So, I ran VISIONary, played with it for a while, and I have a question that I can't seem to find anywhere.
I clicked the button to have it autorun at boot, but I can't find a way to turn that off.
If I click the VISIONary icon, it autocloses and shows a message saying This device is already rooted.
Is there a way to unroot my phone?
Thanks in advance for all your help.
panguin said:
So, I ran VISIONary, played with it for a while, and I have a question that I can't seem to find anywhere.
I clicked the button to have it autorun at boot, but I can't find a way to turn that off.
If I click the VISIONary icon, it autocloses and shows a message saying This device is already rooted.
Is there a way to unroot my phone?
Thanks in advance for all your help.
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To straight out unroot the phone, uninstall the app and reboot your phone.
To just lose root but keep the app, have VISIONary not run on boot. Reboot the phone, and when VISIONary runs, you can click the button you previously clicked to have it auto-run on boot, and it will turn off the run on boot. Reboot again, and you are free of root,
Go to: Settings/Applications/Manage Applications/VISIONary/Clear data
This will delete any user preferences (e.g. run on boot)…easy
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I am trying to uninstall VISIONary but I cant find it anywhere.
What am I missing here??
uktotty said:
I am trying to uninstall VISIONary but I cant find it anywhere.
What am I missing here??
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Be sure you're selecting "All" at the top of the "Manage Applications" screen.
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So I used Visionary to root my HTC Desire Z, checked that it was rooted with Android Terminal Emulator using su returning #
I then proceeded to delete all the .apk's of the bloatware in /system/app folder
Upon restart they reappeared. I've tried 3 different file managers and I also tried deleting their data folders in /data/data and now matter what I do they reappear on a restart.
Does this mean it is hard coded into the ROM? DO I have to wait for a permanent root and flash a new stock ROM minus the bloatware?
Anyone found a solution or maybe i'm doing it wrong...
This is another example of where we're miles behind the G2 forums. Check out the G2 ROM Dev forum, there is an app there to show how you can delete built-in apps and then they won't reappear.
But BE CAREFUL ! It will probably be the case that if you go down this road, you may have a problem with future OTA updates.
The reason it's not working with your current method is that you're not really deleting anything. Write access to the internal storage is not possible right now (it is being worked on intensively for the G2), so the phone is caching the file system and making it appear they've been deleted, but the internal storage hasn't been updated. So when you reboot, the app just comes back again. This is how come there's been a myth that the phone automatically "un-does" any changes and resets itself when you reboot - it's not really doing that, because you didn't make any permanent changes in the first place.
steviewevie said:
This is another example of where we're miles behind the G2 forums. Check out the G2 ROM Dev forum, there is an app there to show how you can delete built-in apps and then they won't reappear.
But BE CAREFUL ! It will probably be the case that if you go down this road, you may have a problem with future OTA updates.
The reason it's not working with your current method is that you're not really deleting anything. Write access to the internal storage is not possible right now (it is being worked on intensively for the G2), so the phone is caching the file system and making it appear they've been deleted, but the internal storage hasn't been updated. So when you reboot, the app just comes back again. This is how come there's been a myth that the phone automatically "un-does" any changes and resets itself when you reboot - it's not really doing that, because you didn't make any permanent changes in the first place.
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Thanks for the explanation! Hmm yeah, I don't know if I want to start flashing roms or leave it stock because it's pretty decent stock. And I did hear that updating/upgrading to new OS's have problems is you delete the bloatware programs...
Thanks again
st1n6r4y said:
So I used Visionary to root my HTC Desire Z, checked that it was rooted with Android Terminal Emulator using su returning #
I then proceeded to delete all the .apk's of the bloatware in /system/app folder
Upon restart they reappeared. I've tried 3 different file managers and I also tried deleting their data folders in /data/data and now matter what I do they reappear on a restart.
Does this mean it is hard coded into the ROM? DO I have to wait for a permanent root and flash a new stock ROM minus the bloatware?
Anyone found a solution or maybe i'm doing it wrong...
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try this method:
1. install VISIONary
2. install busybox
3. install titanium backup
4. run VISIONary
5. Run BusyBox
6. install busybox through the installer
7. run Titanium Back-up
8. find the app you don't want
9. press and hold and an a contextual menu will pop up and select the last option
or check our this link: http://android.modaco.com/content/h...move-applications-using-the-recovery-exploit/
i did it this way and have master reset many times and all the Bell Bloatware is gone, BUT... i had to repeat the steps 4 - 9 after each time, but the crapware is gone!
seattleboi1982 said:
try this method:
1. install VISIONary
2. install busybox
3. install titanium backup
4. run VISIONary
5. Run BusyBox
6. install busybox through the installer
7. run Titanium Back-up
8. find the app you don't want
9. press and hold and an a contextual menu will pop up and select the last option
or check our this link: http://android.modaco.com/content/h...move-applications-using-the-recovery-exploit/
i did it this way and have master reset many times and all the Bell Bloatware is gone, BUT... i had to repeat the steps 4 - 9 after each time, but the crapware is gone!
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Cool thanks!
seattleboi1982 said:
try this method:
1. install VISIONary
2. install busybox
3. install titanium backup
4. run VISIONary
5. Run BusyBox
6. install busybox through the installer
7. run Titanium Back-up
8. find the app you don't want
9. press and hold and an a contextual menu will pop up and select the last option
or check our this link: http://android.modaco.com/content/h...move-applications-using-the-recovery-exploit/
i did it this way and have master reset many times and all the Bell Bloatware is gone, BUT... i had to repeat the steps 4 - 9 after each time, but the crapware is gone!
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Tried this method. Everything works fine (rooted, Busybox installed), but when I try to pick the option to "Force remove app (by recovery exploit)" I get the error message "Cannot remove system app, Failed to locate apk file".
What am I doing wrong?
redpoint73 said:
Tried this method. Everything works fine (rooted, Busybox installed), but when I try to pick the option to "Force remove app (by recovery exploit)" I get the error message "Cannot remove system app, Failed to locate apk file".
What am I doing wrong?
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Never mind, I figured it out. You need to have either S-OFF or CID unlock in order for this method to work. I was only rooted, and intentionally not S-OFF and SuperCID. I used the gfree method to S-OFF and SuperCID, and the above method of removing the bloatware seems to be working perfectly now.
redpoint73 said:
Never mind, I figured it out. You need to have either S-OFF or CID unlock in order for this method to work. I was only rooted, and intentionally not S-OFF and SuperCID. I used the gfree method to S-OFF and SuperCID, and the above method of removing the bloatware seems to be working perfectly now.
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It was the S-OFF. Unless you have S-OFF, you still have write protection on the system and recovery partitions. So apps will appear to get deleted as the information is written to cache. But they'll come back on a reboot because the information was never written to (deleted from) permanent storage.
So if I'm rooted using Visionary and have S off using the gfree method but I never installed busybox.. What would be the best method? Can I just install busybox and install or would I need to do another method?
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Rickroller said:
So if I'm rooted using Visionary and have S off using the gfree method but I never installed busybox.. What would be the best method? Can I just install busybox and install or would I need to do another method?
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Just install Busybox.
The above method worked great EXCEPT for one app: Kobo (e-reader). I've tried to force remove in Titanium Backup three times now, and also tried using the "regular" un-install option in Titanium Backup. Every time the phone reboots, Kobo is still there.
Any ideas?
I used an app called system app remover i think thats the name...not 100% suree...but i got it to get rid of wifi calling cuz im on roger and tmobile wifi calling wouldnt work so i tried the titanium back up method and it didnt work so i looked around and android underground had a download for the app and it removed the app and it went into an fc loop so i pulled the battery and it is gone and rom runs perfectly fine
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SN4K3B1T3 said:
I used an app called system app remover i think thats the name...not 100% suree...but i got it to get rid of wifi calling cuz im on roger and tmobile wifi calling wouldnt work so i tried the titanium back up method and it didnt work so i looked around and android underground had a download for the app and it removed the app and it went into an fc loop so i pulled the battery and it is gone and rom runs perfectly fine
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Using an app called Absolute System Root Tool has the feature to uninstall system apps, and this worked for me to remove Kobo.
i used this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448 i installed htc sync drivers turned on debug and set phone mode to charge mode only like it says i ran as administrator says its trying to root says maybe to many apps running reboot, i reboot run task killer kill everything still says cant root? what am i doing wrong? thanks
leo5111 said:
i used this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448 i installed htc sync drivers turned on debug and set phone mode to charge mode only like it says i ran as administrator says its trying to root says maybe to many apps running reboot, i reboot run task killer kill everything still says cant root? what am i doing wrong? thanks
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Use this method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829045 ir works every time as long as you follow it to a tee. It is longer and requires more work, but it is definitely the most fail proof way.
leo5111 said:
i used this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448 i installed htc sync drivers turned on debug and set phone mode to charge mode only like it says i ran as administrator says its trying to root says maybe to many apps running reboot, i reboot run task killer kill everything still says cant root? what am i doing wrong? thanks
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Usually a factory reset will help with that, either that or your antivirus may be picking up on the exploit. I forget which ones do it but some will pick up on that.
oh ,ok so if you dont do a hard wipe sometimes wont root?? and can i use the factory wipe thats listed in the phone? thanks
Just use unrevoked. Its the best and fastest and easiest way that I've found
Hi
I need to solve this real quick.
I'm using Desire with stock 2.2 and wanna root it with unrevoked 3 and here's what happened.
After I put my device to USB debugging mode, ticked at install from unknown sources, USB charge only mode and run the latest unrevoked 3 as administrator (also disabled the Kaspersky). It went well and I got stuck at HBOOT so I installed the HBOOT Driver from unrevoked website and it then continued the process. But I got an error after rebooting. It says "is your firmware too new?" Then I thought that I once did the force everything to SD, so I opened up the command and setInstallLocation 0 instead of 2. Then run the unrevoked again but it still says the same. So I went through threads, some users reported that their device has too few internal space, mine is not but I, anyway, uninstalled a couple of apps and have about 30MB left (from about 17MB) then run it again. But it still says the same.
What should I do?
This is the info about my device:
Bravo PVT1 S-ON
HBOOT 0.93.0001
Radio 32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2
I've posted before in the wrong section but there was a reply said "The solution is to clear storage/factory reset and it will work. This failure belongs to any app or you can uninstall any app that you are using." Is that means there is an app obstructing the device from being rooted? I rather don't want to factory reset because I want to make a Titanium backup all apps + app's data before installing the new ROM.
If more infos needed, please ask it right away and many thanks in advance.
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Try to root again with version 3.22:
https://rs979l33.rapidshare.com/#!d....exe|27169|R~CC72A421EBC721D76E234BF29905D2D9
If unrevoked still cannot root your phone, try to use superonelick:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
No warrany for any damage!
MatDrOiD said:
Try to root again with version 3.22:
https://rs979l33.rapidshare.com/#!d....exe|27169|R~CC72A421EBC721D76E234BF29905D2D9
If unrevoked still cannot root your phone, try to use superonelick:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
No warrany for any damage!
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Thanks. Will try it and report back
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Dude, believe me its about an app that you can't get root access
nobody will have a solution for that, you have to clear storage.
Or uninstall each and every app and try to root.
Flashmaniac said:
Dude, believe me its about an app that you can't get root access
nobody will have a solution for that, you have to clear storage.
Or uninstall each and every app and try to root.
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Gosh. OK I believe you. I just don't want to shoot those red birds all over again from stage 1 or try to jump higher and higher to get a high score (if you know what I mean)
OK summarize this thing: I've to factory reset. All I can do is backup my SMS, apps (no data) to my SD with an app from the Market like appmonster. Right?
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BlackMiracle said:
Gosh. OK I believe you. I just don't want to shoot those red birds all over again from stage 1 or try to jump higher and higher to get a high score (if you know what I mean)
OK summarize this thing: I've to factory reset. All I can do is backup my SMS, apps (no data) to my SD with an app from the Market like appmonster. Right?
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Unrevoked 3.22 and superoneclick both do not work?
MatDrOiD said:
Unrevoked 3.22 and superoneclick both do not work?
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I haven't tried it yet. I've to get some sleep now... will report again tomorrow. Thanks
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Saving the Apps is pointless Google will back up em right when u set up ur phone. And I know what u are talking about ... We all had to lose some things before
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I'm now ROOTED.
This morning after I had breakfast, I opened the app 'appSaver' and clicked at uninstall tab and I found something that I believe it came from unrevoked because it had unrevoked's icon but the name was something starting with 'Z' I can't remember. So I uninstalled it and I think this will be the last time trying to root or I'll factory reset. And it worked.
I went flawlessly through the process and got my Desire rooted (with latest unrevoked).
Thanks everyone!
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I'm facing the same problem here. i dont wanna factory reset my phone and I m stuck here. someone please help.
guneshwor said:
I'm facing the same problem here. i dont wanna factory reset my phone and I m stuck here. someone please help.
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Did you try doing like I wrote along in this thread?
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Use older unrEVOked - 3.21
BlackMiracle said:
I'm now ROOTED.
...it had unrevoked's icon but the name was something starting with 'Z' I can't remember. So I uninstalled it and I think this will be the last time trying to root or I'll factory reset. And it worked.
I went flawlessly through the process and got my Desire rooted (with latest unrevoked).
Thanks everyone!
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this Zysploit, need to be uninstalled and unrevoked...
fragargon said:
this Zysploit, need to be uninstalled and unrevoked...
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exactly
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fragargon said:
this Zysploit, need to be uninstalled and unrevoked...
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Precisly what happened to me, refused to root the 1st time until I read this and removed Zysploit, then ran it again and BINGO!!
Thanks all
Removing Zysploit did the trick !!!
Superb!!
Just ran a successfull root with unrevoked again as the first try failed.
Removing Zysploit and restarting unrevoked did the trick. YESS!!!!
Would have never found that one if not pointed to using this thread and was close to an unnecessary factory-reset... (phew!).
Bas.
Ive found with some desire devices after u uninstall htc sync and install hboot drivers..reinstall htc sync then run unrevoked3 and viola!! S-off
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Move Zysploit app from SD to internal
This should work if you have SD card as your default install location (probably by earlier "adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2" command), so Zysploit is stored on your SD card, but deletion of this app doesn't work.
1) Move Zysploit from SD card to internal memory and try to root again.
2) If that fails, try to root once more.
3) If that fails too, delete Zysploit's data only (not the app) and try to root again.
(And if for some reason that fails too, try again step 2 or 3...)
Worked for me
I have an EVO on the Fresh 4.2.0.0, on the 2.3.3 android system, S-OFF, but I have error messages that says I'm not rooted. My superuser keeps force closing and I have no idea what to do. I also get the same error message.
Even for me the latest version of Unrevoked gave the error: your firmware is too new. I had to use Unrevoked v3.21 to accomplish the task.
I have been using z4root for a while. Today when I pressed wireless tether I got a message. Unable to tether is your device rooted. I am using version 1.3.0 I tried reinstalling the software. That did not work. When I root my phone it says I am rooted when I press wireless tether I get serveral messages the first one says sorry but your kernel does not have all necessary features for running this application. I tried pressing ignore then I got message that this application will not work properly. Then I get message that says unable to start tethering is your device rooted. My software z4root says I am rooted and seems to work. Yet the wire less tether does not see that I am rooted.
Yesterday I got the update message on Android incredible. But it did not work. Got the not enough space message. I did move a lot of my apps to my sd card could this be the problem? I also have enabled acess control in wireless tether app. Also enable wifi encryption is checked? I still have version 2.2. Please help me I love using this.
Why don't you just permanent root with unrevocked?
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Follow this link
http://unrevoked.com/#inc
And select unrevocked3
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root
I was afraid it would do something that I did not know how to reverse if I do not want it permanently rooted?
susieq29 said:
I was afraid it would do something that I did not know how to reverse if I do not want it permanently rooted?
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Nothing is permanent unrevoked can be reversed verry easily, it just wont reverse itself.
susieq29 said:
I was afraid it would do something that I did not know how to reverse if I do not want it permanently rooted?
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Is safe and if for any reason you don't want permanent root there's way to go back stock/unrooted
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cmlusco said:
Nothing is permanent unrevoked can be reversed verry easily.
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Well in the developers world we call it permanent because you can restart/turn off and the device stay rooted. Unlike temporary you restart and the root is gone
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I tried unrevoked. Downloaded all software.It went through all processes and keeps getting stuck after rooting. Says phone temporarily lost comunication. Can't seem to get past this error message?
susieq29 said:
I tried unrevoked. Downloaded all software.It went through all processes and keeps getting stuck after rooting. Says phone temporarily lost comunication. Can't seem to get past this error message?
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Your default connection type has to "charge only" and "never ask". Also, you have to check "unknown sources" under settings>applications, and usb debuging has to be checked.
Have you installed the adb drivers on your pc?
Also htc sync can not be installed in your pc when using unrevoked.
Here is a great beginers guide to rooting and what to d after rooted.
http://www.jonamerica.com/technology/updated-root-the-htc-droid-incredible/
fixed root using z4root
I am thrilled, Got. Phone rooted. Used 4share app. Downloaded 4zroot.apk app. Installed it. Looked like it did not work. Stuck on rooting. After I powered off and on phone was rooted. I have only used this for tethering. Is there any way to save battery life with rooted phone.
susieq29 said:
I am thrilled, Got. Phone rooted. Used 4share app. Downloaded 4zroot.apk app. Installed it. Looked like it did not work. Stuck on rooting. After I powered off and on phone was rooted. I have only used this for tethering. Is there any way to save battery life with rooted phone.
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Yea there's a lot of mods, tweaks, radio, kernel that are battery savers and a lot more of stuff you can do to this phone
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susieq29 said:
I am thrilled, Got. Phone rooted. Used 4share app. Downloaded 4zroot.apk app. Installed it. Looked like it did not work. Stuck on rooting. After I powered off and on phone was rooted. I have only used this for tethering. Is there any way to save battery life with rooted phone.
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Yes! Flash a custom Rom and Kernel and you will see a great improvement on battery life. The best kernels I have used with great battery performance are Incredikernel and Gingertiny. Do some research first then start flashing, and make sure you do a backup before flashing anything.
PM me if you need any help or a step by step
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Does backing up rooted phone mean that I have all my downloaded apps and data on either my computer or my sd card. Is there anything else I need to back up? Right now I only have one program that I downloaded that is not from the market. All my contacts are on my gmail account?
susieq29 said:
Does backing up rooted phone mean that I have all my downloaded apps and data on either my computer or my sd card. Is there anything else I need to back up? Right now I only have one program that I downloaded that is not from the market. All my contacts are on my gmail account?
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When you back up with recovery it backs up your entire phone to the clockwork folder on your sdcard. It is highly recommended that you copy the backup folder to your pc on a regular basis just in case something goes wrong with your sd.
Ok just downloaded clockwork. Haven't really done anything else with the phone since it is rooted. Other than get wireless hotspot.
I am just learning about Roms and Flashing. What OS system would you recommend for the incredible. I installed Rom Manager. That is where I got clockwork from. Seems like an easy program. Do I need to erase anything on my phone manually before I put a new OS system on it?
Never mind just rebooted and everything is there.
Just backed up my sd card. But Now it shows empty on my phone and it says sd card needs to be mounted when I open ROM manager. How do I get my stuff back on the SD card? I just copied it to a file on my computer. I do not understand what happended to everything on the card.
PLEASE HELP
I clicked on clockwork recovery it went through the process. When I look at the clockwork file on my sd card it does not say anything about a back up there are some files in download folder is that the backup? Is there any OS that I can install that won't wipe the phone clean? And if I do wipe the phone how do I put back my stuff like ringtones etc.
There are a ton of things you can do to save battery life... Search the threads and you will find a lot of info....
Some things to start with... Turn off phone finder, use ROM toolbox to increase WiFi scan intervals, use sleep mode at night, don't use ES file explorer, etc
Lots of options
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jimmyUT said:
There are a ton of things you can do to save battery life... Search the threads and you will find a lot of info....
Some things to start with... Turn off phone finder, use ROM toolbox to increase WiFi scan intervals, use sleep mode at night, don't use ES file explorer, etc
Lots of options
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Why ES file explorer a problem?
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Every time I install an app, I get a pop up window that asks me if I want to "Turn on HTC Backup". Anybody know how to get rid of this silly thing? It has a "Don't ask me again" box which seems to have no effect.
I can't uninstall the app or find any way to shut it off. I am running Venom rom, rooted and s-off.
Thanks!
snowkilts said:
Every time I install an app, I get a pop up window that asks me if I want to "Turn on HTC Backup". Anybody know how to get rid of this silly thing? It has a "Don't ask me again" box which seems to have no effect.
I can't uninstall the app or find any way to shut it off. I am running Venom rom, rooted and s-off.
Thanks!
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Use titanium backup to uninstall it or freeze it.
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