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« on: August 17, 2010, 10:53:26 PM »
First post after picking up my Captivate yesterday.

Has anyone come up with a way to remove AT&T's bloatware?

There was a way with my Nokia E71X to get into the file system and remove it on rebooting.

Is there any similar work around with the Captivate?
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« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2010, 08:10:06 PM »
Did you find any solution? It is taking a lot of time while rebooting because of all the applications during start up.  Sad
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« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2010, 10:50:27 PM »
There are a couple of ways actually one is called unleash the beast, just try searching Wink Wink
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« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2010, 10:51:56 PM »
Is it an app or what?
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« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2010, 10:54:36 PM »
its a program that will delete all of the att bloatware off of your phone

Unleash the Beast
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« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2010, 10:55:26 PM »
oh..ok..thanks!!
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« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2010, 01:38:30 PM »
I've done the Unleash the Beast and it worked great.  However I do have a couple questions.  When Samsung releases updated software will I be able to download and install it?  If so, will it overlay/remove/undo the Unleash the Beast software?
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« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2010, 09:01:23 PM »
Quote from: geospyder on November 14, 2010, 01:38:30 PM
I've done the Unleash the Beast and it worked great.  However I do have a couple questions.  When Samsung releases updated software will I be able to download and install it?  If so, will it overlay/remove/undo the Unleash the Beast software?

From my understanding, you can not OTA update if you're root
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« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2010, 09:38:53 PM »
Quote from: baseballfanz on November 14, 2010, 09:01:23 PM
Quote from: geospyder on November 14, 2010, 01:38:30 PM
I've done the Unleash the Beast and it worked great.  However I do have a couple questions.  When Samsung releases updated software will I be able to download and install it?  If so, will it overlay/remove/undo the Unleash the Beast software?

From my understanding, you can not OTA update if you're root

I don't believe it is to do with being rooted, I believe it's to do with using Unleash the Beast. I am rooted and still OTA update. I uninstalled UTB because I couldn't OTA update.
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« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2010, 12:32:46 PM »
i havent personally have not done unleash the beast, from what people have said you cannot do OTA updates right now there is only 1 OTA software you can download but from my experience it really does nothing and the next update that you will have to do will have to be done through kies or kies mini or take it into the att store for the 2.2 froyo
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« Reply #10 on: December 29, 2010, 11:04:06 PM »
First of all, I just bought my Captivate like 4-5 days ago. Therefore, this is a Captivate-noob speaking.

I've rooted my phone with the one-click-root thingy, now is UTB the correct method to remove my at&t bloatware? Or is there something else?

Also, Titanium backup didn't work for my phone. Never backed up anything, said some particular settings need to be applied from the phone settings menu, which I couldn't find on the menu. But I did do a whole copy/paste backup ( Sticking out tongue ) of my internal SD card before rooting, just in case.

My question is, should I go ahead with the UTB? Is it safe? Will be able to update to Froyo in the future?

Again, apologies if I'm sounding stupid - it's just I am one, with the phone, that is. Sticking out tongue
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« Reply #11 on: December 29, 2010, 11:09:45 PM »
Quote from: musavvir on December 29, 2010, 11:04:06 PM
First of all, I just bought my Captivate like 4-5 days ago. Therefore, this is a Captivate-noob speaking.

I've rooted my phone with the one-click-root thingy, now is UTB the correct method to remove my at&t bloatware? Or is there something else?

Also, Titanium backup didn't work for my phone. Never backed up anything, said some particular settings need to be applied from the phone settings menu, which I couldn't find on the menu. But I did do a whole copy/paste backup ( Sticking out tongue ) of my internal SD card before rooting, just in case.

My question is, should I go ahead with the UTB? Is it safe? Will be able to update to Froyo in the future?

Again, apologies if I'm sounding stupid - it's just I am one, with the phone, that is. Sticking out tongue

From one relative droid-newbie to another, I would avoid UTB.  I used it, but had to go back to the stock setup to get updates.  I've since installed Cognition's Froyo version.  It works great!

As for Titanium backup, what were the "particular settings" that needed to be applied? 
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« Reply #12 on: December 29, 2010, 11:44:46 PM »
Quote from: Icersman on December 29, 2010, 11:09:45 PM
Quote from: musavvir on December 29, 2010, 11:04:06 PM
First of all, I just bought my Captivate like 4-5 days ago. Therefore, this is a Captivate-noob speaking.

I've rooted my phone with the one-click-root thingy, now is UTB the correct method to remove my at&t bloatware? Or is there something else?

Also, Titanium backup didn't work for my phone. Never backed up anything, said some particular settings need to be applied from the phone settings menu, which I couldn't find on the menu. But I did do a whole copy/paste backup ( Sticking out tongue ) of my internal SD card before rooting, just in case.

My question is, should I go ahead with the UTB? Is it safe? Will be able to update to Froyo in the future?

Again, apologies if I'm sounding stupid - it's just I am one, with the phone, that is. Sticking out tongue


From one relative droid-newbie to another, I would avoid UTB.  I used it, but had to go back to the stock setup to get updates.  I've since installed Cognition's Froyo version.  It works great!

As for Titanium backup, what were the "particular settings" that needed to be applied? 


This is what I see :
http://i54.tinypic.com/24d3jiw.png

** And it seems like I'm not the only one with this problem. There are several similar threads (example here) in XDA, though theres no real solution or explanation. :S

And I do have USB debugging enabled :
http://i54.tinypic.com/24d3jiw.png

And these are all the apps I see on TB  :
http://i55.tinypic.com/28cdmxw.png
(and trust me, my phone is rooted. I rooted it myself with the one-click-root program. I can clearly see the ninja icon on menu.)

I've started to think that it might be the root? Should I root again? Perhaps a fresh start? As I'm also giving a thought about giving the phone a factory-settings-restore then root and then try again? Any suggestions?
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« Reply #13 on: December 30, 2010, 02:51:02 AM »
please dont double post even if you do start another thread like this ive posted a possible solution for you but since you are still noobish to the Captivate you may look at it and do some gawk eyes at it lol
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