Removing Crapware

[droidRama]

I previously had a Galaxy Nexus so the amount of crapware on the S4 is so incredibly annoying. I look at the list of all the applications on the phone and it is pathetic. I want to remove as much of it as possible. I have ME7 so apparently installing a custom ROM is not possible at this point. I was looking at TrulyClean but it appears it cannot be used on the stock phone. I do not want to disable the apps I want to remove them. Are there other options out there?

 

[fatboy97]

Doubtful until they get a new root process. Disabling the apps is your best option at this point.

 

[Bizzle69]

there is an exploit to get root on ME7, you can't install a custom recovery though... but with root access you can use titanium backup and freeze those apps

 

[Bizzle69]

[STICKY] How to Root Your Verizon Galaxy S4 MDK or ME7 - xda-developers

 

[Raptor007]

Since removing the apps doesn't give you back any space its probably better to just freeze the apps for now. Once (if) we get a the bootloader unlocked we can put custom ROM's on that are smaller in footprint and those should give us back a little room.