Greetings all,
I have a Moto Droid 3 with Verizon Wireless.
I have the latest release with root using Motofail.
I love the device in general, aside from a few things that could be better for me, personally.
I have two specific goals:
1. I want to optimize the device to the maximum extent possible with the applications and features that I need in order to do what I need with the phone. I don't play games on the phone, I don't do very much in the way of social media. However, I still find it extremely sluggish at times. Other times, it is more than tolerable; I'd say "acceptable."
But I'm never 'wowed' by its performance, despite it was my understanding when I bought it that its hardware and software were designed to perform extremely well.
Aside from having rooted, I'm not running much customization. In fact, the only thing added to the device's shell is Go Launcher Ex. I find that despite any latency with this interface, it is still far more responsive than the stock UI.
I'm running a few other add-ons such as AdFree, Permissions Denied, and ES Task Manager.
Still, I find the device extremely slow to respond at times.
I'd like to remove absolutely everything that I do not need and is safe to remove. I'm not sure how to do this to the extent I want.
I removed things that were included such as NFL, Blockbuster, and other similar apps. There are a lot of things that I don't know if it is safe to remove, though.
...which brings me to the second goal: I want to get rid of any and all data collection insofar as this is possible. I know full well that data mining and recording is part of the entire Android model. However, as long as removing something won't actually inhibit the functionality of my phone's basic operations, I want it gone. But I've been told that certain things you just cannot remove.
I don't expect a lengthy instruction manual, but if there are any links to 'safe-to-remove-and-how-to' documents, I'd appreciate that.
I ran through some removals with the help of one such list I found online, but I haven't found anything that can help me remove some of the more integral guts of the data collecting and monitoring that's built into Android.
Lastly, if the frank answer is that I would need to switch away from Android, I am fully willing and able to do so. I would like to explore all my options, though, before I do that.
I understand that this data tracking trend is only going to get more and more invasive as the merchants and developers realize they can get away with it, because the majority of users just don't have any objection to it. I think this is foolish, but that's just my opinion. Of course there may come a day when there is no option that does not mine my data... in such a circumstance my course of action would be to just keep only fictitious identity information on my phone so that I am not giving anything real.
I appreciate any advice anyone can offer.
Thanks.
Dan
I have a Moto Droid 3 with Verizon Wireless.
I have the latest release with root using Motofail.
I love the device in general, aside from a few things that could be better for me, personally.
I have two specific goals:
1. I want to optimize the device to the maximum extent possible with the applications and features that I need in order to do what I need with the phone. I don't play games on the phone, I don't do very much in the way of social media. However, I still find it extremely sluggish at times. Other times, it is more than tolerable; I'd say "acceptable."
But I'm never 'wowed' by its performance, despite it was my understanding when I bought it that its hardware and software were designed to perform extremely well.
Aside from having rooted, I'm not running much customization. In fact, the only thing added to the device's shell is Go Launcher Ex. I find that despite any latency with this interface, it is still far more responsive than the stock UI.
I'm running a few other add-ons such as AdFree, Permissions Denied, and ES Task Manager.
Still, I find the device extremely slow to respond at times.
I'd like to remove absolutely everything that I do not need and is safe to remove. I'm not sure how to do this to the extent I want.
I removed things that were included such as NFL, Blockbuster, and other similar apps. There are a lot of things that I don't know if it is safe to remove, though.
...which brings me to the second goal: I want to get rid of any and all data collection insofar as this is possible. I know full well that data mining and recording is part of the entire Android model. However, as long as removing something won't actually inhibit the functionality of my phone's basic operations, I want it gone. But I've been told that certain things you just cannot remove.
I don't expect a lengthy instruction manual, but if there are any links to 'safe-to-remove-and-how-to' documents, I'd appreciate that.
I ran through some removals with the help of one such list I found online, but I haven't found anything that can help me remove some of the more integral guts of the data collecting and monitoring that's built into Android.
Lastly, if the frank answer is that I would need to switch away from Android, I am fully willing and able to do so. I would like to explore all my options, though, before I do that.
I understand that this data tracking trend is only going to get more and more invasive as the merchants and developers realize they can get away with it, because the majority of users just don't have any objection to it. I think this is foolish, but that's just my opinion. Of course there may come a day when there is no option that does not mine my data... in such a circumstance my course of action would be to just keep only fictitious identity information on my phone so that I am not giving anything real.
I appreciate any advice anyone can offer.
Thanks.
Dan