I must say for as much as I like Android how they bundled and force
software to be running and/or installed you may or may not want. Feels
like stepping back in time with operating systems.
That its built on Linux sometimes makes me wanna puke. Now I know my
phone (HTC Dream/G1) is getting outdated hardware wise. However when I
think about how long like 500mhz cpus were around. You can still get
some use out of them today, even using X at a higher resolution than my
phone is running. Yet phones are up to 1ghz, soon dual core, etc,
craziness. Next will be virtualization on your phone...
Now of course I have updated and put software on my phone that was never
intended to be on it. However the software is overly bloated in ways it
need not be. After much frustration with apps doing things unwanted and
performance sucking. I finally took some action.
I flat out removed/deleted some unwanted stuff, Gmail, GTalk,
VoiceDialer, VoiceSearch, and its amazing how well my phone performs now
without them. I even installed Auto Memory Manager[1] and that helps in
addition to the rest.
Now why am I posting this to a LUG, aside from the obvious on Android
being Linux based. The solution to removing stuff in part is common
Linux technique. You need a rooted phone, and terminal emulator. But
from there all Linux. Remount rootfs as rw, and you can delete
applications via their apk files :)
Got the following from a link below[2]
su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblk3 /system
rm /system/app/Gmail.apk
reboot
In this case I also removed GTalk.apk, VoiceDialer.apk, and
VoiceSearch.apk. Now some talked about GTalk being necessary for the
market to work. My market still works even without that, so not sure
what all thats about.
The performance of my phone immediately was better after reboot. I could
not believe how much resources those apps consumed and wasted, and I
don't use any of them. It also sucks that one cannot easily remove said
unwanted software. One has to have a rooted phone, and also have some
familiarity with the Linux command line.
Anyway might want to poke around your Android device if you have one and
see what all your not using, but might be running and using your battery
life, if not bothering you at all.
1. http://www.google.com/search?q=android+auto+memory+manager
2.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/tech-issues-bug-reports-suggestions/82730-how-delete-apk-files-using-terminal-emulator.html
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William L. Thomson Jr.
Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
http://www.obsidian-studios.com
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