The Samsung Galaxy S10 are currently among the best Android phones that can be bought, as well as excellent are the Galaxy S8 and S9, older, but still perfect for those who own them, in their normal or XL versions. The only flaw that these smartphones have, in addition to the very high price, is the useless amount of pre-installed applications that Samsung puts in it, which leads users to use a modified Android version, much less performing and much less good than the Android version standard and normal. If geeks can flash a new Android Custom ROM like LineageOS, those who don't feel like doing complicated operations on their expensive phone, can instead, without any risk, disable some apps and install others to make the Samsung Galaxy S10, S9, S8 become or earlier, a mobile with normal Android, faster, more beautiful and with less uselessness .
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1) Change Launcher
The biggest change that can be made on a Samsung Galaxy S is that of the Launcher, which is the application that manages the home screen and the list of apps. By using a different launcher, the main screen not only becomes more similar to that of a normal Android phone, but also becomes faster to move. It might seem strange to someone to have their precious Galaxy 10 to look like a basic Android phone, in reality, however, Android is an operating system that Google has designed to work quickly and quickly on every phone, even not as powerful as Samsung's. So, changing the launcher, everything gets lighter and even the Galaxy becomes more responsive to the commands.
Although there are many excellent Android launchers available, the best is Nova Launcher. To get a free one you can instead install the Google Launcher, very simple and light, which is a replica of that of Google Pixel smartphones.
2) Change the theme
A special feature of Samsung is the ability to change the graphic theme easily on Galaxy S10. Then go to Settings and then to Themes to search for Other themes and find the one you like best. Once downloaded, just apply it to make the quick settings panel, the Settings menu, the dialer and other menu sections more modern and more beautiful. Alternatively, you can also open the Galaxy Apps store and look for Good Lock, which gives a better look to the notifications menu, to the lock screen and also to widgets. The best part about Google Lock is that the quick settings menu becomes almost identical to that of classic Android phones.
3) Use Google apps instead of Samsung ones
Samsung includes a large number of its own applications in each of its smartphones, including the Galaxy S4, S5, S6, S7 etc.
Most of these apps are more complicated and uglier than Google's homologous apps.
Since Google has released almost all the standard Android applications on the Play Store, these can be downloaded and installed on any other smartphone, including the Samsung Galaxy S.
Among these, the most important and best are:
- The Google Calendar
- The Clock
- Google Messenger for SMS.
- The Google keyboard
- Google Photos to view photos and for backup
- Google Fit in place of S Health.
- Google assistant in place of Bixby
The only app that is not convenient to change with a Google is the Camera, because Samsung is better.
Once all Google applications are installed, all the others can be hidden or even disabled (but better to disable them one by one to try before there are no negative effects).
READ HERE to know how to disable pre-installed apps on Samsung.
4) Other small apps to add to make the phone look lighter, more modern and more similar to that of a Google Android smartphone are:
- see the percentage on the battery icon
- With App to remap the physical keys, to exchange the two predefined Android keys, the one of recent apps and the one to go back, which on the Samsung Galaxy are inverted compared to the normal Android phones and the one to call the assistant Bixby.
- Galaxy Button Lights is an app to disable the backlight of the keys making them practically invisible.
If you know where they are and what they do, you don't need to see them.
- Better Open With, to replace the inconvenient Open screen with Samsung Galaxy with an easier one that is similar to the default one of Android, with the possibility of choosing to use an app even once.
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