[N900V] [KitKat] [4.4.2] [NC4] Comprehensive Default Applications Information

AdamT6 · Jul 10, 2014

This is a piece of very new work that is in progress, but the framework is coming into place and I wanted to share this with the community for feedback and insights.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gdVCIbstn3G-GJV1qPaBjlnD7h4bBcERUpgUSm-AI1Y/edit?usp=sharing

My goal is to both catalog and research the default applications that are installed. With this information I plan to better reduce the installed applications while maintaining functionality. This work is inspired by my own tooling around that I have done on the Galaxy Tab 2 as well as others from this sub-forum that have done similar such as dkido and airmaxx23 (links below). I initially tried their suggestions, however after I found them to be both too aggressive and not aggressive enough in different regards.

With this in mind, I just restored my phone via Odin and then Kies and I am currently working on documenting the apps that exist in /data/app, /system/app, system/priv-app. From there I will be using SD Maid to associate the generic "name" with the the package/process name and .apk. Afterwards I am not sure exactly how I will proceed but I will essentially collect as much data as possible about each individual application so that myself (and anyone else) can decide on what to keep and what to remove.

I plan to test each app by freezing it before ultimately deciding on removing or keeping it for my own install. I will document this process as best as I am able for my own reference if nothing else.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2767457
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2794481

Edit: And just for clarification. This is my current goal, hopefully I will not give up but we shall see.

Grompy · Jul 11, 2014 at 11:16 PM

I'll Look forward to your findings

just curious how you plan to test functionality after each app removal. There is so many things that could break that you might not realize it's broken until it's too late and you have multiple apps removed.

airmaxx23 · Jul 12, 2014 at 2:43 PM

AdamT6 said:
This is a piece of very new work that is in progress, but the framework is coming into place and I wanted to share this with the community for feedback and insights.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gdVCIbstn3G-GJV1qPaBjlnD7h4bBcERUpgUSm-AI1Y/edit?usp=sharing

My goal is to both catalog and research the default applications that are installed. With this information I plan to better reduce the installed applications while maintaining functionality. This work is inspired by my own tooling around that I have done on the Galaxy Tab 2 as well as others from this sub-forum that have done similar such as dkido and airmaxx23 (links below). I initially tried their suggestions, however after I found them to be both too aggressive and not aggressive enough in different regards.

With this in mind, I just restored my phone via Odin and then Kies and I am currently working on documenting the apps that exist in /data/app, /system/app, system/priv-app. From there I will be using SD Maid to associate the generic "name" with the the package/process name and .apk. Afterwards I am not sure exactly how I will proceed but I will essentially collect as much data as possible about each individual application so that myself (and anyone else) can decide on what to keep and what to remove.

I plan to test each app by freezing it before ultimately deciding on removing or keeping it for my own install. I will document this process as best as I am able for my own reference if nothing else.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2767457
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2794481

Edit: And just for clarification. This is my current goal, hopefully I will not give up but we shall see.

Here is a link to my post with all of the apps that I have removed from 4.4.2 (NC4), it may be helpful for you. Keep in mind that some apps still run even when frozen, your best bet would be to just move them to an external sdcard or rename them.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2794481

AdamT6 · May 18, 2014 43 11 0

airmaxx23 said:
Here is a link to my post with all of the apps that I have removed from 4.4.2 (NC4), it may be helpful for you. Keep in mind that some apps still run even when frozen, your best bet would be to just move them to an external sdcard or rename them.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2794481

Thanks airmaxx23, I referenced you and that link above.

Grompy said:
I'll Look forward to your findings just curious how you plan to test functionality after each app removal. There is so many things that could break that you might not realize it's broken until it's too late and you have multiple apps removed.

Yeah Grompy, it will no doubt come down to what I find necessary and that which I do not use may well get missed (or straight up eradicated

AdamT6 · May 18, 2014 43 11 0

Just another helpful link I found courtesy of the Jasmine Rom thread.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53263649&postcount=1103

For the time being I am exploring NC4 compatible ROMs and I may not make much if any progress on this. Some handy links above though if nothing else.

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