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The feeling is completely mutual!

So I have an Android phone, its loaded with apps that I shall never use, and have no interest in,
I can't delete them, or un install them.. Stocks and shares for example.

I have the "updates" set to "ask me" before updating, so all these apps that I shall never use., or actually want on my phone,
Ask permission to up date. I say NO! b****r off!
they ask twice, I refuse twice and the next message I get is X number of apps have been updated.
WTF !

I don't know about "the peasants are revolting"
Its the Ghosts in the machine that are revolting!

Do priests exorcise modern technology?
Is there life after wired technology?
Should I make it sleep in the garden?

I've not yet caught it swiveling through 360o
or leaving green vomit anywhere.

The minute it does that, its getting a wooden stake through its processor though !
 
What phone,on my Samsung touchscreen I just hold down the icon I want to delete,and drag it to the bin :)
 
All apps can be deleted!
 
simonblue said:
What phone,on my Samsung touchscreen I just hold down the icon I want to delete,and drag it to the bin :)
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Its an HTC one, some I can, and have deleted like that, but the "core" ones when you drag them to the bin, the bin is greyed out and won't accept the drag and drop. :(
 
Never mind apps...............what's an android phone? :D
 
viv1969 said:
All apps can be deleted!
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Well would you like to tell my phone that?
Maybe you will have more luck, :D
but as above, they refuse to move to the bin :(
 
If you go Settings, More, Storage, Used space, Applications, you get a list of installed apps with the option to Remove, Move to SD card, etc. And with the bundled apps you can go 'Disable' instead of Remove.
 
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The stock bloatware can be disabled if not deleted. In settings, you'll have Application Manager, select that It will probably start in Downloaded Apps, swipe left until it shows 'All' and then scroll through the list to find the ones you don't want to hear from again. Select one and hit 'Disable' - easy peasy :)
 
ianp5a said:
If you go settings, storage, applications, you get a list of installed apps with the option to close, remove, move to SD card, etc. And with the bundled apps you can go disable instead of remove.
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Excellent! thanks!
 
Technology hates me AND
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So do we?


Only joking :p


Technology is great when it is working but when it goes belly up its a case of "what was wrong with pen and paper?!"

:D
 
Chris, bring it to the Mega Meet, I'll delete the apps for you ...







provided I remember to put the lump hammer in the car ;)
 
Chris perhaps there are alien forces at work here?!
 
It is exactly for silly things like this, not least also because how they butcher the user interface, that it is highly unlikely for me to get an android device unless its a nexus or one plus.

Fairly similar on full size computers the windows reference build and machines are very well configured as standard without all the bloat.
 
Oh and if you ceremoniously want to kill/remove those apps ill happily meet up, root your phone and remove those little bastards :)
 
Once you discover the Disable button, then those Android devices are OK.
 
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PaulButler said:
Chris, bring it to the Mega Meet, I'll delete the apps for you ...
provided I remember to put the lump hammer in the car ;)
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Thanks Paul, but actually I've discovered that placing it under the front wheel of a 2 tonne 4x4 and driving forward works better :D
 
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dejongj said:
Oh and if you ceremoniously want to kill/remove those apps ill happily meet up, root your phone and remove those little bastards :)
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thanks for the offer Jp but as above the Isuzu seems to have sorted it :D
 
I find the HTC pre-loaded apps pretty good.
I have a HTC One (M7) and my last 4 or 5 handsets have all been HTC and the amount of preloaded apps is really very small and what is there I find all works well. Sure there are some that I don't use, like the stocks and shares app for example, but I have most stuff set to update automatically so I never get bugged by update notifications and if you never use it it's not doing any harm.

Samsung however, their bloat ware wind me up no end. My S4 is full of crap I can't get rid of and causing noticeable drain on performance. How they gained such popularity I will never know!
 
My HTC was fine. Just Vodafone bloatware. I now have a Samsung S4 where I've disabled the Vodafone and Samsung apps. So that too is OK. But HTC looks better.
 
I forgot about carriers putting their own junk on top. I'm on T-Mobile and fortunately they don't seem to add any.
 
Apple do the same with their apps that I'll never use, I find the easiest way to hide them is to drag them on top of each other to create a group so rather than having loads of apps you don't use you have one small collection of apps you never need to go into.

Am guessing it's the same on the htc.
 
twist said:
Towel root / titanium backup / delete the bloat.
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:) I love your use of English....Makes perfect sense to me ....

#lovegeektalk
 
TheNissanMan said:
Apple do the same with their apps that I'll never use, I find the easiest way to hide them is to drag them on top of each other to create a group so rather than having loads of apps you don't use you have one small collection of apps you never need to go into. Am guessing it's the same on the htc.
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If you disable an app on Android they will disappear from your apps automatically.
 
I thought it was just me, but it seems I'm not alone I'm my hate of crap on my phone that I don't want and will never use. ;)
 
twist said:
Towel root / titanium backup / delete the bloat.
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That sounds great, save for one minor detail, I have no idea what you just said :D
 
It was in Dutch :)
 
viv1969 said:
All apps can be deleted!
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Not my pre-installed one on a samsung, just disabled them, all I want is to make calls and the odd text, very rarely use it for
the internet unless I need to find a post code when I'm out
 
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