How To Guide debloat galaxy watch 4

[C3R741N]

Samsung in the package name for messages. Android messages is just google

Thank you but wait what's the correct package name? is it: com.google.android.messaging ?

 

[spart0n]

Thank you but wait what's the correct package name? is it: com.google.android.messaging ?

com.google.andriod.apps.messaging for the watch4

 

[C3R741N]

com.google.andriod.apps.messaging for the watch4

Many thanks!

 

[GerardoYJ87]

I usually use adb to disable bloat apps on all my android devices.

Now I removed also some watchfaces and I have a problem:
I can not customize watchfaces I kept or newly installed. When opening the customization dialogue it crashes. Customizing on the phone just ends in an endless loading.

Also is there a way to remove the disabled watchfaces from the wear app?

Hello everyone, I have exactly the same problem, any solution on this date?

thank you very much

 

[GerardoYJ87]

Hello everyone, I have exactly the same problem, any solution on this date?

thank you very much

I also tell you in more detail that at first it worked, but maybe after a reboot or something, days later I tried to uninstall other watchfaces and it stayed as described by Mamu2110

I just wanted to uninstall watchfaces that I didn't use, bixby and google messenger, don't touch anything else, I already factory reset by recovery, try to uninstall whatchface with bixby installed and even so there is a failure in the whatchface section in the wear of the galaxy application

 

[AwkwardUberHero]

Working on debloating my GW 5 Pro, but the following items, I cannot find package names for now.

Stopwatch
Timer
Alarm
Contacts
Calendar
FindmyPhone
Any ideas?

 

[spart0n]

Working on debloating my GW 5 Pro, but the following items, I cannot find package names for now.

Stopwatch
Timer
Alarm
Contacts
Calendar
FindmyPhone
Any ideas?

Try using adb app control, it shows all installed apps and package names

 

[AwkwardUberHero]

Try using adb app control, it shows all installed apps and package names

I figured it out. I was reading in the wrong saved thread. Thanks though.

 

[riker73]

With the latest WearOS update, watchfaces can be removed from the "Favorites" collection (Galaxy wearable app) and only the favorite watchfaces are selectable on the watch now. Not sure if they get uninstalled, at least they're not visible anymore.

 

[DeeZigneZ]

Anybody has an updated list , to debloat all Samsung related stuff, to have something like an pixel watch ?
Ofc without having bootloops or a none working watch in the end ?

 

[jonatank]

Any chance these steps also work for the new Samsung Watch5 Pro?

 

[73sydney]

Anybody has an updated list , to debloat all Samsung related stuff, to have something like an pixel watch ?
Ofc without having bootloops or a none working watch in the end ?

if you wanted a pixel watch, you'd buy a pixel watch...

you will never convert a Samsung Watch x to be as stripped down as that

 

[DeeZigneZ]

if you wanted a pixel watch, you'd buy a pixel watch...

you will never convert a Samsung Watch x to be as stripped down as that

I got most of the Samsung stuff off my watch and it's running great, only thing missing would be a Google calendar, and the system UI.. everything else is working fine.. ATM I'm not using the g assistant cuz they still didn't mange the high battery consumption.

 

[73sydney]

I got most of the Samsung stuff off my watch and it's running great, only thing missing would be a Google calendar, and the system UI.. everything else is working fine.. ATM I'm not using the g assistant cuz they still didn't mange the high battery consumption.

I dont understand buying a Samsung Watch and removing *all* the Samsung software (limiting its usefulness)

I debloat some apps, but to try and remove all is bonkers

Nothing wrong with the assistant, you just turn off the "Hey Google" setting

Settings -> Google -> Assistant -> Hey Google (off)

Set it to launch from button via Settings -> Advanced Features -> Customize Buttons

OR

Releases · blunden/SPayToGPay

A helper app to remap the Samsung Pay button shortcut on the GW4 to Google Pay on watches shipping without Samsung Pay - blunden/SPayToGPay

github.com

 

[amarprat87]

Settings -> Google -> Assistant -> Hey Google (off)

This was useful. Which apps do you debloat

 

[73sydney]

This was useful. Which apps do you debloat

my windows batch file to debloat, once connected to watch via adb via wifi - mostly watch faces

adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.wearable.retailattractloop
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.microsoft.office.outlook
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.bixby.agent
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.bixby.wakeup
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.messaging
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.budscontroller
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.stopwatch
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.worldclock
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.sree
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.shealthmonitor
rem watchfaces
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.watchface.animal
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.watchface.aremoji
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.watchface.bitmoji
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.watchface.endangeredanimal
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.watchface.myphoto
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.watchface.mystyle
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.watchface.superfiction
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.watchface.together
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.watchface.typography

note: most apps disabled for user 0, but shealthmonitor uninstalled in preparation for installing Dante63's Samsung Health Monitor MOD

 

[twixyfig]

Thank you for this tutorial, Worked with no issue!

 

[gjw00]

Hello everyone,
Hope you all good,

First of all, I want to clarify that this is a list with everything that people can remove, it is up to you to choose what to remove from the watch 4, you don't need to remove all apps...

Debloat Galaxy Watch 4​

1. Enable developers mode (skip if it's on):
On the galaxy watch 4,
go to settings -> information about the clock -> software -> click on software version until you see the written developer mode activated...

2. Enabling ADB:
On the galaxy watch 4,
go to developer options and enable adb debugging and debugging via wifi, go back and connect your computer and watch 4 to the same connection...

Now on watch 4 go to wifi settings click on the connection to which it is connected scroll to the bottom and look at the ip address, write it down...

3. Running ADB:
On the computer open adb minimal and write: adb connect (your ip address) and then write: adb shell done this you can choose which apps to keep and which to remove...

This is simply a list of all the things you can remove



only use this command if you don't have a samsung phone


Don't forget to turn off ADB on watch when you're done...

Thanks @Dante63 for your help...






with the new update other things have been added

how would I reinstall some of the above if i removed e.g. the weather app, some of the watch faces seem reliant on it... doh

 

[73sydney]

how would I reinstall some of the above if i removed e.g. the weather app, some of the watch faces seem reliant on it... doh

hint: look on page 3...theres only 7 pages in this thread....

 

[gjw00]

hint: look on page 3...theres only 7 pages in this thread....

Got it. Thanks. I just wasn't sure of the syntax. Using install-existing did the trick