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!
Code:
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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Whenever I am on wifi most websites don't load on both my browsers. It is weird, it will connect to gmail.com but not google.com. My apps that need internet connectivity also sometimes work. For example, the xda devolpers app and my yahoo fantasy basketball app don't work but my google drive works. I recently downloaded a "my data manager" app to keep track of my data usage. Does anybody have any ideas?
EDIT: I'm running Paranoid Android's Jellybean rom.
Hey everyone,
I'm having an issue with apps not giving me the ability to choose what app I want to use when I click share. If I try to share a webpage in chrome it goes directly to Hangouts, it doesn't let me choose gmail or twitter, etc. Same in Feedly and other apps.
Does anyone else have this issue? It is very annoying and I can't figure out a fix.
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Same problem here.
I noticed it after installing chrome beta, but it could have been a coincidence.
I tried clearing the defaults and the settings for the Hangouts app, no luck...
Disabling the app from the settings restores the usual list of apps, but I do need hangouts!
Samsung S4, Verizon, Android 4.2.2, JDq39.GoogleEdition.I545VRUAMDK
On Wifi, everything works as expected. The problem is when I'm connected to a mobile network.
Problem: I'm only able to access *google.com* sites!
When I try anything else (www.xda-developers.com, www.reddit.com, www.theoatmeal.com, etc) I get a "This webpage is not available" message from Chrome or "Web Page Not Available" from Dolphin.
I cannot access Google Voice. I cannot access Google Play.
What is working:
- Google search results show up, but when I click on the web pages, they don't load
- Google Apps (gmail, calendar, etc work fine)
- Google's cached pages
- I can make and receive phone calls
I've tried rebooting, and installing a new browser (Dolphin) in case of a settings issue.
Any solutions? Thanks!
try a new search engine, duckduckgo?
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try a new search engine, duckduckgo?
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Tried that. The problem isn't loading search results (*google.com works fine). The problem is loading webpages from the search results and even when typed manually in the address bar.
In addition to *google.com, *android.com and *youtube.com pages also load properly. Youtube app works. Google Maps works. Gmail app works. Google Play and Google+ apps do not. Uber, Twitter and my bank apps do not.
When I load those that don't work, messages say there's a data connection issue. But, that's not the case, as some of the Google apps seem to function.
I have restarted the phone.
Do you have the correct APNs installed in your phone?
Running Nougat beta on Sprint.
Whenever I open a weblink within an app (such as reddit, Google Search/Now, Gmail) the link opens within the app, but as soon as it's done loading my phone switches to Chrome -- but does NOT open the link in Chrome.
To see the page I have to switch back to the original app.
This is driving me nuts.
Is there a fix for this? I tried clearing Chrome defaults, disabling/re-enabling Chrome, uninstalling Chrome updates. No dice.