Ultimate BLOATWARE (deBloat) List
for Android 4.3 and 4.4.2x official
(ROOT required)!
Attention for Android 5.0.1 and UP:
I started a new Thread here: Click
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Samsung Flip Cover friendly!
There are more (depending on your usage) but that was it for now!
You can delete or move this Apps, Libs and Folders easy with "Root Explorer" App (Playstore)! Use v3.1.7 for Android 4.4.2 please!!!
Reason for this list:
We want a space-saving stock System with all necessary functions available!
We DON'T want custom Kernel & custom Recovery!
Use Xposed Installer/Framework with Wanam Xposed (ROM modding without modifying APKs)! :good:
In some cases it´s necessary after removing to clear the dalvik-cache and reboot!
Reboot always necessary!
I recommend using Playstore App "SD-Maid" (menu "corps-finder")
to kill unused related crap AFTER DELETING !!
It saves a lot of work!
In odexed ROM´s you have to delete/move the associated "xxx.odex" App´s also!
for Android 4.3 and 4.4.2x official
(ROOT required)!
Attention for Android 5.0.1 and UP:
I started a new Thread here: Click
. . .
Samsung Flip Cover friendly!
There are more (depending on your usage) but that was it for now!
You can delete or move this Apps, Libs and Folders easy with "Root Explorer" App (Playstore)! Use v3.1.7 for Android 4.4.2 please!!!
Reason for this list:
We want a space-saving stock System with all necessary functions available!
We DON'T want custom Kernel & custom Recovery!
Use Xposed Installer/Framework with Wanam Xposed (ROM modding without modifying APKs)! :good:
In some cases it´s necessary after removing to clear the dalvik-cache and reboot!
Reboot always necessary!
I recommend using Playstore App "SD-Maid" (menu "corps-finder")
to kill unused related crap AFTER DELETING !!
It saves a lot of work!
In odexed ROM´s you have to delete/move the associated "xxx.odex" App´s also!
New added things are marked GREEN for some time!
XXUGNE5+ only Bloatware / Apps are marked BLUE !!!
NOTE: In Android 4.4.2 (kitkat) some apps are moved to System/Priv-app (if you don't find them in "System/App" !!!)
Don´t disable KNOX messaging with SuperSU (might cause random system restarts or bootloop if you thereafter removing knox).
Simply remove all shown Knox stuff and you´r done!
KNOX in System/App folder:
ContainerAgent.apk
KNOXAgent.apk
ContainerEventsRelayManager.apk
KLMSAgent.apk
KnoxAttestationAgent.apk
KNOXStore.apk
KNOXStub.apk
SPDClient.apk
Bridge.apk
KnoxMigrationAgent.apk
KnoxSetupWizardClient.apk
KnoxSteupWizardStub.apk
univesalMDMClient.apk
KNOX in DATA/DATA folder:
com.sec.knox.containeragent
com.sec.knox.eventsmanager
com.sec.enterprise.knox.attestation
com.sec.knox.app.container
com.sec.knox.seandroid
com.sec.knox.store
com.samsung.klmsagent
com.samsung.knox.rcp.components
com.sec.enterprise.knox.cloudmdm.smdms
com.sec.knox.bridge
com.sec.knox.knoxsetupwizardclient
com.sec.knox.setupwizardstub
More KNOX remains:
Folder = Data/clipboard/knox
Folder = system/containers
Folder = system/etc/secure_storage/com.sec.knox.store
Folder = knox_data
Folder = system/etc/secure_storage/com.sec.knox.seandroid
Lib = libknoxdrawglfunction.so
File = system/tima_measurement_info ---- TIMA is a Trust-Zone of KNOX
Apps you can simply deinstall with your Appmanager (found on XXUGNE5 ROM):
Bild
cewe smartphoto
HRS Hotels
kaufDA
n-tv TopNews
APPS in System/App folder (some were moved to System/Priv-App in 4.4.2):
AccuweatherPhone2013.apk ------------ AccuWeather widget clock & weather on Homescreen
AirMotionTryActually.apk ----------------- Air Motion Sensor Related tutorial
AlarmWidget.apk ----------------------------- Widget to see your alarms
AllShareCastPlayer.apk ------------------- Player für AllShare
AntHalService.apk --------------------------- ANT Radio Intarface
ANTPlusPlugins.apk ------------------------ ANT Radio Plugins
ANTRadioService.apk ---------------------- ANT Radio Service
Books.apk -------------------------------------- Google Play Books
BeamService.apk ---------------------------- Beep´nGo Mobeam Barcode Service
Blurb.apk --------------------------------------- Story Album Checkout (registration needed)
CABLSerivice.apk --------------------------- Content Adaptive Backlight Service
CHS_J_Device_only.apk ------------------ Samsung Apps widget
CloudAgent.apk ------------------------------ Samsung Cloud is similar to DropBox (over Cloud Samsung can manipulate Devices additional)
ColorBlind.apk -------------------------------- Color adjustment (if you are color blind)
DigitalClock21.apk -------------------------- Clock widget
Drive.apk --------------------------------------- Filehoster like Dropbox or Cloud to load up your stuff to use from everywhere
Dropbox.apk ----------------------------------- Filehoster (Registering is necessary)
DropboxOOBE.apk -------------------------- Regulates the registration on DropBox
DSMForwarding.apk ------------------------ Dedicated Security Management for remote maintenance from Customer Service
DSMLawmo.apk ------------------------------ Belongs to DSMForwarding.apk
DualClockDigital.apk ----------------------- Dual Clock Widget
EasyFavoritesContactsWidget.apk --- Your contacts displayed in a widget
EasyLauncher.apk --------------------------- Easy Mode (slimmed) Launcher (not many features)
EasySettings.apk ---------------------------- Belongs to the Easy Launcher
ELMAgent.apk -------------------------------- Emulated Legacy Mount (for multi-user support)
Episodes.apk ---------------------------------- Story Album
Flipboard.apk ---------------------------------- App / widget for reading RSS News
FmmDM.apk ----------------------------------- Remote Access App
FmmDS.apk ----------------------------------- Remote Access App
gearmanagerstub.apk --------------------- To sync with Gear devices
Gmail2.apk ------------------------------------- Google E-Mail App
GMS_Maps.apk ------------------------------ Google MAPS
GoogleFeedback.apk ---------------------- Pops Up if an Error occurred to send a message to Google
GoogleSearchWidget.apk ---------------- Google Search bar widget
GroupPlay_25.apk -------------------------- Sharing with other Samsung Galaxy devices Pictures and Music
Hangouts.apk -------------------------------- Google Chat App (formerly Google Talk)
hrs_and_samDePhone12_keysource.apk - HRS Hotel Search App
InteractiveTutorial.apk --------------------- Guides you through phone features
InteractiveKeyguardTutorial.apk ------ Keyguard Tutorial
LanguageEnabler.apk --------------------- Enables the HIDDEN built-in languages (to give more languages)
LatinImeDictionaryPack.apk ------------ Dictionary Pack
LatinImeGoogle.apk ------------------------ Google Dictionary
Magazines.apk ------------------------------- Google Play Magazines
MediaUploader.apk -------------------------- Picasa (Picture) Uploader
MobilePrint3.apk ----------------------------- Universal Printer App (I use my providers Epson App)
MobilePrintSvc_CUPS.apk --------------- Belongs to MobilePrint3.apk
MobilePrintSvc_CUPS_Backend.apk - Belongs to MobilePrint3.apk
MobilePrintSvc_Epson.apk --------------- Belongs to MobilePrint3.apk
MobilePrintSvc_HP.apk -------------------- Belongs to MobilePrint3.apk
MobilePrintSvc_Samsung.apk ---------- Belongs to MobilePrint3.apk
MobilePrintSvc_WFDS.apk -------------- Belongs to MobilePrint3.apk
Music2.apk -------------------------------------- Google Play (and buy) Music
MusicFX.apk ----------------------------------- Belongs to the stock Music Player App (but brings no effect and works everytime in background)
NoiseField.apk -------------------------------- Simple live Wallpaper
NotificationWidget.apk --------------------- Lockscreen widget that shows incoming notifications (SMS, missed Calls, E-Mails aso.)
PageBuddyNotiSvc2.apk ------------------ Recommended apps notification while plug in earphones
Peel.apk ----------------------------------------- Belongs to WatchOn app to use the infrared interface to remote devices (very bad App)
PhaseBeam.apk ------------------------------ Simple live Wallpaper
PickUpTutorial.apk --------------------------- Simple Tutorial
PhotoTable.apk ------------------------------- Photo Screensaver
PlayGames.apk ------------------------------- Google Play Games App (to save your scores in online lists)
PlusOne.apk ----------------------------------- Google+ (Social Networking)
PopupBrowser.apk -------------------------- Browser that appears as a widget on the Homescreen
PreloadInstaller.apk ------------------------- Installs thirdparty Apps on FIRST BOOT if you flashed a new ROM
S-Voice_Android_phone_H.apk -------- Voice search App
SamsungBooks.apk ------------------------ Samsung Books Hub (buy Books) (registration needed)
SamsungGames.apk ---------------------- Samsung Game Hub (registration needed)
SamsungHub.apk --------------------------- Samsung Hub (registration needed)
SamsungHubUpdater.apk ---------------- Belongs to SamsungHub.apk
SamsungLearning.apk -------------------- Samsung Learning Hub (registration needed)
SamsungLink18.apk ----------------------- Samsung sharing App (like Allshare)
SamsungMusic10.apk -------------------- Samsung Music Hub (registration needed)
SamsungOCR2.apk ------------------------ Optical Character Recognition (make text of Text-Pictures and convert)
Samsungservice.apk------------------------ Samsung App Store
SamsungAppsUNA3.apk ----------------- Belongs to Samsungservice.apk
SamsungApps_J_Only.apk -------------- Belongs to Samsungservice.apk
SamsungContentsAgent.apk ----------- Belongs to Samsungservice.apk
SamsungWatchON.apk ------------------ Belongs to Peel.apk to use the infrared interface to remote devices (very bad App)
SamsungWallet_Stub.apk -------------- Management of tickets, loyalty cards, membership cards and vouchers (Germany not supported)
SamsungWidget_ActiveApplication.apk - Widget that shows you the number of background running processes
SBrowser.apk -------------------------------- Standard Android browser (I use CM Browser)
SBrowserTry.apk --------------------------- Belongs to SBrowser.apk
sCloudBackupApp.apk ------------------- Samsung Cloud is similar to DropBox (over Cloud Samsung can manipulate Devices additional)
sCloudBackupProvider.apk--------------- Belongs to Samsung Cloud Service
sCloudDataRelay.apk --------------------- Belongs to Samsung Cloud Service
sCloudDataSync.apk --------------------- Belongs to Samsung Cloud Service
sCloudQuotaApp.apk --------------------- Belongs to Samsung Cloud Service
sCloudSyncCalendar.apk ---------------- Belongs to Samsung Cloud Service
sCloudSyncContacts.apk --------------- Belongs to Samsung Cloud Service
sCloudSyncSBrowser.apk -------------- Belongs to Samsung Cloud Service
sCloudSyncSNote.apk ------------------- Belongs to Samsung Cloud Service
SecCalendar_SPen.apk ----------------- Calendar (S-Pen related)
SecKidsModeInstaller.apk -------------- Special Mode to make the Phone Kid´s friendly
SPlannerAppWidget.apk ---------------- Calendar Widget
ShareVideo.apk ---------------------------- Share Videos with Galaxy like devices
SimpleWidget.apk ------------------------- Widget that shows Apps you have currently running
SmartBriefing4x2.apk -------------------- Samsung Briefing App & Widget
SMemo2.apk --------------------------------- Samsung notepad. You can write notes on text, or use your finger to paint
SNS.apk --------------------------------------- Social Network Service (Facebook App)
SPenSdk3.apk ------------------------------- Pen writing App
SPPPushClient_Prod.apk -------------- Notification service for Samsung Apps
StoryAlbumWidget.apk ------------------ Story Album Photo Book Widget
Street.apk ------------------------------------- Streetview for Google Maps (can be loaded from Playstore, no reason to be a system App)
S_Translator_CSLi.apk ------------------- Samsung online translator
talkback.apk ---------------------------------- For blind People to become explained whats showing on the screen (it explains everything in voice)
TravelService.apk --------------------------- Travel Wallpaper
TravelWidget.apk --------------------------- Travel Widget
TripAdvisor.apk ------------------------------ Trip Advisor (plan trips, hotels aso.)
TrimApp_phone_J.apk -------------------- Edit and Trim Ringtones
Velvet.apk -------------------------------------- Google Now (Google Search App with the speech to text functionality)
Videos.apk ------------------------------------ Google Play Movies
VoiceRecorder.apk ------------------------- Voice Recorder (Better use Smart Voice)
WeatherWidgetDaemon.apk------------ Weather widget
WebManual.apk ---------------------------- Online Manual
wssyncmlnps.apk -------------------------- Samsung updater service (don't work on rooted device)
x4videoplayer.apk -------------------------- Third party Video Player (I recommend using MX Player)
YahoonewsPhone2013.apk ------------- Yahoo! Finance widget
YahoostockPhone2013.apk ------------- Yahoo! widget
YouTube.apk --------------------------------- Better use "TubeMate" (less rights + download possibility)
Folders in Data/Data folder (at the name you recognize the affiliation):
Note: In a fresh & clean installed ROM there might be much less Folders, this is what I found on my heavy used phone (MJ5 ROM)!
android.googleSearch.googleSearchWidget
b2b.hrs.android.lib
com.android.musicfx
com.android.noisefield
com.android.phasebeam
com.blurb.checkout
com.dropbox.android
com.dsi.ant.plugins.antplus
com.dsi.ant.server
com.dsi.ant.service.socket
com.epson.mobilephone.samsungprintservice
com.google.android.apps.books
com.google.android.apps.magazines
com.google.android.apps.plus ------------------------ Belongs to PlusOne.apk
com.google.android.feedback
com.google.android.marvin.talkback
com.google.android.play.games
com.google.android.youtube
com.hp.android.printservice
com.samsung.android.app.colorblind
com.samsung.android.app.episodes
com.samsung.android.app.storyalbumwidget
com.samsung.android.service.travel
com.samsung.android.tripwidget
com.samsung.android.walletmanager
com.samsung.everglades.video
com.samsung.groupcast
com.samsung.helphub
com.samsung.pickuptutorial
com.sec.android.app.easylauncher
com.sec.android.app.gamehub
com.sec.android.app.mobileprint
com.sec.android.app.ocr
com.sec.android.app.samsungapps
com.sec.android.app.samsungapps.una2
com.sec.android.app.SamsungContentsAgent
com.sec.android.app.sbrowser
com.sec.android.app.sbrowsertry
com.sec.android.app.sns3
com.sec.android.app.voicerecorder
com.sec.android.cloudagent
com.sec.android.cloudagent.dropboxoobe
com.sec.android.easysettings
com.sec.android.motions.settings.airmotiontutorial
com.sec.android.scloud.quota
com.sec.android.sCloudBackupApp
com.sec.android.sCloudBackupProvider
com.sec.android.sCloudRelayData
com.sec.android.sCloudSync
com.sec.android.sCloudSyncCalendar
com.sec.android.sCloudSyncContacts
com.sec.android.sCloudSyncSBrowser
com.sec.android.SimpleWidget
com.sec.android.widget.samsungapps
com.sec.android.widgetapp.activeapplicationwidget
com.sec.android.widgetapp.ap.hero.accuweather
com.sec.android.widgetapp.ap.yahoonews
com.sec.android.widgetapp.ap.yahoostock.stockclock
com.sec.android.widgetapp.diotek.smemo
com.sec.android.widgetapp.dualclockdigital
com.sec.android.widgetapp.easyfavoritescontactswidget
com.sec.android.widgetapp.SPlannerAppWidget
com.sec.msc.learninghub
com.sec.readershub
com.sec.spp.push
com.tripadvisor.tripadvisor
flipboard.app
Apps with associated Lib's & Folders:
Google Chrome (Browser):
App = Chrome.apk
Lib = libchromeview.so
Data/Data = com.android.chrome
ChatOn (Chat App):
App = ChatONV_J.apk
App = ChatON_feature.apk
Data/Data = com.coolots.chaton
Data/Data = com.sec.chaton
Lib = libChatOnAMSImageFilterLibs-1.0.2.so
DioDict (Dictionary):
App = DioDict3Service.apk
Lib = libDioDict3EngineNativeService.so
Lib = libDioDict4EngineNativeService.so
Lib = libDioOcrEngine.so
Data/Data = com.diotek.diodict3.service
Google Earth:
App = Earth.apk
Lib = libearthmobile.so
Data/Data = com.google.earth
Kies (OTA "On The Air" Updates over PC Kies Software):
App = Kies.apk
Folder = system/etc/kies
Data/Data = com.sec.android.Kies
PolarisViewer (Document fewer (better use "Documents to go"):
App = PolarisViewer5.apk
Lib = libpolarisviewer5.so
Lib = libpolarisexternel.so
Lib = libpolarisexternel3.so
Lib = libpolarisexternel3SDK.so
Lib = libpolarisexternelSDK.so
Lib = libpolaristextprint5v.so
Lib = libpolarisviewerSDK.so
Data/Data = com.infraware.polarisviewer5
SHealth (Fitness App):
App = SHealth2_5.apk
App = SensorService2_5.apk
Lib = libhealth_jni.so
Data/Data = com.sec.android.app.shealth
Data/Data = com.sec.android.service.health.sensor
SNote (Samsung Notepad):
App = SNoteProvider.apk
Lib = libsnote_core.so
Folder = system/csc/common/system/preloaddata/SNote
Data/Data = com.sec.android.provider.snote
Data/Data = com.sec.android.sCloudSyncSNote
Useless pre-installed Videos:
Folder = system/media/video
Apps for OTA Firmware Updates (useless for rooted ROMS):
Kies.apk
LocalFOTA.apk
SyncmIDM.apk
SyncmIDS.apk
Pre-Installed Language Packs:
system/VODB: Delete this folders EXCEPT: lib folder, mul folder, resources.txt
da_DK
de_DE
en_GB
en_US
fi_FI
fr_FR
it_IT
ko_KR
nb_NO
pl_PL
sv_SE
aso.
Pre-Installed Ringtones & Notifications (your own choice (leave at least one in each folder)):
System/media/audio/ringtones --------------- keep "Over_the_horizon.ogg"
System/media/audio/notifications ----------- keep "S_Whistle.ogg" & "S_Postman.ogg"
Remove this Apps if you don´t want to get more Info's by phone Code (e.g. *#1234# aso.):
AutomationTest_FB.apk
FactoryCamera_FB.apk
FactoryKeystring_FB.apk
FactoryTest_FB.apk
If you don´t use the FaceLock feature you can delete this:
App = FaceLock.apk
Lib = system/lib/libfacelock_jni.so
Folder = system/vendor/pittpatt
Pre-Installed Apps : (be installed automatically if you wipe-dalvic cache and reboot or change System/App folder)
Folder = system/csc/common/App (e.g. Videos.apk (VideoHub) & Books.apk)
App = system/csc/DBT/system/app/hrs_and_samDePhone12_keysource.apk
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