Anything you configure/change/etc is stored on /data. No separate partition for factory reset is necessary, because /system due to its immutability doubles as one. To factory reset the phone, you just wipe the /data. data is, where user data, installed applications, configuration, etc. Outside of system updates, it is not being touched. system is read-only, this is where anything that is shipped with phone is stored. In android, you have storage in two partitions: /system and /data. It was explained only zillion times, but I will try one more:
> Why does Android have undeletable apps anyway? These apps are licensed by manufacturers of Android devices certified under standards imposed by Google, but AOSP has been used as the basis of competing Android ecosystems, such as 's Fire OS, which use their own equivalents to GMS.
> Android is also associated with a suite of proprietary software developed by Google, called Google Mobile Services (GMS) that very frequently comes pre-installed in devices, which usually includes the Google Chrome web browser and Google Search and always includes core apps for services such as Gmail, as well as the application store and digital distribution platform Google Play, and associated development platform. You're getting it confused with Google Mobile Services which is the crapware in question. I would argue that the AOSP is Android (and that's what Wikipedia confirms here (operating_system) ) Guess you're splitting hairs and trying to say Android based isn't the same as saying Android. > Amazon Fire OS is an Android-based mobile operating system produced by Amazon.
You better update Wikipedia with that information then: IPhone preinstalls 42 apps, not all of which can be easily deleted: App Store, Calculator, Calendar, Camera, Clock, Compass, Contacts, FaceTime, Files, Find My Friends, Find My iPhone, Game Center, Health, Home, iBooks, iCloud Drive, iMovie, iTunes Store, iTunes U, Keynote, Mail, Maps, Messages, Music, News, Notes, Numbers, Pages, Passbook, Phone, Photos, Podcasts, Reminders, Safari, Settings, Stocks, Tips, TV, Videos, Voice Memos, Wallet, Watch, WeatherĪndroid comes with 29 preinstalled apps, and like iPhone some of them cannot be easily deleted: Android Pay, Calculator, Calendar, Camera, Chrome, Clock, Contacts, Docs, Downloads, Drive, Duo, Gmail, Google, Google+, Keep, Maps, Messages, News & Weather, Phone, Photos, Play Books, Play Games, Play Movies & TV, Play Music, Play Store, Settings, Sheets, Slides, YouTube
If you consider them crapware, then there are no major mobile OS vendors who don't install crapware. This is identical to how all other phone OS vendors work where the OS vendor pre-installs apps as part of their ecosystem. It's not like they haven't done this in the past, so.that's the real double standard I would argue.
This is even true of Mac OS X as well, where I get notified constantly to upgrade to Mojave when I have no plans to do so.so that Apple can make my system slower and force me to upgrade my otherwise perfectly functional Mac. Same thing goes with App Store as well, which has no way to turn off upgrade notifications. Yet I get constantly harassed with upgrade to iCloud bullshit constantly. The photos app isn't crucial to my iPad's core functions. Not to mention the constant push to upgrade to Apple music on a system default app is unacceptable. The same logic applies to Apple's crappy music app as well. There is absolutely no way to even replace it. For example, I don't use Apple's photos app at all. I need to clarify - I'm not an Apple hater, I own an iPhone, 2 iPads, 2 Macbook Pros and a Mac Mini at the time of this comment.īut, this same logic can be applied to Apple as well. But if you already have an app on the phone that is capable of handling Word files, then there is some other problem.> That isn't really accurate, you're just defining "crapware" is such a way so that Google's apps don't qualify. Check these out on the Google Play Store. There are also Polaris Office and OfficeSuite, and of course MS Office itself. For Office files, I like Hancom Office Hword, but it looks like that may not be readily available anymore. So, to PVB, be sure you have an app on your phone that can open the attachment. I long-pressed on one of the attachments, and it opened in the app on my phone that I have designated as the default for Office documents. I then went to my phone and did a sync, and the note with the two attachment indicators was there. I just created a test note on my desktop and dragged 2 files into it, one. The key is that there must be an app on the phone capable of opening the file Evernote can't do it itself (any more than any other app could). I presume they are downloaded when you access them. I hate to disagree with the venerable gazumped, but in fact I can and do view and edit attachments on my Android phone.