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Delete stock apps

On some phones deleting some stock services cause trouble. For example, deleting TouchWiz on Samsung phones cause the stock ROM to have problems. If you wont be replacing the stock ROM, I'd suggest just hiding them.
 
Where's a list of which apps are which? I see some that I suspect are Wallpapers and I don't really need those and animated backgrounds, either.
I'm vain enough to stick a photo of Canyonlands that I took and prefer to anything commercial.
 
Google "apps safe to remove", lots of info at XDA. If you're rooted, install App Quarantine, and you can Quarantine as many as you want to see which ones might give you issues if removed. You can also freeze apps with Titanium paid version.
 
tcat007 said:
Google "apps safe to remove", lots of info at XDA. If you're rooted, install App Quarantine, and you can Quarantine as many as you want to see which ones might give you issues if removed. You can also freeze apps with Titanium paid version.
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Not only that, to make sure an app is safe to remove if youre not sure just rename it. For instance, calc.apk would be renamed to calc.apk.bak
 
I did read post - but I still want to know if these apps are wallpapers.. ChocoEUkor 1.0 and there's another similar called Rose. Titanium does have a yellow triangle, but I've frozen some that made no difference, like Drive and Home from TMO. Some of those you need to pay a fee to use, and I'd rather not incur a fee by accident. Some also say not to remove Telenav GPS, but that's a register for account, and I won't register and pay for. So what does it do if it isn't registered and activated? That's another curiosity - I'm not proposing deleting it.

There are quite a few apps from either Samsung or TMO that need a registration. Maybe most people do automatically register, I don't unless I actually need the app. So do these apps still run in the background or what if they aren't registered?

Not registering and freezing an app are 2 different things. Is there a law that says you HAVE to register everything on the phone? This would also apply to non-rooted phones, too.
 
What do you mean by "registering"? The only thing I ever registered on a phone is my Google email account. Any app that's on a phone should work as long as you have a Google account (and many work without it). If you don't use it and are not rooted, you can hide it (with some Launchers). Only way to get rid of bloatware is to root and use something like Titanium. What do you mean you've frozen some and made no difference? They still start up?

I have many apps "quarantined" (like Android Live Wallpaers, Music Visualization Wallpapers, Soundback, Talkback, gallery, email, gmail, market updater, and few more), these apps don't start and give me no problems. I'll probably delete most if I start running out of space, but I have plenty of that, so quarantine is adequate.
 
Hey tcat007 dont forget kobo I mean why Samsung had to install this stupid book reader and make it so one needs root to get rid of it man is it ever hair pulling.
 
Register? I own a Samsung phone and I have basically opened up every app here and the only thing I registered was a Google account, and technically I did not register but just logged in that, as I already had a Google account prior to buying my first Android phone.
 
I tapped on that Telenav and you have to accept terms to use the service. I didn't agree with terms, so didn't accept and it's just sitting there. To me, that's the same as registration since it has rights on your phone. I dislike GPS unless for astronomy and weather. Easier to print a street map. I don't like being talked at by AI. A passenger usually has to deal with the Garmin.

As for Google - how many registrations do you need? I can access everything through gmail account, even buy apps, but I have to send an SMS to use Blogger? They've got all the info already! The Coby tablet has no network connection! Wifi only.

No, I froze some with the yellow triangles like bluetooth. I don't care for bluetooth and don't use it. It hasn't bothered anything else. I just got tired of hitting the wrong tab at times. The photo reducer I use has 50 ways to share. And I'd hit bluetooth by mistake, and there is no STOP button on the phone. Have to wait until the app can't load and you get an error message before going back to the original menu.
 
zuben el genub said:
I tapped on that Telenav and you have to accept terms to use the service. I didn't agree with terms, so didn't accept and it's just sitting there. To me, that's the same as registration since it has rights on your phone. I dislike GPS unless for astronomy and weather. Easier to print a street map. I don't like being talked at by AI. A passenger usually has to deal with the Garmin.

As for Google - how many registrations do you need? I can access everything through gmail account, even buy apps, but I have to send an SMS to use Blogger? They've got all the info already! The Coby tablet has no network connection! Wifi only.

No, I froze some with the yellow triangles like bluetooth. I don't care for bluetooth and don't use it. It hasn't bothered anything else. I just got tired of hitting the wrong tab at times. The photo reducer I use has 50 ways to share. And I'd hit bluetooth by mistake, and there is no STOP button on the phone. Have to wait until the app can't load and you get an error message before going back to the original menu.
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Pretty to me means ugly, so does that mean whenever someone says a girl is pretty, she's ugly? Registering something is way different than accepting terms of use, but if it's the same to you, so be it.

As for everything else you said, not sure what your point is :confused:
 
I believe his point is, if he doesn't like the "permissions", he won't use the app. In that case, there are almost no apps to use. If you have a Google email account, you've already accepted:
Your personal information
read contact data, write contact data
Network communication
view network state, full Internet access
Your accounts
discover known accounts, manage the accounts list, use the authentication credentials of an account, view configured accounts, Google mail
Storage
modify/delete SD card contents
Hardware controls
control vibrator
System tools
read sync settings, automatically start at boot, read subscribed feeds, write subscribed feeds, prevent phone from sleeping, write sync settings
Extra
com.google.android.gm.permission.READ_GMAIL, com.google.android.gm.permission.WRITE_GMAIL, com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES, com.google.android.gm.permission.AUTO_SEND, com.google.android.voicesearch.AUDIO_FILE_ACCESS

If you don't accept permissions, you can't use the app. In most cases all are needed if you want the app to work... like a browser needs an internet connection... etc... I pretty much accept anything from the market with over 100,000 downloads, over 1000 ratings, and over a 4.0 score.
 
Registration and Accepting terms of use is two way different things. Registration is when you give your data to someone/something to gain access to something. Terms of use is just telling you, in what ways the data can be used and to what extent you can get to use the data they provide you. Even your home appliances comes with terms of usage. Each app is a product, and every product has its own terms of use.

You can think of it like your computer. You have to agree to Microsoft's terms of use when you load Windows (same for Mac), then you also have to agree to Google's terms of use to load Chrome.
 
chanchan05 said:
Registration and Accepting terms of use is two way different things. Registration is when you give your data to someone/something to gain access to something. Terms of use is just telling you, in what ways the data can be used and to what extent you can get to use the data they provide you. Even your home appliances comes with terms of usage. Each app is a product, and every product has its own terms of use.

You can think of it like your computer. You have to agree to Microsoft's terms of use when you load Windows (same for Mac), then you also have to agree to Google's terms of use to load Chrome.
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Exactly!
 
tcat007 said:
I believe his point is, if he doesn't like the "permissions", he won't use the app. In that case, there are almost no apps to use. If you have a Google email account, you've already accepted:
Your personal information
read contact data, write contact data
Network communication
view network state, full Internet access
Your accounts
discover known accounts, manage the accounts list, use the authentication credentials of an account, view configured accounts, Google mail
Storage
modify/delete SD card contents
Hardware controls
control vibrator
System tools
read sync settings, automatically start at boot, read subscribed feeds, write subscribed feeds, prevent phone from sleeping, write sync settings
Extra
com.google.android.gm.permission.READ_GMAIL, com.google.android.gm.permission.WRITE_GMAIL, com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES, com.google.android.gm.permission.AUTO_SEND, com.google.android.voicesearch.AUDIO_FILE_ACCESS

If you don't accept permissions, you can't use the app. In most cases all are needed if you want the app to work... like a browser needs an internet connection... etc... I pretty much accept anything from the market with over 100,000 downloads, over 1000 ratings, and over a 4.0 score.
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You can use LBE Privacy manager if you're rooted to revoke app permissions.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lbe.security&feature=search_result
 
It's not so much about permissions. It was said somewhere in this forum DO NOT REMOVE TELNAV. My question is, what's the difference if you don't use something by not registering or giving permission, and freezing it? Logically, it looks like if you don't agree, app doesn't run, so it's the same as not even having the app.
 
As for Windows - years ago you had no browser choice. Everything needed IE. There was a shell program called Lite, or a hack that could disable IE.

If you ran no other MS programs, you never missed it.

Found an AV that ran on Winsock.dll. Same for other security features. Ran Corel and Adobe only. Maybe it was a misuse of Windows, but too bad. They didn't lose any money since I bought the OS. Computer was custom built generic, not brand name.
 
I'm guessing, if it's on your phone, you given it permission. If it's not frozen, it can start on it own, it can sync... I never gave at least 10 apps that came on my phone "permissions", but they were starting, so I Quarantined them (same as freezing). If you buy a phone, I believe you gave the apps on it permission at one point (read the "fine print").

zuben el genub said:
It's not so much about permissions. It was said somewhere in this forum DO NOT REMOVE TELNAV. My question is, what's the difference if you don't use something by not registering or giving permission, and freezing it? Logically, it looks like if you don't agree, app doesn't run, so it's the same as not even having the app.
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