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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).
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 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?
Titanium
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.. ; )
In addition to the standard Market Fix to get protected applications working (clearing cache/data), we also need to trick Google to think we have a Tegra 2 device.
We simply need to change the following line in /system/build.prop
ro.product.device=olympus
This tells Google Market we are using a Motorola Atrix 4G and will give us the missing Tegra 2 apps when applying our market fix.
However, since we are mimicking a phone, Tablet specific apps will not show up (NYTimes app for Tablets is an example)
Cheers!
Edit:
It is well known that the Google Web Market is hit and miss on our GTablets. This thread indicates it may take a few days for our tablet's to show up on the web interface. However, what this fix does is allow you to download most of the Froyo + Tegra2 apps via the Market Application within our tablets. There will be applications that will refuse to install through the web market interface (if your tablet can actually show up on the darn thing) because of missing capabilities, but will install just fine via the Market app.
If you want to install apps using a web browser from your Desktop computer, I recommend the use of Appbrain to generate your list of desired apps and then syncing your list on the tablet to install.
Hi,
SUPER!!
This build.prop change, just by itself, on stock 3588, allows me to see a bunch of apps I haven't been able to see before, including Firefox, Flash, Tank Hero, etc. Didn't have to do anything else, no fingerprint changes, etc.
Thanks!
Jim
AWESOME! The only thing I can't find is message ease which is no great loss and I'm not seeing it on the web either -- I think they are pulling it on and off the market. But YES -- Laucher Pro, Saumari, Silver Creek games, Flash 10.2, tv.com, both opera browsers, dolphin HD -- all there. FANTASTIC. THANK YOU!
Even Vlingo shows up which was never found before. Truth is I don't even want it but it was one of my indicators.
wd5gnr said:
AWESOME! The only thing I can't find is message ease which is no great loss and I'm not seeing it on the web either -- I think they are pulling it on and off the market.
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Are you looking for MessagEase?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.exideas.mekb
Whoops! Helps if you spell it right. I always think that should be a faster keyboard but then I give up and go back to BetterKeyboard or the word predicting one which is great until you need to do Linux command lines and such.
Sorry for the confusion. I even found Astro Bluetooth Module another I used to have to switch for. Very cool.
Hmmm... the market.android.com site no longer shows my device since I made the above fix! It only shows my older device. I tried just clearing the market cache and rerunning but no go. I am now running the regular market fix (clear cache in market, stop, clear data in service framework, stop, reboot).
I did install things off the market, but it had to be from the device.
Ok tablet is booted back up.... drum roll....
Nope. And now I am -- for now -- only showing my paid apps off the market, none of the freebies I had previously installed.
UPDATE: I killed the market data and cache along with the service framework data and rebooted. This made no difference to the web site (unless it takes time for it to catch up) but it did -- after installing something else -- restore my existing apps. On the other hand, having the market working on the device beats the web site, but it still means something is "off".
How do we request this be made a sticky?
I know I've tried just about every market tweak for the last 3+ months and this is the only 1 that made a huge diff.
Jim
I haven't tried this fix (heck I don't even know how to apply it, someone mind helping a noob out?) but I had the same problem you did where the web market doesn't show your device. I tried spamming the regular market fix and still no good.
However I logged back into the web store today and it showed my device, weird.
Not sure how to fix it but yesterday I changed my password so I was forced to sign in again. Of course that didn't work at the moment but I guess it worked since I can now see my device now.
Hope this helped.
wd5gnr said:
Hmmm... the market.android.com site no longer shows my device since I made the above fix! It only shows my older device. I tried just clearing the market cache and rerunning but no go. I am now running the regular market fix (clear cache in market, stop, clear data in service framework, stop, reboot).
I did install things off the market, but it had to be from the device.
Ok tablet is booted back up.... drum roll....
Nope. And now I am -- for now -- only showing my paid apps off the market, none of the freebies I had previously installed.
UPDATE: I killed the market data and cache along with the service framework data and rebooted. This made no difference to the web site (unless it takes time for it to catch up) but it did -- after installing something else -- restore my existing apps. On the other hand, having the market working on the device beats the web site, but it still means something is "off".
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Yeah I tried logging out of the web site and back in. I've tried forcing a google account sync. And I've tried making sure Talk is running (apparently the website uses talk to send things to your device.).
Just for fun I put my ro.product.name/device/board back to Vega and with no reboot or anything the web site immediately found the device.... curious....
Well now that I'm back on the web site, my market is back to how it was even after I put the olympus line in. Getting too late. Will look at it tomorrow :-(
Hachi2Go said:
I haven't tried this fix (heck I don't even know how to apply it, someone mind helping a noob out?) but I had the same problem you did where the web market doesn't show your device. I tried spamming the regular market fix and still no good.
However I logged back into the web store today and it showed my device, weird.
Not sure how to fix it but yesterday I changed my password so I was forced to sign in again. Of course that didn't work at the moment but I guess it worked since I can now see my device now.
Hope this helped.
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I did the change by:
- get temp root via z4root
- make /system R/W via root explorer
- start a terminal
- cd /system
- Edit build.prop: busybox vi build.prop
- did regular market fix
- reboot
Jim
wd5gnr said:
Hmmm... the market.android.com site no longer shows my device since I made the above fix! It only shows my older device. I tried just clearing the market cache and rerunning but no go. I am now running the regular market fix (clear cache in market, stop, clear data in service framework, stop, reboot).
I did install things off the market, but it had to be from the device.
Ok tablet is booted back up.... drum roll....
Nope. And now I am -- for now -- only showing my paid apps off the market, none of the freebies I had previously installed.
UPDATE: I killed the market data and cache along with the service framework data and rebooted. This made no difference to the web site (unless it takes time for it to catch up) but it did -- after installing something else -- restore my existing apps. On the other hand, having the market working on the device beats the web site, but it still means something is "off".
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You're right that having market work on the device beats the website! The web market issues may be a whole separate battle.
Jim
jimcpl said:
I did the change by:
- get temp root via z4root
- make /system R/W via root explorer
- start a terminal
- cd /system
- Edit build.prop: busybox vi build.prop
- did regular market fix
- reboot
Jim
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I'm quite new to the Android OS so I'm not really sure how to do this.
I installed z4root and got temp root. I'm not sure if I needed it as I read somewhere that Vegan 5.1.1 (which I am using) gives me root already.
But I installed it and ran it anyways.
I'm stuck on giving my /system read and write permissions. Is this 'root explorer' app needed? Or can I use my 'iFileExplorer' app to do so, if so how? (It came with the vegan ROM)
Not sure if you meant to type ifileManger, but it will not get you write permissions. Root explorer will allow you to write. It looks as though you may have to
open a terminal up as discussed above, to change the build prop.
Hachi2Go said:
I'm quite new to the Android OS so I'm not really sure how to do this.
I installed z4root and got temp root. I'm not sure if I needed it as I read somewhere that Vegan 5.1.1 (which I am using) gives me root already.
But I installed it and ran it anyways.
I'm stuck on giving my /system read and write permissions. Is this 'root explorer' app needed? Or can I use my 'iFileExplorer' app to do so, if so how? (It came with the vegan ROM)
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Hachi2Go said:
I'm quite new to the Android OS so I'm not really sure how to do this.
I installed z4root and got temp root. I'm not sure if I needed it as I read somewhere that Vegan 5.1.1 (which I am using) gives me root already.
But I installed it and ran it anyways.
I'm stuck on giving my /system read and write permissions. Is this 'root explorer' app needed? Or can I use my 'iFileExplorer' app to do so, if so how? (It came with the vegan ROM)
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Hi,
If you don't have root explorer, there's a free app on market called something like "system mount r/w" that is free that will mount /system as r/w for you. Or, I think that you can do it using a terminal and a mount command (something like mount -remount....).
Normal file explorers won't do the remount.
Jim
mount -o remount,rw /system /system
Watch out for the spaces and you need to be root so do an su command first.
When done, repear the mount command but use ro instead of rw. You can do this with a terminal program or the adb.
Root Explorer is what, $3.99? Worth it for the time savings. I bought the Ti Pro too. $300+ on a tablet...spend $9 on some software to make life easier.
iam a noob. i have stock rom 3588. how do i get market working?
By the light of morning I got back to a full market! But it again broke the web site connection. Is anyone seeing this behavior? Or is it just me?
For the new guys.
1) This appears like it MAY break your connection with the market web site [Update: Wait a few hours and it appears to catch up with you]. It may have other unknown effects. If you are not comfortable with making mods you might wait until more people have reported success or failure with this. For the record I did NOT find this fix (thanks Isira -- see OP of this thread). Just writing up my take on what you need to do. This applies to VEGAn 5.1.1 with supplement. It has been noted that with a stock rom you may need to put "busybox" before commands like cp (which you don't need to use if you have Root Explorer, by the way). If you get this to work (or not) on a different ROM, report it in this thread.
2) That being said, you need a file explorer that will look at / and edit text files, an su utility (comes with your root kit; as far as I know all the custom ROMs are pre rooted) and a command shell/terminal. Or you could spring a few bucks and get Root Explorer which is well worth it and does all of these things. Others have suggested Absolute Root tools which I do not know about. You could also use adb for all of it (which is what I did) but if you know how to do that, you probably don't need me to tell you what to do. We will be changing your build.prop file in the /system directory.
IF YOU ARE NOT USING ROOT EXPLORER GO DOWN TO STEP 3B. IF YOU ARE, GO TO STEP 3A.
3A) Open root explorer. Find /system and press the "Mount R/W" button.
4A) Long press on build.prop and select Copy. Then navigate somewhere like /mnt/sdcard and press the paste button at the bottom of the screen. This is your backup. Please backup.
5A) Go back to /system
6A) Long press on build.prop again. The menu is scrollable. You want Open in Text Editor.
7A) Find the line that says ro.product.device=XXXX (where XXXX is probably Vega). Make it read:
ro.product.device=olympus
Don't change anything else.
8A) Save the file by pressing the menu key and selecting Save & Exit.
9A) Scroll to the top of the /system directory and press the Mount R/O button.
10A) Reboot your tablet. Wait for things to settle down on restart. Open Market. Look for Saumari 2. Look for LauncherPro, Opera Mobile, etc. It will all be there.
If you don't have root explorer:
3B) Open the terminal. At the prompt, enter (spaces and lower case matter):
su
mount -o remount,rw /system /system
HINT: If you think you will do this a lot grab Script Manager off of the market. You can put the mount line in a script, tell it to execute as root (which is the same as su) and then you can run the script when you want to make changes.
4B) Start your file manager and find the /system directory. Your file manager probably starts in /sdcard or /mnt/sdcard. You'll need to go "up" a directory or two to root and then back down. Either way, when you find it, make a backup copy of build.prop somewhere you can write to. Seriously. Do not skip this step. Make the copy.
5B) Edit build.prop. You are looking for a line that sys ro.product.device=XXXX (probably Vega; I don't know about other ROMs and if this works for other ROMs but for VEGAn 5.1.1 its Vega). Carefully replace whatever you have as XXXX to olympus. So the line should read:
ro.product.device=olympus
Note: Some of us had other changes to build.prop. Not clear if these had any effect or not.
6B) Save your changes. If your file explorer is not root, you probably need to save the file to where you can write (your sdcard for example) and the copy from a terminal, such as:
su
cp /mnt/sdcard/new-buildprop.txt /system/build.prop
or
su
busybox cp /mnt/sdcard/new-buildprop.txt /system/build.prop
7B) Open your terminal and enter:
su
mount -o remount,ro /system /system
Remember spaces and case count! Also if you are in the same terminal window as before you don't have to keep entering su since you stay root.
NOTES FOR BOTH SETS OF INSTRUCTIONS
I did the original market fix after saving the file, but some people say it is not necessary. But at least a few people have said they don't see much or anything in market until the redo the fix (the one where you delete the market cache and the google services framework data and reboot).
Things that appear to work:
1) Installing free programs
2) Updating existing programs
3) Amazon market web site oddly enough
4) The official market Web site AFTER WAITING SEVERAL HOURS
5) Buying an app off the build in application
Some of us had other changes to build.prop but I don't think any of them were significant. If you have trouble you might apply it (shouldn't hurt). Also, if your "my apps" only shows your paid apps (or nothing if you have no paid apps), try downloading anything off the market and that will usually restore it. There is also an update local cache key that might do the trick, but loading some freebie off the market is easier. Also check to make sure gtalk is logged in. You can try forcing a resync on your Google accounts (in the main menu under Accounts).
Hope that helps someone. Its early so I probably made mistakes and will edit any that are found.
wd5gnr,
I don't know how "unusual" it is, but on my Gtab, where I had 3452 for awhile, then now 3588, I've always noted that I don't have a "cp" command, so I have to use "busybox cp".
Just FYI, in case anyone encounters this when they try your instructions.
Jim
wd5gnr said:
By the light of morning I got back to a full market! But it again broke the web site connection. Is anyone seeing this behavior? Or is it just me?
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Based on this thread ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=941205 ), it seems it may take a few days for the tablets to register on the market.
I have 3 tablets and I'm trying to change the identifier for each tablet through the ro.product.model and seeing if each of the tablets will show up on the market. So far, only one tablet is showing on the web market, but it's still using the old ro.product.model identifier (GTablet-TnT-Lite).
However, the web market is still pretty wonky. Certain apps may refuse to install through the web market because of missing capabilities on our tablets, but will install just fine through the market app.
For some reason the previous thread was closed and I'm not sure what to delete from my phone since I don't seem to have the htclogger.apk file in my apps folder.
I used root explorer to search for "logger" and get these results:
/data/data/com.htc.loggers
/data/data/com.htc.loggers/bin/htclogger
/data/data/com.htc.loggers/bin/htcloggerd
/system/lib/libhtc_logger.so
Delete 'em all? Rename them?
Thanks!
(took me two searches to find them, the first time I just searched in my app folder for a logger app, it doesn't exist there. I had to do the search from the regular default start screen of Root Explorer).
Oh, I'm running DroidTh3ory's ShiftS3ns3 v 1.5x, which is android version 2.3.4 and Sense version 2.1.
I'm certain I was on 1.4 and upgraded to 1.5x, I think prior to that I may have been on AOSP based ROMs - I was flashing quite a bit for a while there, but this ShiftS3ns3 is my DD for now (his forums are still down).
Any suggestions on what to do w/those files is GREATLY appreciated.
Tx
People are pretty sloppy with capitalization, which is significant in Linux. It's /system/app/HtcLoggers.apk
mike.s said:
People are pretty sloppy with capitalization, which is significant in Linux. It's /system/app/HtcLoggers.apk
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If I look in that folder I have listed in alphabetical order:
HtcLockScreen.apk
-then-
htcmailwidgets.apk
Reasonable thought would be that if I had HtcLoggers.apk it would land right in the middle of those two listings in the /app folder, correct?
For whatever reason, I don't think I have it.
Should I try another app other than rootexplorer? I haven't been able to ask my ROMs developer about it (I'm not on twitter and I'm waiting for his site to come back up).
I have used RootExplorer to remove HtcLoggers.apk so the file manager does show it so it would be reasonably certain that if you're not seeing it, it's not there.
I've successfully removed the apk and com.htc.loggers w/o any problem. Can't say about /system/lib/libhtc_logger.so.
if you don't want to bother manually scanning/deleting stuff, you can try the app AntTek App Manager. it's like Titanium Backup(but free) and works well.
Cant we just freeze the apk instead of uninstalling?
I'm really sorry if this has already been posted somewhere, but I "did" look for the past hour and couldn't find anything that specifically showed me what to do.
I'm currently running the following on my Samsung Droid Charge:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/10515-odinall-in-oneep4d-gingerbread-236-w-cwrimo-kernelrooted/
I wasn't able to use the Deodexed/Debloated since certain programs weren't loaded by default.
Since running the fully bloated version, the memory for apps that start automatically keep the memory usage around 310/330MB and I'm constantly having to use the TaskManager to clear/close apps that are running in the background.
I found a site that allowed me to remove (via adb) all the .odex files, and I deleted some of the .apk that did remove apps, but I'd really like to know what I can and can't remove. Right now my camera works, but when trying to make a movie, it says it can't save to the flash drive....so I may have deleted something. /ugh
I'd really appreciate it if there was a link or site that shows you how to manually remove all programs (debloat) on your phone once you have it setup the way you want. I have no need for about 50% of the crap Verizon installed.
Yes, I'm rooted (shhhh) and the phone's display is awesome, but for now I'm kinda stuck with it since the wife has control of the purse strings. HA!
Thanks in advance!!
TSG
I would just use root explorer to unistall the apps from the system/ apps folder, that way you can remove app, that you don't use that are in the app drawer.
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techno-update said:
I would just use root explorer to unistall the apps from the system/ apps folder, that way you can remove app, that you don't use that are in the app drawer.
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That's what I did, but exploring in other directories (was bored) I noticed quite a few com.android.blahblahblah.bitbop and other com.android.xxxx.programname that I deleted in the /system/app folder. Do these need to be removed also?
I think this is where I removed one of the files that killed the video recorder on my phone and I have no idea what it was. ???
If just removing the .odex files and files in the /system/app folder is all that's needed, I'm happy but there are still quite a few "background apps" that load such as "Factory Test", "Rx Networks PGPS Seed Downloader", "VVMservice" etc. Have no clue what those are and I have very few apps installed. The phone is mostly used for work, so I have Pulse, Engadget, Facebook and Business Calendar (which ties into Exchange) installed. That's it.
Thanks again!
TSG
Just remove the apps that you know are the same from the app drawer. You don't wanna mess with others, since if you erase the main, the extras wont run and can cause instability. Your phone should run faster after that. May try setcpu to overclock it to.
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techno-update said:
Just remove the apps that you know are the same from the app drawer. You don't wanna mess with others, since if you erase the main, the extras wont run and can cause instability. Your phone should run faster after that. May try setcpu to overclock it to.
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Gotcha. I use No-frills CPU Control, but the Max CPU is 1GHz and minimum is 100MHz, so either I'm running stock kernel, or the program won't allow me to overclock it.
Anyway, I appreciate the help!!
Thanks
TSG
Sounds like your not running an overclocking kernel.
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techno-update said:
Sounds like your not running an overclocking kernel.
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I know the Motorola Droid like the back of my hand, but Samsung is a bit different. Do you have any kernels that you would recommend? Is there a page here on XDA that has the kernels?
Thanks again!
TSG
I think this one is the best,
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...-kernel-on-samsung-droid-charge-via-recovery/
It can overclock up to 1.6GHz
I would keep it on like 1.4GHz just to be safe though
remove pulse and kindle and words free
Hi guys,
Wasntnsure where to post this, this seems like the right thread.
I have rooted my tab and running GalaxyaTasks ROM.
My question is how can I delete the .apk for kindle, pulse and WordFree?
Thanks guys
Use a file explorer and find the corresponding .apk file in either /data/app or /system/app
Afterwards do a reboot and maybe run SD Maid "corpse cleaner" feature to remove left over settings files.
Dark3n said:
Use a file explorer and find the corresponding .apk file in either /data/app or /system/app
Afterwards do a reboot and maybe run SD Maid "corpse cleaner" feature to remove left over settings files.
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I have the root explorer and everything, however, I couldn't find the APK name for the pulse / kindle application, do you know that name?
I am basically looking for the name of the APK.
Thanks,
The name of the .apk will be the apps packagename look it up.
I.e. for the kinde app
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.amazon.kindle
"com.amazon.kindle" is that apps packagename.
The apk will be named com.amazon.kindle(something).apk
You could just use an app to search for "kindle" on your device.