Blame the carrier then, mine is unlocked direct from Samsung and doesn’t have Facebook or anything like that. Once it hooked in to a carrier for the first time it installed the carrier apps but any and all are removable and don’t come back after.
Unless you’re defining bloat as anything but AOSP in which case I don’t want to talk to you.
Because the sound will be different. The amp is going to put substantially more bass in it. I could fiddle with the sound controls, sure, but a push button to make it be just right is easier and faster to switch between.
I’m going to hook it up like a normal person first so maybe I won’t even get back to doing this, but it was an idea I wanted to explore.
It could still have branded firmware even if it isn’t carrier locked though. Did you buy it directly from Samsung as an unbranded unlocked phone?