I flashed Overcome 4.1.0, and it's fast and furious, it's nice, but it's missing some of the old apps from my original AT&T ROM. I know some of it was bloatware, but the word processor, and especially the music player, I'd like to get those back on the tab. Is there a way?
When I used Titanium Backup it didn't get those, only the third party apps.
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Hello,
I've got a Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini (GT-i8190). I love that phone's size, the 4" screen and the cpu&ram&storage spaces are enough for me.
But (!)
I hate touchwiz. It's lagging, it's have some ugly icons, functions, and GUI elements. I love the HTC's Sense gui, and the android 4.2's stock gui is clean, logical, and pretty too. I tried to use some of launchers but using a launcher is not a solution, because these launchers uses more of RAM (and the Samsung apps are running in the background). I'd like to use a SGS3 Mini with original android OS without any idiot samsung apps.
Is there a solution for that? What about CyanogenMod? I know they have an alpha5 version, but if I install that rom, I won't be able to use my phone as a phone...
Thanks,
Richard
If you are rooted, you can remove Samsung Apps with Titanium Backup or some other app altogether with Touch Wiz launcher and install whatever launcher (Holo, Go, etc) you like.
Today the first usable version of CyanogenMod was released by macław at www.maclaw.pl, give it a try if bugs don't scare you.
Aside TB and freezing bloatware as already suggested, Root is a must, then do some read and eventually deodex and install enox theme, install Nova prime or any other good launcher and choose icon theme of your choice. No memory hogging etc and all the same you can have great looking and performing interface...
So I'm rooted with a full nandroid and I'm ready to remove all the bloatware..
Are there any apps that shouldn't be removed? If I remember correctly, the og Evo had some problems if you removed the stocks, or news app, I forget which one.
I just switched from a Note 2 and on that thing you can pretty much delete whatever you want without affecting Touchwiz. Hoping I can do the same with the One.
I haven't seen, yet, a list of what I can safely remove from the stock version of this phone. Obviously, its rooted and I am using RomToolbox Pro for software removal/freezing. I have removed the t-mobile crap and some of the other basics like calculator, calendar, some google stuff but what else can I get rid of without causing my phone to need to be reflashed or worse, trashed? I want to go as lite as possible and I like to replace things with better 3rd party apps as I did with the calculator, calendar and alarm thus far.
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I haven't seen, yet, a list of what I can safely remove from the stock version of this phone. Obviously, its rooted and I am using RomToolbox Pro for software removal/freezing. I have removed the t-mobile crap and some of the other basics like calculator, calendar, some google stuff but what else can I get rid of without causing my phone to need to be reflashed or worse, trashed? I want to go as lite as possible and I like to replace things with better 3rd party apps as I did with the calculator, calendar and alarm thus far.
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Even Better, there's a flashable zip that doesn't just have lists, it can remove the apps for you.
Check out ROM Cleaner.
I got a new wifi S2, installed the permissive kernel and rooted it. I installed TWRP and made a backup. Now I've got an uninstall app and I've removed a few things; primarily Knox and the security logger so that it quits whining at me. I have a strong desire to never ever use the cloud, create a Samsung account, or a Google account. I really just want to load some books onto it and DLNA some music and videos.
So I want to get rid of all the stuff that I'll never be able to use but it's not clear to me how to identify all that. I'm a long time Unix guy but not at all an android guy. If something prompts me to create an account I know I want to uninstall it, but damned if I can figure out how to identify what to uninstall from what icon I touched.
I've found bloatware lists but they're all somewhat old and not for the S2, so it's not clear to me if I should trust them. I'd like to avoid trial and error "uninstall and reinstall if something doesn't work" or the even more dreaded "uninstall and find out six months later that something doesn't work". Can anyone point me at a good list of what I can remove, or where I can figure out how to determine that for myself? Thanks.
Better start freezen apps instead of uninstalling them. I use titanium backup for that, but you can use whatever you like. Just be carefull freezing or uninstalling OS related apps, you can end in a bootloop, but you always have the odin flash method to reflash your system back to normal. Just don't play around with partitions or /dev .
Right now I using my tablet unrooted and untouched, so I can't be more specific which apps you can freeze without problems.
He doesn't need odin as he has a twrp backup.
I take it you are using System App Remover (root) to uninstall system apps? If so you are pretty safe as they are backed up and can be restored any time if something goes wrong.
Also are you aware without a Google account you will lose part of the functionality of an Android device?
Samsungs account you can do without. All that stuff related to it can be deleted, but don't advise removing any of the Google core services from the stock rom.
If you really want a GAPPless rom then you're better off with a non stock custom rom like CM or AOSP.
Not much in that area of development at the moment, but there are a couple of members working on it.
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He doesn't need odin as he has a twrp backup.
I take it you are using System App Remover (root) to uninstall system apps? If so you are pretty safe as they are backed up and can be restored any time if something goes wrong.
Also are you aware without a Google account you will lose part of the functionality of an Android device?
Samsungs account you can do without. All that stuff related to it can be deleted, but don't advise removing any of the Google core services from the stock rom.
If you really want a GAPPless rom then you're better off with a non stock custom rom like CM or AOSP.
Not much in that area of development at the moment, but there are a couple of members working on it.
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Yes, thanks. If I lose functionality to avoid Google watching over my shoulder I'm all for it. I'm old and probably overprotective of what's my business and not theirs. In truth, I bought the S2 because I have a collection of chess book pdf's and djvu's that I want to be able to read while I'm sitting at my chess board. I got the 9.7 inch S2 because the old eyes aren't what they used to be. Anything I can do beyond that is icing on the cake.
I do have the app remover, and I've removed the stuff that was obvious to me (like the Microsoft Office stubs). But there are still lots of things that bring up a prompt for an account when I run them and it's not clear to me how to figure out what app to remove to get rid of that particular thing. On Linux I could use rpm -q to figure out what rpm contained a file I want to remove and I'd be good to go. I've tried googling some of the app names but the "descriptions" I end up finding are particularly unenlightening. And since this is definitely not my area of expertise I don't really want to operate in "let's remove this and see what happens" even if I can reinstall the app from its backup. I've been doing software development and sysadmin for more than 35 years now and that just doesn't seem like the way to approach this.
I was looking at CM, which seems like it might be what I'm looking for, but it's still in alpha and my skill level is probably not up to coping with that so I'm back with the problem of how to decide what to get rid of.
I haven't been around in a while... I recently just rooted on A11 and was wondering how I could make a backup without TWRP?
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I haven't been around in a while... I recently just rooted on A11 and was wondering how I could make a backup without TWRP?
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Welcome back stranger. I enable all Google's backup capability, use Titanium Backup and Nova Launcher. I ONLY use TiBu for non-Play Store apps. It is configured to NOT back up any system apps nor ANY apps downloaded from the Store. I keep a zipfile of the TiBu folder offline on my PC about once a month, or just before wiping the phone. I use Nova Launcher's backup for home screen, widgets and shortcuts. From a wiped phone condition I allow Google backup to restore everything it can, and it works pretty damn well for me... but I don't use my phone for gaming. Secondly, I use TiBu to restore only "misssing" apps. Once all my apps are back on the phone, I use a Nova Launcher backup and everything is back the way I had it before. Is it as good or easy as a nandroid? No, but it's the best results I've found with the least amount of hassle. Best of luck!
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Welcome back stranger. I enable all Google's backup capability, use Titanium Backup and Nova Launcher. I ONLY use TiBu for non-Play Store apps. It is configured to NOT back up any system apps nor ANY apps downloaded from the Store. I keep a zipfile of the TiBu folder offline on my PC about once a month, or just before wiping the phone. I use Nova Launcher's backup for home screen, widgets and shortcuts. From a wiped phone condition I allow Google backup to restore everything it can, and it works pretty damn well for me... but I don't use my phone for gaming. Secondly, I use TiBu to restore only "misssing" apps. Once all my apps are back on the phone, I use a Nova Launcher backup and everything is back the way I had it before. Is it as good or easy as a nandroid? No, but it's the best results I've found with the least amount of hassle. Best of luck!
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Thanks for the detailed reply dude! Yeah, so google backup really does it's job well when it comes to that. The only discrepancy I've found is that going from stock to ROM it doesn't necessarily bring back the homescreen to what it was. But that brings me to my next point. I believe that's because of the launcher pixel dust uses. I haven't used nova launcher in YEARS. How is it? The backup feature sounds nice. Maybe I'll backup all my stuff and move over to A12 w/ nova launcher and custom kernel instead. But so far I am really liking the pixel dust ROM.
What are you running?
Running stock, Nova, EX kernel here. Nova Launcher's backup feature that includes home screen, all shortcuts, widgets, etc. is a HUGE time saver. Of course it backs up your own custom launcher settings too. It will back up to your cloud account easily in case you are wiping the phone. Just run it last after restoring all your Store apps and "non-market" apps. I run stock because there is nothing the other ROMs have that I need. The exception is legacy devices that are no longer supported. Good luck!