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Root List of Safe Apps to Freeze or Remove

CYNICALifornia

CYNICALifornia

Android Enthusiast
I'm using the 'one-click' root and Titanium Backup Pro on my phone running HTC Sense.
Thus far I have frozen the following app's with no adverse affects:

Bookmark Widget
Car
Dropbox for HTC Sense
Facebook for HTC Sense (I'm using just the facebook app)
FacebookAPIEngine
Flickr
FlickrAPIEngine
FM Radio
FM Radio Widget
FMRadioService
Friend Stream (both listed)
Friend Stream Widget
Gmail
Google Play Books
Google Play Movies
Google Play Music
Google+
HTC Mobile Guide
HTCDropbox_GLRPlugin
HTCSkydrive_GLRPlugin
[BOOKMARKS]
Magic Smoke Wallpapers
Music Visualization Wallpapers
Phase Beam
Setup
Skydrive for HTC Sense
Smart Device Manager
Soundhound
Sprint Hotspot
Sprint Music Plus
Sprint Zone
Stock Widget
Stocks (both listed)
Streak Live Wallpaper
Transfer
Tunein Radio
Twitter for HTC Sense
Twitter API Engine
Wallet

windsorclarenc is running Senseless and has reported safely freezing/removing:

Auto rotate Widget
Auto-sync (Widget)
Bookmark Widget
Data Dashboard Widget
Data Roaming Widget
Friend Stream
Friend Stream (It's listed in my app list twice)
Friend Stream Widget
JETCET PRINT
JETCET PRINT Resources
Music
Music Enhancer
Music Visualization Wallpapers
Music Widget
PC Synchronization Widget
Profile Widget
Ringtone Widget
Screen Brightness Widget
Screen Timeout Widget
Setup
Setup Wizard
Sprint Installer
Sprint Music Plus
Sprint Zone
Stock Widget
Stocks
Stocks
Watch
Watch Widget

What preinstalled apps have you safely removed? Are there any you have discovered you can't remove without problems?

I will do my best to keep this list updated.
 
So far I've frozen then eventually uninstalled the following with no issues:
Auto rotate Widget
Auto-sync (Widget)
Bookmark Widget
Data Dashboard Widget
Data Roaming Widget
Friend Stream
Friend Stream (It's listed in my app list twice)
Friend Stream Widget
JETCET PRINT
JETCET PRINT Resources
Music
Music Enhancer
Music Visualization Wallpapers
Music Widget
PC Synchronization Widget
Profile Widget
Ringtone Widget
Screen Brightness Widget
Screen Timeout Widget
Setup
Setup Wizard
Sprint Installer
Sprint Music Plus
Sprint Zone
Stock Widget
Stocks
Stocks
Watch
Watch Widget



Some of these are HTC Sense widgets and I don't use HTC Sense. If you do I'd advise against uninstalling those widgets. I've done it on the OG Evo and it gives you some issues, minor ones, but still some issues.
 
Good job guys, thanks again for being guinnea pigs for the rest of us!! :D

Do you remember which ones cause issues?

If so please let everyone know so we don't confuse anyone. :)

I'm really suprised you could delete all of those without having serious force closures all over the place. :eek::p

Please for everyone that wants to get rid of bloat, freezethe app with titanium backup, or use the built in "disable" under Settings / Applications. Don't delete it unless you're sure you want too. ;)
 
I didn't get any issues, but a lot of what I uninstalled was Sense related. And I don't use Sense. I made sure to keep them all frozen for a couple days before uninstalling.

I would advise against uninstalling most of what I did if you guys use Sense. I use Nova Launcher and it hasn't given me any problems.
 
With Titanium, how you swap the back up file location from the internal sd to the ext sd? I can't get it to do it. I also most of the mentioned apps and restarted several times with no visible harm.
 
shiner-bock-beer said:
With Titanium, how you swap the back up file location from the internal sd to the ext sd? I can't get it to do it. I also most of the mentioned apps and restarted several times with no visible harm.
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Find the folder of backups on your sd card (ext_sd). Copy the whole structure to your internal sd card. Then retry Titanium. You might have to restart Titanium. If you're getting superuser issues, use a file explorer like the one in ROM Toolbox or any app with superuser access.
 
FWIW, viper said he trimmed the following from his rom -

CheckinProvider.apk, DemoFLOPackageInstaller.apk, GSD.apk, GoogleFeedback.apk, HtcCOTAClient.apk, HtcFeedback.apk, MyReportAgent.apk, 4578_SPC_HTC_Mobile_Guide_Jewel.apk, Smith.apk and Transfer.apk
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Your mileage may vary, proceed at your own risk, etc etc. ;)
 
Froze gmail, no problems.

Themikmik's list is big. I was going to edit my first post to two lists (Sense, Senseless) but it almost seems that links to his would make more sense.

What do you think?
 
EarlyMon said:
Important Battery Tip!!

I run a notification bar widget that shows my CPU usage so I can check that on the fly at any time (Quick System Info PRO and go to prefs to turn it on).

So, I'm sitting at my desk, screen off, nothing running, and I decide to light it up and check my CPUs just for giggles and grins.

And I found that I had the primary core running at 1.5 GHz, secondary blinking on and off and 1.2 GHz and 70 to 80% cpu utilization on the primary.

I unlock and found that my dialer window was open under the lock. Back out of dialer to homescreen and suddenly, I'm back down to 14% running one core only at 384 MHz.

So, don't do that.

Second tip - seriously, root and get rid of bloatware. (I am about to do that, hopefully today, been pressed for time by real life so chance before.)

While I was typing this, I noticed that I spiked to 1.5 GHz for a few seconds - so I was lucky to catch that and even luckier that I could catch it in time to see the culprit:

HTC Check-in Service.
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Thanks for the tip, I disabled HTC Check-in within hours of having the phone ha. Got rid of most of the other bloat too, I'm just weeding through files to see whats safe and whats not. I'll update my findings as I go.

If anyone wants to "Freeze" apps manually, I just use RootExplorer, and rename the apk to something else. Like Facebook.apk would become Facebook.apk.bak

By changing the extension the app is disabled, and by changing it back it comes back, naturally. I like doing it this way because if I goof up and start getting crash loops, I can ADB in and change the extension back.

As always, it's a great idea to keep an up to date NANDroid backups before you start meddling with the /system/app folder.
 
CYNICALifornia said:
Froze gmail, no problems.

Themikmik's list is big. I was going to edit my first post to two lists (Sense, Senseless) but it almost seems that links to his would make more sense.

What do you think?
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I would love to see a Sense/Senseless list. I'm not a big fan of Sense so a list would be helpful so I and other Senseless people could just go through and uninstall all of them.
 
IOWA said:
As always, it's a great idea to keep an up to date NANDroid backups before you start meddling with the /system/app folder.
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Doesn't one need to have some sort of recovery in order to do this?

I sure wish there was an AmonRa recovery for the EVO LTE. I loved that on the EVO OG.
 
Lord Vader said:
Doesn't one need to have some sort of recovery in order to do this?

I sure wish there was an AmonRa recovery for the EVO LTE. I loved that on the EVO OG.
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Yes, there are both TWRP and CWM available after you have used HTC DEV. If you used the other root method ( I have) this isnt an option.


I'll unlock and throw a custom recovery on once mik releases MikLatTE
 
I just got rid of it altogether.

Anything that I got as the FAOTD and actually find myself using I have bought from the play store
 
EarlyMon said:
Another Important Battery Tip!

Freeze the Amazon app store when not in use - otherwise, it will constantly phone home to the mothership.
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This is exactly why I won't use amazons app store. I love amazon and all, but that kind of usage is uncalled for.
 
Is it safe to assume that the disable option after selecting an app under settings -> applications -> all, is the same as freezing an app in Titanium?
 
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