I'm pretty new to the Android world, and I have a few questions.
Whenever I "KILL" an app, it says that it's gone. However, when I launch the task manager up again, the apps are running again. How can I make it so programs like, "IM" or "MOTOPRINT" just never launch at all?
And, I rooted my Droid 4 and got another app named Superuser. What does this do?
iamandrewww said:
I'm pretty new to the Android world, and I have a few questions.
Whenever I "KILL" an app, it says that it's gone. However, when I launch the task manager up again, the apps are running again. How can I make it so programs like, "IM" or "MOTOPRINT" just never launch at all?
And, I rooted my Droid 4 and got another app named Superuser. What does this do?
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The apps you are referring to are system apps. Although Android kills them, Motorola has registered them as services so that they will restart automatically. Freeze IM to make it stay killed (it will essentially uninstall it) but I recommend leaving Motoprint because it is darn useful!
The app named "superuser" is essentially a graphical frontend to the super user permission manager. As you grant or deny applications root or "administrative" access, they will show up in the superuser app so that you can either change that setting or review which apps you have granted or denied system access.
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omniuni said:
The apps you are referring to are system apps. Although Android kills them, Motorola has registered them as services so that they will restart automatically. Freeze IM to make it stay killed (it will essentially uninstall it) but I recommend leaving Motoprint because it is darn useful!
The app named "superuser" is essentially a graphical frontend to the super user permission manager. As you grant or deny applications root or "administrative" access, they will show up in the superuser app so that you can either change that setting or review which apps you have granted or denied system access.
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Relating to freezing apps, the only program I've came around to do this is Titanium Backup Pro. However, it requires you to pay, are there any free ones out there that will allow me to freeze apps? Thankyou.
AntTek App Manager works great for me. AntTek also has what appears to be a pretty decent root file explorer.
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Hi all,
I have a motorola milestone (GSM, Telus) and I was wondering if there is a script or an app to "kill" apps, but not let them restart again. This is similar to something found on cydia (for Iphone and ipod touch) called Sb settings. Within sb settings there is a menu which can kill apps and free memory. When you kill these apps, they do not come back, unless you re-open app. With android, you kill an app, and in an instant they re-appear without you opening it. Is there a script that could block some apps from opening from bootup? Or an app that works like SB settings to kill an app, and not let it re-open again? I think this would free up much more ram on our milestones, especially because we cannot swap. (Because of the locked bootloader)
Edit: Another question: Is there a script that can install apps in a specific folder? E.g. sweeterhome, or other apps not on the market? It is really annoying having to go through titanium backup and having to go through the whole install process (I know its just a few buttons, but with a lot of apps it gets annoying!). This was in GOT OR, but it is now outdated, and there seems to be an option in Androidani Recovery 3.3 but I can't get it to work. Thanks.
Thanks, and any help is appreciated.
1. I personally disable/remove all apps that annoy me. This is espcially true for anything that autoruns. But most task killers (like advanced task kill) have an autokill feature. It kills any apps not in your ignore list at specific intervals or other triggers like low ram.
2. Using froyo based roms, you can install most apps onto sdcard. CM6 based ROMs also offer the option for default install locations.
I believe that you are talking about apps2sd or ext2. This is an older, but more flexible way of doing sd apps installs. I think (not an expert myself) it requires ext2 filesystem support. This in turn requires a kernel module to be loaded. There are many threads active right now about this topic.
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Regarding Q2, I think he wants to install a bunch of .apks from a specific directory in some sort of quiet mode...
I'm not sure this is possible easily, if you've got root-access you may just move them via the console to the required directories...
Search market for autorun manager and read, see if that is what u want , and in froyo kill doesn't kill anymore it more like restart...
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Regarding Q2, I think he wants to install a bunch of .apks from a specific directory in some sort of quiet mode...
I'm not sure this is possible easily, if you've got root-access you may just move them via the console to the required directories...
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Quiet mode? No, I just have various beta apps that I do not want to re-install after I flash a rom.
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I think I was mis-interpreted.
My question was that can I kill an app for good? some autorun even when I don't want them too and when I do kill them from a task killer they just re-appear. I want them too stop once I press kill like iphone.
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Has anyone used this app to freeze system apps? I went with it cause its rating was decent and it was free. It does seem to freeze apps, but it also seems to change the permissions on the app(s) you freeze and then never puts them back to what they were when you un-freeze them. It doesn't seem to hurt anything, but it's kinda weird. I don't want it to botch up all my permissions.
So after rooting I froze a bunch of bloat with Titanium Backup, including DLNA and the DLNA service.
Just noticed this morning that DLNA was still running in the background, about 10 reboots after freezing it. Ti still showed it frozen, but it was definitely active and running. I unfroze it and used root explorer to rename it to dlna.bak, and it immediately FC'd, and I rebooted, and now it's not running, and all is good.
But how is it possible for a frozen app to run itself??
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So after rooting I froze a bunch of bloat with Titanium Backup, including DLNA and the DLNA service.
Just noticed this morning that DLNA was still running in the background, about 10 reboots after freezing it. Ti still showed it frozen, but it was definitely active and running. I unfroze it and used root explorer to rename it to dlna.bak, and it immediately FC'd, and I rebooted, and now it's not running, and all is good.
But how is it possible for a frozen app to run itself??
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It's being invoked as a library from other processes. I've mentioned this a bunch of times before, but there's lots of processes that are acting this way... Task Manager, World Clock, etc.
I have a bloat removal (and restore) script here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238472
It will rename the packages to .bak and then rename back when you undo. Has prompts so you can choose what to keep and what not to keep, etc. I recommend using it to remove bloat instead of trying to freeze.
I'm seeing a general concensus that renaming the apps instead of freezing them is the way to go. I've had luck with this as well with psouza4's script.
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I'm seeing a general concensus that renaming the apps instead of freezing them is the way to go. I've had luck with this as well with psouza4's script.
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Yeah I used psouza4s script im on the leaked ota 5.6.890 and the best way is to rename them to.bak
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Hi All,
I haven't had much luck with the questions I've asked, it's a shame these forums aren't more active but I'll try my luck again (and thanks in advance to all those who read).
A lot of us newbies who want to debloat our phones are unsure what apks to delete and what needs to stay. I've found various lists of apks that others have deleted, but with no indication of what they are exactly are. Some are obvious but others are not.
I, for instance, can't figure out which apk produces Video Unlimited, Smart Connect or Xperia Care Support from looking in system/app with the root browser. Is this even the only place I'd need to delete each apk from to remove it? But I digress.
So there surely must be a way to read each package and view or extract the user-friendly name that appears to the user in the Apps list or in the home screen. Can anyone tell me what it is? I would be very happy to go through each apk and list it out for people to then use as a reference, and we'd have one more resource for newbies to draw on, instead of us just deleting them blindly and/or at random.
Cheers as always,
schnidex
Use ES File Explorer and check the "App" menu. You will be able to see the apps by its user-friendly name, and clicking on each one you will see its package name.
- Install ES File Explorer from the Play Store (it's free)
- Press the hamburger menu (located up-left -> Library -> App)
- You will see user apps, then you can click on the menu and check system apps or all apps installed.
If you are rooted, you may uninstall system apps from there (long press, uninstall located down-left).
BarajaVLC said:
Use ES File Explorer and check the "App" menu. You will be able to see the apps by its user-friendly name, and clicking on each one you will see its package name.
- Install ES File Explorer from the Play Store (it's free)
- Press the hamburger menu (located up-left -> Library -> App)
- You will see user apps, then you can click on the menu and check system apps or all apps installed.
If you are rooted, you may uninstall system apps from there (long press, uninstall located down-left).
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The problem is not in knowing which APK belongs to which app (and sometimes one APK is several apps at once - like Google+, and you need to know it, and sometimes you don't see an app at all for the APK, like for most system APKs). The problem is knowing what the app actually does, which parts of the system rely on it being present, and how well will these parts behave if the app is removed (vs disabled, which is a normal way to deal with unwanted apps). And this is where "debloating" can do more harm than good.
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The problem is not in knowing which APK belongs to which app (and sometimes one APK is several apps at once - like Google+, and you need to know it, and sometimes you don't see an app at all for the APK, like for most system APKs). The problem is knowing what the app actually does, which parts of the system rely on it being present, and how well will these parts behave if the app is removed (vs disabled, which is a normal way to deal with unwanted apps). And this is where "debloating" can do more harm than good.
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True in many ways, but my primary concern was removing the apps that appear in the app drawer. This seems to handle that perfectly.
Hello all, I'm a new user here and I have a question about my new amazon tablet. I know that you can't uninstall the annoying preinstalled apps through the OS alone. I know that rooting is an option, but I'd rather wait because I just got this tablet and it'd suck if I bricked it already. There's an app that I downloaded called CCleaner, and I went to an app management option in this app and it lists the preinstalled as system apps, and gives the option to uninstall them. I just want to know if it's safe too do so, that it won't brick/implode my device or make it so I can't access Amazon's features. I can send a pic of the app for reference, thanking people in advance
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Hello all, I'm a new user here and I have a question about my new amazon tablet. I know that you can't uninstall the annoying preinstalled apps through the OS alone. I know that rooting is an option, but I'd rather wait because I just got this tablet and it'd suck if I bricked it already. There's an app that I downloaded called CCleaner, and I went to an app management option in this app and it lists the preinstalled as system apps, and gives the option to uninstall them. I just want to know if it's safe too do so, that it won't brick/implode my device or make it so I can't access Amazon's features. I can send a pic of the app for reference, thanking people in advance
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CCleaner is a good app. Although is says uninstall most likely it will simply disable system apps on an unrooted device as it doesn't have permissions to uninstall. Start with something benign like the Kindle app. Then move on from there, one app at a time. Good luck.