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I wanted to know if there is somewhere or some way to get android os with out all the extra stuff from bell and motorola.
MCWood said:
I wanted to know if there is somewhere or some way to get android os with out all the extra stuff from bell and motorola.
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Wrong place to post this. This belongs in Q&A section....
Again should be in Q&A.
This is for ATT but you can get a general idea. If you download a 3rd party launcher and correctly freeze motoblur you can get what you are looking for.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=972459
What I was really hoping for is a striped down ROM instead of freezing the features.
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What I was really hoping for is a striped down ROM instead of freezing the features.
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you can remove allot of bloatware from the phone with titanium backup however if you remove the files any OTA will fail to install
Uh gingerblur.....duh
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What I was really hoping for is a striped down ROM instead of freezing the features.
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The famed zebra ROM?
No ROMs for this phone due to a locked bootloader. We have a pseudo ROM - Gingerblur.
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Uh gingerblur.....duh
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Funny only if you read that first line for gingerblur its not meant for the bell version.
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Funny only if you read that first line for gingerblur its not meant for the bell version.
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At the moment the freezing method is the only option for the Bell Atrix.
Here's a link to Bell specific things you can safely freeze http://canadroid.com/2011/03/20/removing-moto-blur-from-your-bell-motorola-atrix/
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Thats what I was looking at unfortunately everyone who had tried had bricked the phone.
is anyone aware if freezing these apps gets the email client back to regular android?
If you brick it you can ever reflash a stock SBF simply rebooting it in BL Mode (RSD Downloader), using your PC, a brain, an usb cable and RSD Lite...
...and an Atrix SBF, of course.
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If you brick it you can ever reflash a stock SBF simply rebooting it in BL Mode (RSD Downloader), using your PC, a brain, an usb cable and RSD Lite...
...and an Atrix SBF, of course.
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Except that we don't have a Bell SBF at the moment
it's pretty funny people telling him to read/flash gingerblur or use a stock .sbf
too bad almost none of the developments made so far regarding bloat apply to bell
freezing manually is really a bell user's only option ATM.
I have manually gone through and frozen most of the bell preloaded stuff but the big thing I want off is the Motorola email client and back up services.
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I have manually gone through and frozen most of the bell preloaded stuff but the big thing I want off is the Motorola email client and back up services.
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i have Email 2.2.1 and Universal Inbox 2.2.1 frozen, no issues. Not sure if that's the email apps you're talking about though.
Did you have yip use a third party one our does that put it back to stock?
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Did you have yip use a third party one our does that put it back to stock?
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No 3rd party. I am using the Gmail app. I did however also test the Corporate Sync and it still worked fine.
So I froze the email 2.2 application and when I open any of my email accounts it just closes and takes me back to the home screen.
Can anyone help me out getting rid of blur in my phone or pointing me to a thread that has these instructions? Looking forward to having a blur-less DX2.....thanks
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Eclipse! New version will be coming out soon. Blurless and simply wonderful
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I've heard a lot about it.....the only thing is that I really don't wanna do a factory reset.....Im assuming there's no way around it eh?
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whiplash473 said:
I've heard a lot about it.....the only thing is that I really don't wanna do a factory reset.....Im assuming there's no way around it eh?
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Nope...if you start flashing roms and playing with this kinda stuff get used to factory resets...not trying to put you off but when you start getting into roms ect..the benefits outweigh having to redo your phone. Its a pain and it always seems like once you have your phone just the way you want it a new rom or something comes out. Just do a nandroid backup in recovery that way if you don't like it you can revert back to the way your phone was setup the way you had it. That way you always have a backup.
Try titanium backup. It'll let you backup your settings before you wrote your phone.
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Try titanium backup. It'll let you backup your settings before you wrote your phone.
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Don't listen to him. Never restore settings. This causes a lot of problems. You can do it for Apps, but not the Apps and their data. That sometimes causes problems too.
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dust. said:
Eclipse! New version will be coming out soon. Blurless and simply wonderful
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Eclipse is super clean and super fast.
Well there's very few things that im worried about losing but my calender (pure grid calender) is one that I don't wanna lose.....I emailed the dev and asked if there was a way to back it up so im waiting for an email back on that.....I have my apps backed up via titanium backup free and sticky notes I can just write down or something.....I ran minimal x immediately when it came out so I have some experience with Rom's but no where near calling myself a pro.....so with eclipse will I flash it the same way as I did with MinX?
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I use Pure Grid Calendar... have for over a year.. across the D1 and the X2 I have flashed my phone so many times I couldnt even begin to make up a number.... NEVER.. lost my calendar info. Its synched into google. Auto restores when you go thru setup after flashing the ROM
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Don't listen to him. Never restore settings. This causes a lot of problems. You can do it for Apps, but not the Apps and their data. That sometimes causes problems too.
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Bah, Hog wash.
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I use Pure Grid Calendar... have for over a year.. across the D1 and the X2 I have flashed my phone so many times I couldnt even begin to make up a number.... NEVER.. lost my calendar info. Its synched into google. Auto restores when you go thru setup after flashing the ROM
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Is that a setting in pure grid or something?
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no, pure grid, if you will remember, asks you on setup which calendar you want to use. By default, its set to the google one. SO, you set your phone up and the calendar syncs.. then you install pure grid again and it grabs the already synched google calendar.. thats all google.
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Bah, Hog wash.
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I agree. I 've been backing up my apps and their data with Titanium Backup since I started flashing roms and have had no problems...
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@xkape - yeah I haven't had to reinstall it in so long I just forgot I guess.....thanks tho
@dust - I haven't had any problems with TB so ill continue to use it.....might use nandroid as well just as a safeguard and cuz I've heard a lot about it
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dust. said:
I agree. I 've been backing up my apps and their data with Titanium Backup since I started flashing roms and have had no problems...
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Apps and data across updates to these rom has always been fine. Going across versions (froyo/gb etc) has been known to causes issues, as well as settings. The settings issue is widely accepted as a way to introduce bugs. You'd know this if you'd been flashing roms for longer than a few weeks.
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I don't want to start a whole thing here...yes titanium is a great program but i have run into problems with it not restoring properly and causing some problems. I always prefer to just do a fresh install if im backed into a corner, but Titanium works great but i ran into some issues with it not restoring settings/accounts causing FC and ghost email accounts that could not be removed. Maybe its just me i used it a couple of times and it worked but it just didn't seem like a clean restore for some reason. Again just giving opinion here not trying to start anything...**Opinion Only**
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@xkape - yeah I haven't had to reinstall it in so long I just forgot I guess.....thanks tho
@dust - I haven't had any problems with TB so ill continue to use it.....might use nandroid as well just as a safeguard and cuz I've heard a lot about it
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Nandroid is seriously best thing u could EVER do before flashing or at any point for that matter. If there is ever a point where u say damn I really like how my phone is righteous now. Wish I could get back here if something ever messes up. Then just go into recovery using system recovery app and make ur nandroid. I keep em on external sd card cuz there's more space for plenty of em. And then I use root explorer and rename or add on something to the name of the backup so I don't forget which one it is when im restoring it. When u male a nandroid it automatically puts the date and time of creation as the file name.
Trust me. Nandroid will save your butt on occasion if u flash ANYTHING. Its awesome to just press restore and presto your right back where u were.
Not a TB fan here... just a personal preferences...
Best way I've found to get back up quickly is... having the rom auto download your apps and when its done, go into recovery and do an advanced restore. Then choose data only. That's assuming you made a backup of course.
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Would it be too much to ask for someone to walk me thru flashing this?
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Check the stickies.. theres instructions for flashing stuff... also, just so you know, the Eclipse ROM is not one of the ROMs that auto downloads your apps. You will need to do that yourself then do the data resotre.. if you are going that route. If you are using TB, you can restore it all but.. I dont use it so I have no clue how to do that.
when you sbf back to 2.2.2, 2.3.3, or 2.3.4 does your phone not have any evidence (if thats the right word)?
I was just thinking about that sorry for the dumb question
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ztotherad said:
when you sbf back to 2.2.2, 2.3.3, or 2.3.4 does your phone not have any evidence (if thats the right word)?
I was just thinking about that sorry for the dumb question
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Any previous data I'm assuming? No. Fully stock like it came out of the box.
That isn't fully true, you still have to do a system/data wipe. And some of your info backed up on your SD card will reappear. But as far as apps, etc, etc.. you will have to go through the hellatious setup process, unless you have it all backed up.
Well what about being root?
would that still show evidence of the exploit that is being ran?
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Nope, SBF kills root. Trying to send it in on insurance/warranty?
You are gonna want to data wipe and "clean up" internal storage just to be safe on clearing root evidence ...haven't heard of any 300dollar charges for previous rooted phones being sent in.
Sbf overwrites some /system partition. Im sure there may be some way to find out if u ever have rooted but it PROLLY isn't worth the time/process it takes to find those traces.
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You are gonna want to data wipe and "clean up" internal storage just to be safe on clearing root evidence ...haven't heard of any 300dollar charges for previous rooted phones being sent in.
Sbf overwrites some /system partition. Im sure there may be some way to find out if u ever have rooted but it PROLLY isn't worth the time/process it takes to find those traces.
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If he sends it in on Warranty VZW will tell him eat it if it's rooted. BUT if he sends it to Asurion on Warranty they won't care.
noo, just a random question that i figured someone knew the answer too, btw, thanks guys
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No problem!
Even a data wipe doesn't clear everything I've noticed. If you truly want to remove evidence you need to manually delete all the rom zips and bootstrap apk, and any nandroid backups. I mean, they can't prove you ran them but if your serious about removing evidence. Furthermore, I've heard from a true tech geek friend (I will see if I can find a link to back up) Verizon can send a push to your phone and depending on how your phone reacts, they can tell if it is rooted.
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Even a data wipe doesn't clear everything I've noticed. If you truly want to remove evidence you need to manually delete all the rom zips and bootstrap apk, and any nandroid backups. I mean, they can't prove you ran them but if your serious about removing evidence. Furthermore, I've heard from a true tech geek friend (I will see if I can find a link to back up) Verizon can send a push to your phone and depending on how your phone reacts, they can tell if it is rooted.
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It's called an su command. My work does it when you connect to their network.
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I saw something about that before. Heck. Google doesn't let u watch market movies if ur rooted. ((Btw that altered google videos all DOES work...it changes the su check command)
Im sure one day there will be a lawsuit similar to the one against apple about jailbreaking that users that root will WIN based on the precedent set in that case.
Not to mention the phone is supposed to be "open source" anyways. It is just like a car, while it is under warranty only the dealer is supposed to put on OEM upgrade equipment otherwise it is voided, which is part of the reason you carry insurance. And we BUY our phones, not rent/lease them.
About that su command push. I can't for the life of me think of what it is called, but I am pretty sure that is against the law. Not for your work when you join it's network since I assume they are verifying your identity, or the PC, but for them to randomly check if you are rooted.
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About that su command push. I can't for the life of me think of what it is called, but I am pretty sure that is against the law. Not for your work when you join it's network since I assume they are verifying your identity, or the PC, but for them to randomly check if you are rooted.
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I work for a bank. With the right knowledge, and root, you can get some sensitive information. My phone was banned.
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AtLemacks said:
About that su command push. I can't for the life of me think of what it is called, but I am pretty sure that is against the law. Not for your work when you join it's network since I assume they are verifying your identity, or the PC, but for them to randomly check if you are rooted.
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I doubt its random, its probably more like if they try to push an update or soak test they check for root first, I've never got an update pushed to me. If you're rooted I would be shocked if they didn't just put a * next to your account.
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X0dus said:
I work for a bank. With the right knowledge, and root, you can get some sensitive information. My phone was banned.
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lol, really? Banks pass that info over WiFi?
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I doubt its random, its probably more like if they try to push an update or soak test they check for root first, I've never got an update pushed to me. If you're rooted I would be shocked if they didn't just put a * next to your account.
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But what would the point be to put that *? They have warrantied my device, and I haven't heard of anyone not being warrantied, as well as insurance from Assurion.
And could it be because you SBF to leaked versions? lol
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lol, really? Banks pass that info over
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..... You being serious?
Anyone ever told you you're dense?
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X0dus said:
I work for a bank. With the right knowledge, and root, you can get some sensitive information. My phone was banned.
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If they also ban customers phones, that sounds like a huge PR problem. Why bother? Why not just do whatever it takes to fix their security issue?
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Robin M said:
If they also ban customers phones, that sounds like a huge PR problem. Why bother? Why not just do whatever it takes to fix their security issue?
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I work in an office away from the banks providing banker support. I have access to servers for JP Morgan nation wide. Not sure if they block cust phones at the sites. I think blocking our phones is more of a security stance chase takes on our end.
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Well if it's just in-house, then that's understandable. As an aside, I like Chase. Currently use three chase credit cards. Tried several others over the years and keep coming back. Great cust svc.
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I have had my X2 for 8 months and had been having problems with several apps force closing and the phone generally lagging quite a bit even using apps like Fast Reboot and Air Droid and task managers to clear the cache. It is still unrooted so I decided to just do a factory reset. After the reset, I have noticed a considerable difference in app loading and performance. It works like it did when it was new.
Any one have any suggestions as possible reasons why this would make it work better. I was simply experimenting with it, and it turned out working to my advantage.
I still have another year left before an upgrade, so I don't plan on rooting it before then. But are there any other things I can do or apps I can use to keep the performance like new without having to do another reset six months down the road.
I really love my X2 but with all of the trouble I had been having with apps and lagging, it was making me consider jumping ship to Apple. I just don't think I could deal with the small screen on an iPhone and the lack of customization.
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I really wouldn't try and load a bunch of stuff like you had mentioned. Alot of that is just more memory useage and tasks to run. There really nothing wrong with having all of that. But its still there and still runs a risk of slowing things down a tad. Once in a while, clear your cache files and it really shouldn't give you any trouble.
On the otherhand..... why not root it and open that thing up? There are several stable ROMs like Eclipse and CM7 that will really make your experience with the X2 better. You can 9 times out of 10 always go back to right out of the box so there's no need to worry about messing up something or "loosing your warranty." Root, flash and let her ride!!
it's more like, 99.999999%of time you can go back to stock
just need a decent pc, to run rsd lite or ezsbf, to get back, if you have any problem
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^^ Lol i was gonna say what SD said.
don't let me, stop you
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tallyforeman said:
I really wouldn't try and load a bunch of stuff like you had mentioned. Alot of that is just more memory useage and tasks to run. There really nothing wrong with having all of that. But its still there and still runs a risk of slowing things down a tad. Once in a while, clear your cache files and it really shouldn't give you any trouble.
On the otherhand..... why not root it and open that thing up? There are several stable ROMs like Eclipse and CM7 that will really make your experience with the X2 better. You can 9 times out of 10 always go back to right out of the box so there's no need to worry about messing up something or "loosing your warranty." Root, flash and let her ride!!
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i agree with tally on this one!
also, how in the hell can you enjoy looking at blur with all those damned bloatware?
Even if you don't want to mess with roms and stuff you could always root to freeze bloatware.
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I rooted my phone over the weekend and was able to uninstall some of the bloatware. I flashed the cm7.2 rom from dragonzkiller and followed the steps exactly. However, when I rebooted, I was not able to restore my contacts or sign into any other account other than Gmail.
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Juice3250 said:
I rooted my phone over the weekend and was able to uninstall some of the bloatware. I flashed the cm7.2 rom from dragonzkiller and followed the steps exactly. However, when I rebooted, I was not able to restore my contacts or sign into any other account other than Gmail.
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Sounds like you didnt install the gapps file along with the ROM. That file contains all the Google stuff including the services to sync with Google. You can find the link to that file in the same CM7 thread.
I did install the gapps and it said it flashed successfully. If it was flashed successfully, should my contacts be available?
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Juice3250 said:
I did install the gapps and it said it flashed successfully. If it was flashed successfully, should my contacts be available?
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If you flashed the ROM and the gapps, it should be fine. Are you sure you downloaded the gingerbread gapps and NOT the ICS or Jelly Bean?
Did you check to see if your contacts outside of Google was there before deleting anything?
You could also sign in to your gmail on a PC and click on contacts. If they are there you should be able to port them over.
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Let me first say :glad to be back (3-4 years back had a nokia with symbian that with the help of this forum i did minor modifications to)on the forum and out of the clutches of apple(3-4 days ago traded iphone 4 32gb for LGOG)
Now first question: I've rooted my phone attempting to remove any and all bloatware, however I can't seem to remove it?
Second question: in regards to cases what's the differences between att and sprint LGOG's?
Third question: how do I sent picture messages? Seems like a dumb question but every time I try to do so the message says something like "picture too big ,compressing" now normally that's fine it compresses the picture I send and its good however when I get said message the text I had started to send to whomever is gone and I'm back at the message as if I never started it?
Fourth question: how do I send a multiple contact message?
Finally : since this was a multiple question post, I did search , did read, tried everything I could think of to avoid asking a repeated-a-million-times-question , sorry if I did and sorry if I put in wrong part of forum
Thank you sincerely
LGOG rookie
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After you root, before you delete/disable/uninstall any apps. Do the Freegee bl unlock. Otherwise you will get bl security errors and bootloops.
Is there a free version?
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vasilli said:
Is there a free version?
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Nope, you have to pay for it in the app store.
Or you can search and take a look in the other section (like the development section). I could be wrong, I dunno.
Drat well as in expensive as it is,still can't afford it at the moment
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You should be able to disable most bloat through settings, manage applications, then all. Click on the app you want to disable and go to town.
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There is a free version of freegee on the playstore. Its exactly the same as the paid version.
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You should be able to disable most bloat through settings, manage applications, then all. Click on the app you want to disable and go to town.
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There is a free version of freegee on the playstore. Its exactly the same as the paid version.
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that is awesome! many thanks to you both!
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Nope, you have to pay for it in the app store.
Or you can search and take a look in the other section (like the development section). I could be wrong, I dunno.
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There's a free version too.
I guess I needed to put this smilie face at the end
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is there a way that i can sync my lg with iTunes just out of curiousity?
also once i run freegee after rooting what can I do? is there a guide im missing?
vasilli said:
is there a way that i can sync my lg with iTunes just out of curiousity?
also once i run freegee after rooting what can I do? is there a guide im missing?
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Try isyncr, it used to work for me.
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also once i run freegee after rooting what can I do? is there a guide im missing?
vasilli said:
also once i run freegee after rooting what can I do? is there a guide im missing?
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Read carrett's at the top of the section. He explains flashing of new ROM's, etc. The ROM's can be found in one of the 2 development sections.
vasilli said:
also once i run freegee after rooting what can I do? is there a guide im missing?
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install titanium backup ROOT , delete any apps you do not want, really I just deleted most of the at&t stuff or stuff that requires you to purchase other things. one app that is worth its money is root explorer, sounds like you are new to android, one helpful tip to you is when you do buy these things in the play store you will always have it as long as you remember your google account, get a new device bam, still have the apps you purchased.
Yes I'm extremely new to droid as a whole
Let alone rooting and other info
Been trying to avoid posting a millions questions that could be avoided with a couple searches, I'm coming from iphone .
Iphones are insanely simple compared to droid ,however with the right tweaks droid can prevail for sure.
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vasilli said:
Yes I'm extremely new to droid as a whole
Let alone rooting and other info
Been trying to avoid posting a millions questions that could be avoided with a couple searches, I'm coming from iphone .
Iphones are insanely simple compared to droid ,however with the right tweaks droid can prevail for sure.
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I phones seem simple because they don't have any of the customizations that android does. So, I guess iPhone is simple and not in a good way.
Also, "droid" is more commonly used to refer to the phone model by Motorola. We generally use the term android when speaking of the OS in broader terms. But more commonly we use the specific term for the version of Android or ROM that we're speaking of at the moment, Jelly Bean, AOSP, stock, for example. You'll get the hang of it. :thumbup:
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Download the free Freegee App from the play store.
Run the app. Backup EFS. Click unlock Bootloader.
Boot into Fast Boot, then CWM or TWRP (depending what recovery you chose when using Freegee)
Make a backup.
Reboot phone and get an app called Titanium Backup (paid version has more options)
Using Titanium Backup you can uninstall bloatware or freeze them if you have the paid version (this is easiest and safest I believe)
OR you can use Root Explorer or a similar root file manager to manually delete each apk
Be careful what you delete. There is a post here listing what apps can safely be removed without messing up your phone.
Read twice, click once. Good luck
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I would also have to say to the new guys...dont get all wound up on installing a new rom, trust me I have upgraded lots of roms from backflip,atrix,htc inspire but all those needed it. I have to say the original rom that comes on these LG's is pretty good, unless it doesnt do what you need it to I wouldnt worry about a new rom. root it so you can delete some of the bloat.
100% agreed. Amazing Rom for stock. I did the same thing and I'm loving it
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