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Re: How many apps do you have installed & what is your internal memory?

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knuttle wrote:
> How many of those 1000 apps do you use in a week?

That's a good question, where I am one of the most organized computer users
you'll ever meet in your entire life - on both desktop & mobile platforms.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/fW38dhsX/android-windows-menus.jpg> My Menus Today

Every computer, for decades, & every phone, has the same standard hierarchy
since you do the same things on desktops as you do on mobile devices, as
the folders and menus are organized by what the programs/apps do for you.
Row 1: time, telecom ... buy, files 
Row 2: network, web... nature, maps
Row 3: pictures, audio & video
Row 4: todo
Row 5: sensor
Row 6: apk
Row 7: system

So all the most-used apps are in the home page in orderly folders (same as
with the Windows desktop) where I keep ordering them as I use them most.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/fT2J40RD/windows-cascade-menu.jpg> Windows browsers

> How many have you not used in the last year?-+*

It's a great question, where I test software a lot, e.g., I've tested every
free app ever suggested on these newsgroups but I don't always delete them.

I give every app one strike and they're out, but if they pass that test,
then I may or may not delete the app after I am done testing it for us.

I looked up how to test for the Android UsageStats database which is only
accessible if the device grants the PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS permission to an
app (or we can figure out how to pull the raw database from the phone).

This is apparently the command to dump the current usage stats:
 C:\> adb shell dumpsys usagestats
      This dumped a lot of JSON-like text with entries of the form:
       First used -> firstTimeStamp
       Last used -> lastTimeUsed
       Most/least used -> totalTimeInForeground

There are ways to hone that long statistics output log though:
 C:\> adb shell dumpsys usagestats daily
 C:\> adb shell dumpsys usagestats weekly

It's really crippling that you can't do anything like this with iOS.
It's amazing how brain dead iOS is in that it is a toy in all ways.

Anyway, on a real operating system (not a toy operating system like iOS),
you can run a command such as this one to
 a. Pull usage stats from the device.
 b. Filter only package= and totalTimeInForeground lines.
 c. Pair each package with its total foreground time.
 d. Sort by usage time (highest first).
 e. Show the top 10 most-used apps.

 C:\> powershell
 PS\> adb shell dumpsys usagestats | Select-String -Pattern "package=", "lastTimeUsed" | ForEach-Object { $_.ToString().Trim() } | ForEach-Object -Begin { $pkg = "" } -Process { if ($_ -like "package=*") { $pkg = ($_ -split "=")[1] } elseif ($_ -like "lastTimeUsed*") { $time = ($_ -split "=")[1]; [PSCustomObject]@{ Package = $pkg; LastUsed = [datetime]::ParseExact($time, "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", $null) } } } | Sort-Object LastUsed -Descending | Select-Object -First 10

Here is a PowerShell one-liner version that will give us the most recently
used apps (sorted by lastTimeUsed) from adb shell dumpsys usagestats on an
unrooted Android device. 

What it will do is
 a. Pull usage stats from your phone.
 b. Filter only package= and lastTimeUsed lines.
 c. Pair each package with its last-used timestamp.
 d. Sort by most recent first.
 e. Show the top 10.

 C:\> powershell
 PS:\> adb shell dumpsys usagestats | Select-String -Pattern "package=", "lastTimeUsed" | ForEach-Object { $_.ToString().Trim() } | ForEach-Object -Begin { $pkg = "" } -Process { if ($_ -like "package=*") { $pkg = ($_ -split "=")[1] } elseif ($_ -like "lastTimeUsed*") { $time = ($_ -split "=")[1]; [PSCustomObject]@{ Package = $pkg; LastUsed = [datetime]::ParseExact($time, "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", $null) } } } | Sort-Object LastUsed -Descending | Select-Object -First 10

Note: If we want least recently used instead, all we need to do is change
-Descending to -Ascending.

> Other than those that came on my Moto G Pure, I have installed less that 
> a dozen apps on my phone. 

Ah. That's good to know as it helps all of us to see what our friends on
this newsgroup have installed on their devices. With this information we
can make better decisions, which is why we're always asking questions.

> Some of the MFG Installed apps I have 
> removed, as I never used them, or have no idea what they do.

Yes. I removed all the Samsung-supplied bloatware that I could remove. 
Many people don't know you can remove YouTube, Chrome, etc. also.
You replace them with the FOSS more-functional replacement apps such as
Aurora & NewPipe & Bromite/Chromite & FairEmail & PulseSMS, etc.

> If I never use an app, it is uninstalled.

The good news is on unrooted Android, you can uninstall almost any app from
the user partition, which makes it great to get rid of Google spyware.
 C:\> adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.vending
And, the beauty of Android, which iOS couldn't possibly match, is that you
can re-install any app any time you want simply by running a command.
 C:\> adb shell cmd package install-existing com.android.vending


Android always saves the original installer; iOS never does. 
Worse, it's impossible on iOS to get the original installer back, 
unless it's in the current App Store (which it almost never will be).

You can find the original installer on Android by running this command.
 C:\> adb shell pm list packages -f
That will show the APK path before the package name, so you can tell if
it's in /system (pre-installed) or /data (user-installed).

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How many apps do you have installed & what is your internal memory? Marion <marionf@fact.com> - 2025-09-15 21:15 +0000
  Re: How many apps do you have installed & what is your internal memory? knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-09-15 17:57 -0400
    Re: How many apps do you have installed & what is your internal memory? Marion <marionf@fact.com> - 2025-09-15 23:26 +0000
    Re: How many apps do you have installed & what is your internal memory? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-09-15 17:07 -0700
  Re: How many apps do you have installed & what is your internal memory? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-09-15 23:09 +0000
    Re: How many apps do you have installed & what is your internal memory? Marion <marionf@fact.com> - 2025-09-16 00:08 +0000
  Re: How many apps do you have installed & what is your internal memory? JJ <jj4public@outlook.com> - 2025-09-16 08:10 +0700
    Re: How many apps do you have installed & what is your internal memory? Marion <marionf@fact.com> - 2025-09-16 02:00 +0000
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