Bloatware remover for | Galaxy S10e (SM-G970F)

[alex.quiniou]

I followed you hints, thank you for this post.
Probably depending on Version I do have some failures because it is not installed.
com.samsung.android.bixbyvision.framework
com.samsung.android.visionarapps
...
and for one package I get:
com.samsung.android.kgclient'
Failure [DELETE_FAILED_DEVICE_POLICY_MANAGER]

Nevertheless I have still >300 packages and in settings/apps I can found still a lot of things I don't want, as "AR Zone", "Finder", "Private Share", "Reminder" - what is it for?, "Samsung Visit in", "Secure WLAN".

I will check for that. How did you do that - by trial and error?
What is responsible for OTA-Updates, that I think we shoud keep.

Go on github instructions are up to date. That why you have so many problems.

 

[starbright_]

Go on github instructions are up to date. That why you have so many problems.

The problem with this files are, that it is not right away usable.
How do you use it? It is ok for overview but not for execution.
Best would be something copy / paste or scriptable. I would be enough just to put comments/notes in a separate line with "#" in front. I think that should be done once not each and every user on its on. I can do that, if you like.

 

[starbright_]

Also to have some kind of a reproducable order of packages I recommend to sort them alphabetically as proposed in post #39

adb shell 'pm list packages' | sed 's/package://g' | sort | sed 's/^/# pm uninstall -k --user 0 /'

Although your kind of grouping packages has some advantages too. But a list generated by the line above will help creating the actual debloat script.
What do you think about that?

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I checked your 11 guthub list. Some few more I could deinstall, but others seem not to be on device. No problem with that.

I would add this packages - these are easy to find as connected to apps that could be seen in settings/apps:

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.arzone
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.sec.android.app.myfiles

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.game.gamehome
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.game.gametools
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.game.gos

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.privateshare
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.app.reminder
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.ipsgeofence
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.appseparation
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.fast
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.app.tips

com.samsung.android.game.gos behaves strange. I can call uninstall as often as I want - it is always executed with "success" - so it is not removed.

 

[starbright_]

Mh, one of the packages I should kept. The Battery statistics / Device maintanance is gone.

It comes back with:

cmd package install-existing com.samsung.android.lool

Thinking about debloating at all I start to doubt. You want to have less "talk" with Samsung/Google servers, less battery usage, faster speed by a slimmer system.
In fact, what I want is to have a AOSP system without all the bells and whistles of a full blown vendor ROM with very, very few exceptions:
using full hardware features that might not be best supported by a Custom/Open Source ROM. What comes to my mind is VoLTE and camera.

But bck to debloating:

• you don't get more space
• risk missing features that you don't see at the first glance (especially for system services)
• maybe some other apps rely on availability of a service

I thought unwanted data transfer might be limited with a firewall, so debloating isn't required.
But also this approach can lead to less speed. Device can see - I am connected to internet and want to talks with my servers - which fails due to FW. But it will repeat that several times with timeouts and slow down device. Se better niot to have that parts in?

So there are pro/cons....