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I have BestBye Wifi-only Flyer P512, rooted LeeDroid 2.2 ROM (Gingerbread).
I want to uninstall (remove) the following system applications:
Snapbooth
Latitiude
Places
Navigation
Location
Learn More (shortcut which leads to htc.com)
In almost 4 month of using Flyer I've never used them.
The problem is that Titanium Backup and other uninstall programs doesn't see those apps at all. They doesn't appear nor in User's App list not in System App list.
How to find and remove those apps?
root uninstaller might do it. requires root. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootuninstaller.free
sykozylot said:
root uninstaller might do it. requires root.
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The same result (
The only thing I can find with snapbooth in it is in system lib
libhtcsnapbooth.so
Best I can tell it is part of the gallery app. I have the HTC gallery app removed and I do not have snap booth
If you uninstall google maps you will get rid of a couple as well
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I removed Goggle Maps and then Places, Latitude, Navigation etc. disappeared.
Now I think about remove Gallery, but I use it sometimes.
Thank you!
You should be able to use an alternate app from the Market such as QuickPic (free) to view photos. This should allow you to remove the stock gallery and related apps like snapbooth.
Personally, I like QuickPic better anyway.
Yes, I liked Ouick Pic very much
It let me to create a shortcut on the desktop to the folder which contains cartoons my son watch. Now he access it with one click - that's great!
I don't need Gallery anymore so I removed it with Snapbooth and Connected Media
georgin said:
Yes, I liked Ouick Pic very much
It let me to create a shortcut on the desktop to the folder which contains cartoons my son watch. Now he access it with one click - that's great!
I don't need Gallery anymore so I removed it with Snapbooth and Connected Media
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Glad to hear it worked for you!
Hello
My thoughts, regarding the Android stock browser are very negative so I perhaps it can be removed too?
The flyer is the 4th tablet I have owned except, my first which, was an I pad.
Virtually, in every Android OS I have used, the stock browser has been very tedious and annoyingly, in my opinion unreliable. It's not urgent that it is pulled! However, when my Flyer's software is how I wish, It's very likely that, I won't hesitate in getting rid.
Bearing in mind the above, is it possible to pull this app cleanly and, then replace with say Dolphin or another?
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coolchippy said:
Hello
My thoughts, regarding the Android stock browser are very negative so I perhaps it can be removed too?
The flyer is the 4th tablet I have owned except, my first which, was an I pad.
Virtually, in every Android OS I have used, the stock browser has been very tedious and annoyingly, in my opinion unreliable. It's not urgent that it is pulled! However, when my Flyer's software is how I wish, It's very likely that, I won't hesitate in getting rid.
Bearing in mind the above, is it possible to pull this app cleanly and, then replace with say Dolphin or another?
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Yes it is however it would need to be done within one ADB Connection in order to prevent the app from FC'ing have you thought about trying a different ROM ?
Haaah Yh, my Flyer is gb s-off so need to goto hc, then i will try senseless .... Next the sence keyboard is slowly driving me nutty too...omg so that needs to go asap...but just setting up new dual boot desktop...when finished I will make the change to your Rom....iv heard it's very good...well done
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Hey everybody, I think that this question is going to pop up more often since yesterday (April 17) Time Warner Cable released updated version of their app that now allows you to stream live tv on your ICS device.
The problem is that they implemented a mechanism that checks if your tablet/phone was rooted, if it was they show you message that the app is not supported on rooted devices.
Is there a way to work around this? I would not mind unrooting my TP to test this app. How can this be achieved?
Thanks for any tips!
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Hey everybody, I think that this question is going to pop up more often since yesterday (April 17) Time Warner Cable released updated version of their app that now allows you to stream live tv on your ICS device.
The problem is that they implemented a mechanism that checks if your tablet/phone was rooted, if it was they show you message that the app is not supported on rooted devices.
Is there a way to work around this? I would not mind unrooting my TP to test this app. How can this be achieved?
Thanks for any tips!
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Same problem with Sky which I would like to use.
Try to set the root permissions to adb only in the settings. Its probably on adb and apps. Let me kw if it works cuz I might get the app then.
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Try the app permissions denied in the market and see if you can disable the root check.
Rootin' and fastbootin' on my Droid razr
kml.krk said:
Hey everybody, I think that this question is going to pop up more often since yesterday (April 17) Time Warner Cable released updated version of their app that now allows you to stream live tv on your ICS device.
The problem is that they implemented a mechanism that checks if your tablet/phone was rooted, if it was they show you message that the app is not supported on rooted devices.
Is there a way to work around this? I would not mind unrooting my TP to test this app. How can this be achieved?
Thanks for any tips!
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There is a patched TWC app that doesn't check for root. I found it in the Galaxy Nexus forums and have the apk for phone. Let me find the post and I'll put it up for everyone.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24975697
Works great for me, no issues what-so-ever.
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I changed the name of superuser.apk. Turned debugging off.
App starts fine. Can look through the guide and everything but black screen when I try to watch Live TV. No matter which channel I change to. I haven't seen this issue in any other thread yet. I just installed cm9 for first time, so its fresh.
edit: of course I found the answer a minute later after this post, after i searched for an hour. of course. i had to change test-keys to something else
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29685497&postcount=419
1) Use Root Explorer or a similar file explorer app to rename Superuser.apk to Su.apk
2) Open build.prop (/system/build.prop) with Root Explorer or a similar file explorer app and rename test-keys to dEris-badass (lol)
3) I left USB Debugging enabled (some need to disable this)
4) Log in and watch some TV =]
** You need a Time Warner subscription.
** You need to be connected to your home network via WiFi.
** I'm using the latest version that is in the Play Store today.
OTA Rootkeeper
Use this app to give temporary unroot http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1241517
Works with sky and TWC apps, just one click and your done
BIGSimon said:
Use this app to give temporary unroot http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1241517
Works with sky and TWC apps, just one click and your done
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That's what I use... Works with Flixster too!
Hi all
Create a cwm back up of your phone before trying this.
Found a app that actually hides root so that you can use google movie rentals/ skygo restrictions and any app that checks that you are rooted.
It temporary unroots the phone and can restore su after you finish film etc...
Make sure to Backup Root in the app.
This hasn't been tested yet on my wildfire as wife at work with it but will test soon as she home.
It does say works on some phones. If you want to test it before I do search google play for ''OTA RootKeeper'' Its the first app that actually does what it says for me well on my sg2.
Note if something goes wrong Su you can restore in app, failing that reflash a backup rom
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Hi all
Create a cwm back up of your phone before trying this.
Found a app that actually hides root so that you can use google movie rentals/ skygo restrictions and any app that checks that you are rooted.
It temporary unroots the phone and can restore su after you finish film etc...
Make sure to Backup Root in the app.
This hasn't been tested yet on my wildfire as wife at work with it but will test soon as she home.
It does say works on some phones. If you want to test it before I do search google play for ''OTA RootKeeper'' Its the first app that actually does what it says for me well on my sg2.
Note if something goes wrong Su you can restore in app, failing that reflash a backup rom
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Can anyone confirm this works? I don't have enough time to test at present but think this will be a VERY useful app! Thank you apollopayne!
sorry guys wife back and Ive tested it and cant get it to work :-(
Yeh I downloaded root checker then ran the backup but it did nothing I still had root.
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i tried this when skygo 1st came to android and it doesnt work.i found an alternative (hideroot) but it disabled my root altogether and the enable root option never gave me my root back, even the dev of the app was baffled and eventually stopped replying to my needs to regain root.it did however allow me to have a nandroid for my skygo needs.
something i never tested but its been mentioned over in the skygo thread is the supersu app which allows you to hide root also i believe but i never got round to testing it.
Thanks will try it
Can you keep us posted with the results about SuperSU?
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I have found this app is used on the Xperia range instead of standard SU app, any ideas why?
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Have I done it wrong or its just not working???!!
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Probably not working. Try supersu
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Ive used the latest super su free. And now google movies is working great now on wildfire and would imagine will be fine for skygo? will test once found the apk test one.
My job gives me a Samsing S4 from Verizon that is filled with bloat. I have to manually go in and disable everything which takes about 4 hours or so. I am looking for an app that can do it for me but it needs to be a well known app not something that somebody just posts an apk. Any auggestions?
We are not allowed to root the phones. It would be great if I could put a googe play edition or developer edition rom on it or something but I don't think that's possible.
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My job gives me a Samsing S4 from Verizon that is filled with bloat. I have to manually go in and disable everything which takes about 4 hours or so. I am looking for an app that can do it for me but it needs to be a well known app not something that somebody just posts an apk. Any auggestions?
We are not allowed to root the phones. It would be great if I could put a googe play edition or developer edition rom on it or something but I don't think that's possible.
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You will have to root your phone for all this. You can only flash stock rom on the device without rooting it.
What bloat wares are we talking about specifically? Do you mean all the S-voice/S-Note/Air gestures??
They can be activated and deactivated from the pull down menu. Other things need to be disabled manually!There is no work around this without root. You can try the widgets on the screen that allow you to disable wi-fi and bluetooth but its nothing new than what samsung offers from the pulldown menu
Hit thanks if this was helpful!
You should did root
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What, you mean you don't absolutely NEED NFL Mobile? And Verizon Navigator is so much better than Google Maps!
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You can't remove system apps without root. Clean Master has a function to remove bloat if you're rooted. I don't know if this is changed to disabling if you're not rooted, because my devices are rooted. I seem to remember a previous version of Clean Master had something like that. It merely took you to the app info scree, one at a time, but at least it did it sequentially instead of you having to hunt for each one on your own. Maybe that still exists.
Since Android 4.1, many bloatware type apps can just be disabled via the the built-in Application Manager in your Settings app. Disabling it will hide it from the launcher and make it so it does not run, essentially doing the same thing as uninstalling it. It is better this way because some phones will not properly update if something is modified or removed from the /system partition. Also worth noting in regards to this as it is a popular misconception, removing these unwanted apps will not provide you with more usable storage as they are contained in /system/app and the apps you install via the Play Store or 3rd party sources will only install to /data/app unless rooted and moved.
That being said, TowelRoot is a newer rooting method for many newer phones running 4.4+(especially Galaxies like the S4 and Note 3). This root method is done via an app on the phone and only takes seconds and does not trip Knox. You could root, freeze what you needed and then unroot without anyone the wiser, though, of course, this is done at your own risk - like any other mod.
lpimpale said:
You will have to root your phone for all this. You can only flash stock rom on the device without rooting it.
What bloat wares are we talking about specifically? Do you mean all the S-voice/S-Note/Air gestures??
They can be activated and deactivated from the pull down menu. Other things need to be disabled manually!There is no work around this without root. You can try the widgets on the screen that allow you to disable wi-fi and bluetooth but its nothing new than what samsung offers from the pulldown menu
Hit thanks if this was helpful!
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How do I flash stock roms without rooting?
As I mentioned every time I need to do a factory reset it takes about 4 hours of disabling things to get it to the state I want.
There's this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2058944
xda'dra said:
You should did root
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I can't.
Planterz said:
What, you mean you don't absolutely NEED NFL Mobile? And Verizon Navigator is so much better than Google Maps!
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You can't remove system apps without root. Clean Master has a function to remove bloat if you're rooted. I don't know if this is changed to disabling if you're not rooted, because my devices are rooted. I seem to remember a previous version of Clean Master had something like that. It merely took you to the app info scree, one at a time, but at least it did it sequentially instead of you having to hunt for each one on your own. Maybe that still exists.
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Thanks.
es0tericcha0s said:
Since Android 4.1, many bloatware type apps can just be disabled via the the built-in Application Manager in your Settings app. Disabling it will hide it from the launcher and make it so it does not run, essentially doing the same thing as uninstalling it. It is better this way because some phones will not properly update if something is modified or removed from the /system partition. Also worth noting in regards to this as it is a popular misconception, removing these unwanted apps will not provide you with more usable storage as they are contained in /system/app and the apps you install via the Play Store or 3rd party sources will only install to /data/app unless rooted and moved.
That being said, TowelRoot is a newer rooting method for many newer phones running 4.4+(especially Galaxies like the S4 and Note 3). This root method is done via an app on the phone and only takes seconds and does not trip Knox. You could root, freeze what you needed and then unroot without anyone the wiser, though, of course, this is done at your own risk - like any other mod.
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Yes you can disable them but it takes about 4 hours to do it each time. There's a lot of them. About 95% of stuff needs to be disabled.
Towelroot looks great unfortunately I am not able to root the phone. They don't use knox. I can do anything but root the phone really. I really just want vanilla android I'm a bit sick of touchwiz. I'd love to just flash to the developer edition or something.
bird11 said:
My job gives me a Samsing S4 from Verizon that is filled with bloat. I have to manually go in and disable everything which takes about 4 hours or so. I am looking for an app that can do it for me but it needs to be a well known app not something that somebody just posts an apk. Any auggestions?
We are not allowed to root the phones. It would be great if I could put a googe play edition or developer edition rom on it or something but I don't think that's possible.
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The S4s bootloader is locked so basically not a lot to choose from. And as others have mentioned you need root to gain access to remove bloatware. Sadly samsung phones on VZW are filled with it as well as many other phones, it's not limited to just samsung.
And navigator may be better than Google maps but maps is free and having been a former user of both NFL mobile (when it was free) and navigator I'm happy I got rid of both of them
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bird11 said:
How do I flash stock roms without rooting?
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You can't flash any ROM without rooting, and aren't you already on stock?
I think you're gonna have to just live with it...
el-figurin said:
You can't flash any ROM without rooting, and aren't you already on stock?
I think you're gonna have to just live with it...
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I'm almost sure they are on stock as its a work phone and mentioned in the first post that they aren't allowed to root
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ShapesBlue said:
I'm almost sure they are on stock as its a work phone and mentioned in the first post that they aren't allowed to root
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Yes, not much to do with those restrictions...
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Yes, not much to do with those restrictions...
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That's very true. Some people however don't know you need root to remove bloatware or unneeded apps
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I've tried several apps that hide root, and none work. Does anyone have any idea of the right way to get HBO Now working on a rooted device? My device is a Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2 running a custom rom.
The apps I've tried:
Hide My root (Can't even run on my device, fails to hide su, seems to work best on HTC devices?)
Hide Rooting Lite (acts like it works but doesn't)
RootCloak Plus (Cydia) I've added the app, rebooted and it still doesn't work.
Anyone gotten this working on a samsung device of any kind?
I was going to focus on hardware specific forum but really this is a more generic issue at least on the surface, how to hide root from an app.
Thanks for any suggestions.
I just tried Hide My Root and it didn't work.
I'm running a T-mobile HTC One M7 with ARHD 91.1 and also tried RootCloak.
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I've got HBO Now working on my rooted Note 3 (AT&T).
First, I installed HBO Now and tried to watch a movie, which failed with the "rooted device" message. That lead me here, which got me worried.
Second, I installed Root Cloak via Xposed, went into Settings - General - Application Manager and cleared the data to HBO Now, rebooted. Tried to watch another movie which failed.
Finally, I installed Hide My Root and chose "Hide su binary", stopped HBO Now and cleared the data again. To test, I tried to navigate to / via Root Explorer which told me I wasn't rooted. I loaded HBO Now back up and was able to start watching a movie right away.
I'm guessing there are different root methods that can or cannot be hidden. If this didn't work I had planned to use a dual boot to install a non-rooted stock ROM, since my kernel itself is rooted (i.e. I didn't root via app).
I pretty much did the same thing. Had the HBO app stopped and data cleared. Hide the su binary and then logged back into HBO app. For a moment I thought it was working as the video played longer than before. But after about a minute it came back with the rooted error.
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Hide my root worked for me on my Galaxy Tab S 10.5.
Hide Rooting Lite worked for me on my HTC One M8 (Sprint) with GPE Rom installed.
elionchaos said:
Hide Rooting Lite worked for me on my HTC One M8 (Sprint) with GPE Rom installed.
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Is this the app you're referring https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.formyhm.hideroot
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I think that's the one he was talking about. Alas, it didn't work on my HTC One m7, from Verizon.
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Is this the app you're referring https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.formyhm.hideroot
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As mentioned above, this worked for me... Installed Hide My Root and granted it root permissions, hid su binary via Hide My Root, cleared data for HBO Now, and that was it. HBO Now worked fine (other apps needing root would not work while su was hidden of course). After testing I used Hide My Root to restore su binary, and things were back to normal, although I did have to re-grant root access to applications which previously had it (not a bit deal IMO). I'll need to do more testing during this trial period, but maybe I'll keep HBO Now after all.
Oh, and I should have mentioned I don't have Xposed installed yet, so I didn't do that step at all, just used Hide My Root. It worked on my Nexus 6 and Nexus 9.
Tried Hide Rooting Lite and still no luck.
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elionchaos said:
Hide Rooting Lite worked for me on my HTC One M8 (Sprint) with GPE Rom installed.
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Thanks this works perfectly for me also on GPE!
None of the hide root apps mentioned earlier have worked for me on my rooted Nexus 10. The apps themselves are working, as attempts to modify system apps in Root Explorer don't work because of a lack of root privileges, but when I play videos in the HBO app they fail. Not sure what else to do here.
Well, it didn't work on my Verizon HTC One (m7), using a GPE ROM from Santod. Are you using a custom GPE rom, or the stock one which came with the phone, just rooted?
Jodiuh said:
Thanks this works perfectly for me also on GPE!
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Sorry if this is against forum rules, but I want to bump this thread. I can't get any of the root hiding apps to block HBO. I've tried on my nexus 7, kindle fire (CM 10) with no luck on either
For anybody wanting to use it with Chromecast, and controlled by your rooted phone, you can.
Make sure to click on the Chromecast icon BEFORE trying to start the stream. Once you see the HBO Now icon on your TV screen, you can start the video on your smartphone/tablet and it won't complain about your phone being rooted.
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Robertjm said:
For anybody wanting to use it with Chromecast, and controlled by your rooted phone, you can.
Make sure to click on the Chromecast icon BEFORE trying to start the stream. Once you see the HBO Now icon on your TV screen, you can start the video on your smartphone/tablet and it won't complain about your phone being rooted.
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You made my night! Awesome! I only wanted it to control my chromecast. I've returned my nexus to stock to watch on the go.
Robertjm said:
For anybody wanting to use it with Chromecast, and controlled by your rooted phone, you can.
Make sure to click on the Chromecast icon BEFORE trying to start the stream. Once you see the HBO Now icon on your TV screen, you can start the video on your smartphone/tablet and it won't complain about your phone being rooted.
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This has worked for me so far, been playing for about 5 minutes with no rooted phone notification.
Who knows the next thing HBO will block playback on, but for now it's working!
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