As your already are well aware this phone comes with a substantial amount of bloat. Most the stuff I would never use but this will be different for everyone. In order to remove a lot of the bloat of your device you will need to have root access which can be found in another thread or over here....[ROOT] [RECOVERY] SCH-I535 (Verizon Galaxy S III) - Verizon Galaxy S3 Development - RootzWiki
Once you have root to your device you can start nuking your bloat. All you need is Titanium Backup installed. Once you have that installed go to the Backup/Restore tab and you can start freezing. Click on the app, and the popup will come up with the option to Freeze. That simple.
Whats the big deal with bloat? It takes up RAM... A LOT OF RAM. If you don't believe me, go to your task manager and view your RAM usage. Clear your RAM and look at the number. Once you look at that, look at my RAM numbers after a clear. They are better and they much better after it has been running for a while. After having the phone unplugged and running for a good 17 hours my RAM was only at .90 GB consumed.
Here is a running list of what I have frozen on my device and it is running fine.
Pretty long list isn't it? I am sure there are some more that I could freeze but these are the ones that I have been playing with for now and if I find that some cause issues or there are others that can be frozen I'll update.
I highly recommend that you be very careful with removing your bloat from your phone. Some of the apps that are frozen above you might use and freezing them will cause you to loose them for use. If you find that you lost a function or app that you like to use, just go and unfreeze it. All of the sync services that I have disabled are either Verizon or Samsung. I never disable anything that looks like a Google function to make sure I keep stability.
Do this at your own risk, I take no responsibility if you have problems with your device after freezing your applications. I recommend that you be very careful with freezing anything. If its in question, don't freeze it with a bunch of others. Freeze it by it self, and make sure that it doesn't cause device instability.
Any questions feel free to ask.
Once you have root to your device you can start nuking your bloat. All you need is Titanium Backup installed. Once you have that installed go to the Backup/Restore tab and you can start freezing. Click on the app, and the popup will come up with the option to Freeze. That simple.
Whats the big deal with bloat? It takes up RAM... A LOT OF RAM. If you don't believe me, go to your task manager and view your RAM usage. Clear your RAM and look at the number. Once you look at that, look at my RAM numbers after a clear. They are better and they much better after it has been running for a while. After having the phone unplugged and running for a good 17 hours my RAM was only at .90 GB consumed.
Here is a running list of what I have frozen on my device and it is running fine.
- AllShare Controller 1.0
- AllShare Play 1.0.0210
- AllShare Service 1.0
- Apps 3.05.78
- Backup Assistant Plus 1.0
- Backup Assistant Plus 2.0
- Color 1.1.5.23
- Exchange Services 3.1
- Face Unlock 4.0.4-338691
- FWUpgrade 1.2.0
- Guided Tours 1.1
- Kies air 2.1.205131
- Kies via Wi-Fi 2.0.0
- MAPServiceSamsung 4.0.4-I535VRALF2
- Media Hub 1.6.0(LE07, 6487)
- Mobile Print 1.6.0.1219
- Music Hub 0.0.0.01
- My Files 1.0.0
- My Verizon Mobile 10.0.229
- My Verizon profile 0.2
- Nearby Devices 1.3.0
- News Daemon(EUR) 120502.01
- Polaris Viewer 4.0.4.0.4024.26
- S Suggest 3.1.69
- S Voice 4.0
- Samsung Account 1.2.051
- Samsung Backup Provider 1.0
- Samsung Cloud Data Relay 1.1.8
- Samsung Cloud Syncadapters 1.0
- Setup Wizard 1.0
- SNS 1.01
- Stock Daemon(EUR) 120503.01
- Sync Service 2.8.0.1.17
- TalkBack 3.0.2
- V CAST Tones 4.5.17-3
- VPN Clinet 2.5.1
- VZ Navigator 7.5.1.115
- wssyncmlnps 2.0.0
- Yahoo! Finance 120510.01
- Yahoo! News 12.05.04.01
Pretty long list isn't it? I am sure there are some more that I could freeze but these are the ones that I have been playing with for now and if I find that some cause issues or there are others that can be frozen I'll update.
I highly recommend that you be very careful with removing your bloat from your phone. Some of the apps that are frozen above you might use and freezing them will cause you to loose them for use. If you find that you lost a function or app that you like to use, just go and unfreeze it. All of the sync services that I have disabled are either Verizon or Samsung. I never disable anything that looks like a Google function to make sure I keep stability.
Do this at your own risk, I take no responsibility if you have problems with your device after freezing your applications. I recommend that you be very careful with freezing anything. If its in question, don't freeze it with a bunch of others. Freeze it by it self, and make sure that it doesn't cause device instability.
Any questions feel free to ask.