Uninstalling bloatware galaxy s4

The greatest insult is that you actually can't uninstall these apps without rooting -- they'll stay in your app drawer and task manager even if you don't use them. The best solution is to disable them, which will effectively remove them from your app drawer and prevent these apps from being active in the background. Normally when you tap an app from this list, you'll see the option to uninstall it. But for pre-installed apps, you'll see a "Disable" button.

First, uncheck the Notifications box, then tap Disable. Repeat this process for any other bloatware you want to get rid of. If someone else uses your phone with a guest account, all the removed apps will still be available to him. It simply means that if you need the uninstalled system app sometime later, you can easily re-install the removed app using another ADB shell command. Simply execute the above command as shown below to restore an app package that you uninstalled earlier.

Below is an example command for disabling Bixby on Samsung devices. You are a god amongst men, thank you for this. The fact that they attempt to prevent them from being removed makes me want to remove them even more other than the fact that they are redundant and garbage.

Great tutorial, I managed to uninstall a lot of stuff and save around 1gb of space! However, maybe you should remove com. I had to sideload Poco Launcher afterwards to bring my phone back to usable state. I also uninstalled com. Poco launcher is still not an alternative as home button and multitasking gestures are gone. I have to go back to 3 button navigation, but even then multitasking doesn't work. This is unfortunate. Anyone know how you could restore com.

SamNoteUser Active Level Well, there is more than one answer to that question. Bloat apps unnecessarily clutter the app drawer. Bloat apps also devour system resources in the background and make your device slower.

The package name of the apps you want to uninstall. Is the bloatware safe to remove? Finding App Package Name To be able to remove bloatware on your Samsung device without root via ADB, you must have the package name of the app to be deleted. Connect your device to the computer. Execute the following ADB shell commands. Sadly, Samsung has been forcing the users to live with a good number of useless apps in the name of new features that are practically useless.

Most of us do not want them to crowd the app drawer unnecessarily and degrade the quality of performance. It comes with about three pages of system apps most of which are not likely to be used by S4 users. There might be a difference in opinion about the bloat quality of a couple of apps but most of them are really useless. At DroidViews we often come with tutorials on improving performance of the Samsung Galaxy devices.

We already have a bunch of articles on removing and disposing of bloatware apps. You can read them by clicking the links below:. If you are not happy with your Galaxy S4 with a populated app drawer and slow performance, you should consider removing the apps and widgets that you normally do not need or use.

You need to root an Android device to be able to delete the bloats using an app or a root file manager. A user with a rooted S4 might get rid of those system apps manually or by installing a custom ROM, but those who wish to do it easily without hassles can use this script to clean the bloats! Please note that once deleted, the bloat apps cannot be restored back. But even this is not guaranteed. Therefore, you should be careful while choosing the apps to be deleted. All you need to do is to just install the script and you get a Galaxy S4 with just one page of apps instead of three.

The script, in its original state, can remove about apps from your Samsung Galaxy S4 and thus you get more than MB extra space on the internal SD. The above screenshot shows the apps that would survive after the bloat kill script runs on your Galaxy S4. As I mentioned above, a certain app that is useless for someone might be useful to someone else. If you want to add or remove an app from the list of the TrulyClean script, you can do it very easily. Enjoy your completely cleaned phone with no bloats and removed undesirable system apps.

A good thing about using this method is, it also creates a backup of the uninstalled apps so that you might restore them later if required. Oh, no. It was only after Apple stepped into the Smartphone arena that, all of a sudden, people started bitching about Plastic devices. You know what? E : Signature verification failed. After running this program on my rooted phone, ran recovery, ran the script, afterward, the phone loaded and wanted to be set up from default again.

After finishing the default loading, I get a message saying that Settings has stopped responding, and the program starts all over again. When i select the trulyclean. My S4 then proceeds to reboot and there is no change in my app draw. Did i miss something?

Please help. The only way to reinstall them is to reflash an original stock ROM or possibly for non-root users, wait for the next OTA update, that may provide them again in the new ROM. Hi Zeb, thanks for your insight.