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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] raqball:
Here is what I have disabled with no issues:

AT&T Drivemode

AT&T FamilyMap

AT&T Hot Spots

AT&T Locker

AT&T Messages

AT&T Navigator

AT&T Smart Wi-Fi

BlurbCheckout

Bubbles

ChatOn

Com2uSPoker

DioDictService

DirectConnectionManager

DirectShareManager

Face Unlock

Favorite Contacts

Gmail

Google Play Books

Google Play Magazines

Google Play Movies & TV

Group Play

Help

Match3VS

MobileTV

myAT&T

PageBuddyNotiSvc

Phase beam

Photo Screensavers

S Translator

S Voice

Samsung Account

Samsung Apps

Samsung Apps Widget

Samsung Books

Samsung Games

Samsung Music

Samsung SBrowser Bookmark

Samsung SBrowser Tab Sync

Samsung WatchOn

Story Album

Story Album Widget

Swipe

Talk

Talkback

TripAdvisor

Yahoo Finance

Yahoo News

YPMobile
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lyrad12:
though it still in the memory of the phone right? still use some sdcard space for those junk apps unless we uninstall it with root
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] raqball:
Disabled apps won't use RAM because they won't load but they do still use storage space if that makes sense.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] starmanj:
Once disabled they disappear from Application Manager. How do you re-enable them?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MoReNitO303:
The same way you disabled. Go back inti the Application Manager, scroll all the way down, and "enable"
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] RaptorMD:
its nice to disable, but its alot of bloatware and we should be able to remove it completely.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gothpunk4christ:
I agree, but some people don't like rooting their devices. This is an alternative to rooting, and it's built into the device. No arguing about "voiding your warranty" should something happen and you can't un-root. Some people don't like that idea of the whole warranty thing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gothpunk4christ:
Somewhere in the process of this, I lost my voice to text. I'm still trying to figure out exactly which processes are tied to this, and I have been unsuccessful. Glad I have the rest of the weekend to do it lol.

*edit* I believe it MAY have been linked to the google search I disabled (you didn't, I just got it along the way because it was there and I wanted to test). I re-enabled everything and rebooted my phone, then went through and left the google search related items enabled and it seems to have corrected my loss of voice to text. I did disable S Voice and S Translator as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] raqball:
I just checked and it works for me..

Look at the keyboard settings and make sure Google Voice Typing is enabled..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mr_blanket:
this is my first Sammy device, but I gotta say S voice might be the most redundant and dumbest application ever. Its nowhere near as good as Google Now but yet it's the default
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gothpunk4christ:
Yeah I updated my post on there. I think it was related to the Google Searches that I disabled. I went back through and disabled a lot more stuff this time, but keeping those 2 on seems to have left my VTT in tact. :)

Disabling processes...for science!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gothpunk4christ:
Yes, it seems to only control a select portion of the phone, but then, it should be specifically tailored to the device it's installed on. Not like being a generic voice controller like Googles and spanning multiple devices. I still don't use it though. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] RaptorMD:
I agree completely. My disappointment is Google touts this as some big thing when you are not getting back lost RAM and in 2013 we are getting worse storage options than in 2010 based on average app sizes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dbg11235:
Thanks for the lists! The main reason I have been freezing apps (even though I have root) instead of removing is because I don't yet have custom recovery installed. I don't want to start stripping my system until I can make a decent backup.

Some apps I disabled that I did not see on previous lists are:

All AT&T apps EXCEPT Software Update

Briefing 1.0

Chrome 25.0.1364.169

Easy Launcher 1.0 (I use ADW and have it set as default)

Kies via Wi-Fi v42_1304_1_2

Mobile TV 2.0

Multimedia UI Service Layer 1.8

Music 6.0.1

My Files 1.0.0 (I use Ghost Commander or Root Explorer)

myAT&T 3.4

OmaDrmPopup 1.0

S Health 1.5.2

S Memo 2.17.422276

S Note Provider 13.01.6000

S Translator 0.8.8

S Voice 11.0.0.1

All Samsung apps EXCEPT Keyboard, KNOX, Print Service, SetupWizard

SensorService 1.8

SNS 1.1.0

TouchWiz home 4.2.2-I337UCUAMDB (I use ADW and have it set as default)

Try air move 1.0

I used to Titanium Backup, some of these services are not visible without it. I have not had any errors or issues yet. I will update the list if anything changes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gothpunk4christ:
This too is a valid reason. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] energyracing:
Has anyone figured out how to remove the "Samsung Mobile" bookmarks folder? Seems like it can't be deleted by normal methods and I don't know where to go digging in the phone to remove them with root.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JL84:
so hypothetically, when a chunk of these are disabled, and threfore not using RAM upon loading... (or not loading) that should help speed up the phone even more correct?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fresh_TD:
yuuup:D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JL84:
radysio solids

word....

if thats the case, would it be safer to hold off on rooting until unroots are made?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dbg11235:
Here are screenshots from Titanium Backup showing all the apps I have frozen. Been two days now, rather heavy usage, no errors or issues to report.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] xxbodkinxx:
So by using this method. If you disable an app that is needed can you restore from somewhere? New to the android world and dont want to "Brick" my brand new phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gothpunk4christ:
As of now, no stock restore files are available, so the ideal thing is if you don't know what it does, leave it running. Better safe than sorry as of now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gothpunk4christ:
JL84-I would say yes. I mean these phones are really expensive, and while it does bring me joy to help them run at Max ability, it does not bring me joy to see them having to potentially pay for a replacement should the device become unusable for any reason. Caution is good for these types of things, and best left aside from the people who do have the ability to correct problems should they arise (devs)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lostsoul1:
Doesnt look like its worth it anyways, Got the phone 2 days ago.. ran antutu yesterday without closing all the open apps and I got 24805, today I closed all the open apps and ran it and I got a 25525...

then I went through the list and disabled. force stoped them all.. then rebooted and ran it again..

This time I got 24616.. tried it again just in case and got a 24591

someone tell me how closing down all those crappy bloatware slowed my phone down..haha
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Thermalwolf:
These benchmark numbers almost mean nothing. While on the outside it seems strange you're getting a slight low score, anything is possible. When you ran Antutu before you might of had more processes loaded to memory that antutu made use of in the benchmarking score. Either way it's about real world performance, not a number on the screen :)

On a side note I disabled all of the apps and freed up a ton of memory. Rebooted, installed Nova Launcher and now this thing is a BEEAASSST! If it's this fast with stock unrooted firmware, I can't imagine this thing once the bootloader is unlocked. Gonna be worth the wait for sure!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Borii:
The only part of this that sucks is that when if you have auto updates it has always reenabled the apps that had updates. It can still read the apps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] erasat:
I may be missing some posts explaining the same, if it so sorry, if not, this is what I did.

I always use Titanium Backup for all my phones, on this one, I got it on Saturday, and because I hesitated a little to root it, I just disabled all the Bloatware like everybody else, but, after I decided to root it yesterday, I just went to the Play Store, got the Titanium Backup, with the SD card from my previous S2, I restored my missing apps, and after that, I just deleted all my Backup files from the Titanium folder, then I did a Full backup (Apps and System), then when I was sure I had a good backup, I went and deleted all the Bloatware using Titanium, that way, if I begin to get errors or I need to restore all the Bloatware for any reason, I can always go back and restore them and my phone will be almost Stock, but with the root.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dbg11235:
Logically, that makes sense. You should be able to push the backups back to the system partition. That being said, experience has taught me that nandroid > logic. I wouldn't lose any sleep over it if you've already done it. The worst case I can imagine is that you just live with whatever errors pop up until someone manages to unlock the bootloader.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gothpunk4christ:
Agreed. Benchmarks are a preconfigured predetermined set of instructions that don't have any resemblance to on-the-fly realtime calculating. I do like to see the pretty numbers and all, but it's nothing more than a relative estimate.

It's also a question to whether certain apps and processes may boost performance, and disabling them causes the device to work a little harder to do the same thing. Certainly is possible I imagine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gothpunk4christ:
Hehe, make sure to have a backup launcher before anyone goes disabling any of the built in ones. That can be a pain to fix when you can't access your home screen. I did that once lol.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dirt:
I was able to freeze both samsung watchon listings via tibu...

sent from my black sgs4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Khalsa4G:
Sorry for the newb question, but can you only freeze in TiBu if you have Root? I haven't rooted yet so I'm assuming my only option at this point is to disable per op. Is that correct?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Thermalwolf:
Makes sense considering how Android likes memory :P
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dirt:
that is correct. tibu requires root access to work.

sent from my black sgs4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rotaryboy:
Ya...way faster with Nova. Good idea. Didn't care for Nova on GS3 but works well on the GS4.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JL84:
im new to android and samsung coming from iphone, what is all the samsung stuff for.... do i need it or will i use it???
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Magnerion:
Solution!

I just did! Freeze com.sec.android.apps.flashbarservice :) There you go mate!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eyi:
Thanks for this list! Going to wait until CM 10.1 comes out, to root.

+1. Not a big deal at all, but it would be nice to remove.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eyi:
Do you happen to know exactly what these 4 are used for? Thanks.

Bro, you don't use YouTube??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gothpunk4christ:
Most likely not. I mean, I don't know of anyone that does, but you may be different. Try it, play with the stuff, see what you like and what you don't.

DioDictService I believe is the dictionary for autocorrect.

DirectConnectionManager

DirectShareManager

PageBuddyNotiSvc I have no clue what the 3 of these are. Directconnectionmanager and directsharemanager may be related to the close range data sharing (IE tap phones to share whatever) and I never plan on using them so I disabled. I can still sync my phone and copy files over so I'm fine, and that's about all of the sharing I do.

PageBuddyNotiSvc seems like it's something related to either page browsing or paging services, neither of which I'm interested in needing. :P

The app, no. It usually crashes when I try to use it. Disable it and I go through the website instead. Besides, if I really want to watch youtube, I do it on my computer. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Relys:
Thanks man I appreciate the list. I disabled most of these in TiBackup and it freed up a considerable amount of RAM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gothpunk4christ:
Yeah, seriously too much bloatware on these things. lol.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Relys:
Yeah I hear you. My first smartphone was a LG-Expo which I was able to flash with a custom ROM called Dragonstorm. The damn thing had so much bloatware it was practically unusable. The S4 isn't as bad as my expo was, but it's sure running a lot faster now that I freed it up. I can't wait until the bootloader exploit is released so I can find a good custom ROM to flash.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dbg11235:
Been disabling apps left and right. Updated screens of what I have disabled without my phone complaining about anything.

Just to repeat what the OP says: DON'T DISABLE THE LAUNCHERS UNLESS YOU HAVE ANOTHER ONE INSTALLED.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sloanster:
Slower Quadrant

WOW removed a ton of bloatware and it slowed my S4 down.... go figure!!:silly:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] erasat:
By Experience, just try to not remove any Samsung applications (other than Samsung Apps and Widgets), they seem to work linked to each other, so removing one affects other(s), for example, if you remove ChatOn, S-Voice fails everytime, and people are saying that removing some of these are causing lags, and they know because there was no lags until immediately after these apps were removed.

In any case, just do a Restore using Kies, it even keeps the Apps, data and settings, just add the original Apps back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Solariis:
In order to do a restore through Kies, it asks for a file to restore from. Does this mean you can only do this if you have created a backup prior to deleting any stock apps with root?

---------- Post added at 04:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:05 PM ----------

Does anyone have a list of bloatware / stock apps you can safely REMOVE with root? I already uninstalled ChatOn and the last poster mentioned that this affects S-Voice. I'm not going to uninstall/remove anymore apps until I know they can be safely removed without affecting other functionality of the phone.

The list provided from the OP on this thread is a pretty large list and these items were only being disabled without root, meaning they could be restored/re-enabled if necessary. I don't want to remove all of the apps he listed permanently without knowing they're safe to remove and will not affect other parts of the phone.

Edit: Nvm on the list, looks like someone else posted a google docs link from the international S4 earlier this morning.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Thermalwolf:
None of the apps in the list will break your phone if disabled, they also shouldn't really slow down the phone so the people saying it's going slower are probably disabling critical processes.

None the less if you want S-Voice just don't freeze ChatOn, it's that simple, safe and easy... If you feel like something is wrong just re-enable everything. You cannot hurt your phone freezing this stuff, but if you root and uninstall you might hit a brick wall as there's no way to recover without actually restoring.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Solariis:
What if one wants to free up some space and not just ram though? This would require removing, not just freezing bloatware apps, no?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Thermalwolf:
In that case just double make sure what you're deleting is something you're absolutely not gonna use again and is not a critical system app. Like I said, these lists should be safe to disable(or even remove) if you really must. I froze everything on Raqbulls list and then some and my phone runs like melted butter, and I'm sure I could safely uninstall if I wanted too but why risk it? You only gain back about a gig at most and external storage helps remedy as well.

In the end man you can always just Kie's restore if you soft brick your device (which there should be no way to do this removing JUST bloatware)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] yeahmann:
It's easier to list what I kept. I froze everything that isn't version 4.2.x except:

Application installer

Assistant menu

BadgeProvider

BandService

Calculator

CapabilityManagerService

com.sec.bcservice

com.sec.phone

Communication notifications

ContextProvider

Factory*

Filter*

GestureService

Google Play service

Google Play Store

Interaction control

Key Chain

KeyguardBackupRestore

License settings

LocalFOTA

LogsProvider

MDMApp

MTP application

Network Location

PopupuiReceiver

Resource Manager

RilNotifier

Samsung keyboard

SecWallpaperChooser

SetDefaultLauncher

TMServerApp

Try air move

TwDVFSApp

UltraCfg

I found that Samsung Cloud Data Relay runs even when frozen so I backed it up and uninstalled it.

In addition, I froze the following 4.2.x apps:

AT&T Software update

Basic Daydreams

Bluetooth share

Calendar

com.android.providers.partnerbookmarks

DRM Protected Content

Enterprise*

Exchange services

HTML Viewer

Live wallpaper picker

Market Feedback Agent

Messaging (I use Google Voice)

Photo Screensavers

PickupTutorial

Synchronize

Talk

TouchWiz home

VpnDialogs

wssyncmlnps

The following are replacements from the Play Store for some apps I uninstalled:

Adobe Reader

Camera JB+

Chrome Beta

ES File Explorer

Gmail

Google Calendar

Google Music

Google Search

Google+

Hangout

Jelly Bean Clock

Kingsoft Office

Maps

MX Player

Nova Launcher

Samsung WatchON

Street View

Voice Search
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] finnbass759:
perhaps the only thing we can do is hide them from the application list. if we do not root the device, we can not remove them exhaustive
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] BlastTyrantKM:
I've frozen EVERY Samsung feature/app (except the camera) and my S4 works perfectly and is lightning fast....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] :
Do you have a link for the Google Doc you mentioned?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dbg11235:
I would love to get rid of the calendar that shipped with the phone and use the basic Google one. Have you had any issues? Was it as simple as installing from play store? Does it sync without issues?

I'd also like to get the AOSP messenger installed, but I know there are some issues with that (there is a thread about it here somewhere).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] yeahmann:
I did have issues with both installed. I forgot whether it was double alerts or notifications directing me to the old calendar. With the stock uninstalled, the Calendar from the Play Store works perfectly. You need to keep Calendar Storage though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] datura77:
This thread seem to focus on applications. what about background services that can be safely removed with autostats?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gothpunk4christ:
Anyone else can help with this? I've never outright played with the services and processes in the background because a lack of thorough knowledge on them.

This does fall under the category of removing stuff to speed up the device and all, so someone that has adequate knowledge please feel free to chime in. Any devs out there?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Solariis:
Here you go:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApUQpspiZeBTdHotUXJ5bTQycHJLMHA1U0ROQ1NpZ1E#gid=0

Keep in mind, this is not specific to any carrier so it will not include bloatware for AT&T for example.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] datura77:
Seems outdated. Anyone knows what is ELM agent? can it be removed?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Mittaa:
Can't disable, so I guess it's important LOL
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] datura77:
Quote:

Originally Posted by harise100

With v6 came a "Device Administrator" called "ELM Agent".

Does anyone know what it is for?

Sent from my GT I9300

Emulated Legacy Mount at a guess... it's to do with the new multi user support in 4.2.1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Solariis:
It appears it can be removed safely, according to a similar post for the S4 i9500/9505 model, shown here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40917985

Also shown as bloatware in the T-Mobile version here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=41178476&postcount=75
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Bojamijams:
If you have the bootloader unlocked, and obviously root access as well, would you not be able to use Titanium Backup to restore these apps in case you need warranty work?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dirt:
titanium works even with the bootloader locked. I, and probably many others, rooted and used tibu to freeze bloat instead of uninstalling on locked bootloader att i337 devices

sent from my black at&t sgs4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Bojamijams:
Is Tibu freezing different then going into the application settings and Disabling the app? Seems like it would be the same thing.

Also, am I right in assuming that I would be able to Restore all the apps if I create the backup with TiBackup?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dirt:
tibu freezing is basically the same as disabling via app manager, but I was able to get rid of more with tibu. it doesnt uninstall it, so it is still there to be defrosted/enabled later if needed. just to be on the safe side, I made a full backup of all system & user data in tibu first.

sent from my black at&t sgs4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Bojamijams:
But as far as being able to restore the backup. People currently don't want to uninstall the apps in case they need warranty work (as far as I understand it).

But if you have a TiBackup of the original, then you uninstall some apps (after gaining root), then if you need warranty work, can you not just restore that backup and remove root and be back to original?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dirt:
I dont see why not. I chose not to uninstall even after making a backup just because we dont have custom recovery yet to flash back to stock. back on my ns4g I reinstalled several system apps via tibu that I had backed up and uninstalled.

sent from my black at&t sgs4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Bojamijams:
My S4 is a first android phone (previously all iPhones) so forgive my ignorance with these questions :)

Why is a custom recovery important? Since you would be able to restore the deletes apps from the backup, why is that not enough?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dirt:
custom recovery will allow us to flash zip files to change rom and even return back to stock without having to use odin or kies.

sent from my black at&t sgs4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Bojamijams:
purpote stlydc

Okay.. so just to make sure then... and please forgive me for most likely asking the same damn questions multiple times...

If I backup my phone and uninstall apps with tibu (just figured out what that was short for :P), I would be able to restore back to stock with Kies or Tibu provided the phone isn't bricked right?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dirt:
yep. I just went through a couple different lists here on xda to freeze the stuff I dont want instead of uninstalling it. I dont have much access to a computer since im a trucker and dont carry a laptop with me.

sent from my black at&t sgs4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Bojamijams:
thanks for all your help :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dirt:
yw

sent from my black at&t sgs4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dbg11235:
Yes you should be able to. As soon as I can backup the entire ROM with Nandroid or something similar I will be removing the apps that I froze.