1 yr. ago • 100%

How to Degoogle without customROM?

Hi, I want to degoogle a Samsung Tablet I got. There is no LineageOS built out for this recent tablet, so I can only try to degoogle the stock ROM.

Any good guides to follow?

And further guides to remove the Samsung bloat? Thanks!

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Universal Android Debloater. No root required. https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater

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- Agree. It should be pretty thorough for a Samsung tablet
  
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- Great, thanks! Have not even found this on r/degoogle 🥲
  
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- Well, I just heard this for the first time. Could have saved me a lot of time and trouble.
  
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There is a very good series of articles here, but in German: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/android-ohne-google-take-back-control-teil1/ Parts 1, 5, 6, 7 & 8 can also be realised without custom ROM and root.

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This is what I've done a couple of times now

https://lemmy.zip/comment/1548190

But... I haven't had any feedback on whether this is effective from the perspective of getting rid of Google entirely

I will say that it makes the phone feel really light and fast, literally every app in the app drawer is one you put there yourself. My battery life is usually better too

The UAD should be pretty safe (and I think it's a bit conservative in what it recommends) but make sure you take care with the packages you remove yourself

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You won't be able to remove all the google spy codes at system level by just debloating, unfortunately.

For example, google has wifi scanning crap that you can't turn it off, and google has your device fingerprint, which means if you go to some website with google code in it, google will still know your device went to the website and so on.

It's not as simple as some people here says.

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- I assume so. I just need to bridge the time until there is a custom ROM available for my device. After running UAD I already have a learning curve trying to find app alternatives. After removing OEM and recommended stuff I cannot even change the wallpaper anymore 😅
  
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  Yeah that sucks. If possible, you may want to sell your device and get another one with more support (usually pixels are the best in terms of custom ROM support) or get another used one for cheap price.
  
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Thank you all for the great suggestions!

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The first thing you need is root access. Then you can uninstall all google apps (including system apps).

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- rooting is not necessary to uninstall Gapps, adb is enough
  
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  Now, I know. Does that work with older android versions too? I had trouble using adb to uninstall/disable system apps on a samsung phone running android 9. That's why I recommended rooting.
  
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