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uninstall updates and disable apps?

toronado455

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Sep 18, 2010
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Since root is required to uninstall bloatware and various factory-intalled apps I don't want, and I don't have root, I went to the Play Store on the phone and uninstalled the updates for some of those apps.

I found a setting to turn off auto-update for all apps and just notify me when an update is available. I'm now at 7.03 GB available which is up from about 6.5 GB before I started uninstalling updates. Not as good as completely unintalling the unwanted apps, but it's a start.

I was at first going to try the "disable" app option, but that probably only hides the app.
 
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Since root is required to uninstall bloatware and various factory-intalled apps I don't want, and I don't have root, I went to the Play Store on the phone and unintalled the updates for some of those apps.
Root is only option which I'm waiting for
I found a setting to turn off auto-update for all apps and just notify me when an update is available. I'm now at 7.03 GB available which is up from about 6.5 GB before I started uninstalling updates. Not as good as completely unintalling the unwanted apps, but it's a start.

I was at first going to try the "disable" app option, but that probably only hides the app.
 
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