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ola staff, how are you all?
Firstly apologies if I'm creating a topic out of rules and with a subject ja discussed and case find necessary, moderation can delete without any problem!
I have a doubt: it would be possible to remove (uninstall) native applications of Desire?
What is the most appropriate way to do this?
I ask because ja had a motorola milestone and it managed to remove many native applications as the launcher, the music player, etc!
What do I need to do and which path to take to achieve this feat! Agradeceria if any of you, more experienced could help me, indicating the best way!
Thank you and peace!
- Root, flash a ROM with the apps removed.
Pajorve said:
ola staff, how are you all?
Firstly apologies if I'm creating a topic out of rules and with a subject ja discussed and case find necessary, moderation can delete without any problem!
I have a doubt: it would be possible to remove (uninstall) native applications of Desire?
What is the most appropriate way to do this?
I ask because ja had a motorola milestone and it managed to remove many native applications as the launcher, the music player, etc!
What do I need to do and which path to take to achieve this feat! Agradeceria if any of you, more experienced could help me, indicating the best way!
Thank you and peace!
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Moved to Q&A as not development.
You can remove apks from /system/app, though I am not an expert on the desire. It's possible, perhaps someone can help with the specifics here.
Thank you very much, but I didn't really expresei correctly as it should.
I wonder if it is possible this procedure ja with Rom installed if having to another in order to withdraw flashear these applications!
with the root explorer is unfortunately not possible ...!
is how to do?
Thanks again for the quick response!
First of all please look over your English again, as some of it came out very bad/impossible to understand
But if i get you right, you want to remove some of the native apps. These are stored on the /system partition. If you want to remove some of those, you will first have to root your phone. Then you can remove them while in recovery mode using adb commands.
This might seem a bit difficult, but if you are rooted, i can easily guide you through it. Another way, if you are rooted is to install the new s-off hboot which will allow you to make the changes using root explorer
mortenmhp said:
First of all please look over your English again, as some of it came out very bad/impossible to understand
But if i get you right, you want to remove some of the native apps. These are stored on the /system partition. If you want to remove some of those, you will first have to root your phone. Then you can remove them while in recovery mode using adb commands.
This might seem a bit difficult, but if you are rooted, i can easily guide you through it. Another way, if you are rooted is to install the new s-off hboot which will allow you to make the changes using root explorer
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Truth .... I know that my English is very bad ...! sorry!
Yes my Desire is totally root and could you please explain to me how to proceed in case extrans ABD to remove applications?
Know the method S-Off AlphaRev site, but I have to confess I didn't understand a lot about it, could tell me how to do this procedure correctly for non brickar my player?
excuse such noobs, but I'm just wanting to learn a little more ...!
Thanks for the great help
Finnaly S-OFF Tnx guys !
I ended up making the procedure of S-off and now I am with my desire in full swing!
Thank you for your strength and pela great help!
I removed all native applications that they had no use for me. ..
Thank you!
Hehe great to hear it worked out for you It was probably also easier to go the s-off road right away. Issuing adb commands is a bit more difficult.
And sorry for not answering on you request, but i have had a busy day
friend I thank you for the tips
mortenmhp said:
Hehe great to hear it worked out for you It was probably also easier to go the s-off road right away. Issuing adb commands is a bit more difficult.
And sorry for not answering on you request, but i have had a busy day
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friend I thank you for the tips
thank you very much!
Are people like you goodwill that make all the difference!
hug and sits on God's peace!
If you want to remove apps after you have flashed the ROM you can boot into recovery mode, connect device to pc in debug mode and use adb:
adb shell remount /system/
adb shell cd /system/app
adb shell ls
adb shell rm [application name.apk]
Blame me if I'm wrong, sending from my phone so I can't check atm.
Sent from my HTC
Tanx man...great ! Thank you !!
shoemeistah said:
If you want to remove apps after you have flashed the ROM you can boot into recovery mode, connect device to pc in debug mode and use adb:
adb shell remount /system/
adb shell cd /system/app
adb shell ls
adb shell rm [application name.apk]
Blame me if I'm wrong, sending from my phone so I can't check atm.
Sent from my HTC
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Now I'm trying to change the boot animation but simply can't .... ja tried in ADB follow in the footsteps of the link corresponding to the subject in thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=648555
somehow can help me ... thanks!
ja tried everything, all commands and nothing ... the appliance makes the reboot and when I think he will ride the bootanimation, I get the old boot!
swear I don't know how do I change my boot animation?
I'm using the Rom Froyo 2 with Root Version 2.12.911 .1 any tips on how to do this procedure work?
Thank you very much!
Now I have S-off with my desire and downloaded root manager from market place can I mount r/w goto to system apps and add and remove apps? Or am I being a totall noob
Pajorve said:
Now I'm trying to change the boot animation but simply can't .... ja tried in ADB follow in the footsteps of the link corresponding to the subject in thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=648555
somehow can help me ... thanks!
ja tried everything, all commands and nothing ... the appliance makes the reboot and when I think he will ride the bootanimation, I get the old boot!
swear I don't know how do I change my boot animation?
I'm using the Rom Froyo 2 with Root Version 2.12.911 .1 any tips on how to do this procedure work?
Thank you very much!
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It can depend on where the bootanimation.zip file is.
In some ROMS they're at a different location.
cheekystew said:
Now I have S-off with my desire and downloaded root manager from market place can I mount r/w goto to system apps and add and remove apps? Or am I being a totall noob
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I never used root manager but I suppose it's the same as root explorer.
But it can indeed remove files from your system, sometimes need to reboot system afterwards to see the effect. It's a paid app.
Thanks buddy shoemeistah ... Any tips of where to find this file on your system
Thanks for the explanation friend, why I can't change the bootanimation my Desire!!!
The paths that follow to try to change the bootanimation on my Desire were as follows: With the Root Explorer threw the image date/location and nothing!
After reading lots found a different way to play the file bootanimation that was as follows: System/media nor gave nothing!
Have any tips of where it could be this file bootanimation so I can make the procedure and get definitely?
Once again I'm very grateful!
Thank you!
USING FROYO 2 WITH ROOT ROM Version 2.12.911.0.1
shoemeistah said:
If you want to remove apps after you have flashed the ROM you can boot into recovery mode, connect device to pc in debug mode and use adb:
adb shell remount /system/
adb shell cd /system/app
adb shell ls
adb shell rm [application name.apk]
Blame me if I'm wrong, sending from my phone so I can't check atm.
Sent from my HTC
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True but it's so much easier with S-OFF and Root Explorer...
Discovered a simple way how to change the bootanimation on my Desire!
shoemeistah said:
It can depend on where the bootanimation.zip file is.
In some ROMS they're at a different location.
I never used root manager but I suppose it's the same as root explorer.
But it can indeed remove files from your system, sometimes need to reboot system afterwards to see the effect. It's a paid app.
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Thanks to all of XDA, ja I S-OFF and tbm discovered a simple way how to change the bootanimation on my Desire!
Thank you to all of you for the great discussion here in this thread!
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Ive had a rooted hero for about a year now, but ive been deployed since the evo came out and now i finally got one and havnt decided on root yet. With pda net, launcher pro, and the fps issue fixed, im not sure i care to root at the moment.
Anyways too the point: Is there still no way to push apps to non rooted phone instead of installing them?
i saw some " Android Central Sideload Wonder Machine" and was wondering whats the deal with it. Is it the same as enabling 3rd party apps from the setting menu, or is a way to force/push apps to phone? Or is it just a way for AT&T customers to install third party apps?
if there is no way around it, i guess ill be rooting in the near future. Sorry if its a noob type question. Im just new to the "sideload" term
thanks guys
Just out of curiosity, why is it so important to be able to push apps with adb? Why not just install them with Astro or ES?
easy. not sure if this first step is neccesary, but go to settings apps and check the off market apps box. then, cd to your tools folder, and type "adb install (app name).apk" (without quotes) hope this helps. pm me if you need help setting up adb
_MetalHead_ said:
Just out of curiosity, why is it so important to be able to push apps with adb? Why not just install them with Astro or ES?
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not really for 3rd party apps as i know how to do all that, but more so for things like installing AOSP programs, programs ported from other phones etc. Programs that would normally give you the can not install error when using astro etc.
dkdude36 said:
easy. not sure if this first step is neccesary, but go to settings apps and check the off market apps box. then, cd to your tools folder, and type "adb install (app name).apk" (without quotes) hope this helps. pm me if you need help setting up adb
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thanks ill give it a try, i thought you had to be rooted for this.
As far as i know, you don't need to be rooted to use this command. The sdk was origonally developed for development purposes, not rooting. So it makes sense that you would be able to use it (or most of it) while un rooted.
Did it work?
i dont hink the AOSP items i wanted to push are going to work, but i did however try the adb install and it worked great. Thanks for the assist.
ldc2335 said:
i dont hink the AOSP items i wanted to push are going to work, but i did however try the adb install and it worked great. Thanks for the assist.
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You can also try android commander it does the same thing with a host of other options like pulling files off your phone. rebooting your phone/boot to bootloader/boot to recovery and more. Check it out its called android commander
Hello
It is possible to uninstall apk such as Friend Stream and consoles like the adb. We know that if we have permission to interact with the system it would be nice as could be to remove unnecessary applications even on phones with s-on. He asked me a little guide on how to do it.
Can you explain that little further?
I would like to remove the garbage from the system that buried me but HTC does not want to do s-off. apk not I use such as Facebook Friend Stream. I know that the adb console allows you to interact with the system like I had a root. The question of what commands to get the sytem to remove unwanted apps to me.
Use temp root method, and then remove them.
They will come back after a reboot though.
That would return after a reboot I do not mind I'd removed them again.
Could you describe exactly how to do it, give the command.
Someone explain how the apk with adb to remove the system
Hi, I've got a noob question here: How do I properly remove Super User from my GSM Galaxy Nexus?
I used Wugs Root Toolkit and it applied some "permanent" superuser method. My question is, how can I go about deleting the files so that the APK is no longer on my phone? I don't mind rooting again if that's what is required to remove it.
I searched around and didn't find an answer--that said if this has already been answered somewhere before I apologize--maybe I just all around fail! I saw some posts that related to the Hero but yeah... pretty sure it doesn't apply to the GNex.
Thanks! Oh, and don't ask me why I want to do this, yeah yeah, I know I must be out of my mind. A follow-up question though, would be that if I decide to root again after this, is there a method of pushing superuser where it will be removed whenever the stock ROM is updated?
Thanks again!
Just use root explorer to delete it from system/ app
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
I was under the impression that, that would not completely work? Isn't there another file somewhere that has to be removed as well? Thanks for the response!
shadrage said:
Hi, I've got a noob question here: How do I properly remove Super User from my GSM Galaxy Nexus?
I used Wugs Root Toolkit and it applied some "permanent" superuser method. My question is, how can I go about deleting the files so that the APK is no longer on my phone? I don't mind rooting again if that's what is required to remove it.
I searched around and didn't find an answer--that said if this has already been answered somewhere before I apologize--maybe I just all around fail! I saw some posts that related to the Hero but yeah... pretty sure it doesn't apply to the GNex.
Thanks! Oh, and don't ask me why I want to do this, yeah yeah, I know I must be out of my mind. A follow-up question though, would be that if I decide to root again after this, is there a method of pushing superuser where it will be removed whenever the stock ROM is updated?
Thanks again!
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This is another example of the pitfalls of trying to take shortcuts by using toolkits. Toolkits are fine to save time for those that understand what the toolkit is doing, but if you don't have that knowledege base, yo really should do things manually first, in order to learn. (In school, they don't let you use a calculator until you can add/sub/mult/div for a reason).
Take a look at this post, specifially method 2. See if you can figure out what those commands are actually doing.
I will help you out: you are essentially mounting the system partition as read-write, copying two files to the system, changing permission on the system, and then mounting the system as read-only.
So, in order to remove root, you need to mount the system as read-write, remove those two files (command is rm) and mount the system as read-only. [EDIT: depending on where the toolkit you used place su, it could be somewhere else than /system/bin, like /system/xbin or /system/sbin -- yet another reason not to use toolkits...]
Toolkits don't teach you that.
And for you follow-up question, the answer is no (if you are talking about updates). If you update using an OTA update, the update does not delete those two files, but it does change the permissions on them to disable root access.
Thanks Efrant! I'll try this out. Yeah, being lazy definitely didn't help me here
I used to flash my Vibrant all the time, but I got the Nexus so that hopefully I wouldn't need anything besides stock (for which I love the experience), so I'm just trying to stay as pure as possible
Thanks again, appreciate it!
shadrage said:
Thanks Efrant! I'll try this out. Yeah, being lazy definitely didn't help me here
I used to flash my Vibrant all the time, but I got the Nexus so that hopefully I wouldn't need anything besides stock (for which I love the experience), so I'm just trying to stay as pure as possible
Thanks again, appreciate it!
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Give it a shot, and if you are having issues, post here and I'll guide you through it.
Appreciate it! I'll be fiddling around with it either tomorrow or the next day--pretty slammed this week.
Thanks again.
Let me know
shadrage, let me know what you figure out, and how you went about it, I'm stuck trying to figure out the same thing. If I figure it out, I'll give you instructions here.
nodnerb said:
shadrage, let me know what you figure out, and how you went about it, I'm stuck trying to figure out the same thing. If I figure it out, I'll give you instructions here.
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It's very simple. If you still have root, just use root explorer and delete two files:
1) /system/app/Superuser.apk
2) the second file is su, and it could be in one of three places, depending on how you rooted:
/system/bin/su OR
/system/sbin/su OR
/system/xbin/su
That's it.
If you do not have root, go to the dev section and find an insecure boot image for the version of Android that you are running, download it, rename it to boot.img (if it isn't already), and place it in the same directory on your PC as you fastboot.exe and adb.exe files. Then boot into fastboot mode, plug your phone into your PC and type the following:
fastboot boot boot.img (wait for the device to boot)
adb remount
adb shell
rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
rm /system/bin/su
rm /system/sbin/su
rm /system/xbin/su
Done.
Now if you do not have root, and your bootloader is locked (and you are running 4.0.4), then you are out of luck. You will need to unlock your bootloader (which will wipe your data), and do the second method above/
Thanks
Thanks Efrant.
I'm trying to learn the ins and outs of adb, and it confuses me to no end. I'm slowing remembering playing with my dad's DOS computer when I was a kid, so command prompt and shell type work is coming back, but not easily.
efrant said:
This is another example of the pitfalls of trying to take shortcuts by using toolkits. Toolkits are fine to save time for those that understand what the toolkit is doing, but if you don't have that knowledege base, yo really should do things manually first, in order to learn. (In school, they don't let you use a calculator until you can add/sub/mult/div for a reason).
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Exactly!
And how to only remove Superuser data?
I mean, I want Superuser to ask me again if I grant or not superuser-permision.
I need this because I have in Superuser 5 times Titanium Backup.
All has the same id but only one has the Titanium Backup icon and the other doesn't.
And if I try deleting the app from the list... the app just go to "Denied" but still there.
So, I want to delete the whole data so I get a clean list of apps.
Thanks!
settings >> apps >> all apps >> super user
clear cache, clear data
3rdstring said:
settings >> apps >> all apps >> super user
clear cache, clear data
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Thanks man! I cannot believe I did not try that before.
Thanks!
efrant said:
If you do not have root, go to the dev section and find an insecure boot image for the version of Android that you are running, download it, rename it to boot.img (if it isn't already), and place it in the same directory on your PC as you fastboot.exe and adb.exe files. Then boot into fastboot mode, plug your phone into your PC and type the following:
fastboot boot boot.img (wait for the device to boot)
adb remount
adb shell
rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
rm /system/bin/su
rm /system/sbin/su
rm /system/xbin/su
Done.
Now if you do not have root, and your bootloader is locked (and you are running 4.0.4), then you are out of luck. You will need to unlock your bootloader (which will wipe your data), and do the second method above/
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Having the same issue (I'm about to return the phone for a replacement so I want Superuser gone).
Can you maybe possibly kindly point me toward a good boot version of the file you're talking about? I'm running a Verizon Galaxy Nexus and I'm on version 4.0.4 Build IMM76K.
I found this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631796 ...but I'm unsure what I should be downloading, renaming and throwing into my fastboot folder.
I understand I'll have to unlock the bootloader, but I'm going to wipe anyway since I'm sending it back. Any help with that part would be appreciated too.
Sorry if this is an unauthorized thread resurrection.
USA Prime Credit Peggy said:
Having the same issue (I'm about to return the phone for a replacement so I want Superuser gone).
Can you maybe possibly kindly point me toward a good boot version of the file you're talking about? I'm running a Verizon Galaxy Nexus and I'm on version 4.0.4 Build IMM76K.
I found this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631796 ...but I'm unsure what I should be downloading, renaming and throwing into my fastboot folder.
I understand I'll have to unlock the bootloader, but I'm going to wipe anyway since I'm sending it back. Any help with that part would be appreciated too.
Sorry if this is an unauthorized thread resurrection.
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Follow the instructions in this thread. It will take you back to stock, and there are instructions on re-locking the bootloader as well.
Had to restock my Nexus as well. but my USB didnt work so I decided to take my losses and just return it, rooted with Superuser.
I had spend 2 days trying to restock it. and then this Tech Guy from my Carrier Tells me...
O you have rooted your Phone. Well that might be a problem with the insurance... unless you got a Nexus Device.
I was like what do you mean.
wel with all nexus devices you are allowed to root your phone.
So I think this is the best Solution there is . just take it back and save yourself some time.
this really works!!!!
shadrage said:
Hi, I've got a noob question here: How do I properly remove Super User from my GSM Galaxy Nexus?
I used Wugs Root Toolkit and it applied some "permanent" superuser method. My question is, how can I go about deleting the files so that the APK is no longer on my phone? I don't mind rooting again if that's what is required to remove it.
I searched around and didn't find an answer--that said if this has already been answered somewhere before I apologize--maybe I just all around fail! I saw some posts that related to the Hero but yeah... pretty sure it doesn't apply to the GNex.
Thanks! Oh, and don't ask me why I want to do this, yeah yeah, I know I must be out of my mind. A follow-up question though, would be that if I decide to root again after this, is there a method of pushing superuser where it will be removed whenever the stock ROM is updated?
Thanks again!
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1. after you have or have not unrooted, search up superuser on playstore
2. click uninstall, if it says uninstalling........, ignore that and go to home page
3. go to folder and delete cwm-root thingy(the zip file you copied to your folder when you rooted) and delete that(seriously, thats important)
4. make sure you have the root remover file in your external sd card
5. turn off device, reboot by holding power and down/left
6. select install zip from sd card and install the root remover file
7. reboot and superuser should be gone lol
keep in mind that i did this on my galaxy tab 2 10.1 so it will definitely work on that
should work with any device
hope this helped
lol
wow, old thread...
I have use root explorer to delete the Superuser.apk and system/bin/su
but once i restart my device, those two thing happen again and again.
Help!!!
HI guys!
My PC is ready (adb and device drivers are installed), but I need the steps to perform a manual root. I understand there are some automated root apps, but they dont work on my Samsung Galaxy Neo Plus I9060M.
If I remember correctly, there used to be instructions on how to root, the only steps I remember are; mounting, unmounting, adb shell, something about busybox, installing su from zip within the bootloader and so on.
ALso, if you can link me to the files neeeded, that would be great! Thanks