If your Samsung Galaxy S20 FE is becoming slow or acting in a weird way, there are a plethora of solutions to this issue. You can factory reset the phone and bring it back to its original state, or you can do something called “debloating” which deletes a number of pre-installed applications.
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Samsung Galaxy S20 FE Specifications
The Samsung Galaxy S20 FE (SM-G780F) launched in September 2020, as a cheaper variant of the Galaxy S20. The S20 FE comes with a Super AMOLED 6.5″ screen with a resolution of 1080 x 2400 pixels, Android 10 and OneUI 2.5 (soon One UI 3.0), Exynos 990 chipset (octa-core CPU and Mali-G77 MP11 GPU), 128/256GB of internal storage, 6/8GB of RAM, triple cameras on the back, a 32MP front-facing camera that can record 4K videos, and a non-removable 4500 mAh battery.
If you have bought one of these devices for yourself, you might have noticed that there are a lot of pre-installed applications on the phone. Even if the phone is brand new and it’s the first time that it is being turned on, you will discover a lot of applications already on the phone. Samsung likes to include a number of its own applications that a user might not necessarily need. On top of that, Samsung partners with other companies and pre-installs their apps, for example, the Office applications from Microsoft.
There is nothing bad about having these applications. Most of them are useful and a lot of users find them handy a lot of times. However, there are a few downsides. Having this many applications uses a lot of internal storage. It might not look like a lot at first, but once you use the phone and fill the internal storage with photos and other data, that space taken by those apps will become important. Furthermore, Android is known to slow down after a while, and one of the reasons is the huge number of applications.
How To Debloat Samsung Galaxy S20 FE and Improve Its Performance
There are two things you can do with your Galaxy S20 FE. The first one is to use it as is and deal with the bloatware later. The second option is to debloat the phone and remove all the apps that you do not want right away, so you don’t have to deal with them later.
If you want to remove the bloatware on your Galaxy S20 FE, follow the guide below. The upside of this tutorial is that you do not need to have a rooted device. All you need is to enable developer options, USB debugging, and execute the proper commands.
Preparations
Enable Developer Options. To do so, go to Settings -> About Phone -> Software Information and quickly tap 7 times on the Build Number.
Enable USB Debugging. To do so, go to Developer Options, scroll down and tap on USB debugging to enable it.
Install the Android SDK on your computer. This will allow you to execute commands on your phone directly from your computer. Download the latest Android SDK Platform Tools for your OS (Windows, Mac, Linux).
Guide to remove bloatware from Galaxy S20 FE
- Download the Android SDK Tools from the download link above and extract the downloaded file. Enter the folder and open a command line from inside the folder.
- Connect your Galaxy S20 FE to your computer using the stock USB cable. Make sure to grant your PC proper access to the phone.
- On the command line, enter “adb devices”. If you have successfully connected your phone to your PC, your phone should be displayed on the PC screen.
- A prompt should appear on your phone asking you to accept USB debugging. Tap on Allow.
- Now that everything is connected, you need to enter your phone’s shell. To do so, enter the following command: “adb shell”.
- Now your phone is set up and ready to accept the commands to remove the bloatware from your Galaxy S20 FE. Thanks to Khlam who has released a detailed list of commands you can use to uninstall OneUI apps, you can easily choose to remove the apps that you do not want.
- Open the OneUI Debloat List that contains the commands to uninstall most of the bloatware apps. Copy and paste the commands, and execute them from the command shell.
The list above contains almost all bloatware apps from Samsung. Obviously, you might want to use some of those apps. If you want to keep some of the applications, simply remove the line that correlates to the app.
Once you execute the commands, the phone will remove all the selected apps. That is all you have to do in order to remove bloatware from your Galaxy S20 FE. This will free up precious space and might even improve system performance.