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[Xperia Play General] svenk919:
I'm not sure but I think it's like a uninstall that you can put back. You freeze it, rest of the system think it's gone, you unfreeze, and it's back as it was before. Could be used as a test before uninstalling.
[Xperia Play General] marvi0:
OK so by freezing it this actually creates more memory?
[Xperia Play General] svenk919:
I think more ram but not more storage space, uninstalling should safe storage space.
[Xperia Play General] marvi0:
ok froze a couple of apps, but no difference on ram, so do i actually have to unistall the app, after backup, ?so that i can restore it should i want to use it?
[Xperia Play General] m3dteam:
if you un-installed any stock apps and you want them back, you propebly can get them here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1036249
[Xperia Play General] svenk919:
My device survived around 60 hours, including 1.5 hours of gaming (super mario kart to be ecaxt), the occasional whatsapp/skype/texting, around 20MB of downloads and some surfing + playing music on my earplugs for a few hours. Still got 15% left (dimmed the screen brightnes when I was around 50%). Deleting bloatware really seems to help.
[Xperia Play General] Rixter757:
Hey all,

I have also uninstalled a pile of bloatware, mostly covered by what has been mentioned already. Some of the names I don't remember but I will write what is on my list via Titanium:

iPlayer, magicsmoke, protips, stk, touchpal, thesims3, facebook, twitter, geniewidget, talk, music, timescape, support, digitalclock, owstore, retaildemo, setupwizard, touchnote, vodafoneshop, vodafoneupdates, whatsapp.

From the earlier list, I don't recommend anyone remove the Get Games unless they are sure they don't want any from the "more games" when you slide open your phone. I had thought I could still get the full list of games via market, but games like Backstab aren't. You can't get these games via emulators either.

My phone has went from booting in around 5 minutes to less than 1 minute & I had initially freed RAM up to the point where I was >200Mb.

The phone flies now, you can really see the difference. I'm also keeping widgets to a minimum & I highly recommend no-one puts on the useless task managers to kill processes (which themselves drain the battery). Simply use Running Services within settings. Oh, and I now only have 13 running services :)

My battery life I haven't noticed yet because the phone is stuck to my hand ;)

Good luck all,

Rixter
[Xperia Play General] HeadShooter1979:
Battery life is much better! Charged my phone 5 days ago. Made some calls, played games and it is still 50% charged
[Xperia Play General] marvi0:
Thanks for the safe removal list but oh boy their goes the whole "chicken and egg argument ", task killer or no task killer and to be honest will never know.!
[Xperia Play General] Rixter757:
Lol, I hear ya. I'm only starting out with Android so the curve is still upward. From what I read from other sources, task killers are only useful if you have them set to automatically kill because the offending services continually restart. Then it's a looping killing field, as you say chicken & egg time. The way forward is to root & remove the apps :cool:

I'm trying to be good by using the inbuilt OS to find out status rather than add more hoggers such as battery widgets, task killers etc. Gotta stretch that battery to it's max.

I still haven't had time to play many games yet!!

Rixter
[Xperia Play General] marvi0:
Ye the task killer no//yes issue has been argued over and over. I played modern combat and was stuck on it at my son's football practice i was so engrossed its out of this world lol. Gone give backstab a short today.
[Xperia Play General] scottiepp:
boot time is faster & phone overall is smoother.

but battery is the same.

4.5 hrs of usage (push mail, whatsapp, sms, a few phone calls) with only 55%.
[Xperia Play General] chokonen888:
Deleted Facebook so I could reinstall on the SD from the market but the market version doesn't work at all...is the stock Facebook app some sort of xperia play specific version?
[Xperia Play General] kakit78:
Hi all,

thanks for the safe list, am more confidence to remove those crapware that come with the phone..

anywhere there are few items below i dun see any of you mentioning, can anyone advise if it is safe to remove too?

if can please explain what is the function for those file too, incase i may need it.

Crash monitor

preinstalledservices

event stream engine

MTPApp
[Xperia Play General] Adam3Sixty:
ok, just wanted to add to this quickly, from what i have found.....

Freezing makes the phone THINK its gone, but its not.

Making a Back-Up and UN-Installing **DOES NOT** let u re-install it again.

The best thing i found to do was make a back up and then freeze the app, i know it wont free up any actual SPACE on the phone, but it does free up the ram cos they are not running, and u can unfreeze them at any time and they will work just the same :) i froze a few things and then rebooted the phone, started up in around 65 seconds!! Which i must say is pretty amazing since, even after rooting and a fresh flash, the phone took upwards of 3 minutes to boot up :) :) :)
[Xperia Play General] bewrong666:
wanted to know more on deleting apps that aren't needed. i really like the thread and the comments from you guys, but i'm still wondering why some apps are being deleted:

*games (star batallion , bruce lee, etc) - i still play with them though i tend to go to the ones in my emulators

*syncs - se sync and others, why aren't they needed?

*Android Live Wallpapers

*Media Server

thanks in advance for any replies
[Xperia Play General] svenk919:
Some people just don't like those games. I assume the sync apps are to sync with SE software, I don't use that so why have it eating ram? (com.sonyericson.usbux is the app that let's you browse SD card contents from your pc, actually deleted it myself, no sync apps are needed for this). Android live wallpapers are just a pack of wallpapers, personally used one of the playstation wallpapers so didn't need it on my phone.

I don't know what media server does but my phone works fine without.
[Xperia Play General] bewrong666:
thanks for this :) i'll wait for other feedbacks as well
[Xperia Play General] AndroHero:
media server is used to stream media from another device over wifi or vice versa, becareful with anything sync, if its a G-App, it could be used to sync gmail or other account related data :)
[Xperia Play General] bewrong666:
nice to know about this :)
[Xperia Play General] twanku:
hi all,

uninstalled a bunch of stuff, but seem to have lost the default lockscreen wallpaper. (dark blue one same as the settings screen wallpaper)

now the lockscreen wallpaper is the same as the homescreen's.

anyone experienced this/know of a fix?

tried restoring SE home with home launcher deleted but still no dice.

couldnt find any setting option to change lockscreen wallpaper (even with default SE home).

cheers
[Xperia Play General] svenk919:
My lockscreen wallpaper is the same as my home screen to. settings lock screen look like psp wallpapers.
[Xperia Play General] rushless:
Is it possible to remove the Sony Suite software? I am guessing Crash Bandicoot is on the 8gb microsd, but if not, that would be even more space saved.

Based on the OP, 250mb saved means over 630mb device storage for user apps and my guess is the Sony Suite should yield at least 70mb more.

With all non essential stock apps (Google apps and device critical ones) removed, there is still a chance of me buying this when released in the US :)

The ability to use Gingerbreak is huge to me, since the same way I rooted my Acer A500.
[Xperia Play General] FK1983:
Thanks!

Thanks to this thread I am now one happy Xperia Play owner!!!!

The battery life before almost made me return the phone it was that bad, 5-7 hours I was getting and it was losing 40-60% on standby overnight with no other apps running!

So anyway, I Play is rooted so thought i'd take the advice from this thread, instead of deleting stuff I have just frozen them for now to test and make sure its ok before deleting,

I am now on 27 hours since my last charge and this is with general use (not excessive)!!! I am actually lost for words! I have a feeling the two clock widgets running by default were causing issues somewhere, but yeah, going from 7 hours to 27 hours is amazing! it only lost 3% overnight on standby last night too! still have 17% battery left so maybe more than 27 hours?!

Thanks all! :)
[Xperia Play General] bewrong666:
what apps did you freeze?
[Xperia Play General] Lt.Glare:
If you are a Rogers Play user..

Just to post my experience: I used this excellent list, and then took the liberty to remove the useless rogers apps on my phone. It caused it to lock up (so do not remove that rogers crap! seems that you are stuck with it!). If this happened to anyone else, user m3dteam posted this and it saved my ass. Please remember to hit the thank button for him if it saves yours too.
[Xperia Play General] :
Just thought I'd add that I have finally had enough time to sort though my stuff and remove all the apps listed and I must say. It gets rid of that horrible lag I have been getting and my phone feels fast like my nexus again.
[Xperia Play General] DeadlyDazza:
Uninstalled 'Get Games' (by mistake :(), reinstalled from this list (to internal memory), force close on open.

Reboot, still force close.
[Xperia Play General] AriStar:
so if we delete something how do we get it back?
[Xperia Play General] DeadlyDazza:
Sorted this.

Uninstalled, reverted via adb to setinstalllocation 0, rebooted, reinstalled.

Working as should now.
[Xperia Play General] d31b0y:
I found this, it's for the Xperia Arc but it should be similar enough.

Courtesy of http://www.android-support.com/the-...e-list-of-system-apps-for-xperia-arc-updated/

Sorry if this has been posted before in the thread. I removed a bunch of the recommended ones and everything seems to be working fine still.
[Xperia Play General] kakit78:
nice one... I remove alot of craps before i upgrade to 2.3.3, now i need to wait for gingerbreak update to root my phone..

personally not smart to use the bootloader way..
[Xperia Play General] TehH4rRy:
I just did the exact same thing as you. But can you go into some more detail on how you got it back installed on your phone?

I'm stuck :(

Errr nevermind, I just restored the back up I made with titanium back up before I uninstalled it. Works perfectly in both standalone "Get Games" app and within the xperia play app.
[Xperia Play General] thatsupnow:
Pfft! You don't have to keep anything you don't want I Have a Rogers phone and I debranded it in the first 20 minutes of owning it!
[Xperia Play General] svenk919:
I vote that this thread gets stickied.
[Xperia Play General] Flipfoot:
I have found that using Titanium Backup Pro, you can press and hold on the preinstalled games, (Bruce Lee, Fifa etc), you can convert them to user apps, then move to SD. This frees up phone memory as well as RAM. I've had no problems in doing this and my phone is running just fine.

When you move them back to phone, you need to do the same steps as above but convert to system apps.

Batch moving them will move them to/from phone but will NOT convert them. You must press and hold on each one to convert them back.

Don't worry if you can't find them when you move them back, they will be at the bottom of the list, greyed out with a line through them until you convert back to system apps.

Sent from my R800i

Using my fingers :P
[Xperia Play General] iblack22:
how do I remove the apps
[Xperia Play General] crimsonnight:
I've tried this but with the majority of them (eg The Sims/Star Batallion) Titanium Pro just crashes and they become greyed out, needing a restore (running rooted 2.3.3)
[Xperia Play General] killa92:
You tried reinstalling Titanium Pro?, sounds a bit odd to me. BTW i wouldnt of thought moving your games will free up ram. Mine dont tend to run for the sake of it unlike other apps and services
[Xperia Play General] alquistador:
I removed some applications and now when I connect my pc it only gives me the option of usb debugging. I cannot access the memory card to put music there. Any help is appretiated

Thanks
[Xperia Play General] svenk919:
Deleted usbux? Try to get it back :p

Install titanium backup, it has functionality to remove most if not all apps.
[Xperia Play General] alquistador:
I went to the list of files and all i could find is enhancedusbux.apk when i push it the phone it says file already exists. I am a noobie so bear with me and thank you
[Xperia Play General] svenk919:
I'm not on stock rom anymore but I believe it was something like com.android.usbux reflashing a system.img should fix this althoug it brings back all the bloatware :(
[Xperia Play General] alquistador:
i am on the uk version 2.3.3 rooted does that matter? Funnny thing i turned on install pc companion and the usb is recognozed. Thanks for your help
[Xperia Play General] Rivalo:
Can you still update after doing this?
[Xperia Play General] svenk919:
Yes. There is a change that all the bloatware will come back with an update though.
[Xperia Play General] GetPatriotized:
What rom are you using?
[Xperia Play General] ncaissie:
I understand removing bloatware but why remove the fun stuff that makes this phone so great? For instance games? :confused: :eek:
[Xperia Play General] svenk919:
If you don't like the games, they're a waste of space.
[Xperia Play General] ncaissie:
I suppose. But they are ok. :D
[Xperia Play General] naivri:
on rooted 2.3.2 i uninstalled a lot of apps and i could not update to 2.3.3

flashed generic UK 2.3.2 image, rooted and OTA to 2.3.3 got me gold though. I froze a few apps and have got on OK, but I think I will uninstall a load of apps using Ti backup and see how I get on. It is so easy to flash back to the launch 2.3.2 i will do that, rot and then update any further updates
[Xperia Play General] brochador:
Help.. I uninstalled 'get games' w/o having a backup first.. My bad :(

Is there still a way to get this back? Thanks.
[Xperia Play General] Mozza2k11:
See here for all the apks that come stock on the phone. Just scan down and the getgames.apk is there.
[Xperia Play General] brochador:
Bookmarked.. Thanks for the link..
[Xperia Play General] narflynn619:
regarding removing bloatware? do we have a list here of the "Facebook Inside Xperia" APKs that we can safely remove? I know they're pretty in-your-face as the filenames under Titanium Backup says it all already, but you know it's still good to have a complete list...
[Xperia Play General] Mozza2k11:
I have froze the following (uninstalling will be fine too) and have not seen any facebook/timescape crap on my phone anymore. Dunno if i have missed any but i think i have got them all.

com.sonyericsson.eventstream - (Event Stream Engine)

com.facebook.katana - (Facebook)

com.sonyericsson.androidapp.fbcalendarsync - (Facebook CalendarSync)

com.sonyericsson.eventstream.facebookplugin - (Facebook Extention)

com.sonyericsson.lockscreen.notifications - (Facebook Notification Publisher)

com.sonyericsson.androidapp.fbsetupwizard - (Facebook Setup)

com.sonyericsson.fbmediadiscovery - (Media Discovery)

com.sonyericsson.facebook.service - (Sony Ericsson Facebook)

com.sonyericsson.timescape.ui - (Timescape)

com.sonyericsson.eventstream - (Timescape legacy extention wrapper)

com.sonyericsson.advancedwidget.timescape - (Timescape Widget)

com.sonyericsson.eventstream.twitterplugin - (Twitter Extention)
[Xperia Play General] narflynn619:
thanks again Mozza.. apparently what's left only in my phone are the Facebook Inside Xperia crap.. Thanks anyway! :D
[Xperia Play General] narflynn619:
guys! need help! I'm going to prep my phone to upcoming updates this Q4. so we already know that removing bloatware prior to OTA invalidates our updating capability via OTA. if I use titanium backup to backup system apps/bloatware (those that are installed in system/app) then restore them, we notice that the restored apps appear to be com.XXXX.XXX.. will the OTA still proceed after restoring apps that look like this?
[Xperia Play General] Yufice:
Can the verizon stuff be removed from the r800x safely?

edit: yes
[Xperia Play General] LemonPlusTea:
I accidentally uninstall ed maps from my phone, 2 of them. Now my market keeps fcing. Help please?

Reinstalled the maps apk but market still fcs..
[Xperia Play General] Cubsfan3493:
Thanks for the list guys. This is great!
[Xperia Play General] lyricalchaos:
but does any of deleting these effevt ota update/upgrading?
[Xperia Play General] Mozza2k11:
If you uninstall them yes it will. Since everything that comes standard on the phone needs to still be present when doing an ota update or else it will fail.

I decided to freeze the apps instead of uninstalling them. Frees up ram but doesnt free up internal space since you are not removing them. You can then just unfreeze them and do the ota.

If you dont want to freeze them or you have already uninstalled them you are stuck with reinstalling the apks you removed from here before you ota update or reflashing the phone back to stock with SEUS or flashtools.
[Xperia Play General] squall12:
does removal of the below apps effect usb to pc transfer or bluetooth transfer data to pc? Thanks

- Android Live Wallpapers

- Live Wallpapers Catalogue

- Chinese keyboard

- The Sims

- FIFA

- Star Battalion

- News and Weather

- Street View

- Office Suite

- Crash Bandicoot (playing Playstation games using FPSE)

- Media Server

- Event Thread Block

- Timescape legacy extension wrapper

- Twitter module

- Anonymous usage stats

- Distributed demo version

- Sony Ericsson sync

- Sync

- Sony Ericsson Sync master client

- Timescape
[Xperia Play General] Cat_On_Droid:
I never use Maps and Google Search (Use Opera),shall i delete them

have 275 MB free ;)
[Xperia Play General] loismustdie555:
I was wondering if it would cause problems if I froze googleservices. And also, it is possible to freeze (not delete) backupassistant (but ONLY if you said no during setup of your phone) (actually It is possible if you said yes but you have to go to contacts press menu then sync contacts to email NOT BACKUP ASSISTANT, then freeze it)
[Xperia Play General] loismustdie555:
No it does not (at least not on my phone)
[Xperia Play General] squall12:
ok thanks for confirmation.
[Xperia Play General] loismustdie555:
OK here's my list of apps i put in bloat freezer (using titanium backup pro)

NOTE: backup all apps before putting them in bloat freezer

NOTE2:i'm in north america and on verizon wireless, so i do NOT have most of the sony ericsson bloatware by default

NOTE3:if you EVER want to recieve an update ota (over the air) you NEED to FREEZE them NOT DELETE, then when an update is available just unfreeze them, apply the update, then refreeze them (or else you will have to reinstall them from other links in forum {pm me for a link [wait at least 24 hours before re pm'ing me]})

-adobe flash player

-amazon kindle

-android keyboard (make sure you have a replacement keyboard before doing this)

-android live wallpapers

-anonymous usage stats

-apps (icon has a shopping cart with red "v" in it)

-asphalt

-backup assistant (ONLY if you said no during setup of your phone) (actually It is possible if you said yes but you have to go to contacts press menu then sync contacts to email NOT BACKUP ASSISTANT, then freeze it)

-bruce lee

-alarms clock

-com.sonyericsson.learningclient

-crash bandicoot

-crash monitor

-diagnostics tool

-digital clock

-downloads (not download manager or downloadagent {you need those [i think]})

-gallery

-get games (will result in no games showing up in "more games" tab of xperia play launcher)

-gmail (not email {email is required i think but not gmail})

-home screen tips

-desktop launcher (MUST have replacement homescreen app before doing this one or your phone will never go past the "unlock" screen {i use adw launcher ex})

-live wallpaper classic psp

-live wallpaper original psp

-live wallpaper picker

-madden nfl 11

-mobile care

-music

-office suite

-skype mobile

-software update

-star battalion

-street view

-talk

-tetris

-the sims 3

-vz navigator

-xperia play

-youtube

-my verizon mobile (this one MUST BE LAST, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, after deleting it will give spammy error messages, reboot and you'll never see it again)

that is my list of apps i put in bloat freezer

note:if the op wants to copy and paste this list into their op (original post) they have my permission and do not need confirmation, but if you are NOT the op please pm me with a request BEFORE posting this list (i will most likely say yes, but if you post it before asking i will report to the admin as soon as i see this list {or any part of it} posted without permission)
[Xperia Play General] Jahy420:
I uninstall live wllpaper ,why its not removed,when I press wallpaper, live wp is there
[Xperia Play General] AndroHero:
You uninstalled the live wallpaper. To remove the option, uninstall live wallpaper picker :D
[Xperia Play General] yyz71:
Bloatware :(

Good morning.. I just updated to 4.0.A.2.368 build,rooted :) it kept the root after the OTA updates which was kool.. Now with the new build mentioned up above what are the new bloatware to get rid of ? And the new home screen I'm on the fence about that!! I do like how the widgets move around but still kinda of feel sluggish :mad: Oh ya the music player is alright some how all my album art disappears :mad: but when I'm using poweramp everyone of covers are there :confused: THX Cheers
[Xperia Play General] yyz71:
Bloatware :(

For people wanting to move systems apps to sdcard!! Use titanium back and covert systems apps to user app and long press after conversion you'll have the option to send it to the sdcard :) freed up alot space that way :D Phone runs at 230 mb very limited of background apps running... hope this helps..
[Xperia Play General] loismustdie555:
is headshooter1979 going to put my list in the op or is this just a non updated sticky thread? :confused:
[Xperia Play General] Cat_On_Droid:
Even easier is to get move2sd enabler. With this app2sd gets an upgrade and permissions
[Xperia Play General] squall12:
i would like to know as well which app can be removed on the new 4.0 firmware.

thanks
[Xperia Play General] squall12:
hi guy,

want to ask which app i need to unfreeze to get my camera saved the picture i taken to the gallery.

thanks
[Xperia Play General] 5zal07:
thanks i really need this
[Xperia Play General] mehdi.moha:
a question ,

when i remove some useless app , like google search , crach bandicute...

can i recives SE new update or not(( have to flash 2.3.3 then recieve new update )) ??

thanks
[Xperia Play General] HitoZero:
Maybe I’m just hallucinating, but alter reflashing the cell phone again to the stock UK generic, rooted and updated OTA I got an awesome battery life again, over the night I just lost over 2%, but then I uninstalled some of the bloatware (Chinese keyboard, stores or even the crashmonitor) and again I’m losing to much juice over the night again, and along the day, could be that possible? :confused:
[Xperia Play General] brochador:
Is the mtpApp on this site http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1036249.. same as the mtpApp for the 4.0.a.2.368 of 2.3.3?
[Xperia Play General] general_z:
These "safe lists" seem to name apps differently then the stuff within i.e. Titanium Backup, a bit confusing.. :f
[Xperia Play General] Adam3Sixty:
Can anyone give a full list of bloatware on 2.3.4?? I've froven/removed a few things form the list on the first page, but it still seems chocked full of rubbish, lol.

Many thanx :)
[Xperia Play General] D.Spirit:
Man

What is the point of having Xperia Play if you don't have these apps ???

espically ( - Timescape - Android Live Wallpapers - Chinese keyboard - The Sims - FIFA - Crash Bandicoot (playing Playstation games using FPSE) )

If I were you I would better buy Galaxy SII or Iphone 4 than doing what you did;)
[Xperia Play General] narflynn619:
then fvck off apple fanboy!