Verizon S5 - trimming the fat

[philosopherisdog]

Pardon me if there is already a thread on this, but let's talk about trimming down the Verizon S5 and removing bloat.

I just bought an S5 and coming from the Galaxy Nexus, it is quite slick. However, coming from a Nexus device, it is really full of stuff I don't want or need.

So far, I've disabled the following apps (which I couldn't seem to remove completely, just disable):

Amazon Kindle, MP3, and Appstore
Audible
NFL Mobile
Slacker

There seems to be some kind of built in music player, but I don't want that either. I subscribe to Google Play Music. So I'm thinking of disabling that built in music player as well.

I'm sure there's a ton more stuff, but I've only had a few hours with the phone so far and I'm trying to get work done. haha

 

[Chris Abbott]

Don't disable unified daemon

it's important, found that out the hard way

 

[philosopherisdog]

Don't disable unified daemon

it's important, found that out the hard way

Hah - what happened?

 

[Chris Abbott]

Hah - what happened?

Well, for one the weather on the lock screen doesn't work. Took me forever to find out why, and good ol' unified daemon was the culprit.