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I had a feeling the dumb phone was not gonna be a forever thing.

Another very effective thing I'd mention is keeping your phone on grayscale mode (it's called reading mode on Android) and only turning on colors when you need it. Can't recommend it enough, its a life changer! Appreciate you making this video

Better than debloating Pixel is just to install custom distro like Graphene or Calyx, but thanks for Niagara sugestion, it's awesome.

Olauncher is similar to Niagara, except it's foss and on fdroid, so you could install it on something like graphene OS and use a custom kernel for even better battery life

Very impressed with the results so far. Was totally expecting to brick the functionality of my phone. Everything I need is still working just fine. Thanks Chris!

If your phone has an oled display, using a darker wallpaper can boost your battery life by a lot I set mine to solid black and it nearly doubled the battery life.

Shout out for the Pixel 4a! Love mine too. Both my Pixel 3a and 4a regularly did/do get 2 days of battery life without trying. But, I've found my use of a smartphone to be rather modest compared to others. My wife for example doesn't go a minute almost literally without receiving some kind of notification from somewhere. She finally took my advice and at least turned the sound off, which has to her admission improved her quality of life. More people should take the time to reduce their interaction with their phones and reduce the number of times apps are pinging them. One of my new policies is uninstalling apps that doing segregate out their different types of notifications. As someone who suffers from anxiety, nothing is more important than preserving calm and a well-placed ping can destroy that, even a visual one (all my sounds are off). So using Androids settings to turn off the uninmportant parts of an apps notifications (usually all) definitely helps. Ironically it's my doctor's office's app that doesn't have any sort of segregation, the Epic Software app, which doesn't surprise me coming from a crap software company making crap apps.

I'm loving your content Chris. I've been watching you grow for a while now. You seem so happy and at ease in your videos. I'm very inspired to do the same. Thanks and keep up the good work.

I definitely need this. Thanks! There is so much junk on these phones that I don't want and when I do uninstall them, they seem to make a reappearance. My phone even installs apps automatically. I have looked through all the menu items trying to turn that off and I have no idea where it is. I hope this fixes all that.

This is super cool! I always wonder about this, because there are a lot of indie companies that ship the phone with "stock Android" and sometimes I keep thinking, what's the point of making yet another company that makes yet another Android phone. It's like basically just another distro haha! In your case you really do customize it to make it your own. This could be an actual good selling feature. I feel though there are a bunch of things we're accustomed to that doing this would break. I wish I could clean my Galaxy A22 of some stuff. I wouldn't mind getting rid of chrome, or at least the "Samsung Internet". I wish they wouldn't keep insisting on bloating their phones with their own apps that only a handful of people use. At least in the west.

Thank you for making my day. The programme you listed was amazing. Very informative debloater

Still have respect for you going so long with the feature phone. Your "ragequit" of sorts was fun too 🤣 Might try your script on an older phone, so to see how far I get.

This was awesome! Thank you so much!

Chris, hear me out. Your are not only a great techtuber, but also a very intelligent and reasonable person.

Thanks Chris. I will be using this!

this was truly useful, thanks. Even though I definitely don't want to go as far as you did, I got rid of a lot of stuff.

As somebody who got an Android work phone, I love the launcher that you recommended and use it to stop me from getting distracted while at work.

This ounds really neat and fits in line with what I've been wanting to do with my Pixel 6 for a while now. Great video, Chris! One question, does this setup support Work Profiles? I use my phone to check emails, answer Teams calls for my job and it would nice if I could still have that.

Interesting video, it makes me think about how smartphone are made and how it could be improved

Great Tool Chris! Love how we can debloat our phones! There's just way too much telemetry. Also... LOVE removing all the unnecessary "Crap" and using it as a "Phone"!! Getting back to real life is amazing! Thank you!

Hey Chris, Well, the uad package won't work in Slackware 15. All kinds of errors. So, I ran the live version of Linux Mint. It worked there. My Samsung phone is now free of over 150 bloat packages. 😁 Thank YOU!!!

Thank u, im trying this

I rarely(almost never) comment on YT. I had to for this one. I have been looking for such a solution. Thank a lot man for always bringing useful hacks to the limelight.

Very interesting video, I've never seen that launcher, very cool. I wonder for iOS devices, using the low power mode option 24/7 could extend battery. Think this process stops auto pinging servers for app notifications and retrieving emails for example. After uninstalling apps you don't need, this could be similar to what you did with the Pixel.

Thanks for sharing; glad to know there's such an option. Hmm... whatif need to install some Apps down the road?

I disabled Google Play Services, Google Play, and removed the screenshot preview and have slightly less issues taking many screenshots. The problem I had with ROG Phone 5 and S22+ were that entire system ui crashed and the bottom navigation bar disappear which force a phone restart. I have similar hangs and lag still but it is less problematic to require a phone restart. It is insane how even a 16 GB ram high end android phone has these issues by default.

Love this, can't wait to do this to my Android device!

Chris, have seen a couple of videos about the PinePhones but nothing about which mobile networks they work on. Which network were you using and and troubles interfacimg with the network?

I'd love to see you do a debloat video for the Samsung S phones.

I had a 2 inch smartphone from Zeblaze some years ago and that also helped a lot to limit screen tone, because its just painful. Still being able to do almost everything if i really had to

TY!

A good minimalist launcher I'd recommend is t-ui. It's literally just a prompt on your home screen and you type the name of the app you want to launch.

@Chris do you know what program I can use to open UAD on a raspberry pi? Thanks for what you do!

How about using the launcher by Blloc called Ratio? That seems to be an easier way to get this desired affect and is also very well reviewed. Any chance Chris you can try this launcher and do a video on it?

I have an old axon 7 that I've been keeping alive till the phone that I want (that doesn't exist yet) comes to being. I've replaced the battery, OS (now lineage) and now trying your launcher and de-bloater. Anything to keep it going! Thx for your advice.✌

Great info. One question, I am getting an "unable to locate package" error. What am I doing wrong? I am using Ubuntu and changed added "sudo apt-get install" as well with no luck.

I've been using the KISS launcher and Blokada 5 on my 4 years old Blackview BV9500 Pro for a while now. I now debloated my phone and even stripped out lots of the advanced section. Did not see an increase in battery live though.

@Chris Titus Tech You should go into a deeper dive on this one. Will these methods work for all Android phones? Are there any details that people need to know when using it? Will this work on unlocked or locked phones? More information is required.

Been using Niagara for about a year and I don't think I can go back to a normal launcher again. Something about the cleanness of it is so nice.

I am looking at doing something like this or something like Graphene OS. Both seem like good options to me.

Used the Debloater, but didn't remove that much from my old Note 9. Uninstalled apps I didn't need or used in the last 6 months. Bought the pro version of the launcher to support the dev. Gonna give this minimalist approach a test drive. Dogspeed to me!

What other launchers would you recommend? Preferably something on f-droid as i try to get away from google services as much as i can

What did you end up using for maps? I have unfortunately not found a non-google replacement that works well where I live.

Great video

This looks great, would this work on Samsung phones?

Awesome!

Whether it's Windoze or Android, Chris is surely the debloat guru. 🙂

Hi there Chris, I have a Moto G Pure. Is there a way to root it without a computer? I do have Kali running on it. I'm learning how to use it as I go. But I'm not to where I can just run with it. So a decent custom ROM would be mandatory . Thanks For Your Time...

Chris how long do you think it took you to do the "rewire" for yourself? I know I've tried a few times recently, and for one reason or another not stuck with it, I know I can though I've done it in the distant past. Guess I'm looking for a hard/solid goal to set.

That is interesting, I had used that tool before. But I went a different way, there is an app called De-bloat. But it does require root permission, it has UAD script inbuilt into the app so you don't need a PC to debloat. The advantage it has is you can remove the app system less. Although if you do decide to remove stuff outside of the scripts you could stop the phone from booting. But if that happens you just remove the magisk module for it in a safe boot. I can't say the battery lasts a week though, however, I am running a pretty heavy app that does need to be on all the time.

Just used universal android debloater a week ago. The best thing is, it even tells you about packages, if the package is crucial for the android os it says "you might brick your phone" which helped me a lot because I was removing most of the packages. Totally loved the tool :) nice video mate.

You are a Fucking genius... I've watched loads of these videos now and I am crying with laughter each time. Keep doing what you're doing I haven't laughed this much since I was in high school. Just totally hilarious keep them coming

maby a tip for that use macrodroid that can tell you when you need to charge or when its better to put it out of chargeing.

Is there a way to create a backup and restore in case something goes wrong?

I've been dumbing down my phone for years, way more than you did, and people could not understand why. Now I can just point them to your video.

Is there a video on how you setup your Linux desktop? It looks interesting.

Nice Video, but can you also denloat other pre installed apps, like facebook, galaxy store, Vodafone Services and so on?

Chris what are your thoughts on Graphene OS?

havent owned a phone at all in the past like 6 years and it was the best thing i ever did

My Samsung has a setting to limit apps and background usage. Using that battery lasts over a week without needing to mess around with any extra apps etc

hi sorry for the noob question , but do you know if this would work on the huawei p30 lite new edition?

Have you tried TUI??? I recommend it . i used it cos i was being overwhelmed with app icons.

You are the best mijo

gonna try this on some older phones and then maybe even my daily if it works as expected

What about thr hyper power saving mode on samsung S series phone that limit every thing on the phone and extends your battery life extensively.

Great work and video! Is it possible to do the same on Samsung s21,or is this only on Google phones?

Hey Chris, how about making a video about CCTV if you have a system installed?

I'd be interested in how the phone works without Chrome. I use Firefox for my primary browser on the phone.

How does this work with the Pixel feature drops and OS updates? I’m dumb to Android so just curious.

How did u make app animations working in 3rd party launchers.

You should install Calyx OS on the Pixel. Android 13 is supported as of a couple of days ago.

using adb for years but I didn't know about this application. I have removed more 43 apps with it on a Samsung A53, almost all apps have Notes to know what about, very nice!!!!

what did that for me is actually the mindset of wanting a free phone with only open source software. So I wiped the whole thing installed lineage os and only downloaded open source apps on it. It achieves the same thing for me.

What is your icon pack called?

I use a lot of F-droid launchers, utilities, etc but most of the games outside of China require google play and/or google play services to function properly. So what I do is I installed the Chinese version of TapTap because the games from there do not have those google play services requirements. They have other trackers so it is not exactly the greatest solution but it is probably one of the best solutions currently available on android if you want to play games but not have google play services or google play weighing the phone performance down. I still saw better ui responsiveness with TapTap than Google Play and Google Play Services so maybe the telemetry or other things are not as heavy as what Google does by default. APKPure apps and games typically still have Google Play Services requirements as well so it would be no different than downloading the apps and games from the Google Play Store.

Is this kind of thing possible for apple phones?

There is software that blocks the browsers for certain times that you setup

Very nice launcher choice. I too use Niagara.

This video is extremely helpful if you have an issue with wired headphones and bixby pausing audio when you don't want said audio paused on the samsung galaxy s21 that problem is solved wired headphones need replaced but at least the experience is a lot better after removing bixby!

Can i please get some help. I have everything done I believe but when I type in adb devices in my power shell it says R3CR50LTKYR unauthorized

Can you still do this on something like GrapheneOS?

Damn, I didn't realize how much of the google apps be default you can remove without the phone throwing a fit. I think you can't remove some of those normally? Pixel 6a here and thanks!

What can't you uninstall to keep android audto working in the car?

What desktop environment is that?

adb devices command doesn't show anything what could be the problem?

Honestly I've gone through the steps of using a Niagra Launcher, then OLauncher(I don't use smartphone, still its the highest level of perfectness in terms of productivity it brought for me, just try it). Chris is feeling the need to switch back to smartphone, that makes me alarmed too. Let's see how long is it till I also feel incessant need of smartphone. I definitely want to use a smartphone or tablet while traveling, but in my home and around, just no. I can navigate, pay and read Wikipedia using my dumb KaiOS phone, isn't that tolerable?

I have really enjoyed using Kiss Launcher.

Is there something of with the audio in the video?

Does this work on graphene os?

probably best on Google Pixel phones (only), as they are 'cleaner' versions of Android? All the other phone makers tweak android for their phones. (similar to how GrapheneOS only works on Google Pixel phones)

Will this still work on a samsung f21e today?

I LOVE niagara, it is the best phone launcher, small footprint, efficient and open source!

what do you think about removing the play store?

debloating with adb just freez apps for user0, it does not remove the apps if you want better results mount the system rw (on the recovery) and remobe the apps you don't need my phone lasts 10days

Thoughts on GrapheneOS?

OLauncher is a minimal free launcher without trackers and such that is almost the same as Niagara Launcher

What if I can't uninstall a specific app from the universal android debloater?

Love how I can't open UAD on raspberry pi and theres no references anywhere. Anyone know how?

Does Google Pay works after debloating?