[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bill48105:
No s^&#? Thanks for the tip! Wowza 15 auto updates & 10 manual updates in a brand new rom release? :o I guess they want to pad their download stats lol I hadn't even considered there'd be updates on a brand new rom let alone the possibility it'd give ability to disable the crap! It took 1/2 hour over wifi to update em all & had to do a few more than once because of 'invalid package' errors. Kinda scary all the manual ones warning about apps permissions changing & all the new access they need though. Wow wth do so many need access to SMS, phone calls & full control of storage?

So after all that WHERE/HOW do I disable? I don't see a disable option for any I updated. :(

Yeah I've avoided using task/memory managers but I had tried on this JB rom because the memory situation was so bad & it didn't help since the apps all start up again right away like malware. x( I realize android will manage the memory & supposedly free memory as needed but my bigger concern is the fact all those apps/services are running all the time more so than used vs free memory. Having almost 600M ram used with nothing open tells me there's unneccesary crap running 24x7 doing who knows what especially if you read the permissions of each.

Thanks again for the tip I'll keep digging on how to disable the ones I've updated to see if that helps.

Bill

EDIT: OK I found it in App Manager on ALL tab, doesn't seem to show when on Running tab that's why I couldn't find. But then only some of them have disable now, a few say "Uninstall updates" where Disable would be & some have Disable greyed out. But hey this is step in right direction so I'll disable all that I can & see how that goes.

EDIT2: YES! I'm at 367MB at boot now! :D I was able to disable most of the crapware although a few were fighters. Mediahub for example would only let me disable it once i uninstalled the update. Same with one of the ATT updates and another just went away after removing update. (Sorry was so excited didn't take note lol) Still not able to get rid of ATT Software update but no surprise there. Otherwise the remaining buggar is Email which I don't use stock Email so waste of 9.3MB but owell I've easily cut about 200MB of crap from running so let's see how it works & make sure I didn't break anything. :D We were getting 2-3 days of use on this phone using ICS so we'll see how this neutered JB is. Thanks again invert_nexus!

EDIT3: OK excited was premature.. I'm at 512MB now (299 free) & done nothing since boot except 2 phone calls, 2 texts & went into settings. Mem used: Settings - 60MB, Google Voice - 13MB, AT&T Software update - 6.4MB, Google Services - 10MB, Exchange Services - 10MB, Maps - 8.3MB, Email - 9.3MB, com.sec.phone - 2.6MB, Samsung keyboard - 27MB. I never opened maps, email/exchange. Going into cached there are a ton of apps I never opened but I see a few more I can disable although they're not really using memory. The thing is if I add the active ones up it's 146.6MB so nowhere near the 512MB used as shown.. Makes me wonder if there are hidden processes or some memory leak because I was at 367MB when I 1st rebooted it. Memory must be going somewhere. lol