Has anyone compiled a list of system apps that are safe to freeze/remove? I've already frozen the obvious ones but I'd like to strip this thing as bare as I can.
Edit: just saw the thread in general, my bad.
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Is there a way to prevent specific apps from running at all, ever? I have a Samsung Captivate and I have several apps that are open in the background upon boot-up and at other random times. Now I know that this is fine normally on the Android OS, but I do not use these apps EVER as I have better alternatives from the Market.
They are the built in TouchWiz versions of
E-Mail (I use the GMail app instead)
Music Player (I use DoubleTwist instead)
Video Player (I use RockPlayer instead)
Messaging (I use Google Voice instead).
Since I absolutely never use these apps, and even have them hidden from my application list in LauncherPro, I would love to disable them from ever running again. Unfortunately I cannot uninstall them as doing so apparently causes instability with the built in Samsung TouchWiz UI.
As a side note, I know this is concerning a specific phone to a degree, but I think it's more fitting as a general Android OS question. If not, mods please move it to the Captivate Q&A section.
Uninstall them. That is, if you're phone is rooted. If it isn't, probably not a whole lot of easy fixes.
Just search XDA for uninstalling apps on/from system. There are several threads floating around on the subject.
GinoAMelone said:
Uninstall them. That is, if you're phone is rooted. If it isn't, probably not a whole lot of easy fixes.
Just search XDA for uninstalling apps on/from system. There are several threads floating around on the subject.
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glio1337 said:
Unfortunately I cannot uninstall them as doing so apparently causes instability with the built in Samsung TouchWiz UI.
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Some of the stock Samsung apps can be safely uninstalled. The ones I listed cannot be. That's why I'm trying to find a solution to prevent them from running.
glio1337 said:
Some of the stock Samsung apps can be safely uninstalled. The ones I listed cannot be. That's why I'm trying to find a solution to prevent them from running.
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have you tried looking for SGS tools on the market. I have used it to get rid of a bunch of apps that were stock. I dont think these will brick your phone if you get rid of the apps you discussed but you might want to do a back up just in case. The phone defenitely has to be rroted for this though
Try autostarts. Cheap paid app for what you are looking for.
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i don't know anything about your platform, but I can tell you there is little difference between uninstalling, and preventing an app from being triggered by an event. Auto starts will do just that stop event / semaphore queues from accessing the resources it needs. Your requesting app will spin ( wait in queue ). You can how ever judiciously use autostarts to prevent activation by specific events ( of those apps which you don't like) which may be acceptable to the operation of those requesting apps ( the ones which cause the instability you mentioned). Trial and error. But autostarts is kind, it keeps the name of the semaphore which you blocked with a line through it ( so you can undo ). Just saying..
I know that removing TMobile MyAccounts is a no-go, but is there anything else that is unsafe to remove? And other than doubletwist does anyone have a list of suggested bloatware to remove? I'm new to removing bloatware on my own and don't want to screw anything up.
Sirithe said:
I know that removing TMobile MyAccounts is a no-go, but is there anything else that is unsafe to remove? And other than doubletwist does anyone have a list of suggested bloatware to remove? I'm new to removing bloatware on my own and don't want to screw anything up.
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There is a search button in the top right side of the page..
Use the term "Bloatware", should offer up enough results to make a forum-educated decision
I have bought some apps from the Android Market which I no longer want to use. Is there any way to remove them from my "Not Installed" list on Android Market?
This is not a Galaxy Note related problem but a general Android related one. So in the general Android forum you will get much easier and faster an answer.
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'No, there isn't' would've been a much shorter reply
This is the one Android annoyance nobody seems to care about doing anything to fix.
There must be some leftover bits and pieces somewhere to remove from apps that get into Not Installed. On my phone the only apps that have gone there are four out of the many pre-installed apps I had no use for.
I've never had any other apps, sideloaded or market downloads, go to not installed after uninstalling with the built in app management.
Using other tools like SDX Stock App Remover can cause that to happen. For some of those, using SDX to put the apk back then using root explorer to remove it fixed the not installed entry.
Searching for a way to remove all trace of Sprint's NASCAR and football apps, TeleNav and Samsung MediaHub.
Titanium Backup shows there's some database files for two of them but does not show the full path to their location.
When someone with a lot of Android knowledge gets annoyed by that, then we'll see a fix. until then it looks like we're stuck with junk we do not want on our phones.
The history is held on Google's server. If you do a wipe-data+cache on the market app, that's all you can do on the phone end, beyond that it's just pulling data from Google.
Have a look at all the junk on your market account on the website.
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Hi All
I was looking around and couldn't find a definitive answer for the tf101 w/ ICS (not entirely sure if it matters that its a transformer... and am thinking it has more to do with android os than the transformer itself)...
anyway, I was wondering is there a list of non-essential apps (bloatware) that can be removed without messing up the ROM? I'm not sure how the apps are linked with the OS but when you go to uninstall certain apps with titanium backups it gives a warning that removing certain apps may mess up your rom...
Is there a reference list somewhere? there are a number apps that i don't use and parts of me just really likes getting rid of 'junk'...
thanks and much appreciated!
The-Nazgul said:
You might want to remove some bloat apps by asus which can be found in this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14042335&postcount=1
You dont have to delete the apps. Just rename them to *****.akpB or something else, in case you want to use them again!
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See the above link for the useless apps
jadesse said:
See the above link for the useless apps
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thanks and much appreciated!
just curious as I hear you cant move apps to the SD card. which wont be such a big deal if I can remove some of the existing junk put on there by samsung and increase the space available.
or have I missed something obvious.
If rooted, you should be able to use Titanium Pro to remove anything you don't want.
Place all questions in the Q&A section, thanks
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ok cool, thats what i was hoping, thanks
I would freeze the app instead of uninstalling unless you are 100% sure what the app is
anybody got a list of bloatware thats safe to remove
anybody got a list of bloatware thats safe to remove?
themango said:
anybody got a list of bloatware thats safe to remove?
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this is actually the question that should be asked...if I remove the wrong software, what's the worst thing could happen to my tab?
i had removed all the samsung 'hub' apps couple of weeks ago and havent had any problems...
This is the link for you to help to decide uninstalling system apps:
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1487073