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When it comes to the sheer number of features offered, Samsung's TouchWiz is pretty much unmatched. If you can imagine it, chances are it's a feature on the latest Samsung phones like the Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 4 or Galaxy Alpha. Many of these features are useful, but there's some stuff enabled out of the box that you might want to selectively turn off.
Read on to see which six features we find ourselves killing off when we start using a new Samsung phone.
This article is hilarious. Thanks for the info. Last night I spent more than 30minutes disabling about 40 built in apps and setting up Nova Launcher for a relative's LG Vista AT&T, I didn't even know it's possible to even have that much bloatwares
I have the Moto X, all I had to do was put in the sim card, turn it on and start using it.
"Last night I spent more than 30minutes disabling about 40 built in apps "
Exactly... I was gonna say "only 6? WHAT???" Here is the only way to get a Samsung phone running well.
Step 1. ROOT.
Step 2. Uninstall EVERY SINGLE SAMSUNG APP
Step 3. Uninstall EVERY SINGLE CARRIER APP
Step 4 Uninstall any other pre-installed apps you dont/wont use.
Now your Samsung phone is quite awesome and fast as hell.
Agree to disagree. A lot of things can slow down your phone and whole bunch of "unused" apps is one of them.
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Simply having an excessive amount of apps regardless of using them or not, absolutely will slow down your phone... The amount of bloatware on a new Samsung phone from Verizon is absolutely ridiculous!! And shutting them off doesn't work, they persistently nag me to allow me to update them and even though I say no, they eventually updated on their own... Turning off automatic updates is not an option for me because I do prefer the apps I chose to install to update automatically... Computers (phones included) don't like to be ran at max, filling up your hardrive will always slow it down... ALWAYS
You're arguing two different things. I agree bloatware is annoying, but being nagged to update them isn't the same thing as your phone becoming slow simply by their presence. And, please...you're not filling up any storage space with the amount of default apps on the phone. i get that twelve or so apps is a lot, but it's not taking up enough space to slow down your phone.
If only we could get rid of the At&t branding in the notification bar like you can on the new X. Ugh...I KNOW my phone is on At&t.
You do realize there are several Android phones to choose from. You don't have to buy a Samsung phone.
Samsung's Touchwiz can certainly drive you to iOS. Unless you root the phone and install a vanilla Android ROM, you can't get rid of the crappier parts of Touchwiz, such as the terrible settings menu and all that.
For people uncomfortable having to root their phone just to make it user friendly like Android on a Nexus 4/5, Moto X or HTC Sense device, it just makes sense to dump the platform in frustration or buy a Android phone with a good UI.
Samsung takes Android's amazing fluid platform and makes it a cartoony laggy piece of trash.
Too bad Nova Launcher can't remove all of Samsung's garbage.
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After disabling every bloat app you can, go into about phone, click the build number 7 times or however many it says to to enable developer settings. Then go into developer settings and turn all 3 animation settings down to 0.
Download Nova launcher, set the speed to faster than light and then profit. Makes even a stock Samsung phone kinda snappy. A lot better than it is out of the box.
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+1 always do this on every phone it really helps getting rid of animations.
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Step 9. Tell my wife how to do all that stuff so that she actually understands :P
Just a question. Do the AC editors root their devices. I'm assuming by now that all of you have done at least once. I'm a ROM addict but does anyone one the AC team go that far?
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Don't you love the "just root it" crowd. Â I did it so it must be easy! Well I am not saying I can't do it... I just don't want to do it!
Two problems wrong with your answer... First... You can't uninstall app just because your phone is rooted... you still need to use a special app with root access to delete them. Second, unless you never plan on doing OTA updates, it's recommended to NOT uninstall the bloatware apps but to instead Freeze or Disable them.. otherwise the update will not detect those specific apps and cause the update to fail or crash.
Installing another Launcher like Nova as the default is difficult? You have options. I like some Touchwiz features but HATE the brightness of TouchWiz and the icons. Takes all but 5 seconds to switch to any launcher you want. The beauty of Android, and you don't even have to root (unless you want to).. Sure beats staring at a screen of icons on an I-device with zero choice..
Ugh, that bloody whistle notification!
I don't have a Samsung device, but every time I hear it I want to kill someone!
The only notification that's worse is that stupid giggling baby one.
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Yeah I own a note three and there are plenty of things I love using on TouchWiz and some I can live without. The Google launcher makes the experience much better covering almost all the things I don't like.
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First thing I do is root , 100% OBLITERATE all default sounds.. My only sounds is a single beep for text messages, two alarm ones and two choice sounds from BattleStar Galactica.. Next I remove all the annoying Samsung Cloud Services/apps/other services/bloat, Google bloatware like newsstand/books/hangouts/Gmail/Etc and preinstalled extra bloatware like Amazon/B&N/Etc.. Finally, I install Nova and whatever apps I had..
a song or diff alert? it's great to have a diff alert for diff applications so you know if it's something that can wait or not. FB notifications can wait while text messages I rarely postpone. email gets a diff ring too. why not customize your phone so that it provides you with the most information at once?
i think you just touched on the purpose of the article, the author hates those sounds so he wants to influence the other hipsters to hate them more as well. whistle does suck, but the bloops are a decent sound for touch sounds. Everyone else uses a sound the sounds like a keyboard key press that isn't anywhere near authentic
CleanRom is to my experience the best for Samsung phones. www.scottsroms.com
Looks and feels just like stock with all original features but you get rid of the bloat- Samsung's and carrier's, get terminal emulator, native tether, ad free and bunch of other cool things you can choose from while installing - I.e. you can get Nova as your default launcher and simply not bother even having TW on the phone at all (never installed).
Again the phone's looks is not altered at all and you get to keep all original Samsung features. All galaxy phones are supported and he keeps the stuff very current.
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You should also do an article about on how to shut off AT&T'S bloatware. I'm an experienced Android owner and this helped with a few annoying problems I had with Samsung.
AT&T's and Samsungs bloatware is horrible. They have Beats, ATT Scanner, Drive Mode, family messages, smart Wifi, My ATT (actually useful) ), Samsung bar codes, Flipboard, Samsung Print and Trip Advisor. These are only a few. This is ridiculous.
Egads!!! You all sound like a bunch of sisified whiners/ whingers. Get a life foo. Ugh. ....
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I agree. Nexus good...Samsung bad!! Lol. You sound like...gSh$$p. Very sad! Go get a Note 4 and actually learn to use the features. You will never even look at a Nexus device seriously again. Then again, if you like the Nexus experience...more power to ya! People like iPhones too. And you can't really do anything productive with them either.
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