Install a raw android version on S7

[Android Central Question]

Hi
Is it possible to download a raw version of the Android OS for the Galaxy S7 that has no system pre-installed apps or spyware apps like the Facebook app ?

 

[belodion]

Would you like me to move this to our S7 Rooting, ROMs & Hacks forum?

 

[Tim2790]

I would also like to do this. I'm on G930U.

 

[belodion]

Shall I move the thread?

 

[Rukbat]

The only way to do that would be if you can find a stock Android ROM with the S7 hardware firmware replacing the original (Pixel) hardware firmware. That's about as likely as a duck hatching out of a chicken egg, but the only possibility would be the S7 forum for the particular carrier's S7 on XDA. (Or using the LineageOS S7 ROM for that phone.)

 

[chanchan05]

And even the cleanest ROM has some system preinstalled apps. No one is going to make a ROM where you still have to download a separate sms app. They're all gonna have some form of inbuilt sms app. Same with dialer apps and any app that needs firmware level integration.

And also doing so says goodbye to all stuff Samsung added but didn't realize. Like how clean Android has no AOD, for example.