Why is that if I install an application, but then decided I do not like it a small portion of my space is gone even after the uninstall and a run through with a registry clean-up software. Any way to get this fixed?
Well the best way to get this done would be to use an application that thoroughly cleans out all traces of any installed application from your device. Shortcuts, folders, customizations, Registry entries, skins, upgrades etc. Most uninstallers aren't able to get all that done. I use SK Tools and it works pretty effectively. Gives me all my space back
the main problem is that it doesn't delete some of the files from the /windows folder.
registry keys aren't space consuming (relatively speaking of course).
usually uninstalling an application DOES delete the created folder from /program files/ or wherever.. unless you've put your own files inside the folder and then you need to delete them, and the folder, by yourself.
yeah i deleted the files there too and even used sktools and such but the more space than before is taken.
well, some files are replaced in the windows folder which are necessary to other applications. since the uninstallation of an app can't bring back the old files, it won't delete the necessary files and if they're larger than the old ones.. it'll take some space.
so i guess there is nothing I could do then?
bugtoday said:
so i guess there is nothing I could do then?
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Well! you could do it the hard way. Hard reset the device which will wipe out everything you loaded and install by hand (i.e. not restore from a backup) all the applications you like and want one by one. Obviously not something one would want to do after every trial install and de-install. But after some number of different apps have been tried out and rejected perhaps it is worth the pain.
Does anyone have a list of KF apps that came with the device but you cannot easily remove unless rooted - the original link to Facebook for example? I removed some and can't remember what they were. Think I might have created problems for myself so looking to reinstall them and see if it helps.
Currently rooted. After reading all threads, can't get calendars to sync, programs that place picture frames on home screens not working.
Sounds like a wipe to factory defaults would be in order to get you back to square one. Then, start again. My advice would be that rather than removing these apps, rename .apk to .bak in the same directory, or make a folder on /sdcard and move them there. At least you'll know what you removed/renamed.
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Sounds like a wipe to factory defaults would be in order to get you back to square one. Then, start again. My advice would be that rather than removing these apps, rename .apk to .bak in the same directory, or make a folder on /sdcard and move them there. At least you'll know what you removed/renamed.
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Thanks, may have to do that, important lesson learned. I think to get the list I may just break into my daughters Christmas present, fire it up and look for myself!
I'm trying to remove some of the bloatware from my rooted OTA GB 2.3.6. I'm using Root Explorer and deleting select apk's and their odex file from the system/app directory. However there is one app called Rhapsody that I haven't got all the pieces, because the Rhapsody process keeps showing up in my running services list after I reboot. Both the apk and the odex file have been deleted. Anyone know what other file(s) I missed that are connected with Rhapsody?
Also, there is this rather annoying "media scanner" that runs every time that I boot my phone. Is this a must have, or can I delete it? It adds to my boot time, and if it doesn't have to be there, I want to get rid of it. And if I can delete it, what is the name of the app?
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I'm trying to remove some of the bloatware from my rooted OTA GB 2.3.6. I'm using Root Explorer and deleting select apk's and their odex file from the system/app directory. However there is one app called Rhapsody that I haven't got all the pieces, because the Rhapsody process keeps showing up in my running services list after I reboot. Both the apk and the odex file have been deleted. Anyone know what other file(s) I missed that are connected with Rhapsody?
Also, there is this rather annoying "media scanner" that runs every time that I boot my phone. Is this a must have, or can I delete it? It adds to my boot time, and if it doesn't have to be there, I want to get rid of it. And if I can delete it, what is the name of the app?
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in root explorer you must delete the apk from /system/app and the associated data folder in /data/data then do a search of the whole system for 'rhapsody' as there might be little fragments left in dbdata or dalvikcache folders just delete anything with rhapsody in the name... as for the media scanning, there is a work around for this which I believe is putting a file named '.nomedia' in whatever folder you want excluded from the scan (music or pictures for instance), if you want no scanning at all put on root of SD card and that should stop it however this means you will have manually search/scan for anything you're looking for because that file will tell all apps trying to access what you're blocking that there's nothing there
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The Media Scanner feeds Gallery and possibly the default music player. I don't think it is something you can get rid of, but I could be wrong.
There is an app called Super Manager that makes it very easy to mark folders as "noscan". I use it so all of my ebooks don't show up in the gallery.
I didn't know about the additional related app files being in the data/data. What might be the repercussions if I miss cleaning up all of them? Do they just take up memory space, or are they being executed by the system, even if the apk and odex files are gone?
As for the media scanner...I take it this is a critical system function? Is it an indexer? If the ONLY way around it is the ".nomedia" trick...and there are obvious disadvantages to using this method, then perhaps it is just best to put up with the extra boot time.
UPDATE: Just ran "Rescan Media Root" from the Market. It stops the media scan from occurring. And you can re-enable it at any time by running this app.
I also got Rhapsody stopped by searching and deleting the rest of the associated files. Thanks for the help guys!
I'm a little late here, but Rescan Media works fine to stop the scanner, and Titanium Backup has a "Chuck Norris" mode of killing bloatware.
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Rescan media Root is what I use
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I finally Rooted my Sidekick and have Titanium Backup Free installed. I want to remove the bloatware from the Phone Storage. Which titles would you recommend removing and which to leave alone??
Any suggestions
I removed a lot of apps. I removed device carbon, zipwhip, group text, cloud text, tmobile contacts backup, twitter, myspace, the stock browser, gmail, wifi calling, telenav, tmobile app pack, tmobile mall, maybe some others i cant remember. i replaced the stock browser with dolphin mini which i use for only mobile browsing. i also have opera mobile which i use for desktop browsing. i use google maps for navigation. i downloaded gmail from the market. seems the preloaded version may be faulty but the market version works fine. i used an app from the market called apps2rom to convert gmail, dolphin, opera, and a few other user apps to system apps. seems to work good so far.
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I removed a lot of apps. I removed device carbon, zipwhip, group text, cloud text, tmobile contacts backup, twitter, myspace, the stock browser, gmail, wifi calling, telenav, tmobile app pack, tmobile mall, maybe some others i cant remember. i replaced the stock browser with dolphin mini which i use for only mobile browsing. i also have opera mobile which i use for desktop browsing. i use google maps for navigation. i downloaded gmail from the market. seems the preloaded version may be faulty but the market version works fine. i used an app from the market called apps2rom to convert gmail, dolphin, opera, and a few other user apps to system apps. seems to work good so far.
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out of curiosity, how exactly did u remove those apps? adb remove?
no. i use an app called total commander. you wont find it in the market yet, so just google total commander for android or visit ghisler.com. when you open total commander in landscape mode, you should see a button with a green plus sign. if you dont see that, switch to portrait mode and hit the botton with the two green arrows. then you should see the green plus sign. when you hit the green plus sign, a window will pop up that says add/edit button. at the top of the window it will say change directory. click that and change it to internal command. then click where it says command and select 119 remount. this will only work with root access. click ok/apply. you will now have a button with an r on it. go into any partition and click the r button and it will remount as r/w. when mounted as r/w, the button will also display r/w. click the button again and it will remount as r/o. go into system/app and remount as r/w and you can delete any system app. when im done i usually remount as read only again just to be safe. you probably already know this, but you have to allow total commander su permissions for this to work. but thats how i do it.
You can also use root browser by jrummy 16 he allows u to have the full verison for free
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The easiest way to uninstall "uninstallable"/preloaded apps is with TiBu...
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there are several good ways to remove system apps. any file browser with root functions will do the job. i like total commander because it has two windows, you can copy from one window and paste in the other, i like the interface, and i like the way it displays folders. it is also free, and it is the "full version". its an app thats currently in development. right now release candidate 4 is the current version. i dont know when the official version comes out, but i know it will be in the market. also dont know if it will be paid or free, but i think free. right now its free, if it becomes paid, i will have to find another root browser that i like. but i hope it stays free. i doubt i will like any other browser as much as i like total commander.
i also have converted several user apps to system using an app called apps2rom. its available in the market for free if anyone is interested. its very straightforward. select the apps you want to convert, click move, allow the device to reboot, and voila! its done.
Titanium Backup Free also allows for free app block/removal (and this is for a *rooted* Sidekick 4G). (and it is what I have installed )
Just get a custom rom like glorious overdose..it will save you the trouble of going through each unnecessary app and deleting it..a good rom like that is already fast and lightweight..
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some people want to stay on the stock firmware, myself being one of them. removing bloatware really isnt that troublesome. if you spend a little time figuring out how to do it, it really takes no time at all. removing bloatware takes most of the bugs out of the stock firmware anyway (now is the part when people start screaming about touchwiz being the main problem, but it works fine for me). not everyone needs a custom rom though.
I finally tried to block an app but found out that feature is only in the PAID (aka DONATION) version of Titanium Backup. Cheapskate that I am, I went to your "Total Commander for Android" (1.0 rc4) and downloaded it. Any suggestions on how to use it?
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no. i use an app called total commander. you wont find it in the market yet, so just google total commander for android or visit ghisler.com. when you open total commander in landscape mode, you should see a button with a green plus sign. if you dont see that, switch to portrait mode and hit the botton with the two green arrows. then you should see the green plus sign. when you hit the green plus sign, a window will pop up that says add/edit button. at the top of the window it will say change directory. click that and change it to internal command. then click where it says command and select 119 remount. this will only work with root access. click ok/apply. you will now have a button with an r on it. go into any partition and click the r button and it will remount as r/w. when mounted as r/w, the button will also display r/w. click the button again and it will remount as r/o. go into system/app and remount as r/w and you can delete any system app. when im done i usually remount as read only again just to be safe. you probably already know this, but you have to allow total commander su permissions for this to work. but thats how i do it.
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these are all the instructions you need to delete apps i cant explain it any better
I guess I am not sure where to LOOK for the system files. not sure which folders have the files in them (no clue about how Android sets up their stuff in the root directory) but I saw the R & the icons mentioned, etc.
open total commander. click file system root. scroll down, click system. then click app. then remount, delete the apps you want, then remount back to read only. if you are not sure what an app is or does, google it. thats how i figured certain things out. i dont remember what any of them are, i only looked them up and deleted them. i also suggest if you have cwm recovery that you boot into it after deleting system apps and run fix permissions. to do that, boot into cwm, scroll down and select advanced, then select fix permissions. you dont have to do it after you delete every system app, just delete a bunch and then do it. android stores permissions for every app, and i theorize that deleting system apps causes permissions errors similar to registry errors in windows. fix permissions takes care of that.
re-reading stuff now. Where to I move them to? I am thinking of making a new folder in my SD card and moving stuff there. I can then upload the stuff to my SugarSync account for permanent storage.
I removed the default Contacts APP. the "CONTACTS" word disappeared for the home screen. I used Go Contacts Pro. if I move that app into the system folder, will the "CONTACTS" Shortcut come back?
Also getting constant "android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly" Force Close error again and again. How do I fix this?
also, where do I find "cwm recovery"??
i looked here and don't see anything:
https://market.android.com/search?q=cwm+recovery&c=apps
AND
https://market.android.com/developer?pub=ClockworkMod&start=0&num=12
I tried this 1:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.stericson.permissionfix
But it didn't seem to do anything. Still getting the "acore" Force Close error
after a bit more research on the error, it looks like Facebook & Contacts are the main culprits. i will attempt re installing them back into the system app folder.
Hey guys, this is my first thread, and I'm a bit confused on the app. Today I'll tell how did I stop the freaking google 'malware' from installing and updating every single day. This would work on any rooted device that has access to the data partition, maybe it could be reproduced via adb without root.
First off, I searched everywhere looking on how to disable, uninstall, break, or do anything to this forced battery hog. The best answers were using 'pm hide' on the package but this caused a very high battery usage, due to the file dependencies. So I searched where it was installed. Luckily enough, it is an user app, so it means I would find it on /data/app and /data/data. I will use solid explorer, but any file manager with root access and chmod to change permissions should do just fine.
Once we locate the folder (/data/app/com.google.android.instantapps.supervisor-1 in my case) we delete it. Utterly. After that, we will create a file, and name it exactly the same as the folder did. This is a dummy file that the system will believe it is a folder, and will try to install the application inside it. We fill that file with enough random characters for making the system think it can't just delete it (sometimes cleaners point empty files as worthless and wipe them out)
Now we need to make the dummy file unremovable for anyone but us, by using chmod. Solid explorer has a nice interface for that. We long press the file, enter to properties and set the permission to 0 0 0 (attributes tab). This makes play store unable to delete the file to recover the old folder, and when it tries to download the package, it will fail because it won't have a respective folder to be sent to.
After this, we reboot the phone and see that google play services for instant apps has lost roughly 90% of it's size, and when we enter settings>google>google play instant it'll ask for installation. I was bold enough to accept, just for getting an error dialogue when it tried to install itself.
Known issue: The app reinstalls once again after reboot. The cause is that, when android can't install the app in the first folder (the one that ends with a -1), it can create a second one (ending with a -2 instead), like an alternative. This is solved by just doing the same procedure above on the second folder, and you will end up having two dummy files instead of one. A third folder cannot show up, or at least it didn't in my phone.
Notes: You can repeat this with the folder in /data/data and any other data partition level instant app folder, but I wouldn't do it because I already broke all functionality since I deleted the base apk, and the app size is less than 300KB now so I don't think the trouble is worth it.
You must whitelist these files from any memory cleaner, i.e SD maid corpse finder will delete it thinking it's a leftover of an old app
WARNING; I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY MISLEADS, WRONGS, OR PLUTONIUM-UNSTABLE ROMS THAT MAY EXPLODE IN ANY WAY. YOU ARE THE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR DEVICE'S SAFETY AS THIS ISN'T EVEN FULLY TESTED IN MY PHONE AND I DON'T KNOW THE ULTIMATE CONSEQUENCES OF DOING THIS. YOU ARE WARNED.
PD: Please make some suggestions about how I made the thread, I did what I think it's my best