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Applications Safe to remove. ICS.

glore2002

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Jan 31, 2012
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
As many of you surely did, I checked this link:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spr...1gdDJRekl4QmkyNmIzUmRvX2h3UDVkQXc&output=html

to see what applications are safe to be removed (I freeze them as suggested instead to make sure the phone keeps working).

That worksheet is very useful but a bit outdated. Now I am using ICS (neat) and would appreciate your help to see what the following apps do and if they are safe to remove being not important for my phone. Those apps are:
(few of them are on the original list but most aren't).
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Accuweather Weather Daemon
Accuweather.com
Application installer 1.0
Application monitor 1.0
AvrcpServiceSamsung 1.0
Calendar 1.1 (what are the differences with calendar 1.0 which is also installed).
Calendar 1.0
clock 1.0
com.android.backuconfirm 403-uhlps
com.android.sharedstoragebackup 4.0.3-uhlps
com.android.smspush 4.0.3-uhlps
com.samsung.app.playreadyui403-uhlps
com.sec.android.app.minimode.res 4.0.3-uhlps
Downloads 4.0.3uhlps
drm-protected Content Storage 4.0.3-UHLPS
dsmForwarding 1.0
dsmLawmo 1.0
Enterprise VPN services 4.0.3-uhlps
Exchange services 3.1
Face unlock 4.0.4-338691
Google account manager
google bookmark sync
Google Search
license settings 1.10
MapServiceSamsung 4.0.3-uhlps
music 2
musicfx 1.4
PopupuiReceiver 1.6
Remote controls 1.0
Roboto FlipFont 2.0
SecPhone 1.0
setup wizard 1.3
Social hub 2.00.00001
Social hub 1.0
Social hub 7.52.11118
software update v3_1201_3_1
SyncmIDS v1_1201_5_2
System UI 4.0.3-uhlps
talk 4.0.4-338691
Task 1.0
Test Service 1.0
twDVFSApp 1.0
TWlauncher 4.0.3-uhlps
video player 1.0
Voice Recorder 0.1
Voice search 3.0.1
VPNDialogs 4.0.3-uhlps
Wi-Fi Direct 1.1
Wi-fi sharing 1.1
Wi-fi sharing manager 1.1
youtube 4.0.23
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Thanks!
 
As many of you surely did, I checked this link:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spr...1gdDJRekl4QmkyNmIzUmRvX2h3UDVkQXc&output=html

to see what applications are safe to be removed (I freeze them as suggested instead to make sure the phone keeps working).

That worksheet is very useful but a bit outdated. Now I am using ICS (neat) and would appreciate your help to see what the following apps do and if they are safe to remove being not important for my phone. Those apps are:
(few of them are on the original list but most aren't).
-------------------------------------------------------------
Accuweather Weather Daemon
Accuweather.com
Application installer 1.0
Application monitor 1.0
AvrcpServiceSamsung 1.0
Calendar 1.1 (what are the differences with calendar 1.0 which is also installed).
Calendar 1.0
clock 1.0
com.android.backuconfirm 403-uhlps
com.android.sharedstoragebackup 4.0.3-uhlps
com.android.smspush 4.0.3-uhlps
com.samsung.app.playreadyui403-uhlps
com.sec.android.app.minimode.res 4.0.3-uhlps
Downloads 4.0.3uhlps
drm-protected Content Storage 4.0.3-UHLPS
dsmForwarding 1.0
dsmLawmo 1.0
Enterprise VPN services 4.0.3-uhlps
Exchange services 3.1
Face unlock 4.0.4-338691
Google account manager
google bookmark sync
Google Search
license settings 1.10
MapServiceSamsung 4.0.3-uhlps
music 2
musicfx 1.4
PopupuiReceiver 1.6
Remote controls 1.0
Roboto FlipFont 2.0
SecPhone 1.0
setup wizard 1.3
Social hub 2.00.00001
Social hub 1.0
Social hub 7.52.11118
software update v3_1201_3_1
SyncmIDS v1_1201_5_2
System UI 4.0.3-uhlps
talk 4.0.4-338691
Task 1.0
Test Service 1.0
twDVFSApp 1.0
TWlauncher 4.0.3-uhlps
video player 1.0
Voice Recorder 0.1
Voice search 3.0.1
VPNDialogs 4.0.3-uhlps
Wi-Fi Direct 1.1
Wi-fi sharing 1.1
Wi-fi sharing manager 1.1
youtube 4.0.23
----------------------------------------------------------

Thanks!

You can delete the ones that are apk files for the apps just don't mess with the dialer apk or with any of the Android os files because you are to f*** everything. Don't delete anything that you are not 100 percent sure. Good luck.
 
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You can delete the ones that are apk files for the apps just don't mess with the dialer apk or with any of the Android os files because you are to f*** everything. Don't delete anything that you are not 100 percent sure. Good luck.

Thanks for your reply. Most of them I am not completely sure they are safe to freeze. That's why an update to the worksheet will be very helpful (I think :)
 
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I have frozen both the accuweather ones, as I use a different weather app. But my assumption is that the accuweather feeds weather info to the 2 live wallpapers (the one with the windmills and the sea one), so if you use them you might not want to.

Also from that list I have frozen Exchange services - I use a different email app as the stock one kept wigging out and draining the battery no matter what I did

Social hubs and software update are frozen, as are Talk, TW launcher and wifi sharing
 
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