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is there anything out there that will keep track

is there anything out there that will keep track of the free apps on my phone. I know the maket has all the paid apps stored. BUt the free apps seem to be "remember what you had and go find it again" Am I wrong? I've got a lot of very occasional use or background stuff, and I would hate to esort to pen and paper to write it all down.

The market stores both. I wiped my phone last night and when I rebooted all the apps I had downloaded previously reinstalled themselves, both paid and free.
I cant speak though if you uninstalled an app and then wanted to reinstall it, if it will stay forever in your market.

install appbrain and sync it.

I had this same problem a while. I had to tell it to sync to gmail (or Google, however It's worded) and if auto sync is turned off you have to manually tell it to sync. If i decline the backup to Google my market remembers paid apps, if i accept it and sync it at least one time, they are all in the market.
Rooted Thunderbolt on BAMF Sense 3.0 RC 4 with MR2 radio and latest dreamKernel.

Silvus said:
is there anything out there that will keep track of the free apps on my phone. I know the maket has all the paid apps stored. BUt the free apps seem to be "remember what you had and go find it again" Am I wrong? I've got a lot of very occasional use or background stuff, and I would hate to esort to pen and paper to write it all down.
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go to market.android.com in your browser
sign in with the account you use to make purchases on your phone.
top right, click 'my market account'
everything you ever downloaded is there. you can reinstall by opening the app and it will open up on your phone. hope this helps.

[Reference] List of things that are safe to freeze

I thought it would be nice now that we have root to start on a list of things that are safe and not safe to freeze. For my examples below I used Bloat Freezer Free, but titanium backup should work just as well. Please post below if you have successfully frozen something or found something that caused issues. Also please include what happened if you found one that didn't work. I'll try to keep the list updated.
Disclaimer: Be really careful, you can brick your phone this way. I thought I had when I froze the two I have below as I couldn't do anything but click force close over and over. Luckily I found I had 1/10th of a second after each force close to interact with the screen and so I was able to defrost them.
Disclaimer 2: Obviously freezing CarDock for example will make the car dock not work.
Items marked with a * must have the corresponding service stopped first. (Settings -> Applications -> Running Services)
Update 1: Added some more I found and some from JRW, thanks for the list!
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Safe:
Books
CarDock
com.motorola.android.syncml.service
Contacts Sync
Contacts Data*
DRM Protected Content Storage
EFEM
Email Authenticator
Email Engine
FixedEmail Authenticator
Flickr Authenticator
Help Center
Home screen tips
Homescreen - if you use a 3rd party launcher
InPocket
Kpi Logger Service
LastFM Authenticator
LinkedIn Authenticator
Messaging
MOTOBLUR Indexing Service
Motorola Dock Service
Motorola Storage Monitor
MS Exchange Service
Myspace Authenticator
News
News & Weather
Orkut Authenticator
Photobucket Authenticator
Picasa Authenticator
Qik Lite
Quick Tutorial
QuickSMS
Rich Clipboard
SIM Contacts
SIM Toolkit
Skyrock Authenticator
Social Messaging
Social Messaging Service
Social Networking
Social Sharing
Social Status
Sticky note
Suggestions
Suggestions Core RuleChecker Services
Suggestions Poll Scheduler Service
Swype
Talk
Toggle Widgets
TTS Service
Twitter Authenticator
Universal Inbox (both entries)
Video Editor Lite
Work Contacts
Yahoo Contacts
Yahoo! Mail Authenticator
Unsafe:
System Portal - loop of force close
Webtop - loop of force close

Thank you, that is very helpful to know.

Some that I have frozen with bloat freezer, as states earlier if you use the app don't freeze it and expect it to work. Also some of the ones I have frozen I am using another app to replace it. If it is a system app and is running make sure you shut it down before freezing or you WILL ha e to power the phone down because it will cause a force close!!
Books
DLNA
DLNA system service
fixed email authenticator
Flicker Authenticator
global unplug
help center
home screen tips
inpocket
messaging
MySpace Authenticator
News
news and weather
orkut authenticator
Photobucket authenticator
Picasa authenticator
Qik lite
quick tutorial
quick SMS
rich clipboard
SMS contacts
skyrocket authenticator
All of the social apps
sticky note
suggestions
swype
talk
Toggle Widgets
tts service
twitter authenticator
Video editor lite
weather

do we know which apps/services are related to the social networking app only?

My contacts stop working after I freeze Yahoo! Mail Authenticator. Contacts open, but it FCs when I click on a contact. I think this happened on the original Atrix, too.

Youre correct loderjm, you can not freeze anything with yahoo in it it ties into several other applications and will cause some force closes

Strange. all my yahoo stuff is frozen and I haven't had any problems whatsoever...

Koriflame do you use Google as your primary backup? I know in the OG ATRIX we ran into problems freezing anything with yahoo in it and I've tried as well on my A2 and ran into problems with contacts and text messaging when I froze yahoo. I was thinking since this phone had less blur then the OG ATRIX I'd be fine but I was wrong.

I don't recommend freezing Email Engine. After I froze it I noticed that every time I'd get a text, the texting app would crash and no notification of a text would be made. I wouldn't find out I got a text unless I happened to open my inbox and suddenly the text would show up. I unfroze it and the problem went away.

loderjm said:
My contacts stop working after I freeze Yahoo! Mail Authenticator. Contacts open, but it FCs when I click on a contact. I think this happened on the original Atrix, too.
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Corporate sync authenticator does this for me, no other authenticators do though. Make sure you don't have that frozen.
EDIT: I can confirm that freezing Yahoo Authenticator gives me the Contcats FC as well.

koriflame said:
Strange. all my yahoo stuff is frozen and I haven't had any problems whatsoever...
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Same here, no issues. Although I use Go! Contacts, I just pulled up the stock app, and it works fine as well.

With Yahoo contacts / authenticator frozen
I can open contacts but can't look at the details ^_^ it FC when i open A contact.

Atrixed2 said:
With Yahoo contacts / authenticator frozen
I can open contacts but can't look at the details ^_^ it FC when i open A contact.
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Most of the time freezing the Yahoo stuff will cause some force closes. Just unfreeze them and it should be back to normal. If not cycle the power and it should be then.

JRW 28 said:
Most of the time freezing the Yahoo stuff will cause some force closes. Just unfreeze them and it should be back to normal. If not cycle the power and it should be then.
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Its unfrozen I just want to add my name on the people that has FC upon freezing yahoo stuff hehehe

warning : don't freeze the "Homescreen" even if you use another launcher in new (android 2.3.6) firmware. I'm using ADW Launcher EX but when I try to freeze the "Homescreen" then it keeps FC... luckily I can roll it back.

Has anyone frozen Music Store,AT&T address book and Social location?
Thanks.

shinydesert said:
Has anyone frozen Music Store,AT&T address book and Social location?
Thanks.
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Yes, yes, and yes!

shinydesert said:
Has anyone frozen Music Store,AT&T address book and Social location?
Thanks.
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Freezing My Music 2.3.6 gets rid of the Music Store... and I froze all 7 of my stock "Social" apps.

Is it safe to uninstall ATT Address book and social location?
If i uninstall system apps,will it restore when i install deodex 2.3.6 or custom rom?
Thanks in advance
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kojitabe said:
Is it safe to uninstall ATT Address book and social location?
If i uninstall system apps,will it restore when i install deodex 2.3.6 or custom rom?
Thanks in advance
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Yes, the stock system apps are included in the custom roms (except the ones that can't be deodexed).. just make sure you wipe data in cwm before installing a new rom
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Which apps is it safe to remove from Sense?

Continued from the "AOSP vs. SENSE" thread, I wondered what apps you consider it safe to remove from a Sense custom ROM?
As I mentioned there, I don't want to use Stocks, Teeter's rubbish, Polaris has better alternatives, and I am not a Facebook user. Do any of you make a habit of removing stock apps from Sense, and what's the best way to go about it? I'm on a brand new install of Fallout.
Thanks!

outsidetown said:
Continued from the "AOSP vs. SENSE" thread, I wondered what apps you consider it safe to remove from a Sense custom ROM?
As I mentioned there, I don't want to use Stocks, Teeter's rubbish, Polaris has better alternatives, and I am not a Facebook user. Do any of you make a habit of removing stock apps from Sense, and what's the best way to go about it? I'm on a brand new install of Fallout.
Thanks!
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Stocks, Teeter, Facebook ... all are safe to remove
you can use Titamium backup to remove these apps
(root required)

vndnguyen said:
Stocks, Teeter, Facebook ... all are safe to remove
you can use Titamium backup to remove these apps
(root required)
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I deleted Facebook, Twitter for HTC (I use the real one!), Friendstream, Stocks, Teeter, HTC Hub, SIM Toolkit, Picasa, Skydrive, Google Books + Movies, Android Notes, and the Beats notification apk.
Yeah, went a bit mad... So good now though, no problems and it does feel much faster.

[Q] Safe to remove Email & Internet apps?

Is it safe to uninstall the default Email and Internet apps with Titanium Backup? I have suitable replacements for both - Chrome and Gmail, and all those two are doing is taking up space.
I am aware that some apps should not be removed, I wanted to double check if these two are on that list before I remove them.
Any thoughts?

I freeze them, I haven't noticed any problems.
You can Google the apps that are safe to freeze. Some people get extreme while others just trim down. If you notice any side effects, just defrost them.
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I just uninstalled both and rebooted, no errors; everything works perfectly fine. I would back them up just in case, though.

Thanks for the tips, I backed them up and uninstalled. So far so good!

[Q] Deactivate Google apps

Is there any negative aspects in terms of functionality if you deactivate apps like Hangouts, Movies, Wallet etc?
Does this affect the battery in any negative way? Does this create any weird wakelocks?
What are the pros in deactivating certain pre-installed apps and do they make a significant difference?

porman said:
Is there any negative aspects in terms of functionality if you deactivate apps like Hangouts, Movies, Wallet etc?
Does this affect the battery in any negative way? Does this create any weird wakelocks?
What are the pros in deactivating certain pre-installed apps and do they make a significant difference?
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Do not deactivate Fused Location and Google App.

No, I was more thinking of Google apps such as Movies, Books, Hangouts etc.

porman said:
No, I was more thinking of Google apps such as Movies, Books, Hangouts etc.
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I disable these apps:
Email
Exchange Service
Fit
Google Play Books
Google Play Games
Google Play Movis & TV
Google Music
Google Play Newsstand
News & Weather
Sheets
Slides
Wallet
I haven't noticed any negative functionality.

porman said:
No, I was more thinking of Google apps such as Movies, Books, Hangouts etc.
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jss2 said:
I disable these apps:
Email
Exchange Service
Fit
Google Play Books
Google Play Games
Google Play Movis & TV
Google Music
Google Play Newsstand
News & Weather
Sheets
Slides
Wallet
I haven't noticed any negative functionality.
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Actually, if you are rooted, you can delete those apps without any side effects. As I allready mention: Do not delete Fused Location (phone won't boot anymore if you delete it), Google Play Services, Google app (if you use GNL, otherwise you can, Google+ (it will break integrated Photo app, if you do), Google Calendar (no substitute app can sync with Google, if you delete it).
Without any consequnce (of course if you don't need them) you can delete: BasicDreams, Calculator, Chrome, CloudPrint, Drive, FaceLock, Gmail, Google Play, GoogleCamera, Keep, LatinImeGoogle, Maps, NewsWeather, Street, Fit, Magazines, Music, PlayGames, Movies, YouTube, Earth, Hangouts, Books, SoundSearch, Wallet, Sheets, Slides, can't remember name of Word viewer, SimTool and some other services, but for now it's better for you to don't know which ones.
Yeah. Also Google gave as some bloatware. :laugh:

Yeah, I'm not rooted, never thought it was needed on the Nexus since stock is flying anyway and I don't use apps that require root and I don't flash custom roms. That was something I did and still do on my old SGS, so on that I used to delete everything that I didn't need.
But I wasn't sure how it works on a non-rooted phone, maybe deactivating a certain app, breaks something else.
Anyway, thanks for the replies.

porman said:
Yeah, I'm not rooted, never thought it was needed on the Nexus since stock is flying anyway and I don't use apps that require root and I don't flash custom roms. That was something I did and still do on my old SGS, so on that I used to delete everything that I didn't need.
But I wasn't sure how it works on a non-rooted phone, maybe deactivating a certain app, breaks something else.
Anyway, thanks for the replies.
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Read and understand my post above: deleting or disabling - same effect on performance.

I did understand.

Google play services is vital to the phone. Nothing will work with out it. I've taken films books etc out

When you say you get rid of various unneeded Google Apps do you guys mean uninstall them or use titanium backup to freeze them?
(I'm rooted)

In my case (not rooted), just deactivating them in the app manager, but I guess the question is open to other ways as well.

porman said:
Is there any negative aspects in terms of functionality if you deactivate apps like Hangouts, Movies, Wallet etc?
Does this affect the battery in any negative way? Does this create any weird wakelocks?
What are the pros in deactivating certain pre-installed apps and do they make a significant difference?
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I took all those out. No problems. Don't touch webview or other system related products
Sent from my Nexus 5