Rooted and Removed ALL Bloatware - Amazing!

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My phone is much much faster now. Had absolutely no problems deleting ALL of the bloatware and verizon crap. My phone is ATLEAST 3x faster now. No more response lag. Before rooting and removing bloatware, I averaged 80-110mb free ram...after root and bloatware remove i now have 200mb free. I am blown away with how fast it is now...

Now I'm just wondering how long we will have to wait for custom roms like cyanogen...?

Could you maybe give us a guide on how to remove "bloatware". Could be very helpful for us less advanced users.

Once you are rooted, download Titanium Backup from the market. Open it up and delete these according to your taste:

Amazon Kindle
Blockbuster
Books
Citrix Receiver
City ID
GoToMeeting
Motoprint
My Verizon Mobile
NFL Mobile
Skype mobile
Slacker
Social Location
V CAST Media Manager
V CAST Music
V CAST Tones
V CAST Videos
VZ Navigator
ZumoCast
Backup assistant
DlnaSystemService
Backup Assistant Client
Social Networking
Help Center
Social Status
News
Picasa Authenticator
Social Messaging Service
Social Messaging
Social Sharing
DLNA
Guided Tours
IM
IM Presence

Originally Posted by driftinaway

Once you are rooted, download Titanium Backup from the market. Open it up and delete these according to your taste:

Amazon Kindle
Blockbuster
Books
Citrix Receiver
City ID
GoToMeeting
Motoprint
My Verizon Mobile
NFL Mobile
Skype mobile
Slacker
Social Location
V CAST Media Manager
V CAST Music
V CAST Tones
V CAST Videos
VZ Navigator
ZumoCast
Backup assistant
DlnaSystemService
Backup Assistant Client
Social Networking
Help Center
Social Status
News
Picasa Authenticator
Social Messaging Service
Social Messaging
Social Sharing
DLNA
Guided Tours
IM
IM Presence

Don't delete any apps, simply rename them to .bak or move them to another folder. Deleting them means you won't be able to get any OTA updates.

how do you rename them without root explorer? is there a free app that allows you to do the same thing?

Originally Posted by pharaohoner

how do you rename them without root explorer? is there a free app that allows you to do the same thing?

adb would let you rename and/or move them.

droid 3 rebot

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I have a droid 3, I made the root, and delete some applications and then now every time I turn it on, it restarts and keeps restarting, help please

Any commentary on effect on battery life? I saw some guys in the dev section of the forum reporting really good battery life, but I believe they were undervolting or downclocking the cpu as well.

Also, when you say prevent you from getting OTA, do we need to rename bak's back to apk when we hear of an OTA in order to get it? I have heard OTA would likely undo root, so it may be a trade-off between fixing the blue tinted camera and having good speed/battery life.

Besides the dangerous suggestion of deleting apps, the OP must have had some apps killing his device, since I am not seeing any plausible way to get three times the performance. Device is responsive, 2500 Quadrant (FWIW) and this is in spite of no root yet, plus 1.3gb of apps installed.

Also, some the apps in the list to delete are interdependent on some stock apps, based on the rash of "help me!" posts that are starting to appear in forums.

Freeze them, yes, but do not delete them.

C'mon guys...we are smarter than this. Yes, having root is awesome but I just took delivery of the D3 for my wife last week and it is a quick and snappy phone all stock. The only real reason I see to root is that she was a bit disappointed that she couldn't tether. But we were able to get that working very simply by modifying the radio. Yes I now have free tether without root. I will not deny that I am just itching to root and unleash the power of this beast but I think it wise to wait or at least warn of potential consequences till we have a functional sbf available before just going ape-**** with the delete button and instructing how to do so? I have already seen a couple of threads by noobs pleading for a fix because they deleted something and bricked their device. It sucks! We need to warn there is no sbf or any other way of undoing **** ups yet.... just sayin

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