Hey guys, I'm looking to see if anyone knows of what bloat is safe to remove or not
The list on my titanium back-up is super populated and I can see some that I want to freeze for sure but I'm worried if they're tied in to any system apps that could cause my phone to go out of whack.
Any input is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I can tell you that you need S-off before you do anything. TB used to be all you needed (I.e., root)...But now without S-off TB won't do anything to system apps.
Plus, I don't know if anyone has worked out this yet for TMO. I disabled Amazon, File Manager, Facebook for HTC, and Kid Zone...And my WiFi calling stopped working.
I'm pretty sure it was f*cking Kid Zone which did it... I've now successfully disabled Amazon and Facebook with no problems They disappear from your app drawer when you disabled them, so no point freezing them. If you disable them, you can then un-install them (if S-off), but again, no one has reported all the potential collateral problems by doing this, so I'd hold off.
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Ok, here is a new one for me. I have an incredible, obviously, updated with 2.2 from over the air. I rooted with unrevoked 3.something. I have installed a few new things, better cut, handcent sms, better keyboard, wifi tether. Since all of these installs and the rooting, i began to have this problem (i have other software but it was fine before this), i have this problem where my programs believe it is a fresh first time launch every time i start them. Things like c:geo, trillian, and others go blank and have me reenter passwords and info. I don't know how to start trouble shooting this without deleting a ton of stuff, obviously undesirable. Can you offer any suggestions? Could this be a bad root problem? Help is appreciated..
I also removed some bloatware with apb. moved it to my sd card.
What all did you remove with adb?
I own an HTC INCREDIBLE and I've been told to "root" my phone to get rid of all the bloatware. What is rooting and how do I do it? A lot of my apps and all of my music and all photos are saved to my mem card. There are some HTC apps I would actually like to keep. Also, is there anyway I could get swipe on my phone?
Yep - you can root your phone to get rid of bloatware and allow you to do all sorts of other things, basically, rooting the phone allows you to be the administrator of your phone, whereas now you just have a user account on it ... As for how to root, that's been done a lot of different ways and is explained in a number of places - you should read several how-tos so you'll have an idea of what you're getting yourself into (and whether you want to bother)... The contents of your memory card should be safe, but you should back them up anyway, since memory cards do fail during normal use. Simply rooting won't automatically remove any of your apps, so your good there, but it will give you the ability to remove apps, or even break (or even "brick") your phone, so take it easy and don't take any steps 'till you understand what you're about to do.
Here are some resources you can check out :
Ok, actually I'm not allowed to be helpful by posting links since I'm a new member, but google these terms: root droid incredible Jonamerica - that'll get you started...
As for swype the legit way to get it is to sign up for their beta (it's available on their website which I can't link you to) and go from there.
Thanks so much. I'll check it out!
Just a few newbie tips for you.
I'm new to all of this also.....rooting and flashing.
1. Read a lot before you do anything. Its not hard but readup first!
2. Be patient......2 or 3 times while I have rooted or flashed I have thought that maybe my phone is dead. Sometimes there is no visible indication that the phone is actually doing what you want it to do. Let it sit there and do its thing. DO NOT PANIC and pull the battery!
3. Backup backup backup backup BACKUP!
Have fun.....I am
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Yep - you can root your phone to get rid of bloatware and allow you to do all sorts of other things, basically, rooting the phone allows you to be the administrator of your phone, whereas now you just have a user account on it ... As for how to root, that's been done a lot of different ways and is explained in a number of places - you should read several how-tos so you'll have an idea of what you're getting yourself into (and whether you want to bother)... The contents of your memory card should be safe, but you should back them up anyway, since memory cards do fail during normal use. Simply rooting won't automatically remove any of your apps, so your good there, but it will give you the ability to remove apps, or even break (or even "brick") your phone, so take it easy and don't take any steps 'till you understand what you're about to do.
Here are some resources you can check out :
Ok, actually I'm not allowed to be helpful by posting links since I'm a new member, but google these terms: root droid incredible Jonamerica - that'll get you started...
As for swype the legit way to get it is to sign up for their beta (it's available on their website which I can't link you to) and go from there.
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Thank you for this search link. Guide is very helpful, fills in alot of the blanks I've been having.
You're welcome.
There are numerous other guides and threads out there, so googling and reading is a good idea... I just researched it again since I rooted my wife's Inc. last night and since it has an SLCD screen I wanted to make sure that unrevoked had been updated to work with these screens - turns out it has and it worked fine. I actually had a scary moment when the phone wouldn't boot into recovery (five vibrations and a blank screen) but a google search and a battery pull saved me and so far so good since then - and I was able to uninstall verizon's backup assistant which was killing her battery every day.
Is that the only reason you rooted your wife's phone, was to remove some of the bloat? I might end up doing the same.
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Is that the only reason you rooted your wife's phone, was to remove some of the bloat? I might end up doing the same.
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Yeah, that was the main reason - when she upgraded from her dumbphone, we used Backup Assistant to transfer her numbers over, but lately it's been hanging during sync and killing her battery (and/or it may be syncing over the poor 1x data connection rather than available wifi - not sure about that but it sounds like something Verizon would do (it would both be a bit more secure, and use more data they could bill us for)). Since Verizon in all their wisdom made it so you can't uninstall that app or disassociate it from your account, I figured the I'd use force and just root the phone - worked too, now her battery's lasting all day, no problem.
I also would recommend rooting to anyone concerned about certain apps wanting internet permissions - DroidWall is a great app allowing you to prevent apps from accessing the internet (or you can block just wifi or just 3g for a specific app, potentially allowing you to better manage your data usage).
make sure to read alot about what ur getting into.. And remember to always backup before you do anything (incase of errors/problems) you can always boot back to stock...happy rootin!
Check this out: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Barebones.
That guide is specific to Cyanogenmod, and it's a little outdated, but it's a good starting point to learn what applications are required for the phone to run, and which applications are simply "extra."
A friend of mine wanted bloatware removed on her DI2, so I completed a temporary root and froze apps, and it seemed to work fine. However, I was told recently that HTC's Superclock App is stuck on the location we were at when I performed the temporary root, and that it's not auto-adjusting to her location.
1.) Has this sort of problem happened to others doing the same thing?
2.) I have a Captivate and am unfamiliar with Sense UI, so if there's simply some kind of toggle in the settings for auto-location, would that perhaps solve the issue?
Apologies, but I was just the "take the bloat off" person, so some of the specifics of Sense 2.0 I'm unfamiliar with. And in case anybody asks, GPS is turned on.
If you left the phone temp rooted, it's very possible. I've temp rooted and removed bloat via freezing it and have not had this issue, but I usually reboot immediately after I'm done with what I need to do in temp root. Temp root is known to break Bluetooth, it's quite possible it's also affecting that app/widget as well.
It's also possible you may have removed too much bloat. If you've removed any of the HTC stuff, try putting it back.
I just removed Verizon's crap and some of the apps like ESPN and stuff, but none of HTC's stuff. I've suggested restarting the phone, but I don't have direct access to it so I'm not positive if my friend did it or not (she's not, how shall I say it, adept at using smart phones, so pressing buttons other than messaging and phone are really cautiously done).
Your friend happen to be my wife?
Kidding.. My wife has an iPhone.. I'm ready to disown her.
What is this Superclock app that you speak of?
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I was having really long GPS Locking issues and I did a factory reset to remove anything I did via temp-root and that fixed it.
I have an HTC Evo that I am going to give to my daughter to use as an ipod basically. It will not be activated and I know it won't make any calls but I want to know if there is a way to do away with the phone icon all together so I don't have to worry about her accidently calling 911 or even *2. Does anyone know of a way or rom that I need that can do this??
Just use Titanium Backup to remove the phone apk., if you're rooted.
Delete the dialer
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To delete the dialer do I need a specific rom because I have tried to delete stock stuff before with stock rooted rom and various other roms and it wouldn't work.
As far as with titanium backup do I just freeze the apk?? I have tried freezing some before and the whole phone just froze but that was also with a customer rom not a stock rooted phone.
er, think what you are saying - you're taking something that could be used to save her life and yours and disabling it.
Just tell her not to use it, *2 isn't going to do anything other than maybe connect her to someone who will ask for pass codes to reactivate...
for one she is only seven and doesn't need to be able to make any calls what so ever. And two the only time she will have it is when she is with me, either at our house or when we leave but she is only allowed to have it when she is with me so she will never need actually use it for an emergency. And I know what *2 will do but I know her and she will sit there and keep calling to have conversations with them. She has done it in the past with my fiancees phone. If she was actually going to be taking it to her mothers or to school absolutely it would ne fully activated and I would only limit the calls that she can make by disabling all others numbers but she isn't it will be used strictly as an ipod like device and only when she is with me.
Use an app that will block certain apps with a passcode. Lock the dialer, contacts, and anything that there's no reason to use but that you can't remove. There are tons of apps with this functionality on the Market. I think there's one or two featured for free on Getjar.
You can also use Titanium Backup or a free alternative to freeze apps. This way you can test what your rom can do without. If it's only going to be used for media/games, I'd put something light, like CM7 on it. This will help with battery life and performance, and a lot of the apps that you don't need aren't installed stock.
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Im using a HTC 10 (EU variant). Today i was scrolling through "Netguard" (if you dont know it, its an app to prevent other apps from internet access), since i configured it to show system apps it displays way more apps than the normal app overview in the settings. In there i found an app called "RootPA" and one called "root", which seems strange since i didnt unlock the bootloader or root on my own. The details in the RootPA entry say "com.gd.mobicore.pa", no idea if thats helpfull to determine the origin of this mysterious app.
Can you help me with this?
Did you Google it?
I did, but the results were not realy usefull. I found someone with a modded Galaxy S3 who deleted a RootPA on accident and broke stuff, but that ssems unrelated. Are there any things i could do to find out more about the app installed on my phone without root?
I cant say its something I've ever seen. If this person in the past removed it, and it broke stuff, that would suggest that it may have been a system app and he was rooted. From what I managed to find on google, it is part of a security suite (mobicore) used by networks to monitor what the state of the phone is, presumably incase something happens, and it was the user fault, and they know for a fact because they have logs of what the phone has done.
[ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE] Allows applications to access information about networks
[INTERNET] Allows applications to open network sockets. (i.e send information)
[READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE] Allows an application to read from external storage.
[READ_PHONE_STATE] Allows read only access to phone state.
A friend of mine got his HTC 10 2 days ago, ill ask him to look for this app. Its unlikely we would have the same virus/whatever installed.
Edit: He just reseted his 10 (due to missing language options, but thats another topic), but still found "root" and "rootPA" on his phone, so its preinstalled (although i still dont understand whats its purpose).
RootPA is provides service for provisioning secure applications that run on ARM trustzone and t-base OS (formerly mobicore). It is preinstalled in some vendors Android devices (search for this string on the internet: htc-devices-to-incorporate-trustonic-t-base-tee), but mostly unused as far as I know. The source code of some versions is available on the Internet (e.g. on github /Faryaab/android_hardware_samsung_slsi_exynos5410/tree/master/mobicore/rootpa).
It has nothing to to with rooting or unrooting the device.
PA route is very dangerous I had some I have somebody who has hacked into my phone through this particular program so to speak I have a lot of issues right now with my phone trying to get them off of my phone and this seems to be the root cause or the start of it have anybody knows how I can clear my phone and my Ram from the Vicious hacker I appreciate it I'm tired of being watched and recorded everything I do
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PA route is very dangerous I had some I have somebody who has hacked into my phone through this particular program so to speak I have a lot of issues right now with my phone trying to get them off of my phone and this seems to be the root cause or the start of it have anybody knows how I can clear my phone and my Ram from the Vicious hacker I appreciate it I'm tired of being watched and recorded everything I do
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PA route..... .rootPA ......2 different things. Hacked ? Unlikely, I think some OCD is kicking in. Want to be clean? RUU the device and do not restore anything