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[Review & How-to] Use ADB Wirelessly and How to Remove Carrier Bloatware from Android
I think this could go in a few of the different forums, but I'll stick it in here and the mods can decide.
I’m getting excited about all the apps that are letting me do things wirelessly on Android. SwiFTP made things a lot easier with its ability to set up your phone as a server that you can connect to from your PC. Today, we’ll take a look at adbWireless, which in essence does the same thing, but adds the ability to use adb wirelessly. The most important thing, for many, that this will allow you to do is remove carrier bloatware, that is, get rid of preinstalled apps. In today’s video, I’ll show you how to use adbWireless and how to remove preinstalled apps so that you can have your phone running in tip top shape.
How to Remove Carrier Bloatware from Android
"How to use an app" and promoting of great app finds belongs in the "themes and apps" forum. Hacking the phone outside of just using an app is what belongs here.
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sombdy said:
"How to use an app" and promoting of great app finds belongs in the "themes and apps" forum. Hacking the phone outside of just using an app is what belongs here.
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Exactly, which is part of the video. Did you watch it. There's a whole hacking section about removing bloatware. Thats part of development, no?
I don't know if I'd consider remounting the fs to be development. Nevertheless, good job showing the newbs.
I'll make one small addition though - if you can't delete anything from /system/app, exit the adb shell and run:
adb remount -ro
That mounts the filesystem as read / write so that you can make changes. I'd suggest doing:
adb remount -r when finished.
ALSO - Why the hell do you mention Terminal for Mac, and Command Line for Windows, but leave the Linux crew out???
Doward said:
I don't know if I'd consider remounting the fs to be development. Nevertheless, good job showing the newbs.
I'll make one small addition though - if you can't delete anything from /system/app, exit the adb shell and run:
adb remount -ro
That mounts the filesystem as read / write so that you can make changes. I'd suggest doing:
adb remount -r when finished.
ALSO - Why the hell do you mention Terminal for Mac, and Command Line for Windows, but leave the Linux crew out???
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touche my friend my bad lol.
and yeah its not development per se, but definitely not any of the other topics.
and good point. now that i think of it, i'm not sure why it let me do it since i didnt remount as read/write
Very nice app. I will be trying it soon.
There is actually another very simple way to remove bloatware that doesn't require a computer.
First off, you must have a rooted phone.
Then install titanium backup and allow superuser permissions.
Go into settings and enable chuck Norris mode.
Then just find any app you want gone, click it and press uninstall.
Just offering another way to solve the same problem. Great app tho. It will definitely be worth trying.
Clay333 said:
Very nice app. I will be trying it soon.
There is actually another very simple way to remove bloatware that doesn't require a computer.
First off, you must have a rooted phone.
Then install titanium backup and allow superuser permissions.
Go into settings and enable chuck Norris mode.
Then just find any app you want gone, click it and press uninstall.
Just offering another way to solve the same problem. Great app tho. It will definitely be worth trying.
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Yeah Chuck Norris mode for TB came out after I made this vid. Definitely gonna include it in my TB review
@ OP, nice find!! i got tired of that having to plug in just to run ADB, using this from now on. Do you know if it breaks anything by removing required apk's?
djR3Z said:
Yeah Chuck Norris mode for TB came out after I made this vid. Definitely gonna include it in my TB review
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sombdy said:
"How to use an app" and promoting of great app finds belongs in the "themes and apps" forum. Hacking the phone outside of just using an app is what belongs here.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
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dude, let the mods be mods. Why does everyone try and be the forum police?
djR3Z said:
Yeah Chuck Norris mode for TB came out after I made this vid. Definitely gonna include it in my TB review
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Oh Ok, I didn't realize it had been updated to include it. Either way I was not trying to down your thead/video, the wireless ADB is nice. I have actually used it a few times since I was the video and really like it. Great find!!
System apps can also be deleted through root explorer. JUST BE CAREFUL and have a backup before you start playing around in the system folder.
djR3Z said:
I think this could go in a few of the different forums, but I'll stick it in here and the mods can decide.
I’m getting excited about all the apps that are letting me do things wirelessly on Android. SwiFTP made things a lot easier with its ability to set up your phone as a server that you can connect to from your PC. Today, we’ll take a look at adbWireless, which in essence does the same thing, but adds the ability to use adb wirelessly. The most important thing, for many, that this will allow you to do is remove carrier bloatware, that is, get rid of preinstalled apps. In today’s video, I’ll show you how to use adbWireless and how to remove preinstalled apps so that you can have your phone running in tip top shape.
How to Remove Carrier Bloatware from Android
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Why is the wireless connection required?
Do the phone and the adb computer need to be on the same subnet?
Can this be done over ip?
I saw adbwireless on a blog this morning. The obvious use for me was to put the android-sdk folder on a USB drive that I keep on my keyring so that if I need to do something from another PC, I don't have to download and find the sdk. I can then connect the phone wirelessly after launching a cmd prompt from the USB drive. Makes it great for my work laptop, where I don't want those files sitting around to be scanned.
Thanks for the info on the app it works great. The only problem I had was in the adb command. Could never use it on my macbook pro always had to go the darkside to do adb commands. After watching your video noticed that you placed a ./adb connect ip: port. I was missing the ./ to get the adb commands to work. So not only did this show me a great app but also taught me how to use adb in terminal.
Andy S said:
I saw adbwireless on a blog this morning. The obvious use for me was to put the android-sdk folder on a USB drive that I keep on my keyring so that if I need to do something from another PC, I don't have to download and find the sdk. I can then connect the phone wirelessly after launching a cmd prompt from the USB drive. Makes it great for my work laptop, where I don't want those files sitting around to be scanned.
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I LOVE your use of this. Great tip!!! I'm gonna set this up asap
islandreamer said:
Thanks for the info on the app it works great. The only problem I had was in the adb command. Could never use it on my macbook pro always had to go the darkside to do adb commands. After watching your video noticed that you placed a ./adb connect ip: port. I was missing the ./ to get the adb commands to work. So not only did this show me a great app but also taught me how to use adb in terminal.
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I'm glad I could help! Yeah its a minor little thing, but it makes everything work
genius! Loading this up as we speak as well
Andy S said:
I saw adbwireless on a blog this morning. The obvious use for me was to put the android-sdk folder on a USB drive that I keep on my keyring so that if I need to do something from another PC, I don't have to download and find the sdk. I can then connect the phone wirelessly after launching a cmd prompt from the USB drive. Makes it great for my work laptop, where I don't want those files sitting around to be scanned.
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Hi,
I am a new owner of an android phone (Nexus One). I am a Linux sysadmin so I had not too much trouble rooting it (with adb directly) and doing some tweaking. But I am now kind of lost when it come to finding applications. I am not interested in custom rom, I just want to customize my own phone and connect it to my ssh vpn to have remote access to my file. Later I plan to use the usb host hack, but not now.
I am not able to find how to install bash, fuse and openSSH. I really want OpenSSH and not any other implementation of SSH2. I don't really want to cross compile them, there most be someone who did it before me! I found 2 or 3 binary on google, but they don't work. Busybox work, but it is a pain, but it show that downloaded binaries can work. Where can I find those things?
I also want to know the best terminal (native terminal, not ssh client) and a good dual panel file manager with drag and drop.
I know that those questions are common, but I can not find any answer. Thanks.
anyone?....
Elv13 said:
anyone?....
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Evidently not. I came across your post searching for implementations for openSSH and lsyncd in Android.
I posted something similar in the GPS thread for the Galaxy S 4G. I used the One Click Root method and Root Explorer to go in and delete a bunch of bloat from my /system/app and /data/app folders. I pulled out Telenav.apk, DoubleTwist.apk, Layar.apk, VisualVoicemail.apk (replaced with the older, mostly black version that isn't hideous), and Slacker.apk as well as the various .odex files where appropriate.
However, since then I've seen two problems: News and Weather doesn't want to find my location via GPS anymore, and I have to be on Wifi for it to find me. A small annoyance and makes me wonder if the new ROM references Telenav for some location data (which is a good theory following problem two).
The second, more concerning problem, is I'm seeing what I can only call "phantom force closes". It happens after rebooting, randomly when enabling Bluetooth or wifi, and in the stock browser on random websites, the phone vibrates several times indicating errors, will crash out the application (and one time the phone itself), but does not give me the force close error message telling me what app or why. It's definitely looking for either doubletwist or telenav but I can't figure out why it would need to do that as they are 3rd party apps. I've removed these apps before on the Vibrant 2.1 and 2.2 roms without any real problems.
If anyone can provide some helpful information it would be much appreciated. The phone has been more stable the last few hours since several reboots but will likely start acting up again later.
Any thoughts?
I removed all those apps and more without getting a problem on my phone. But I left telenav cause its free and its not beta. I also used terminal emulater and systemapp remover to remove them. Then I used root explorer to delete the odex files of the apps I removed. Maybe the way your removed them was bad.
How do you remove the odex files? Where are they located?
Remove Stock Files / Apps
Here is a quick way to remove the apps that come preinstalled on the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4G. (you could also follow this for the ones that have .odex files as well. See ls command at the end).
I pieced this together from several forums. Hopefully it will save someone the trouble of doing this themselves (or serve as a refresher like it did for me).
Sorry I couldn't post formal links to the source files (forumn rules), apparently I don't contribute enough . Just put the server names in internet explorer and it should get you there.
1.) Download the Samsung Galaxy S 4G Root app. from mediafire.com/?096oxx07q6d88b3
2.) Download the Samsung USB Device Drivers from here:
-Windows 32 Bit drivers.softpedia.com/get/MOBILES/Samsung/Samsung-Galaxy-S-USB-Driver-for-Windows-x86.shtml
-Windows 64 Bit drivers.softpedia.com/get/MOBILES/Samsung/Samsung-Galaxy-S-USB-Driver-for-Windows-x64.shtml
3.) Install the drivers.
4.) Extract (unzip) the root app to a familiar folder.
5.) Enable USB debugging on your phone: Settings -> Development -> USB Debugging
6.) Plug your phone into your computer (wait till the drivers install)
7.) Open the Root app and click Shell Root
8.) Open a command shell (Start -> Run -> cmd)
9.) Type each line, pressing enter after each line:
cd <replace this text and these brackets with the folder location of the root app>
adb shell
cd /system/app
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblk3 /system
10.) Next type the following two commands (replace the <...> with your app name, press enter after each line) for each app you wish to remove
chmod 777 <insert your ap name here.apk>
rm <insert your ap name here.apk>
Here is a list of the one's I removed. You can get a list of others by typing the two letters "ls" without quotes into the shell and press enter:
Note: Do not type in the app names in front of the file names, they are just there to let you know what you are deleting.
Kindle App - Kindle-OEM-1.1.1.90750089-20100927.apk
Facebook App - FBAndroid-1.4.1.apk - Facebook App
T-Mobile TV - com.mobitv.client.tmobiletvhd.apk
Doubetwist - doubleTwist.apk
Amazon MP3 - AmazonMp3.apk
Layar - Layar-samsung.apk
Slacker Radio - slackerradio.apk
More Double Twist - doubleTwistPro.apk
Gogo Link (It's expired anyway) - GoGo.apk
Media Hub - MediaHub.apk
Telenav - TN6.2-6201036.apk
Inception Link - MovieShortcut.apk
11.) Restart your phone.
I don't recommend uninstalling bloat via root explorer. The safest way to remove the bloatware is to uninstall it via Titanium backup. Otherwise you might delete a bunch of stuff you really didn't mean to.
Yeah I used TB to remove the stuff.
EDIT: I just did a "Clean up the Dalvik cache" on TB and it removed 26MB of unwanted stuff! Total free 166MB.
rcoulsell said:
Here is a quick way to remove the apps that come preinstalled on the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4G. (you could also follow this for the ones that have .odex files as well. See ls command at the end).
I pieced this together from several forums. Hopefully it will save someone the trouble of doing this themselves (or serve as a refresher like it did for me).
Sorry I couldn't post formal links to the source files (forumn rules), apparently I don't contribute enough . Just put the server names in internet explorer and it should get you there.
1.) Download the Samsung Galaxy S 4G Root app. from mediafire.com/?096oxx07q6d88b3
2.) Download the Samsung USB Device Drivers from here:
-Windows 32 Bit drivers.softpedia.com/get/MOBILES/Samsung/Samsung-Galaxy-S-USB-Driver-for-Windows-x86.shtml
-Windows 64 Bit drivers.softpedia.com/get/MOBILES/Samsung/Samsung-Galaxy-S-USB-Driver-for-Windows-x64.shtml
3.) Install the drivers.
4.) Extract (unzip) the root app to a familiar folder.
5.) Enable USB debugging on your phone: Settings -> Development -> USB Debugging
6.) Plug your phone into your computer (wait till the drivers install)
7.) Open the Root app and click Shell Root
8.) Open a command shell (Start -> Run -> cmd)
9.) Type each line, pressing enter after each line:
cd <replace this text and these brackets with the folder location of the root app>
adb shell
cd /system/app
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblk3 /system
10.) Next type the following two commands (replace the <...> with your app name, press enter after each line) for each app you wish to remove
chmod 777 <insert your ap name here.apk>
rm <insert your ap name here.apk>
Here is a list of the one's I removed. You can get a list of others by typing the two letters "ls" without quotes into the shell and press enter:
Note: Do not type in the app names in front of the file names, they are just there to let you know what you are deleting.
Kindle App - Kindle-OEM-1.1.1.90750089-20100927.apk
Facebook App - FBAndroid-1.4.1.apk - Facebook App
T-Mobile TV - com.mobitv.client.tmobiletvhd.apk
Doubetwist - doubleTwist.apk
Amazon MP3 - AmazonMp3.apk
Layar - Layar-samsung.apk
Slacker Radio - slackerradio.apk
More Double Twist - doubleTwistPro.apk
Gogo Link (It's expired anyway) - GoGo.apk
Media Hub - MediaHub.apk
Telenav - TN6.2-6201036.apk
Inception Link - MovieShortcut.apk
11.) Restart your phone.
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So you don't report any weirdness or phantom force closes? The last few days since I made the post the phone has been almost entirely stable. GPS is still a little touchy but no more errors or lock-ups.
Also, on a side- note: am I the only person on XDA that doesn't remove Amazon MP3? I actually use it pretty frequently. That is, until I see how good Google Music is going to be (if it's actually a music purchasing service).
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So you don't report any weirdness or phantom force closes? The last few days since I made the post the phone has been almost entirely stable. GPS is still a little touchy but no more errors or lock-ups.
Also, on a side- note: am I the only person on XDA that doesn't remove Amazon MP3? I actually use it pretty frequently. That is, until I see how good Google Music is going to be (if it's actually a music purchasing service).
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I haven't had any GPS issues. Additionally I use the ADB way to remove apps because I'm develop apps and like the shell best.
Rooted mine yesterday...used TB to get rid of all that bs...bye bye evo!
Sent from my DAMN Galaxy 4G¡!
removing touchwiz
has anyone tried removing TouchWiz?
I removed touchwiz and use the gingerbread launcher. No problems
I recently found myself having those problems too. I assumed it was because of setcpu. I delete my appz with uninstaller for root....I don't know if that was any good. However, I was hoping that I would be able to start from scratch with everything but I don't know how I can start from scratch. I am completely new to this, so alot of the terminology and thing of that nature are Vulcan to me. So if someone can help me, that, finally, would be great.
Feel Your Pain, Deleted "My Account 1.0" and now hurting
I was trying to get rid of "My Account", AKA T-Mobile My Acount, to keep it from constantantly running in the background, but actually deleted "My Account 1.0" with Titanium Pro... I tried to freeze it but it kept appearing in my task list, so I deleted it.
Soon as I did, I got a buzz... buzz buzz buzz... the buzzes of death... I now get force closes when ending a phone call, when trying to read SMS, and when trying to view my call log.
This is killing me, and I have no idea how to fix it...
Any experts out there, please help!
RadFly said:
I was trying to get rid of "My Account", AKA T-Mobile My Acount, to keep it from constantantly running in the background, but actually deleted "My Account 1.0" with Titanium Pro... I tried to freeze it but it kept appearing in my task list, so I deleted it.
Soon as I did, I got a buzz... buzz buzz buzz... the buzzes of death... I now get force closes when ending a phone call, when trying to read SMS, and when trying to view my call log.
This is killing me, and I have no idea how to fix it...
Any experts out there, please help!
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Never mind, I had frozen Logsprovider...
stellarvelocity said:
So you don't report any weirdness or phantom force closes? The last few days since I made the post the phone has been almost entirely stable. GPS is still a little touchy but no more errors or lock-ups.
Also, on a side- note: am I the only person on XDA that doesn't remove Amazon MP3? I actually use it pretty frequently. That is, until I see how good Google Music is going to be (if it's actually a music purchasing service).
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I rooted my Samsung Vibrant 4G and used Titanium Backup to delete allot of the same T-Mobile BS bloatware that you did. Had that same "phantom force closes" that you described. Mid phone call today the phone vibrated a few times and force close phone application and hung up on my call. Has this problem remained stabilized for you?
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aloneinshadow said:
I don't recommend uninstalling bloat via root explorer. The safest way to remove the bloatware is to uninstall it via Titanium backup. Otherwise you might delete a bunch of stuff you really didn't mean to.
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How do I uninstall the software using Titanium? I tried following the instructions via another thread but I only got so far. I was told to click Problems - get busybox - and then long press the apps I want to remove and force delete. However, I am able to get as far as downloading busybox. After that, are my apps supposed to show within the program Titanium or am I supposed to go to the applications itself or what? Im stuck from there....can you help????
I have a galaxy s 4g, had a week now. Installed a new loader, and app screen switcher, and was having problems with each wanting to run when pressing home. I did set launcher pro as default, but still had issues, so I uninstalled touchwiz launcher, just the launcher. Now my flipclock wont start. I've been told that touchwiz laucher has to be running for it to work. Ok.. phone is rooted, I have the touchwiz30 apk file (says no install when i see it with super user), it of course isnt installing when I try with super user. How do I get touchwiz launcher installed back to my phone?
I did search through posts here for the 4g and couldnt find this question elsewhere, please forgive if it is a replicated question, please include link to that thread!
I'm pretty sure you need to push the TouchWiz apk to /system/app... not install it.
Search the Vibrant forums too. I used to frequent that section and I think I remember people asking about that.
TouchWiz shouldn't be removed; As you have discovered, things rely on it.
ahorriblemess said:
I'm pretty sure you need to push the TouchWiz apk to /system/app... not install it.
Search the Vibrant forums too. I used to frequent that section and I think I remember people asking about that.
TouchWiz shouldn't be removed; As you have discovered, things rely on it.
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Understood. (Android newb here). Ok.. so to get this back over I've had to install a ton of crap.. java sdk development.. then the android adk, I now have complete access to the phone, through terminal emulator on the phone itself, and through adb. All that works fine. however when trying to do the 'push' to the phone, I get permission denied.. I've tried various things.. using terminal to set /system/app to rw from there.. no go, tried opening two dos windows.. starting adb shell, tried remounting /system/app rw, then open using other dos window to do the push, i know the system is mounted rw, regardless of what I do I'm getting permission denied on the push. I *can* and have copied the apk through the shell, from the SD card to /system/app, however it doesn't actually install, just copies the file there... any ideas?
<still a newb but learning fast>
I haven't done it in a while. I haven't rooted my Galaxy S 4G yet (had it for a few days) and I sold my Vibrant several months ago. But I think once the apk is in /system/app, after a reboot it should be working... but I really don't know. Someone else is going to have to chime in here.
As for the "permission denied" errors, if your phone is rooted, the first time you're in the shell via PC and enter "su", the Superuser app should prompt you to give it permissions. From then on, every time you use adb through your PC, it should have super user permissions.
As a last resort, you might need to restore with ODIN if people have figured that out yet.
Honestly, I just got my phone like, two days ago and haven't done anything with it. I want to make sure I'm keeping it first. But the Vibrant wasn't much different so...
headway made, but not working yet
Ok, so here's what I've tried now. I've been using 2 dos windows to run adb with, the first I open a shell with, then set the /system/app directory to rw. I would leave that shell running. I switch over to the second dos window and try to do the push but get the (I'm finding now all too familiar "permission denied" error. So what I did next was to go back to the shell screen, and did a chmod 777 on the app directory. (Imma old SCO unix admin) Success!, I was able to push the file to the phone. I'm assuming that even though I have su with the first window, I don't with the second. So in doing that I allowed anyone to write to the app directory. However, the app still doesn't work. Nothing happens, I rebooted the phone, removed defaults for my current laucncher program, hit home, and the orginal twiz launcher doesnt appear in the list to set default to. God, what am I missing now?? Oh, after done I did reset app to 755. Do I need another file? Do I have the right file? (when browsing files it still says "no install" on it. I'm trying guys.. any help would be appreciated.
[email protected] email
sonny_in_az yahoo messenger
hell I'll put my phone number here if neccassary.....
<still a droid newb but learning fast>
BTW, since you just got your phone, I love mine. first smart phone tho so I cant compare to others, but here's what I've found. Get another battery. The factory one, when pushed hard, dies in 3.5 hours or so. I got an aftermarket battery 3000mh, awesome now.. ran multiple apps, games, wifi connections.. etc.. hammered it 7 straight hours and still had 38% left. Huge diff. Comes with a new back as the 3200 is a lot bigger than the factory, if you can live with that. I don't care about slim.. it's gotta work.. ; )
I am brand new to the Android stuff and the learning curve is rather large. I am pretty well versed in modding iPhones and RIM devices. From what I have read thus far and am trying to confrim.
2.3.3 Just recently has been temp rooted on this device?
Temp or Full rooting is required to remove the bloatware crap?
SDK is installed and ADB is working. I followed the temp rooting method and was able to get SU #.
With that being done is that enough to start removing the junk?
What app should I used to delete the apk's? or should it be done in ADB Shell?
Is there anything that I should backup while I'm at this?
ounvme said:
I am brand new to the Android stuff and the learning curve is rather large. I am pretty well versed in modding iPhones and RIM devices. From what I have read thus far and am trying to confrim.
2.3.3 Just recently has been temp rooted on this device?
Temp or Full rooting is required to remove the bloatware crap?
SDK is installed and ADB is working. I followed the temp rooting method and was able to get SU #.
With that being done is that enough to start removing the junk?
What app should I used to delete the apk's? or should it be done in ADB Shell?
Is there anything that I should backup while I'm at this?
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You can delete the apk's in system/app
I normally use the Root Explorer app, but you can use adb shell as well
just cd into /system/app and do rm Twitter.apk for example
Root will disappear on reboot, and the bloatware will return unfortunately =/
Stuke00 said:
You can delete the apk's in system/app
I normally use the Root Explorer app, but you can use adb shell as well
just cd into /system/app and do rm Twitter.apk for example
Root will disappear on reboot, and the bloatware will return unfortunately =/
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Thank you for the reply. I will wait for a more permanent solution. Are the apps reinstalled on reboot or are they never truely removed? It's annoying to have programs forced on a device that I paid for. If I didn't install it then I dont want or use it. I'm a big fan of simple and clean. I am sure something will be out soon to allow this. Thanks again!!!
This reminds me of buying a laptop that has all kinds of junk on it and looking for drivers to make it work with a clean install.....Such a pain in the ass.
ounvme said:
Thank you for the reply. I will wait for a more permanent solution. Are the apps reinstalled on reboot or are they never truely removed? It's annoying to have programs forced on a device that I paid for. If I didn't install it then I dont want or use it. I'm a big fan of simple and clean. I am sure something will be out soon to allow this. Thanks again!!!
This reminds me of buying a laptop that has all kinds of junk on it and looking for drivers to make it work with a clean install.....Such a pain in the ass.
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I tried it with the temp root, I didn't even have to reboot before the apps reappeared. :S We gotta wait for either permanent root or S-OFF (not really too different in this case I think) to remove the apps, and by that time we can just go and install a custom ROM with the apps removed already.
I'm looking forward to permanent root at the moment, this being my first Android phone. And with recent developments, like the temp root and Revolutionary being tested on the Shift, I'd say the future looks good. So keep an eye out.
Racer_X_NFS said:
I tried it with the temp root, I didn't even have to reboot before the apps reappeared. :S We gotta wait for either permanent root or S-OFF (not really too different in this case I think) to remove the apps, and by that time we can just go and install a custom ROM with the apps removed already.
I'm looking forward to permanent root at the moment, this being my first Android phone. And with recent developments, like the temp root and Revolutionary being tested on the Shift, I'd say the future looks good. So keep an eye out.
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lol that sucks. Yeah... need to get S-OFF!
I am gaining much interest in the custom rom idea. I however have the time and the drive to want to read up and learn to do it myself. If full device customization is available I would like to be able to do so.
I have done some reading here and some google searching but is there any 1 place where I can find full info on cooking my own rom?
The main things that I want to change is disable the side button to not control ringer volume. Add native volume control for all audible things. Remove bloatware and add certin apps.
I know there are apps to control all of this, but if its possible to have it funcion at the system level...why not learn how to do it. Things like this are fun to me and I like mind challenging tasks.
Like I stated I have the time I just need to be schooled where the proper most current place to start is.
Obviously this will just be practice and learning until a full root/backup is available.
Thanks