Benefits of Converting a User App to a System App?

[andoird213]

Hi all,

In Titanium Backup there is an option to convert user apps to system apps. Anyone have any reason why one might do this? I thought it might better performance, but I converted Chrome to a system app and it's just as slow as it was before haha. So does anyone have any pros (or cons)?

Thanks!

 

[Hadron]

Space: if you have wasted space in your /system partition and are short of space in /data (the user app and app data partition) you may gain by moving some useful but rarely updated apps to /system.
Don't do it unless you know you have space there.

I don't think there is any real point otherwise.

 

[T.M.M.L]

Greetings Patriot,

I agree with Hadron. I think that space is probably the only "benefit" of this action.

I'm no Dev, but I think that the only thing different from system and user apps, is the fact that system apps can't be deleted without root. Any Dev feel free to correct me if I've given incorrect info.

EDIT...

Well if could come in handy if you do a full factory reset. Any apps in the system folder do not get deleted.

 

[andoird213]

Makes sense! Thank you both!