howdy there folks I'm Quinn of snazzy
labs and look I know people say it's
impossible to love both Android and iOS
but I really do love both platforms they
both have their strengths and they both
have their weaknesses and today I want
to address a big weakness on the Android
platform which is bloatware now my
Samsung Galaxy s6 edge+ came with 22
bloat applications 22 now most of these
came from the Carrier 80 however many
came from Samsung itself now a lot of
people will say well what's the big deal
throw them in a folder forget about them
it's like they're not even there
the problem is a lot of these
applications even though you don't know
it are running in the background they
are consuming precious resources they
are killing your battery and they're
using location a lot which for privacy
concerns and for privacy reasons is
sometimes something that you don't
really want running on your device and
today I'm going to show you how to
disable these applications using ADB on
your computer now there are a myriad of
applications on the Play Store that
claim to disable apps and some of them
do a decent job but this is the only
foolproof way that I know of without
root to be able to disable applications
that are running on your phone in the
background so I'm going to show you how
to do that today so that you can reclaim
power to your phone get rid of those
junky apps from your home screen and
furthermore make sure that your battery
and your operating system is as
optimized as it can be let's take a look
okay so for this tutorial you need four
things
you obviously need an Android phone with
bloatware you need a computer running
Mac OS 10 or Windows thirdly you need
USB debugging enabled on your smartphone
and last but certainly not least you
need ADB installed on your computer now
if those last two things didn't make any
sense don't worry we're going to talk
about it if you do already know what USB
debugging mode is and you just need to
install ADB onto your computer you can
click the corresponding annotations or
scrub to the time mark displayed here
depending on your operating system in
order to get ADB installed now if you
have both USB debugging and ADB already
installed on your computer you're a pro
you can skip down here where we're going
to talk about how to actually do and
remove bloatware from your phone now if
you don't know what USB debugging mode
is yet let's talk about it
USB debugging simply allows your
computer to make modifications to your
phone so to enable it all you have to do
is enter the settings application and
then scroll over or scroll down
typically to about device now once
you've entered about device all you need
to do is find the section that says
build number and you'll press build
number several times until it says
developer mode has been turned on it may
also say you are now a developer you
then need to go back to the previous
menu and you'll see that developer
options is now a new selection so enter
developer options turn them on you may
have to accept an agreement press ok and
then press USB debugging you'll then
press ok now we're able to connect our
phone to our computer ok so now we're
going to get the Android debug bridge
running and like I mentioned this is the
method by which we can access and make
modifications to our phones from our
computer so it would make sense
logically that you need to plug your
phone in via USB to your computer so if
you haven't done so do so now you'll
then need to download two little
applications in the video description of
this video there's the deep' loader app
which actually removes all the junk
which we'll get to later and then there
is a file called android zip download
that Android zip package then open the
Android folder and inside you'll see
that there's a little file called ADB
this is the actual Android debug bridge
now it doesn't run like a traditional
application so we're going to need to
open terminal now you can do so by
opening it through spotlight and or you
can find it in your Applications folder
under the utilities section once you
open terminal you'll see that it's a
very plain window and all you have to do
is take this little ADB file and drag it
into the window this will write out the
path to the file and yours may look
different than mine in fact it will as
long as it has atb at the end though
you're good so once you've done that you
need to type out the word devices not
only will this start the Android debug
bridge but it will actually search for
your phone that's plugged into your
computer now mine says device but it's
more than likely that yours will say
unauthorized that's because the bridge
is running finally it was run it wasn't
running before but now it is and it's
asking permission to access your phone
so if you look at your phone screen
right now you'll see that it has this
little pop-up and you need to allow the
connection to go through
then you also need to remember the
selections that it will continue on in
the future once you've done that a DB is
up and running and we are ready to move
to unblocker
you can now skip to the time mark and/or
the annotation in the top left hand
corner installing a DB for Windows users
is very very easy adb stands for Android
debug bridge and is the method by which
we can access and make modifications to
our phone from our computer so you'll
need to download the adb for windows
link that i've included in the video
description and once you download that
you'll need to run the executable file
you'll need to select yes and then once
it pops open you'll see do you want to
install ADB and fastboot type y for yes
then yes for installing it system-wide
you'll see that it says install
system-wide complete and then you'll
also want to install the drivers as well
you'll see that this window pops up you
select next then finish and then you're
all done that's all there is to it let's
get down to deep loading ok so this last
part is the same if you're on Mac or PC
it totally doesn't matter all you need
to do is open the deep loader
application with your phone plugged in
and everything will get set up now I'm
going to get an error that tells me that
not all packages can be removed and this
is because I'm using a samsung phone so
they can't be blocked in the sense that
they can be completely disabled and
removed however I can disable them for
the most part and hide the packages from
my home screen depending on your phone
you may be able to remove them
completely or some simply disable them
but in any case it is an effective
method so what we're going to do is
click read device packages and it is
going to read literally every package
that's installed on my phone and these
can be kind of divvied up into three
separate categories you have
applications like copy and mint and
Instagram these are applications that I
have installed from the Google Play
Store now there are other applications
like Samsung and if we scroll up a
little let's see
touch type oh that's yeah so that's a
keyboard but there's a couple different
packages that are part so here we go
Samsung accessory Samsung not these are
part of the operating system they are
crucial that they stay there we cannot
and we should not remove them however
there are many like the ones that end in
ATT that come from my carrier which are
installed by ATT and I don't want those
ones on my device those are the bloat
apps that I want to get rid of
best way to determine what apps to get
rid of and how to get rid of them is by
opening your app launcher so we'll see
initially up here that a TNT live is
available on my home screen well I don't
want AT&T live so all I have to do is
click the filter button and it turns
into a search bar and I can search ATT
which basically includes all of the
packages that are part of my carrier so
you can see here that most of these can
be disabled now you do have to be a
little careful because there are some
that you will not want to disable
however this Amazon app that is
installed by AT&T is old it doesn't work
and I don't like it I want the real
Amazon have not this crappy one that
came on my phone so I'm going to
uninstall this and I can see it there on
my home screen is one that I want to be
able to disable so I can also look at
the other selections that we have here
let's go to so Knox security for example
this is one that you don't want to
disable now you may not have this one
but the general rule of thumb is if you
can see it on your app launcher it's
safe to remove if you can't see it don't
remove it now the good thing is is if
you do happen to disable or uninstall
something that actually ends up breaking
your operating system which may happen
you can plug your phone right back in
you can reopen this application and then
you can re-enable it and it's not a
problem at all so family utility this is
location labs this is part of AT&T live
and it's also part of a TN t--'s
tracking software I don't want that
enabled because I'm not a customer if
with that service enable so I don't need
it these other ones that I've already
disabled 18 t my wireless Yahoo mobile
so you just go through and you look for
the applications that you no longer want
you can also do a search so let's say
for example just for examples sake that
I want to remove the Best Buy app from
my device you can see it there on my
home screen if I search Best Buy you can
see that it's there and again this is
not a very good example because it's not
a bloatware app but let's pretend that
it is all I have to do is check it and
then I can press apply and this will
remove all of the packages that I've
installed and you can see on my home
screen now that that Best Buy app just
disappeared
so this is the way to remove bloatware
applications from your phone again it's
a little bit tricky you do have to kind
of pick through and see which ones are
the ones that are kind of taking up
space on your home screen and the good
thing is is if you read
i packages again you have to do that
every time you make modifications by the
way you can click that filter button and
search exactly for the app that you're
able to see in your clear vision which
makes it really really easy and much
much nicer to be able to remove packages
and worse thing comes to worst you
accidentally disable the wrong package
things are a little wonky for a minute
you plug it right back into your
computer re-enable the package and
you're set and ready to go if you
totally screwed everything up and you
don't know which package is disabled and
which one is not all you have to do is
unblock all packages and then you can
press apply and it will remove
everything back to stock and make
everything visible once again but again
that's not something I would recommend
unless you absolutely need to do it so
that's how to use unblocker let me know
how it works for you in the video
description below I know there are other
ways to do this through the Android Play
Store but in my experience they don't
work as good or as effectively or still
continue running in the background but
with deeb loader they stay disabled
permanently thank you so much for
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