Improve Phone Battery Life

# How to De-bloat Your Android Device: Extend Battery Life Without Rooting

Many people don't realize how much their Android devices can last. With proper optimization, your phone should easily last 3 to 4 days on a single charge. However, most users constantly look at their phones, which drains the battery quickly. In this guide, we'll show you how to de-bloat your Android device using a tool called **Universal Android Debloater**. This method will significantly extend your battery life, improve privacy, and enhance overall performance—without rooting your phone or making any drastic changes.

## What is Universal Android Debloater?

Universal Android Debloater (UAD) is a powerful tool designed to strip unnecessary bloatware from your Android device. Bloatware refers to pre-installed apps that come with your phone but are rarely used. These apps often run in the background, consuming battery life and slowing down your device. By removing them, you can extend your battery life, improve privacy, and reduce unnecessary data usage.

This guide will show you how to use UAD on any operating system (Windows, macOS, or Linux). We'll be using a Google Pixel 6A for this demonstration since it's an affordable phone (around $200-$250) that runs smoothly even after stripping down the bloatware.

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## Why De-bloating Your Phone is Important

- **Battery Life**: The biggest benefit of de-bloating your phone is extended battery life. After using UAD, the speaker went from 3-4 days of use to a full 4 days (or more) without charging.

- **Privacy and Security**: By removing unnecessary apps that run in the background, you reduce the risk of being tracked or monitored.

- **Performance**: With fewer apps running in the background, your phone will feel faster and smoother.

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## Step-by-Step Guide to De-bloating Your Android Device

### 1. **Install Dependencies**

Before using Universal Android Debloater, you need to install some dependencies on your computer:

#### On Linux (using Arch):

The speaker uses Arch Linux and recommends installing `pseudo` or `Pacman android-tools`. For other distributions, search for the appropriate package.

#### On Windows or macOS:

You only need to install the **Android Platform Tools** from the official [Android Developer website](https://developer.android.com/studio). These tools include ADB (Android Debug Bridge), which is essential for connecting your phone to your computer.

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### 2. **Enable Developer Mode on Your Phone**

To use UAD, you need to enable developer mode on your Android device:

1. On your phone, swipe down from the top of the screen to access settings.

2. Swipe down again to see more options and select **Settings**.

3. Navigate to **About This Phone**.

4. Scroll to the bottom and find **Build Number**.

5. Click on "Build Number" seven or eight times until you're prompted to confirm that you want to become a developer.

Once enabled, go back to your phone's settings and enable **USB Debugging** under the **Developer Options** section.

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### 3. **Connect Your Phone to Your Computer**

Use a USB cable to connect your Android device to your computer. Open your terminal or command prompt and type:

```

adb devices

```

This will show you the serial number of your connected device. If it doesn't appear, make sure you've enabled USB debugging on your phone and accepted all connection requests.

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### 4. **Launch Universal Android Debloater**

Download Universal Android Debloater from its [GitHub page](https://github.com/UniversalAnDroid-org/uad). Once installed:

1. Launch the program.

2. Select **Recommended** to start with a safe, curated list of apps to uninstall.

3. Review the list of apps that will be removed. The tool automatically selects bloatware and system apps that can safely be uninstalled.

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### 5. **Select Apps to Uninstall**

- The speaker recommends sticking to the **Recommended** tab to avoid accidentally removing critical system apps.

- If you want to customize, uncheck apps you wish to keep (e.g., YouTube or Google Maps).

- Be cautious when selecting **Unsafe** or other advanced options, as these can remove essential components like your network stack.

For example:

- The photos app and Android messaging are left intact.

- Apps like Wallet, Bookmarks, Hot Word Enrollment, and Bluetooth MIDI Service are removed.

- Chrome is kept if you use it regularly.

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### 6. **Uninstall Selected Apps**

Once you've selected the apps to uninstall:

1. Click **Uninstall Selected**.

2. Confirm the action in the dialog box.

The tool will begin removing the selected apps from your phone. This process can take a few minutes, depending on how many apps are being removed.

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### 7. **Reboot and Test Your Phone**

After uninstalling the apps:

1. Reboot your phone to ensure all changes take effect.

2. Open the Play Store if any apps were accidentally uninstalled (e.g., YouTube) and reinstall them as needed.

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## Post-De-bloat Considerations

- **Custom Launcher**: If you're using a Google Pixel device, consider switching to a custom launcher like Niagara Launcher for a minimalistic experience. The default Google Launcher may break after de-bloating.

- **ADB Debugging**: You can disable USB debugging in your phone's settings after completing the process if you don't need it anymore.

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## Final Thoughts

De-bloating your Android device with Universal Android Debloater is an excellent way to extend battery life, improve privacy, and enhance performance—without rooting or modifying your phone's firmware. The tool works seamlessly across all operating systems and requires minimal technical expertise.

If you're ready to take control of your Android device and reduce unnecessary bloatware, download UAD today and follow the steps outlined in this guide. Your phone will thank you with improved battery life and performance!

Let me know in the comments if you have any questions or want more tips on optimizing your Android experience. See you in the next video!

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don't change you don't need to root your device or do anything crazy here it's extremely good for privacy and security because less things run in the background less things spying on you it's just overall a good thing the biggest thing though battery life I hate charging my phone and I like going three or 4 days without charging it and this allows me to do it so I'm going to be using Universal Android de bloater and we'll just basically strip it out so the big things here is install your dependencies depending on your operating system all you need to do is follow either whichever instruction you're doing I'm using actually arch for my Linux so actually it's uh pseudo or pseudo Pacman android-tools but if you need any help with that right down here you can see all the different Linux packages all the different Windows packages is always the same you just install a uh Android platform tools and you're good having said that we've already installed the dependencies we've already gotten this from the GitHub Page hit releases up here and then assets and then just download whichever one's the best once you've done that connect up your device and enable developer tools which is pretty easy let me just demonstrate that real fast over on this side you'll see my phone I'm going to swipe down from the top swipe down again we'll hit settings and then just go to about this phone all the way down here where it says build number right here you look build number this is what you need to click what you do is just click click click click click click click click click and once you've clicked seven or eight times it'll say do you want to be a developer you hit yes and then you get developer tools and then all you do is come into search from settings and then type ADB Wireless debugging developer options you click this and all you really need to do I don't like Wireless debugging I like to do this all hardcoded in and I just come down to debugging and say us debugging enabled so those are that's the only thing you need to do with your phone from here on out we can actually just close this out and in your command line whether it's Mac Windows whatever all you need to do is ADB devices make sure you connect up your device see it here and if it says uh connected or not confirmed check your device you might need to hit accept all connections or permit this device and then hit allow so with all that set up hit ADB devices again and it should show something like this uh with the the whole serial of the the device and the and the name device so now we can actually launch the uad guy and this is obviously for Windows it's Windows or Mac it's Mac so we'll hit enter it sees all of this so we'll just hit recommended then down in the left let's go select all now looking at this we have the photos app that this would. install I'm going to leave that I want to leave Android messaging Android maps or Google Maps uh I don't really use the docs or files Trace Ur I'm going to go ahead and shrip that out we got wallet so if you use Android wallet probably leave that partner bookmarks I think we can safely uninstall that hot word enrollment don't know what that is we're going to go ahead and let that go Android egg Chrome that's actually Chrome so this would uninstall your Chrome browser if you do use Chrome probably leave that call log backup and then Bluetooth midi service which I I don't really want any of those so with these I'm just going to hit uninstall selected this is going to uninstall 37 apps which is a lot so I would actually make a backup as well but you know there's this export if you look there's export current selection I would export those first before doing the uninstall but I like to live dangerously so we're just going to say uninstall selected you can see it's actually stripping down we're getting recorder restore Setup Wizard wallpaper wellbeing YouTube music so if that wanted to leave it on there we could just uncheck it and there's YouTube we probably would leave YouTube as well all right now I've stripped down my thing we've uninstalled 30s something apps and left all these I did uninstall a few apps I didn't mean to like YouTube and a few others uh but I I forgot to scroll a little bit there I just wanted to show this because it does uninstall quite a bit of apps now I'm going to flip over here let's look at our device real fast fast and back on the device and I have like a custom launcher one thing I would say on this device is when you're you're doing this you have to have a custom launcher this does break Google Launcher so if you're using a pixel like me a lot of times it will actually break a lot of Google stuff so if it's a Google Launcher a lot of times it won't work I like the Niagara launcher here it's very minimal very simple to do and I just can flip through it and go okay what do we have you'll notice there is no YouTube there's nothing else on here let's see anything else like Harry Potter World or what is this let's just long press uninstall uninstall okay anything else and that's about it so pretty much everything let's reinstall YouTube and just see what happens and also kind of refresh this afterwards so let's go back to the Play Store launch into it and then I'm just going to type YouTube because I didn't really mean to uninstall the YouTube app I'll still probably use that let's say you use something different that would also be okay so that's installed now and you can also see this let's go back into our app drawer come down here you can see now we have YouTube again so let's refresh this and there's YouTube so if you do accident uninstall things this just using the recommended settings does leave a lot of good apps like it it it will uninstall a lot of your bloat pretty safely and then let's say you end up deleting some oh crap I should have grabbed the wallet or let's say your wallet stops working just go to the Play Store reinstall the wallet having said that I will warn you don't just go click happy here if you come into here and then just say all look it's going to grab every single application in your Android and if you clicked all these and hit uninstall you will Breck your device so don't do that you will mess things up bad uh if you say unsafe or those types of things it will like you're going to delete your network stack good luck trying to get data after you delete these modules so it's a very very Advanced tool in a lot of ways and I really recommend just sticking to the recommended tab in Universal Android de bloder this really cuts down on your running processes and will double your battery life for the most part at least for me on the pixel 6A I can say it safely went from about 24 to 48 hours to about 4 days or 3 days depending on usage calls and that thing type of thing so definitely look into this I highly recommend Universal Android deoder no matter what our operating system you're on it works and if you're an Android User do this now you don't need to root your phone or anything you just do the ad options and then afterwards if you don't want to leave ADB on you can just come right back in here and disable USB debugging I use my phone a lot like videos so I like to leave that on so I can put up like this screen this is my actual phone so I can actually put that up on my screen manage it and it mirrors it right to my phone using U uh ad so I like it for that too and also managing the applications on my phone but my phone's not rooted I don't like rooting I don't like really changing it from the stock I just like getting rid of a lot of the crap so hopefully this helps you let me know down in the comments or if you have another project you want me to do on my Android phone let me know and I'll see you in the next onelet's debloat your Android device a lot of people don't realize their Android device should last 3 to 4 days unless you're constantly looking at it but most people have gotten in a better habit of not looking at their phone constantly and this video really extends your battery life because it removes all that bloat wear I've done and talked about this subject a lot of times using dumb phones using trip down Android phones and this is the best one I found now today I'll be using a Google pixel phone this is a 6A so one of the cheaper phones I think I got it for about 200 250 and all I really want to do is strip it down and then just use it for phone calls and text messages and that's about it maybe Uber or something if I'm visiting a city or something but other than that that's all I'm going to do so this is going to be you can use this on Mac you can use it on Windows you can use it on Linux whatever it is I'm going to use Linux today but the the steps don't change you don't need to root your device or do anything crazy here it's extremely good for privacy and security because less things run in the background less things spying on you it's just overall a good thing the biggest thing though battery life I hate charging my phone and I like going three or 4 days without charging it and this allows me to do it so I'm going to be using Universal Android de bloater and we'll just basically strip it out so the big things here is install your dependencies depending on your operating system all you need to do is follow either whichever instruction you're doing I'm using actually arch for my Linux so actually it's uh pseudo or pseudo Pacman android-tools but if you need any help with that right down here you can see all the different Linux packages all the different Windows packages is always the same you just install a uh Android platform tools and you're good having said that we've already installed the dependencies we've already gotten this from the GitHub Page hit releases up here and then assets and then just download whichever one's the best once you've done that connect up your device and enable developer tools which is pretty easy let me just demonstrate that real fast over on this side you'll see my phone I'm going to swipe down from the top swipe down again we'll hit settings and then just go to about this phone all the way down here where it says build number right here you look build number this is what you need to click what you do is just click click click click click click click click click and once you've clicked seven or eight times it'll say do you want to be a developer you hit yes and then you get developer tools and then all you do is come into search from settings and then type ADB Wireless debugging developer options you click this and all you really need to do I don't like Wireless debugging I like to do this all hardcoded in and I just come down to debugging and say us debugging enabled so those are that's the only thing you need to do with your phone from here on out we can actually just close this out and in your command line whether it's Mac Windows whatever all you need to do is ADB devices make sure you connect up your device see it here and if it says uh connected or not confirmed check your device you might need to hit accept all connections or permit this device and then hit allow so with all that set up hit ADB devices again and it should show something like this uh with the the whole serial of the the device and the and the name device so now we can actually launch the uad guy and this is obviously for Windows it's Windows or Mac it's Mac so we'll hit enter it sees all of this so we'll just hit recommended then down in the left let's go select all now looking at this we have the photos app that this would. install I'm going to leave that I want to leave Android messaging Android maps or Google Maps uh I don't really use the docs or files Trace Ur I'm going to go ahead and shrip that out we got wallet so if you use Android wallet probably leave that partner bookmarks I think we can safely uninstall that hot word enrollment don't know what that is we're going to go ahead and let that go Android egg Chrome that's actually Chrome so this would uninstall your Chrome browser if you do use Chrome probably leave that call log backup and then Bluetooth midi service which I I don't really want any of those so with these I'm just going to hit uninstall selected this is going to uninstall 37 apps which is a lot so I would actually make a backup as well but you know there's this export if you look there's export current selection I would export those first before doing the uninstall but I like to live dangerously so we're just going to say uninstall selected you can see it's actually stripping down we're getting recorder restore Setup Wizard wallpaper wellbeing YouTube music so if that wanted to leave it on there we could just uncheck it and there's YouTube we probably would leave YouTube as well all right now I've stripped down my thing we've uninstalled 30s something apps and left all these I did uninstall a few apps I didn't mean to like YouTube and a few others uh but I I forgot to scroll a little bit there I just wanted to show this because it does uninstall quite a bit of apps now I'm going to flip over here let's look at our device real fast fast and back on the device and I have like a custom launcher one thing I would say on this device is when you're you're doing this you have to have a custom launcher this does break Google Launcher so if you're using a pixel like me a lot of times it will actually break a lot of Google stuff so if it's a Google Launcher a lot of times it won't work I like the Niagara launcher here it's very minimal very simple to do and I just can flip through it and go okay what do we have you'll notice there is no YouTube there's nothing else on here let's see anything else like Harry Potter World or what is this let's just long press uninstall uninstall okay anything else and that's about it so pretty much everything let's reinstall YouTube and just see what happens and also kind of refresh this afterwards so let's go back to the Play Store launch into it and then I'm just going to type YouTube because I didn't really mean to uninstall the YouTube app I'll still probably use that let's say you use something different that would also be okay so that's installed now and you can also see this let's go back into our app drawer come down here you can see now we have YouTube again so let's refresh this and there's YouTube so if you do accident uninstall things this just using the recommended settings does leave a lot of good apps like it it it will uninstall a lot of your bloat pretty safely and then let's say you end up deleting some oh crap I should have grabbed the wallet or let's say your wallet stops working just go to the Play Store reinstall the wallet having said that I will warn you don't just go click happy here if you come into here and then just say all look it's going to grab every single application in your Android and if you clicked all these and hit uninstall you will Breck your device so don't do that you will mess things up bad uh if you say unsafe or those types of things it will like you're going to delete your network stack good luck trying to get data after you delete these modules so it's a very very Advanced tool in a lot of ways and I really recommend just sticking to the recommended tab in Universal Android de bloder this really cuts down on your running processes and will double your battery life for the most part at least for me on the pixel 6A I can say it safely went from about 24 to 48 hours to about 4 days or 3 days depending on usage calls and that thing type of thing so definitely look into this I highly recommend Universal Android deoder no matter what our operating system you're on it works and if you're an Android User do this now you don't need to root your phone or anything you just do the ad options and then afterwards if you don't want to leave ADB on you can just come right back in here and disable USB debugging I use my phone a lot like videos so I like to leave that on so I can put up like this screen this is my actual phone so I can actually put that up on my screen manage it and it mirrors it right to my phone using U uh ad so I like it for that too and also managing the applications on my phone but my phone's not rooted I don't like rooting I don't like really changing it from the stock I just like getting rid of a lot of the crap so hopefully this helps you let me know down in the comments or if you have another project you want me to do on my Android phone let me know and I'll see you in the next one\n"