Just a quick reminder that as a consumer, you can choose to not support brands that fuck you over for corporate gain
Not many Android options out there. Basically just pixel or oneplus. Oneplus is dead to me until they bring back wireless charging and pixel is a trash phone with endless bugs and garbage battery life. Samsung ruined excellent hardware with garbage software with ads and bloat ware.
So anyway, if OP bring wireless charging back in next generation, I’ll tolerate a few non removable apps to use a phone that actually lasts all day and has working Bluetooth.
Nah, Samsung didn’t ruin their phones, carriers in the US did. Don’t have any of that bloatware or ads on em down here in Australia. That being said, there are other reasons to avoid Samsung…
Samsung phones do have bloatware. These meta services are for one, appcloud. The galaxy store trying to push the deals and news consent wherever it gets launched. The lockscreen glance service. It can be worse. But samsung is not a saint you make it to be.
Not all of it is carrier related. I had an S21 unlocked (from US) and it still included Facebook and their garbage services, Netflix, OneDrive, etc. Also all of Samsung’s first party bloatware and nonsense is prevalent regardless. Not to mention Samsung selling data and their tracking, crippling your phone if you root it or install a custom OS (and in the US outright preventing it entirely), etc. Can’t recommend them or their phones at all, but its unfortunate because they have great hardware, just terrible software.
God, I hate Facebook and Meta.
Their preinstalled & unremovable apps are why I refuse to buy a Samsung phone and now I guess I’ll never buy a OnePlus.
Don’t put garbage third-party apps on phones that people can’t remove. It’s infuriating
My GF bought Samsung phone couple of weeks ago and all the apps were removable (as in you could uninstall, not just hide). They have different version of the OS for different markets, right?
You can remove Facebook the app itself. But, you can not remove the services, installer app, or the manager app.
Samsungs unlocked non carrier devices don’t come with these apps, FYI to those reading the thread.
If not buying a phone that comes with these preinstalled wasn’t the first option you picked, then ADB is your friend.
- Install Android Platform Tools on your PC
- Enable USB debugging in Androids’ developer options
- Connect phone to PC via USB
- Open terminal, type
adb devices - Authorize the connection from your phone
- Type
adb shell, and now you can wreak havoc on your phone
so only continue if you know what the hell you’re doing
To uninstall an app, type
pm uninstall --user 0 *package name*
For example,
pm uninstall --user 0 com.facebook.services
Should you uninstall something by accident, you can reinstall by using
cmd package install-existing *package name*
Note: if you somehow manage to uninstall system packages you can’t reinstall those (afaik). At least i ended up having to reset the phone twice while setting up and trying to change the default camera app. Not the worst on a new phone i guess.
I guess I’ll file this under only proceed if you know what you’re doing
I removed a package that was needed for the sim card to function once. Didn’t remember what that package was, because I just went to town without documenting what packages I uninstalled.
That’s a learning experience right there
This only disables these packages. Any OTA update re-enables them, and you have to re-disable them again.
It does uninstall them completely.
However, the installation files are still there for the system to use. A factory reset for example wouldn’t work the way it’s intended to otherwise.
Though I don’t know about how updates behave in that instance, so that sounds annoying if it’s like this.
I’d also recommend the universal android debloater. makes the whole process quite easy.
makes sense. OnePlus has been going downhill for years now
Asus zenfone 9/10
i like the small form factor, 120hz refresh display, and most importantly h e a d p h o n e j a c k
