Rooted (Locked Bootloader) Phone - App Removal (Safe List)

[HeadShooter1979]

I have deleted these apps with Titanium Backup (phone works fine for now):

- Android Live Wallpapers
- Live Wallpapers Catalogue
- Chinese keyboard
- The Sims
- FIFA
- Star Battalion
- News and Weather
- Street View
- Office Suite
- Crash Bandicoot (playing Playstation games using FPSE)
- Media Server
- Event Thread Block
- Timescape legacy extension wrapper
- Twitter module
- Anonymous usage stats
- Distributed demo version
- Sony Ericsson sync
- Sync
- Sony Ericsson Sync master client
- Timescape
- Postcard

Please post apps you uninstalled without breaking phone.

UPD: Noticed differences:
- Boot time now is less than a minute (it took 3+ minutes before)
- Battery life is much better!
- ~250Mb of free memory
- Phone works faster (At least feels like. Didn't test)

 

[marvi0]

I have deleted these apps with Titanium Backup (phone works fine for now):

- Android Live Wallpapers
- Live Wallpapers Catalogue
- Chinese keyboard
- The Sims
- FIFA
- Star Battalion
- News and Weather
- Street View
- Office Suite
- Crash Bandicoot (playing Playstation games using FPSE)
- Media Server
- Event Thread Block
- Timescape legacy extension wrapper
- Twitter module
- Anonymous usage stats
- Distributed demo version
- Sony Ericsson sync
- Sync
- Sony Ericsson Sync master client
- Timescape
- Postcard

Please post apps you uninstalled without breaking phone.

thanks for this hope others follow suite, so we know what to get rid of.

 

[svenk919]

-Anonymous usage stats
--2 digital clock things that where eating up around 20MB ram (and I didn't even use those widgets...)
-facebook
-facebook extensions
-get games 1.5.1
-live wallpaper picker
-magicsmoke
-playstation pocket
-retail demo
-support (got the xda app )
-talk
-twitter (extension)
-voice dialer
-iplayer (that came with root)
-chinese keyboard
-bruce lee
-pws
-setup guide
- Sony Ericsson sync client wizard
-sony ericson home

and some things you listed already

Did make backups of most of it with titanium backup though.

Don't delete sony ericson home , it's the standard launcher fixed this by holding the search button, voice searche for android market, entered the android market from the browser and instaleld launcherpro. anyone got a backup of the standard SE launcher for me?

Got 110MB ram used after start-up now. Seems nice to me (used to be around 170-180 if I recall correctly).

PS I advice against removing office suite as it is used for viewing documents (like word documents, pdf files and those things), unless you got some replacement offcourse.

 

[marvi0]

I have deleted these apps with Titanium Backup (phone works fine for now):

- Android Live Wallpapers
- Live Wallpapers Catalogue
- Chinese keyboard
- The Sims
- FIFA
- Star Battalion
- News and Weather
- Street View
- Office Suite
- Crash Bandicoot (playing Playstation games using FPSE)
- Media Server
- Event Thread Block
- Timescape legacy extension wrapper
- Twitter module
- Anonymous usage stats
- Distributed demo version
- Sony Ericsson sync
- Sync
- Sony Ericsson Sync master client
- Timescape
- Postcard

Please post apps you uninstalled without breaking phone.

which version of titanium did you use the free version or the pro and is it easy to get to the apps to be uninstalled.

 

[svenk919]

I used the free version of titanium. It's quite easy. You got a list of all apps that are installed, they are color coded (red=standard phone files, green=standard files with cache you can clear and white is user installed files). Just tab the app and select uninstall. Selecting back-up will only back-up data like preferences and saves I think.

 

[m3dteam]

Wornining, don't freeze or un-install SE Home, because it is your home screen and your phone will never unlock the screen. I had to go to titaniam backup and defrost it.

 

[marvi0]

ok just a few questions before I jump in, what does the freezing option actually do?. And also if I was to backup an application first then unistall it, can I then restore it.?

 

[HeadShooter1979]

which version of titanium did you use the free version or the pro and is it easy to get to the apps to be uninstalled.

I used free version. Downloaded from Market.

 

[svenk919]

ok just a few questions before I jump in, what does the freezing option actually do?. And also if I was to backup an application first then unistall it, can I then restore it.?

I'm not sure but I think it's like a uninstall that you can put back. You freeze it, rest of the system think it's gone, you unfreeze, and it's back as it was before. Could be used as a test before uninstalling.

 

[marvi0]

OK so by freezing it this actually creates more memory?

 

[svenk919]

OK so by freezing it this actually creates more memory?

I think more ram but not more storage space, uninstalling should safe storage space.

 

[marvi0]

ok froze a couple of apps, but no difference on ram, so do i actually have to unistall the app, after backup, ?so that i can restore it should i want to use it?

 

[m3dteam]

if you un-installed any stock apps and you want them back, you propebly can get them here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1036249

 

[svenk919]

My device survived around 60 hours, including 1.5 hours of gaming (super mario kart to be ecaxt), the occasional whatsapp/skype/texting, around 20MB of downloads and some surfing + playing music on my earplugs for a few hours. Still got 15% left (dimmed the screen brightnes when I was around 50%). Deleting bloatware really seems to help.

 

[Rixter757]

Hey all,

I have also uninstalled a pile of bloatware, mostly covered by what has been mentioned already. Some of the names I don't remember but I will write what is on my list via Titanium:

iPlayer, magicsmoke, protips, stk, touchpal, thesims3, facebook, twitter, geniewidget, talk, music, timescape, support, digitalclock, owstore, retaildemo, setupwizard, touchnote, vodafoneshop, vodafoneupdates, whatsapp.

From the earlier list, I don't recommend anyone remove the Get Games unless they are sure they don't want any from the "more games" when you slide open your phone. I had thought I could still get the full list of games via market, but games like Backstab aren't. You can't get these games via emulators either.

My phone has went from booting in around 5 minutes to less than 1 minute & I had initially freed RAM up to the point where I was >200Mb.

The phone flies now, you can really see the difference. I'm also keeping widgets to a minimum & I highly recommend no-one puts on the useless task managers to kill processes (which themselves drain the battery). Simply use Running Services within settings. Oh, and I now only have 13 running services

My battery life I haven't noticed yet because the phone is stuck to my hand

Good luck all,

Rixter

 

[HeadShooter1979]

Battery life is much better! Charged my phone 5 days ago. Made some calls, played games and it is still 50% charged

 

[marvi0]

Hey all,

I have also uninstalled a pile of bloatware, mostly covered by what has been mentioned already. Some of the names I don't remember but I will write what is on my list via Titanium:

iPlayer, magicsmoke, protips, stk, touchpal, thesims3, facebook, twitter, geniewidget, talk, music, timescape, support, digitalclock, owstore, retaildemo, setupwizard, touchnote, vodafoneshop, vodafoneupdates, whatsapp.

From the earlier list, I don't recommend anyone remove the Get Games unless they are sure they don't want any from the "more games" when you slide open your phone. I had thought I could still get the full list of games via market, but games like Backstab aren't. You can't get these games via emulators either.

My phone has went from booting in around 5 minutes to less than 1 minute & I had initially freed RAM up to the point where I was >200Mb.

The phone flies now, you can really see the difference. I'm also keeping widgets to a minimum & I highly recommend no-one puts on the useless task managers to kill processes (which themselves drain the battery). Simply use Running Services within settings. Oh, and I now only have 13 running services

My battery life I haven't noticed yet because the phone is stuck to my

Good luck all,

Rixter

Thanks for the safe removal list but oh boy their goes the whole "chicken and egg argument ", task killer or no task killer and to be honest will never know.!

 

[Rixter757]

Thanks for the safe removal list but oh boy their goes the whole "chicken and egg argument ", task killer or no task killer and to be honest will never know.!

Lol, I hear ya. I'm only starting out with Android so the curve is still upward. From what I read from other sources, task killers are only useful if you have them set to automatically kill because the offending services continually restart. Then it's a looping killing field, as you say chicken & egg time. The way forward is to root & remove the apps

I'm trying to be good by using the inbuilt OS to find out status rather than add more hoggers such as battery widgets, task killers etc. Gotta stretch that battery to it's max.

I still haven't had time to play many games yet!!

Rixter

 

[marvi0]

Lol, I hear ya. I'm only starting out with Android so the curve is still upward. From what I read from other sources, task killers are only useful if you have them set to automatically kill because the offending services continually restart. Then it's a looping killing field, as you say chicken & egg time. The way forward is to root & remove the apps

I'm trying to be good by using the inbuilt OS to find out status rather than add more hoggers such as battery widgets, task killers etc. Gotta stretch that battery to it's max.

I still haven't had time to play many games yet!!

Rixter

Ye the task killer no//yes issue has been argued over and over. I played modern combat and was stuck on it at my son's football practice i was so engrossed its out of this world lol. Gone give backstab a short today.

 

[scottiepp]

UPD: Noticed differences:
- Boot time now is less than a minute (it took 3+ minutes before)
- Battery life is much better!
- ~250Mb of free memory
- Phone works faster (At least feels like. Didn't test)

boot time is faster & phone overall is smoother.
but battery is the same.

4.5 hrs of usage (push mail, whatsapp, sms, a few phone calls) with only 55%.