Hello
I have rooted my phone and uninstalled many apps
Lately I've noticed 3rd parts sony erricson apps re-appear in the "Manage applications"
Things like timescape, creatouch and touchpal
The odd thing is they are 0bytes
How do I stop them from re-installing?
I cant garuntee this will work BUT inside the data/apps folder there is all the data from the apps installed, roadsync wouldnt get uninstalled untill I deleted this folder
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Hi,
you must delete the app not easy but they have copy of it first to / data / app and then you can uninstall it normally.
Thus, the entries disappear.
Sorry for my bad English.
Greeting dollasmike
I did copy the file to the /data/app directory
and I did uninstall it like all the other apps that dont re-appear
i have deleted files in the /data/data/ directory
My definition of reappearing is after I have uninstalled my app and deleted everything, I restart my phon the app is gone
It does not show up anywhere, it is not anywhere
It is not in any /data directory
I can not find it anywhere,
I am happy
It is not present in the "Manage applications"
Later on it re-appears in the "Manage applications" as a 0byte app
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Hello, i tryed to install androir stock calendar.
i deleted calendar, calendarprovider and semccalendar vanilla or somethink like that
now i cannot install the stock calendar and calendarprovider.apk
can anyone help?
i can use ADB to install id (with rootexplorer i cannot copy the files to system/app even it i am rooted
Help please
Did you delete apps from system/app or moved to /data/app and then uninstalled it?
The correct way to remove default apps is to move then from system/app to data/app, reboot and the uninstall it opening settings/manage applications.
If you just deleted apps from system, its better to repair your phone with SEUS and remove stock apps with correct way. Believe me, I removed apps before without uninstalling then and system was sucking my battery very fast. Just make a repair, uninstalled things correctly and now my phone is so much better.
Wat is the need of removing the app make backup of that and replace wid the android default calendar...
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Yes i think i have deleted directly from System/app :-(
but i think there is a way to install it with ADB no?
maybe i can put original SE calendar and remove again the correct way?
I didn't try it, but I think u can...
mclaudio said:
Yes i think i have deleted directly from System/app :-(
but i think there is a way to install it with ADB no?
maybe i can put original SE calendar and remove again the correct way?
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Did the "rm /system/app/Candendar.apk" and wondered why it didn't work.
The system keeps some files in memory and they survive the "rm" command. Fixed this by doing;
1. Setting> Applications > Manage Applications and removing all calendar named apps, (there were about 4 still including com.sonyericsson.calandar!)
2. Restart phone.
3. Copy standard Calendar and CalandarProvider across (I used scp and dropbear, you could do the same with adb or rootexplorer) Files are here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9434204&postcount=2
4. Restart phone. (I didn't need to run the "install" command, files were "chmod 644" already)
Now have the standard calendar rather than the SE calendar!
Solved ! thanks
Hi,
I have transformed CoolReader into system app with Titanium backup. It was crashing so I tried to move it back to user app again with Titanium backup. However during this procedure TB hanged and after some 20 minutes I killed it. I later tried to uninstall it (again with TB), but it seems that there are still left parts of it somewhere so now I am unable to reinstall the app from google play (error 491) or if I clear cache and data of google play and force the application to install it keeps crashing.
So I would like to ask what should I delete to completely eliminate the traces of CoolReader (or any application in general) and be able to install it again?
I'm not sure if this will work but give it a shot.
Try finding an apk of your app and, using Root Explorer, paste it in /system/app (remember to mount /system as RW using Root Explorer). Set permissions (All read, owner-write, owner-execute) and reboot. That should register the app as a system app.
Go back into /system/app and delete it. Reboot and it should unregister it as a system app, allowing you to reinstall from Google Play
Hello guys.
I want to know if there is a way that I can completely uninstall an application from phone system. And I don't mean the default uninstall.
After an uninstall there are always some app's files left behind. How can I find them and delete them? Or is there an application that we can uninstall all the files of a game for example with just clicking "uninstall"??
Thanks for your help
Try SD Maid from play store.
And look at system/app for .odex files from apps you have removed.
Which sometimes remain behind.
"Debloater" from market removes all app files also dalvik.just press yes to reboot after deleting system apps and all is gone..
without root???
zodiaxe66 said:
"Debloater" from market removes all app files also dalvik.just press yes to reboot after deleting system apps and all is gone..
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is there a chance that i can do it without rooting my device?
Hello,
I have removed one of the pre-installed apps from a Sharp Docomo SH-12C (Android 2.3.3). It is nothing vital, and does not affect system performance - an E-book reader app: jp.co.sharp.exapps.
First I updated the app, then integrated the update in /system/app - but it would crash on reboot, so I decided to get rid of it.
Unistalling didn't seem to wipe all data. I tried reinstalling but got a "Failed" message. Then I manually deleted the .apk and the .odex from /system/app.
The app name (jp.co.sharp.exapps), however, would still appear in the list of installed apps when viewed from Settings > Manage Applications. Eventually, I managed to "completely" remove it using ES File Manager's app manager.
But now I notice that some app info still exists in /data/system/packages.xml:
Code:
<updated-package name="jp.co.sharp.exapps" codePath="/system/app/EBook.apk" ft="14011d59a10" it="14011d59a10" ut="14011d59a10" version="2500" nativeLibraryPath="/data/data/jp.co.sharp.exapps/lib" userId="10062">
<perms />
</updated-package>
.....
<shared-user name="jp.co.sharp.exapps" userId="10062">
<perms />
</shared-user>
I tried manually editing these off the file but the file gets restored on reboot.
I have deleted the folder and its contents from /data/data.
How does this info get written to packages.xml? Can I find the source and delete the app info from there?
I suspect that Sharp have implemented some extra security mechanism to their phones so that people can't simply freeze or delete system apps but have no idea what it might be. For example, if you freeze even one built-in app, and do a factory reset, the phone will go into a boot loop. I believe the same happens if you uninstall a system/app.
Ideas appreciated!
Did you trying deleting the package.xml file then wipe cache and dalvik cache?
i got same problem.Did you managed to solve it?
That persist on Android 11.
Hello. I'm not very experienced with android and recently got a new z ultra (6802). I think it came with 4.4.2 or 4.4.3 i'm not sure, but as soon as i turned it on i was notified to update to 4.4.4. All went well and one of the first apps i installed was clean master. I hadnt tried to root the phone and i was thinking about it mostly in order to get rid of some preinstalled apps, but i found out that clean master had an option to "deactivate" them so they disappeared and all was fine. The last few weeks i loaded the phone with all sorts of useless stuff i wanted to try, and today i tried rooting it using this tool and everything worked ok. Then i did a hard reset and started setting everything up again... But this time clean master, root app delete and 2 other apps of the same type wouldnt uninstall system apps (despite having root access now). Any ideas on what to do? Is it because of the root - should i try to unroot it? Where can i find these ftfs needed? I saw some in the forum but they are for 6833..
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Hello. I'm not very experienced with android and recently got a new z ultra (6802). I think it came with 4.4.2 or 4.4.3 i'm not sure, but as soon as i turned it on i was notified to update to 4.4.4. All went well and one of the first apps i installed was clean master. I hadnt tried to root the phone and i was thinking about it mostly in order to get rid of some preinstalled apps, but i found out that clean master had an option to "deactivate" them so they disappeared and all was fine. The last few weeks i loaded the phone with all sorts of useless stuff i wanted to try, and today i tried rooting it using this tool and everything worked ok. Then i did a hard reset and started setting everything up again... But this time clean master, root app delete and 2 other apps of the same type wouldnt uninstall system apps (despite having root access now). Any ideas on what to do? Is it because of the root - should i try to unroot it? Where can i find these ftfs needed? I saw some in the forum but they are for 6833..
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Well, clean master is one of the app I hate most. Killing app processes frequently and clearing app caches are the bad ideas for android devices because android system always try to restart apps everytime you kill. So it greatly reduces battery life. Clearing caches can make apps to start slowly.
That's not the point, right? But just a suggestion not to use task killers and cache cleaner if you have enough RAM and storage space.
Ok now for your problem not uninstalling system apps,
-Install ES File Explorer
-Tap the upper left of the app (three striped shape)
-Tap Tools, Tap Root Explorer (not on the button "On") giving/allowing/authorize root access
-Now Tap Mount R/W and choose every partition as R/W then Tap OK
-Let's get back to explorer, Tap the upper left box labelled as "/" (it will redirect you to root of the Device)
-Go to "system" folder in explorer
-There are two folders in Kitkat, namely "app" and "priv-app"
You can now choose apps to be uninstalled that you couldn't uninstall inside these folders by removing any apps (and .odex files) by Long pressing on apps and choose multi apps at once.
For me, I don't delete apps that I wanted to uninstall but I cut them and create a new folder on sd card and paste them all in that new folder for later needs (you can navigate to internal or external storage from the upper right box of the Explorer, to create new folder, tap on the button with "+" sign at the bottom left corner of the app). Don't delete apps that you don't know well because doing so can prevent your device from booting up.
P.S. You can also install apps as system ones in that reverse way (copy, paste from external to system/app). Remember not to include space in the name of the app you wanted to install as system.
Remember to restart the devices after moving/deleting apps.
I think you now understand how to do. Good Luck, mate.
Thanks for taking the time to help! and es file explorer looks like a really nice app. i followed your instructions and moved some of the apk and matching odex to sd card. the problem is the apps didnt dissapear from the list and as soon as i was done play store was downloading new versions of the apps i moved... what i dont understand is why it worked in the first place when it was new! could it be the sony firmware it came with? since this failed, is there an app to freeze these things?
cost3225 said:
Thanks for taking the time to help! and es file explorer looks like a really nice app. i followed your instructions and moved some of the apk and matching odex to sd card. the problem is the apps didnt dissapear from the list and as soon as i was done play store was downloading new versions of the apps i moved... what i dont understand is why it worked in the first place when it was new! could it be the sony firmware it came with? since this failed, is there an app to freeze these things?
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One thing I left to say that you must restart your device as soon as you finish moving/deleting system apps. After rebooting, the device system will delete app leftovers. It will solve your problem of not disappearing from the list.