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Ok to use ti back to uninstall bloat

I am new to the Skyrocket; been using an Atrix for the last year.
The bloat bugged me and freezing didn't get rid of the app store icons so I used ti to uninstall the following:
Att Barcode
Att Nav
Featured apps
Movies
Media Hub
NFS shift
Will this cause me any issues?
(I guess I should have asked before I did it... )

rpolansky said:
I am new to the Skyrocket; been using an Atrix for the last year.
The bloat bugged me and freezing didn't get rid of the app store icons so I used ti to uninstall the following:
Att Barcode
Att Nav
Featured apps
Movies
Media Hub
NFS shift
Will this cause me any issues?
(I guess I should have asked before I did it... )
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No those are fine. They take a while to disappear after you freeze them. Sometimes you have to reboot, but they will disappear

Make a backup of anything you want to uninstall.
If the market link is showing up for an app that is frozen you can long press on the app in TB and then select "detach from Market".

T-mobile One S Bloatware Removal

I will list the Apps I felt were bloat and subsequently either disabled or removed all together.
I will also discuss how I got Mobile Life Contacts to go "EFF" itself (in other words, I actually disabled it). Anybody that owns the phone should know how hard this is.
I'm interested in finding out how T-Mobile Name ID can be removed and or disabled. If anybody knows how to disable the POS that is T-Mobile Name ID please share the solution.
Blatant Bloat:
1) 411 & More
2) Bonus Apps
3) Game Base
4) HTCDB-XXX (languages for keyboard)
5) Mobile Hotspot (I realize this app is for tethering but it's bloat because this should be free)
8) MobileLife Contacts *** More on this below
9) More for Me
10) My T-Mobile (talk about worthless, this kind of stuff should be removable!)
11) T-Mobile Mall
12) T-Mobile TV
13) Visual Voicemail (thanks but NO THANKS T-Mobile, Google offers this for free)
14) Watch
15) Zinio (UTTER GARBAGE)
Potential Bloat:
1) Facebook
2) Flickr
3) Google Play Movies
4) Google+
5) Slacker
6) Twitter
While I can appreciate T-Mobile having initiative, not everybody has accounts or is interested in using these social networks or services. It would be nice if the phone allowed us to simply REMOVE what we do not wish to use.
***Mobile Life Contacts***
The phone normally tells you this app is being used by other apps and as such a factory reset is required. I PERSONALLY reset my device about 5 freaking times today and each time the app would tell me I need to do a factory reset. After that I decided to disable (not REMOVE) all messaging and contacts app to see if it would then budge. It didn't. I got EXTREMELY upset and decided I would apply a "scorched earth method". I disabled EVERY SINGLE thing that I could from the As down to the Ms until I got to MobileLife contacts. At which point I checked the app and the "Disable" button was no longer grayed out.
I realize this is tedious, but I'm pretty sure you don't have to scorch the Earth as I did. Just disable stuff alphabetically starting from the As and keep checking to see if the app can be disabled. Also I'm pretty sure you don't have to disable the HTCDB-XXX stuff as I did.

Don't forget Where's My Water. That's a bloat game they installed.

Have you noticed any adverse effects on the phone's behavior?
I just went and disabled most of these myself, but for me it's too soon to tell.

horatiopositronic said:
Have you noticed any adverse effects on the phone's behavior?
I just went and disabled most of these myself, but for me it's too soon to tell.
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There is no adverse effect unless you actually use the services.

I just removed every single Sense widget and app out there (and all entries associated with them) + all bloat etc....so far so good...1st boot was on "Updating" OS screen for a while....

kolyan said:
I just removed every single Sense widget and app out there (and all entries associated with them) + all bloat etc....so far so good...1st boot was on "Updating" OS screen for a while....
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The updating OS screen is just the system rebuilding caches for apps. Nothing to worry about.

Man! I can't stand bloatware on T-Mobile ver. Thanks for the list. I uninstalled some of them.
Sent from my HTC VLE_U using XDA

joshnichols189 said:
There is no adverse effect unless you actually use the services.
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My service kept cutting out while I had these apps disabled. I had to bring them back from the grave.
Edit: My problem is just the damn phone itself. It loses connection like crazy! However, removing T-Mobile Highlight seems to make it worse!
Sent from my HTC VLE_U using xda premium

jonathan3579 said:
My service kept cutting out while I had these apps disabled. I had to bring them back from the grave.
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do you have more info regarding this? there're no side effects as far as i can see.

This is one of the first things I did once I was rooted. I noticed that If you freeze/uninstall the visual voicemail. you will get a error when you receive a voicemail.

Where is the disable function ? I always used tb to remove bloat.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium HD app

Go to manage apps, then look up each individual app and most will allow you to disable. It's a (much appreciated) feature of Sense 4.
I don't mind Sense and one of the two reasons I'd ever want to root this phone would be to remove all this crap. thankfully that's not necessary like it used to be.
For Mobile Life contacts all you have to do is log in to tmobile.com, delete all your contacts from the website, then tell the phone to quit syncing. viola.

nvillamob said:
Go to manage apps, then look up each individual app and most will allow you to disable. It's a (much appreciated) feature of Sense 4.
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It's an ICS feature, not a Sense 4 feature..

zylith said:
This is one of the first things I did once I was rooted. I noticed that If you freeze/uninstall the visual voicemail. you will get a error when you receive a voicemail.
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i dont get any errors
---------- Post added at 05:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:56 PM ----------
I removed EVERYTHING (Spy soft, Sense apps and widgets that I dont use, and all bloat), my side effect are (or maybe it was like that before)
International Youtube subscriptions not showing up in youtube app (most likely Youtube and ICS issue), Geniewidget when check hourly forecast it FCs, and last issue is Picasa "share" doesnt work (this is also probably some screw up by HTC or Tmobile though)
^ would be great if people could test those 3 bugs

joshnichols189 said:
It's an ICS feature, not a Sense 4 feature..
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oh ok, I thought it was just a Sense thing.
Honestly i'm surprised that TMO didn't remove this feature so that we couldn't disable all that junk.

nvillamob said:
oh ok, I thought it was just a Sense thing.
Honestly i'm surprised that TMO didn't remove this feature so that we couldn't disable all that junk.
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Not even Verizon has removed it as far as I know Most people won't know about it so I would assume they don't care too much.
That said, not EVERYTHING can be disabled. I don't remember what since I rooted and removed them that way, but there was one or two things that I couldn't disable.

I removed everything on the list using root explorer..rebooted and worked fine with no issues. I even removed the Tmo IQ file from the apps in system. Still no issues in signal strength. Also after your done try wiping cache/dalvik and fixing permissions.
Sent from my HTC VLE_U using xda premium

Any one knows what TMO app preventing tethering on rooted phone?

mannequin said:
do you have more info regarding this? there're no side effects as far as i can see.
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I actually think it might just be the phone itself. (Whether it's software or hardware, I'm not sure yet.) I still believe that T-Mobile Highlight being disabled made the problem much worse though.
Sent from my HTC VLE_U using xda premium

Ysleiro said:
I will list the Apps I felt were bloat and subsequently either disabled or removed all together.
I will also discuss how I got Mobile Life Contacts to go "EFF" itself (in other words, I actually disabled it). Anybody that owns the phone should know how hard this is.
I'm interested in finding out how T-Mobile Name ID can be removed and or disabled. If anybody knows how to disable the POS that is T-Mobile Name ID please share the solution.
Blatant Bloat:
1) 411 & More
2) Bonus Apps
3) Game Base
4) HTCDB-XXX (languages for keyboard)
5) Mobile Hotspot (I realize this app is for tethering but it's bloat because this should be free)
8) MobileLife Contacts *** More on this below
9) More for Me
10) My T-Mobile (talk about worthless, this kind of stuff should be removable!)
11) T-Mobile Mall
12) T-Mobile TV
13) Visual Voicemail (thanks but NO THANKS T-Mobile, Google offers this for free)
14) Watch
15) Zinio (UTTER GARBAGE)
Potential Bloat:
1) Facebook
2) Flickr
3) Google Play Movies
4) Google+
5) Slacker
6) Twitter
While I can appreciate T-Mobile having initiative, not everybody has accounts or is interested in using these social networks or services. It would be nice if the phone allowed us to simply REMOVE what we do not wish to use.
***Mobile Life Contacts***
The phone normally tells you this app is being used by other apps and as such a factory reset is required. I PERSONALLY reset my device about 5 freaking times today and each time the app would tell me I need to do a factory reset. After that I decided to disable (not REMOVE) all messaging and contacts app to see if it would then budge. It didn't. I got EXTREMELY upset and decided I would apply a "scorched earth method". I disabled EVERY SINGLE thing that I could from the As down to the Ms until I got to MobileLife contacts. At which point I checked the app and the "Disable" button was no longer grayed out.
I realize this is tedious, but I'm pretty sure you don't have to scorch the Earth as I did. Just disable stuff alphabetically starting from the As and keep checking to see if the app can be disabled. Also I'm pretty sure you don't have to disable the HTCDB-XXX stuff as I did.
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I managed to disable the following:
411 & More
Access T-Mobile** - uninstall updates became My t-Mobile, disabled
Bonus Apps*
Game Base
Highlight
More for Me
Slacker*
TMo TV*
TMo Mall*
Where's My Water*
Zinio*
* these apps I had to uninstall the updates before the option to disable appeared
** for this app, when I uninstalled the updates, it became "My T-Mobile" and then I disabled it.
I didn't do much else, rebooted and all seems well.
This shouldn't affect getting any kind of updates/patches from T-Mobile, right?
Thanks for the tip!

What verizon apps are safe to delete!

Hey, guys, when I get my S3 on Wednesday, I'm going to root it ASAP.
I want to remove as much bloatware as I can without losing the cool and useful things Samsung has added to their UI. Like S-voice the eyeball watching thing, the gestures etc are all things I want to keep.
What I don't want is verizon nag screens and useless apps and adware that they put on.
Any suggestions or point me to a thread where this is already talked about?

Geez No response yet? I would like to know this as well....

Id like to know to. In the mean time, I just hid them. There was only 4 apps from VZ and the only one that I use is the mobile hotspot app.
VZ mobile, apps, and nav are hidden and never seem to show up in my running apps.

I've froze in titanium backup without issue so far...
Allshare (All 3 of them)
Amazon Kindle
Apps 3.05.78
ColorGoogle+
Guided Tours
Keis air (Both)
Media Hub
Music Hub
S Suggest
S Voice
Samsung Account
V Cast Tones
Voicemail
VPN Client
VZ Nav
Yahoo (both)

Do either of the Kies apps need to be enabled in order to receive OTA updates?

I would recommend using an app like Titanium Backup that has the capability to freeze applications rather than deleting them, so you can play around with it and disable what you don't use or don't like.
I also recommend using the standard ICS application disabling capabilities first, then using a solution like Titanium Backup for those apps that cannot normally be disabled.
For the record, on my Verizon S3 I have roughly 30 applications frozen/disabled.

I actually worked in the opposite direction. I flashed the stripped version onto my phone and then manually added back the apps that I wanted to keep via Root Explorer. The only apps that I added back were Divx, Video Player, and Music FX. The phone runs fast and battery life has been GODLIKE.
Stripped ROM thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1759642

Bloatware Apps and Lag Tricks

Picking Up my GS4 on the 10th/11th and am immediately planning on Rooting it and then applying extensive boatware and lag controls.
I would very much appreciate if everyone listed the apps they Removed (R) or Disabled (D) as well as other settings that they applied to minimize the workload on the phone. I understand that these issues have been tackled individually but I'd like a consolidated thread where each person lists what they did and how big of a difference it made.
Below is a FAKE example of how I'd think these replies should be organized.
Looking for the following format:
D = Disabled R=Removed
APPS
D - App A
D - App B
R - App C
etc...
Settings Applied
- Changed Transition effect from 2 - 0.5 (location Developer settings)
- Turned off easy mode (location screen settings)
- etc...
Other Apps Used To Reduce/Eliminate Lag
- Installed XXXX App and did the following
a) changed XXX setting to off
b) changed YYYY setting to on
c) etc.
Effects - Phone feels much faster, I previously notice a lag [insert action here] and now I [do/don't/other]
This would really help us all just get all of our settings in sync with one another and move on from this lag and bloatware issue.

Root it and check my kernel mod settings here in General section.

There is a Google Docs spreadsheet that the guys over at the International S4 Forum have been working on. I've also contributed to it, however I noticed that the International S4 actually has less bloatware, and I don't mean Carrier bloat. It actually has less in the System Apps directory. Here is the List Of Removable Bloatware I was talking about.
Now we just need to create one similar that will apply to the SGH-i337 & SGH-i337M.

Sobai said:
There is a Google Docs spreadsheet that the guys over at the International S4 Forum have been working on. I've also contributed to it, however I noticed that the International S4 actually has less bloatware, and I don't mean Carrier bloat. It actually has less in the System Apps directory. Here is the List Of Removable Bloatware I was talking about.
Now we just need to create one similar that will apply to the SGH-i337 & SGH-i337M.
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Damn, this is good ****.

97prelude said:
Damn, this is good ****.
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You will see a bigger improvement modifying kernel parms.

97prelude said:
Damn, this is good ****.
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I'm just starting a Google Doc Spreadsheet right now and we can all contribute to updating it. Now, because there is only one version of the SGH-i337 and many versions of the SGH-i337M (TELUS, Bell, Rogers, Fido, Virgin Mobile, Koodo) I'll create separate pages since they all have their own carrier bloatware.

Deleted Apps
Active Apps manager
Adapt Sound
Alarm
AllShare ControlShare Service
AllShare FileShare Service
AT&T Drivemode
AT&T FamilyMap
AT&T Hot Spots
AT&T Locker
AT&T Messages
AT&T Navigator
AT&T Smart Wi-Fi
Blutetooth Share
BlurbCheckout
Briefing
Bubbles
ChatOn
ChatOn V
Clock
com.sec.android.app.sbrowser
Com2uSPoker
DioDictService
DirectConnectionManager
DirectShareManager
Downloads
Dual Clock (digital)
Easy Launcher
Easy Settings
Exchange Services
Face Unlock
Favorite Apps
Favorite Contacts
Google Play Books
Google Play Magazines
Google Play Movies & TV
Google Play Music
Group Play
Google Search (search bar, not the Google Now One)
Help
HP Print Service
Internet
Kies via Wi-Fi
Live wallpaper picker
Match3VS
MobileTV
MobilePrintSvx_CUPS
MobilePrintSvx_CUPS_Backend
myAT&T
Nearby devices
Nearby Service
PageBuddyNotiSvc
Phase beam
Photo Screensavers
S Health
S Memo
S Note Provider
S Translator
S Voice
Samsung Account
Samsung Apps
Samsung Apps Widget
Samsung Books
Samsung Games
Samsung Hub
Samsung Keyboard
Samsung Link
Samsung Print Service
Samsung Push Service
Samsung SBrowser Bookmark
Samsung SBrowser Tab Sync
Samsung SNote SyncAdapter
Samsung text-to-speach engine
Samsung WatchOn
SamsungHubUpdater
Screen Mirroring
SensorService
Share Music
SNS
Story Album
Story Album Widget
Swipe
Tags
Talk
Talkback
Travel
Travel wallpaper
TripAdvisor
Try air move
Voice Recorder
Yahoo Finance
Yahoo News
YPMobile
Frozen Apps
TouchWiz Home
Gmail
FW Upgrade
Settings
Window animation scale = 0
Transition animation scale = 0
Animator duration scale = 0
Force GPU rendering= checked for ON
Other Apps
Installed Trickster

I'm experiencing no lag so I didn't bother looking for ways to solve that. I disabled most stuff that can be disabled. It's pretty easy to figure out what can be disabled if you've done it before. You can pretty much disable anything Samsung. There are a bunch of camera options that you might want to keep. E.g., BeautyFace. I forgot which app it was but disabling it prevented me from changing the lockscreen wallpaper so I re-enabled that. The only Samsung app I kept was WatchON to control my TV.

raqball said:
Deleted Apps
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This is good info! Are you experiencing any Dependencies, Errors, or FC with any of the ones you deleted? For instance, I know that if you delete "Kies via WiFi", the Settings app will crash if you click on that option in the menu.

Sobai said:
This is good info! Are you experiencing any Dependencies, Errors, or FC with any of the ones you deleted? For instance, I know that if you delete "Kies via WiFi", the Settings app will crash if you click on that option in the menu.
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I have not had a single issue thus far and iv'e been using it like this for 3 days now..
If I click on Kies via WiFi in the settings, I get a popup saying the application has closed or something like that..

raqball said:
I have not had a single issue thus far and iv'e been using it like this for 3 days now..
If I click on Kies via WiFi in the settings, I get a popup saying the application has closed or something like that..
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That's awesome. Would it be possible for you to post the file names of the APKs on your S4 so that I may add them to the spread sheet? I don't have the AT&T version and couldn't find them posted anywhere else.

I deleted everything raqball had in his list using titanium backup to uninstall them one by one. Well see how tomorrow goes
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using xda app-developers app

Well I've been at this all night. I'll continue with it later this afternoon, but here is the spreadsheet I've been working on. I was inspired to make this list by another user over in the International S4 forum.
This list will cover both the AT&T variant, as well as our Canadian i337M. I have the TELUS S4 which only had 1 carrier bloat app so I'll need everyone to help add to this list. At the moment I don't have the spreadsheet open ended for editing as the guys over in the International S4 forum had their document hijacked with random joke messages like "qwertyyyyyy", etc.
I'd really appreciate it if you could all share which carrier apps come with your version of your phones. I would need to know the .apk filename as well as the name that is displayed for the app.
North American Galaxy S IV Bloatware List

Sobai said:
That's awesome. Would it be possible for you to post the file names of the APKs on your S4 so that I may add them to the spread sheet? I don't have the AT&T version and couldn't find them posted anywhere else.
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Do you mean what I have left on the S4??
Dallenn said:
I deleted everything raqball had in his list using titanium backup to uninstall them one by one. Well see how tomorrow goes
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It flat out scream now yes?
Deleting all the apps I did might not be for most people as they may want some of that junk.
I bought the phone for it's 5" 1080p screen and the processor. I can honestly care less about the AT&T / Samsung junk / crap. I don't see any of them as 'features'

Sick of lag? Look here! [Tips and Tricks]

If it helps, hit thanks!
Hello, read a lot of threads regarding lag during UI usage and especially keyboard and messaging, which i too experienced stock. My GS4 is now absolutely lag free, and underclocked too. Here is what i did...
Root phone (need this for some of the features on some apps)
Titanium Backup (need to freeze some apps)
disable S-Voice (i never used it; i always feel weird talking to or being talked to by a machine anyways)
disable Google Now (i never use it anyways; its a pain to get to and i dont use any of the social networking or news feeds either)
Disable TouchWiz Home
LagFix app (i have pro, mine is scheduled to run once a night)
If anyone cares, i will post my SetCPU settings as well, but on stock or even powersave it should run VERY quick. My phone is Korean, my GF's is Chinese; NEITHER has a bit of lag. I dont use any AT&T services, mobile print services, allshare/screen sharing, Google+/Facebook (or any social networks actually) so i have all of that disabled, but the main advantages come from disabling S Voice, Google Now, using LagFix app and TouchWiz Home
My Freeze list has other apps frozen you may not have, or i may have some frozen that i dont use but you do; they are all safe to freeze
Titanium Backup Freeze list...
AllShare ControlShare Service
AllShare FileShare Service
AT&T DriveMode
AT&T FamilyMap
AT&T Hot Spots
AT&T Locker
AT&T Navigator
AT&T Smart Wi-Fi
DirectShare Manager
EasyMode
EpsonPrintService
FaceUnlock
FlipBoard
Gmail (i use K-9 to get them from my own servers)
Google Play Books
Google Play Magazines
Google Play Movies
Google Play Music
Google Play services
Google Search 1.0 (widget bar icon)
Google Search 2.5.8xxx (big blue 'G' icon)
Google+
Group Play
HolaARM6
HP Print Service
Kies via Wi-Fi
Mobile Print
Mobile TV
MobilePrintSvc_CUPS
MobilePrintSvc_CUPS_Backend
MyAT&T
S Health (stopped working after root anyways)
S Voice
Samsung Apps
Samsung Apps Widget
Samsung Calender SyncAdapter
Samsung Cloud Data Relay
Samsung Cloud Quota
Samsung Contact SyncAdapter
Samsung Games
Samsung Knox
Samsung Music
Samsung Keyboard
Samsung Print Service
Samsung Push Service
Samsung WatchOn
SNS (facebook, i dont use it)
Swype
TouchWiz Home (use another launcher first!)
Wallet (doesn't work on mine and nowhere to use it)
Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! News
YP Mobile

wow 296 views and no responses? really?

Well first off thanks for all of your helpful input.
But this post and many others just beg a huge question to me.
"Why do you have a Samsung device if youre completely removing Samsung services?"
Even many Android ones for that matter
I just find it odd.
But regardless your tips are quite useful, though i wont use all of those.
Whats this lagfree app you speak of?

coffeehandle said:
Well first off thanks for all of your helpful input.
But this post and many others just beg a huge question to me.
"Why do you have a Samsung device if youre completely removing Samsung services?"
Even many Android ones for that matter
I just find it odd.
But regardless your tips are quite useful, though i wont use all of those.
Whats this lagfree app you speak of?
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LagFix from Google Play Store.
I am NOT completely removing Samsung services, i only have the ones i dont use totally disabled. I use SmartStay all the time and Multiwindow sometimes, but i never use S Voice (or any voice recognition software; if i cant pay full attention to my phone without detriment i dont use it), and i dont use/like google now. I also dont use any social networks, S Health (which hasnt worked since i rooted), etc. Thats just me.
This is a 'safe to freeze' list, but freezing S Voice, TouchWiz Home, Easy Mode (home) and Google Now have a HUGE impact on reducing lag on stock ROM/Kernel. If you look, i disabled a LOT of Google apps too; i have physical books, and dont use google play to buy movies/tv shows/music; id rather buy and load them (automatically) myself so i can use them on more than one device.
i disabled everything i dont use, but S Voice and Google Now made the greatest impact on lag; Its totally gone. I dont like to have any processes ill never use running or visible; i prefer a very simple clean interface and list of apps; again thats me.
Basically, the best of stock android with the samsung add-ons i like and use is all that i want, and not a kilobyte more.

Slade8525 said:
LagFix from Google Play Store.
I am NOT completely removing Samsung services, i only have the ones i dont use totally disabled. I use SmartStay all the time and Multiwindow sometimes, but i never use S Voice (or any voice recognition software; if i cant pay full attention to my phone without detriment i dont use it), and i dont use/like google now. I also dont use any social networks, S Health (which hasnt worked since i rooted), etc. Thats just me.
This is a 'safe to freeze' list, but freezing S Voice, TouchWiz Home, Easy Mode (home) and Google Now have a HUGE impact on reducing lag on stock ROM/Kernel. If you look, i disabled a LOT of Google apps too; i have physical books, and dont use google play to buy movies/tv shows/music; id rather buy and load them (automatically) myself so i can use them on more than one device.
i disabled everything i dont use, but S Voice and Google Now made the greatest impact on lag; Its totally gone. I dont like to have any processes ill never use running or visible; i prefer a very simple clean interface and list of apps; again thats me.
Basically, the best of stock android with the samsung add-ons i like and use is all that i want, and not a kilobyte more.
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ah ok. That makes a little more sense. Wel when i get my 32 gig (hopefully by friday) i think ill try freezing Svoice. I do enjoy Google Now though. its pretty neat. But i agree with you on Svoice. I wouldnt have thought it would make an impact. But ill take your word on it haha

Slade8525 said:
LagFix from Google Play Store.
I am NOT completely removing Samsung services, i only have the ones i dont use totally disabled. I use SmartStay all the time and Multiwindow sometimes, but i never use S Voice (or any voice recognition software; if i cant pay full attention to my phone without detriment i dont use it), and i dont use/like google now. I also dont use any social networks, S Health (which hasnt worked since i rooted), etc. Thats just me.
This is a 'safe to freeze' list, but freezing S Voice, TouchWiz Home, Easy Mode (home) and Google Now have a HUGE impact on reducing lag on stock ROM/Kernel. If you look, i disabled a LOT of Google apps too; i have physical books, and dont use google play to buy movies/tv shows/music; id rather buy and load them (automatically) myself so i can use them on more than one device.
i disabled everything i dont use, but S Voice and Google Now made the greatest impact on lag; Its totally gone. I dont like to have any processes ill never use running or visible; i prefer a very simple clean interface and list of apps; again thats me.
Basically, the best of stock android with the samsung add-ons i like and use is all that i want, and not a kilobyte more.
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Interesting info but I never notice an increase in lag when I turn Google Now on. I disable(haven't rooted0 most of the apps you freeze including S Voice, run Nova Launcher over Touchwiz and have never had a problem with lag on this phone.

coffeehandle said:
ah ok. That makes a little more sense. Wel when i get my 32 gig (hopefully by friday) i think ill try freezing Svoice. I do enjoy Google Now though. its pretty neat. But i agree with you on Svoice. I wouldnt have thought it would make an impact. But ill take your word on it haha
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oh but it does; same with freezing TouchWiz Home and Easy Mode/Home
NovaSense said:
Interesting info but I never notice an increase in lag when I turn Google Now on. I disable(haven't rooted0 most of the apps you freeze including S Voice, run Nova Launcher over Touchwiz and have never had a problem with lag on this phone.
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Google Now is the least lag-adding; its negligible. S Voice, TouchWiz Home, and EasyMode/Home are the worst for it. Why they create so much lag i dont know, i dont use them, so therefor i dont care. I have a Korean S4, my GF has a Chinese S4; neither of us have lag after we disabled those three.
I run WAY underclocked; with SetCPU, 384 minimum, 1242 max Mhz. Slight lag coming out of deep sleep/idle for a long time, but ZERO lag in messaging with stock or GoSMSpro, and no problems with high end games (dont play them, just wanted to see if underclocking would create issues/crashes. they dont).
Like i said, if you disable all the things you dont/wont use, it will help. There is a LOT i dont use, but S Voice/TouchWiz/EasyMode made the biggest difference; more than everything else combined.

What about these?
Blurb checkout
Epsonprintservice
Gallery if using 3rd party like QuickPic
Samsung apps widget
com.androidproviders.partnerbookmarks
Samsung hub uodater
Story album widget
Travel 1.0
Travel widget 1.0
All calendar stuff ie if using 3rd party like Jorte
Direct connect manager 3.0
Easy settings.
Key chain (Wtf is this?)
Mobile print
Nearby devices
Nearby service
Picasa uploader
Also, freezing Samsung apps may prevent you from getting updates to WatchON, s health etc.
I mean, you could freeze the living piss out of this phone. But there comes a point, where if you're going to freeze all the bloat, why not just flash a deodexed debloated rom like ib4st1ds. The only stuff I have frozen is what I've seen running..
Keep up the good work slade. Nice to see people trying to help others.
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Planktron said:
What about these?
Blurb checkout
Epsonprintservice
Gallery if using 3rd party like QuickPic
Samsung apps widget
com.androidproviders.partnerbookmarks
Samsung hub uodater
Story album widget
Travel 1.0
Travel widget 1.0
All calendar stuff ie if using 3rd party like Jorte
Direct connect manager 3.0
Easy settings.
Key chain (Wtf is this?)
Mobile print
Nearby devices
Nearby service
Picasa uploader
Also, freezing Samsung apps may prevent you from getting updates to WatchON, s health etc.
I mean, you could freeze the living piss out of this phone. But there comes a point, where if you're going to freeze all the bloat, why not just flash a deodexed debloated rom like ib4st1ds. The only stuff I have frozen is what I've seen running..
Keep up the good work slade. Nice to see people trying to help others.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk 2
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Personally i never ran into this "lag" mess some unlucky few experience.

What S4 do you guys have... mine doesn't lag... is mine faulty
~ Taylor_Swift
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What S4 do you guys have... mine doesn't lag... is mine faulty
~ Taylor_Swift
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II GT-N7100 using XDA Premium HD
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Mine doesn't lag as well. Damn got the faulty batch. Also, I froze all the ATT crap but I still have some Samsung apps like S-health, watch on and stuff. I also froze google apps like Google books, music etc as I noticed Google music was always running. Don't know about lag but it also helps with battery....

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Mine doesn't lag as well. Damn got the faulty batch. Also, I froze all the ATT crap but I still have some Samsung apps like S-health, watch on and stuff. I also froze google apps like Google books, music etc as I noticed Google music was always running. Don't know about lag but it also helps with battery....
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First thing I did was run stock deodexed. Turned S Voice off from home button and turned the animator scales to 0.5x. Its very fast lol.
~ Taylor_Swift
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II GT-N7100 using XDA Premium HD

Thanks OP. That home button thing really sped things up.
On a side note just a heads up to anyone going on a freezing spree. I noticed when I froze Samsung syncadapters 2.5.6 I was not able to send mms pics anymore.
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viny2cool said:
Mine doesn't lag as well. Damn got the faulty batch. Also, I froze all the ATT crap but I still have some Samsung apps like S-health, watch on and stuff. I also froze google apps like Google books, music etc as I noticed Google music was always running. Don't know about lag but it also helps with battery....
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I received my AT&T SGH-I337 yesterday, I can’t believe how lag it is, I’m comparing it with an S3, and it’s totally worst, I spec that disabling this thing helps. thx.