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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] brandenk0:
Well seeing as when I defrosted everything and only froze the System Update app the problem occurred. I can say that that is most likely what caused it.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mrcd:
excuse in your english safe yes but complicated all phones
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] shelter:
How come Titanium backup claims that stuff is installed that I don't see?

For example Terminal Emulator... where is that? I don't see it in the applications folder.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] bbgt2:
thats because you don't see everything there is on on your phone in your app drawer.

If Tb says they are on your phone they are. Tb shows everything on your phone not just apps.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] shelter:
Yeah, but Terminal Emulator, isn't that an app?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] (•.•):
yaaay !

This is a good Thread!

:)

I will remove as much useless (for me) **** as possible.

Here if you want to share, i just made a tinyurl for this forum. for android smartphone users ;)

http://tinyurl.com/savetoremove
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] will-i-am1977:
Can i remove certain languages? and how?

I only use English, so I don't need the other stuff., or is it useful to keep them?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] bbgt2:
I removed Chinese input without any issues. I dont think removing any other language besides the one you need would cause any problems.

With all the unnecesary crap removed via Root Explorer I currently have 81mb free and thats with heavy theme (remix by Paul Diddy).

Phone just flies through menu's, apps etc now.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] shelter:
How did you remove Chinese?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] will-i-am1977:
where are the language files located?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] (•.•):
I uninstalled allmost all of the google apps!

Just an idea btw here..

How about an app, that can remove all the unwanted sysapps and left you with the pure android, but with some options, like use google or not.

This is especially good after a factoryreset.

Cya
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Sboulema:
Here is a complete list of all apps installed on my Dutch T-Mobile XWKE2 SGS2

If you have any information about an app on the list, please reply or mail me and i hope that i have the time to update it :)

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spr...SENVeXlqUm5vV0E&single=true&gid=0&output=html

Sboulema
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] (•.•):
Good list , thanks.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] shelter:
You can google most of the stuff. For example Zino.apk is a magazine reader which's safe to remove.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Part of Readers hub with following apks

Readers hub

Zinio

Kobo

Press readers

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Rooster19:
I was wondering what Press readers were
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] bbgt2:
It reads the news from an app like newsweek, etc. Deleted, you dont need it.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] (•.•):
ok, the obvious ones are clear to see and to uninstal.

But now we need a better list.. with what function what systemapp does..

I mean the not so obvious ones.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Mobiletracker and IMEITracker are part of Samsung Dive and you're safe to freeze/delete if you don't plan to use it or don't fear your phone is stolen

Edit: wipeoutreceiver too is part of it and its used to remotely wipe data if phone gets stolen

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] (•.•):
@nightranger73

Yeah, i allready froze them as i installed TB the first time :D

But now I really now what they do.

And no, i don't fear it gets stolen.. I put a warning back in the cover, that if someone finds it, get it back to me for some cash or get tracked by police and pay me ;D
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Rooster19:
lolololol ^

I froze like 20 apps atm, I'll post a list I am unsure of later on.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Rooster19:
Someone please confirm if safe to freeze.

AppLock 2.3.3

BadgeProvider

ChocoEUKor

Days

DRM??

EncryptApp

Google Apps ALL

Helv Neue S

Mobile Print

MTP Application

OMACP

PCW Device

Perso

Pico

Samsung TTS

Share App

SNS

Task Provider

VPN Services

Just quote me and put in blold if they're useless
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mguel:
Do SNSAccountFB has to do with contact (pictures) getting sync with facebook pictures? or only is for facebook use on social hub? (which I don't use and already frozen)

thanks!!!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Yes, but to make it work you need all sns package I think... or at least on sgs it worked that way and most of the times you have to manually merge contacts from Google accounts and the FB accounts to work as single contact

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
They're NO USE if you don't need SOME services.... if they're here couldn't be useless

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Rooster19:
Thanks!

10char
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] prodygee:
You better freeze them instead of removing them. Unfreezing is a lot easier than putting everything in place if you've deleted something.

Freezing is done with Titanium Backup (paid version, yes) Anything you freeze that has an icon in the appdrawer will be removed. Unfreeze it and it's back.

I've frozen a lot. In a trail-and-error way. I've frozen a process that makes the google search app crash. But I can't seem to make out which one that is.

Here is what happens: I click the google search app and I type something longer than 3 letters it crashes. This only happens when I set the search mode to All. If I select web only, it won't crash.

I've frozen a lot.. going through everything is such a hassle :P
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] rikc:
Ok, here is a list with the not so obvious stuff I have frozen so far:

- ChocoEUKor

- com.orange...

- com.samsung.app.playreadyui (DRM made by M$)

- com.sec.android....samsungapps

- DRM content, launcher, protected storage (I don't play DRM stuff)

- factory test 1.0

- helv neue (helvetica font I think)

- IMEITracker

- Mobile print, mobile tracker

- MTP App

- OMACP

- PCWDevice

MIGHT BE CAUSING INSTABILITY!- Perso (today)

- Pico TTS

- Samsung TTS

- Share app

- Software update

- TrimApp

- TWLauncher & Wallpaperchooser (I installed LP and the leightweight launcher Zeam as backup)

MIGHT BE CAUSING INSTABILITY! - VPN Services (today)

- Wifi Sharing & Manager (this is a battery hog even wifi sharing is not enabled)

- Wipeoutreceiver (this is samsungs remote management function)

Only quirk I MIGHT be having is that a website sometimes blanks out in the browser... but that might also be due to another reason, or just something with this phone I cannot determine it.

It makes a notable difference in battery use, and makes the phone boot up REALLY quickly. I think menus are a bit faster.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Open search box and then click on customize. Probably it's still configured to search in apps you've frozen

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
OK... and when you will have problem with your PC connection and would like to tether a WiFi connection using your mobile (or a friend asks to) what would you do?

And what when you would like to backup your stuff using USB cable? Damn I don't even know if you can turn on mass storage with all that stuff removed

Proposing such modification to system is dangerous unless you really know what are you doing... what will you do when dozens of angry users will PM you asking how to restore this or that service?

I've nothing against you but I'm only saying other people to be careful doing things they don't know ;)

Edit: and if you get some occasional reboot... well probably you're missing something not so obvious

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] rikc:
If I would need it, I can de-freeze it.

But of-course you should always consider whether you need something or not.

Anyhow, these apps mentioned above are 'safe' to remove in the sense that they don't cause system instability or crashes when frozen.

And indeed I found out in the trial by error way.

BTW does anybody know if there is an app or service which causes flash videos to play in landscape when put to full screen? It thought it would be trimapp and re-enabled it temporarily, but that does not seem to be the case.

As for mass storage, yes it still works.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] (•.•):
Good List! :) Even wiith some discription.

I did remove all this stuff allready, but haven't made a list yet, but you did ;)

I did even removed alot more, but with this list above you are good to go.

So here is what I have frozen too :

- wssyncmlnps

- utrack

- tts-service (text to speech function)

- talk

- days

- syncmids

- Setupassitent

- Popupuireceiver

- Perso

- Networkposition [Netzwerkstandort]

- Motion Settings [Motion Einstellungen]

- soundplayer (have player pro)

- Datacreate

- Bagdeprovider

- AlertRecipents

- all sync services

- many google apps

- some more ;)

Attention, experimental list, but no errors so far, except I can't read sms, need to test what it causes.

And here is a quick list what you shouldn't disable!

- usb settings (usb)

- music (has to do with volumecontrol)

- Clock (Systemtime)

- Statusbar (Statusbar on top of the screen)

- Quickview [Schnellansicht] (View Fotos/videos after you shoot them)

- Logsprovider (It has to do with your calling logs and its needed there or you get fc sometimes)

- mmsprovision (messages)

- Kamera

- contacts

- gallery (only if you have a good alternative app)

- Error [fehler]

- crashnotifier

- csc

- callsettings

- country,language,timezone

- allmost all of the downloads relatet apps

- allmost all of the settings relatet apps

- allmost all of the wifi relatet apps (can be disabled if really not needet)

- allmost all of the bluetooth relatet apps (can be disabled if really not needet)

- package access helper

- packege installer

- adobe flash

Maybe the list is incomplete, but this you shouldn't remove anyway, only if you exactly know why.

@ OT

you can begin to compile a clean list in the first post.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] rikc:
Ok... guys. My phone has given 2 spontanuous reboots.

Please consider not freezing VPN Services or Perso as I thing one of them might be called upon and cause errors. I'm first going to de-freeze perso keeping you posted.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
I might say "I told you" :)

Unfreeze factory test and see if it reboot

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] rikc:
Hehe, I knew I would get to hear this? Anyhow I had frozen factory test a couple of days earlier with no probs so that shouldn't normaly be it.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] schrickm5:
Does anyone know what PCWdevice does?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Don't know what it is but freezing raises a lot of crashes in android.process.acore (android OS)

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] goncotal:
It happens to me too....

I frozen (look for filter vlingo ) and the logo appears but nothing else....Must be another process

I have watched tonight that I have another process , the license manager... divx license, that i have to register... have you done it?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Sboulema:
Updated the list, it is coming along nicely :)

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spr...SENVeXlqUm5vV0E&single=true&gid=0&output=html
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] rikc:
@Nightranger,

How do you monitor this, other than logcat?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Ok. From the list something to edit:

VPNservice if you don't use/need VPN (Virtual Private Network)

SetupWizard used only on rom first setup but you could manually configure safely your accounts if deleted

Livewallpapers is android stock live wallpapers

Livewallpaperpicker instead it's better to keep as it provides the selector for third party LWP

Gallery3d could be deleted if replaced by quickpic but you lose lock screen wallpaper changer

Orangesimservice if you're not on orange could be safely deleted

Clockpackage as to be keeped as it's the alarm clock apps

Analogclovk widgetapp could be deleted as it us the widget

ftm and fts are part of wifi tethering and wifisharing (fts) and wifisharingmanager (ftm) could be deleted if wifi tethering not used.

Lcdtest safely removed its called only by secret coded

Mobileprint could be deleted is used for communications with wifi printers

Samsubgapps and samsungappsunaservice safely removed if you don't want/use Samsung apps

Screencaptureservice removable it you don't plan to use it

Video editor and trimapp could be deleted if you don't plan to use the video editor

Photoretouching same as video editor

All android.widgetapp are tw Widgets and could be deleted

Panningtutorial deletable as it's the tutorial of motion sensor shortcuts

Secret wallpapers 1 e 2 could be deleted with no issues

Ok... if something else comes in mind I'll let you know

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Logcat or crash popup msg from system :)

BTW you can log from android itself

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Sboulema:
Thanks nightranger73, The list has been updated!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Good job... still to edit clockpackage as no or caution since it provides alarm and system clock for other alarm prog

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Sboulema:
Done! Did not know it actually provided the system clock for other apps...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Not all apps but I've found another alarm app stopped working after having it freezed.

Maybe only random stop but IMO alarm clock is one of the most useful apps of phone so better let people know what it's stopping before they fail to wake up next morning :)

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] D4rK.F0rcE:
Hey,

is it safe to freeze "TouchWiz30Launcher.apk" when I am using ADWLauncher instead? What would happen if ADWLauncher crashes and when it doesn't even boots after restart... how would I be supposed to access the app drawer?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Sboulema:
Hmm good question... i do not know the answer. Backup your phone and try it :p
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] brampower:
Yes, you can freeze the TouchWiz Launcher and use the other one. I don't know about your other question though. I think you'd have to use ADB.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Isn't it the same if it's tw crashing? If Adw crashes it's enough to make only a cache wipe from recovery

Freezing TW BTW requires that you push/move another launcher in system dir so if you need to make a full wipe/factory reset there's still a launcher available.

Otherwise after wipe TW will stay freezed and other launchers in data partitions were wiped so system will be unusable.

Best launcher to put in system dir is zeam as it's the smallest.

IMO you can even keep TW unfreezed because if you set another launcher as default TW will not be executed and will not use resources

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] will-i-am1977:
Can anyone tell me where the language files are?

I just use English, and don't want the others.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Rixsta:
Nice sticky...

Was getting lonley here haha ..

This brings to what app do we have to remove all these apps.

I always used SGS tools for this.

On my SGS I wiped loads out .. I wont post what ..When I do the same for my SGS 2 then I'll make sure I post it..

I guess root explorer is our only option for now ..?

Sent from a world full of cookies.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Sboulema:
You have a few options:

- Terminal emulator (if you are a terminal kind of guy)

- Titanium backup (if you are a point and click kind of guy)

- Root explorer

- ADB

- (Droid Explorer/Android Commander)

I started removing apps with terminal emulator but got sick of typing commands, so switched to titanium backup...

Tried Droid Explorer and Android Commander (windows apps) but they crashed removing apps, probably due to the not constant root ADB in CF-root, but might work if you reboot to recovery and use rootsh in adb shell, but i have not tested that.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Hi rixsta nice to see you...

missing a nitrality apps in there uh?

I've removed much more stuff too but as you can see I'm trying to give only advice for known apps as there's always someone in need of that particular service ;)

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] korokor:
Just to add one more, I use Super Manager, free from the market.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] :
I have frozen many processes and lost the 2 button snapshot of the screen. Anyone remember which is? Thanks. ,
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
ScreenCapture

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Sinsst:
It doesn't let me uninstall the applications that came with the ROM.

Do i need to have the phone rooted to be able to uninstall them?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
You answered yourself :)

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Greenie-UK:
When i try use TI backup to Force remove a Bloatware app (Like AP mobile or Accuweather) the phone restarts and just stays on a screen with an android and Exclamation mark, doesnt actually remove the app and i have to Power on/off for it to come back on again...

Any assistance please !? wanna get rid of my Bloatware..

Edit : ignore me lol.. just used Rootexplorer and deleted the APK's :)

Another edit : HELP PLEASE.... ive accidentally just deleted Memo.apk Like a noob and i actually use that, got a bit carried away with the Deletion of apps. possible any of you kind fellows could link me to it ?!

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dan 6a:
In root explorer I am unable to delete, it says "analog clock cannot be deleted because the filesystem is read only"

I am rooted, and and unsure why I cant kill them
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] 3waygeek:
Root Explorer mounts the file system readonly by default; when you start it, and you're in the root directory, tap the "Mount R/W" button at the top of the screen.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mguel:
If you don't know how to use root explorer you certainly shouldn't be DELETING any file. I recommend to freeze with Titanium Backup instead, or if you want to do it manually, rename the file with an .bak extension. The risks outweight the gain of... some kb of the 16 gigs of internal memory...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Sboulema:
Haha recognizable, but as a responsible user you of course made backups before removing.. oohhh :p

Ill upload the apk as soon as i get back to home ;)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] shelter:
Nice, this list is really improving. Thanks to everyone who contributed.

EDIT:

Maybe you should add some comment about why some of the items are listed as Caution.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Because you may need those services... or as for keyboard and TTS engines and touchwiz they could be replaced by third part apps that had to be pushed in system dir to replace original ones

Read descriptions carefully and use your brain... otherwise read the full thread. Isn't that easy to condensate full descriptions

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[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veletron:
Hi

Just updated my Tab after Kies informed me that there was a new version, but after the update, Kies is bluntly refusing to connect to the tab. Just says 'Connecting...' forever.

I'm guessing that Samsung has stupidly managed to update the firmware in the device to a version that Kies cannot talk to.

Anyone else have this issue. Until I get it resolved there will be no further updates on my GT.

The build no post update is: FROYO.XWJJ3

I've done all the usual things: restart pc, restart tab, reinstall kies, install kies on fresh machine, blah, none of which have helped.

Any idea's?

Interestingly, post update, the only thing that I see thats different is that Samsung has installed 'The Dark Knight' and 'Clash of the Titans' trailers on my tab (now deleted). Those two files make up the lions share of the 'update' that I downloaded. Cheeky blighters. 'Sky News' and Whsmiths 'eBooks' apps have also appears - very very cheeky - enough rubbish on the tab beforehand without Samsung adding more. The new 'Apps' cant be deleted either...

Nigel
[Android Software Development] chainer1:
On the Iphone theres is this nice library called activator when you are jailbroken. You can assign various multitouch gestures (globally) on the device. For example: Launch an application by swiping the top statusbar left-to-right. Open the mp3-player-popup by swiping down the statusbar. You can assign the various gestures for when you are on the lockscreen, or on the homescreen, or you can choose global activation for the different gestures.

On GalaxyS theres this nice app called GalaxyTuner. There are already multitouch gestures implemented where you can remap hardwarebuttons to.

For example: swipe statusbar left to right ->volume up

swipe statusbar right to left ->volume down

So I'm basically looking for an app to launch different things/access different settings. I asked the developer of galaxytuner if he could implement that things are launched with multitouch gestures globally. He said he could but he wouldn't...sadly....

So would anyone like to give it a shot :D?

Would be nice to access some task switcher applications by just swiping the statusbar from left to right or to access the wifi settings, or to launch quickdesk(a seperate widget layer where you could place a mp3 player control widget, so when you are in an application you could switch tracks without leaving the application)
[Galaxy 3 General] burakweischdu:
Hey guys, i would like to ask you, if it eould be possible to port the iOS to our g3? I think this would be a nice experience :)

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[Galaxy 3 General] kyrillos13:
No way and reason to do that. iOS is not open source.
[Galaxy 3 General] reddead66:
there is miui for some phones which gives u ios exp but not for our galaxy 3.....

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[Galaxy 3 General] Panos_dm:
Go buy an iphone. After a while you will be trying to find a way to port android. Ios is a waste of good hardware imo.....:-)

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[Galaxy 3 General] theakkadian:
If you want iOS buy an iPhone.
[Galaxy 3 General] Gullwing-x:
I have a Galaxy 3 and an iPad and my dad has an Iphone 3GS... I totally prefer android over iphone... You can do way more stuff because it is open source... If only developers would port ios apps on android... There are some really neat ios ones but mostly the App store is full of crap
[Galaxy 3 General] flores.diane02:
shall we try porting windows 7 ultimate to sg3
[Galaxy 3 General] burakweischdu:
Okey guys thanks for the information ^^
[Galaxy 3 General] Felilli:
That's the same thing, when you want that your banana taste like an apple:D
[Galaxy 3 General] burakweischdu:
Lol :D
[Galaxy 3 General] pflorin:
everything is possible .. but the whole idea is idiotic. no offense