[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jauwad.arshad:
After getting my S3, I noticed two things that I really wanted to accomplish:

1.	Improving the battery life without decreasing performance

2.	Removing the random Rogers apps + S voice stuff + other bloatware

I improved the battery life by installing CPU Sleeper (running v2.1 atm). Before installing this app, I noticed that my phone would randomly get really hot and the battery would start to drain. This app makes sure that the phone goes into deep sleep when not being used and does not waste your charge.

I removed the following apps using Titanium Backup Pro and have not noticed any change in functionality. I did not need any of the Samsung features so I removed those as well. Frankly, I don’t think S Voice works as well it could be and is not very useful at this point in time:

•	Google Play Books

•	1 Contacts 1.0.0

•	1 Number 1.0.0

•	AllShare Controller 1.0

•	AllShare Play 1.0.0170

•	Allshare Service 1.0

•	AvrcpServiceSamsung 4.0.4-I747MVLALE8

•	BluetoothTest 1.0

•	Bubbles 1.0

•	ChatON 1.7.0

•	ChocoEUKor 1.0

•	Clock (digital) 1.0

•	Clock (funky) 1.0

•	Clock (modern) 1.0

•	com.samsung.app.playreadyui 4.0.4-I747MVLALE8

•	Deep sea 1.0

•	Dual clock (analogue) 1.0

•	Dual clock (digital) 1.0

•	FWUpgrade

•	Game Hub 2.0

•	Google Bookmarks Sync 4.0.4-338691

•	Google Partnet Setup 4.0.4-338691

•	Google Play Movies 1.4.11

•	Google Text-to-speec...Engine 4.0.4-338691

•	Helv Neue S 1.0

•	Kies via Wi-Fi 2.0.0

•	Lcdtest 1.0

•	Live Wallpaper Picker 4.0.4-I747MVLALE8

•	Luminous Dots 1.0

•	MAPServiceSamsung 4.0.4-I747MVLALE8

•	Mobile Print 1.6.0.1219

•	More Services 1.0

•	Music Player 5.0.5 ---> Replaced by Google Music Player

•	My Accouint 1.0.9

•	My Files 1.0.0 ---> Replaced by ES File Explorer

•	Nearby Devices 1.3.0

•	News Daemon (EUR) 120502.01

•	Personalized EQ 1.0 ---> Replaced by Awesome BEATS

•	Phase Beam 1.0

•	Photo wall 1.0

•	PickupTutorial 4.0.4-I747MVLALE8

•	Polaris Viewer 4.0 4.0.44024.15

•	Rogers Live 1.0.0

•	RoseEUKor 1.0

•	S Memo 12.02.07.2816

•	S memo widget 12.02.07.2816

•	S Suggest 3.1.69

•	S Voice 4.0

•	Samsing account 1.2.043

•	Samsung Apps 2.6.238

•	Samsung Backup Provider 1.0

•	Samsung Cloud Data Relay 1.1.8

•	Samsung Cloud Syncadapters 1.0

•	Samsung keyboard 1.0

•	Samsung Push Service 1.0.5

•	Samsung TTS

•	SamsungAppsUNA2 2.0.35

•	SASlideShow 1.0

•	Self Test Mode 1.0

•	Share App 1.0

•	ShareShotService 1.0

•	Shop 1.0.0

•	SIM Toolkit 4.0.4-I747MVLALE8

•	Software update 1.0

•	Software update v3_1205_1_3

•	Stock Daemon(EUR) 120503.01

•	SysScope 1.1.11

•	Talk 4.0.4-338691

•	TalkBack 3.0.2

•	Topic Wall 1.0

•	Video Hub 1.0.34

•	Voice recorder 0.1

•	VVM Plus 1.0.0

•	Weather 120520.01

•	Weather Main 120520.01

•	Windy weather 1.0

•	Yahoo! Finance 120510.01

•	Yahoo! News 12.05.04.01

I am currently running the rooted stock ROM for Rogers and get about 16-20 hours of battery life on a single charge. LTE is enabled, GPS is on, Notifications are enabled, Sync is enabled, Smart Stay is on, and Power Saving mode is disabled. I am sure if I disabled some of these features, the battery life would increase. I do not see the point in doing that since I would be compromising on performance. The only thing I don’t use is the motion control, but that is because I don’t like them.