as usual, Samsung and att saw fit to bloat even the browser bookmarks. I've been able to remove these on my previous phones, s3, note 2, s4, s3 mini (work phone) but with this phone locked up I can't figure it out.
I've got ads blocked with adblock plus, if I could just figure out how to kill of those bookmarks I'd be a happy camper.
My only suggestion would be to not use the stock browser. That thing is disgusting. The first thing I do on any phone is install Chrome. All my bookmarks, autofills, passwords, etc are automatically synced between my laptop and phone. It just makes life easier.
But yeah, it's pretty ridiculous you can't even delete bookmarks without root now. That's a whole new level of being locked down.
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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.
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I am running a N7100 with no Samsung apps, using OmniROM (4.4.2). My first smartwatch was a sony using a pretty slim manager, that didn't require any separate app store or anything funky. Now I got that gear watch for xmas and I am pretty annoyed as it took me some time to figure out that the GearManager is pretty much bound to samsung libraries and stuff (and an APK in /system/apps/ )
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Now the big question: Is there any way to get notifications and stuff running without installing tons of software on the phone?
I'm not sure about the other phones, but with the note 3, the current gear manager can let you push any notification that would normally show in the task bar, to show up on the gear. I think there are some issues with secure emails, but most should work without anything else other than gear manager.
Now I say I'm not sure about other phones besides the note 3, because they were all added to the compatibility list later, and not sure if there could be something that's not been ironed out yet.
If your wanting notifications without gear manager though, your out of luck without some serious modifying, if it's even possible at all.
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I'm running one of the CM 11 nightlies with no Samsung bloatware at all on my phone, alas it's an unsupported Galaxy Nexus.
After fiddling with the individual Gear apps and Gear Manager, I'm able to get contacts, call logs (and incoming call notifications), TripIt and a few other tidbits working, but not much else.
Gear Manager seemingly works fine on my phone (sans a few crucial items like weather), but even after selecting additional notifications like Hangouts and Gmail, they don't show up on the phone.
Even with all of the provider apks installed and the phone / watch being paired, there's still a lot of missing functionality. My guess is that a lot of that Samsung "bloatware" handles a lot of this functionality, and (at least for now) it's baked into the OS and is required if you want full use of the Gear.
aviguera said:
Even with all of the provider apks installed and the phone / watch being paired, there's still a lot of missing functionality. My guess is that a lot of that Samsung "bloatware" handles a lot of this functionality, and (at least for now) it's baked into the OS and is required if you want full use of the Gear.
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... and that's maybe one of the reasons for the stock firmware of samsung being a memory hog, slowing down the devices by eating much too much RAM.
Looks like there's no clean solution in sight...
cb5264 said:
... and that's maybe one of the reasons for the stock firmware of samsung being a memory hog, slowing down the devices by eating much too much RAM.
Looks like there's no clean solution in sight...
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Yes there is use a bloat cleaner script, heaps available.. or simply delete the apps you dont use like I do. :good:
Bought a Mini 2 yesterday. Rooted, used Titanium Backup to restore my apps and settings from my One XL, and used HTC Transfer to get text messages, contacts, etc. All seemed good...until I tried to set up ringtones. The phone ringtone was fine, as it would allow me to browse for any audio file I wanted, but when selecting the ringtone for notifications, Facebook, etc I just got a blank list. There was absolutely nothing there. After fiddling for a bit, I managed to get some custom audio to show up, but still none of the default stuff and even then files were wandering in and out of visibility.
No big deal, as I eventually got everything set up right. I installed AdFree, which recommended rebooting. So I did. And it reset a bunch of my settings, including the ringtones I'd spent all last night setting up, and deleted the text I got this morning (all other texts, which were originally from my previous handset, were untouched). So I went to set up the ringtones again, only to find that all the default ringtones were readily available, as were my custom ones, all in the one list. But I still had ads, so AdFree was apparently not doing anything.
I don't recall exactly what I did after that, but I was reading through the manual and fiddling with a few things, and when it got to the bit about sliding right or left from the lock screen to get to certain home pages, I went to try it...and it demanded I swipe up, refusing to work if I did anything else. And I had no lock screen shortcuts.
I've also lost the default HTC wallpapers; when selecting that option I just get a blank screen.
What on earth is going on?
I opened AdFree and updated, and the ads disappeared. Rebooted the phone, and they came back. And now I can't get rid of them at all.
I've also lost the ability to add lock screen widgets. The only thing I can do from the lock screen is swipe up, either from the padlock icon to unlock the phone at the screen at which it was locked, or from just below the padlock to open a Google search.
Does anyone have any ideas?
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I opened AdFree and updated, and the ads disappeared. Rebooted the phone, and they came back. And now I can't get rid of them at all.
I've also lost the ability to add lock screen widgets. The only thing I can do from the lock screen is swipe up, either from the padlock icon to unlock the phone at the screen at which it was locked, or from just below the padlock to open a Google search.
Does anyone have any ideas?
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Yeah...hard reset, and dont install AdFree app. it seems its causing all the problems. If you don't like ads, use a firewall instead.
I personally recommend and use Data Defender. But there are others.
PS:Also if the app requires internet, live with the adds and support the developer.
Good Luck
How will the hard reset affect the root?
What does data defender do, just prevent apps connecting to the internet? I find most of the in-app ads less intrusive than the web browser ones. Snopes in particular throws up a full-screen pop-up on every page, which is just obnoxious.
ETA: Actually, it's not AdFree that's causing issues (or at least it's not just AdFree), as the default ringtones/notifications/alarms were inaccessible before I installed it. It was only after installing it that they came back.
Hard reset shouldn't unroot your phone
If you prevent apps from accessing internet, there won't be any ads.
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Seems to mostly be working, but I've lost the ability to use custom notifications for Messages, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and twicca. If I use ES File Explorer to choose a file, I get a 'wrong filetype' error, despite the fact that the audio is in the same format as the default notification audio (FLAC). If I choose Media Storage, it just shows the default sounds with none of my custom sounds. Previously, I'd somehow managed to get my custom sounds to show up in that list.
EDIT: Figured it out. Had to move/copy the files into the 'notifications' folder on the SD card. Don't recall having done that previously, so I have no idea how I'd got it working before, but it seems like it's all good now.
I was surprised to see these apps installed especially since I don't my tablet for business. And the thing that made me angry was that I'm not allowed to uninstall them, just disable them.
These apps are not small, I think they're around 700+ MB combined.
Anyone got this also?
Root, remove or use custom recovery.
Was wondering if I'm doing this right or not.
Normally when I upgrade to another Samsung device , power on the new device go through the motions then after done I use Samsung smartswitch. Any better methods?
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If you can its better to do a new setup like only restore photos and contacts the rest do it manually in most cases setting up a fresh clean runs smoothly than restoring from backup
The only thing that get's backed up for me is my contacts and photos from my Google account. I've always liked doing a fresh install on new phones, not really sure if they run better or not. Little more time to set up but I kind of enjoy it.
I usually use Smart Switch to transfer only messages (SMS/MMS) and apps.
I do not have it bring settings across. Contacts, emails, browser book marks are all sync'ed to my Gmail Account. And Samsung internet browser book marks are also sych'ed to my samsung account.
Then I manually configure my favorite settings, widgets, short cuts, and launcher.
I'll use smartswitch, then use Helium to move apps AND their data over after smartswitch has done it's thing. I have a ton of apps that I need the data to migrate and since we can't root the only way to do that now is Helium. It is slow and clunky compared to Titanium, but at least it works (knock on wood don't want to jinx it), or has in the past with some effort and time.
It takes quite a bit of time (many hours) to get everything from my old phone to a new one. Part of me wishes I hadn't upgraded just so I don't have to go through the process. Oh well.
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Want to Backup and restore data from note 8, my suggestion is android assistant tool. With its help, you can backup & restore data on note 8 within one-click. And it's easy and safe.
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Why not just use the built in tool the phone maker provided built in? The software you pointed to, probably skims your data and sells it. Their Terms of Service and Privacy Policy are sketchy as heck!!! What info do they reserve the right to share and with whom? It doesn't even give clear definition of that info, and they don't even give a list of who their "3rd party affiliates" are.