Are there any draw backs from deleting certain apps from /system? For example, I want to delete Facebook, Twitter, and maybe PassionQuickOffice. What is the point of QuickOffice by the way?
There ia nothing wrong with deleting the apps you listed.
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slughappy1 said:
Are there any draw backs from deleting certain apps from /system? For example, I want to delete Facebook, Twitter, and maybe PassionQuickOffice. What is the point of QuickOffice by the way?
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Quickoffice is what opens text and doc files so you can read them on your phone. If you are on a stock ROM be careful about deleting some system apps, I deleted a bunch of widgets I never used, but then I couldn't boot because HTC Sense kept force closing without the widgets. Just make nandroid backups and you'll be fine.
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Does anyone use this app? I've installed it out of curiosity and found TONS of apps that start after boot. Will pruning down this list speed up my phone at all?
I've disabled some of the apps I never use such as Mail, FM Radio, Facebook for HTC Sense, Flickr, etc. Can I go further and disable apps I DO usem but stop them starting on their own?
Some of the ones I'm thinking of are Peep, FaBook Chat, HTC Widget Downloader.
And what's Open Sense Plugin Manager?
Can I disable Bug Report? Is Rosie Utility needed since I run ADW Launcher?
Updater? DRM Protected Content Storage? Media Storage? HTC Message Uploader?
Finally, am I wasting my time with all this?!!
Why not just test it out? Try removing a few apps from start up and then reboot the phone.
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Tander_ZA said:
Why not just test it out? Try removing a few apps from start up and then reboot the phone.
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Because I'm lazy and stupid, and wondered if someone else had done the hard work already, lol!
it wont stop apps starting, just stop them at boot, apps can start themseleves at any time so you will prob see all the apps running after a few mins anyway
Most apps in that list are not infact apps but widgets for apps.
I dissable everything (after boot) that I know I won't be using the widgets for.
I also dissable in "sms recieved" - Messaging, this is because I don't use stock messaging, I use handcent.
Just read all the headings, go down and dissable things you think you will never use in those situations.
If things don't play nice then you can always untick them again.
Once rooted how do i delete sprint, amazon apps etc?
This is the main reason i wanted it rooted and it is now.
Get Titanium Backup, and you can uninstall them with that.
HipKat said:
Get Titanium Backup, and you can uninstall them with that.
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Or if you don't care to have them back, just go through settings/application/manage and find the ones you want to delete. I and Some other people don't care to have those apps so why back them up? Sometimes its just a waste of time!
backup etc
Most i just want gone! Like nascrap, sprint tv etc.
The Titanium Backup is probably a good idea in case you delete one program and it has an effect on one you want to keep. Heard of that happening.
**Problem is u go into manage apps and Uninstall is not an highlighted option on the ones they want to shove down your throat.
Some you want to keep are freindstream, g-talk and gmail...
But yeah, the NASCAR, NFL, Amazon, Peep, et al.... gone
You can actually get rid of Friendstream too if you don't use, and also get rid of any of the social networking apps. I get rid of friendstream, , facebook, news, callender, footprints, rss reader, music, browser, app sharing, sprint hotspot, and several others, because I don't use them, or their are better replacements on the market.
Titanium Backup is probably the best, but you could also use Root Uninstaller. This gives you a lot of options, such as freezing an app and restoring apps.
I use Root Explorer, I have never used Titanium Backup but you should be able to use it.
Check out this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8042316
The sixth post has a lot of items that are safe to delete.
I like to uninstall as much bloat as possible, and I've found that on some roms with sense 2.1/3.0 that something I am removing causes neither sense nor launcher pro to start upon boot. My status bar is in tact but I can't access anything in it. I usually restore all my user apps then uninstall bloat ware, and I keep deleting something on the newer sense that causes this. Any thoughts or ideas about whats ok to remove on some of the newer sense roms?
What ROM are you running? I'm sporting MikG 2.42, experimenting what I can remove and not. I'll have a list up in a minute, what works for me.
Do you want to get rid of HTC Hub, lockscreen and Rosie? Any HTC apps you want left in?
I'm using MIKG 2.42 at the moment. I remove all htc widgets, rosie, htc location services, htc location picker, sense (Yes I have launcher pro installed prior to removing sense/rosie), htc hub, I don't remove htc lockscreen as I've found that doing so causes me to not be able to answer phone calls.
Another issue I'm noticing, with 2.42, when I removed all the apps that were moved to data, when someone calls and my screen is off, I'm unable to answer, there is no slider or anything.
Usually what I do is use Root Explorer to delete apps out of System/Apps then Data/Apps then I wipe all of Data/Data. Then I boot into recovery and wipe cache and dalvik. That prevents the blank lockscreen/no slider thing.
I never noticed that stock lockscreen have-to-swipe call issue, thanks for pointing that out. Lemme flash back to MikG and tell you what I did leave in.. I always take out a lot.
When you peruse the system/app folder with a system level file manager like Root Explorer, I would argue that most of the apks that are listed are pretty self-explanatory and the associated icons also make it easy. For example: peep, flickr, Facebook, Twitter, FM Radio, Weather Wallpaper, etc. are well labeled as well as their associated widgets. If you are new to this, I recommend that you download and install the Titanium Backup app. With it, you can 'freeze' and app that you are considering removing but are unsure if it is safe to do so. 'Freezing' renders it useless and if you discover that you need that app or your device has become somewhat unstable with it being frozen, you can always "defrost' it.
Unfortunately none of my cards will work in purchasing Titanium Backup Pro... It's so annoying. I'm considering calling in my free Windows 7 upgrade, starting fresh with partitioning my hard drive and installing Ubuntu so I can start cooking a little.
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tropicalbrit said:
Usually what I do is use Root Explorer to delete apps out of System/Apps then Data/Apps then I wipe all of Data/Data. Then I boot into recovery and wipe cache and dalvik. That prevents the blank lockscreen/no slider thing.
I never noticed that stock lockscreen have-to-swipe call issue, thanks for pointing that out. Lemme flash back to MikG and tell you what I did leave in.. I always take out a lot.
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This would explain alot, I've noticed with these combo sense roms, not just MikG, that there is alot of stuff crammed into the rom, usually leaving me with only 30 or 40 megs of rom space. A full clean out of the other folders you mentioned would make sense. I've gone to AOSP for now, mainly evo deck. Once I removed the few items in evo deck I didn't want like wall papers and ringtones etc i got the rom down to 60 megs. The sense combo's are so jam packed with extras that it really takes away from the speed of the phone. Evodeck and AOSP is so small and tight I can't argue with the results. Thanks for the information, I would still love a solid list of things to remove and not to remove.
Hi everyone,
Quick question about MIUI's Backup App. I haven't used it yet, but I was wondering if I use it, what all will it actually backup for when I eventually switch to a new phone, root and install a build of miui. Obviously contacts don't matter because they're tied to my google account anyway, and apps don't matter either (and I doubt it backs up app data like game saves and stuff, right?) but I'm guessing it will backup my themes, folders, arrangement of icons, widgets I currently have active... What else? Also, when I get the new phone, i'm guessing I'd have to wait until I have all my apps & widgets reinstalled before running the MIUI Backup Restore option or else how's it going to rearrange my icons and all that after they're installed? So that would in theory be my LAST step after getting a new phone, right?
Thanks for the info.
I'd like to know this also
do not choose to backup/restore your contacts. When you use MIUI's built in back up for that, it will not sync with your google account, I found out the hard way.
MIUI's built in back up is a bad ass feature! When you back-up apps and data, I'm fairly certain that includes games saves and whatnot, I don't play games on my phone so I'm not 100% on that. But the homescreen backup actually remembers where you have your apps put, the location on the screen, folders, etc. the only thing that doesn't restore when you do this are widget's, I'm always having to put my weather widget back when I do an update.
You can also back up your data to the MIUI cloud servers when you sign up for an account
MIUI's Backup/Restore Application is amazing. It backs up literally EVERYTHING on your phone and when you upgrade your MIUI ROM, it restores EVERYTHING back to how it was before you upgraded, its one of the best features on MIUI, in my opinion. It takes out the hassle of re-installing applications. As far as I know, it should save your current game saves and states. It saves everything about an application. But make sure and not to backup your Contacts because they are synced to your Google Account. It duplicates your Contacts when you restore.
This might be a newb question, but I just wanted to make sure. I see that Titanium Backup has the ability to uninstall system apps, and there are a few in the ROM I'm using that I just don't care to use. The apps are Twitter, Google+, Play Books, Play Music, and Play Movies & TV. These don't seem integral to the system itself so would it be okay if I just uninstall them? Is there a better way besides Titanium Backup to uninstall, and does it leave traces behind? Thanks for the help!
yea it would be okay to uninstall them , it doesn't effect
Remove and fear nothing
Back them up and then delete them, if the deletion of them causes problems then restore them and delete them one by one until you find the one causing the problem and just keep it (sadly), but the applications you listed should not effect the device in any way after uninstalling.
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Yes commander!!
U can remove all the bloatapps just don't mess with Mms. Apk. System ui. Apk phone. Apk if u are going manually through folders
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I've always used Titanium Backup to remove bloatware from stock roms on my phones and its been great. Just try and be sure that the apps you uninstall are not sense related, google services, sms, phone, stock browser, etc. etc.