yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dirtybudha:
Ran the code via Rom ToolBox terminal.

I'm a heavy user, the S2 barely lasted my work day. This bad boy was getting to 30 something % by 5pm, after being off the charger around 6:30am. It's 4pm and I'm at 48% - 10 hours. That's moderate use.

I think this lil script did it's job. I'm pretty freakin' impressed.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] boodies:
Honestly i dont think this is a big an issue on my note 2 as it was for my GS1 which took a long time to media scan on boot. I don't think I've seen my note 2 media scan on boot and the boot time is really amazing as it is stock.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] distortedloop:
@OP

Thanks for sharing. You're a bit too aggressive for my tastes, but we all use our phones differently. No criticisms below, just discussion points.

Many of the apps you've removed, like Amazon, are ones I use frequently, and honestly, I find it difficult to believe it uses any meaningful amount of juice if you're not actually shopping with it. I certainly could be wrong, but on all the phones I've ever used, apps like that have never made an appearance of concern in battery history. YMMV.

Also, I think it's interesting that you chose to "freeze" apps that can be downloaded from the Market (Amazon, Play Books, Play Movies). Freezing stops them from running, but they're still sitting there eating up storage space (albeit very little). I'd just totally uninstall them and reinstall if needed.

I heard that some of the bloatware from Tmobile actually reinstalls itself when frozen/removed. Any experience with that?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mdt73:
The my T-Mobile program keeps popping back up, but that's the only one. I don't mind, to be honest. And I agree, this is too agressive. It's not like this big list is getting in the way, and I honestly doubt he's seeing much, if any, improvement. But, you are right, YMMV.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] distortedloop:
Actually, the My T-Mobile app is one I would want to keep; nice to have a quick easy access to my account information. If carriers are going to add bloat, that's the kind of stuff they should be adding.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mdt73:
Ah, true, I am not on T-Mobile, so I don't use it. The program is tiny anyways, so it's no big deal. Now, if it were Need For Speed... I would do battle! LoL!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] brashmadcap:
All I was doing was listing what you can do, and what I did. I froze Play Books and Movies because they're always running and eating up RAM, even when you kill them. They are always running if they are installed. And in reference to your question about T-Mobile stuff reinstalling itself, I've never had that in my experience if I've actually completely removed something. I don't see technically how that would be possible.

I froze Amazon because f**k them, and f**k T-Mobile for installing Amazon as a system app, meaning you can't remove it without root. I spent $700 on a device, it's absurd that I should not have control over what apps I can and can't have on my device... Don't you think? :)

I was only sharing what I did and what I found is safe, eg. this didn't bork my phone

Thanks for your input :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] distortedloop:
Winky faces aside, I think you took my post far too personally. You invited discussion, and I offered up some. No offense was intended.

You also apparently completely missed my point re: "freezing" vs. removing. You clearly have root access, as indicated by some of the tips you give which you specifically say "YOU MUST BE ROOTED", so I'm confused by what you mean when you say "you can't remove it without root." You can't remove any system apps, which most of which you removed are, without root, so that's irrelevant. My confusion was simply why, considering you must have root to do some of what you did" you chose to freeze som market-downloadable apps rather than simply uninstall/remove them?

My logic tree when I decide whether to remove or freeze is simple. Freeze stuff I might want/need back that's not easily obtainable/installable, just to be safe. Remove stuff I know is safe and that I can easily obtain/reinstall through the Play store or other places.

I'm not interested in an argument, so I think I'll just move along from here and find a discussion a bit less defensive.

Peace.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] fit333:
1 there are many more that can go

2 can you sort them alphabetically

3 thanx fellow minimalist :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] brashmadcap:
Thinly veiled sarcasm aside, I didn't mean to be abrasive. Just sharing what I did. I was more referring to the absurdity of the carriers forcing apps on you, then forcing you to void your warranty in order to remove them. That was not an assault on you. I know you know that you have to be rooted, you've been here for a while.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] brashmadcap:
1. Cool! Which other ones did you remove?

2. No

3. You're welcome :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jeremyandroid:
This works so good on my at&t i317. Thanks for the post.I'm seeing a lot better battery as well

Sent from The Samsung Nerd Man cave
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dstech:
The media scanner eating battery was a big issue on my GT-i9300 GS3. It's not been too big of a deal on my GN2 so far.

I was just curious, should the code "disable" the scanner on boot and not enable?

Here's what was posted:

su

pm enable com.android.providers.media/com.android.providers.media.MediaScannerReceiver

Should it be (?):

su

pm disable com.android.providers.media/com.android.providers.media.MediaScannerReceiver

I just want to know because I think I'm going to disable the media scanner on boot to try it out on my GN2.

Thanks for the info!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] brashmadcap:
I kinda thought this as well; it seems weird to me. You're probably right, but to be safe download "Rescan Media Root" from the Play Store. It has a nice GUI and does the same thing. That's what I did, so I sorta cheated :-/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] pearse:
Thanks for list really appreciate it! Is that terminal fix similar to the pm.sleep_mode=1 tweak in build prop?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] FIREONHIGH:
needs to be stuck,great thread:good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] kpursuer:
Agree..useful thread. Also I found mrRobinson's utility handy.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1997344
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] whatllitbenext:
Best way to remove bloatware but be ready for unrooting?

To the Community --

thanks brashmadcap for the useful post.

Can anyone recommend how best to prepare for unrooting? As in, I want to get rid of Need For Speed but something inside tells me to copy it to my PC so that when it's time to unroot, for whatever reason, I can put it back, reinstall, etc. etc. (Is that even a good way to do it?)

So my post has two questions, then: 1.) where's all the bulk of the 1.89gb of Need For Speed stored?

2.) I really just want to get rid of NFS and a few others. Does flashing a stock rom when it's time to unroot reinstall NFS and all the other bloatware I'm about to get rid of?

Thanks in advance.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] lavagirl:
Dude, you are awesome.

My battery life bumped up a bit since I applied the media scanner trick.

May be around 10 to 15 percent better.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jerm1027:
Well, I've been having the same issue with my battery, and I'm rooted running CM10.1 + Custom kernel (JediCM/Force Kernel). Idle consumes apporx 3% an hour, which is just unacceptable. I tried the fix, I'll post my results.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jhobert:
Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] G1Master:
Im curious about this to, I was told about this Script yesterday and I ran it. Media Service still shows. I did it with it saying enable as well.

Let me double check on that though haha.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jerm1027:
Seems to work. 3 hours on only 2% loss. Sure beats the 3%/hr I was having before.

Sent from my SGH-T889
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] HKSpeed:
That code is also shown by the Rescan Media Root app, so perhaps "enable" is correct (unless the app has it wrong). See bottom of screen shot.

My battery screen doesn't show which apps are consuming battery. Is this because I'm on the stock rooted rom?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] I Am Marino:
Does the command for media scanner in the OP stop your newer pics from showing in gallery like the reviews are saying for that root rescan app.

-Sent from Marino's Note II-
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] boodies:
Download gsam battery monitor. It's hands down the best
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] RonnieRuff:
My opinion. Flash AOSP. Get rid of it all

CARBON NIGHTLIES. | KROZ BROWN Theme | Crack Flasher
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] HKSpeed:
New pics are updated in Gallery without any problems. I suppose you can try clearing data for the Gallery app in Settings>Application manager
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] scottPilgrim:
Flash carbon right?

Lololol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] RonnieRuff:
Honestly? Liquid, Rootbox... or Carbon

CARBON NIGHTLIES | KROZ THEMES | CABIN FEVER MAPLE WHISKY
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] scottPilgrim:
carbon is my preference, tbh
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] RonnieRuff:
Me too. I like Rootbox but no one seems to be maintaining it officially.

CARBON NIGHTLIES | KROZ THEMES | CABIN FEVER MAPLE WHISKY
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] I Am Marino:
Rootbox is my favorite currently. My device ran like garbage on Liquid, same kernel and all.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] steve austin:
thanks for this thread.

wow.....................i mean....................wow. thanks OP for this thread and the introduction of media root scanner. i have always seen that thing eat up about 9-15 percent of my battery. i installed the app last night at around 10pm. i had 52% battery at the time. I woke up this morning around 9 EST and my battery was only down to 48%!!!!! A 4% drop while in idle is ridiculously great for me. the phone has been on for 23 hours with 2 hours of screen time. I think this app, coupled with another app i discovered yesterday (Deep sleep battery saver) is performing a minor miracle on an already good battery.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] aarongillion63:
Additional debloat!!

A helpful tool I use to clear up space and make the system faster is an app called "DiskView", downloadable free from Play Store. It analyzes all partitions and lists directories/files and a percentage bar of how much space they're taking. With this I found a bunch of instructional how-to videos in the system/media/video/GuidedTour folder. Also, taking up some space are the hidden Voice Recognition language packs under /system/VODB. Delete all the language code folders you don't want. Also, this using like 10MB but also a privacy concern, there was a face recognition database under /system/lib. If you don't use the preloaded Swype keyboard, even after you uninstalled it, there's an extra database under /system/lib/libSwypeCore.so. Delete.

If you have a Galaxy Note, it might be worth noting that the S Note templates that you could never seem to delete can now be removed permanently. They actually use up a lot of space. First, delete the templates from your usual S Note folder on your SD card, obviously. Then navigate to /system/preload and /system/preloaddata and delete everything related to S Note in there. For me there was nothing other than S Note stuff. Should be the templates in one and a database in the other. Once you reboot, they'll never come back!

Enjoy!

<<< Please say thanks if I was of help! I am new to XDA! :good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] cooljd1:
Hi can I uninstall rescan media root after disabling media scan on my phone using this app
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enisine:
Hello

I'm new in Android world!

I have Android version: 4.1.1;

Basic version: I9300XXDLID;

Number of version: JRO03C.I9300XXDLJ2,

Can I direktly flash my phone with for e.g http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1663656 ([ROM][XXDLJ4][07Noe]Soon Omega v31.1 ●►Jelly Bean◄●Omega Files Kitchen●►11 Themes◄●) or what I have to do first???

Thanks in advance!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcly:
root using one of the methods on the forum, then flash the ROM via CWM recovery. Shouldn't be any trouble as long as you follow the given instructions for each process.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madcable:
I would recommend you to view this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNGVTc_V31I

It explains how to root a phone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
Here, easiest safest method to root and get custom recovery

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1695238

[03.07.2012] CF-Root 6.4 - SuperSU+CWM5.5+CWMManager
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topnoch:
What custom rom can you recommend for noob to flash? I`m having a trouble with battery and laggy interface on stock jellybean, and I`m planning to root device,
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enisine:
Thanks to all of you!! I will see these tutorials!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enisine:
And can I back to my previusly ROM, originaly firmware???
[General Questions and Answers] garychencool:
Anyone else getting this?
[General Questions and Answers] C0qRouge:
Yes! I can confirm this! There is also a Google group for this. This seems to be caused by having a service enabled in settings under " usage help" eg tasker or talkback.
[General Questions and Answers] therourke:
I am getting a similar behaviour to this. Running Drive on my Galaxy S4. If I open a Google Drive document via a link into the Google drive app it seems to start this behaviour. Basically, if I hover my finger near the screen or scroll then the phone vibrates. I can't find the 'Usage Help' service mentioned above. The only way I have found to stop the behaviour is to reboot the phone.

Any ideas?
[HTC Rezound] jperiod:
Greetings,

I am stock on the latest RUU, (and S-ON) and I am preparing to flash Nils business sense (3.6 version). I noted the following directions:

Installation:

▪ Copy ROM to root of the SDCARD

▪ Boot into recovery

▪ Factory Reset, wipe cache, and dalvik

▪ Install it using "Choose Zip From SD" Card option

▪ Choose options in Aroma Installer

▪ S-ON Requires a booloader install of kernel (Automatic In Aroma Installer).

▪ S-OFF Will install kernel without booting to bootloader

▪ Boot - and enjoy

I just wanted to make sure that I am interpreting correctly that with Aroma Installer, I don't need to install a kernel , this is done automatically.

Thanks

Jperiod
[HTC Rezound] DigiDave:
this just means is that there is an extra step(s) to have the kernel installed if you're s-on. but it will do it automatically.
[HTC Rezound] jperiod:
Follow up on flashing Nils business sense

So I followed the instructions to unlock , flashed Amon RA recovery, booted into recovery, factory reset, full wipe, flashed the ROM per instructions from the zip. When it rebooted, it has been on the screen showing Android, HTC with the animated android man, and Business ICS with the completion bar flashing for about 15 minutes. I understand that the first time I am supposed to be patient, but how long should this take the first time? Oh, I am S-On , on the latest RUU, and unlocked.

Thanks

Jperiod
[HTC Rezound] darkghost568:
One word: "S-OFF!"
[HTC Rezound] mvmacd:
I would try flashing kernel manually with fastboot. (My first ROM stuck loading HTC screen.. Flashed kernel, bam, started right up)

Extract the ROM on your PC, and look for boot.IMG, that's the kernel.

fastboot flash boot boot.img

Hope this helps
[HTC Rezound] jperiod:
Thanks for the suggestions. Actually, I was able to boot into recovery. There was a message that said update in progress do you want to continue the update and i selected it, it then rebooted and completed the install. As it was going through setup I received a low battery warning so I put it back on the charger and after it was charged I completed the installation and all is good. Funny that I got a low battery as I was 95% when I started the process, so it went down fast. I used the all in one toolkit to unlock, flash a recovery and then loaded the Business sense ROM, so I didn't think that it took that long but maybe it did. Anyway, all seems well now and I really like this ROM.

Thanks again

Jperiod
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] metalgearhathaway:
I found I had to trim some space of my Galaxy Ace work phone installation (Jellaxy), I forced some apps into system memory to save on space as well, with the hand of a few useful store apps I discovered, no use for you clever dev's, but for mere mortals the following we useful for me:

Root App Delete - Allows you to freeze and/or unistal system rom apps in rooted areas

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zsj.android.uninstall

/system/app mover - Allows you to move some smaller apps into the system rom, handy once you trimmed yours back according to taste

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.systemappmover&hl=en

And on a lesser note, if you are sick of having lots of individual; move to sd apps, cache cleaners etc. then Super aTool 10+ is handy all in oner:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.lepeng.superboxss
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] NutellaBanane:
Actually everything you've mentioned can be done by Titanium Backup
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] metalgearhathaway:
Sorry, should have mentioned that these have helped in cases where Titanium had failed me :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] da9th_one:
Just got my Note II in the mail. After the initial setup, I attempted to compete some additional tweaking. Alas, I could NOT find the settings for google voice on the Note II, which are easily found on my Galaxy Nexus.

On the Galaxy Nexus, from inside the GV app, the settings icon (3 vertical dots) is located on the far right hand side and is 1 of 5 icons at the bottom. On the Note II it's only 4 icons present AND THE SETTINGS ICON IS MISSING...!!! For the love of GOD it's missing... :(

little help...LOL
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrbkkt1:
Menu.... Settings ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] da9th_one:
To my chagrin, I've located the setting icon...On the Note II the icon is on the device itself, on the left hand side...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jgalan14:
Ha ha sorry but I had to laugh about this 0_o, our phone has a physical menu button, only nexus and new Motorola uses the on screen menu
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] da9th_one:
lol...no worries...i just have to remember that i'm not running stock android any longer...i've also imposed a 24 hour waiting period on myself before im allowed to start any future threads about "problems" i've discovered on this device...:silly::highfive:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] A_Flying_Fox:
You also have a physical back button and they do different things if you hold them long
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pravishj:
Hi,

I brought my Galaxy note 2 from France.

Can I change the stock region? i.e.I am in India can I download the India stock Rom and update through Odin?

The reason I want to change is that the Page buddy and others show that I am roaming

Thanks for u r help
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alex1986:
hi guys congratulation for the good work its been done here,

i run on a gt-i9000 , 2.3.3 xxjvo , a ginger real custom rom ,

my questions is the following ....i would like to flash with another stock gb firmware @ first .....so --- can i flash with new stock firmware with bootloaders ? Is it secure ? And the re-partition tick when its suppose to on /offe?

What would be ur advice?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rayner123:
How to root the Changhong Z-me:

You can use SuperOneClick (any version) Google it...

When you plug your phone in make sure usb debugging is ticked (in settings)

Also make sure install from unknown sources is ticked

When you plug your phone in it will prompt to install drivers DONT!!!! ignore it!!

Open SOC it will detect but will prompt to install drivers (general ADB drivers) click install!!

THEN SIMPLY CLICK ROOT!!

Play Store FIX!!!

This not a flashable ZIP!!

SORRY BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT MANUALLY...

Download the FIX: http://www.4shared.com/zip/RQdAxsy8/ChanghongPlayStoreFIX.html

Copy to SD-CARD

Install ES-File Explorer

go into es-file explorer settings> sort by> Modified> Descending

tick root explorer, up to root and mount file system.

click select multiple items> copy the contents from system/app to the android system/app and so on...

reboot and should be done!!!

LINK your Google account!!

REMEMBER THE FILE PERMISSION ARE THE SAME FOR ALL THE CONTENTS IN THE ZIP you have to change them manually

x-x-x

x- -

x- -

Also a CWM recovery for the Changhong Z-me

http://www.dashifu.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=391&fromuid=2
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nobitakun:
Hey thanks for your interest in this nice phone and in my thread! :D

Sorry for late reply but yesterday I managed to install Google Play with a tutorial from this site too but for Kindle Fire.

I used Root Explorer and have done as you say too and it works flawlessly ^^.

The problem is that I don't know how to install a recovery.

I hope more people have this nice phone and we are able to share as much info as we can, I really like it. My last phone was a Samsung Galaxy Spica and I am tired of it because it's crap >_<.

Thank you so much for you effort!

P.S: btw, I would want to know whether there are different versions of GoogleFramework or Vending, because I don't know if they have to be the same for it to work. I mean, with the actual Google Framework and Vending I can still continue updating Google Play app or it will crash since I have to update to the same version the other two?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rayner123:
no, play store wont crash you can still continue updating the app!!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nobitakun:
Hey I have a question about your procedure: what's the use of ETC, FRAMEWORK and LIB folders?, I just moved all the apk and fixed permissions and everything works fine. I could even install Google Maps and use it without problems and I can see inside FRAMEWORK folder there's something related with Google Maps so in the PERMISSIONS folder.

Just installing the apk's will give me any problem in the future?

Thanks for your effort! :D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rayner123:
no they shouldn't be a problem. Just got my changhong z-me into a boot loop sort of thing thing it boots to the wo 3g then reboots!:( Just installed the beats audio installer from play store!! I repent doing it!!!!:(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nobitakun:
Ohhh, I'm so sorry.

Can't you put the phone into Download Mode by pressing volume+ power buton?

I wonder how to do a firmware backup so you can restore the phone with it using Odin and return it to life. I would be good in case we do further unsuccessful moves T_T. It's a pity I'm not an android developer or pro and I can't help you as much as I would want, sorry.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rayner123:
This incident wouldn't have happened if i had a backup and restore function in recovery!! I have found a chinese website with the changhong z-me firmware but i cant download because I'm a newbie apparently i have to 52 prestiege to download?! I think the firmware is a .nb0 as in the recovery there is a option for "download nb0 from sd card". I have found a website on how port CWM. http://www.acsyndicate.net/how-to-porting-cwm-to-other-devices-os-x-part1/
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rayner123:
Good news is i got a z-me firmware but when i flash PID doesnt match or something. Dude can you plz do me a favour. If u can check for update for ur phone and then share it on this thread! So i can recover my phone.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rayner123:
Dude can u plz provide me ur phones build.prop (it hasnt got anything personal (just incase your wondering )) i just need to check something as i cant access my phone.

Thanks