How to remove carrier installed software

[ClandestineConn]

Hi,

I live in the UK and have just bought a note 5 from the US, absolutely love it but find the pre-installed non removable software and tags a bit annoying. For example, US Cellular I'd my first bookmark and I can't remove it. Is it possible to put the device in a 'neutral' state? I can find plenty of information on how to the root the device, but nothing on just removing all the carrier tags etc. Do I need to go down the rooting, route?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[Javier P]

Hi, welcome to the forums! Take a look at this thread.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=584217

 

[Kelly Kearns]

Hi,

I live in the UK and have just bought a note 5 from the US, absolutely love it but find the pre-installed non removable software and tags a bit annoying. For example, US Cellular I'd my first bookmark and I can't remove it. Is it possible to put the device in a 'neutral' state? I can find plenty of information on how to the root the device, but nothing on just removing all the carrier tags etc. Do I need to go down the rooting, route?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Some US Notes can not be rooted.. Well you can root them but them you have a brick.

What model number is your phone?

The link for the app Javier gave is a great app to disable bloat.

 

[dpham00]

There's no way to remove all of the carrier specific questions additions without root but many items can be removed by package disabler which Javier linked to above.

 

[ClandestineConn]

The model number is SM-N920R4

 

[ClandestineConn]

Thanks, I'll check it out

 

[ClandestineConn]

Cheers, I'll take a look

 

[Kelly Kearns]

Ok, yours might can be rooted.

 

[Mark Valentine]

You can purchase Package Disabler Pro. It allows you to disable bloatware. In my opinion, I believe it is worth the couple bucks. Especially since you can not disable some Preinstalled applications via Application Manager.

 

[undercovergeek]

Hi,

I live in the UK and have just bought a note 5 from the US, absolutely love it but find the pre-installed non removable software and tags a bit annoying. For example, US Cellular I'd my first bookmark and I can't remove it. Is it possible to put the device in a 'neutral' state? I can find plenty of information on how to the root the device, but nothing on just removing all the carrier tags etc. Do I need to go down the rooting, route?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

I don't think you can at least with AT&T you can't. Bootloader is locked. Just disable the apps you don't want.

 

[Kelly Kearns]

AT&T Note 5 will not boot up once rooted. There is something special on the AT&T and Verizon variants.

You root those two, you have a brick. It will root, just won't boot and will tell you it won't boot because it is rooted.