hello all

[MasterJoda]

Hey guys,
another newbie converted from IPhone 3GS.
Was fed up with jailbreaking to be able to do anything with the phone (was good device, though, but I hate Apple & iTunes).
Anyway, I am super pleased to have joined the Android community, I love it, as much as my jailbroken Iphone.
The only thing that bothers me, is that I will have to root my phone, so I can get rid of these system aps from Samsung & orange, that run in the background, use resources and battery for nothing...

So I guess you will see me in the rooting pages!


J

 

[scary alien]

Welcome to the AndroidForums, MasterJoda.

Glad to have you here with us at AF...this is a great site and I'm sure you'll learn and contribute a lot, too. Here's you phone's home forum in case you haven't yet found it:

Samsung Galaxy S2 - Android Forums

By the way, I've rooted both of my phones and have yet to have removed any of the bloatware. For the most part, if you don't start them up or use them, they don't really consume any significant system resources. Android's pretty good at only giving "focus" to the apps that are currently in-use or have recently been used. You may see that these bloatware apps are up and running and have memory "assigned" to them, but Android will re-allocate any memory being used by background apps to those that are truly active. And, you've got a beast of a phone that you are unlikely to notice any significant change anyway.

A rooting tip for you just in case you do decide to remove any bloatware apps is to "freeze" them instead of deleting them. Freezing basically tells Android that these are are inactive and can not be started. There are several apps that can help do this like Titanium Backup and Root Explorer (there's also a free app that has this capability, but its name escapes me now). You could also rename the apps by simply adding a ".bak" extension to it.

Freezing and renaming are much preferred alternatives to deleting since you'll still have the apps on your phone and will not have to retrieve them or re-install them should you need to have them present (which is usually the case when an over-the-air (OTA) system update comes around with a new version of Android.

But all of the above has still not kept me from rooting my devices .

Cheers and again, welcome to AF !

 

[Martimus]

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