How do I kill verizon spam apps?

[ducpiloti]

I am unable to kill verizon and amazon spam apps namely:

Settings > Application Manager > Running: and this is what I see:

Note - I have already force terminated all of them but they seem to magically come back from the dead even though I have not re-started the app.

Amazon MP3 (1 process, 1 service) 15MB
Amazon (2 processes 2 services) 20MB
Verizon Location Agent (1 process, 1 service) 11MB
Sync Service (1 process, 1 service) 4.1MB

Since the unit has 3GB of ram and the above is only 50MB I am not too concerned about RAM, what I am concerned about is CPU cycles used by background processes.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

You have to be rooted to remove the preinstalled apps. Fortunately there is a link to a guide and a video for the Verizon phone in this thread in the All Things Root forum http://androidforums.com/galaxy-note-3-all-things-root/781940-verizon-note-3-rooted-knox-0x0.html.

 

[Dagr]

You can easily disable them... This effectively hides them. .. Just long press the app from the app browser and choose disable. They are still installed but will not run.