First, and most important – i have NOT found/discovered/developed ANY of the solutions described below. All comes from three threads from XDA-Developers Forums and are linked below. Here is just a summary of them to make a decision of buying or not a samsung watch easier.
All stuff below WORKS today -> 19th of April 2023 on both Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 (not classic) and Samsung Galaxy watch 5 (not pro) as I have access to both of them and tested it.
It also should work on 4 classic (it have same stuff inside as my watch 5) and on Pro version of “5” as it have same soft as 5.
Source of knowledge:
- ECG and Samsung Health Monitor on phones different then Samsungs by Dante63 @ XDA-Developers
- Remove of unnecessary / bloat software by marco_lu, Dante63 and my research
For me most important part was removing unnecessary apps from my device. Sorry Samsung but i bought it, not rented. So i should have an option to REMOVE your shitty software. ALSO i Bought device with ECG capability and i should can use it without any other devices from you. This is why i am happy to see people on XDA who can do stuff like that possible.
What i have removed?
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.compass
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.bixby.agent
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.bixby.agent
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.bixby.wakeup
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.app.reminder
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.wearable.music
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.app.reminder
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.alarm
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.worldclock
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.stopwatch
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.calendar
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.messaging
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.timer
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.gallery.watch
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.watch.budscontrollerWhat you should remove? It is YOUR decision 🙂
Also remember that you always have this great command:
adb shell pm list packagesthat lists ALL installed packages in your watch. Of course you should not remove everything, as it can stop working. but hey… its yours so you can do anything right?