Rooting your smart phone

[TofiBaba]

Re: Rooting your smart phone

@Niksik

^^ Noting down new lingo and Googling for meanings:

• .apk = android application package
• bloatware = software that has way too many features and requires a lot of RAM and space

So now this may be totally off topic but how does one remove bloatware? Isn’t it built in and required for the app to run smoothly?

You’re not off-topic, you’re on exactly the next step in the progression. How one removes bloatware is to root and install a firmware that has taken this out. CyanogenMod (CM) does a very good job of giving you the raw, Android experience. These days (with Samsung’s TouchWiz) there are some items that I actually really like that I’m missing with CM. BlazerRom is a pretty cleaned up version of the Samsung ROM, which is what I was mostly using.