Can anyone list what apps can be removed safely? What is the best method for removal? Tibu to delete?
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you need to know that if you remove any of the apps then you wont be able to upgrade to gingerbread once tmobile releases it. I suggest you freeze them.
You could always remove what you don't want now & when the gingerbread update releases do a factory reset & then you will be able to update
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Factory reset does not bring back deleted apps. Don't we have factory firmware for this phone?
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Yes we so have a factory image
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I posted this almost a week ago.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13077500&postcount=4
There are a ton of them. Root. Root Explorer. Delete Spree.
I removed some bloat apk's from /system/app so now I can't do the official Gingerbread update once T-Mo releases it?
Removing applications has nothing to do with upgrading to Gingerbread. Trust me, I've already upgrade to Gingerbread on my N1.
Official Upgrades require = Stock Rom
So unless you created a special custom rom that you are hiding, I think you are fine.
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Removing applications has nothing to do with upgrading to Gingerbread. Trust me, I've already upgrade to Gingerbread on my N1.
Official Upgrades require = Stock Rom
So unless you created a special custom rom that you are hiding, I think you are fine.
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Thanks for verifying, hanged_man had me worried there because i didnt cp them before rm'ing i just straight up deleted lol
Thats what I did. A hard reset should restore them.
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Thats what I did. A hard reset should restore them.
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what do you mean by hard reset ? how do you do it ?
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Thats what I did. A hard reset should restore them.
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a hard reset won't restore them. i've done it. deleted apps are still missing.
Even if you removed apps (tmo apps, games) you will be able to update, when update starts to hit, unroot and update...
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Quick question. I've rooted the phone, removed the bloatware and install Paul's fix. All is great except my battery life is abysmal.
Thinking of doing the factory reset
What all will that reverse for those who have done it? Just want a heads up so I know what I to redo.
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It will set the phone back to how it was when you first took it out of the box - no accounts, apps, etc. (except for the root stuff i think?). But if you let it, when you connect your Google account a lot of stuff will automatically come back such as apps, wifi settings, etc.
kangxi said:
Quick question. I've rooted the phone, removed the bloatware and install Paul's fix. All is great except my battery life is abysmal.
Thinking of doing the factory reset
What all will that reverse for those who have done it? Just want a heads up so I know what I to redo.
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You should still be rooted after, and if you enabled google to backup your data, most of your apps will reappear and begin downloading automatically.
Once you remove the bloat they are still gone. I removed many bloats using root uninstaller. When I reset the phone they are still gone. You would have to go use this method to go back to the way your phone was when you bought it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048274
I rooted my phone and removed the bloat. Then I went back using the link above. I went back to my bloat free version using restore.
You will still be rooted. Tested this yesterday. All my downloaded apps were removed. Superuser will still in app drawer.
For the last couple of months my Charge has been asking for the gb ota update. if i choose to install now it fails due to my phone being rooted. Im still on froyo and have been wanting to take the update. I would like to keep root, voodoo, all of my apps, phones settings, and theme. Is there a way to get the update without having to have the phone go into a hard reset? Its just very time conusming for me to try and put my phone back into the condition that it is in now with all my settings/apps. I just want to keep everything the way it is but including GB. Any way to do this?
Titanium Backup. Back up, and install a custom GB ROM. Then restore.
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Titanium Backup. Back up, and install a custom GB ROM. Then restore.
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I used to be very cautious with flashing/upgrading. Then I decided to bite the bullet and just learn the ropes of backing up and keeping all the files I need to reflash and get back up and running quickly.
I suggest using CWM 4.0.1.4 for making and restoring backups in recovery, which can really be great- it saved me a lot of time.
How do your restore when the phone has been hard reset, with no root and no titanium?
The custom gb roms comes pre rooted rven with CWM(infinity..tweakstock...humble....eclipse))Get TiBa from market and restore
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I recieved the OTA update for the G2x to the latest v21y firmware and Gingerbread 2.3.4 OS. Everything seems to have gone fine, except that now in Google Play apps it gives me the following error when trying to install or update *any* app:
'Error downloading "xxx". There is insufficient space on the device.'
Of course, I have an additional 8 GB micro SD card that is almost totally empty, and the internal phone storage has 3.2 GB available. The phone memory lists 0.94 GB available as well.
I followed the usual advice of clear data / clear cache for both Google Play and Download Manager. I unmounted/mounted both phone and SD cards. I turned off the phone, pulled the battery for a bit, took out the external SD card, put the battery back in, and booted back up. I rebooted a bunch of times. I put the external SD card back in. I cleared off extra crud from phone storage via a file manager, and I cleared caches on all installed apps.
This has never happened before, and directly after the update it has happened 100% of the time I have tried.
Any ideas? Is this happening to anyone else who got the update? (I'm completely on stock, btw, still not out of warranty.)
Clear market apparently cache/data
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Clear market apparently cache/data
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I followed the usual advice of clear data / clear cache for both Google Play and Download Manager.
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Isn't that it? Is there something more that constitutes clearing market cache/data?
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Isn't that it? Is there something more that constitutes clearing market cache/data?
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Oh reading fails me sometimes. Try wiping cache and dalvik in cwm maybe.
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Oh reading fails me sometimes. Try wiping cache and dalvik in cwm maybe.
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Does that require rooting? I haven't installed CWM yet, as I was holding off on all the experimentation until my year was up.
If there's no other usual thing to try, if T-mo doesn't come back with a reasonable response I suppose that's the next step.
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Does that require rooting? I haven't installed CWM yet, as I was holding off on all the experimentation until my year was up.
If there's no other usual thing to try, if T-mo doesn't come back with a reasonable response I suppose that's the next step.
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No it requires Nvflashing cwm. But that will ruin your "warranty" on a end of life phone
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Or a factory reset beofre rooting, although if you factory reset might as well root the phone lol.
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Or a factory reset beofre rooting, although if you factory reset might as well root the phone lol.
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You can factory reset without root. That's what T-Mobile will tell you to do anyways. I've went through six g2x in the past two weeks...that's their answer to everything lol
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I'm aware of that, just saying that's an option.
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I'm aware of that, just saying that's an option.
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I root everything I get on day one. Nothing stock and limiting my user options appeals to me. You can always revert to stock or if you hard brick no one could tell anyways.
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So a factory reset fixed it. I didn't have to wipe the phone and external SD, and so I'm just reinstalling apps and setting up a few of them. This was a good time for some spring cleaning anyway, I suppose.
It was probably some stupid permissions thing, but without root I can't even fix that.
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So a factory reset fixed it. I didn't have to wipe the phone and external SD, and so I'm just reinstalling apps and setting up a few of them. This was a good time for some spring cleaning anyway, I suppose.
It was probably some stupid permissions thing, but without root I can't even fix that.
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U got the ota? Nandroid it, and send it to kwes
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What is this update supposed to accomplish anyway? I'm rooted and trying ROMS pretty much every week (since no ICS rom works for me as a daily driver). Should I / can I do the update to 21y?
V21y 2.3.4 Rooted Touch Key lights
so everything else works fine when it comes to rooted app root request, but for some reason when a touch key light app request permisson it can do the job of adjusting the touchkey brightness, however the screen becomes very unresponsive, to the point where you cant slide left and right... I have run out of ideas as to why this is? has anyone else experienced this? I like to be able to turn that brightness down
Hi all,
I used Titanium Backup to remove bloatware apps from my rooted 6210. Will this modification affect the ICS update? will it give me an error message or will it just install these bloatware apps back? Thanks in advance!
PS I heard the update is coming in September...LOL
To be safe I would recommend that you reinstall all the apps you uninstalled. I mean, it should be ok, but I always like to be safe rather then sorry..
And September 2013 got it
vamp6x6x6x said:
To be safe I would recommend that you reinstall all the apps you uninstalled. I mean, it should be ok, but I always like to be safe rather then sorry..
And September 2013 got it
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Not this. When ICS comes along you'll want to do a complete wipe and start from scratch. The process of rooting should prevent OTA updates, so if you want the stock ICS you'll have to unroot first. I'll wait it out for someone to build rooted ICS builds.
Dunno if that will hold for the SGT+. Previous devices I've gotten on rooted devices just broke root. (TF101 comes to mind) Could be different for Sammy. But then we all did full backups before rooting....right?
I think that it will not matter what you have installed or uninstalled. M major updates like those will wipe everything and probably could not be done on OTA.
I would advice to do backup of your personal data only. If you restore a full backup of hc on ics you will got a bootloop.
Root should not prevent updates at all, but we will lose it. But probably we can use the same steps to take it back an the same update file.
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You'll have no problems updating through Kies but it will wipe everything. Not sure if an OTA will even be put out for those who bought it through a carrier or if everyone will have to update through Kies. I believe AT&T is forcing everyone to update their GSII to ICS through Kies. We will also most likely lose the ability to root until someone fixes it in ICS which shouldn't take too long.
jesusdiedforyourroms said:
Hi all,
I used Titanium Backup to remove bloatware apps from my rooted 6210. Will this modification affect the ICS update? will it give me an error message or will it just install these bloatware apps back? Thanks in advance!
PS I heard the update is coming in September...LOL
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based on my experience, it doesn't matter what bloatware you delete, it'll all be back with a vengeance in the update. Things related to your apps and data shouldn't be wiped, but you will lose root and have to wait for the talented folks here to figure out how to re-root.
Since my phone is rooted, the OTA update notification is on my phone. The first time it came, I tried to perform the update not knowing it would fail since it won't work on rooted phones.
It's not worth the hassle to me to 1: return the phone to stock, perform the update, and re-root the phone, or even not re-root the phone, or 2: load the rooted updated here.
I just want the OTA update to go away, keeping the phone like it is for now.
The notification is persistent through a restart, and I don't see a way to clear it. It's been like this for a few days now.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
In the same boat, would love to know if there's a way to get rid of this daily annoyance.
Go to the Android store and download NoBloat free(it has a Android holding an AK)...then go to system apps and look for the update notifier which is syncmldm2.apk, select it, then choose disable only...and viola! Its gone!
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You could also freeze Device Management 2.0 with Titanium Backup.
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You could also freeze Device Management 2.0 with Titanium Backup.
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I'm probably missing it, but I don't see Device Management 2.0 in the list, even if I filter all by name.
Do you mean Download manager 2.3.6?
Are you on stock and rooted? I was able to install the update on stock and rooted from kies. I did have to reroot and uninstall bloat ware again but everything else stayed in tact.
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jmoak said:
Are you on stock and rooted? I was able to install the update on stock and rooted from kies. I did have to reroot and uninstall bloat ware again but everything else stayed in tact.
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Yeah, stock rooted. Obviously I'm lazy with this, but I don't want to mess with Kies either. I'd have to a: reload it, install kies, get it working, load the update, re-root the phone, and *THEN* reconfigure/reinstall all my apps and settings.
Sorry, but I just want the notification icon to go away!
The first app that was mentioned, doesn't work either, nothing is listed as was described. There was one or two things similar, but not the same.
syncmldm2.apk is listed under Titanium as "Software update v3.1201.4.2". If removing that doesn't get rid of the notification, I believe wssyncmlnps.apk is also related to software updates. Remember to "nand you shizz" and titanium backup before removing either as it may cause instability (although it may not). I believe I removed the wssyncmlnps.apk or something similar on my Exhibit with little consequence- probably since they never intended on updating that thing...
I had that icon, I tried to install the update a few times (failed due to root) after a few failed attempts the icon gave up and went away.
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Yeah, stock rooted. Obviously I'm lazy with this, but I don't want to mess with Kies either. I'd have to a: reload it, install kies, get it working, load the update, re-root the phone, and *THEN* reconfigure/reinstall all my apps and settings.
Sorry, but I just want the notification icon to go away!
The first app that was mentioned, doesn't work either, nothing is listed as was described. There was one or two things similar, but not the same.
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All of my apps and settings stayed intact after the update over kies. I just had to reroot and uninstall the bloatware again.
The only way for you to get rid of the notification would be to update via Kies Software. Doesn't work via OTA when you are rooted, regardless if you're running the stock firmware. I just updated the firmware now with Kies, but oddly enough, the notification was still there! I clicked it and updated OTA, and it worked because the phone lost root upon the update via Kies. So yes, I had to update my device twice..
Well, time to re-root and uninstall bloatware.
EDIT: Well, upon restarting device, I am experiencing a lot of force closing issues. I reinstalled ClockworkMod Recovery and tried fixing permissions, but that didn't seem to work. Anyone have any ideas or fixes? Maybe I should reinstall my apps again.. >_>
Most likely you will need to wipe your phone and start fresh.
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Most likely you will need to wipe your phone and start fresh.
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Seems like it, thanks for input.. I'm going to backup my apk's and data, and everything using MyBackup Pro, so I can speed up the whole process. Hopefully everything turns out good. Oh, one question, when upgrading to official stock ROM releases, you always have to wipe if your rooted?? If so, I never knew that..
EDIT: omg backup app not working! Help! I refuse to wipe if I can't backup my apps!
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I wouldn't think so, but there is always the chance an app incompatibly with an upgrade can occur and muck it all up.
Have you tried using Titanium?
Ah, I see.
Titanium seems very popular.. I've never used it before. I guess I'll try it. If all else fails, I do have a Nandroid from yesterday.
EDIT: okay, everything is restored and back to normal. Thanks.
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Mine went away today, without doing anything.
If only real problems would go away if you ignored them long enough.