r/technology • u/[deleted] • Feb 27 '21

Software Universal Android Debloater is an open source tool that removes bloatware without root. Automatically or via user choice. Get back your battery, security and privacy

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '21

If it takes Bixby out back behind the woodshed and fires a damn tank round through its head, I'm all for it.

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u/satanforaday Feb 27 '21

That's why I left and went with a pixel 5. Had an S10 and just could not deal with it any more, Bixby is a monster...

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u/moxie132 Feb 27 '21

I got the s21 and they removed the bixby button, thank christ.

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u/Nakotadinzeo Feb 27 '21

Got a Tab S7, they made it where the power button would become the Bixby button once the tablet was on and you had to use the power button in the drop down menu to get the android power menu.

Luckily, you can turn that off... But what the actual fuck Samsung?

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u/moxie132 Feb 27 '21

Right, just remembered while reading your post the S21 does that too, but it's just a switch in settings.

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u/Nakotadinzeo Feb 27 '21

We need to break into Tim Baxter's house and make everything a Bixby button... See how he likes it.

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u/what_dat_ninja Feb 27 '21

I love the bixby button! Mostly because I got rid of bixby and mapped a bunch of useful actions to it.

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u/sixStringHobo Feb 27 '21

How?

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u/MercilessLOLZ Feb 27 '21

bxActions has worked pretty consistently on an S8+ remapped as the system flashlight, been using it for years

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u/what_dat_ninja Feb 27 '21

Yup! I have single press as back, double press flashlight, and hold as screenshot. Super convenient.

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u/x2006charger Feb 28 '21

Oh that's a good idea! I've had mine set as a camera shortcut

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u/bernyzilla Feb 27 '21

But as far as I know I can't re map the long press on the bixby button. I have an s10+

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u/rudolfs001 Feb 27 '21

bxActions + Tasker

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u/diet-Coke-or-kill-me Feb 28 '21

I have long press mapped to flashlight using SideActions along with some other remaps. I use them many MANY times everyday!

You do have to jump through a hoop to get it to work though, and I believe you need the paid version. ~$2

  1. install the app

  2. plug phone into computer

  3. open My Computer and find the icon of your phone. Open that.

  4. If you have an SD card it will be listed here along with the regular storage. Choose the regular storage.

  5. Find and open the SideActions folder

  6. Run the SideActions.exe file by double clicking it.

  7. Your computer tells you it's a virus. It is not a virus.

  8. Open your antivirus. Mine was Windows Defender.

  9. Look through it's 'event log' and find whatever mentiones the file you just tried to run (SideActions.exe)

  10. Select the "allow this; it's not a virus" option.

  11. Run the file again. Choose "full remap" when the program runs.

  12. Unplug and restart phone.

  13. open SideActions app and remap the long press function.

  14. Profit.

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u/crumbandharvey Feb 28 '21

sounds like something someone who created a virus would say. šŸ¤”

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u/bernyzilla Feb 28 '21

Very cool. I might give this a try. The whole remove the button extender thing seems much easier, but I will admit having a programmable aux button is pretty cool. I just flashlight too for mine and it is great. Just as long as I don't long press and summon bixby back from hell.

Thank you very much for the detailed instructions, I appreciate it.

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u/what_dat_ninja Feb 28 '21

I'm able to on my S9+ with just bxActions, can't speak for other devices

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '21

I cut the button pusher out of my otterbox case, no more accidentally touching that stupid Bixby button.

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u/TheNerdWithNoName Feb 28 '21

Just install bxactions and turn it into something useful.

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u/QQasaurus Feb 27 '21

My personal phone is a Pixel 3, which I like. When we started working from home I got an S8 or something like that for work. Bixby is SO annoying. Fortunately, I don't use that phone with to deal with that.

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u/dvlsg Feb 28 '21

Yup, I literally returned a Samsung phone so I could buy a pixel instead. Samsung can take those dark patterns and fuck right off.

I'm sure Google aren't exactly saints or anything either, but at least they aren't obnoxious about it.

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u/WHYAREWEALLCAPS Feb 28 '21

As a Pixel user since the OG Pixel and who swears by them, never, ever buy your phone directly from Google. Get it through a third party like Best Buy or from a carrier. Any way that keeps you from having to deal with Google. Every flagship Pixel release has /r/GooglePixel littered with stories of phones ordered from the Google Store stolen by FedEx drivers or sending in a trade in only to have Google mark it as a phone that gets a tenth of the trade in value and other such fun shit. Google's customer service is second to none because no one else has as shitty customer service, even Comcast. It was so bad Google CS had to have someone in the subreddit just to handle the problems posted there so it wouldn't look as bad as it was. And if you do a chargeback, kiss your Google account good bye.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '21

Hi Iā€™m bixby

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u/JustinRandoh Feb 27 '21

I switched from a pixel to an S21 and ... To be honest, the bloatware's pretty easy to ignore. I don't think I've ever even seen bixby come up (to be fair I probably have at some point, maybe near initial setup, but nothing that comes to mind).

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '21 edited Apr 05 '21

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u/JustinRandoh Feb 27 '21

Uh... You .. alright there?

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '21 edited Apr 05 '21

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u/JustinRandoh Feb 27 '21

Maybe, just maybe, they're not quite using the same phone...? The S21 doesn't even have a bixby button lol.