Hi, I recentl caught a virus from India Sexy Story 2 last week, it did install malware apps and I used Root Browser to uninstall it, it seems that it cannot uninstall but if it does it just comes back. It is immutable I have researched, I can't even delete or change the permission. So I was wondering if any terminal or app that could uninstall an apk? The malware app is installed to priv-app folder named appstarts.apk. Thanks! I'm looking forward to any help especially seniors.
Please lock or delete this thread, I have killed the virus using the new update of Stubborn Ghost Push Trojan Killer by Cheetah Mobile! Phew!
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Hi guys,
I uninstalled the pre-installed Task Killer through a root uninstaller from the Market. Can it be reinstalled back? (As root program as well again). If yes, how?
If you have rooted your phone then just install the TasKiller app from the market and give it Root Privileges if it asks for it!
Hello
I was wondering if anyone could help me. Im using awd lancher and installed an antteck app manager and froze a moto app by mistake, the phone got in to a force close loop which even a restart couldnt fix. I managed to uninstall the app by grabbing time between the forced closes.
Now it says " this is not a motoblur device" when I try to use the moto default home launcher.
I have reinstalled the antteck app which shows no frozen apps.
Would a reset to factory work? My concern is if there is no ADW launcher and motoblur is still not working my phone will not work.
Orange UK rooted on gingerbread stock
Thanks for any help
jonnym
Jonnym said:
I managed to uninstall the app by grabbing time between the forced closes.
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Which app? The one you froze?
Jonnym said:
Would a reset to factory work?
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No, a factory reset just wipes the data partition.
A possible solution
If you know how to use ADB, and know where to acquire the ADW.Launcher APK, then you could do this:
NOTE: You may need root to do this. I have no idea, actually.
Copy ADW.Launcher to your ADB folder and rename it to launcher.apk to make things easier later.
Open Command Prompt, and CD to your ADB folder.
Type "adb remount" to mount /system as writeable.
Type "adb push launcher.apk /system/app.
You could possibly get away with pushing it to /data/app, but I've never tried pushing to /data before.
The app I uninstalled was the antteck app manager used to freeze the app.
I cant remember exactly which app I froze. It was one from a list of apps safe to freeze I found on the XDA forum, it wasnt safe. It may well have been the moto home launcher as I was trying to free up ram for the webtop.
I get the problem when I use home switcher to try to launch the original home rather than ADW
I no longer see the moto home launcher in the app list on the app manager.
I could try flashing with the sbf, but being a noob im not ready to do that unless all else fails.
Any help gratefully received
Jonnym
I just renamed blurhome.apk_fro to blurhome.apk in the system/app folder using root explorer and all has been fixed. It would seem that although I reinstalled the antteck app manager it doesn't search for previous frozen items. It also didn't show up in titanium backup either that can be used to freeze apps, not a criticism just an observation.
Thanks for all the help
Jonnym
Jonnym said:
I just renamed blurhome.apk_fro to blurhome.apk in the system/app folder using root explorer and all has been fixed. It would seem that although I reinstalled the antteck app manager it doesn't search for previous frozen items. It also didn't show up in titanium backup either that can be used to freeze apps, not a criticism just an observation.
Thanks for all the help
Jonnym
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Glad you learnt something new. =D
And you should find the "safe" list you referred to and tell them its actually NOT safe.
Ill look for the list later...although it might have been a of stupidity and not on the list at all, I tend to do these things late at night
Is it possible to delete Google Hangouts from my phone completely?
I don't use it, nor will I ever use it, so why does it have to be on my phone? I am so sick of having it pop up in Play Store reminding me to update it, when I don't even use it. I would rather it be deleted from my phone so I will never be prompted to update it again. The saddest part is they must know what a complete dud this app is as they've removed the uninstall tab on the play store page (well for me its removed and I can't uninstall it from the play store) but they sure as hell like to remind me the bloody thing needs updating ...
Could someone please advice the best method to rid my phone of this nuisance.
Thx
You can uninstall it with titanium back up as long as you are rooted but I'd freeze it first to be safe. Don't think you can uninstall it without root
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with root you can uninstall it via rootexplorer or search here for aromafile manager,with this you can delete it in recovery,just flash aromafile man zip in cwm and go to system/apps and delete it,exit filemanager and reboot,done.
I've searched for google hangouts via rootexplorer and titanium and its not listed. Is it installed under a different name?
Thx
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I've searched for google hangouts via rootexplorer and titanium and its not listed. Is it installed under a different name?
Thx
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41582706
Maybe it can help you.
A few weeks back my android device was infected with some adware.This adware automatically opens the play store and installs random apps.If i uninstall the app,it immediately opens the play store again.This wasn't the first time an adware was installed on my device without my knowledge.I simply uninstall the adware from my device whenever this situation occurred however this was different.The adware had installed itself as a system app so it couldn't be uninstalled as my device wasn't rooted.I tried several antiviruses from the play store but they all required root permission.
I finally did root my device and when i ran antivirus scan it found 3 viruses but strangely enough it couldn't remove any of them.The antivirus took me to the uninstall screen and it said uninstall finished but the virus was still showing in the detected list.I managed to remove 2 of the viruses by going to their apps folder in system and uninstalling from their but this one pesky virus won't go away.It's stored under system/priv-app/ as rt.apk and while uninstalling, it's name is listed as prevail.
Any tips?
Perform a full flash of your system and it should be done away with or better still make a copy of the unaffected file from another phone and after deleting this one you put it in there and restart
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Has anybody tried the universal debloater script for this phone? Tried uninstalling certain system apps through lucky patcher and titanium backup but with no success. Also tried deleting the apps through root explorer but in vain. Does anyone know how to change the permission of drives or internal folder /files without softbricking the phone. Any help would be much appreciated
i did it trough ADB SHELL commands
look here:
Oneplus pure debloat
A side note before running the .bat file.....make surw you have a keyboard app to install as gboard is disabled....i recommend openboard from fdroid. UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE Few more too add to debloat com.qti.dpmserviceapp com.qti.diagservices...
forum.xda-developers.com
i only uninstalled the apps i didnt wanted on my phone. i looked up the package name and removed it
if you dont have root look here:
How to uninstall carrier/OEM bloatware without root access
If you want to get rid of carrier/OEM apps from your phone, here's how you can uninstall bloatware from your device without root access!
www.xda-developers.com
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if you dont have root look here:
How to uninstall carrier/OEM bloatware without root access
If you want to get rid of carrier/OEM apps from your phone, here's how you can uninstall bloatware from your device without root access!
www.xda-developers.com
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Rooted the phone as soon as I got it. The only thing that I could do was freeze the apps with lucky patcher. However, the adb command did worked like a charm. Thanks.
I always freeze them with Swift Backup. That works perfectly. The nice thing about freezing over deleting is that once you do an update, they keep being freezed. If you deleted them before, you have to start over and over again after every update.
Yeah also a good solution.