Applications Safe To Remove

[gsw5700]

Oh man, I just posted this in the bloatware thread, I will ask for it to be removed.
here is my post

Samsung bloatware is a real pain in the ass, you have to delete lots of it to free up cpu cycles, memory (and battery life). I have seen spreadsheets of lists of samsung apps/services and what they do for other samsung phones in the past and these are really useful as you know exactly what to 'freeze/remove'. There are so many apps & services, its almost impossible to determine what you lose by removing 'stuff' and wondered if anyone therefore has any information...

I have 'frozen' the following, some of the new funky stuff doesn't appear to work but most things do (and I have about 430Mb free after killing everything) I am using LF2 with CFROOT 6.2

If anyone could provide any definitive knowledge on what each app/service does, it would be great.

My frozen apps
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Allshare*
Chaton
Clock funky, modern,
Currents
Digital clock
Dual clock
Email 4
Exchanmge services
Face unlock
Fwupgrade
LEAVE Gallery - needed for Photo reviews ***
Game hub
Google play books
Google play movies
Google search
Google+
Kies via wifi
Mapservicesamsung
Mobile print
Mobile tracker
More services
LEAVE MTP – needed for file transfers ***
Music FX
My files
Nearby devices
News daemon
Polaris viewer
S suggest
Samsung account/apps/backup*/Chinese/cloud/keyboard/push/appsuna
Sns
Software update
Software update v3
Talk
Talkback
Touchwiz
Videohub
Voodoo*
Weather*
Windy weather
Wssyncmlnps
Yahoo*

 

[Baldilocks]

You don't have any problems after freezing Touchwiz?? On my GS2 that made me FC all the time.

 

[KeesStolk]

I am on Omega v4.2 (installed without most off the bloatware from Indie's map) and like to share my list off apps i froze without problems:

AvcrpServiceSamsung 4.0.4-I9300XXALEF
BroadcomMEMsService 01.038.126104
Bubbles 1.0
com.samsung.app.playreadyui 4.0.4-I9300XXALEF
DRM-Protected Content Storage 4.0.4-I9300XXALEF
Dropbox 2.1.3.13
Dropbox 1.0
DSForwarding 1.0
DSMLawmo 1.0
Flipboard 1.8.4 beta 1
FM Radio 1.0
FWUpgrade 1.2.0
Luminous Dots 1.0
Maps 6.8.1 (anyone knows how to keep maps frozen after a reboot without uninstalling?)
MapServiceSamsung 4.0.4-I9300XXALEF
Photo wall 1.0
S Voice 4.0
Samsung account 1.2.041
Samsung Backup 1.0
Samsung Backup Provider 1.0
Samsung Cloud Data Relay 1.1.8
Samsung Cloud Syncadapters 1.0
Samsung Push Service 1.0.5
SecPhone 1.0
Street View 1.8.0.1

Just sharing.

 

[Chillz88]

You don't have any problems after freezing Touchwiz?? On my GS2 that made me FC all the time.

I have freezed touchwiz..no fc here at all...

 

[gsw5700]

I have freezed touchwiz..no fc here at all...

no issues, using APEX launcher

Sent via TCP/IP

 

[SteveTilsed]

Why are you freezing them and not removing them if you plan never to use them again? Sorry still new to me all this.

 

[mark2222]

Why are you freezing them and not removing them if you plan never to use them again? Sorry still new to me all this.

If you remove them and reinstall your rom then you need to do it all over agian. f you freeze them they stay frozen. Of course you could use ti backup to label all unwanted apps first so they're quick to find and remove.

 

[winwiz]

I have locked the spreadsheet, if anyone requires access please PM me with your details and I'll add you to the edit list of the spreadsheet allowing you to make changes

 

[Gramrock]

Hey man, i noticed that in both lists

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ank2uC-u_XGpdHJETkhYNUMzS1hpbVpELTNXWDNNYkE&single=true&gid=0&output=html

and

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqTvctlW89DtdC1qVUlLeVFTV3ZOdUtDclpBdVRQOUE&pli=1#gid=0

theres no google + or messenger and stuff.. isnt there any list with really ALL the preinstalled **** ?

noone can tell me that google+ is a systemapp which is unsafe to remove )

 

[bry4ntt]

Does anyone know what DSMLawmo does?
This service starts when my phone boots.

Is it safe to remove?

 

[Gramrock]

I've been checking that out too but no idea, all i could find were suggestions...

Also, whats the MAPServiceSamsung ?

SecPhone seems to be essential..
GoogleServices is needed to enter the store and stuff right ?
cuz thats all i use from google

 

[KeesStolk]

Does anyone know what DSMLawmo does?
This service starts when my phone boots.

Is it safe to remove?

I am not a big fan of removing, but i have it frozen since i have the S3 and don't have any problems.

---------- Post added at 08:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:14 PM ----------

I've been checking that out too but no idea, all i could find were suggestions...

Also, whats the MAPServiceSamsung ?

SecPhone seems to be essential..
GoogleServices is needed to enter the store and stuff right ?
cuz thats all i use from google

Not sure, but sounds likes something dive could needed.
Anyway, i have it frozen without problems.
I think Secphone has something to do with callrecoding?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1706310
As i never record calls, i froze it without any problems.

 

[sohebq]

Thanks for sharing. Removing/freezing junk always better for battery

 

[TotallydubbedHD]

great thread!
I'll freeze some !

 

[Electricview]

Has anyone removed/frozen the slideshow.apk file? I'm curious what this does exactly and if it will have any effect on my problem with 'incoming' picture messages in the default text messaging program. (incoming Text messages that contain a regular picture constantly get shown as a 'video' or 'slideshow' rather, on my phone (I.e. I cannot zoom the picture and its very small when it arrives and i only get about 5 or 6 seconds to view it like its a short video). Also when i take a picture to send it it was says something along the lines of "Inserting photo into slideshow".. (though people i send the picture too do not get it as a slide show curiously enough).

 

[Baldilocks]

Has anyone removed/frozen the slideshow.apk file? I'm curious what this does exactly and if it will have any effect on my problem with 'incoming' picture messages in the default text messaging program. (incoming Text messages that contain a regular picture constantly get shown as a 'video' or 'slideshow' rather, on my phone (I.e. I cannot zoom the picture and its very small when it arrives and i only get about 5 or 6 seconds to view it like its a short video). Also when i take a picture to send it it was says something along the lines of "Inserting photo into slideshow".. (though people i send the picture too do not get it as a slide show curiously enough).

Not sure. I don't know why Samsung went back to that after fixing it on ICS on the Galaxy S II.
I use GoSMS so I don't have to worry about it anymore.

 

[Electricview]

Not sure. I don't know why Samsung went back to that after fixing it on ICS on the Galaxy S II.
I use GoSMS so I don't have to worry about it anymore.

I could be doing something wrong, I dont want to say they 'didnt' fix it for this phone as I seem to be the only on this board having this issue.. (i'm fine with everything else with the stock messenger, just wish pictures would work properly).

 

[wonsanim]

Nice:fingers-crossed:After removed al the Bloatware I have 557MG of Free space:good:

 

[markn73]

Is there an updated sheet for removable bloatware guys ? Been looking in the original post and a lot of the entries are not greened or colour coded. Thanks in advance.

 

[k0928999]

nice post...I freze many to save memory...thanks...