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so i have s-off, root, custom recovery , the works......but y cant i UNINSTALL stupid bloat? i can disable, but not uninstall via an app like my 4gevo ........is me just stupid?
Hummm. Well what have you tried so far???? As in apps??
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did you already flash the su zip or a rooted rom?
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Get Root Explorer and use that, or if you're not sure and need to make sure you have root access just download busybox from the market and it will check to see if you have root, that's a fast way to determine if your root access is functioning or not.
unslav3d said:
so i have s-off, root, custom recovery , the works......but y cant i UNINSTALL stupid bloat? i can disable, but not uninstall via an app like my 4gevo ........is me just stupid?
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Just install Root Explorer from market..then go to system>app> and click and hold on what u want removed and then click delete(If it says it cant be deleted the click where it says write r/o or write r/w up top i always get them confused..lol..then do it again it then they will delete no problem) I just got rid of a crapload of bloat this way..hope it helps
nice thanx guys, yeah i figured it just wasnt as easy as using system app uninstaller n **** =* lol
and yes im all rooted for shizzle n junk and got paid foreman rate on a construction site to do it , while it rained, ****ING GREAT DAY
i wonder why that is though.......ya know?
for clarification, no app uninstaller for root is working for ne one els then right?
unslav3d said:
i wonder why that is though.......ya know?
for clarification, no app uninstaller for root is working for ne one els then right?
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Every root app should work except ones that depend on kernel mods (i. e. market version of Wireless Tether). I used Root Explorer and Titanium Backup to take care of my bloat and all went well.
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I used titanium backup to remove the bloatware. Worked perfect
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Yup tb and re worked fine for me as well.
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I still can't get tb working. All other root apps are fine. Flashed toasts Su an still no joy
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Go to the development section and search for Vipermod, that's the best way to uninstall the bloat
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laie1472 said:
Yup tb and re worked fine for me as well.
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I used titanium backup to remove the bloatware but the icons/shorcuts are still there in the app drawer.
DarkManX4lf said:
I used titanium backup to remove the bloatware but the icons/shorcuts are still there in the app drawer.
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Nevermind, I used viperboy scripts and a reboot later and the bloatware is gone from the app drawer as well. I'm not sure if it was viperboy scripts or titanium backup that removed it from the app drawer but a reboot helped.
DarkManX4lf said:
Nevermind, I used viperboy scripts and a reboot later and the bloatware is gone from the app drawer as well. I'm not sure if it was viperboy scripts or titanium backup that removed it from the app drawer but a reboot helped.
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Glad you got it worked out
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Running into strange issue.
Have complete root. Using root explorer, root user granted.
When i first go into the program I can set to R/W. However, once R/W is set and then I go into the system folder it goes back to R/O. If I back out to the first page it goes back to R/W.
It's very weird that it'll only stay R/W on some folders and not others.
Any ideas what might cause this?
UPDATE: I uninstalled root explorer and downloaded ES File Explorer. Gave ES root permissions, and hurrayyyy. I can delete the bloatware.
can I use any uninstaller app from the market to do this, or do I need a special one? thx.
I believe you have to be s off
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You could try SystemApp Remover (market link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.danesh.system.app.remover&feature=search_result ). It only requires root and busybox for most devices. I say most because it requires S-OFF for the HTC Desire.
andrew.cambridge said:
I believe you have to be s off
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Just a lil curious... Wont the Titanium Backup do the job??
My Aria is S-off. is that changes anything?
didn't tried titanium backup.
CaptainMaki said:
My Aria is S-off. is that changes anything?
didn't tried titanium backup.
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If it does, then its for the better. You could try Titanium backup or some root uninstaller like the one linked.
thx, I will try titanium.
Bloat freezer works well too if all you wanna do us freeze them. I use it to freeze some system apps.
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CaptainMaki said:
can I use any uninstaller app from the market to do this, or do I need a special one? thx.
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Search this forum, there is a thread about removing bloatware using adb commands - no s-off needed.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=735255&highlight=bloatware
I'm comfortable using ADB commands, but still if that can be done using titianum backup then using ADB seems just a hassle.
Bloat freezer works well too if all you wanna do us freeze them. I use it to freeze some system apps.
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what do you mean by freeze?
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what do you mean by freeze?
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I did a quick search and found this: "Freezing an app prevents it from running constantly in the background on its own and pretty much makes it invisible to the system."
I would just freeze system apps that you don't want/need. You can just unfreeze if something goes wrong.
Like today my voice search was force closing on me and tried everything to make it work. Finally figured out it needed the stock browser to work, I had it frozen since I use dolphin.
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so far uninstalled most of AT&T apps and everything is OK. good tip about the browser. would freeze it.
reboot to clockwork recovery, mount /system via partitions menu, attach usb to PC, adb shell, remove the offending APKs via the busybox shell.
/system is writable when in CWR's busybox.
Works for me with CWR 2.5.0.1, s-on, hboot 0.57 (original aria) and CM71
Ok I'm not talking about htc built in apps. But this useless bull**** apps that just sitting on my app drawer with no ****ing reason:
7digital
Ais
Axis net
Broadband
Dtac
I store
I muzik 3g
Mobiletv
Mobile tv
Mobi tv
Mworld
My HTC
Myhtcs
Ringtunes
Telkomsel
Truemoveh
Viettel
XL
I have successfuly uninstalled them all using link2sd (need root).
I try to uninstalled 7digital then my phone restarts by itself, I'm scared a bit, then after my phone booted all that **** apps I just uninstalled came back. Wtf???
Any solutions?
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You can only remove them in recovery via adb shell rm /system/app/*.apk
And if you're on stock ROM, also remove it's odex adb shell rm /system/app/*.odex
Or you can use the script made by Maarten here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36278172&postcount=30
extract the updater-script, edit the filename for the apk that you need to remove and put in back in the zip, and flash that in recovery.
Tried root uninstaller but no luck either. It came back after reboot :/
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w1040 said:
Tried root uninstaller but no luck either. It came back after reboot :/
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No app can uninstall app on DX except the way I described above.
There is some sort of protection HTC imposed on DX that you cannot use an app like TB, Root Uninstaller & etc; they won't work.
Note: before you remove anything, make sure you make a nandroid of your stock ROM before that as once an OTA is out, you need a clean stock ROM to update successfully.
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No app can uninstall app on DX except the way I described above.
There is some sort of protection HTC imposed on DX that you cannot use an app like TB, Root Uninstaller & etc; they won't work.
Note: before you remove anything, make sure you make a nandroid of your stock ROM before that as once an OTA is out, you need a clean stock ROM to update successfully.
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But my rom are now rooted its too late to make a nand backup now..
Anyway, nand backup is on cwm recovery right?
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If you never remove anything from the system partition, it is never too late.
(I believe you not yet able to remove anything )
And yes, make a nandroid backup with CWM.
ckpv5 said:
If you never remove anything from the system partition, it is never too late.
(I believe you not yet able to remove anything )
And yes, make a nandroid backup with CWM.
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What I meant is its too late for me to backup a clean stock unrooted rom.
Sorry can't edit my post above since I'm new user although I'm not new to xda I'd just created a new account.
Anyway I wish there was a simple way to remove the odex on the bloatware I want to uninstalled. On link2sd, the app mentioned above are marked with ODEX (green).
Guess you were right, can't move an an app with an odex on it though I don't know what odex is.
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I understood that. What I meant is it is ok to make backup with a rooted stock ROM.
To update an OTA, you don't need to remove your root app or any installed app as long as all system files are intact. You don't even need to relock your bootloader. What you need is a stock recovery.
You can read more on this topic on the link in my sig. Even though that is for One V, it works the same principal for DX.
You can remove system apps from recovery using app called Aroma File Manager, made by Amarullz, you have the link in my Index.
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You can remove system apps from recovery using app called Aroma File Manager, made by Amarullz, you have the link in my Index.
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Totally forgot about this nice recovery explorer/file manager
As I always use a PC base explorer/file manager to add/remove files to/from system partition.
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ckpv5 is right. You can not delete files simply from Data or System folders.
You have to do that in recovery mode. If you try to delete files from any File explorer, your phone will simply restart.
Though we have rooted our phone, however it is not 100% rooted. HTC made S-ON on all of those device so that people can not do any changes on systems.
Play with your phone with complete nand backup.
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To w1040
ckpv5 is right. You can not delete files simply from Data or System folders.
You have to do that in recovery mode. If you try to delete files from any File explorer, your phone will simply restart.
Though we have rooted our phone, however it is not 100% rooted. HTC made S-ON on all of those device so that people can not do any changes on systems.
Play with your phone with complete nand backup.
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Actually we do have 100% root, S-Off differs a lot from root. And there are multiple ways of deleting the apps. You can make a flashable zip file yourself if you know how to, you can use aroma file manager (mount system before using it), adb, or any other recovery file manager, if it exists
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Probably someone should make a tutorial how to delete system apps here using aroma file manager?
Would be really useful.
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MaartenXDA said:
Actually we do have 100% root, S-Off differs a lot from root. And there are multiple ways of deleting the apps. You can make a flashable zip file yourself if you know how to, you can use aroma file manager (mount system before using it), adb, or any other recovery file manager, if it exists
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Yup understand. I am sorry I wanted to say he can not do it thru any file browser when the phone is running. It will simply reboot.
Need to try Aroma File manager. Deleting with flashable.zip is really a pain not so simple.
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Probably someone should make a tutorial how to delete system apps here using aroma file manager?
Would be really useful.
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+1 for that.
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I have made a new idea on removing bloatwares. The idea is that the user can select the apps that are to be deleted in aroma. I have already made a project regarding this but only for my device. You can port it to your device and maybe share this with everyone.
Link to my thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2632355
With some changes, it will work great and our community can develop!!
But please don't cross post...
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But please don't cross post...
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Yeah! One moderator told me! I won't do like that from now onwards!
I have the t-mobile 626s variant. Ive rooted and still have a bunch of process and apps I dont want. I dont have a computer at the moment becuase its being fixed. Is there a list of apps safe to remove? Thank You
You have to install an insecure kernel. You can find a lot of custom kernel in these forum, choose one of them
I want to remove all the bloatware from my HTC DX (rooted and TWRP installed). I used Titanium Backup but as S-ON is there you get the same stuff back after rebooting, I read here somewhere that you can remove those bloatware from Recovery.
Now I am in the TWRP menu, I mounted all the partitions, Went to the Apps folder and found all the bloatwares I need to remove. Since it is odexed, I was wondering if it is safe to remove them?
Do I need to remove the APK as well as .odex file? Will it reappear after reboot?
I have a nandroid backup, Will it be able to restore all the files if I mess up and restore from nandroid? Wondering since S-ON is enabled.
Thanks!
Droid.Anoop said:
I want to remove all the bloatware from my HTC DX (rooted and TWRP installed). I used Titanium Backup but as S-ON is there you get the same stuff back after rebooting, I read here somewhere that you can remove those bloatware from Recovery.
Now I am in the TWRP menu, I mounted all the partitions, Went to the Apps folder and found all the bloatwares I need to remove. Since it is odexed, I was wondering if it is safe to remove them?
Do I need to remove the APK as well as .odex file? Will it reappear after reboot?
I have a nandroid backup, Will it be able to restore all the files if I mess up and restore from nandroid? Wondering since S-ON is enabled.
Thanks!
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Yes you need to remove both the apk+odex file for it to be permanently removed.
Add: if you only delete the apk file, it will come back after reboot. So make sure to delete both apk and odex file of the app you want to permanently removed
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By permanently you mean even after reboots right? Also will the nandroid restore bring them back?
Thanks a lot
Droid.Anoop said:
By permanently you mean even after reboots right? Also will the nandroid restore bring them back?
Thanks a lot
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Yes of course nandroid backup will restore all the apps you removed. Thats what nand backup are for!
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Haha, I just wanted to be sure.
Could you explain what exactly are the limitations with S-ON?
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Haha, I just wanted to be sure.
Could you explain what exactly are the limitations with S-ON?
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About the S-ON i have no idea. Sorry
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No problem, So lets ask this question together! And thanks for the earlier answers!
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No problem, So lets ask this question together! And thanks for the earlier answers!
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No problem. I asked this question earlier too back when i just bought desire x
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I have made a new idea on removing bloatwares. The idea is that the user can select the apps that are to be deleted in aroma. I have already made a project regarding this but only for my device. You can port it to your device and maybe share this with everyone.
Link to my thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2632355
With some changes, it will work great and our community can develop!!
the_pirate_predator said:
I have made a new idea on removing bloatwares. The idea is that the user can select the apps that are to be deleted in aroma. I have already made a project regarding this but only for my device. You can port it to your device and maybe share this with everyone.
Link to my thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2632355
With some changes, it will work great and our community can develop!!
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Great one! Would take a look at it myself if I had some time left...
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I have a Sprint device, rooted, bootloader is unlocked with s-off and unsecured kernel. I am not really wanting to flash a new Rom quite yet, so I'm stock.
I cannot get root explorer to fully remove bloatware. It all returns after reboot.
Is there an easy way to get it working properly or am I going to have to pull the unwanted files using adb?
TiBa?
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I dont understand why root explorer wont work. Ive used it many times. If you actually delete something, its not magically reappearing.
Oh but it is magically reappearing. I've removed bloatware at least 6 times and as soon as I reboot it's all back
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I remember reading at some point that they lock stock Roms somehow, and the r/w option doesn't do any good.
I've tried searching, but any combination of words pulls way to many threads.
I've never had this problem before, I've always gone with a custom Rom immediately after purchase.
Believe you have to flash the unsecure kernel to get system to allow changes.
I hoped that would work, but it didn't help. I was reading the one forums, they made an app that enables it on that phone. I tried it, didn't work.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.timos.htconerw
I'm guessing this is also why my damn ad blocker has been making me angry as well.
You do have your bootloader unlocked using scotty1223 method in general *or htcdev* right?
*EDIT: Verify busybox is installed and working properly
I finally got it off of mine by using custom kernel and going s-off then using es file explorer mounted to the root/system on half and titanium backup on the rest. Titanium backup is easier especially if you want to make backups of them all. I personally didn't so I just deleted them all but of course I made a nandroid backup before doing all of this just in case something went awry.
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You have to flash insecure kernel s off busybox