Smartphones and Bloatware

[kaneandtaker]

Which manufacturer's smartphone have the least amount of bloatware installed, other than Google's Nexus with vanilla Android?

 

I planned to get the HTC One but my friend advised me against it because of immense bloatware.

[HirgaLTTki]

HTC one has bloatware? No! There is barely anything besides HTC sense

[crunzaty]

Well the HTC One will come in a "nexus" format. But just root it bro, i did it to my SGS3 and it's still working perfectly until this day. I was so scared the first few days that my phone was gonna brick tho :o

[kaneandtaker]

HTC one has bloatware? No! There is barely anything besides HTC sense

 

That would be very reassuring if true.

[Zappy]

That would be very reassuring if true.

Anything from the carrier can be uninstalled on the HTC One, the HTC First is also pretty bloatware free.

[HirgaLTTki]

That would be very reassuring if true.

 

Yea my friend has it, besides some M1/Starhub/Singtel thingy, nothing much

[Guest]

I've got a HTC One on Telstra (Australia). Very little bloatware. Yes, there are the things from Google;

 

• Google+
• Notes
• Play Magazines
• Play Movies
• PocketNews
• Polaris Office
• Stocks
• Talk
• Watch
• Navigation
• Google Settings
• News and Weather
• Top 10 tracks
• PDF viewer
• TuneIn Radio

 

and a few other things. However the only thing I can see to identify this as a Telstra phone is the little Telstra Widget to show your mobile data usage and the Telstra splash screen on startup. 

[kaneandtaker]

Yea my friend has it, besides some M1/Starhub/Singtel thingy, nothing much

Hello fellow Singaporean, didn't notice your country till you mentioned the telcos. That's very reassuring thanks so much.

[HirgaLTTki]

Hello fellow Singaporean, didn't notice your country till you mentioned the telcos. That's very reassuring thanks so much.

 

Np, glad to have helped

[dtronicsuk]

look into cyanogenmod http://www.cyanogenmod.org its an aftermarket android os for loads of android smartphones. flash to your phone to experience a vanilla android experience on your device. cyanogenmod is the worlds most popular aftermarket android os and is constilly growing. cyanogenmod aims to be fast, provide features that dont come with stock firmware and extend the devices life

 

so far there are a few versions out and versions very from device to device.

 

so far there is

 

cyanogenmod 6 - android 2.2 - for older devices

 

cyanogenmod 7 - android 2.3.7- most common and perfect for low end devices

 

cyanogenmod 9 - android 4.0.2 - for newer device even thou devices such as the htc desire and samsung galaxy s (i9000) are also supported

 

cyanogenmod 10 - android 4.1.2 - for new devices but again some older devices are supported

 

cyanogenmod 11 - android 5.0 - unconfirmed from cyanogenmod but will be released a few weeks after android 5.0 official launch

 

at the moment i am using cyanogenmod 9 on my htc one v and it works fine and in some cases has made the device faster (overclocking the cpu is also allowed in cyanogenmod :D)

 

anyway i hope this has helped

 

link to the htc one page on cyanogenmod's site - http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/M7ul_Info

 

[_wky]

If you want the stock android experience then I'd recommend Cyanogenmod. It's a custom ROM with no bloat and is very snappy.