[Galaxy Tab General] cheatman:
Hi guys,

I flashed the Gingerbread stock ROM, courtesy of Chainfire (see thread here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1073854) and noticed there are no threads about apps that are safe to freeze/remove from the system to improve performance and (maybe) battery life as well.

Therefore, here is my compiled list, along with some info on what the apps do. Please note that this list of safe to freeze apps apply to the Galaxy Tab running the stock 2.3.3 ROM only. The list of apps is different than the one on the 2.2 ROM, although some are the same.

Note: I use TitaniumBackup to freeze apps. These apps are safe to freeze no matter what app you use to freeze them.

Note2: Safe to freeze (in the following list) means your Galaxy Tab will work fine without it and other apps won't crash / not work if you freeze something. The apps you freeze will no longer work until you defrost them, though. Where dependencies exit, I will note them.

So, here goes the list (alphabetical). First, the "no dependency apps":

AccuWeather Clock => widget

AllShare => DNLA client/server

[BOOKMARKS] Browser 2.3.3 => Chrome Browser. Freeze if you use another

Calculator => simple calculator

Calendar Clock => widget

Daily Briefing => widget

Date, time and weather => widget

Date time or weather => widget

Digital Frame => nightstand app. Freeze dependencies as well if you don't use it

Dual Clock => widget

Google search => widget,app. Freeze of not used

Home screen tips => widget

Live Wallpaper Picker => Freeze if you don't use live wallpapers

Magic Smoke Wallpapers => live wallpaper

Music Hub => Samsung app

Music Visualization Wallpapers => live wallpaper

News & Weather => widget

Pico TTS => Text to Speech (reads text for you). Freeze if not used

Pulse => news reader. Freeze if you use another

Readers Hub => paper, magazine and book reading app. Freeze dependencies as well if not used.

Samsung keypad => Freeze if you use only Swype

Sketch Memo => simple drawing app

Social Hub => Samsung app (frontend for email accounts). Accounts work normally without it.

Talk => Google talk application

ThinkFree Office => office suite. Freeze if you use another or don't use it.

Voice Search => Google voice search

World clock => simple world clock management app

Y! Finance Clock => widget

Youtube => youtube app

Now the list of apps that others depend on. Only freeze these apps if you plan on freezing the parent app as well or don't use it:

eBook => ebook reading app. Readers Hub depends on it.

Kobo => ebook reading app. Readers Hub depends on it.

Music => standard music player. Digital Frame depends on it. Freeze if you use another music player.

My Files => email app depends on it. You can't attach files without it.

PressReader => newspaper reading app. Readers Hub depends on it.

Program Monitor => widget. Samsung Home depends on it

Samsung Apps => samsung market. Supposedly updates samsung apps. Freeze if you don't use samsung home or apps installed via Samsung Apps.

Samsung Home => Freeze ONLY if you have another home replacement app (another launcher / home).

TTS Service => Pico TTS depends on it

TwWallpaperChooser => samsung wallpapers

Video => Video player. Freeze if you use another video player

Zino Reader => magazine reader. Readers Hub depends on it

Blocking all of these WILL NOT give you more space on your device drives. It will, in some cases increase the amount of RAM available. Currently, I have not blocked all of the above as some of them I actually use (like youtube, lol).

I have 242 MB free RAM after a clean boot-up. Also note that a clean boot for me includes ADW, Pure Messaging scroll widget, Beautiful Widgets, 3G Watchdog, SwypePad, WidgetLocker and Multitasking Pro all started at the same time. All of them are memory hogs, so your restuls may be better than mine after you freeze all unneeded apps.

Only a couple of the apps in the lists above actually use up RAM. Best things to freeze (if not used), should be:

Pico TTS & TTS Service

Everything related to Samsung Home (wallpapers, widgets etc.)

Y! Finance Clock (for some reason it runs in the background even if not used)

Readers Hub (for some reason it runs in the background even if not used)

Music Hub (for some reason it runs in the background even if not used)

Pulse (updates news in background as service)

News&Weather (runs a service in background)

AllShare (runs a service in background)

User reported successful freezes without noticeable impact:

[SMS/MMS PREFS]Messaging 2.2 => messaging app. Thanks to Sef_P1000 for reporting this.

Street View => google maps extension. Thanks to pendevous for reporting this.

Maps => maps application. Freeze if you don't use or have a different GPS app. Thanks to pendevous for reporting this.

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Apps part of making ANDROID work.

DO NOT FREEZE ANY OF THESE, OR YOUR TABLET MAY BECOME UNSTABLE.

BluetoothTest

wssyncmlnps

WlanTest

Security Storage

Android System

Software Update

com.sec.android.app.lcdtest

MTP Application

Factory Test

Mobile tracker settings

Google Backup Transport

Mobile Tracker

com.samsung.InputEventApp

License settings

PhoneSetupWizard

PopupuiReceiver

Settings

Error

VPN Services

Perso

DRM content

Service mode

Settings Storage

PhoneUtil

Status Bar

Task Manager

Account and Sync Settings

Preconfig

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That's it! Hope the thread is useful to some of you. Post some results / improvements / updates if you find any issues or want to add other apps to the list.

Best regards and happy freezing!

CM.