HTC Desire HD - Bloatware?

[eddiewawa]

hey all i was wondering the levels of bloatware providers are shoehorning onto the DHD? could some of you guys (esp UK users) share an insight into voda's, tmobs, orange's etc attempts to cripple our phones? thanks in advance!

 

[dvhttn]

VF upgrade - but from CPW so unbranded and unlocked. So nothing so far. Someone did come out with the suggestion that the carriers may load some bloat in the future via an OTA update but noone knows as yet ...

Dave

 

[SpencerUk]

Don't come with any network crap on so far, but you have

Adobe Reader
Amazon MP3
Sound Hound
Twitter

Pre-installed

 

[eddiewawa]

hey guys, thanks for the above! It's just ive heard horror stories with the orginal desire when it was released with orange and 3uk, and the plethora of carrier bloatware that was installed...so was curious to see if the carriers will take a hands off approach and advertise applications on the market instead? end of the day, it should be consumer choice

 

[EddyOS]

As yet, there are 2 operator ROMs available - 3 UK and o2 Germany - although I've not heard of anyone having either of these. Seems HTC are just rolling out WWE DHDs

 

[Lalaland]

VF upgrade - but from CPW so unbranded and unlocked. So nothing so far. Someone did come out with the suggestion that the carriers may load some bloat in the future via an OTA update but noone knows as yet ...

Dave

You can relax in the knowledge that the service providers cannot touch your installed apps or firmware if you've got an unbranded handset.

 

[Lalaland]

Don't come with any network crap on so far, but you have

Adobe Reader
Amazon MP3
Sound Hound
Twitter

Pre-installed

I've already removed Amazon MP3 and Sound Hound from my Desire. I never used them so I wanted them off and it wasn't hard to get rid of them.

If anyone gets a handset with bloatware on it that they don't want they can simply root it (see the one click rooting in the rooting section of this site for DHD) and use a tool like Titanium Backup Pro to either freeze or remove the bloatware that they were previously unable to uninstall.

I'd advise freezing an app first to make sure if you remove it completely it won't cause any problems. Then if it's fine, remove it.

So in theory bloatware shouldn't be an issue.

 

[theoneana]

I've already removed Amazon MP3 and Sound Hound from my Desire. I never used them so I wanted them off and it wasn't hard to get rid of them.

If anyone gets a handset with bloatware on it that they don't want they can simply root it (see the one click rooting in the rooting section of this site for DHD) and use a tool like Titanium Backup Pro to either freeze or remove the bloatware that they were previously unable to uninstall.

I'd advise freezing an app first to make sure if you remove it completely it won't cause any problems. Then if it's fine, remove it.

So in theory bloatware shouldn't be an issue.

Thanks for that Lalaland, I'll try it

 

[RizSher]

Hi Lalaland

I (temp) rooted using Vision, enabled start on boot, then removed Twitter and Peep using titanium; the problem said removed, and the two icons disappeared from the phone, however, they re-appeared after a reboot - have your un-installs persisted after a reboot?.

RIz

 

[Lalaland]

Hi Lalaland

I (temp) rooted using Vision, enabled start on boot, then removed Twitter and Peep using titanium; the problem said removed, and the two icons disappeared from the phone, however, they re-appeared after a reboot - have your un-installs persisted after a reboot?.

RIz

No, mine have stayed away.

I don't tend to reboot that often but I have rebooted once since I got rid of them and they've not returned.

 

[eddiewawa]

will defo provide an update on the orange dhd i recieve today, i hope they've kept my batch clean of what-the-hell-is-this-ware

 

[ArthurIhde]

VF upgrade - but from CPW so unbranded and unlocked. So nothing so far. Someone did come out with the suggestion that the carriers may load some bloat in the future via an OTA update but noone knows as yet ...

Dave

thanks for your share!