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[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
Ouch. That's painful.

Crash and burning many a copy of XP by playing in the registry harden me to this sort of pain, lol.

Unfortunately on a phone that's not rooted you can't ease the pain with a cloned copy!

It's easier to use Package Disabler with the exception of apps it can't disable because some of those apps you'll want to be able to toggle on and off as needed.

You can also use it to troubleshoot and to see if the disabled apk has any dependencies you need or if removing it causes conflicts like excessive polling due to its removal.

Can you use ABD to disable Samsung Pay? It's on my hit list...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] MrMike2182:
You can use adb to disable that and other apps the command is

adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 <package_to_disable>(without the < > )

Edit: To reinstate/enable the app, replace disable with enable.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] butchieboy:
If you have an International device do not disable Samsung Pay, it will lock device and you will have to factory reset. I did this on my Note FE and my 10lite. I only posted it here because I know sometimes Exynos users look at Snapdragon threads
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
Sweet. Thank you!

Here's a cool feature in PD MDM.

If you open up the box for a apk listed on it, it will give several options including the check box in the upper left corner. If checked it will toggle that apk on/off when you touch the PD MDM screen widget, you can toggle multiple ones together by checking over apk boxes.

When you do updates especially system it's best to disable PD MDM as a system administrator temporarily. Make sure you export your blocked list first so you don't lose those settings.

Another really cool feature is using PD MDM to clear app data. It clears it completely; it can resolve corrupt data that clearing data in Settings can't. Apparently app data when clear in Settings leaves bulls or some kind of remnants that PD MDM doesn't. It saved me a hard reset with a system apk who's data had gotten corrupted. Clearing it in Settings had no effect.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] MrMike2182:
In the one I have which I think is the updated version not sure but there's a lot more you can do including search what the specific app does..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
Crap! Thank you for the warning. It may do the same on Snapdragon too?

It's a real dicey apk, and Knox, I hate them.

Lol, maybe try it just before a planned hard reset... did one about a month ago and don't want to lose this one yet!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] butchieboy:
No it is ok to disable on Snapdragon. I have all Samsung pay things disabled.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
Thank you.

What about KLMS Agent?

I can't block that little bugger with PD MDM.

Goggle's find my device is another one I love to ax... don't need no big sister.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] butchieboy:
Find my device yes
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] TechNyne66:
Package disabler is horrible. Not also did it not work on my note 9 I've had to rebuy it multiple times because "my license got lost" or "you can't transfer it" it was the same phone. Ok but for reals, it's not needed. The built in battery manager does a really good job disabling everything. What we really need it build prop mods to set cpu to 2mhz deep sleep again like note 3 and my old lg tablet. That table stayed on for 90 days just sitting there
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] butchieboy:
Been fine for me for quite some time
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] ggrant3876:
Never had any issues with it or had to re buy it and I've had it since the Note 7 that I had to return twice.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] PhilLFC85:
I've used same serial on s8, note 9 and now note 20 ultra never failed
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] borijess:
What list are you guys using to disable?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
No issues with it on the 10+, no crashes, rock solid stable with low battery usage.

Reloaded twice after the first load and it renewed with no problems. For it's price it's well worth it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] PhilLFC85:
Just a few people have posted in the thread then just try some here and there so far so good, will post a list when I'm done
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] ggrant3876:
I just fly by the seat of my pants, if I disable something that I shouldn't have, just re-enable it.

I always do all the bixby, any carrier bloat, any samsung bloat and services that I don't use.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] MrMike2182:
I have 108 packages disabled if you'd like to look through my list it's attached here called disabledpackages.xml .. You CAN load it and use it in your package disabler app however I advise against doing that it's better to look through it and see what all is disabled so you can decide whether you want something disabled or not.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] butchieboy:
Gonna take a look at yours MrMike, I have 95 disabled. May have missed something. I trust you since we go waaaay back like play cousins..[emoji1787][emoji23]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
Yeah you really need to play with it as there are many carrier variants plus the apps/set ups of the individual users. Androids wuv being played with.

Lol, I paid my dues for a cool running 10+:p

The camera needs Bixby Vision and Bixby Vision Framework for full functionality. That's what does the live subject tracking in still shots ie the yellow rectangle that follows a selected object and keeps it in focus. Useful.

All the other Bixby junk can be terminated...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] MrMike2182:
Lol I'm totally still trying to see what I can and can't disable.. You ever disable something and then have the phone boot up just fine and then after it gets to the home screen it suddenly reboots? I had it happen to me and I swear I was literally trying to open package disabler and undo it but it would keep rebooting right as I was about to tap enable and I kept trying over and over again until I finally gave up and factory reset lmao..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] butchieboy:
Yes I have done that you just have to keep going for every millisecond until you get to Package Disabler..lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] ram4ufriends:
I have disabled around 100 packages and still don't see any battery or performance improvements... I was hoping atleast battery life would be improved.. are you guys seeing any improvements?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] butchieboy:
I disable the same things as I always have. I'm getting about 7hr screen time from 85% charge
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] ram4ufriends:
But is it really improved after you disabled? I guess you might get same battery life if you didn't disable.. really curious to know if anyone found tangible improvement in performance or battery life after disabling...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
I use it to prevent apps I don't want to run like AT&T updates. Playstore. Samsung Push & Cloud.

&

Device wellbeing or whatever.... crap I don't want to see.

If power management is misconfigured it will run badly and suck down the battery. Sometimes less power management is better.... play with it.

3rd party PM apps tend to make a mess of it.

Again each phone variant and user settings are unique; play with it.

Clearing data on Goggle backup Transport*, framework* and com.google.android.gms can help. It won't hurt anything.

Toggle off bluetooth, wifi and location if you aren't using them.

&

Running Processes in Developer Options is a helpful tool.

Go hog hunting there.

Disable Google, Samsung and carrier feedback.

Disable Gmail sync; do it manually by swiping the screen down twice. A lot of stuff running that many don't need or want....

*even if blocked; clear with PD
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] MrMike2182:
Personally I get better battery life in fact my Note 8 that I just sent back to Samsung for the 250 dollars off the Note 20 Ultra had great battery life it got 8 hours screen on time daily and that was even after 3 years of using the phone! On the Note 20 Ultra after having it for a week so far the battery life has just gotten better and better every single day as it learns what I use and don't use very often I'm easily getting up to 15 hours screen on time after setting everything up the way I want it and getting rid of any junk and bloatware.. You can see in the attached screenshot.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] Rapier:
The attached print screen shows 14 hrs of total battery standby not screen time as far as I know

Sent from nowhere over the air...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] MrMike2182:
That may be correct but I don't know this one is from yesterday and I still had 27% battery power left by the time I put it back on the charger so it seems like it's screen on time also to me.. Personally I think it's changing the time left judging by what you're doing..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] Rapier:
Personally, since Google changed that battery graphs /screens I never got used with them. Old style was more intuitive, I knew all the time how much I had left and how much 2as consumed, preditctions and such.... With the new style everything is a mess.

So far I got on my N20U like 3 - 4 hrs of SOT which is extremely bad. I'll keep checking apps and try to find a better usage mode but I really didn't expect for such a phone to have to cripple it's functions in order to get a day of battery.

If I start the day at full, I have like 30 % at 15:00 hrs and this is just browsing a bit, forums, whatsapp, taking pics, mails and such. Not even watching movies

Sent from nowhere over the air...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] butchieboy:
Lol, I too hate the new battery stats. I have been using Gsam
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] MrMike2182:
I agree with that.. It seems like they're always changing something that isn't broke and worked just fine the way it was.

Edit: if that's all you're getting for SOT then something isn't right.. Something must be running continuously or an apps just draining the battery.. A brand new phone with 4500mAh should get a LOT more than that..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
Part of the problem is battery percentage is based on voltage not watt/hours so it's not linear at all.

As the battery V+ drops the phone is forced to use more milliamps to maintain the same voltage/wattage output.

So 1% of usage at a battery level of 90% is a lot more than 1% at 10% battery level.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] MrMike2182:
So far I'm down to 75% battery life and over 5 hours SOT and it kind of does seem like it's the amount of battery life I have left versus stand by battery life..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
I use an overlay of realtime current draw; Accubattery Pro. May not be functional in Q...

Lower left corner.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] Rapier:
Would be interesting to show also the per-app screen as this dashboard doesn't show the charging.... You might have 5 hrs SOT from last full charge but if you will charge the phone during usage that will not reset the SOT while battery will last longer since was charged (just not to full).

I've noticed this as I have wireless chargers everywhere including my car and while I drive phone charges, the SOT increases and the total battery life extends. But that's not an accurate measurement

Sent from nowhere over the air...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] MrMike2182:
Ok so I let my daughter use the phone to try it out watching her stuff that she watches on YouTube all day yesterday and I might have lost my phone lmao but nevertheless the phone wasn't put on the charger at all for the entire day and I think these are what you wanted to see so I screenshot them both at the same time and made sure the clock was visible in it to. She only stopped shortly for lunch and dinner and then was on it for the entire day. It has a SOT total of 10 hours 37 minutes with 9 hours of YouTube active and some Samsung Internet browser searches.. There's 24% battery life remaining which said it was 4 hours 27 worth.. Personally I think this screen changes depending upon exactly what you're doing at the moment so say you're watching YouTube it's going to tell you how many hours left of YouTube you can still watch before the battery dies however if you stop using YouTube and then you put the phone down for awhile with the screen off it'll jump up to over a day worth battery life.. I could still be wrong on some of this but I think the whole point is just that I do get good battery life so far.. The only reason I stopped is because I don't like my phone's battery going below 20% and I only allow it to do that when I first get it to calibrate the battery from 0 to 100 and then maybe again every 8 months or so.. Other than that yeah it seems pretty good so far.. Also I do not have my screen brightness to 100 like a lot of people do and I know it's awesome to have it bright and all but at the risk of screen burn in (which happened on my Note 8 when it was never above halfway) and battery drain I keep it a little below the halfway mark and I have the screen locked to 96hz refresh rate and I also don't have any unnecessary or unneeded apps on the phone.. Also 1 thing I know almost no one else does that I do is I go into every single app and I mean system apps too and I turn off all background activity so it can't use data or run in the background using up power and data and I don't seem to have any problems with any of the apps..

Edit: "You might have 5 hrs SOT from last full charge but if you will charge the phone during usage that will not reset the SOT while battery will last longer since was charged (just not to full).

I've noticed this as I have wireless chargers everywhere including my car and while I drive phone charges, the SOT increases and the total battery life extends. But that's not an accurate measurement"

By the way you're right about this right here I did that while I was at work the day before and it doesn't reset the SOT after multiple short charges but doing multiple short charges since it's really quick to charge does actually give more battery life throughout the day so I would tell people if they're not doing anything with the phone and can charge it for short periods of time it would help in making the battery last throughout the day.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] MrMike2182:
BTW are you using the Exynos one?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] Rapier:
Yes, the Exynos variant

Sent from nowhere over the air...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] MrMike2182:
Oh that explains that I'm on the snapdragon.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] jeremyvbk:
Does anyone know the package that causes the phone to change CSCs when you put in a new similar? I want to force the XAA csc and not be forced in ATTs
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] butchieboy:
Do you have an unlocked device? Even if you did disable it, it would not force unlocked csc. If you have locked At&t device you would have to flash the unlocked firmware. It just doesn't automatically switch
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] jeremyvbk:
Already completed those things. There used to be a package you could disable and it would stay on XAA. With Android 10 the package was changed.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] TaiTheGuy:
Screenshot/tutorial

When the Note 8 was released, a kind xda user posted a link & instructions to package disabler pro

And, best of all, a MASSIVE long skinny, scrolled screenshot, listing every app he had successfully disabled, without any unwanted side-effects.

After doing that & a few other minor tweaks, I ran antutu & 3D mark, and basically had the best performing phone on the planet at the time.

Would be nice to get a similar post for the Note20 Ultra...

Any takers?

Did I overlook it, or am I too early? (phone released under a month ago)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] enjoylife1788:
I have been able to doabke approx 25 items. All others look important.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] MrMike2182:
If you go back to page 3 you might find what you're looking for under the post I made.. It's on page 3 though. I would suggest you not just load it up and just look through it because stuff that I have disabled you may not want disabled.

---------- Post added at 10:37 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:36 AM ----------

Look on page 3.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] obet10:
I'm using CCSWE app to disable apps/services. I was only able to disable some items that I'm sure of what it's for.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] atrix4nag:
Wow thats very impressive.

I saw your list of apps, that you disabled. Can you tell me which app did you use to disable them, and other suggestions to get battery life like you.

I am hardly getting 5 hours SOT.

TIA
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] MrMike2182:
I'm using the paid version of Package Disabler from the play store.. Also I've gone into settings and then apps and then I clicked the 3 little dots in the top right corner and selected show system apps and then I went through over 300 apps and on the one's I was able to I disabled the background data usage and set the apps to be put to sleep immediately after closing out of them. If they're not being used by you they can't be running and using up the battery and resources so it's better to just have them stopped and not able to use data in the background..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] atrix4nag:
Did you disable both background data and background activity for all apps?

Including Android system and phone too?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] MrMike2182:
Yes I disabled both but I didn't do it to apps that I use regularly like the phone or Android system. You can disabled background data but don't disable background activity on stuff like Android system it needs to be able to do things even in the background. On apps that just aren't important you can do that to them just try to differentiate between what apps you think are important and what's not. I would suggest making changes to a few apps at a time like I do.. I don't do them all at once because then if something goes wrong now I have over 300 apps that I have to play the guessing game with whereas if I do 20 apps and then use the phone for a few days including rebooting it and I see nothing wrong or broken or messed up I continue on doing more and keeping track of the apps I did.. I would suggest you do it this way.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] atrix4nag:
Thanks for your suggestion. I will follow this.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] airmaxx23:
Keep in mind that if you disable to stock launcher (One UI Home) you'll lose gesture navigation.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] pcriz:
Doesn't it also screw with recents since the stock launcher handles recents since android 9
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] airmaxx23:
Recents was working fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
One UI is very stable and a great launcher when combined with the Good Lock family of apps, Samsung icon packs and themes plus color wall paper app.

Fast, uses little battery and

stable

.

After 2 hard resets from a 3rd party launcher and seeing that all the 3rd party launchers; most used more resources, most were slower and/or less stable and/or less features...

I stopped trying to replace it.

Pie and 1 UI are what my 10+ will run on for the foreseeable future. Rock solid, stable and fast.

I literally go for days without needing to reboot in spite of using 10+ hours a day.

I took a lot of time to dial this one in... it was worth it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] pcriz:
I dunno I'm using nova and I've never had a hard reset because of it. And maybe restart my phone once a month and that's likely because of a patch. Other wise its 100% common for me to run without ever shutting down. Most i might do is clear all from recents.

I didn't realize people were needing to reboot. It may also be a factor of my Note 10+ simply being updated to the current patch and no tweaks or anything being disabled.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
It wasn't Nova although I did try that one. Really all I wanted to do was get rid of the page indicator and the white icon lettering. After being put into a boot loop twice those page indicators aren't nearly so annoying now:p

A month is pushing it, I generally reboot every other day or because a 3rd party app that I'm playing with upsets the apple cart.

Reboots generally never solve power issues though they can clear other issues.

I clear the system cache at least once a month as well.

Lol, use to run XPx64 over a decade ago with no antivirus. It was fast, the best OS MS ever had.

Every now and then I get a 32 bit virus on the ram when surfing. Clear the cache, reboot and watch it die. It was delightful bug killing.

You couldn't do that now but back then there simply wasn't any 64 bit viruses to worry about.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] airmaxx23:
Same here, I use Nova Launcher and never have an issue. The stock launcher is nowhere near as customizable and the ability to add a swipe gesture to any app icon on the home screen is a great feature. I swipe up on Contacts to open my wife's contact info, swipe up on Camera to open Google Duo, swipe up on Messages to open Messenger...etc.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] Fatmonk8:
https://xdaforums.com/android/software-hacking/easy-management-android-applications-t4147837

This is what I use. Worked out pretty well for me so far, haven't ran into bricking anything. And its nice because you can male a backup before removing so if you mess something up just restore it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
Problem being you can't enable disabled apks on the fly. I toogle a couple like Playstore and Device Care on/off as needed using a widget.

It saves battery, bandwidth and a lot of aggravation.

You also lose the troubleshooting abilities of a good package blocker, a feature that's saved me from having to do reload as well as allowed me to track down the trouble making apks. Some of those are Google system apks...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] Fatmonk8:
Thats your use case then. He asked for a package disabler.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
Exactly...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] Fatmonk8:
Ok..?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] farhanzs:
package disabler stopped working for me.... any one else having the same issue. it says failed validate product key
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Questions & Answers] airmaxx23:
His license key had been revoked. I emailed them and they said ask google for a refund but google won't approve it.