Where is the disable function ? I always used tb to remove bloat.

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Go to manage apps, then look up each individual app and most will allow you to disable. It's a (much appreciated) feature of Sense 4.

I don't mind Sense and one of the two reasons I'd ever want to root this phone would be to remove all this crap. thankfully that's not necessary like it used to be.

For Mobile Life contacts all you have to do is log in to tmobile.com, delete all your contacts from the website, then tell the phone to quit syncing. viola.

Originally Posted by nvillamob

Go to manage apps, then look up each individual app and most will allow you to disable. It's a (much appreciated) feature of Sense 4.

It's an ICS feature, not a Sense 4 feature..

Originally Posted by zylith

This is one of the first things I did once I was rooted. I noticed that If you freeze/uninstall the visual voicemail. you will get a error when you receive a voicemail.

i dont get any errors

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I removed EVERYTHING (Spy soft, Sense apps and widgets that I dont use, and all bloat), my side effect are (or maybe it was like that before)

International Youtube subscriptions not showing up in youtube app (most likely Youtube and ICS issue), Geniewidget when check hourly forecast it FCs, and last issue is Picasa "share" doesnt work (this is also probably some screw up by HTC or Tmobile though)

^ would be great if people could test those 3 bugs

Originally Posted by joshnichols189

It's an ICS feature, not a Sense 4 feature..

oh ok, I thought it was just a Sense thing.

Honestly i'm surprised that TMO didn't remove this feature so that we couldn't disable all that junk.

Originally Posted by nvillamob

oh ok, I thought it was just a Sense thing.

Honestly i'm surprised that TMO didn't remove this feature so that we couldn't disable all that junk.

Not even Verizon has removed it as far as I know Most people won't know about it so I would assume they don't care too much.

That said, not EVERYTHING can be disabled. I don't remember what since I rooted and removed them that way, but there was one or two things that I couldn't disable.

I removed everything on the list using root explorer..rebooted and worked fine with no issues. I even removed the Tmo IQ file from the apps in system. Still no issues in signal strength. Also after your done try wiping cache/dalvik and fixing permissions.

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Any one knows what TMO app preventing tethering on rooted phone?

Originally Posted by mannequin

do you have more info regarding this? there're no side effects as far as i can see.

I actually think it might just be the phone itself. (Whether it's software or hardware, I'm not sure yet.) I still believe that T-Mobile Highlight being disabled made the problem much worse though.

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Originally Posted by Ysleiro

I will list the Apps I felt were bloat and subsequently either disabled or removed all together.

I will also discuss how I got Mobile Life Contacts to go "EFF" itself (in other words, I actually disabled it). Anybody that owns the phone should know how hard this is.

I'm interested in finding out how T-Mobile Name ID can be removed and or disabled. If anybody knows how to disable the POS that is T-Mobile Name ID please share the solution.

Blatant Bloat:
1) 411 & More
2) Bonus Apps
3) Game Base
4) HTCDB-XXX (languages for keyboard)
5) Mobile Hotspot (I realize this app is for tethering but it's bloat because this should be free)
8) MobileLife Contacts *** More on this below
9) More for Me
10) My T-Mobile (talk about worthless, this kind of stuff should be removable!)
11) T-Mobile Mall
12) T-Mobile TV
13) Visual Voicemail (thanks but NO THANKS T-Mobile, Google offers this for free)
14) Watch
15) Zinio (UTTER GARBAGE)


Potential Bloat:
1) Facebook
2) Flickr
3) Google Play Movies
4) Google+
5) Slacker
6) Twitter

While I can appreciate T-Mobile having initiative, not everybody has accounts or is interested in using these social networks or services. It would be nice if the phone allowed us to simply REMOVE what we do not wish to use.

***Mobile Life Contacts***
The phone normally tells you this app is being used by other apps and as such a factory reset is required. I PERSONALLY reset my device about 5 freaking times today and each time the app would tell me I need to do a factory reset. After that I decided to disable (not REMOVE) all messaging and contacts app to see if it would then budge. It didn't. I got EXTREMELY upset and decided I would apply a "scorched earth method". I disabled EVERY SINGLE thing that I could from the As down to the Ms until I got to MobileLife contacts. At which point I checked the app and the "Disable" button was no longer grayed out.

I realize this is tedious, but I'm pretty sure you don't have to scorch the Earth as I did. Just disable stuff alphabetically starting from the As and keep checking to see if the app can be disabled. Also I'm pretty sure you don't have to disable the HTCDB-XXX stuff as I did.

I managed to disable the following:
411 & More
Access T-Mobile** - uninstall updates became My t-Mobile, disabled
Bonus Apps*
Game Base
Highlight
More for Me
Slacker*
TMo TV*
TMo Mall*
Where's My Water*
Zinio*

* these apps I had to uninstall the updates before the option to disable appeared

** for this app, when I uninstalled the updates, it became "My T-Mobile" and then I disabled it.

I didn't do much else, rebooted and all seems well.

This shouldn't affect getting any kind of updates/patches from T-Mobile, right?

Thanks for the tip!