to computers phones and development but it's been years and a lot has changed. I went to school for software design and I learned on Visual Studio 6.0. So for anyone in there 30's and older you all remember how 6.0 was. Well alot has changed since 6.0 but regardless I know when someone has been messing with my phone a s or computer. I am going to try and post all of my syslog that I have saved and any new that I see. Also ibam going to try and post what open source software that I notice my phone now has licenses for. I am on a Samsung Note 10 plus 5G. And I am almost positive that my girl is responsible for the modifications done to my phone but she screams that she only knows how to play games call and text. I need someone to review my information and any information that anyone needs and tell me if my phone has been modified and if everything could have been done remotely. My ultimate question is could this all have been done remotely or would any of it and I mean even the smallest thing have to be done locally on the phone. If every single modification could all have been done remotely then maybe she's telling the truth but if just one thing had to of been done locally then she's responsible somehow. And then I need to know how to fix all of this and set up secure to prevent it from happening again.

you claim you're developer but provide logs as screenshots... seriously, if you can't trust your girlfriend what you need help is a couble care course or psychotherapist.
I doubt your Samsung Galaxy Note10+ bootloader locked device secured by Knox is tampered in any kind at all

What i'm seeing here is you using your phone with samsung packages working. It's mostly sounds running, you unlocking the device, setting an alarm ect.
Bare in mind google and apps use location alot so the location is i would say the norm. The more apps the more times location is called.
if you are concerned get dmr checker and check security levels, has the device been rooted and displays the true code? Really worried check all your apps then disable location or use odin to fully wipe the device but from what i can tell this is possibly paranoia

Whether your girlfriend can be trusted or not is not the problem. Maybe she is really hacking your phone or maybe you are just paranoid, I can't tell. Either way you two should break up before you break each other.

.. or just a week digital detox