Hi, I have tried several times to remove the bloatware on my device eliminating apk's. But every time I remove a single apk, when I restart my device it shows a SECURITY ERROR, and I have to flash a KDZ to repair it. I keep the bloatware frozen with Titanium Backup But I really want to get rid of it. Did someone is having the same problem?
If you're getting a security error after removing stuff from /system, you're touching something you shouldn't be. Search the G Flex 2 forums for the Safe Bloatware to Remove thread and that is the most you can remove. Freezing does pretty much teh same thing as removing the APKs, except it keeps the APKs. Either way, you shouldn't be worried.
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So so far, yesterday I've had the multi-touch keyboard force close maybe 4 times, the drag racing game 8, and a soft reboot. I have not rooted yet... holding off until there is more of a point. Anyone else having issues like this? I have 28 more days to do an exchange, I wanted to see if it's just my phone or not & either way I'll give it another week to see how it fares. Soft reboot occurred at maybe 40 hours or so of run time.
I use Go keyboard which has a far better layout and the swype ability as well, never had a fc. I dont play games. Have gotten a few fc's on various apps for unknown reasons, a few freezes in apps, but it happens so rarely that its not an issue. I did have to do a hard reset the day I got it though, but it was my fault.
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try doing a battery pull, not saying it would help but it definitely wouldnt hurt.
Fter rooting FC's also
After rooting (One-click method) and running Titanium Backup Pro to get a good backup of my phone. I now have a similar FC issue. Every time I try to open a contacts details, in the contacts app that starts, it will FC on me. The same thing happened to the phone app, works only if I dial a number from the keypad, click on a recent call in log, baam! FC I had to install GO Contacts/Dialer and they work fine. I tried to clear the cache/factory reset but the issue persists after I just loose all my info.....
Any way to Flash back to stock yet, think its a little to soon to root this racehorse....
I now have 3 apk's in TB that have a line through them. I cannot backup/restore/freeze the apps. Under the lined out app it says "No Backup yet"
com.motorola.blur.contacts.sync.yahoo
com.motorola.blur.provider.linkedin
com.occamy.andriod.motoxmayhem1lite
Anyone that can post these apk's so I could re-install/repair would help me greatly. I had this similar issue on my old cappy and replacing the app fixed it. I think when TB makes a backup and closes the app it some how actually deletes the app and/or corrupts it and then you have to replace it.
Rooting should no effect on the problems you are having. Did you freeze anything with TB, if so unfreeze everything, if not try unistalling it and see if the problems persist
If you are rooted, download ROM Manager and run fix permissions. That should help out with FC's.
I'm trying to figure out how to stop updates and remove the notification on my Nexus 5. I've attempted a few ways I've seen people suggest to no avail (including what seems to be the most popular here on xda... dropping FOTAKill.apk into the /system/app folder). Anyone have a way to do this without touching any of the other background services?
Edit: I *think* it's gone, and I believe the FOTAKill.apk did work eventually. I had to download the update, delete the update out of cache, and then tell the updater to initialize. It did its countdown as if it would update, got to zero, and did nothing - but "Cancel Install" was still there. After that, the notification hasn't popped up again (I did a reboot as well)
I was recently looking for system applications to delete, I used an application to get rid of apps I don't use, or system apps that slow down the phone, there were three files showing in pink littering with pink gears next to them, one said system manager, other, settings manager, and a third one, that's the one I deleted by accident.
Now when I try to open my settings, I get an error. "settings has stopped" everytime.
Is there any way to get it back without doing a whole reset of the phone.
Using towelroot, and on the first version of 4.4 kit kat.
Please help. Thanks
My phone is not rooted. Its only a week old so I'd like to avoid rooting for a while due to warranty.
I want to remove a few apps that came pre-installed on my phone like "Hangouts" but every time that I remove them, they reinstall automatically a while later.
How do I permanently uninstall the apps so that they remain uninstalled?
Byte_76 said:
My phone is not rooted. Its only a week old so I'd like to avoid rooting for a while due to warranty.
I want to remove a few apps that came pre-installed on my phone like "Hangouts" but every time that I remove them, they reinstall automatically a while later.
How do I permanently uninstall the apps so that they remain uninstalled?
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Uninstall them, disable them, and turn off automatic updating for that app in the play store beforehand.
Is the information here safe to be used for removing bloatware on my 8T?
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imcrazyz said:
Is the information here safe to be used for removing bloatware on my 8T?
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This isn't really removing, more hiding from the main user those apps, thus making them not start. But the apks are still here, and after a reset the apps will be there again.
This is totally safe tho, and it's a great way to get rid of them if you don't reset every 2 days, so feel free to try
i just tried using titanium backup paid version to freeze some apps. it still works. you won't see the apps in the drawer until you defrost them again.
issuing those adb commands will modify system settings, so it might be a pita to get updates after you do that. you'll have to remember which apps you deleted and reinstall them again. i could be wrong and this might be a non-issue, i just remember earlier days and modifying system data and then having to make sure all the stock apps were still there to take an ota.
ADB will not stop OTA's from taking place unless you uninstall/disable something relevant to the app that is needed to search/find/download/install the said OTA. After the OTA is applied the apps you uninstalled/disabled (whichever worked) will not come back. As mentioned, using ADB itself without root does not really uninstall them like you think it does. They're still there. So although an OTA will not show them to still be there, a factory reset will bring them back. So the only real way to completely uninstall bloat is to have root. But even then a factory reset will bring them back because they are built in to the native OS.
Raiz said:
This isn't really removing, more hiding from the main user those apps, thus making them not start. But the apks are still here, and after a reset the apps will be there again.
This is totally safe tho, and it's a great way to get rid of them if you don't reset every 2 days, so feel free to try
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Disabling the app is just as good as removing it completely. There isn't really any reason to delete the apps like this (if no uninstall option exists) because once they're disabled they will not run.
I know people have a fascination with deleting system apps, but it's not like you can free up space this way.
Factory reset should bring them back. But this is safer for the integrity of the firmware.
Freezing system apps that do not have the disable option (with TB) is always preferred over deleting them, in my opinion.
Ultimately, you can always save yourself by using the MSM tool to restore.