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now that we have root, what should/shouldn't we kill

would it be wise to compile a list of the bloatware that we should and should not kill, now that we have root? Also, perhaps the best method to deal with it (Freeze, rename, or outright delete)

Here's what I've successfully removed without any problems so far:
Apps 1.02.16
Backup Assistant 2.3.4
Backup Assistant Client 1.0
Blockbuster 0.8
Citrix Receiver 2.1.1059
Ctiy ID 1.1.7
GoToMeeting 1.0
Guided Tours 2.3.4
Help Center 2.3.4
NFL Mobile 4.0
Skype mobile 1.6.0.15
Slacker 2.1.191
V CAST Media Manager 4.2.99.36
V CAST Music 03.72.107
V CAST Tones 4.5.7
V CAST Videos 5.72.005
VZ Navigator 7.1.5.33
ZumoCast 1.0.17
I just uninstalled them all with Titanium Backup. I've restarted the phone a couple times since and had no noticeable issues.

Is your phone running any faster. Also is freezing them the same as deleteing them
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spacecasespiff said:
Is your phone running any faster. Also is freezing them the same as deleteing them
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DO NOT DELETE. Freeze the apps u dont want cuz u wont be able to get updates if u delete apps

patfactorx said:
DO NOT DELETE. Freeze the apps u dont want cuz u wont be able to get updates if u delete apps
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What type of updates? I made backups of everything first so I can go back and restore everything and freeze it instead... I don't know if I want to though as everything seems good so far.

LaTropa64 said:
What type of updates? I made backups of everything first so I can go back and restore everything and freeze it instead... I don't know if I want to though as everything seems good so far.
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OTA updates to the OS.

I just froze stuff. I feel better doing that. Im trying to figure out if its helped my phone.
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Here is a list of stuff I removed by renaming from .apk to .bak
No issues so far...
BooksPhone
Blockbuster
Citrix
CityID
FriendFeed
GoToMeeting
GuidedTours
HelpCenter
IMPresence
Kindle
NewBayVault
NFLMobile
Protips
Skype
SocialMessaging
SocialLocation
SlackerRadio
Swype
VCast
VCast Apps
VCast Music
VCast Tones
VCast Videos
VZ Navigator
VZWIM
YahooContacts
ZumoCast

i see no one has listed DLNA as a safe to freeze. I know it is constantly running on my D3 and am wondering if its safe to freeze or not.

Even after freezing DLNA, like a couple other apps like Task Manager and Voice Commands, it still seemed to stay resident. After doing an actual uninstall and reboot, I was good. (I did get an infinite force close loop, thus requiring the reboot. I seemed to be able to hold the power button and tap the force close then the shutdown item fast enough to avoid needing a battery pull.)
I agree we shouldn't have multiple threads for the same topic. I think we should take further discussion over to the more trafficked one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1235325

djthread said:
Even after freezing DLNA, like a couple other apps like Task Manager and Voice Commands, it still seemed to stay resident. After doing an actual uninstall and reboot, I was good. (I did get an infinite force close loop, thus requiring the reboot. I seemed to be able to hold the power button and tap the force close then the shutdown item fast enough to avoid needing a battery pull.)
I agree we shouldn't have multiple threads for the same topic. I think we should take further discussion over to the more trafficked one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1235325
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Agreed... we should move this over to the other thread.... can one of the mods close this down?

Can anyone upload backups for these files for those of us (ahem) who went a little gung-ho on deleting apps instead of freezing? (meh bad).

haberbe said:
Agreed... we should move this over to the other thread.... can one of the mods close this down?
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Only members with 30+ posts can post to the Dev forum right? This thread serves the new members, like ourselves, who cannot yet post to the Dev forum.

[Q]Deleting Sony Stock apk's

Hi, i wanted to delete the stock apk's off of my sony XZ. I wanted ti get rid of the walkman,unlimted video service play now, etc. would this screw up my phone? Thanks!

Teknohtc said:
Hi, i wanted to delete the stock apk's off of my sony XZ. I wanted ti get rid of the walkman,unlimted video service play now, etc. would this screw up my phone? Thanks!
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i uninstalled play now and another apps i cannot remember
but i like walkman and media apps of sony

Teknohtc said:
Hi, i wanted to delete the stock apk's off of my sony XZ. I wanted ti get rid of the walkman,unlimted video service play now, etc. would this screw up my phone? Thanks!
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Normally it shouldn't but....
Edit: Someone created a topic before, can't find it, he deleted the Playstore APK and Playstore stopped working, so if you're going to delete the stock apk's do it 1 by 1 and test if the app still works after you deleted the apk.

This is why I prefer freezing apps instead of deleting them, using titanium backup. (This does require root.)
Pulls the frozen apps from the menu, but you can unfreeze then on the go and use them again.
Ofcourse also prevents them from automatically starting, hate it when apps run that I do not use.
Kind regards, Stefan.

Thaevil0ne said:
This is why I prefer freezing apps instead of deleting them, using titanium backup. (This does require root.)
Pulls the frozen apps from the menu, but you can unfreeze then on the go and use them again.
Ofcourse also prevents them from automatically starting, hate it when apps run that I do not use.
Kind regards, Stefan.
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Totally agree
Also titanium backup colour apps based on there importance, system app, user app
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I forgot about the titanium option i will do that! I hate when these services start up ramdomly and start running! Maps is one of them!

[Q] Using Root to remove Google Text-to-speech Engine

Hello guys, I am using Pebble watch, which requires the Accessibility mode turned on.
Due to a bug, The TTS always keeps announcing "Page 2 of 4", "The folder is Open/closed"...
I am using a "TTS Stop!" app to quickly kill that process, but its only a temporary measure.
Since Samsung is never going to fix the problem, I want to remove the Google TTS (and Samung too if possible).
I tried to rename the APK in /system/app, but it still works even after reboot.
Please advice, how to REMOVE the damned app?
Thanks!

Use titanium Backup to freeze or uninstall tts

Thanks, your suggestion worked!
Not only that, I think it actually speeds up the phone, which is already lagging badly and begging to be replaced...
Any other services/stuff I can remove to make it work faster?

Carmageddon1984 said:
Thanks, your suggestion worked!
Not only that, I think it actually speeds up the phone, which is already lagging badly and begging to be replaced...
Any other services/stuff I can remove to make it work faster?
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I would say uninstall apps which you don't usually use.

Malware/Antivirus Help

I wanted to know if you guys know any apks for malware or antivirus. I have been getting a lot of pop ups. I installed kapersky and malware bytes but they both do anything.

pop ups when browsing and or apps? Most likely you'll need ad blocking software and or browser extension.

raul6 said:
pop ups when browsing and or apps? Most likely you'll need ad blocking software and or browser extension.
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It seems to be ad pop ups. I would be using an app such as whatsapp or watching a video through my gallery and the add just pops up out nowhere. it has never done that before.

If you get apps from places that are not "trusted sources" many of them have these pop up ads.

Go through and we which apps have Device Admin, Accessibility, and Draw Over Other Apps permissions
Are you using stock Gallery or another app?
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Personally, I do not use any antivirus on my phone. I tried some of them before but finally gave up due to the large consumption to the phone memory which results into a slowdown of system and a faster drain of power. Plus, the major drawbacks of these free AV, like Avira, Kapersky, Bitdefender and more in Top 5 Free Antivirus in 2018, are the ads and popups bundled with them. They keep sending annoying ads and pop-ups during running, and even worse, sometimes they downloaded and installed things automatically.
Thus, if you download apps from playstore, surf the safe websites and connect to a clean outside device, do not bother to install a AV on your phone.

juanfernandez77 said:
It seems to be ad pop ups. I would be using an app such as whatsapp or watching a video through my gallery and the add just pops up out nowhere. it has never done that before.
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It's one of your apps... You'll have to go through the ones you installed recently and uninstall the culprit.

juanfernandez77 said:
It seems to be ad pop ups. I would be using an app such as whatsapp or watching a video through my gallery and the add just pops up out nowhere. it has never done that before.
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so l read this thread awhile back and thought nothing of it ............ until now!
I have "developed" the same Issue! and yes Its definitely an app that has access to "appear on top" and its under Apps> special Access> apps that can appear on top! Now for me to identify the culprit......? only issue though is if you have this issue your most likely the kind of user who experiments and installs several apps at once.... so here goes my trial by elimination process?

Hi had this problem.
I deleted the free APK that I had installed but I was still getting pop ups.
You need to go to settings / apps and right at the end of the list there was a app with no name or app logo.
Deleted it, problem solved.
I tried virus scan apps and nothing found it.
Hope this helps

clax6 said:
Hi had this problem.
I deleted the free APK that I had installed but I was still getting pop ups.
You need to go to settings / apps and right at the end of the list there was a app with no name or app logo.
Deleted it, problem solved.
I tried virus scan apps and nothing found it.
Hope this helps
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Thanks for the advice! I deleted all the apps I installed in the past week and still no success until your post! Issue was starting to really bug me cos I kinda hate the idea that I dont have control over a device I paid for....lol
For anyone in the same position, see attached images if it helps and yes I installed a dodgy APK editor which i deleted but didn't notice this culprit App in the app list!

william-johnson said:
Thanks for the advice! I deleted all the apps I installed in the past week and still no success until your post! Issue was starting to really bug me cos I kinda hate the idea that I dont have control over a device I paid for....lol
For anyone in the same position, see attached images if it helps and yes I installed a dodgy APK editor which i deleted but didn't notice this culprit App in the app list!
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Yeah that's exactly what I saw on my list.

No AV will block an ad. They block known, to them, malware apks. Use something like Addons Detector from G Play store and/or Nice catch from S Galaxy store to list all the apks that have ads modules and then remove those you installed last or don't recognise or need.

Run Malwarebytes.

Question Phone constantly crashing and rebooting issue -> Help

As already mentioned in other Posts, my Vivo X90 Pro Plus is really unstable. As I don't know if I'm the only one having these issues and as it's not so evident, I decided to create a new Post about it.
I quickly installed after receiving the phone Google Play Store like a lot of people I guess, then many apps. I'm using quite a lot the GPS applications, and they seem well working. But the first thing I observed and didn't understand was the WiFi speed. It seems when downloading a big file by WiFi to be slow compared to my other phones even older in technologies and on the same router connection and at the same distance. Then I had a lot of crashes of the phone. A lot during the use of GPS Apps like Google Maps and WAZE, but not only. I was thinking it was due to the Debloat script I applied, but after doing a complete Erase and trying without the script, I observed the same. I did try to take a Log of the OS to check but as I'm not so specialized in these logs, I would need help of someone knowing the Logcat and their readings if possible... Because it's not clear for now if it's Hardware and need to change phone, or Soft or OS... I observed when it start crashing, it can be even every 5 minutes and becoming worst and worst and consumes a lot of the battery without any specific reason.
As it seems I can't attach here the Logcat file, here's the link to it;
iPage
michaelbeghain.com
Thanks a lot

Macguyver1980 said:
after doing a complete Erase and trying without the script, I observed the same.
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You mean the problem is there after a factory reset too (without Google Play and debloat)?

TheMystic said:
You mean the problem is there after a factory reset too (without Google Play and debloat)?
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Without Google Play it's difficult to say, as I can't use the phone without anything installed and I don't speak Chinese. But without the Debloat also, yes.

Macguyver1980 said:
Without Google Play it's difficult to say, as I can't use the phone without anything installed and I don't speak Chinese. But without the Debloat also, yes.
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Then the issue is being caused by Google apps and services. Where did you install those from?
Also, try deleting app data for Android System Webview and Chrome. These have been responsible for several app crashes in the past.

TheMystic said:
Then the issue is being caused by Google apps and services. Where did you install those from?
Also, try deleting app data for Android System Webview and Chrome. These have been responsible for several app crashes in the past.
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I installed once from APKMirror, then once from APKPure. Ok, I'll try to delete datas. Have you seen from the Logcat what was the cause? Thanks

Macguyver1980 said:
I installed once from APKMirror, then once from APKPure. Ok, I'll try to delete datas. Have you seen from the Logcat what was the cause? Thanks
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Isn't it good to use APKPure for the app not available in our region we need in the Google Play Store and we have to update? If you've another proposal...

Macguyver1980 said:
I installed once from APKMirror, then once from APKPure. Ok, I'll try to delete datas. Have you seen from the Logcat what was the cause? Thanks
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Do you check the APKs on VirusTotal before sideloading them?
I haven't seen the logcat as I won't make anything out of it.
I would stay away from apkpure though because I don't trust that site.

Macguyver1980 said:
Without Google Play it's difficult to say, as I can't use the phone without anything installed and I don't speak Chinese. But without the Debloat also, yes.
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What version debloat script did you use?

Hi, that's ok. From the logcat I understood there was an issue with the app "Weather Widget" I installed and got used to and all GPS apps. After removing and cleaning its data, the problem is solved. There are no issues with the apps coming from apkpure. This app was coming from the Google Market and caused this issue. Thanks for your help.
But to refer to a comment, I've indeed yet a lot of error messages related to "Android System Webview" which should be updated when there are no update available. Like for Email checks, it seems often causing issues.