Root deleting bloat and reading file sizes...

[sushifor5]

I want to delete some bloatware, like Ubersocial and Scavenger, etc. I have them frozen, but Ubersocial and VM Downloads keeps updating and showing up in my apps folder.

I've read some people say deleting bloatware will not free any internal phone storage, some people say it will. If the apps take up mb space and I delete them, why would I not gain space? Just curious...

Anyway, after deleting, I'd like to look around in my files to make sure they are gone. So, how would I do that and what would I be looking for exactly? I have androzip and will be downloading Super Tool Box soon so should have a file explorer.

TIA!

 

[nitestalkr]

if it doesn't show in your app drawer,.then its gone, you can also check your app manager to make sure. and deleting bloat ware, does in fact free up some space, whoever told you, or said that it doesn't, probably don't know very much about what they are talking about.

 

[keonikapila]

I want to delete some bloatware, like Ubersocial and Scavenger, etc. I have them frozen, but Ubersocial and VM Downloads keeps updating and showing up in my apps folder.

I've read some people say deleting bloatware will not free any internal phone storage, some people say it will. If the apps take up mb space and I delete them, why would I not gain space? Just curious...

Anyway, after deleting, I'd like to look around in my files to make sure they are gone. So, how would I do that and what would I be looking for exactly? I have androzip and will be downloading Super Tool Box soon so should have a file explorer.

TIA!

I've only had my OV for about a month, but I have some experience with linux and these are just my observations:

The phone's internal drive has a few separate partitions. The "internal memory" typically is referring to the /data partition. This is the user accessible space where apps from the market are installed.

The "bloatware" is installed on the /system partition and so doesn't affect the amount of free space available to the user in the /data partition.

Now, when bloatware apps get updated through the market, the updates get installed to the /data partition (the /system partition is read only, so updates can't be installed here AND apps that live here can't be uninstalled by traditional means)

So if any of your bloatware apps have been updated, THEN removing them will free up "internal" space--because you'll be removing the original files from the /system partition AND the updated files from the /data partition. If the bloatware apps on you phone have never been updated through the market, then removing them is only going to free up space on the /system partition.