[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Articul8Madn3ss:
I just got my little bugger this week for pennies on the dollar. It's a VZW SCH-I435 and its locked down harder than the Hanoi HIlton. So since we don't have a bootloader unlock, a custom rom scene, or anything, here's my guide that I'm currently using of Safe to Delete bloatware totally unnecessary on this phone. Hopefully its a much welcomed post considering this variant is highly overlooked in any discussions due to its crippling system.

You are responsible for your phone and I partake no responsibility should you decide to to a royal enema on your VZW mini s4.

Keep in mind I do not use my little bugger to talk on the phone; its my daily driver of apps and games only. If your phone loses data and/or functionality of the phone you will have to reflash the stock rom with odin to get it back working. The factory reset will not magically re-install the files by itself so flashing will be the only option of reset and then doing a complete factory reset to put it back in out of the box condition, as tedious as it is. If you don't do this, you will have double apps from those that were left plus the new apps from the flash, so remember, Odin flashing and THEN factory reset (volume up and menu botton to access recovery menu). Also, your phone will have the Custom boot screen with the unlock padlock at startup. This method will NOT trip knox.:good:

Things you will need:

1. Root

2. Titanium Backup Pro

3. Super Su (Chainfire)

4. Odin

5. Stock Rom

If you have taken any OTA, you will need Odin to flash back all the way to the first KK stock rom (the one right after JB) in order to obtain root. Stock Rom and Odin are both pretty easy to get on XDA, but official stock roms are on sammobile. You will also need the drivers for the phone (get Samsung Kies installed to do so) so Odin will recognize it when you are in the phone's FB mode (hold down volume rocker and the menu button on startup). Root will NOT take if you are on the latest KK or higher. TowelRoot will work just fine on the 1st KK stock rom.

Once you have gotten the aformentioned together, install Super Su and Titanium Backup Pro. Once that is all squared away, you can get to the VZW enema. You should be able to use it functionally, as well as have full access to the playstore and wifi in general.

The List:

Alarm 1.0

AllShare Control Share Service 1.0.0

AllShare FileShare Service 2.1

Amazon 2.9.2

Amazon app suite 3.0.78.0

Amazon Kindle 4.4.0.48

Amazon MP3 3.0.6

Appstore Release-8...557.1C_638000510

Audible 1.5.5 Beta

Backup Assistant Plus 2.0

Best Face 20131029.1.0.0.75

Bluetooth Share 4.4.2

BlurbCheckout 1.0 (Build 175)

Caller Name ID 2.5.. [MENTION=867585]Release[/MENTION]-2493.0008

Chrome 33.0.1750.517 (don't delete if deleting Browser)

Cloud 13.6.4.22

com.sec.android.app.sbrowsertry 1.0 (don't delete if deleting Chrome)

Direct Connect Manager 3.7

Direct Share Manager 2.5.0

Drive 1.2.563.31

ELM Agent 14132

Email 4.4.2.0200

Emergency Alerts 1.0.7.1

Epson PRint Service 1.0.0

Exchange Services 4.4.2.0100

Flipboard 2.2.6

FW Upgrade 1.2.0

Gmail 4.7.2 (967015)

Google Calendar Sync 4.4.2

Google Contact Sync 4.4.2

Google Partner Setup 4.4.2

Google Play Books 3.1.33

Google Play Movies & TV 3.0.25

Google Play Music 5.4.1413N.1048534

Google Play Newstand 3.1.0

Google Search 1.0

Google Search 3.3.11.1069658.arm

Google+ 4.3.0.62241793

Group Play 2.5.299

Hangouts 2.0.303

Help 1.0

HP Print Service Plugin 1.0.29

HTML Viewer 4.4.2

IMDB 4.2.1.104210310

KLMS Agent 2.2 132

Knox 2.0.0

Knox Nofitifactio Manager 2.0

Knox Setup Wizard Client 2.0.0

LocalFOTA 20.0040.140326

Maps 7.7.0

Messaging 4.4.2

Mobile Print 3.0

Mobile tracker 1.0

Mobile Print Svcs_CUPS 1.0

Mobile Print Svc_CU...Backend 20130513

My InfoZone 2.2.17

My Verizon Mobile 10.0.615

Nearby devices 2.1

Nearby Service 2.1

New registration 1.0.3

NFL Mobile 9.0.1

PageBuddyNotiSvc 1.0

Play Games 1.5.08

Polaris Office 5.5.0.3404.01

Print Spooler 1

S Memo 2.17.1574082

S Note Provider 13.16.1108678

S Translator 1.1.68

S Voice 11.2.2.0

Samsung Account 1.5.0336

Samsung Calendar SyncAdapter 1.3

Samsung Cloud Data Relay 3.04.009

Samsung Cloud Quota 1.4.15

Samsung Hub 14040101.1.30.1

Samsung Link 1.8.1613

Samsung Print Servi...Plugin 1.4.140317

Samsung Push Service 1.2.7.3

Samsung SBrowser SyncAdapter 1.3

Samsung SNote SyncAdapter 1.3

Samsung Updates 14041504.21.033.1

Samsung WatchOn V...14032001.1.21.75

Samsung Hub Updater 14031101.1.30.01

Security policy updates SPD_v2_1403_4_1

Setup wizard 1.0

Share music 2.2.0

Story Album 1.1.50

Story Album Widget 1.0

Street View 1.8.1.2

Sync Service 2.9.0.1.126

Talkback 3.5.1

Travel 1.0

Travel Wallpaper 1.0

Trim 113.7.ms_hw

Trip Advisor 8.5.1.

Verizon Location Agen 0.0.1.456

Verizon Login 3.1.19

Verizon Support & Protection 2.1.1

Verizon Tones 5.1.8

Voice Recorder 0.1

Voicemail 2.4.00

VZ Navigator 9.0.7.24

VZWAPN 12.0

VZWAVSService 3.3

WatchOn 6.3.4

Weather 140328.01

Wi-Fi Direct 2.1

Wi-Fi Direct share 2.1

Yahoo Finance 140213.01

Yahoo News 14.02.24.01

Youtube 5.5.27

Welcome to your enema cleansed VZW S4 mini.