It will prompt you, to confirm you want to convert a system app to a user app. select a system app and click the red bar that says system.On an Android 4.4.2 phone ( Samsung Core LTE G386W), the app just worked. In my case, I was just getting rid of the ones I obviously didn’t need. Removing the wrong system app will stop your phone working properly. You can then select to see all of your system apps, and this is where you can clean up.Īt this point, you should not only have a rooted phone but some spare time and a backup of your phone. It will list all of your current user apps. Once /S/A remover sees Busybox, you are ready to go. Once you’ve installed /system/app remover, you may be prompted to install the free Busybox, an app that provides hooks for apps with root permissions to accomplish some of what they do. Texture, FibeTV, and TripAdvisor were all system apps on either my phone or tablet. Normally, I wouldn’t mess with these sorts of apps but the phone provider and telecoms are getting really out of hand with the rubbish they install. The app converts the system app into a non-system app. You need to have a rooted device, although even that may not be enough if you’re running something like Lineage. It’s so straight forward it doesn’t really have a name it’s just called /system/app remover by developer j4velin. If you’re trying to trim out some of the bloatware apps that Samsung and your phone provider pre-install on your phone, there’s a nice free, open source app to do it.

Android bloatware list