Switching Carriers.....

[chubby22]

Have a quick question. If you place this phone on a different carrier, the bloatware that Verizon has on this phone, can it be removed, or is still stuck on here? Thinking about making a switch to T-Mobile....

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[cybertj.2000]

Would still probably require root since they are installed as part of the updates. I may be wrong but that's what I think. They can always be disabled but still take up space.

 

[chubby22]

Thanks for the reply. I was kind of figuring that would be the case.

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[mountainbikermark]

My Verizon Note2 kept the Verizon bloatware when I switched to T-Mobile. It was really just a changing of the SIM card only and a couple of tweaks to network settings done by the rep at T-Mobile to make it a T-Mobile Note2.

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[chubby22]

Thank you for the info!

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[TheDroidURLookinFor]

Anything that came with the phone...stays with the phone. Some you can disable and some you can't. If you root you can delete them. Though I don't know how well that would work with OTA updates. Hell I don't even know how well OTA updates would work on another carrier. Anyone can chime in who knows for sure.

 

[chubby22]

That's something to think about as well. OTA updates. But definitely wouldn't want Verizon bloatware and another carriers bloatware combined.

 

[TheDroidURLookinFor]

That's something to think about as well. OTA updates. But definitely wouldn't want Verizon bloatware and another carriers bloatware combined.

I doubt they could so you are just stuck with Verizon's bloat.