As many of us know the apps that can be debloated from a typical Samsung rom using Titanium Backup. It has been a common practice so far. On recent stock Lollipop stock rom it has been experienced that debloating is causing fcs even crash sometimes. I had a crash on stock Lollipop after debloating from Titanium and cleaning cache from recovery to remove residue. However on latest custom rom by dr.ketan rom 15. I have been able to remove them easily. I request the members to share their opinions here regarding the methods of debloating. It is going to take time for developers to deodexing and making mods. Meanwhile I suggest to find ways of easy debloating..
I flashed the leaked rom and debloated myself with titanum and everything look fine.. not bugs or fc
I debloat manually, as i isolate what i use and not. I strictly use ES File Explorer, with write permissions in /system. All it requires is knowing well what is inside /system/app and /system/priv-app
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Ultimatum Bloatware Remover​
Okay, So I'm making a Universal Bloatware Remover. Its meant to remove Bloatware from just about any device! I need to have a list of supported devices, I'm so eager to get it Tested I'm planning a release in the next week.
DISCLAIMER:​
Code:
Make Sure you backup in case you don't like the my mod, missing favorite apps, or installation went wrong! I'm not responsible for your device in anyway, you are choosing to test!
All I need is confirmation that its flashing on various devices, including recovery names (cwm,cwm touch,twrp) and versions Remember, this is very alpha, so it may not remove much of your bloatware as you want...
Features
Over 100+ apps supported so far (more are coming)
Compatible with any device with root, custom recovery, and busybox
Removes Odex files along with app
Removes Bloatware Libs
Super easy and quick install
Clears Useless folders in System and SDCard
Requirements
Android 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 ,4.3 ,4.4
Root
Custom Recovery
Busybox Installed
Install
Boot into recovery
Make a full backup!
Flash Ultimatum_Bloatware_Remover_vxxx.zip
Clear Cache/Dalvik Cache
Reboot
Download attachment from below, and please report if its working/flashing ASAP Also report bugs and flash errors, thankyou.:highfive:
anyone having luck?
gonna share it in my device specific forum.hope you will find testers there.anyway good job.
Hi all.
First of all sorry if this is the wrong forum - but I'm unsure if its app relate, ROM or device.
I have a Uk S4 (i9505) on the 3 network which is rooted and usually running 4.4.2 TW roms. I noticed this issue last week when trying to freeze an app and its now the same after flashing different ROMs (currently Echoerom 38)
I've always used Titanium for app backup and restore and after flashing a new rom will freeze/delete things I donts use (S Health, Text to speech apks, live wallpaper pickers, etc)
Now I've noticed these apps dont show in Titanium`s list at all - purely user apps both installed and not installed - plus some ROM/kernel specific apps (like Stweaks/CPU spy)
Any `bloatware` apps aren`t listed at all so I cant touch them - they sem to occupy the system/priv-app folder.
Is this a normal thing for 4.4.2 or is there a workaround - other bloatware freeze apps seem ok.
Ive made sure there are no filters in the app view blocking things and reinstalled Titanium from fresh and even tried different Superuser apps to no avail. just to give an idea Titanium shows 251 apps listed but after clearing the cache/dalvik in recovery the system updates 400+ apps !
Any thoughts.
Cheers
Robin
I just recently treated myself to an ex-demo unit of this gloriously impractical tablet for reading digital comics on and successfully used odin to flash the proper stock firmware to get rid of demo mode.
I'm quite tempted by the custom roms available, but I'd like to keep some of the stock samsung apps, especially sketchbook for galaxy, and I'm wondering what everyone's opinion on the easiest or best way to do it is.
Do I need to install titanium backup and backup the apps I want to keep? Can I just extract the .apk files I want from the stock firmware image which I still have?
Thanks
IMO the easiest way is:
Step 1 - stay stock, do an nandroid backup in TWRP.
Step 2 - Install Titanium . . do a full backup and debloat by freezing apps and services to get rid of lag and unwanted apps . . if you end up needing it later, defrost.
Step 3 - Install Xposed Framework, and begin experimenting with custom xposed modules to add additional features.
Step 4 - install other root applications to taste.
thanks, i may ultimately end up doing that, but i would like to try different roms as there are a lot of things about the GUI that i don't like on this tablet, and i'm confident enough that i can always get back to stock using odin.
i went ahead and installed cyanogenmod and reinstalled sketchbook from a .apk i created with es file explorer, seems to have worked fine.
Glad it works, sorry that I misunderstood.
I had sketchbook too, but after flashing cm 12 I tried artflow, never went back.
goenieg said:
I had sketchbook too, but after flashing cm 12 I tried artflow, never went back.
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i'll check artflow out, i wanted to keep sketchbook just because i heard this version was made especially for this tablet and its screen.
I've had some success keeping stock apps
Mr Creosote said:
i'll check artflow out, i wanted to keep sketchbook just because i heard this version was made especially for this tablet and its screen.
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I use ES File Explorer. It has a Root explorer function which allows you to backup apps and their data. After backing up the stock app and data I have been able to transfer the app to other devices including custom roms like slimkat on my i9100. One app I've had success with is Navigon. I haven't tried sketchbook, because my tablet isn't rooted yet, but it might work. The backup directory can be customised, but its default location is on internal sd. This process of backing up leaves you with the APK and a zip file with your data. You can install ES File Explorer on the new device/rom and put the APK and zip file back into the backup directory. Then go to backup in root explorer tab of File Explorer and restore app with data, or just app. This may work.
Yep I used es file explorer in the end, and it worked. There seems to be no end to what es can do, i don't know why it doesn't appear on every list of essential/most useful droid apps. Just figured out a couple of days ago that you can use it to stream music wirelessly from a shared folder on your network. I've installed if as a system app on my phone with titanium backup and removed the stock file explorer.
Hi guys, I'd like to debloat the latest 5.1 Lollipop Rom for my XT1032 but I don't know how, I tried to run it normally but it takes too much RAM and my phone has become too slow...
I'm running an older version now but it's no longer supported and I'm afraid of all the new threats, I don't want to switch to Marshmallow because I'm looking for something to "install and never touch it again" and that version is still too frequently updated.
Thanks for your time.
Hey I always use titanium backup to remove stock apps to clear space. Also check out minimal os it's a nice lite lollipop rom
d3adbroke said:
Hey I always use titanium backup to remove stock apps to clear space. Also check out minimal os it's a nice lite lollipop rom
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Is there a list of all the apps and processes that are safe to remove? Can I do it already in the zip rom with some commands? Thanks
There show be one if you Google it
UncleStevy said:
Is there a list of all the apps and processes that are safe to remove? Can I do it already in the zip rom with some commands? Thanks
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This is not exactly stock but Omni - I always use it as a guide on what to debloat my omnirom. You could still use this as a guide. Use System App Remover to remove the unwanted apps.
Credit the app-to-be-removed photo to @ice_ice in his thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/sam...mplete-optimization-guide-omni-rom-4-t3027575 )
the thread by lost101 on debloated stock ROMs did have a list of apps that could be safely removed without impacting any functionality, though i cant seem to find the list in that thread; http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/development/rom-stock-motorola-lollipop-rom-t3017510
the services that you can get rid of are found in the following post in the same thread; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63024406&postcount=2501
So here are my limitations.
I have a Samsung S5 but it's the Straight Talk branded version, the SM-903VL. The issue with this S5 is the bootloader is locked so to root the phone you need to downgrade to 4.4 test firmware, root the test firmware then take the cache.img and system.img from another S5 rom, the G900V's stock rom, then move that over and replace the test firmware's cache.img and system.img to get a functional and rootable and full featured operating system on the SM-903VL.
You can read more about it here if it helps you understand better what I'm talking about.
Well, once the G900V's stock rom is on the SM-903VL and it's rooted, you can install Safestrap and then run quite a few different roms through Safestrap!
What I'm wanting to do is take the applications from the extremely debloated stock rom installed on the 1st rom slot and move them to the original rom and not even have to use Safestrap.
So I want to take all the applications on ROM 2, which is slimmed down and extremely lean, and move them to ROM 1 while not just moving the apps from ROM 2, but discarding all the apps originally on ROM 1.
What would be an effective way to do that? I might just try to do it by hand one app at a time through Titanium Backup but there has to be a better way?
So I answered my own question. In case anyone looks up the phone model I have via Google search, they'll maybe find this thread and it'll inspire them to do a similar endeavor.
I used Titanium Backup Pro to back up all user apps, system apps and data while inside ROM 2.
I then moved that all to an external SD card.
Then I went through the process of setting up the phone by putting the phone back into it's stock form with the G900V stock rom. Those directions on how to do that are in the hyperlinked thread above.
Once the G900V ROM was rooted on the Straight Talk SM-903VL Samsung S5 as directed above in the aforementioned thread, I then used Titanium Backup Pro to ''restore'' the system apps, user apps and data onto the Stock G900V rom.
Then, with all the apps from the extremely debloated rom installed now onto the phone, I proceed to adjust the filters to only show apps not backed up. That allowed me to see ALL the apps I needed to remove while keeping all the apps I needed to have a functional rom.
I then used Titanium Backup Pro to uninstall everything that wasn't backed up. From there I had an extremely debloated stock ROM that someone else had created for the G900V (that was impossible to flash since the SM-903VL's bootloader is locked down tight)