Hey everyone,
So, I've just rooted my Xperia Z3. I'd rather not unlock my bootloader to lose low light camera functionality, but I'm curious what y'all have done with your Z3 after rooting but have stuck with stock ROM?
One thing I've done is replace the hosts file to reduce/remove ads from my apps. This has worked well previously so I figured it would work well now.
Any suggestions?
Debloat, use system app manager to push updates to system...backup before you start to experiment
nedooo said:
Debloat, use system app manager to push updates to system...backup before you start to experiment
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@nedooo,
If you don't mind, can you provide a list of things you've removed from your Z3?
Also, with the system app manager, how do you use that to push updates?
Yes, backups are always great.
johnathanamber said:
@nedooo,
If you don't mind, can you provide a list of things you've removed from your Z3?
Also, with the system app manager, how do you use that to push updates?
Yes, backups are always great.
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I'll try
When you open system app manager and tap any app shown (all apps - installed "white letters", phone system apps "red letters" and "greyed" - updates that can be integrated in system) on top right corner there is big button - "Manage", tap it and select integrate update to system...only one app you must avoid "Android System Webview" do not touch only that app...all rest you can integrate etc...
Well I removed bunch of stuff...Google Now, Maps, Keep, Drive..File Commander...all live wallpapers but Sony one...Small apps...Sony longue...Office...Chinese and Japanese keyboard...
Roughly that's it, but adapt it to your liking...
nedooo,
Are you referring to the Settings > Apps screen? If so, I don't see that option on any apps.
What I uninstalled using titanium backup without facing issues:
Code:
Anonymous Data 1.0 (com.sonymobile.anondata)
Anonymous Usage Stats 1.0 (com.sonyericsson.idd.agent)
ANT HAL Service 4.0.0 (com.dsi.ant.server)
AR effect 3.3.23 (com.sonymobile.androidapp.cameraaddon.areffect)
AR fun 2.1.11 (com.sonymobile.androidapp.cameraaddon.arfun)
Backup & restore 1.0.A.1.6 (com.sonymobile.synchub)
Backup over MTP 1.2 (com.sonyericsson.mtp.extension.backuprestore)
Backup-Restore 1.0 (com.sonyericsson.backuprestore)
Black Hole 1.0 (com.android.galaxy4)
Bubbles 1.0 (com.android.noisefield)
Chrome 39.0.2171.93 (com.android.chrome)
com.sony.snei.np.android.account (com.sony.snei.np.android.account)
com.sonyericsson.android.omacp (com.sonyericsson.android.omacp)
com.sonyericsson.mtp.extension.update (com.sonyericsson.mtp.extension.update)
com.sonyericsson.music.googlelyricsplugin (com.sonyericsson.music.googlelyricsplugin)
com.sonymobile.backgrounddefocus (com.sonymobile.backgrounddefocus)
Configuration Agent 1.0.1 (com.sonymobile.deviceconfigtool)
Creative effect 1.0 (com.sonyericsson.android.addoncamera.artfilter)
Docs 1.3.492.11.35 (com.google.android.apps.docs.editors.docs)
Download music info 3.3.A.0.7 (com.sonyericsson.metadatacleanup)
Drive 2.1.495.05.35 (com.google.android.apps.docs)
DUALSHOCK™ series 1.0 (com.sonymobile.dualshockmanager)
DUALSHOCK™3 wireless controller 1.0 (com.sony.nfx.service.WirelessControllerManagerService)
Email 8.0 (com.android.email)
Enchanted forest 1.6.A.0.15 (com.sonyericsson.androidapp.everchwallpaper)
Enterprise Service 1.0 (com.sonymobile.enterprise.service)
Exchange Services 6.1 (com.android.exchange)
Face in
picture 1.0 (com.sonymobile.android.addoncamera.dual)
File Commander 3.1.13142 (com.mobisystems.fileman)
Google App 4.1.24.1672412.arm (com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox)
Google Play Games 2.2.05 (1620489-008) (com.google.android.play.games)
Google Play Movies & TV 3.6.14 (com.google.android.videos)
Google Play Music 5.7.1788Q.1634597 (com.google.android.music)
Google Play Newsstand 3.3.1 (com.google.android.apps.magazines)
Google Text-to-speech engine 3.4.6.1819666.arm (com.google.android.tts)
Google+ 4.8.0.81189390 (com.google.android.apps.plus)
Info-eye™ 1.8.08 (com.sonymobile.androidapp.cameraaddon.infoeye)
InitialBootSetup 1.0 (com.sonyericsson.initialbootsetup)
Keep 3.0.03 (com.google.android.keep)
Lifelog 2.4.P.1.4 (com.sonymobile.lifelog)
Movie Creator 2.3.A.0.7 (com.sonymobile.moviecreator.rmm)
my*Xperia 0.0.A.0.77 (com.sonymobile.mx.android)
News & Weather 2.2 (1623380) (com.google.android.apps.genie.geniewidget)
Photo Analyzer Service 5.7.A.0.3 (com.sonymobile.photoanalyzer)
Photo editor 23.1.A.0.2 (com.sonymobile.china.photoeditor)
Portrait retouch 23.1.A.0.2 (com.sonymobile.android.addoncamera.selfportrait)
Simple Home 1.2.1.A.0.7 (com.sonymobile.simplehome)
Sketch 6.0.A.1.1 (com.sonymobile.sketch)
Social live 1.0.24 (com.bambuser.sociallive)
SocialEngine 5.0.A.0.1 (com.sonyericsson.socialengine)
Software update 3.0.0.A.0.13 (com.sonyericsson.updatecenter)
Support 1.1.29 (com.sonymobile.helpapp7)
Timeshift burst 1.2.0.0 (com.sonymobile.android.addoncamera.timeshift)
Video Unlimited 14.0.A.0.7 (com.sony.snei.vu)
What's New 2.0.A.0.11 (com.sonymobile.entrance)
Wikipedia extension 5.0.A.0.8 (com.sonyericsson.music.wikipediaplugin)
Xperia Calendar Sync 5.0.A.0.1 (com.sonyericsson.androidapp.fbcalendarsync)
Xperia Social Engine Photos 5.0.A.0.1 (com.sonyericsson.socialengine.plugins.facebook)
Xperia Social Engine Photos 5.0.A.0.1 (com.sonyericsson.socialengine.plugins.picasa)
Xperia™ Chinese keyboard 23.2.A.0.1 (com.sonyericsson.textinput.chinese)
Xperia™ Japanese keyboard 3.0.A.0.6 (com.sonymobile.pobox)
Xperia™ Lounge 2.9.10 (com.sonyericsson.xhs)
Xperia™ Lounge Pass 1.0.1 (com.sonymobile.xperialounge.services)
Xperia™ Web Runtime 1.3.0.1.17 (com.sonymobile.webview)
Xperia™ with Facebook 7.0.A.0.3 (com.sonyericsson.facebook.proxylogin)
Xperia™ with Twitter 2.0.A.0.1 (com.sonymobile.twitter.account)
YouTube extension 5.0.A.0.8 (com.sonyericsson.music.youtubeplugin)
YouTube karaoke extension 5.0.A.0.8 (com.sonyericsson.music.youtubekaraokeplugin)
Some of my apps that require root:
Adaway - blocks ads
Greenify - puts apps to sleep when they're not needed.
Better battery stats - helps identifying energy hungry apps.
Afwall+ - Firewall
Recently - makes the recent panel useful again.
I use Tasker with the secure settings plug in (root) to manage brightness, sound, lockscreen security,... And then you have the seemingly endless world of xposed modules, e. g. Xprivacy, true silent mode, app settings, unicon, notify clean, 20mp superior auto, Xperia xposed,...
If you want to, you can stop using your phone and just mod it all day long
johnathanamber said:
nedooo,
Are you referring to the Settings > Apps screen? If so, I don't see that option on any apps.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flaki.systemappmanager&hl=en
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so i rooted my tb. i want to keep it as close to stock as possible, but want most junk off too. so ive done this a few tiems and removed things like facebook twitter quickoffice and a lot of widgets. but each time i do, my wifi wont work. if i click it on it turns itself on in a few seconds and tells me error, cannot enable wifi, and things like that.
anyone know what specific file im deleting and shouldnt be? or are they all tied and signed together so no matter what i touch in root explorer im going to mess up wifi? or does anyone have a list of the files in /system/app that can be deleted? i want my free space to be 500mb or more
well more bad news for me. i switched back to my bloated rom this time and didnt remove a single thing, an dim still getting the wifi error 'unable to scan for networks' when i toggle it on. then under wifi it just says error.
i saw a few other phones experience this and by deleting the file bcn_supp they solve this, but i just searched for the file and could not find one on my phone. i guess doing a full factory reset will make me lose root? ugh, its my only option at this point. i flashed that virusrom and wifi works under that, but its not what i want to keep running on my phone
You'll probably need to flash the custom ruu again
I've uninstalled these without problems (except an occasional com.htc.bgp has stopped unexpectedly) some of these I removed then reinstalled from the market
adobe reader
adobe flash (installflash)
amazon kindle
backup assistant
blockbuster
bitbop
cityid
gmail
golf
htm mail and widgets
htc mobile im
maps
quicklookup
rhapsody
rockband
search anywhere and widget
slacker radio
stock app and widget
street view
talk
tune wiki
twitter and widget
weather apps widgets
youtube
vcast
voice search
visual voice mail
vz vcast market
vz navigator
You can freeze them with Titanium Backup instead of removing them. The apps will still be installed (taking up space) but they won't be allowed to run (no CPU or RAM use) and it's safer than uninstalling. That's what I did. I'll probably get CM7 so I can just wait for that; no bloatware there.
or in root explorer you can rename them to xxxx.apk.bak and they'll be still on the phone, but gone and you get a chance to find out if removing it causes force closes or not..if it doesnt, then you can delete it for real.
i use titanium to back up, but i dont want to freeze them. i remove them with root and put them on my sd for storage. i want the free system space. i restored my bloated back up, did a factory reset and voila. it worked. so i deleted all my widgets and bloat. still works. problem solved. no more com.htc.bgp errors either.
on to the next problem..
Some of the names might be off
Blockbuster_htc.apk - Blockbuster
AdobeReadker.apk - Adobe Reader
CityID.apk - CityID
com.htc.FriendStreamWidget.apk/odex - FriendStream Widget
com.htc.StockWidget.apl/odex - Stock Widget
com.htc.WeatherWidget.apk/odex - Weather Widget
Flashlight.apk/odex - Flashlight
FriendStream.apk/odex - FriendStream
HtcAutoRotateWidget.apk/odex - Auto Rotate Widget
htcbookmarkwidget.apk/odex - Bookmark Widget
htcmailwidgets.apk/odex - Htc Mail Widget
HtcMIM.apk/odex - Htc Mobile IM
HtcMimWidget.apk/odex - Htc Mobile IM Widget
HtcPowerStripWidget.apk/odex - Htc Power Strip Widget
HtcProfileWidget.apk/odex - Htc Profile Widget
HtcRingtoneWidget.apk/odex - Htc Ringtone Widget
HtcScreenBrightnessWidget.apk/odex - Htc Screen Brightness Widget
HtcSetupWizard.apk/odex - Setup Wizard
HtcTipWidget.apk/odex - Tip Widget
install_flash_player.apk - Flash Player
Kindle-OEM-1.1.1.90750089-20100927.apk - Kindle
NewBayVault_4.2.96.VZMarket.apk - V CAST MEDIA
QuickLookup.apk/odex - Quick Lookup
Quickoffice.apk/odex - Quick Office
SlackerRadio.apk/odex - Slacker Radio
TuneWiki.apk - Tune Wiki
VCast.apk - V CAST Apps
VzNav.apk - Vz Navigation
VZW_BitBop.apk - BitBop
VZW_Golf.apk - Golf
VZW_Rhapsody.apk - Rhapsody
VZW_RockbandStub.apk - Rockband
Stock.apk/odex - Stocks
HtcGreader.apk/odex - News
HtcGreaderWidget.apk/odex - News Widget
HtcClockWidget.apk/odex - Htc Clock
HtcDataStripWidget.apk/odex - Data Strip Widget
htcsettingwidgets.apk/odex - Htc Setting Widgets
htcmsgwidgets.apk/odex - Htc Message Widgets
Youtube.apk - Youtube
Master™ said:
Some of the names might be off
Blockbuster_htc.apk - Blockbuster
AdobeReadker.apk - Adobe Reader
CityID.apk - CityID
com.htc.FriendStreamWidget.apk/odex - FriendStream Widget
com.htc.StockWidget.apl/odex - Stock Widget
com.htc.WeatherWidget.apk/odex - Weather Widget
Flashlight.apk/odex - Flashlight
FriendStream.apk/odex - FriendStream
HtcAutoRotateWidget.apk/odex - Auto Rotate Widget
htcbookmarkwidget.apk/odex - Bookmark Widget
htcmailwidgets.apk/odex - Htc Mail Widget
HtcMIM.apk/odex - Htc Mobile IM
HtcMimWidget.apk/odex - Htc Mobile IM Widget
HtcPowerStripWidget.apk/odex - Htc Power Strip Widget
HtcProfileWidget.apk/odex - Htc Profile Widget
HtcRingtoneWidget.apk/odex - Htc Ringtone Widget
HtcScreenBrightnessWidget.apk/odex - Htc Screen Brightness Widget
HtcSetupWizard.apk/odex - Setup Wizard
HtcTipWidget.apk/odex - Tip Widget
install_flash_player.apk - Flash Player
Kindle-OEM-1.1.1.90750089-20100927.apk - Kindle
NewBayVault_4.2.96.VZMarket.apk - V CAST MEDIA
QuickLookup.apk/odex - Quick Lookup
Quickoffice.apk/odex - Quick Office
SlackerRadio.apk/odex - Slacker Radio
TuneWiki.apk - Tune Wiki
VCast.apk - V CAST Apps
VzNav.apk - Vz Navigation
VZW_BitBop.apk - BitBop
VZW_Golf.apk - Golf
VZW_Rhapsody.apk - Rhapsody
VZW_RockbandStub.apk - Rockband
Stock.apk/odex - Stocks
HtcGreader.apk/odex - News
HtcGreaderWidget.apk/odex - News Widget
HtcClockWidget.apk/odex - Htc Clock
HtcDataStripWidget.apk/odex - Data Strip Widget
htcsettingwidgets.apk/odex - Htc Setting Widgets
htcmsgwidgets.apk/odex - Htc Message Widgets
Youtube.apk - Youtube
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Now that's a list! Thanks
smoothjeff said:
You'll probably need to flash the custom ruu again
I've uninstalled these without problems (except an occasional com.htc.bgp has stopped unexpectedly) some of these I removed then reinstalled from the market
adobe reader
adobe flash (installflash)
amazon kindle
backup assistant
blockbuster
bitbop
cityid
gmail
golf
htm mail and widgets
htc mobile im
maps
quicklookup
rhapsody
rockband
search anywhere and widget
slacker radio
stock app and widget
street view
talk
tune wiki
twitter and widget
weather apps widgets
youtube
vcast
voice search
visual voice mail
vz vcast market
vz navigator
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How much memory do you have running, now? Any effect on the battery life after the root and removal of these items?
Doitall76
doitall76 said:
How much memory do you have running, now? Any effect on the battery life after the root and removal of these items?
Doitall76
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My battery had definitely got better. I removed a few more things based on these lists and now I have 520mb free. Plus a clutterless app drawer
This is a good topic, very informative.
Anyone know the directory where all the system APKs are stored?
I tried /system/app ? I don't see them?
woops, gotta mount first. Answered my own question. Sorry
zeavott said:
This is a good topic, very informative.
Anyone know the directory where all the system APKs are stored?
I tried /system/app ? I don't see them?
woops, gotta mount first. Answered my own question. Sorry
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I am new to this can you tell me how you do what you stated above, I dont see them and I dont know how to mount them either
HarlyFan said:
I am new to this can you tell me how you do what you stated above, I dont see them and I dont know how to mount them either
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After you've rooted, just use root explorer, navigate to the system/apps folder, in the top right you'll see "rw" click that so it reads "ro"
then you can rename the apk's to .bak and see which ones will be fine to erase (i put an 'aa' or something in front of the files i rename so they'll all be at the top of the folder for me to delete or move once ive tested the phone to make sure there's no force closes
smoothjeff said:
You'll probably need to flash the custom ruu again
I've uninstalled these without problems (except an occasional com.htc.bgp has stopped unexpectedly) some of these I removed then reinstalled from the market
adobe reader
adobe flash (installflash)
amazon kindle
backup assistant
blockbuster
bitbop
cityid
gmail
golf
htm mail and widgets
htc mobile im
maps
quicklookup
rhapsody
rockband
search anywhere and widget
slacker radio
stock app and widget
street view
talk
tune wiki
twitter and widget
weather apps widgets
youtube
vcast
voice search
visual voice mail
vz vcast market
vz navigator
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Note: I had deleted a lot of stuff.. so far I've found that "WeatherProvider.apk" will cause force closes if deleted, all of the other weather apps and widgets can be deleted (assuming you dont use them in sense)
Hi. Im new. lol But I just rooted yesterday. Was looking for a list of bloat apps I could get rid of and just had an interesting idea. I aplogize if it has already been discussed but...
Has anyone ever thought of replacing wanted orignal apk's with updated versions, such as youtube? And supplanting unwanted ones with other useful app apk's that don't come with the phone, but using the old file names? Would the phone recognize the difference if later unrooted and factory reset?
Thanks for any input.
wow sorry, 1.5 year dead thread ;(
What apps do you freeze/remove after installing new ROM? I thing this could help some users that want to improve performance of their phones, by freezing apps, but don't know what to freeze.
So, to start, here's my list:
Black Hole, Bubbles, Magic Smoke Wallpaper, Music Visualization, Phase Beam, Android Live Wallpapers, Live Wallpaper Picker (all live wallpapers that I don't use...)
Voice Dialer (I'm not native English speaker, so this is pointless...)
Tags
Sound Recorder (I don't record anything....)
NFC Service (Really, how many of you use this? I don't see the point....)
Movie Studio (I don't ever edit videos on my phone (nor computer))
[DESKTOP]Launcher (I use Nova Prime)
Face Unlock (Nice feature to show off your new phone, but not working that well on our NS)
Email and Exchange Services (I don't use Email apk, as I only use Gmail for my mails...)
None of those will improve any performance, to be honest. NFC only works when, well, when it's being used. Live wallpapers don't even show up in the app drawer. If anything, disabling the Google apps you don't use may help, but I only disable them so they don't show up in my app drawer.
My current list:
DRM
News and Weather
Email & Exchange Services
There was an apps list thread on the HTC hero forum way back which I found quite useful. If you use any apps other than the standard one list them with a brief synopsis of what they do.
E.g.
Utorrent - torrent downloads straight to phone
Mx player - media player
Snapchat - instant disposable photo sharing
Root explorer - my fave file explorer
Better battery stats - find out what's draining battery
Greenify - hibernate apps, helps speed and battery
Candy crush saga - great puzzle game
Bike race - race against friends (current fave)
Fast and furious - drag race style
Tetris - a classic throw back
Wallbase - the best in wallpaper selections
Sent from my HTC One XL using xda app-developers app
I've got over 100 apps on my phone but I'll just go through and name my favorites.
Superbeam - Use WiFi direct to send files. Far better than android beam.
ESPN ScoreCenter - Simply the best app for sports notifications.
Weather Channel App - Nice interface that gives you weather for your location or others.
GSam Battery Monitor - Great app for checking what's using your battery and displaying numbers.
Snapchat - It's like MMS... but more fun!
Reddit News - My reddit client of choice.
Nandroid Manager - An elegant way to extract data from nandroid backups.
Titanium Backup - You should know what this is by now.
Notification Lockscreen - Receive notifications on the lockscreen for android 4.2. I prefer it to DashClock.
Nova Launcher - My favorite laucnher, because of it's pure quickness.
Flipboard - A pretty way to get news.
xda premium - Support xda and browse the forums!
Baseball Superstars 2013 - Addicting baseball game.
Battle Cats - A game... hard to explain if you haven't played it.
Greenify - Save battery and free up RAM by hibernating apps.
Google Play Music - Music by Google.
Flixster - Great way to see local movies and a quick glance at their reviews.
AdAway - ADS BEGONE!
Others: Gmail, YouTube, Facebook, Dropbox, Google Maps, Hangouts, Netflix, Translate, G+, and more.
AccuWeather - my choice for weather app
AirDroid - wirelessly connect to your computer
Podkicker - simple but reliable podcast catcher
Rotowire Fantasy News - best source for quick fantasy player news updates
Tunein Radio - streaming radio
Tweetcaster - my favorite twitter client
Google voice - voice mail & more
Waze - because Google Maps hates my phone
X-plore file manager
Zedge - ringtones and wallpapers
Swiftkey 4 - best keyboard ever
Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app
My Go To Apps
These are my go-to apps...
Accuweather (Go to Weather, especially on AOSP roms)
Amazon Kindle (Kindle apps rock though I wish they had more fonts available on Android)
Bacon Reader (Reddit client)
BetterBatteryStats (GSam for Sense, I use BBS to get in-depth info for testing AOSP/AOKP ROMS)
BuildProp Editor (Very useful)
Candy Crush Saga
DashClock (Notification lockscreen sounds awfully tempting though @RollTribe!)
FalconPro (Unfortunately it's days are numbered but I'm going to hang with Falcon for as long as possible.)
feedly (Google Reader replacement)
Firefox (I use Firefox at work, the bookmark sync works and seems more stable than Chrome. I dunno, I dig it.)
Glowfly (Nice MMS notification for lockscreens and popups)
Google Play Music (Just dumped Spotify in favor of All Access)
Nandroid Manager Pro (No more Tibu, this is what you need to restore apps)
No-Frills / Kernel Tuner (No-frills most of the time but KT gives some extra dual core controls)
Nova Launcher PRIME (The best launcher, period)
Pocket (Go-to app for keeping up with articles I can't finish atm)
RunKeeper (Gotta get out and break a sweat, might as well track it #NerdAlert)
Snapseed (Forget Instagram, this is my choice for editing pics)
Swiftkey Flow (So smooth)
Tapatalk (bought XDA premium but the lack of a search feature is a deal breaker...if they added search within a thread let me know!)
Here's what it looks like..
Hex editor: lifesaver for edting whatever I like.
Lucky patcher: signing apks without internet permission and any other permission conceivable. Along with many other features. Like creating a modded apk too your own liking. Taking out little too all verification too google licenses as well.
Apkeditor: too edit app's for testing and changing actual coding combined with lucky patcher.
Droidedit: Sorta obvious
Unrar: the same sorta obvious
Tether to tether lol
Lumberjack: live logcats without computer and system maintenance whatnot
Wizardry: to edit photos in detail.
Sent from my Evita
List of Apps that I use.
Much more information and apps in the Attached File.
Neutron Music Player Neutron Code Limited
Root Explorer (File Manager) Speed Software
Quick App Manager Le Cerisier Bleu
ES File Explorer File Manager EStrongs Inc.
Flash Image GUI joeykrim -> FlashImageGUI.apk
SuperSU Chainfire
AdAway Dominik Schürmann org.adaway
WiFi Tether for Root Users Müller, Lemons, Buxton com.googlecode.android.wifi.tether
[FRAMEWORK ONLY!] Xposed - ROM modding without modifying APKs (2.1.4)(12.05.2013)
AppSettings_0.4.apk
Market Unlocker
eMMC Brickbug Check Vinagre
thedailyl3af said:
Here's what it looks like..
Hex editor: lifesaver for edting whatever I like.
Lucky patcher: signing apks without internet permission and any other permission conceivable. Along with many other features.
Apkeditor: too edit app's for testing and changing actual coding combined with lucky patcher.
Droidedit: Sorta obvious
Unrar: the same sorta obvious
Tether to tether lol
Lumberjack: live logcats without computer and system maintenance whatnot
Wizardry: to edit photos in detail.
Sent from my Evita
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Off topic but what icons are those?
Sent from my One X using xda premium
I thought I'd throw mine up here too
Tunein radio always
N7 player
MX video player
Simple RSS widget for RSS feeds
Dash clock
Es file explorer. Easily the best file manager. Provides md5, sha, root access, lan shares, cloud storage access.
Gameboid
SuperGSNES
Fpse
Six axis
Greenify obviously
Swiftkey
Adw launcher ex
Sent from my One X using xda app-developers app
MrMiami81 said:
Off topic but what icons are those?
Sent from my One X using xda premium
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King icons from venom hub.
Sent from my Evita
I have way too many to list them all but here are some of my favorites:
XDA Premium: no explanation needed.
Titanium Backup Pro: priceless and essential for any flashaholic.
Swype: best android keyboard IMO.
No Frills CPU: my CPU control app of choice.
BetterBatteryStats: my favorite battery analysis app.
Solid Explorer: my favorite file manager.
Zarchiver: a great archive app, it can even open apk files.
Android File Verifier: great app that I use for checking md5 or SHA-1 sums.
Evernote: great for storing and referring back to information.
Greenify: great app for hibernation.
Convertit: a great unit conversion app.
UCCW: awesome app for custom widgets.
Xposed Installer + Modules: awesome and inventive app for customization.
LogcatX: great app for capturing live logcats directly on your phone.
Feedly: my RSS reader of choice.
Google Currents: another news providing service I like.
MX Player: a great media player that supports a lot of video formats.
Poweramp Pro: my favorite music player.
IMDB: great for movie buffs.
Zeebox: great television guide app, much more than just a guide though.
PicSay Pro: a nifty photo manipulation app.
Facebook/Twitter: you know what these are.
Hangouts/Whatsapp: great IM apps.
Mydroid System Info: a simple system info app.
Words/Scramble/Hanging With Friends: great time wasters.
Solitaire World: a nifty solitaire app with many different formats of the game.
Sent from my Evita
Appy Geek (Tech News Reader)
Chip Chain (Fun casino type game)
ES File Explorer (File Manager)
GPlayer (Floating video player)
Greenify (Hibernate Apps=Save Battery)
Ninja SMS (Floating Texts)
Pimp My Rom (Customize your ROM to the Max...be smart though)
Swipe-In Beta (Gesture controls)
Trickster MOD (A lot like Pimp My Rom)
PushBullet (Send files from your computer to your phone in the blink of an eye)
Hide It Pro (Secret folder to hide pics, videos, texts, files, ect. Disguises itself as functional Audio Manager)
News Republic
Imdb
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Hello,
recently I became obsessed with replacing Batter Hungry applications with their low power alternatives which has almost same functions. Every app I try has one full battery cycle. I do not have the values of how many power the apps consumed, you just have to trust me or ignore it. Some of these apps are very simple (I am a simple user, I need phone with awesome battery life and good funcionality).
I am open to alternatives, so write what you are using and think it will be better and I will give it a try
I have Huawei Phone, so I do not need Greenify. EmUI does stopping services by itself.
So here is the list:
Mails : AquaMail(Free/0.99Cents now on sale!) - It does support all email types, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, FastMail, Apple, GMX, AOL and more. It has unified inbox. You can select if you want push notifications on some account or just download messages every X minutes. It is very customizable and more power saving than everything I tried. The interface is kewl too, you can from notification delete /mark as read message etc. Definitely worth a try, now it is on sale ( with free app you can add to the app just one email account). THIS APP SHOULD NOT BE GREENIFIED/KILLED IF YOU WANT PUSH NOTIFICATIONS!
I tried : Gmail, BlueMail
Link to playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kman.AquaMail
Music: ??? Now my favourite is ported app from sony called Music - It has all kind of features I expect from music player while keeping battery hungriness low.
viz. https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2728110
I tried: Google Music, Huawei Player, PiMusic Player, and a lot of another one (15+) I did not wrote it down.. Now I will.
Browser: Lighting browser (Free/Paid 0.99 cents) - This browser is amazing, compared of others its incredible. It needs less than 5 MB of storage and has nice minimalistic UI. It has everything you expect from a browser, adblock, tabs, speed, clean UI without adds and more.. Definitely worth a try and did I mention the battery? <3
Link to Google Play : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=acr.browser.barebones
Tried: UC Browser, chrome, Naked Browser, Opera, Firefox, Doplhin Browser, Puffin
Facebook Messenger : Messenger Lite (Free) - This messenger is a masterpiece, I do not need the circle overlay from FB messenger, and I do not need to video call to my friends.. This messenger has everything you expect from it, you can connect with your friends and write them messages, emoji and be calling them. I can see who is online and all your contacts. Well I do not need integration with SMS app because for SMS messaging there is a stock app. This is a huge memory and battery saver!! I liked the overlay from original fb messenger but now I do not want it, I am just used to used my phone efficiently.
Link to Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.mlite
Launcher: Now is wining Nova Launcher (Free/Paid) - It is highly customizable launcher, it supports dynamic unread badge, has dark design, you can scale icons and basically do everything with it. It is easy on memory and battery compared to another launchers.
Link to Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher
I tried : Arrow launcher, LppLauncher, Flick Launcher, Evie Launcher, Cold Launcher, Apex Launcher, KK launcher, Nougat launcher, DailyDo Launcher and more which I can not remember.
Weather and Widget : Transparent Clock Weather (Free/Paid) - This is a tricky category, I except from weather widget to allow me get to the Clock app ( to setup alarms etc.) by clicking on Time on widget. And this one do, also its battery friendly (depends on fruequency of weather actualizing). It has nice weather and the predictions follows your location.
Link to Google Play : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droid27.transparentclockweather
I tried : Yahoo weather, Yo Weather, Weather Live, Weather, YR Weather, Today weather
Facebook app : Simple for Facebook (Free/Paid) - Well this section depends on how much you using facebook, I am a simple user I just read feed and sometimes post some status or upload pics, if this is what you want then this app is for you. It works as a wrapper on facebook web API. If you courious you need to give it a try. This app is huge memory and battery saver. Also its very small it needs just 5,6MB of your storage
This app will help you to get better battery life on your phone Mainly if you are runnning out of RAM or Storage the replaces for FB App and FB messaging app will save you.
I will be updating this post as I will be testing more apps. Currently I am looking mainly for Music player and Weather widget If you know any awesome APP which is battery friendly just let me know and I will try it
Any working alternative for FB with Messenger and Android 4.0.3 support? Any working alternative for FB with Messenger and Android 4.0.3 support?
Got old tablet with no way to update to higher Android version and most apps aGot old tablet with no way to update to higher Android version and most apps are either KK+ or 5.0+
howpathetic said:
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Sir also add apps on Keyboard, Cleaning, Explorer
I prefer Multiling O Keyboard
in browser Via, and in cleaning SD Maid and in explorer MiXplorer and in Music Musicolet is best.....Have a try sir...
AIO Launcher is not ordinary home screen. It does not have colorful icons, many animation effects and a variety of themes. Instead, AIO Launcher uses a screen space to show you the most important information.
AIO Launcher can display the following information on the screen:
* Weather - current weather and forecast for 10 days;
* System monitor - RAM and NAND usage, percentage of battery power;
* Player - when you turn on the music, playback control buttons appear;
* Control panel - toggles for WiFi/BT/GPS etc;
* Notifications - standard android notifications;
* Frequent apps - frequently used applications buttons;
* Frequent contacts - the list of recent contacts (via plugin);
* Your apps - the icons of the selected applications;
* SMS - recently received SMS (via plugin);
* Dialer - numpad for quick calls;
* Timer - timer start buttons;
* Mail - list of received emails;
* RSS - latest news;
* Twitter - all tweets or a single user tweets;
* Telegram - recent telegram messages;
* Calendar - upcoming events in the calendar;
* Exchange rates - currency exchange rates;
* Map - your current position on the map (paid);
* Audio Recorder - record, play and share audio;
* Calculator - simple calculator;
* Bitcoin - the bitcoin price.
Usage:
* To access the list of all applications, drag from the left edge of the screen;
* To refresh the information on the screen, pull down;
* Hold finger on various elements of the screen to open menu;
* To open settings, hold your finger on the search button, and then click the gear icon;
* Hold the title of the widget to move it around;
* Any widget can be disabled in settings;
* To remove an application, open the application menu, hold your finger on the desired application, and drag it to the recycle bin icon.
Google Play: AIO Launcher
Download: Dropbox
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Anyone used this enough yet care to give a review?
Placing calls and the my apps widget are both not working for me. I can launch my dialer, textra's or contacts but the launcher won't place phone calls. The My Apps widget says drag here, but after doing so is blank. I've tried reinstalling the app and rebooting. I'm on AICP nightlife's with magisk root. Android version 8.0.0 on a Nexus 6P.
Edit: After reviewing screenshots, the theming is not working either. It changes the system information panel but none of the app names have any color behind them not a border. They are just text. The icons are also not showing in the app menu. I shot the $.99 your way before testing and I'm cool with that. The app has a great concept. If you need any logs or other information let me know. I'll attach screenshots when I leave work.
1. Neon mode won't enable.
2. Apps in side menu have no icons when option is enabled which also results in them not being able to be dragged to home screen.
3. occasionally crashes for some reason
Pixel XL 8.1 DP1
For those who are experiencing problems on android 8. Try version 1.4.2.
The app crashes too much and needs many bugs to fixed and also add some more features.
Bugs like
Gmail is not connecting in email.
Always crashes.
Please add one more app drawer beside sidebar you can take idea from TSF launcher.
Its the best app on the planet of earth.
shahid bhai said:
The app crashes too much and needs many bugs to fixed and also add some more features.
Bugs like
Gmail is not connecting in email.
Always crashes.
Please add one more app drawer beside sidebar you can take idea from TSF launcher.
Its the best app on the planet of earth.
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1. Tell me please android version and phone model.
2. Are you using the latest version of the application? 1.4.2 and up?
3. Not connected gmail is not bug. You must enable imap in gmail settings and use google's "application password" (you can generate it there: myaccount.google.com).
j123m said:
1. Tell me please android version and phone model.
2. Are you using the latest version of the application? 1.4.2 and up?
3. Not connected gmail is not bug. You must enable imap in gmail settings and use google's "application password" (you can generate it there: myaccount.google.com).
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Gmail got connected as i updated to aio 1.4.2 from 1.4.0 but why the app crashes so much.
And also allow us to use different icon packs.
Also add one more app drawer please as the main app drawer rather then sidebar.
Also add a search option in sidebar and we can slide from alphabets to search app-this is must.
Add option to add music player on screen like news gmail and all and also if the lyrics with it.
Thank you.
Your app is literally best app please maintain it.
shahid bhai said:
Gmail got connected but why the app crashes so much.
And also allow us to use different icon packs.
Also add one more app drawer please as the main app drawer rather then sidebar.
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Please, let me help you with crashes. What android version? ROM? Phone? Launcher version?
j123m said:
Please, let me help you with crashes. What android version? ROM? Phone? Launcher version?
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Android version: 6.0
Rom: stock rom
Phone: Lyf water 11
Version: 1.4.4(installed now,testing)
Hmmm. I tested it for about two months on Android 6 and Android 7 and on my devices it works stably. The problems were on Android 8, but I fixed them in versions 1.4.3-1.4.4.
Can you take logcat immediately after the crash. If your phone is rooted it can be done with MatLog app (type "aio" in search bar).
Or at least describe in what situations app crashes.
Just came here randomly in a way... love the concept!
shahid bhai said:
Android version: 6.0
Rom: stock rom
Phone: Lyf water 11
Version: 1.4.4(installed now,testing)
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Its not crashing now
Loving the new update!
Updated to 1.4.6. All features are working now. Well done. Glad to support the app. Keep up the good work. I look forward to what's to come on this app.
Using: AIO 1.4.6 on Android 8.0.0 AICP nightlies with magisk root for my Nexus6P
Tapping the Bitcoin price graph should open up coinbase or any other Bitcoin app that we have : )
Also maybe add the ability to change exchanges
I love the design of this launcher but I need to be able to choose weather data providers like Weather Underground, DarkSky or AccuWeather (using API keys) and also use my own RSS news feeds. Is/will that be possible? With that included I would buy the premium version right away. Great works. With a launcher like this the the date feed options becomes very important.
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cdysthe said:
I love the design of this launcher but I need to be able to choose weather data providers like Weather Underground, DarkSky or AccuWeather (using API keys) and also use my own RSS news feeds. Is/will that be possible? With that included I would buy the premium version right away. Great works. With a launcher like this the the date feed options becomes very important.
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You can use your own personal news feed by holding the search button then settings then head down to the news feed section and you will see the option to add a RSS url
Loving it so far! Already bought premium to support. It gives me that old Windows Phone feeling where I can see all my info from a glance. Keep up the great work.
Bought premium ! Well made and well thought !
Suggestions to improve it :
- choose another provider for the weather
- choose another crypto, not only bitcoin