Samsung Galaxy smartphones and bloatware – Computerworld

 
 
 Following the launch of Samsung smartphones Galaxy Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, forums – such as the XDA Developers Forum – there is information that users will be able to remove the pre-installed applications on them. This was confirmed by then a producer of smartphones and all seemed that the matter is clear. It soon became apparent that not all the way.

But in turn. Samsung said in the first statement on March 26 that there are two types of pre-installed applications on smartphones Galaxy Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. Therefore, some of them, you can uninstall, while others can only turn off (disable command). Samsung did not specify when exactly which applications can be uninstalled, and which are off. The difference between these terms is important. Word off means that the user can not see the application, but really it was not uninstalled and still takes place in the smartphone memory.

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However, a few days later, Samsung has modified the information and issued a statement in which you can read that on both smartphones installed at the factory applications can only disable, not uninstall. This is what applications will be pre-installed on smartphones, depends on the region and the service provider.

The case became even more complicated after the disclosure that although preloaded Samsung can not uninstall applications, there are also those that However, you can delete it. These are not the programs installed by the manufacturer of the device, but the company selling the smartphone with the service. For example. In the case of the US company Sprint are programs such as Sprint Music Plus, Sprint TV & amp; Movies and Sprint-Featured Apps. Their removal gives significant savings considering the fact that eg. After you uninstall an application TV & amp; Movies in the memory frees up about 50 MB. If such application will be more (eg. 10), then we have 500 MB of additional space to use.

These apps installed on your smartphone for Sprint Galaxy You can uninstall the Edge S6
To be precise it must be said that smarftonach offered by Sprint Galaxy Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge is also six additional applications that can not be uninstalled. Connections are Optimizer, Lookout, Sprint ID, Sprint Zone, Visual Voicemail and Wi-Fi Calling.

When it comes to Samsung, it is pre-installed on smartphones Galaxy Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge programs such as S Voice and S Health, and OneNote applications OneDrive (developed by Microsoft) and Gmail, and Google+. The company also recently announced that it intends in the future preinstalled on some of their tablets without indicating where, a series of applications developed by Microsoft. They are supposed to be office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Users are increasingly rebelling against the idea that buying a smartphone in his memory are bloatware software that is not needed and that they in addition often can not in any way to get rid of. Therefore, such a policy, which presents the Samsung, but also other manufacturers, for many users is difficult to accept the practice.

A lot of companies acting in this way, blocking such. Access to the smartphone memory installed bootloader software at in effect prevents the user from performing certain operations, including those that allow you to uninstall unwanted applications or modify their configuration according to their own wishes.

However, it is known that there are already tools (offered eg. by the site towelroot) that violate these lock, allowing you to get rid of unwanted applications from smartphones. These are the tools for Android, and its author is the developer of hiding behind a pseudonym GeoHot. But please be careful. If your smartphone is under warranty and you decide to run this tool on it, you may lose it. Many suppliers smartphones, which it believes is unacceptable interference in device management software.