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| Authored by: kuroshima on Sunday, June 24 2012 @ 05:59 AM EDT |
I hear your pain. With ICS, at least, you can "disable" the
apps, and they remain inactive, never taking a single CPU
cycle or a single byte of ram. I have an HTC Desire, a phone
that barely got Gingerbread (and when it got it, it was via
a RUU [Rom Update Utility] that needs Windows to run, that
voids warranty despite being manufacturer provided, and that
wipes the device clean). Now we see devices with less RAM, a
less powerful CPU and similar GPU get launched with ICS. The
reason? HTC were misers with the amount of flash memory in
the phone. Normally, this is an issue that is only somewhat
mitigated by the built in "Move to SD" feature. ICS requires
more space for the OS, leaving even less space for apps.
Personally, I am rooted, and I have an ext4 partition on my
SD card symlinked to the apps directory, so it acts as
internal memory.
What phone do you have? I may be able to direct you to a
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, June 24 2012 @ 06:06 AM EDT |
Ice Cream Sandwich includes a new feature that allows you to disable and hide
any system app. The app won't be fully removed from your phone's storage, but
it'll never run -- and you'll never see it again.
Settings > Applications > All
Samsung Yahoo! Finance
> Disable
http://blogs.computerworld.com/19435/disable_system_apps_android_ice_cream_sandw
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