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I want to remove the following from my phone;
Footprints,
Friendstream,
Teeter,
Stocks,
Peep,
HTC Mobile Guide,
News & Weather,
Weather
But when I go in through TB to uninstall I get a message saying that these are system packages and uninstalling them can trash things.
What effect will this really have my phone? Do I need any of them? I don't think I've ever used any of them, and don't think I will, although I do have facebook synced, and I use Beautiful Widgets for weather.
I used Titanium Backup to remove all of the aforementioned programs plus the Mobile NFL app. I would not touch anything related to the weather though since I have no idea what effect that would have on the rest of the system because I have not tried it myself.
One thing I can definitely tell you not to remove is anything and I mean ANYTHING related to Google Talk. I can tell you from experience how badly removing Talk can f'up your phone. The Market, as well other major apps and functions somehow all seem to be tied in with it for what reason I do not know (wtf Google?!).
You will lose Market if you remove Talk!
That said, before you remove anything, I suggest you back it up. TB will even allow you to "Freeze" an app before removing it to see what effect the removal will have.
Best of luck removing the bloatware!
bludragon742 said:
I used Titanium Backup to remove all of the aforementioned programs plus the Mobile NFL app. I would not touch anything related to the weather though since I have no idea what effect that would have on the rest of the system because I have not tried it myself.
One thing I can definitely tell you not to remove is anything and I mean ANYTHING related to Google Talk. I can tell you from experience how badly removing Talk can f'up your phone. The Market, as well other major apps and functions somehow all seem to be tied in with it for what reason I do not know (wtf Google?!).
You will lose Market if you remove Talk!
That said, before you remove anything, I suggest you back it up. TB will even allow you to "Freeze" an app before removing it to see what effect the removal will have.
Best of luck removing the bloatware!
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I'm curious what kinds of ill effects you saw from removing Talk? I wonder if HTC may have changed the integration of Talk within froyo, as I have seen no ill effects from removing talk. Maybe there is some kind of heinous error I am overlooking?
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I used Titanium Backup to remove all of the aforementioned programs plus the Mobile NFL app. I would not touch anything related to the weather though since I have no idea what effect that would have on the rest of the system because I have not tried it myself.
One thing I can definitely tell you not to remove is anything and I mean ANYTHING related to Google Talk. I can tell you from experience how badly removing Talk can f'up your phone. The Market, as well other major apps and functions somehow all seem to be tied in with it for what reason I do not know (wtf Google?!).
You will lose Market if you remove Talk!
That said, before you remove anything, I suggest you back it up. TB will even allow you to "Freeze" an app before removing it to see what effect the removal will have.
Best of luck removing the bloatware!
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thanks for the input - I'm trying to nail down an app that seems to be draining my battery, and I don't know what it is.
HTC/Google may well have changed the integration in FroYo but I know in Eclair everything was tied in with it. I'm going to freeze it and see what happens.
Edit: It appears the GTalk provider that was heavily integrated into previous versions of Android is no longer included in FroYo making it possible to safely remove the Talk app. Woo-hoo!
nukedukem said:
I'm curious what kinds of ill effects you saw from removing Talk? I wonder if HTC may have changed the integration of Talk within froyo, as I have seen no ill effects from removing talk. Maybe there is some kind of heinous error I am overlooking?
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I rooted my phone and kept the stock Eclair for about 2 weeks, till I had the time to check out the roms. I removed all of those AND GOOGLE TALK immediately after rooting. I never received the 1st error/problem from uninstalling Talk. If I remember correctly, there were 2 Talk items(service and storage...I think) that I removed. If you only removed 1, maybe that's where there errors were coming from.
I also removed it in a stock Froyo with no negative effects.
EDIT: Didn't remove the weather though. I left that on.
When I was on stock Eclair I removed both the service provider and the app which caused the Market and other system apps to stop working. How many times do I have to repeat myself? Look it up, it is a common issue!
When I was on stock Eclair I removed both the service provider and the app which caused ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to stop working. The Market and other system apps WORKED PERFECTLY FINE. How many times do I have to repeat myself? I don't need to look it up, it was not an issue for me!......as it may not be for some others......
Whoooa there seems to be some blue-dispute going on in here! My money's on the dragon cause a dragon would take a beast any day. J/K guys...
Seriously though, OP you can remove all the ones you've listed safely except the last two weather and news/weather. I don't know how your phone would react because I've never removed those. You could make a custom rom yourself based off one of the stock roms and remove everything you think you want gone and then nandroid your current rom and flash the experimental and see what shakes loose. Just an idea.
I was avoiding sprint id but broke down and tried it out. It was pretty nice for about 30 minutes but then I got bored of it. But I do like some of the wallpapers and ringtones. I would like to pull just what I want out and get rid of sprint id again. Does anyone know where the files are stored? I dug around a bit but have not been able to find them.
Edit: And yes I know I can uninstall all parts of the packs that I don't like but I still prefer to have it clean without using sprint id.
Well you could delete system/app/W_Installer with a root explorer type tool. However, that doesn't get rid of the files. If you made a system backup prior to installing Sprint ID then you could delete the appropriate files that aren't backed up (new files)
Having gone through this when I was testing the Bonsai 4.0.0 beta, the easiest solution is to odin.
Just like top nurse said if you open up the rom before you flash it and delete the apk that top nurse gave out it wont install sprint id.
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crawrj said:
I was avoiding sprint id but broke down and tried it out. It was pretty nice for about 30 minutes but then I got bored of it. But I do like some of the wallpapers and ringtones. I would like to pull just what I want out and get rid of sprint id again. Does anyone know where the files are stored? I dug around a bit but have not been able to find them.
Edit: And yes I know I can uninstall all parts of the packs that I don't like but I still prefer to have it clean without using sprint id.
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the only way to fully get rid of the awsome sprint id is to revert back to another rom such as ec05 or di18. Otherwise the Applications manager will not let you uninstall the sprint id. After all Sprint worked really hard to port it to this device and if sprint deems it as the defacto standard, then it is. Sprint overlords, will not be pleased if you remove it... . they know who uses it and who does not, just like att and how they can tell who tethers with rooted devices. I would not be surprised if att either sends out notices next to rooted users that says you are rooted and in violation of your contract, please purchase a new phone that is fully locked down including the bootloader and all.... for full price....
Thank you for the answers but I know what to do to get rid of it. I am asking where the wallpapers and ringtones are stored in the file system. I am looking to pull out the ones I want before I remove it.
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crawrj said:
Thank you for the answers but I know what to do to get rid of it. I am asking where the wallpapers and ringtones are stored in the file system. I am looking to pull out the ones I want before I remove it.
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I was just poking around looking for this but haven't found it yet. I'd also like to grab a couple of the apps if anyone has figured that out.
OK I finally got around to looking for these. Just in case anyone else wants to know.
APKs /data/app/
Ring-tones /data/data/com.sprint.w.installer/files/
Wallpapers /data/data/com.sprint.w.installer/files/wallpapers/
crawrj said:
OK I finally got around to looking for these. Just in case anyone else wants to know.
APKs /data/app/
Ring-tones /data/data/com.sprint.w.installer/files/
Wallpapers /data/data/com.sprint.w.installer/files/wallpapers/
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Nice job.
BONSAI 4 and loving it!
I hate to bring this up, but no one ever figured anytging about it. Anyways, the stock Samsung keyboard pretty much stopped auto correcting and having issues with a quarter of us who did the ota update to the version previous to lj7, before rooting that is. Now that I'm rooted, after several different ROMs, I can confirm that it's something deeper than what ROMs change.
As in something deeper I mean it's something that doesn't change from ROM to ROM and it remains there no matter what and is completely untouched by common updates. Only 1 happened to corrupt or break it in some way.
Does anyone have a clue of what could be causing this?
Please don't throw the standard nooby trouble shooting questions like factory reset, memory format, flash a different ROM, try to uninstall Samsung keyboard and reinstall a different version of it, just get a 3rd party app, etc. Done it all.
To be clear the issue is only on Samsung keyboards, I just want to find the underlying issue. If I was to go digging around blind in very base system files, I would probably brick my phone. Does any ideas cross anyone's mind besides giving up
Samsung's keyboard has autocorrect disabled it only does suggestions. You need to mod the app to actually get it to insert the words for you.
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
Samsung's keyboard has autocorrect disabled it only does suggestions. You need to mod the app to actually get it to insert the words for you.
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No its not lol. stock when i got it, for months it had auto correct, then i got an ota, and updated, and it broke. samsung didnt do it on purpose. I emailed them awhile back. Only said it would be fixed in the next update.. 3 later, NOPE..
ReapersDeath said:
No its not lol. stock when i got it, for months it had auto correct, then i got an ota, and updated, and it broke. samsung didnt do it on purpose. I emailed them awhile back. Only said it would be fixed in the next update.. 3 later, NOPE..
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Yeah actually it is and has been since JB. You can decompile the keyboard apk and change the false value to true and activate autocorrect then recompile it. We've been doing it on the note 2 for a while now since by default the option is disabled at the code level.
Edit: here's the instructions to enable autocorrect and shorten the longpress delay http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2093588
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
Yeah actually it is and has been since JB. You can decompile the keyboard apk and change the false value to true and activate autocorrect then recompile it. We've been doing it on the note 2 for a while now since by default the option is disabled at the code level.
Edit: here's the instructions to enable autocorrect and shorten the longpress delay http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2093588
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Jb is a **** for that >=( Was all fine until pre jb
Edit: Odd. under system/csc Features.XML, at the very bottom is the option to enable auto correct ( AutoCorrectionDisabled>true< ) i changed that to false and restarted but sadly no change.. =( i searched through the samsungIME.apk and i couldnt really find anything to disable or re-enable =/ Only a bunch of code id have to put in or just replace my apk with the attached which just rapidly force closes on me.
ReapersDeath said:
Jb is a **** for that >=( Was all fine until pre jb
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I'm pretty sure it has to do with Samsung's licensing from swiftkey, basically swiftkey wants you to buy the extra features on their keyboard, and only licensed samsung to use basic features such as slide to type and predictions, but not theming and extra features like autocorrect and delay time adjustment etc. Actually the newest swiftkey is identical to Samsung's keyboard only has more features and Samsung has all the code in the keyboard most of it is just disabled by default in the code, bunch of false statements added in to null them out in the settings
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Re read, made a big edit and didn't see you replied when I was editing XD
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ReapersDeath said:
Re read, made a big edit and didn't see you replied when I was editing XD
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Look thru the thread I linked ^^ there and you'll find the code that need to be replaced or edited to get it all working. It's a little bit of a pain(or was) cuz the directions weren't entirely specific about which lines some of the edits were on. I ended up using the search feature in notepad++ to hunt out the lines to change or add. You could try pushing a note 2 keyboard into /system and set permissions on it, but back up your keyboard first incase the notes doesn't work. There's a bunch of themed ones with the AC and longpress mods over in the themes and apps section for sprints note 2. I think your rom needs to be deodexed for them to work. Just don't flash them cuz the updater script is for the note, extract the KB from the zip with something like ES file explorer and then copy it into system and set permissions to rw-r-r and rename your KB to samsungime.bak then reboot. If the note KB does the FC dance just rename your keyboard back to SamsungIME.apk and delete the note KB and reboot, or makesure you have a 3rd party KB installed for emergency use.
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
Look thru the thread I linked ^^ there and you'll find the code that need to be replaced or edited to get it all working. It's a little bit of a pain(or was) cuz the directions weren't entirely specific about which lines some of the edits were on. I ended up using the search feature in notepad++ to hunt out the lines to change or add. You could try pushing a note 2 keyboard into /system and set permissions on it, but back up your keyboard first incase the notes doesn't work. There's a bunch of themed ones with the AC and longpress mods over in the themes and apps section for sprints note 2. I think your rom needs to be deodexed for them to work. Just don't flash them cuz the updater script is for the note, extract the KB from the zip with something like ES file explorer and then copy it into system and set permissions to rw-r-r and rename your KB to samsungime.bak then reboot. If the note KB does the FC dance just rename your keyboard back to SamsungIME.apk and delete the note KB and reboot, or makesure you have a 3rd party KB installed for emergency use.
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I'm not a noob XD I know what to do. What I said is I already did try to use the modified apk provided. It just force closed. So I used the old one. And ya the instructions are pretty crappy lol. Just like xxx pretty much
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Again bro?
Since LJ7 asking for stock kb autocorrect. Beyond.
Just let it go and move to another kb.
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Hello Guys,
I have the old default brown colored Snote on my device. The same is linked to s pen detachment too. The problem is i cant copy or paste in this s note for some reason. I can perform these functions everywhere else.
I have an updated snote too (the red one) sadly it never replaced the old one as it should have and doesnt even sync the notes from the old one. The cop/paste function perfectly here.
i tried to leave the old app (the brown one) but there no option to trigger the new s note page when s pen is detached. The setting for spen just say pop up note and thats always the old one by default.
Can anyone help me in this reagrd?
PS: oi dont want to root,.
uninstall or deactivate s note, but do a backup of data first if you need it. I remember, that on OF the s pen wasn't very good.
I recommend to you to change to custom ROM i.e. from dr. ketan from 20th Oct 2014, air commands and every s pen function works as in Note 3
yaro666 said:
uninstall or deactivate s note, but do a backup of data first if you need it. I remember, that on OF the s pen wasn't very good.
I recommend to you to change to custom ROM i.e. from dr. ketan from 20th Oct 2014, air commands and every s pen function works as in Note 3
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well, its a system app and cant be uninstalled unless i root. I dont want to do that as i am pretty happy with the stock.
Droiderr said:
well, its a system app and cant be uninstalled unless i root. I dont want to do that as i am pretty happy with the stock.
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but you can deactivate it in app manager or try to wipe data
I running Stock Rooted PK1, I have Titanium Back up and root installed.. I went and removed a lot of bloat ware. But here is the issue I have with newer roms.. When your done and rebooted, I have notice the bloat icons are still there.. If you go and try to remove them exp. Google games, movies the only option you have is to turn it off.. What happened to Titanium actually removing all of that for you.. And I have also noticed when you uninstall it, you start to notice a lot of FC as well.. I have also tried this with stock rooted roms that have some of the bloat already removed, but no enough of it for me.. Has anyone here notice the same thing? Or what is the solution for this.. When I want to get rid of something on my system, I want it completely gone, not just part of it..
I'm disappointed. I thought this thread was going to be about Amy Schumer.
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I'm disappointed. I thought this thread was going to be about Amy Schumer.
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LOL sorry.
Chances are TB is just uninstalling the updates and not the app itself. Try manually checking in system\app or system\priv-app for a folder containing the application. If it's there delete it and reboot, that'll remove them permanently. Be careful though as some apps will begin a fc that won't go away even after reboot. Make a backup first.
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Chances are TB is just uninstalling the updates and not the app itself. Try manually checking in system\app or system\priv-app for a folder containing the application. If it's there delete it and reboot, that'll remove them permanently. Be careful though as some apps will begin a fc that won't go away even after reboot. Make a backup first.
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Thanks got it all done. Now for a new issue my screen won't rotate. #0*# doesn't work.. Hell I might have to do a full restore, as I can't test my sensor.
All right my screen rotation back, by simply going back to full stock, the rerooting.. Anyone have a list of all the bloat that is safe to remove.. I think I might have removed something that cause the screen roataing issue in the first place.
doubledragon5 said:
All right my screen rotation back, by simply going back to full stock, the rerooting.. Anyone have a list of all the bloat that is safe to remove.. I think I might have removed something that cause the screen roataing issue in the first place.
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If you remove Facebook with an app like titanium, you could possibly lose /system/lib/libgnustl_shared.so which has been known for a long time to cause loss of rotation. Why that happens going way back in KitKat, I dunno. Just like I dunno why titanium update zip needs user edit since Lollipop. Great app but needs some work.
You could copy and save /system/lib/libgnustl_shared.so before removing Facebook since you're on stock so you have it to restore, if lost. Or get it from your Note 4 ROM zip if flashed.
I'm usually very conservative with bloat removal. Try freezing and check for effects before uninstalling; you know what to check now.
I'm more concerned about the apps that auto run in background without user launching so watch for that. Useless apps take resources away from rooted users; most likely you want to make resources available for custom apps. So make room for them. Debloat makes sense as long as you're not removing function.
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