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Whats the next best thing since theres no Custom Roms?

Like what do you guys do? Just get alot of Xposed modules and replace the laucher with a 3rd party one like Nova?

All I did personally was remove as much bloatware as possible, and use Apex instead of Touchwiz. Haven't gotten around to rooting it yet, it's good enough as it is.

ShadowLea said:
All I did personally was remove as much bloatware as possible, and use Apex instead of Touchwiz. Haven't gotten around to rooting it yet, it's good enough as it is.
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Got a list? I heard disabling screensavers wasn't safe for example.

Currently uninstalled all Knox software as well as the Hancom Viewer software (have the full versions only) via Titanium Backup. In addition I froze:
Allshare
ANT
Backup
BlurbCheckout
Bubbles (screen saver)
Business Week
Cisco Webex
Emeeting
ELM Agent
Flipboard
FW Upgrade
Gallery (I use Gallery KK)
KLMS Agent
Magazine Widget
Music
My Magazine
Netflix
NY Times
Pagebuddy Notification Service
Remote Controls
Remote PC
Samsung Push Service
Sidesync (I'm using Mobizen instead now)
Software Update (no point in updates, will break root if I do)
Travel Wallpaper
Weather and briefing (I use 1Weather)
Tablet is solid without this stuff and its helpful to pull things off that would otherwise cache in the background. Taking some of that stuff off frees up space for other apps to cache instead.
Debloat's half the fun. Running Xposed modules helps too.
ActivityFoceNewTask
App Settings
BootManager
Complete Action Plus
CrappaLinks
CustomShare
Disable Clear Defaults Dialogue
Disable Location Consent
MinMinGuard
Secure Samsung Clipboard
Tinted Status Bar
View In Play
Wanam Exposed
Xposed REcent Tasks Ram
Youtube Adaway
Are among the modules that I'm running on my Note Pro.
Root apps that I have include:
Adaway
Chrome UA
GMD Gesture Control
Pen Window Manager
Pie Pro (for pie controls)
Rashr (to switch between recoveries)
Sixaxis Controller (to use a dualshock3 gamepad)
Titanium Backup
Wanam Xposed
Xposed Installer
Out of everything I think I like having pie and gesture controls the most. It really reduces the need to move my hand down to the home and capacitive buttons. Full screen app switching is a breeze with gesture control for example whereby I have set it such that a simple double tap using 4 fingers on the screen acts as an Alt-Tab between apps.

Agreed. Not much else you can do. Although, instead of Apex, I sideloaded the Google Now launcher.
Also, if you plan on using multi-window a lot, try using MW App Manager. It allows you to add many more apps to the multi-window function, which for some reason Samsung severely limits.
Mighty Text or any similar service is great with this tablet, too. Especially if you have a bluetooth keyboard.

larkhillv said:
Agreed. Not much else you can do. Although, instead of Apex, I sideloaded the Google Now launcher.
Also, if you plan on using multi-window a lot, try using MW App Manager. It allows you to add many more apps to the multi-window function, which for some reason Samsung severely limits.
Mighty Text or any similar service is great with this tablet, too. Especially if you have a bluetooth keyboard.
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Just discovered it today pretty awesome. Also got a couple of xposed modules to disabble annoying messages like full charge and got wanam to tweak touchwiz a bit more.

So safe to uninstall Knox? Also thanks for the list!
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Anyone else got a list of bloatware to uninstall?

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Anyone else got a list of bloatware to uninstall?
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This is my list for the note 10.1 2014, I disabled the same apps on the 12.2.
Regarding custom roms I don't really miss them. I have just disabled all the apps I dont need and gotten some xposed modules.
Bootmanager: Block apps from starting on boot
Cool Tool: ram usage, batt temp and cpu graph in statusbar
Wanam xposed
xuimod: animations, listview animations and overscrol animations
youtube adaway
I prefer being able to pick from xposed modules and kind of build my own rom.

Thanks.

{Diemex} said:
This is my list for the note 10.1 2014, I disabled the same apps on the 12.2.
Regarding custom roms I don't really miss them. I have just disabled all the apps I dont need and gotten some xposed modules.
Bootmanager: Block apps from starting on boot
Cool Tool: ram usage, batt temp and cpu graph in statusbar
Wanam xposed
xuimod: animations, listview animations and overscrol animations
youtube adaway
I prefer being able to pick from xposed modules and kind of build my own rom.
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Doesn't Xposed need root?

Redsandro said:
Doesn't Xposed need root?
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Yup, sure does.

That's still a problem on SM-P900 AFAIK.

Redsandro said:
That's still a problem on SM-P900 AFAIK.
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Edited.
If you're referrring to the hit/miss issue with CF Autoroot then yeah. I've successfully rooted two Note Pro's so I don't think its impossible.
My suspicion is that the firmware that is on the device at the time of root and the recovery thats installed during each step is critical but when I suggested that in the thread some tried it and said that wasnt the case. For both of my Note Pros I had run into the same issue with the cache image file getting stuck and for both I eventually got things to work playing around with the recovery versions and keeping Odin from auto rebooting the tab until i was sure i had the right recovery on there. Odd for sure.

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...hKRlg3REdhbTluRkE&f=true&noheader=false&gid=1
(It's not entirely up to date. I need to add google magazines etc. Haven't had the time yet.)
I'm getting 34218 in Antutu without root.
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Nice. 34695 on my SM-P900, just above the Note 3.

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That's still a problem on SM-P900 AFAIK.
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Flashing stock recovery and then flashing the root worked for me.

muzzy996 said:
Edited.
If you're referrring to the hit/miss issue with CF Autoroot then yeah. I've successfully rooted two Note Pro's so I don't think its impossible.
My suspicion is that the firmware that is on the device at the time of root and the recovery thats installed during each step is critical but when I suggested that in the thread some tried it and said that wasnt the case. For both of my Note Pros I had run into the same issue with the cache image file getting stuck and for both I eventually got things to work playing around with the recovery versions and keeping Odin from auto rebooting the tab until i was sure i had the right recovery on there. Odd for sure.
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@muzzy996 @kirbymaster101
Yeah I'm referring to the hit/miss, as well as some comments saying you need a specific version for your tablet (I have a Czech KOT49H.P900XXUANC4 with a specific CSC which I forgot because I don't know how to dial *#1234# on my tablet.
Also there's a lot of different suggested methods, first of all where people mention files but don't actually link to them, and second where I hear P905 users say it's working and P900 users say it's not.
So I'm just too uncertain to try this. So if I understand correctly, P900 rooters need:
* The specific stock rom for their tablet (Get that CSC code and find it on Sammobile?)
* A certain recovery (what's this, kinda like ClockWorkMod?)
* One of the different root methods discussed in this forum (CF one is only one that works with P900?)
* Odin (I need Windows for that, right? I'm on Linux. I can use Windows at a friend's place once I'm sure what to do.)
My previous tablets and Samsung Galaxy S2 could be rooted using only a MicroSD card and no computer. It was all so easy back then.

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@muzzy996 @kirbymaster101
Yeah I'm referring to the hit/miss, as well as some comments saying you need a specific version for your tablet (I have a Czech KOT49H.P900XXUANC4 with a specific CSC which I forgot because I don't know how to dial *#1234# on my tablet.
Also there's a lot of different suggested methods, first of all where people mention files but don't actually link to them, and second where I hear P905 users say it's working and P900 users say it's not.
So I'm just too uncertain to try this. So if I understand correctly, P900 rooters need:
* The specific stock rom for their tablet (Get that CSC code and find it on Sammobile?)
* A certain recovery (what's this, kinda like ClockWorkMod?)
* One of the different root methods discussed in this forum (CF one is only one that works with P900?)
* Odin (I need Windows for that, right? I'm on Linux. I can use Windows at a friend's place once I'm sure what to do.)
My previous tablets and Samsung Galaxy S2 could be rooted using only a MicroSD card and no computer. It was all so easy back then.
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I just needed the stock recovery, I don't think you really need the stock firmware unless you want to start fresh. Also the stock recovery is literally the recovery that comes with the device hence the word stock, for some reason I needed to flash it so Odin wouldn't freeze at cache.img when installing the root.

kirbymaster101 said:
I just needed the stock recovery, I don't think you really need the stock firmware unless you want to start fresh. Also the stock recovery is literally the recovery that comes with the device hence the word stock, for some reason I needed to flash it so Odin wouldn't freeze at cache.img when installing the root.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2794996
here is a link to my help thread and i will be updating it soon with hyperlinks or how to find them... did that help a bit?

[APP][5.1+] AdClear: Non-Root Full-Version Ad Blocker

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Introduction:
AdClear is a non-root ad blocker for Android devices. There's only one version of the app, and it's free. We released it at the end of December and are looking for feedback and help in making AdClear the best it can be.
Features:
Blocks encrypted ads
Works with Wi-Fi and cell data
Blocks ads in apps
Selective app filtering
Support for multiple browsers
Non-root
Log of blocked ads
Saves bandwidth and battery
Increases loading speeds online
How Does It Work?
AdClear is non-root, but it works on rooted phones just the same. AdClear creates a VPN on your device to filter out ad traffic before it reaches you on the web or in apps. The SSL certificate gets in the way of encrypted ads and filters them in the same way. This means the ad blocker can run in the background while you browse in whatever browser or app you want to use.
Who Are We?
SEVEN Networks actually has a pretty storied history on the mobile market--just in the background. We became pioneers in mobile messaging by inventing push-notified e-mail in the early '00s. We sold this feature to carriers and companies like Blackberry to put on their phones. In the same vein, we deployed e-mail to more than 550 devices in a time when OS platforms varied from phone to phone. As Android and iOS became the two primary platforms, we switched gears by creating Open Channel, which improved mobile network traffic by eliminating the need for constant syncing. We sold this technology to multiple carriers and even released a version on the Play store.
Recently, we've obviously taken sight of the developing market for ad blockers, and we realized we have some unique tools to bring to the table. Open Channel's fantastic resources gave us the ability to block encrypted ads and a huge data pool with which to build AdClear. We released AdClear on December 28, 2015, and we've been updating and upgrading it ever since.
"How Do You Make Money?"
The truth is, we don't right now. What we are doing is creating a source of analytics from our users in order to fix bugs and improve the app. This includes your device, android version, battery life, and app usage. You are assigned a UUID that completely separates you from your device and data, and there is no feasible way for us to personally identify you. If you'd like, uninstalling and reinstalling the app will give you a completely new UUID that cannot be connected to the previous one. We only use this to rapidly analyze and change our product.
In the future we may sell anonymized data to carriers, but that's one idea of many. That's part of what we want to know from you. This is a unique business plan for the ad blocking market. Would you be more inclined toward an acceptable ads or freemium model (premium being opting out of analytics)? Our main priority is to provide a high quality experience based on user suggestions to YOU at a high development pace. After a post we made on reddit got a bit of traction, we added a log, selectable app filter, and on/off switch based off of suggestions within the next few days. We want to get that type of feedback, that help, from XDA, and we're excited about the DEVDB platform. We've included the feature request and bug report sections and we hope that they are used! Either way, we're excited to have address these things with you in the comments.
How To Download:
DOWNLOAD LINK
More information about AdClear is available from our website.
Additional Links:
Privacy Policy
FAQ
Terms of Use
Home Page
XDA:DevDB Information
SEVEN AdClear, App for all devices (see above for details)
Contributors
SEVEN_AdClear, SEVENDev, SevenNetDev
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 9.15.0.815-ga
Stable Release Date: 2020-07-27
Created 2016-02-05
Last Updated 2020-07-28

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working great on huawei p8. thanks
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Ok, I have installed and uninstalled this three times. Each time, I get that it is installed properly. But, I keep getting a triangle warning in my status bar that says "network may be monitored by an unknown third party" . I have checked the ok to have it as a trusted credential. But, I don't think it is showing up in the trusted credentials in my security setting.
I don't see the C O credential. Why is it not installing the credentials? The ad blocking does seem to be working.
I am rooted, with Verizon's xt1254 phone using resurrection remix rom right now.
I also use the "mother of all adblocking" script (right word?).
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frankeegee said:
Ok, I have installed and uninstalled this three times. Each time, I get that it is installed properly. But, I keep getting a triangle warning in my status bar that says "network may be monitored by an unknown third party" . I have checked the ok to have it as a trusted credential. But, I don't think it is showing up in the trusted credentials in my security setting.
I don't see the C O credential. Why is it not installing the credentials?
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The credential should be in the user tab under your security credentials. The third party notification is something we can't fix unfortunately. I believe it has something to do with the VPN being on. As far as your ROM, we have no real testing done on how we work with ROMs, so that may be an issue. That's something we want to have enough info on in the future to address. Please let us know to what extent the app is working and we'll see what we can do.

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What issue were you having with the download? In any case it should be working from any download source. Could you give us your phone model, os version, and AdClear version (if you install again)?
Zero741 said:
working great on huawei p8. thanks
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That's awesome to hear! We welcome any feedback you may have!

On screen off, vpn disconnects and doesn't reconnect on screen on. Adguard works fine though.

I have this on my Huawei P8 and I also get the occasional notification that vpn disconnected when screen is off. No mention of reconnecting but ads are still being blocked after this happened so I guess it's still working.

Is this apps work like adaway?

frankeegee said:
Ok, I have installed and uninstalled this three times. Each time, I get that it is installed properly. But, I keep getting a triangle warning in my status bar that says "network may be monitored by an unknown third party" . I have checked the ok to have it as a trusted credential. But, I don't think it is showing up in the trusted credentials in my security setting.
I don't see the C O credential. Why is it not installing the credentials? The ad blocking does seem to be working.
I am rooted, with Verizon's xt1254 phone using resurrection remix rom right now.
I also use the "mother of all adblocking" script (right word?).
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Hello, thanks for installing.
The notification is, at this time, normal because of the way Android handles the certs. It can be removed with root optionally but we can not do it on our end.
SEVENDev
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ratbags said:
On screen off, vpn disconnects and doesn't reconnect on screen on. Adguard works fine though.
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planeinmountain said:
I have this on my Huawei P8 and I also get the occasional notification that vpn disconnected when screen is off. No mention of reconnecting but ads are still being blocked after this happened so I guess it's still working.
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Thanks for the feedback,
I am very interested in this and have not seen this behavior before. We have attempted to replicate the issue but are unable. We currently do not have a Huawei P8 to test on but any more info on the phone would be greatly appreciated as well as steps to replicate. Replying with Android version, phone model, network you used (wifi or 4g, etc.) would be greatly appreciated.
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houssin7 said:
Is this apps work like adaway?
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Thanks for the question,
If by like AdAway you mean both block ads then yes we are similar.
Where we differ is we do not require root to block the ads. This means we can not modify host files like AdAway does. Instead we block with and on-device VPN than filters all traffic through it and removes the ads before they are in your apps and browsers.
SEVENDev

EDIT: seems my colleague got to it first!

There's no steps to replicate. I installed the app through Amazone app store.
I just put the phone down and after some time I notice a notification which states that vpn is disconnected. I can see this notification on my laptop as I have Airdroid installed which mirrors all android notifications to the laptop. So far all notifications came in while on home wifi.
Huawei P8 GRA-L09 android 5.0.1 on wifi. Haven't seen it happen yet while using 4g.

Vpn disconnects with screen off. And I meant adguard which uses the same vpn principle as adclear but their vpn doesn't keep shutting down. Which is why I've reverted to using it instead of adclear.

planeinmountain said:
There's no steps to replicate. I installed the app through Amazone app store.
I just put the phone down and after some time I notice a notification which states that vpn is disconnected. I can see this notification on my laptop as I have Airdroid installed which mirrors all android notifications to the laptop. So far all notifications came in while on home wifi.
Huawei P8 GRA-L09 android 5.0.1 on wifi. Haven't seen it happen yet while using 4g.
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Our ticketing server is down right now, but we do know we've had issues with a Huawei phone running on 5.0.1 and its being worked on. We could possibly have a fix in our next update. I'll update you further when that server comes back online.
ratbags said:
Vpn disconnects with screen off. And I meant adguard which uses the same vpn principle as adclear but their vpn doesn't keep shutting down. Which is why I've reverted to using it instead of adclear.
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We understand why that would make you switch back. If you don't mind, could you provide us your phone model, os version, and connection (wifi/data) that this happened on? Thank you.

SEVEN_AdClear said:
Our ticketing server is down right now, but we do know we've had issues with a Huawei phone running on 5.0.1 and its being worked on. We could possibly have a fix in our next update. I'll update you further when that server comes back online.
We understand why that would make you switch back. If you don't mind, could you provide us your phone model, os version, and connection (wifi/data) that this happened on? Thank you.
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Well it's a relatively obscure Amazon fire phone with kit Kat, using Wi-Fi. So I can see why I might be having issues.

Stuck when enabling vpn.. Like forever on my lenovo a7000plus

Bloodiez said:
Stuck when enabling vpn.. Like forever on my lenovo a7000plus
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That's unfortunate. Could you give us your os version?
One thing you can try is to uninstall adclear and delete the certificate (if you installed it), then reboot and install again. I'm not sure if you tried to install multiple times, but that sometimes causes issues with the VPN.
Edit: Also, did this happen on wifi or lte/4g?

SEVEN_AdClear said:
That's unfortunate. Could you give us your os version?
One thing you can try is to uninstall adclear and delete the certificate (if you installed it), then reboot and install again. I'm not sure if you tried to install multiple times, but that sometimes causes issues with the VPN.
Edit: Also, did this happen on wifi or lte/4g?
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Im using lolipop 5.02
I've reinstalled and restart my phone but the problem still there.
Im using 3g for data connection.

S7 Edge Android 7.0 (Nougat) Performance Guide

Some of this guide may apply to Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) as well. I've honestly forgotten what 6.0 was like since I have been on the 7.0 beta for so long, but some of this is possible on the older software.
So the reason I decided to make this guide was because I recently almost sold my S7 Edge due to poor performance. When I first installed Nougat it was great, but over time the phone got worse and worse. I realize this is an Android thing in general, but it just got to be so annoying that I couldn’t ignore it any longer. I have a vanilla android tablet that flies and when I would switch back to the phone it was almost unbearable. This guide will help out significantly with that issue.
First off you'll want to enable "Developer options". Go to Settings > About device > and then tap on "Build number" 7 times to enable Developer options.
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Once in Developer options scroll about 3/4 way down to find three entries that say "animation scale". Change all three entries to "0.5x".
Next we need to go to the Playstore and download an app called "Package Disabler Pro". Yes it's 2 dollars and yes you want/need it.
Before running the app download the .XML file I have attached to this post called "XDA.xml". Now go ahead and open the app and let it load. Next click the three dots in the top right and select "Import from xml". Select the xml file you downloaded from the previous step. This will disable some of the pre-installed apps that you don't need. I encourage you to look through this entire list and click on each item that you would never use, this will permanently disable that app from running or appearing in your app drawer. You can easily undo it at any time by clicking the apps name again (taking the check out of the box). Just to let you know I have 33 additional apps disabled other than the ones in the "XDA.xml" file, I have all kinds of stuff disabled that I don't use; gear vr, gear manager for watches, android pay (I use Samsung pay), S-voice (I used google dictation for everything). I really encourage you to go through and get rid of anything in there that you don't use, it will help the phone out a lot. Once you're done reboot the phone.
When the phone boots up go to the "Device maintenance" section of the settings menu. I at first ignored this section as I felt that it was gimmicky an unnecessary, but then realized that it's actually very useful.
First let’s go to "Performance mode". There is a ton of stuff you can do with this, but I am only going to address one of them. Click on "settings" and then "Screen resolution". Change it to 1920x1080 (FHD). You can always change it back if you really need something such as VR, but most of the time you will not be able to tell that there was a change in resolution.
Next go back to Device maintenance and select "RAM". This menu allows you to close out things from RAM that you don't want running. The problem with this is that Linux (Android) prefers to have apps stay in RAM instead of having to reload them each time you open them, so closing them is kind of counterproductive. Not only that but almost everything that you close from this menu will re-enable itself in the next few minutes anyway. This menu, like the "Battery" section, gives you a look at things which are running that you may not know about. I went through this list and uninstalled apps that I didn't even use so that they weren't just hanging around running without me knowing. A lot of the apps on this list were running and I never even opened them to begin with, that kind of bugs me. I got rid of the ones I could and then used Greenify (more on that in a minute) on the others. Any apps on this list that you for sure never opened, need to be added to Greenify (see next section for instructions) because they are running themselves and using resources.
Now for Greenify. Go to the playstore and download the "Greenify" app and follow the instructions to set it up. It takes a few steps to setup but you only have to do it once. Pay attention as some of the steps are a little tricky and they all must be enabled for the app to function properly. Once installed you will use Greenify to hibernate the apps that you found from the previous section (ram manager) that you don't want awake all the time. Some apps just run themselves without asking you first and sit there consuming battery. I would first decide whether you even need that app to begin with and if you do, then go ahead and Greenify it. Something to note here is that if you Greenify an app that NEEDS to stay awake to work, such as a chat program or music apps, they won't work properly. These apps are easy to spot because they have little blue "gcm" icons next to them, so be careful. To add an app to the "Greenify list" (auto hibernation) just hit the + button in the top right to start adding them.
Once you're done with all that, your phone should be flying. It's not even the same phone anymore really. One thing I want to point out is that the Samsung keyboard on Android 6.0 was trash. It was a completely unusable piece of non-working trash. The auto correct couldn't keep up with any reasonable typing speed, so no words would be corrected at all and you would be left with a mess of a paragraph. I solved that with Swiftkey originally, but for some odd reason it was never blazing fast on this phone. It caught every single mistake, but when you were typing there was just enough lag to kind of throw off your typing speed and it looked like crap. I am happy to say that on Android 7.0 the new Samsung keyboard is the best keyboard I have ever used. They FINALLY got it right after all these years. Honestly all of their keyboards have sucked. They could never seem to get them right, whether it was lag or just plain non-functioning auto correct, it was always something. This one is perfect and if you're using Swiftkey I would uninstall it as it continually reruns itself even when you force close it. It's also a resource hog, so if you don't need it, get rid of it.
There is it, you should be good to go with these small adjustments. A lot of you don't even have 7.0 yet, but when you do at least you will have a head start. There is nothing worse than paying $800 for the latest smartphone only for it to be a laggy mess. Hopefully this helps somewhat with that problem.

Good advice. I just got my S7E the other day. I was (am) so disappointed there is no root for this device. My other android is a note 4 and there is a huge development community, so that's what I've been used to for the past 2 years. I'm missing little things that you can do with root... Ad away for 1, and honestly 3minit battery and 3minit clock. Like I said little things.
And to be honest, the S7E doesn't feel "that" much faster than my Note 4. Which has got me scratching my head. It's faster but not the night and day difference I expected.
Well I look forward to nougat. And using these tips. Thanks!
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S7E

I've disabled animations and disabled or removed bloat apps for years. I find I have to do a complete reset every couple weeks or so since being on beta. It gets HORRIBLE lag that no amount of cache clearing fixes.
PDP can actually ruin battery life as dependent apps are constantly running, searching for and not finding other apps they're tied to.

joe3681 said:
I've disabled animations and disabled or removed bloat apps for years. I find I have to do a complete reset every couple weeks or so since being on beta. It gets HORRIBLE lag that no amount of cache clearing fixes.
PDP can actually ruin battery life as dependent apps are constantly running, searching for and not finding other apps they're tied to.
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My phone has been amazingly smooth for 2 weeks now, night and day difference. I agree, if you get carried away with disabling packages it can be counter productive. I've gone through and just disabled anything I didn't recognize, like 200 things disabled LOL Yea getting carried away with that program can cause some serious problems. I only disable things that are clearly apps that I wouldn't use and a couple others that I know for certain are insane battery hogs like the tmobile carrier IQ service that logs your every action (I forget the name at the moment but it's disabled in my XDA.xml).

joe3681 said:
PDP can actually ruin battery life as dependent apps are constantly running, searching for and not finding other apps they're tied to.
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Force the app, and clear it's cache and data before disabling it. I was ready to deal with the root issues to Uninstaller a bunch of apps when PDP failed to extend my battery life, but someone in another thread suggested cleaning the app and it worked wonders for me.
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Mine is still in android 6 and in uodate swction its not showing. What the hell is wrong where everyone using 7

saurabh88 said:
Mine is still in android 6 and in uodate swction its not showing. What the hell is wrong where everyone using 7
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Those of us how are running 7.0 are in the beta program, which is closed
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Ohk

Guide updated to add Greenify section, remove redundant and (non useful) section, and new XDA.xml app uploaded.

I think using (a) Package Disabler is maybe one of the most important steps! Including a pre-done .xml to help people disable bloat is fantastic. GREAT JOB! Thanks given!

Araltd said:
I think using (a) Package Disabler is maybe one of the most important steps! Including a pre-done .xml to help people disable bloat is fantastic. GREAT JOB! Thanks given!
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is there a difference if I just go into setting, applications and just disabling the app from there? is the app necessary ?

Izz14 said:
is there a difference if I just go into setting, applications and just disabling the app from there? is the app necessary ?
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You can't disable services with the in OS settings, only applications and not system applications.
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Sounds like the right thing to do, but since we have no real backup of our ROM, what does one do if the changes made by this app are not to the liking of the user? How can this process be reverted back to prior of the making of these changes?

I seem to have messed up when debloating my phone. What apks are required for GPS?

I made the title as self descriptive as possible. Im a huge anonimity nerd and i debloated my android to my style (Samsung Galaxy A32 5g) since there was no compatibility for Lineage or /e/OS in it. In doing so, i retain pretty much all i want, however one of the weird functions that doens't work as well as it used to is the GPS. I'm pretty sure what i did was disable an APK that uses the phone reception to track location, since when i enable GPS i can still get my location with amazing accuracy, however it takes several minutes (and i mean SEVERAL) after being turned on to track where i am, and in other apps it does not track at all.
The issue is that im an Uber Eats worker (not exactly, but similar style of work) and resetting the phone to factory would mean to debloat all over again.
So, does anyone knows more or less which APKs specifically interact between location and other apps to know which one to enable again?

Might be easier if you listed what you removed.
Dependencies...

blackhawk said:
Might be easier if you listed what you removed.
Dependencies...
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The issue is that i've removed quite a number of things across several days and didn't realize that my GPS wasn't working snap-fast as it was before very much late.

hahaNSAgoBRRRR said:
The issue is that i've removed quite a number of things across several days and didn't realize that my GPS wasn't working snap-fast as it was before very much late.
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Off the top of my head I no clue which apk(s) do that. The apk names can be misleading.
Many of the smaller apks just sit there unless needed.
Especially on Samsung's you can really screw up functionality by disabling blindly, worse it may net near zero performance/increased battery life.
One reason I use a package disabler is mistakes are easy to correct when experimenting with minimum consequences.
Someone here likely does know so keep trying. If that model has it's own section on XDA, post a thread there.
It may be one of these although likely not the last one...
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Off the top of my head I no clue which apk(s) do that. The apk names can be misleading.
Many of the smaller apks just sit there unless needed.
Especially on Samsung's you can really screw up functionality by disabling blindly, worse it may net near zero performance/increased battery life.
One reason I use a package disabler is mistakes are easy to correct when experimenting with minimum consequences.
Someone here likely does know so keep trying. If that model has it's own section on XDA, post a thread there.
It may be one of these although likely not the last one...
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Afraid it wasn't any of them, but thanks, im gonna look around.

hahaNSAgoBRRRR said:
Afraid it wasn't any of them, but thanks, im gonna look around.
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MDM App might be needed... best to not disable this probably.

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MDM App might be needed... best to not disable this probably.
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Afraid it didn't made a difference. Another weird issue i got however i think this is more of my android config is that after a while with the phone locked whatsapp closes and im not being sent any notifications until i unlock it and open it again. Do you suspect of any apk that need to be on to run the app or what setting could have messed that? I set the phone to never optimize battery and to not turn off data when locked and to not restrict it on whatsapp yet i still randomly open it to find several messages from hours ago that i never got notified for.

Ditch WhatsApp; trashware/malware.
Reload and start from the beginning.

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Ditch WhatsApp; trashware/malware.
Reload and start from the beginning.
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God i wish i could delete whatsapp but i live in one of those countries where everyone and everything uses it.
As for reloading from the start, i've been thinking about it, but it took so much to delete so much bloat that i'd rather first try and see what i could salvage. After all, all the apks that i removed are still existing in the ROM as installers.

Reload, and use this this to at least set it up and determine what's safe to debloat.
If you disabled more than 90 apps, you probably killed more than is needed...

blackhawk said:
Reload, and use this this to at least set it up and determine what's safe to debloat.
If you disabled more than 90 apps, you probably killed more than is needed...
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Oh, dont worry, i use ADB, although next time i should probably keep in a list what i uninstalled.

hahaNSAgoBRRRR said:
Oh, dont worry, i use ADB, although next time i should probably keep in a list what i uninstalled.
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Problem being Samsung's are feature packed and many are useful. After 2 years I'm still exploring my N10+.
If you inadvertently kill a parent app all it's children dependencies go nuts. Some apps serve more functions than you'll ever find listed.
With no way to easily renable them... you have no hope of easily discovering them.
To this day I still update and modify my bloat list to make the device more functional and efficient.
Be careful what you kill... especially if you haven't used Samsung's extensively. I have 2 N10+'s, one running on 9, the other 10. The Q variant literally has dozens of small system apks than the P variant. Both devices behave almost identically. These dozens of small apks allow this. They use almost no resources or battery.
The Q variants battery life is the same or better.
Blocking these apks would serve no purpose and likely screw up the newer N10+. It has about 150 more new packages in the Q variant than the P. I used my imported block list from the AT&T P variant for the non carrier Q variant. I took out a few new ones that were bloatware but the disable head count remains similar between both devices.
So don't go too nuts as Samsung has added many new system apks to tone down and make Android 10 and up UI usable, look nice and prevent lose of functionality

blackhawk said:
Problem being Samsung's are feature packed and many are useful. After 2 years I'm still exploring my N10+.
If you inadvertently kill a parent app all it's children dependencies go nuts. Some apps serve more functions than you'll ever find listed.
With no way to easily renable them... you have no hope of easily discovering them.
To this day I still update and modify my bloat list to make the device more functional and efficient.
Be careful what you kill... especially if you haven't used Samsung's extensively. I have 2 N10+'s, one running on 9, the other 10. The Q variant literally has dozens of small system apks than the P variant. Both devices behave almost identically. These dozens of small apks allow this. They use almost no resources or battery.
The Q variants battery life is the same or better.
Blocking these apks would serve no purpose and likely screw up the newer N10+. It has about 150 more new packages in the Q variant than the P. I used my imported block list from the AT&T P variant for the non carrier Q variant. I took out a few new ones that were bloatware but the disable head count remains similar between both devices.
So don't go too nuts as Samsung has added many new system apks to tone down and make Android 10 and up UI usable, look nice and prevent lose of functionality
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Gotcha, although i've always been one for simplicity and all, to be honest i kinda wish i could just grab a barebones android OS for my phone and modify it from there.

hahaNSAgoBRRRR said:
Gotcha, although i've always been one for simplicity and all, to be honest i kinda wish i could just grab a barebones android OS for my phone and modify it from there.
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Depending on the model and how much support there is, you can, but it's going to be a time eating gravity well.
It's a lot easier to use stock Samsung's and configure them to suit your needs. Samsung probably has the best launcher out there at least on the N10+.

blackhawk said:
Depending on the model and how much support there is, you can, but it's going to be a time eating gravity well.
It's a lot easier to use stock Samsung's and configure them to suit your needs. Samsung probably has the best launcher out there at least on the N10+.
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Guess that's what i get for getting a phone a few months in the market.

hahaNSAgoBRRRR said:
Guess that's what i get for getting a phone a few months in the market.
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Been a bad year for phones and Android.
I spent a -lot- of time dialing in my N10+, but once done it runs great. You need to find the solutions and use work arounds when needed.
Stock Androids are almost impossible to crash. So... play with it.
Just make sure all critical data is redundantly backed up to at least 2 hhds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC. Do this or eventually you will lose data.

blackhawk said:
Been a bad year for phones and Android.
I spent a -lot- of time dialing in my N10+, but once done it runs great. You need to find the solutions and use work arounds when needed.
Stock Androids are almost impossible to crash. So... play with it.
Just make sure all critical data is redundantly backed up to at least 2 hhds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC. Do this or eventually you will lose data.
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I trust you on that! Thanks a lot for your help UH60.

Question Non Rooted Pixel 7 Pro

Okay Ive had some time using this phone and came to a conclusion, I don't need root on this phone.
Now of course root gives us the power but I have found some applications and a few workarounds to get the best overall performance on this Pixel 7 Pro.
1.Shizuku apk.
This app is sorta like a su app with of course no system level privileges.
(I use this app for ,Better Internet Tiles,
Carrier Vanity Name and Dar Q ..)
2.Package Disabler apk.
This app can debloat most apps.
3.System UI Turner apk.
This app can enable and disable hidden features within the ROM.
4. My new favorite non rooted app that can lock the CPU frequencies.
Max All CPU (non root) apk.
This app actually works which shocked me.!!
5.Adguard apk.
So basically having a pixel device has been the same experience as my rooted devices running pixel experience roms.
Of course better screen (AMOLED) wireless charging and IP68 rating etc...
In a nut shell one can enjoy this device without root.
Please list applications or adb commands or anything that can improve the overall performance of the pixel without root..
Thanks..
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What you're asking is nearly impossible. You can disable some apps, but installing more will just slow down your device. There are no ADB commands that will "improve performance" either.

Please list applications or adb commands or anything that can improve the overall performance of the pixel without root..
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V0latyle said:
What you're asking is nearly impossible. You can disable some apps, but installing more will just slow down your device. There are no ADB commands that will "improve performance" either.
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I can't speak to ADB commands (I doubt there's any, i figure OP's asking for "special commands" that gain some special access to change a particular setting), I think what OP is going for is methods/apps like Greenify -- which is debatable because, as I understand it, Android OS does a whole caching or keeping apps in a low background state as to not use up more power & resources to start them back up again; I only ever seen it discussed when users discuss the merits of "closing all apps" (also discussed on iphones) and/or how it is different than "closing programs" in Windows (this might've been a different case on older versions of Android [as I recall finding it necessary to do such methods on my Motorola Droids {1,3,4}])...
But agreed, without root access, what can be done is so limiting that it's hardly going to make a noticeable difference. if anything, one must trust Android OS developers that they're making the most out of resources ("under the hood") and not wasting them...

Interesting!

Debloat via windows cpu using :
(UAD) Universal Android Debloater, works on Android 14 beta 3.1 in case anyone is curious..
I've noticed less battery drain when i uninstalled google calander,vzw.apn.lib, digital wellbeing, YouTube music, Gmail, and few others..

jhjhjhjhjhjh said:
Debloat via windows cpu using :
(UAD) Universal Android Debloater, works on Android 14 beta 3.1 in case anyone is curious..
I've noticed less battery drain when i uninstalled google calander,vzw.apn.lib, digital wellbeing, YouTube music, Gmail, and few others..
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Of course, when u disable more app, more battery gain. But then, what do u use your phone for? (Uninstall calendar, Gmail?)

hungragezone said:
Of course, when u disable more app, more battery gain. But then, what do u use your phone for? (Uninstall calendar, Gmail?)
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i used the browser to check my emails and the preinstalled google calendar requires a sign in just to see the calendar month i don't like that i use another calendar app..

4ADatabase setedit mod that has my pixel 7 pro flying and with no overheating.
Running this mod on android 14 beta 3.1..
I saw this mod in a thread somewhere that works without root just the app.
My cpu clock speeds are now stable and don't fluctuate like I'm used to on a rooted phone that i would max out my cores for best performance
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See my pics.. This phone really needs no root or custom rom
..I need all my banking apps , hold for me and all stock pixel exclusives...
Happy modding without root..

jhjhjhjhjhjh said:
4ADatabase setedit mod that has my pixel 7 pro flying and with no overheating.
Running this mod on android 14 beta 3.1..
I saw this mod in a thread somewhere that works without root just the app.
My cpu clock speeds are now stable and don't fluctuate like I'm used to on a rooted phone that i would max out my cores for best performance
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See my pics.. This phone really needs no root or custom rom
..I need all my banking apps , hold for me and all stock pixel exclusives...
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How about battery life?

jhjhjhjhjhjh said:
4ADatabase setedit mod that has my pixel 7 pro flying and with no overheating.
Running this mod on android 14 beta 3.1..
I saw this mod in a thread somewhere that works without root just the app.
My cpu clock speeds are now stable and don't fluctuate like I'm used to on a rooted phone that i would max out my cores for best performance
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See my pics.. This phone really needs no root or custom rom
..I need all my banking apps , hold for me and all stock pixel exclusives...
Happy modding without root..View attachment 5939303View attachment 5939305View attachment 5939307
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I really appreciate your informations. Anyway the way you tell everbody "you dont need root" is patronizing. People root for many reasons. And its a lot easier to play around with mods if you have root. I never had problems with root since the first Android Phone.

hungragezone said:
How about battery life?
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No noticeable difference.. I spent 3 hours on calls, took some video shots, watched about 1 hour of YouTube, used Android Auto and maps while driving down the coast for about an hour.
Came home about 6 hours later still had %65 left in the can.... Battery life has always been good even on A13..

xtcislove said:
I really appreciate your informations. Anyway the way you tell everbody "you dont need root" is patronizing. People root for many reasons. And its a lot easier to play around with mods if you have root. I never had problems with root since the first Android Phone.
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Patronising. lol
I guess one only reads and gravitates to one subject.
I've been rooting, building, baking roms ,flashing etc..since 2009.. This phone is the only phone that I've owned that I've never rooted ..I repeat 14 years of android modding and this phone makes me not want to root it ..
Why does that bother you?
Don't answer I know why..
Lastly, Those of us who are enlighten know something.
Ill throw one bone for your everyone roots for various reasons post
Theres 5 main factors why one roots per national surveys and repetitions.
1.Bloatware/crapware removal
2.Modders/Devs love to tinker and are just enthusiast..(Love That)
3.Google haters. (Micro G lovers) Some hate the Google advertisement practices, Google is an advertisment company remember that part.
4.Hackers, enough said on that..
5.Ability to customize there device to ones own liking..
Many more but you know that already..
So what have we learned today class?

jhjhjhjhjhjh said:
Patronising. lol
I guess one only reads and gravitates to one subject.
I've been rooting, building, baking roms ,flashing etc..since 2009.. This phone is the only phone that I've owned that I've never rooted ..I repeat 14 years of android modding and this phone makes me not want to root it ..
Why does that bother you?
Don't answer I know why..
Lastly, Those of us who are enlighten know something.
Ill throw one bone for your everyone roots for various reasons post
Theres 5 main factors why one roots per national surveys and repetitions.
1.Bloatware/crapware removal
2.Modders/Devs love to tinker and are just enthusiast..(Love That)
3.Google haters. (Micro G lovers) Some hate the Google advertisement practices, Google is an advertisment company remember that part.
4.Hackers, enough said on that..
5.Ability to customize there device to ones own liking..
Many more but you know that already..
So what have we learned today class?
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"Why does that bother you?" Nothing you mentioned above bothers me, its your attitude.
"Lastly, Those of us who are enlighten know something." -> Attitude
"So what have we learned today class? " That i am right about you and your attitude.
And yes this is highly subjective and just like your tips about not rooting you maybe take a thing out of my critics.

You should put a tutorial together for the devices that are bootloader locked or just do not want to root. Good information here

Enabled (VONR ) Voice Over New Radio=5G
I've read many pixel users say that phone reception is not that good.
Being on Verizon wireless towers i have no dropped calls and calls are super clear with the clear calling option enabled in settings.
This app( pixelIMS.apk ) enables VOLTE, VONR,apn option to add can be enabled although its blocked on spectrum so i still cant edit my apns..and a few other features.
Give credits to the developer of this app on GitHub..
App requires shikuku or root..

NFC works on Beta 14 _3.1
Tested it on a train and made a google pay purchase at the store. Even worked with my bulky case on.