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I have had Google as an app disabled for the past 2 months. I don't use google assistant or anything like that and I have had no issues. I'm not going to uninstall the play store, google play services or carrier services since I know those are pretty much integral to my phone.

I've used ADB to uninstall the vast majority of the bloatware or other software on my Samsung phone, but I'm not sure if uninstalling Google will actually cause my device to become inoperable.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm seeing a few recommendations to flash a custom ROM.

Wouldn't that be just great, there's only one slight problem with that idea ....

You mentioned it's a Samsung device.

Depending on which Samsung device you have, custom ROMS are hard or in some cases impossible to find and the process to install them is more difficult than on some other devices.

Get the process wrong and you'll brick your phone, so think long and hard before you go down that road.

Just thought I'd give you a heads up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You will most likely only get a soft brick. You need to try to completely brick your phone