How and which apps to disable safely disable

To make an Android cell phone faster, you should try to uninstall as many applications as possible. However, default or factory-installed apps cannot be removed from the device. In this case the only option is to disable them. In this way you prevent those apps from running in the background or while you are not using them, consuming processor, RAM and battery resources. The default data of the deactivated apps will remain on the device and can be reactivated if you need them again.

To disable applications on a Huawei cell phone, the process is the same as on any other Android. You only have to know which applications are safe to deactivate on this brand, which I indicate at the end. Not all factory apps can be deactivated, or else you could damage the functioning of the Android system and even prevent the cell phone from restarting, so proceed carefully.

In the case of my Huawei Y5 2019, I have been forced to deactivate as many applications as possible because it is an inexpensive, cheap or low-end cell phone, where if many applications are installed it starts to get slow. Fortunately, many factory apps like Tape recorder, Party mode, FM Radio, Suggestions, App Assistant Y Phone Clone I have been able to uninstall them directly. Many other factory apps don’t, so I had to disable them as follows.

How to disable apps on Huawei

The safest way to deactivate applications on a Huawei cell phone is from the Android system settings. If you go to Settings, Applications, you can enter the settings of each application and if the app can be disabled without causing problems, you will find available the “Disable” button.

The Android system will display the «If you disable a built-in app, other apps may not work properly«. There are some applications that may depend on the disabled app, so you may have an error when opening or during use. Although from my experience I have seen practically no problems, you can reactivate the application and fix it. Instead of “Disable” you will have the “Enable” button available.

In the next window you will see «Do you want to replace this app with the factory version? All data will be removed«. This means that any settings or changes you have made to the app will be lost. In addition, all updates will be deleted, leaving the factory version of the application. Click on «Accept».

Force deactivation of an app

Many applications such as «Song«, «Travel mode«, «App Gallery” O “Huawei Video” they have the “Disable” button grayed out or disabled, so they cannot be disabled in the same way I explained above. However, they can still be disabled with the help of a PC and through the ADB program. In this case you must proceed very carefully, because although you could deactivate any application on the system, you should not do so. Below I indicate which apps you could consider deactivating without problems.

The first requirement to forcibly deactivate a system application is to know the package name of the app you want to deactivate. This you can find out with the application Package Name Viewer 2.0. Under the name of each application you will find its package name. For example, in the case of the “Music” application, the package name is com.android.mediacenter.

The next step is to set up the ADB program on your computer and link it with your cell phone. First you must install the drivers on your PC. Then you must connect your cell phone to the computer and in the notification of the mobile USB connection verify that the “Transfer files” option is selected. You will then need to enable USB debugging. Finally you must run the ADB software on your PC, write the command there adb devices and then hit Enter. If all is well, under “List of devices attached” you should see a string of characters followed by the word “device”.

Then enter the following command:

adb shell

To deactivate an application use this command:

pm uninstall -k –user 0 com.android.mediacenter

That should generate the word “Success” after hitting Enter, which means the application was successfully disabled. In this case, the «Music» application will have been deactivated on your Huawei. To deactivate other apps you must change the part that says com.android.mediacenter by the name of the package of the application you want to deactivate.

In case some application causes problems for you by deactivating it in this way, after entering the same command adb shell enter the following to reactivate it:

cmd package install-existing com.android.mediacenter

If the activation was successful, you will see the notice “Package com.android.mediacenter installed for user: 0”.

APPS that can be safely disabled on Huawei

For sure I want to say that after deactivating the following applications the cell phone will restart normally after restarting it. So far I have not had errors in other applications, but that is something that can be solved by reactivate an application. If the cell phone does not turn on again or stays in the logo, it can also be fixed by reinstalling the firmware, but this is something more technical and will make you lose all the data that you have had on your device.

• Notepad
• Weather
• Cloud
• Mail
• Drive (Google)
• Duo (Google)
• Facebook App Installer
• Facebook App Manager
• Facebook Services
• Gmail
• Google Play Games
• Google Play Musica
• Google Play Peliculas
• Huawei App Gallery
• Huawei Video
• Medium

Disabling is not recommended

The same Package Name Viewer 2.0 application indicated above, in the “System Apps” tab, lists applications that in my opinion are critical to the system (with some exceptions) and should not be disabled. In addition to them, I would not recommend disabling the following. They are not necessarily the only ones, because there may be other apps that you should not disable.

• Huawei Inicio
• System interface
• Carrier Services (Google)
• Contacts:
• Optimizer

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