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Apps that are safe to disable?

I was playing around with my nook last night, disabling apps i dont really need. The following is a list of apps i disabled and any ill effects i found. I take no responsibility if you disable one of these apps and your nook no longer boots.
Calendar.apk.bak
CalendarProvider.apk
Email.apk
GenieWidget.apk
Music.apk
NetworkLocation.apk
Phone.apk
PicoTts.apk
Social.apk
TelephonyProvider.apk
TtsService.apk
VpnServices.apk
one thing i did find that you cannot disable is ContactsProvider.apk When you disable this, you will no longer be able to download apps from the market. They looks like they are going to download, but they never do.
So Far, everything seems to work fine. not really sure if i gain more performance or battery from disabling these apps or not.
If any one has any insight as to why i should not disable some of the apk's i have please let me know.

Ive also disabled those same apps, and also all of the bn stock stuff: adobe air, affiledownoadservice, authenticationsvc,certificate installer, checkin service, everything named com.bn* ,cloud service,drp reader, drm protected storage,library and reader.
No issues, aside from the bn stuff of course not working.
I used titanium to freeze em, didnt delete the apks(mostly)

DO NOT disable google talk, it messes up your market and you will never be able to download things. Take it from experience.

moesasin said:
DO NOT disable google talk, it messes up your market and you will never be able to download things. Take it from experience.
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same exact problem with disabling ContactsProvider.apk, good to know

Why disable this stuff? Is it a battery saver at all? Does it increase performance noticeably?

ClarkSt said:
Why disable this stuff? Is it a battery saver at all? Does it increase performance noticeably?
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Keeps unwanted apps from running which chews up ram. Less tasks to have to worry about managing. I don't think it affects battery life so much as it enhances performance.

What App are you all using to disable these Programs?

slugbug2010 said:
What App are you all using to disable these Programs?
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I use super manager and added a .bak t the file name

slugbug2010 said:
What App are you all using to disable these Programs?
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i use root explorer, browse to the folder \system\apps Mount the folder as R/W then renam the files adding .bak to the end. this makes it easy to put them back if i ever needed too, or if disabling them had an ill effect. after your done, make sure you reboot the device for the changes to take effect.
ClarkSt said:
Why disable this stuff? Is it a battery saver at all? Does it increase performance noticeably?
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The main reason i disable them is for performance. It really bothers me when i check a task manager, and find apps im not using running in the backround eating up memory and possibly battery. Unfortunately i dont really have any good way to gauge if disabling these apps increases battery life and/or performance. I know disabling alot of these apps really sped up my android based phone. i can only assume i can get the same from disabling them on the nook.

john10101 said:
i use root explorer, browse to the folder \system\apps Mount the folder as R/W then renam the files adding .bak to the end. this makes it easy to put them back if i ever needed too, or if disabling them had an ill effect. after your done, make sure you reboot the device for the changes to take effect.
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Huh. Doesn't this, in effect, uninstall the apps? Do the icons for them still show up in the tray?

I really want to disable nook virtual Home button on status bar and replace by third party launcher app draw button. Can i disable the default launcher app to remove this. I already disable all BN stuff so it is no use anyway.
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If you could, believe me, by now it would have been done. Everyone wants that.

Thx! Was having google service framework force closes after freezing some apps, turns out it's contactsprovider that caused it. Unforsted it and all is good now!!!

[Q] adwlauncher ex

I can't seem to install adwlauncher... it doesn't seem to be findable in the market and when I use a direct link to it, it pulls of up in the market, but when I try and install it, it says that it isn't for my device.

padanfain said:
I can't seem to install adwlauncher... it doesn't seem to be findable in the market and when I use a direct link to it, it pulls of up in the market, but when I try and install it, it says that it isn't for my device.
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Anderwebs(the primary developer of ADW) has yet to release an updated ADW for tablets. He is working on one, but has not put any information forward as to a date for release.

padanfain said:
I can't seem to install adwlauncher... it doesn't seem to be findable in the market and when I use a direct link to it, it pulls of up in the market, but when I try and install it, it says that it isn't for my device.
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if you have another android device, download it from the market.
using root explorer, go into the /data/app folder and find the ADW EX app... long press and click share... you should now be able to gmail it or dropbox it....

I use it on the xoom, I like it much better than launcher pro but it force closes a lot.

Yeah I side loaded it from dropbox it seems to run ok but if you use the 4D app drawer is lags at times

Anyone figure out how to get the wallpapers to align correctly or noticing that they arent aligned correctly versus stock launcher?

camblue said:
Yeah I side loaded it from dropbox it seems to run ok but if you use the 4D app drawer is lags at times
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x2. i'm running adw launcher ex on the xoom and the app drawer some times freezes and doesn't load at all. for now, i'll be sticking with stock honeycomb or launcher pro (choose the keep-in-memory option to prevent force closures)

Yeah I LOVE adw launcher ex but the app drawer in 4D lags like it is cool other than that it works great. Hope the dev fixes

Lags in O2X

Hey guys,
I'm on stock rom and I can feel the lags when I'm using the phone like when I'm using Smart Keyboard, I can feel the slowness it takes to register one key to another key.
Do you feel the same too?
Other than flashing custom roms, does freezing applications like F-secure and Car Home helps?

bryant_16 said:
Hey guys,
I'm on stock rom and I can feel the lags when I'm using the phone like when I'm using Smart Keyboard, I can feel the slowness it takes to register one key to another key.
Do you feel the same too?
Other than flashing custom roms, does freezing applications like F-secure and Car Home helps?
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Say "Thank you LG for the wonderful software you provide!" Haha...

n3n00 said:
Say "Thank you LG for the wonderful software you provide!" Haha...
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brutal........

Install "Watchdog task manager lite" from market to check what apps are eating up the cpu cycles. Then either change the apps' setting to reduce cpu usage or delete the app. This should help reduce the lagging.

Perhaps use a Launcher such as LancherPro or ADW which are downloadable from the Market. I choose LauncherPro as personally I find this to have least lag possible.

I'm using Go Launcher currently.

bryant_16 said:
I'm using Go Launcher currently.
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I think LP and ADW are much smoother... especially paid versions.

I see. But then when I'm typing, it's really laggy in terms of when I press on the keys, the letters won't appear immediately in the textbox instead awhile later..

Does Launcher Pro have the ability to put labels on your app drawer like the stock LG home screen? I couldn't find this option. It's a shame because Launcher Pro really is much smoother.

bryant_16 said:
Hey guys,
I'm on stock rom and I can feel the lags when I'm using the phone like when I'm using Smart Keyboard, I can feel the slowness it takes to register one key to another key.
Do you feel the same too?
Other than flashing custom roms, does freezing applications like F-secure and Car Home helps?
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I rooted and freezed many apps, and I think it's more smoother now.

VistaX said:
I rooted and freezed many apps, and I think it's more smoother now.
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Did you install any custom roms?

For me, i root the phone and install ClockworkMod to do a Nandbackup. Then install Titanium to do another set of apps backup and i DELETED all the LG bloatware i.e. SNS (LG FB & Twitter), Carhome, F-Secure and others LG apps. I think delete them is better than Freeze as it free up RAM.
And with Backup on titanium, you can always restore them back if you want to, and ultimately, you have nandbackup via clockworkmod where by you can simply revert back to everything original as it is before.
After i did the above, phone is much smoother and no restart nor crash. Note: i use LP instead of the laggy LG launcher.

Custom ROM is the way to go actually. After i did the above, i went further by flashing with Fear V8.0 ROM, then reapply LG Widget (love the calendar) and apply the battery icon modification. Fear V8.0 is a super fast ROM, i never encounter a single lag and everything is so zippy, infact, hyper-responsive! Even faster than stock 2.3.3 android with LP on my Nexus S.
The only draw back is the battery drain faster i.e. 8hrs overnight on wifi drain 16% - note that i got 1 exchange, 3 IMAP, Whatsapp, Evernote, Twitter & FB all turned on. But for me, i prefer to have a super phone and charge whenever i get to do so, then having to wait and experience the lag.

[Q] Anybody still using stock browser?

Am I the only one who just doesn't find any of the other browsers to be worth using?
and before everyone tells me to try Opera, I don't get why everyone likes it.
To me, it looks sloppy and unorganized and I don't see an advantage over webkit.

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I Am Marino said:
Am I the only one who just doesn't find any of the other browsers to be worth using?
and before everyone tells me to try Opera, I don't get why everyone likes it.
To me, it looks sloppy and unorganized and I don't see an advantage over webkit.
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No, you are not the only one. I used Opera and Dolphin previously, and after flashing multiple ROMs, I find that the stock browser does everything I want and need just as good as Dolphin or Opera.

I've tried several browsers, but the stock browser is just fine for my uses.
Stock is less bloated too.

i'm still waiting for my first android tablet thus cannot provide an answer, but what problem does the stock browser have? I guess it must be pretty good being probably I guess (?) a derivative from google's chrome, or not?

I use dolphin hd because of bookmarks to sd and lastpass plugins.
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I have been experimenting with all the others, I just keep going back to the stock browser--It just Works!
I am playing around with Firefox now.

I like the stock browser but the ability to Titanium Backup a 3rd party browser 100% intact with all my bookmarks, settings, saved browsing history, passwords etc if I need to wipe and re-flash Android is extremely helpful.
Along with whatever features using a 3rd party browser brings, this simple ability alone makes it worth it for me to use another browser.
I know you can use Titanium Backup with the Android apps but that it can also cause instability and other issues, so that's why I don't do it.

I mostly favor the stock browser too. I can't stand Opera, it's fast but the text rendering is terrible and the interface is sloppy. I've been using Dolphin Mini over the past few days and so far I'm liking it, but I'm not about to commit to it by removing the stock browser.
Stock does do pretty much everything with no fuss, but I'll say Dolphin Mini's interface is clean and the tabs are nice. I can't afford to give up the screen space for tabs on my phone's 4 inch display, but it's not an issue on the Nook.
I've tried a bunch of other browsers as well, and so far Dolphin Mini is the only contender to replace stock.

Unless I'm missing some setting, I feel like tabbed browsing is very poorly implemented in the stock browser. Its an easy enough fix to add it to the address bar so that you don't have to click through menus.
Opera and Dolphin HD also feel (subjectively) faster to me. Dolphin HD has gestures which is nice...especially the page up and page down.
Being able to jump to the top of a page by taping the top of the screen like in Safari iOS would be nice. Scrolling is kind of a pain in the but on all of the Android browsers I'd tried.

I have Dolphin HD as a secondary browser but I still think stock is so much cleaner.

I use Opera and love it. To be fair, I never really gave the stock one much of a shot because I didn't see an easy way to use tabs (which apparently, there is.)
Opera's UI though is great IMO and it is pretty damn fast. That and syncing with my desktop is nice.

Where is the option for tabs in the stock browser?

I Am Marino said:
Where is the option for tabs in the stock browser?
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Menu > windows
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henhowc said:
Menu > windows
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I know that.
I meant like actual tabs like desktop browsers or Dolphin?

I Am Marino said:
I know that.
I meant like actual tabs like desktop browsers or Dolphin?
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Nope. The stock browser for Android < 3.0 does not have tabs. Only in Honeycomb.

Paul22000 said:
Nope. The stock browser for Android < 3.0 does not have tabs. Only in Honeycomb.
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Didn't think so, someone said something so I had to make sure.
Is there any way to port the Honeycomb browser over by any chance?

i really like opera esp once you set it to desktop user agent....

nolook said:
i really like opera esp once you set it to desktop user agent....
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The stock browser can be set to a number of different user agents, including linux desktop and mac desktop, and ie6 (shudder).

LinuxParadigm said:
The stock browser can be set to a number of different user agents, including linux desktop and mac desktop, and ie6 (shudder).
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I'm using Mac desktop, liking it personally although most differences are subtle at best.

The stock browser is my favourite too. The rest have all the bells and whistles that I don't need, which clutter up the space. If I need to access more than one website ata time, I just open another window.
Good to know I'm not the only one.

[APP] Neat & cool...."Apps2ROM [ROOT]"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDMsImNvbS5scmVuYXVsdC50b29scy5hcHBzMnJvbSJd
Pretty nifty lil tool, thought i'd just share the love...lol.
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Matt

matthew33 said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDMsImNvbS5scmVuYXVsdC50b29scy5hcHBzMnJvbSJd
Pretty nifty lil tool, thought i'd just share the love...lol.
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Matt
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Pretty cool apps. But beware though,
1. Certain apps (paid/full features unlocker, for example) cannot be moved
2. Certain apps such as Elixir2, Poweramp, Rocket Player cannot run
Solution:
1. I use ES File Explorer to uninstall system apps, then reinstall the apps normally

Nice, it works