My main reason for rooting a non-Nexus phone is to, of course, remove the bloatware. It really does significantly increase the phones speed because many of the bloat apps persist in the phone's active RAM (and cache) until the phone's RAM capacity is fully in use, then Android automatically kills off processes that it deems low in priority to make room for the processes one demands. This is the main reason behind
Why Task Killers Are Useless
I have much experience changing the suffix of the apks via root explorer to remove bloat, as I have with my OG Droid, Droid X and various other Verizon phones that my friends had. I made an aggressive list in the developer section of the Droid 3 for Corey, (
http://forums.androidcentral.com/dro...ml#post1234181) which he added to his post. However, Google's App menu does not allow every app to be disabled. Most can.
I have tested all of these, and the device is proven to work without damaging or preventing the phone from running correctly. This does NOT require root, and is a perfect solution to those who want to de-bloat and not have to root their phones. *If you use any of these apps ie: Google Music then obviously do not disable. This is just a list of the apps that are able to be disabled:
Android Version:
5.1.1
System Version:
23.31.23.kinzie_verizon.verizon.en.us
Kernel Version:
3.10.49-perf-ge851b65
Amazon Amazon Kindle Amazon Music Android Live Wallpapers Android Work Assistant Appstore (Amazon)
Audible Audio Effects (may help with external speaker volume issues)
Badger Basic Daydreams Black Hole (Live wallpaper)
BrowserMessage Bubbles (Live wallpaper)
Calculator Calendar (Native phone calendar) Note: Do not disable calendar storage
Camera (Stock)
Caller Name ID (Trial caller id)
Chrome Clock (Stock)
Cloud (Verizon)
Cloud Print Command Center (Motorola command center widget)
Connect (Moto)
Com.android.wallpaper.holospiral (Live wallpaper engine for holospiral)
Com.verizon.permissions.appdirecte... Com.verizon.permissions.vzwappapn (Engine for vzw apn)
Com.verizon.vzwavs Drive (Google)
Droid Zap DT Ignite Email Gmail Google App (Google Now/Search)
Google+ Google Hindi Input Google Japanese Input Google Keyboard Google Korean Input Google Pinyin Input Google Play Movies & TV Google Play Music Hangouts (Google)
IMDB (International Movie Data Base)
Help (On screen tips)
Loop Maps Message+ Messaging Mobile Hotspot Moto (App suite)
Moto Actions Moto Display Moto Voice Motorola Flip Case (For use exclusively with the Motorola flip case phone case)
Music Visualization Wallpapers My Verizon Mobile NFL Mobile Phase Beam Photos (Google. Both of them)
Photo Screensavers Print Spooler Setup (Checklist for first time phone setup)
Setup Wizard (Another first time phone setup wizard/checklist)
Slacker Radio SmartcardService Street View (Now standalone app to view pictures of locations taken by satellite)
Sound Recorder (Never any native option to record memos on Android anyway)
Support & Protection (Vzw's Android antivirus)
Tags (For use with NFC)
TalkBack (Accessibility feature)
Trusted Face (For facial unlocking of phone)
User Dictionary (Stored phrases for stock keyboard)
Verizon Location Agent (Separate location tracker for Vzw apps)
Verizon Login (Vzw apps still work even without this)
Vz Navigator (Vzw own, inferior GPS/Navigator)
vzw_api (Used for various Vzw branded bloat apps)
VZWAPN (Unnecessary. Used for various Vzw branded bloat apps)
Wallet (Google)
YouTube
That's my list so far. If anybody has any questions please feel free to ask.
If anybody has anything to add, please PM me or post. Thank you!