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Can anyone show a list of useless apps of T-mobile USA DEFY？

Hi guys, first I am really happy to see a DEFY section in XDA ！
Well, there are many apps in Tmo(usa) defy, I have rooted it by using Z4 root.
Can anyone show a list of useless apps that I can safely remove ?
Thx a lot!

Here's a screen cap of my removed apps folder. I've had no problems at all since removing all these apps.
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If anyone knew what all of them did that would be excellent. Not sure I'd want to remove 'Browser' before knowing what exactly it is it browses.

Damn that's alot!!

Thanx for the list. I would like to clean up as well, but like to first know what certain packages do, especially as I have not seen them popping up anywhere:
ArcPhotoworkshop
ArcVideoEditor
esmusica
This Kodak Perfect Touch thingy
hiphopofficial
revolver
truecountry
Is there a good way to find out which packages depend on other packages and/or services ?

all of them - use asop 2.2 custom rom
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nitewalkergr said:
Here's a screen cap of my removed apps folder. I've had no problems at all since removing all these apps.
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thanks a lot

BizzaBoy said:
Thanx for the list. I would like to clean up as well, but like to first know what certain packages do, especially as I have not seen them popping up anywhere:
ArcPhotoworkshop Not sure; trial software maybe? Haven't noticed it missing.
ArcVideoEditor Same as above.
esmusica Same as above.
This Kodak Perfect Touch thingy Leave this; it's image processing for the camera.
hiphopofficial Bloat
revolver Bloat
truecountry Bloat
Is there a good way to find out which packages depend on other packages and/or services ?
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See text in blue.

How to reinstall them?
If I uninstalled them via Titanium backup. I made a backup before uninstalling them but if I try to reinstall for example: Wi fi calling.apk via titanium backup nothing happens.
I already wiped the phone but the apps are not there anymore. How can I restore them?

george1983c said:
all of them - use asop 2.2 custom rom
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You do realize you're in the Defy forum and there's no such thing?

can you tell us how you removed all those apps once the phone is rooted? Can't seem to find anything on removing the bloat... just lists of what people have removed.
Thanks

jag7720 said:
can you tell us how you removed all those apps once the phone is rooted? Can't seem to find anything on removing the bloat... just lists of what people have removed.
Thanks
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This^
I thought I had it figured out but alas I still stomped.

You'll need to install a File manager that can access root directories and then delete the APKs using that.
The most popular one is Root Explorer. Try searching for it in Market.

[APP] EFS Backup for Galaxy Nexus

Hi,
Here is a simple app to backup a copy of your EFS in .img format to your /sdcard folder. While it is not checked during runtime, root is required.
It's fairly basic at the moment, this being my first Android app
Hope I can improve on this while I pick up more stuff about Android programming.
Special thanks to silow whom I learnt the commands for Galaxy Nexus EFS backup.

Useful application! But you definitely need to replace that black screen when app is making the backup many will tend to close the application believing that this is not working!
So if you use this now wait 3-4 minutes and will announce when backup is done!
And definitely you need to add the Restore EFS from backup option!
EDIT!
Will be something like kTool for GN!
We need this!Good work and good luck!

In market?

lazy_ursache said:
Useful application! But you definitely need to replace that black screen when app is making the backup many will tend to close the application believing that this is not working!
So if you use this now wait 3-4 minutes and will announce when backup is done!
And definitely you need to add the Restore EFS from backup option!
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That's strange, you mean it doesn't display a progress dialog with a spinner for you?
Restore is easy to add but testing if it works is a bit tricky

Nop no progress dialog with a spinner (tried 3 times)! Just black screen and then Backup done! Will reinstall and try again later!
EDIT!
Installed again and now it display a progress dialog with a spinner! Strange!

I get a pop up /w spinner for what it's worth.
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Thanks
Works !
Thanks !

Would this work on nexus s?
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S

What is the EFS backup for?
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incredulous said:
What is the EFS backup for?
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/esf is a very important partition that isn't backed up by nandroids(I think) that contains your IMEI (or the cmda version) and if lost/corrupted is very bad indeed
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S

Great work, but how can i restore the Backup?

allesmeglische said:
Great work, but how can i restore the Backup?
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x2 thanks

DarkhShadow said:
/esf is a very important partition that isn't backed up by nandroids(I think) that contains your IMEI (or the cmda version) and if lost/corrupted is very bad indeed
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In what situation could this ever happen?

Not sure about the gnex, but on the i9100 it can happen randomly with a rom flash (rarely). Independent of rom or quality thereof.
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Interesting, I've flashed many a ROM, mostly on HTC devices, and never had this issue. Is it a Samsung thing?
HTC, on the other hand, seems to have a knack for killing the MISC partition

I've also had an HTC (Desire), and never knew about this EFS partition (nor did I have any issues).
I am wondering though, if it does get corrupted, and we have a backup, can we restore the .img using Fastboot if we're unable to get back into Android to use this app to restore?

bemymonkey said:
Interesting, I've flashed many a ROM, mostly on HTC devices, and never had this issue. Is it a Samsung thing?
HTC, on the other hand, seems to have a knack for killing the MISC partition
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HTC phones don't have /efs
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DarkhShadow said:
HTC phones don't have /efs
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So it's not really necessary, but Samsung went ahead and put it on there anyway, making sure that if it's modified/overwritten/corrupted the phone will become a paperweight?

bemymonkey said:
So it's not really necessary, but Samsung went ahead and put it on there anyway, making sure that if it's modified/overwritten/corrupted the phone will become a paperweight?
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Phones still do boot with corrupted /efs, but you will have a generic IMEI and stuff probably won't work
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S

So the question again: Why did Samsung put this somewhere where it can be so easily overwritten/corrupted/broken?

Save settings when changing ROM

I've been changing ROMs once a week for a while now, and it's just tiring to set the phone up all over again everytime
Is there a way to backup the homescreens, settings and all of that as well?

SrebX said:
I've been changing ROMs once a week for a while now, and it's just tiring to set the phone up all over again everytime
Is there a way to backup the homescreens, settings and all of that as well?
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HY, there is a way, you need to go to acccounts/backup and reset(depending of your current rom) ,then select the google one and then tap on backup.Google will backup your settings/contacts/messages/and other stuff.IF I HELPED PLEASE PRESS THANKS!!!!!

SrebX said:
I've been changing ROMs once a week for a while now, and it's just tiring to set the phone up all over again everytime
Is there a way to backup the homescreens, settings and all of that as well?
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Restore a nandroid backup of the custom roms..
As far as homescreens are concerned, use nova/apex launcher which saves the homescreen prefs..
For apps, use titanium backup!
-Sent from my IceCold One X!

johnyvlad said:
HY, there is a way, you need to go to acccounts/backup and reset(depending of your current rom) ,then select the google one and then tap on backup.Google will backup your settings/contacts/messages/and other stuff.IF I HELPED PLEASE PRESS THANKS!!!!!
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It already does backup this way, though it doesn't work with homescreens :\
vin4yak said:
Restore a nandroid backup of the custom roms..
As far as homescreens are concerned, use nova/apex launcher which saves the homescreen prefs..
For apps, use titanium backup!
-Sent from my IceCold One X!
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App backup isn't really the problem [Though I do hate using apps like Titanium backup, simply cause if I download from them and not from the Play Store, I don't get auto updates], what concerns me more is home screens, which is tiring to do everytime
I really hate using Launchers, especially those 2 which take away the Sense look ... isn't there another way?

Use titamium to backup the htc sense app data. Should work if you remain on same sense ver.
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Restore it after you have installed all your apps of course. I just tested on my rom. Backed up, deleted stuff from home screens then restored data only in titanium and home screens were back.
Be aware its best to start from scratch though as restoring across different roms may cause probs. You can always clear sense app data though if it goes wrong
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herbie13 said:
Use titamium to backup the htc sense app data. Should work if you remain on same sense ver.
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Restore it after you have installed all your apps of course. I just tested on my rom. Backed up, deleted stuff from home screens then restored data only in titanium and home screens were back.
Be aware its best to start from scratch though as restoring across different roms may cause probs. You can always clear sense app data though if it goes wrong
Sent from my HTC One X
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Titanium backup helps not only with sense -> sense rom.
You can save your wi-fi access points, wallpaper, contacts storage, people and complete programs when migrating to other rom.
Contacts and list of programs are stored in your gmail account, so theres only ringtones missing.

Now days wifi settings are also stored in your Google Cloud if you have enabled Backup in Settings > Privacy
But there are alternatives:
App called Helium - App Sync and Backup
And I used a adb script to pull the home-screen before changing ROM and push it after all apps were restored.

[MOD] Sense 5 Transparent BlinkFeed

Here the Transparent BlinkFeed, its flash-able zip file and don't forget to wipe the cache after flashing.
Press thanks Button if u like it!

04kiran said:
Here the Transparent BlinkFeed, its flash-able zip file and don't forget to wipe the cache after flashing.
Press thanks Button if u like it!
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Screenshot please

osama-selo said:
Screenshot please
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Here u go
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Here u go View attachment 2295364
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Thank :good:

Using projectx Rom and unfortunately this causes sense to stop, but thanks for trying.
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Same Here, This is forcing Sense launcher de stop. i'm on ViperX 4.0.4.

why does this crash htc sense?
tried this and it says htc sense has stopped so i have removed it. Is there something i am doing wrong??
Using ARHD 31.3 by mike1986

eevilgenius said:
tried this and it says htc sense has stopped so i have removed it. Is there something i am doing wrong??
Using ARHD 31.3 by mike1986
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Did you cleared cache? Else try pushing attached Prism.apk file to system folder using adb or using any file manager (ES file manager)
P.S make backup before doing this, coz i have not tried it m on Viper ROM

Same problem: sense force closes.
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HTC Sense Crash Error
04kiran said:
Did you cleared cache? Else try pushing attached Prism.apk file to system folder using adb or using any file manager (ES file manager)
P.S make backup before doing this, coz i have not tried it m on Viper ROM
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Hi 04kiran I saw this post after the installation process and unfortunately didnt backup before trying this mod. Now my sense is stuck with the error mentioned. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix or restore back to stock to fix this problem?

Just reflash whatever ROM you are in without wiping.
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I have ViperX 4.0.6 and it works BUT after flashing some tweaks don't work e.g transparent navbar, colorful weather widget, hiding clock and weather from appdrawer and blinkfeed, changing grid (can't use 5x5. 5x6). Back to normal ViperX.

Stock phone/dialer app

I installed the GlobAL00ized beta 2 rom on my AL00 and the stock phone app was replaced with Google's Phone app and prefer the stock app. Can anyone share the stock apk?

ben63vw said:
I installed the GlobAL00ized beta 2 rom on my AL00 and the stock phone app was replaced with Google's Phone app and prefer the stock app. Can anyone share the stock apk?
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Can this help u?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z_2uf34-VdhZDBLMwVPygjzTzTNIZ36c/view?usp=drivesdk

BigDisplay said:
Can this help u?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z_2uf34-VdhZDBLMwVPygjzTzTNIZ36c/view?usp=drivesdk
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Thanks for the reply, unfortunately I can't install the apk you posted. It fails with "The parser didn't find any certificates in the installation package." error.

ben63vw said:
Thanks for the reply, unfortunately I can't install the apk you posted. It fails with "The parser didn't find any certificates in the installation package." error.
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Hmmm, then i don't know how to help u [emoji848]

BigDisplay said:
Hmmm, then i don't know how to help u [emoji848]
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All good, again thanks for trying. I can request that the stock app be put back into the rom instead of the Google version and for now it takes more steps to do certain things, like adding #s to blacklist. I have to do it via Phone Manager app instead of straight through the phone app.

Have some more here... Maybe this can makes it working.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I31YkHrL0CGXygm4OXzk8DVpIhiPK3f7/view?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ClkJiRgvHJmh57kGe4epLHzzGjQ38Ngl/view?usp=drivesdk

BigDisplay said:
Have some more here... Maybe this can makes it working.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I31YkHrL0CGXygm4OXzk8DVpIhiPK3f7/view?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ClkJiRgvHJmh57kGe4epLHzzGjQ38Ngl/view?usp=drivesdk
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Same results. But light bulb just lit... I have a backup from before installing GlobAL00ized beta 2 rom that I can restore after making a new backup. Then I can backup the app via titanium backup, restore my current setup and restore the app. Profit I have to wait till I get home though cause my backup in on a flash there.

BigDisplay said:
Have some more here... Maybe this can makes it working.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I31YkHrL0CGXygm4OXzk8DVpIhiPK3f7/view?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ClkJiRgvHJmh57kGe4epLHzzGjQ38Ngl/view?usp=drivesdk
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Same results. But light bulb just lit... I have a backup from before installing GlobAL00ized beta 2 rom that I can restore after making a new backup. Then I can backup the app via titanium backup, restore my current setup and restore the app. Profit I have to wait till I get home though cause my backup in on a flash there.

ben63vw said:
Same results. But light bulb just lit... I have a backup from before installing GlobAL00ized beta 2 rom that I can restore after making a new backup. Then I can backup the app via titanium backup, restore my current setup and restore the app. Profit I have to wait till I get home though cause my backup in on a flash there.
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You cannot install the stock dialer. You must copy and paste it to system/app. Set correct permissions and reboot.

HELP!
i install the google dialer last week ... then i can see both dialer .... Huawei and Google, starting today the huawei dialer is going and its not showing in the app-drawer anymore.
Any ideas ?
Peter
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ben63vw said:
Thanks for the reply, unfortunately I can't install the apk you posted. It fails with "The parser didn't find any certificates in the installation package." error.
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same here

How to get back uninstalled stock dialer app
I managed to uninstall by mistake the stock dialer app on my Mate 20 Pro (9.1.0.300), is there some way how to get it back?

antiochasylum said:
You cannot install the stock dialer. You must copy and paste it to system/app. Set correct permissions and reboot.
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Could you explain a bit more by what you mean here? I have the same problem as the others, and can't seem to reinstall it. Thanks!