How to DEBLOAT your Android Phone (No ROOT Required!)

All

right. So, I've been covering a lot of

these cheap budget smartphones on the

market that are kind of limited in terms

of functionality and just not that fast

and they have a lot of glitches. And

there's ways around that. So, this video

is not specifically about this phone

that I'm showing here in this video.

It's more about um phones in general

that maybe don't have enough RAM or

their processors are really slow. You

know, a lot of these sort of cheap

budget phones are in that sort of

category. And I'm going to show you some

tricks in this video on how to get

around that issue so that at least the

phones are somewhat usable. So this

particular phone, this is the Blue V

from a company called Blue. They make a

lot of these track phone. Um also they

make their phones for I think other um

MVNOS from Verizon.

Uh this is from 2024 I believe. So, it's

been out for more than a year. I think

there's a newer version of this out

already with 4 GB of RAM. This one has 3

GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage and a

pretty mediocre specwise, a pretty slow

uh MediaTek CPU in here, but it's a

brand new phone. It's cost me $20 from

Best Buy. And a little tip here, um,

when you buy anything from Best Buy, use

the pickup option so that if you buy

anything like this, a prepaid phone,

there's always going to be someone there

trying to sell you a plan. You don't, in

this particular case, I didn't want a

plan, so I just picked it up. Um, there

may be a way to activate this through

some other method. I'll talk about that

in some other video. It's not really the

topic of this one. So, if you happen to

have a maybe an older phone or phone

that doesn't have a lot of RAM um and

slow, a lot of these sort of entry level

phones right now are like that. These

are the sort of the tips that I'm going

to cover in this video to help you out

and get going. So, um just real quick

just to cover the phone itself. There's

this one here. Um there's been a few

reviews out there, not a whole lot. Uh,

this is a this is a really ent like

bottom of the barrel entry level

product. Generally speaking, the reviews

aren't great for this one because it is

pretty slow. It's glitchy and but they

don't show you any of the workarounds

I'm going to show you in this video on

how to improve the performance. So, at

least it's going to be somewhat usable.

So, you get the phone in the box. You

get a USBC cable. You get a charging

brick, which is kind of cool. and you

get your paperwork, quick start guide,

SIM injection tool, etc. I'm not going

to activate this particular one here.

So, I'm not really interested in using

it uh for a service plan. This is more

about uh how to get the best performance

out of this phone. All right, so first

things first, once you get the phone out

of the box, before you um power it on,

you want to take the SIM out. Uh you

don't want this to connect to the

internet in any way, either through the

cell carrier or through Wi-Fi. So, I

have taken the SIM out of the uh SIM

tray here. I'm not going to connect it

to my Wi-Fi. I'm just going to go

through the setup process without it

connecting to the internet because

there's a few um apps or processes that

run in the background when you first

turn on the phone and set it up. As soon

as it detects the internet, it will

start downloading a bunch of games and

other bloatware apps that because it

does that and then they start running in

the background, the phone gets very

slow. So, we want to prevent that from

happening. So, let's go ahead and get

this phone set up and go ahead and take

all the things off of here. Let's uh

power this up here.

And we're just going to run through the

standard setup process, but I'm not

going to set up a Google account. And

I'm not going to connect to any uh

cellular network or any Wi-Fi. So,

that's important. And make sure you do

do not connect to any network before you

do this. And then we'll go through the

process of sort of u eliminating some of

these things that download bloatware and

also um some other tricks that we can do

to sort of get a lot of these things to

not load up in the background so that

it's not using up that limited amount of

uh 3 GB of RAM. And when there's less

stuff in RAM, it's going to run a lot

faster even though the CPU isn't that

fast.

All right, so I'm just going to go

through the standard setup process here.

So there's nothing special.

So, there's this uh device pulse terms

and conditions here. I'm actually going

to decline these.

And that's one of the apps that we're

going to probably disable. And we'll go

ahead and continue.

Okay. So, we're finished the setup

process where we got the main screen

here. And you see I have no SIM

inserted. And I have a bunch of

notifications here. I don't I didn't set

up a screen lock or anything like that.

There's a bunch of app updates which you

need a network to finish the setup, but

we're not going to do that right now.

And at this point, the phone is booted

up.

And let's see what we got here. So, got

your standard looks like Google apps

here camera

and some other things here like this

device pulse app. I don't know if on

some phones you can

uninstall some of these things which are

kind of not needed. But it looks like

you can't you can't uninstall this or

disable it from the standard interface.

But there's ways around this and that's

what we're going to get into in this

video.

Let's see about this other stuff like

Facebook here. This may or may not be

uninstallable. Yeah. So, you can disable

it, which I'm going to do. Go ahead and

disable disable it for now.

so you don't have some of these things

running in the background. And there's

other things here like the daily like a

this is like a news app. I think these

are news apps here. We can disable all

of these things. So I'm going to go

through and disable some of these things

that I I really don't really care for.

I'm going to go ahead and disable these

now

so that they're not running in the

background.

Okay. Okay, so this is pretty much what

you can see in the app tray, but there's

probably a bunch more. So, we go into

the settings, we go to apps,

and then we can go here to see all 39

apps. And let's see what else we've got

here. So, there is that. It doesn't look

like it's going to Yeah, there is.

Now, it looks like that app is hidden

here on this particular phone. It's

something called mobile services or

something along those lines. That will

show up in another app that I'm going to

install here shortly that'll reveal what

that is. And then we're going to have to

disable that cuz that is the app that

downloads a bunch of other games and

things in the background once the

internet is detected. So at this point

here, as you can see,

the phone is not terrible.

This is definitely not great, but it's

it is somewhat well, it's not I wouldn't

say it's glitchy, but it's definitely

not smooth when you're scrolling here.

This is typical for something with a

pretty low-end CPU and not a lot of RAM.

And let's just look at the device info

here. Android 14

and doesn't say

how much RAM it has. I just I know for a

fact that it has 3 GB of RAM, but if we

go into we have to go into developer

options. So, we're going to enable that

here. So, um to get to this menu, which

is about device, uh you go into let's

just let's just start from the

beginning. Go into your settings, you go

into about device, you scroll down to

build number, and you tap that seven

times. Then you see this is you are now

a developer. Go back out. go to system

and then you go to developer options

here and you see here it says memory

average 2.2 GB of 3 GB of memory use so

very limited and because um I I have

basically not connected it to a network

so there's nothing else running in the

background besides the standard Google

apps it's only using 2.2 two out of the

three. So, uh, when you run into

problems is when it it loads up all of

the RAM and then it's trying to swap in

other programs back and forth. Then

that's when you get the really big

slowdowns.

The other thing we can do is we can uh

see what else what's running in the

background. It's called running services

here. This will reveal things that pop

up. So, we see that I have 1.2 2 GB is

just the system which is just Android

535 megabytes of apps and then 1.2 GB of

RAM is free. This is the process here

mobile services. So if I go here

it says we can stop it. This is this is

a subprocess of this mobile services the

app. But I I'm going to yeah I'm just

going to disable this with the other

programs. Let's go ahead and just get

right to that because this is the this

this is waiting for the internet to pop

up. This is sitting there in the

background. It's using 12 megabytes of

RAM by the way too. Um there's Google

QuickStep is this uh is the actual um UI

the basically the the home home screen

app and then there's Android services

library. So not a whole lot running

right now. It's just this this is this

is the app that we want to kill uh cuz

that's going to download a bunch of

other stuff in the background and really

really destroy their performance.

So at this point without connecting to

the internet we have to um connect this

to a PC or you can use like maybe a USB

drive. We have to get two programs.

There's um one called Can and another

one called Shizuku. And then that will

basically let us debloat this phone and

actually get even more stuff actually

not just disabled but completely

uninstalled from here. So we'll do that

at this next step. We go I'll get those

installed on here or get the two files

on here and I'll show you right now

where you can get those files the two um

websites and then the links to those

down in the video description. But you

got to get those two files onto the

phone and then uh installed. So let's do

that next.

Okay. So I put them in the downloads

folder and there are the two apps I

downloaded. K and Shizuku. I don't think

it matters which one you install first.

I'll just install Shizuku first.

And you're going to have to enable this

allow from the source to install unknown

apps.

And we got a package installer has

stopped. So interesting.

This is not good. Let's see if we can't

try this again.

Okay. All right. So, that worked. And

then we'll install Can.

Okay. So, they were both installed. So,

we're going to um run Shizuku first. So,

they should be now in our app chore.

Here we go.

So, this is a service we need to start

that we need to have this running in

order for um Can to work. So, there's a

whole guide here. Basically, you can do

a step-by-step guide. Uh basically, you

hit this pairing button here and then

we'll have to turn notifications on

and just follow along with what I'm

doing here. Then we have to go into

developer options

and we have to and again so you have to

enable developer options like I showed

you earlier and it's under wireless

debugging. So if you have an older phone

that's not I think you need to have

Android 11 or later. So if it's newer or

it's older than that this um you'll have

to use another method. So let me know if

you um have that problem but most people

shouldn't have this. So you should have

wireless debugging available to you.

Enable that. Tap on here and we'll hit

this.

All right. So since we need to have

Wi-Fi enabled for the wireless debugging

to work, there is another way to do this

with ADB, but the Wi-Fi or the wireless

debugging is actually the easier way.

We're going to have to stop that uh

mobile services process in order to get

around this so we don't have a bunch of

stuff downloading uh in the background.

So, go back to system

developer options

and go to running services.

Go over here to this and then we'll hit

stop.

and see if it's gone. Okay, looks like

it went away.

And then this this other process here. I

think I want to stop this as well.

Product info.

Going to stop that as well.

And hopefully these don't come back.

Sometimes they will relaunch.

Okay, so it looks like they're gone.

Good. So, I'll go back to Shizuku

pairing.

Going to have to um enable Wi-Fi here.

Okay. So, connected to my Wi-Fi network.

Go back here to developer options and

we're going to go to the wireless

debugging.

Click this. Hit allow.

Now, that should be enabled. Gonna hit

um pair device with pairing code.

Okay, there it is. 781203

says pairing successful now.

All right. So, back to the main Shizuku

interface. We're going to hit start

and you should get all this

server started and this window should

close. So now this is running in the

background. Now we can use the other

program K. So we'll go ahead and exit

out of that.

Launch can.

This is the program that will give you

all the basically this has all the data

the database on the deep bloating list.

So it it basically gives you

explanations on what's what. You see

there's recommended versus expert etc.

Recommended is like those are the ones

that they tell you that they should

remove. I'm not going to remove

everything. There's also these other

ones like Android services library. You

say it says unsafe. You don't want to

remove that cuz then that's part of the

system. The phone may not boot up. An

easy way to use this is to use the

filter here.

And I usually select recommended

like that.

And then over here it says those are the

ones that are alive and then these are

the ones that are trashed. And of course

we haven't used it yet. So there's

nothing here. So nothing has been

uninstalled.

And so for example, the weather app here

probably harmless. Um add privacy. So if

you want an explanation of what these

are, you you tap on this and it gives

you basically you know an an explanation

of what it is and you can elect to

remove it or not. Um the one

that we mainly want to remove is that

mobile services app. So, going to go and

get that one first.

There it is. It's called mobile services

manager and it's recommended to remove

and it says here, yeah, install

sponsored apps automatically on track

phone and affiliated carriers. So,

all you have to do is hit the check box,

mobile services manager selected, and

just hit the little trash can icon

there.

Says Shizuku is required. Go ahead and

grant permission here. And we'll allow

all the time.

And okay. And then you want to click

this reset to factory version in case it

downloaded any updates.

Hit okay. And now it is removed.

And now it's in the uh uninstalled

programs over here. So that's the main

one that you want to get rid of. And

then that will prevent all those games

and stuff from downloading. Now, every

phone's going to be a little bit

different. So some of these may not be

on your phone, some of these may be. And

I would only stick to the ones that are

recommended to remove. And if you uh

find that you want later on want to

reinstall it, all you have to do is go

into this list here and then select the

one here and then uh hit restore. I

think you hit hit this button here and

then this this little button will

restore it back. But obviously I don't

want to do that. So going to deselect

that. But that's the main one. I think

there was another one I saw that was

like

where was it?

Yeah. So you can go ahead and and uh

uninstall the device pulse app. This is

basically for track phone. Just shows

you information about your phone which

you can get from the box basically. Uh

so I'm going to get rid of that. And

then probably Facebook. There was

another one.

Yeah, you want to definitely get rid of

this one here called Meta App Installer.

It's part of Facebook Meta App Manager.

And you just go through each one of

these and see which ones you may want to

keep. I, for one, I'm going to actually

get rid of a lot of these, the ones that

are recommended, perhaps all of them,

cuz they're not necessary for the phone

to operate. And uh the less you have on

on these kind of older phones, the

better the the phone will perform, but

obviously you want to keep things like

maps and some important apps.

>> A few moments later.

>> All right, so I just want to show you

everything I ended up uninstalling, and

it was pretty much everything that was

recommended. So, just scroll. This is

just for this particular model. Your

model might be different. Um, yeah, I I

got rid of a lot of stuff I don't

generally use. Um, some of the Google

stuff, most of the Google stuff and some

of the there were some like other

um factory installed apps I didn't

really know much about. And then there

were other ones I recommend just get rid

of. So, I just basically

uh removed a almost everything that I

could that I wasn't really using. And

now,

if you go into storage,

we're only using 16 GB of the 64 GB. So,

it freed up a lot of space by deleting

those apps. And going back into our

system here and developer options.

Um we'll go to running services.

And now we see that we have a lot of

free RAM available. 1.7 GB and of the 3

GB. So only 1.3 is actually being used.

And we have a lot of stuff is free. And

there's actually a lot of stuff here

that's no longer running. Especially all

that um Verizon stuff. I got you all

that stuff got deleted. So, it's not

running anymore in memory. So, it's not

going to slow down the phone. The other

thing I recommend that you do that'll

help, as you can see that you can see

how much more smooth the scrolling is on

here than it was initially. Uh you'll

see in a lot of the reviews of this

phone that it's very jittery. Um but now

that there's a lot of free RAM that you

don't have that problem. But the other

thing that you can also do to help with

the smoothness is go where is it? Here

you want to scroll down to this section

here where it says window animation

scale transition animation scale and

animator duration scale. The by default

all these are set to 1x. If you set it

to.5x that will um make the animations a

little bit more smoother on this low-end

hardware. So I did that to all these.

Another thing I did was I I did not

install a Google account on this one. I

actually just left it um without

basically signing up for one and I

downloaded some open source apps. Uh

this is a a browser called Fenick. I

actually disabled Chrome. So um Chrome

tends to use up a lot of memory. This

one is based off of Firefox and it has

more privacy cards in it as well. And

you can see it's pretty smooth just

scrolling through. So, if you're using

this, you know, these these sort of

low-end phones mostly for like browsing

the web, email, um maybe reading some

ebooks. I've got here's like u this is

the Google discover app basically. It's

like part of the Google search app. You

get like news apps and stuff like that

in here. And then I have an ebook

reader. So, I got this ebook reader

installed. And you can see I can easily

uh page through, no hiccups,

no stuttering.

It works really well. And the other

thing you'll notice, especially on this

model, is the camera is very, very slow.

But here, it boots up right away

and then

there's no shutter lag. So, you'll see

that on some of the reviews where it

you'll press the shutter and then you

won't see anything happen for maybe like

5 seconds, but now that the memory issue

is resolved, you're not going to see

that in uh at least on my phone. And you

can see here I have almost nothing

installed. I just have that Fenic

browser and this other program called

Reist. If you're interested in where to

get this stuff, I'll uh link down in the

video description. I think I think it's

called openapk.net.

and a lot of open source software there.

So, if you optimize your phone and just

get it down to what you really need,

even though the hardware is very

limited, you can still get a pretty good

experience overall.

And just to show that it can play some

YouTube videos as just load up one here

randomly. So, 4K video.

So, there we go. It's playing now. It's

a little slow in the loading because

this is I think it's trying to load an

8K video. But see if we go into these

settings here. Let's see what is it

actually. It's actually only loading

480p. So this screen's only a 720p

screen. So just go and select 720.

Yeah. So there you go. 720p video. Um

not bad. Definitely not the fastest

phone in the world, but it plays videos.

You can surf the web, do emails, basic

tasks. should be fine. I wouldn't

recommend this uh for gaming at all. Um

but yeah, if you do do these

optimizations that I just showed you in

this video, you can turn a pretty bad

phone experience into a mostly usable

experience in my opinion. And you can

you basically not spend a lot of money

on a phone. I spent 20 bucks on this and

you have a very usable device. is

something that you could, you know, you

don't necessarily have to get phone

service for, but you could uh give it to

your kids for playing some low-end

games, watching some videos, and uh, you

know, doing some like basic tasks.

Anyway, um, hopefully you found this

video helpful. If you did, please let me

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will talk to you guys in the next video.