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[Q] Rooted, but can't delete apps???

I recently rooted my Skyrocket (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526) but am unable to delete apps. I have full superuser access and have even installed a custom ROM already, but the only option when I go to "manage apps" is to delete the updated version. I've even tried deleting the apps using Launcher Pro's method (long holding on the trash icon) and it just says "Uninstall unsuccessful."
So, what gives? Why am I rooted and don't have full access over my apps??
Thanks.
EDIT: Also, just to add, I have apps that came with the stock phone (like AP Mobile, AccuWeather, etc.) that I can see in the manage applications list under ALL but they aren't in my app drawer. So I get the worst of both worlds: some apps I can't access and can't uninstall!

Root doesn't change the fact that the apps are protected system apps. The default uninstaller will still stop you from fully removing them.
You can easily download a free app from the market, such as Root Uninstaller, to remove protected system apps. Just be careful, as you can so remove vital system apps crucial to the operation of android with root Uninstaller. Only remove apps you are sure won't hurt the system.
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Kaaji1359 said:
I recently rooted my Skyrocket (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526) but am unable to delete apps. I have full superuser access and have even installed a custom ROM already, but the only option when I go to "manage apps" is to delete the updated version. I've even tried deleting the apps using Launcher Pro's method (long holding on the trash icon) and it just says "Uninstall unsuccessful."
So, what gives? Why am I rooted and don't have full access over my apps??
Thanks.
EDIT: Also, just to add, I have apps that came with the stock phone (like AP Mobile, AccuWeather, etc.) that I can see in the manage applications list under ALL but they aren't in my app drawer. So I get the worst of both worlds: some apps I can't access and can't uninstall!
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Many of the roms don't have the bloat. Look them over and see if any fit your needs. You'll need rom manager (marketplace). Before flashing any of the roms for this phone, read the threads associated with each one, so you'll have an idea about any issues. Make sure you also understand the consequences of flashing a rom.

You dont need rom manager. I dont use it. But some people prefer it.
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Keep in mind. You can flash the stock recovery tar and still take an ota update. But if you delete bloat you can not. Youll have to flash back to stock. Unless you have a nandroid backup with bloat intact.

silver03wrx said:
You dont need rom manager. I dont use it. But some people prefer it.
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Keep in mind. You can flash the stock recovery tar and still take an ota update. But if you delete bloat you can not. Youll have to flash back to stock. Unless you have a nandroid backup with bloat intact.
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For those who are new to this, like me, it is the easiest way, after looking over some of the guides.

And if you choose to use rom manager. You have to select the tmobile galaxy s2. Skyrocket is not listed. But it is almost an identical phone.

Just download titanium backup, it can uninstall protected apps.
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Thanks for the help everyone. I just moved from the Atrix which didn't have protected systems apps after bypassing the bootloader.
I ended up installing "Sky Ice Cream Sandwich" which I thought didn't have bloatware but it still shows up... And I did use ROM Manager but that was just because I wanted to get into CWM easier.
Anyway, I found a list of apps I can uninstall here so I'll just be using Titanium Backup since I've already purchased it.
Thanks again.

I use Titanium Backup, it works flawless and is really easy.

can't delete system apps
Hello. Pls help me to solve my problem. I've already rooted my HTC desire 620 but I still can't delete my system apps(no root permissions). Also doesn't works another apps with(root needs)
Thanks

(list) cm11 "apps safe to remove"

Hi All
I have been trying to slim my CM11, getting rid of unnecessary apps that i feel are taking up valuable space on my “mini”.
After hours of Google searches and many trial n error Rom flashes, I have came up with a comprehensive list of “apps” that are safe to remove". Some of my info was found on CM’s WIKI(that was based on cm10.1) page but most was down to laborious ROM flashing and testing.
***THIS CAN ALSO BE USED WITH OTHER CM BASED ROMS SUCH AS SLIMKAT,PAC-MAN, LUNGO ETC**
Most will know this BUT for those that don’t this is how i slim it down.
1. Download Rom
2. Extract the Rom
3. Delete All that you don’t want or need
4. Copy over your apk’s into the relevant folders
5. Highlight META-INF,System,Boot & File_contexts, Right click and send to zip
6. Copy your zip (renaming if you want) to phone and flash.
View attachment 2871025
**needs updating, removing some apps may cause other apps/process to fail up to build m7 **
Hope it Helps
HIT "THANKS" IF ITS HELPED, CHEERS

Thanks man :good:

Yes thats a comprehensive list alright, thanks & nice work - appreciated!

Thanks:good: Nice work

Braddison said:
Hi All
I have been trying to slim my CM11, getting rid of unnecessary apps that i feel are taking up valuable space on my “mini”.
After hours of Google searches and many trial n error Rom flashes, I have came up with a comprehensive list of “apps” that are safe to remove". Some of my info was found on CM’s WIKI(that was based on cm10.1) page but most was down to laborious ROM flashing and testing.
Heres the Link to the List : https://mega.co.nz/#!14E1xBYC!Ui68P0lQd8VZia6JgBSBgQ6KmB-Ff5-2-R4sZ-Bmtac
Most will know this BUT for those that don’t this is how i slim it down.
1. Download cm11 Rom
2. Extract the Rom
3. Delete All that you don’t want or need
4. Copy over your apk’s into the relevant folders
5. Highlight META-INF,System,Boot & File_contexts, Right click and send to zip
6. Copy your zip (renaming if you want) to phone and flash.
Hope it Helps
Cheers
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How much RAM and Flash did it saved you to removed all the apps you suggested?

I not suggesting to remove all of them, if you did you would have a pretty useless phone. Some of the ones I removed I replaced with other apps... Some of the other apps were larger in size, some were smaller. For example I removed appollo and replaced it with power amp.... No point having a second music app on my phone taking up space I will never use.

Thanks very much for that list, it's very interesting! I keep removing apps I don't use on CM, I hope I'll be able to help you enhance your file.
That's sad, team Cyanogenmod should add their apps as a separate package, as some of us are trying to get a minimalistic Android to use with our favorite apps.

Thanks for the your feedback, it's appreciated. Yeah I really need to sit down and update this, as there are new apk's such as "cmhome" (amongst others) that I need to add. Was thinking about trying to make an aroma de-bloater for cm based roms... But... There hasn't been much response to this thread, albeit over 3900 views. Feel free to take the existing list, add or amend as you wish. Cheers

hii thanks for this ..I want to ask what about theme provider.apk ? is not in your list pls help

leap_ahead said:
hii thanks for this ..I want to ask what about theme provider.apk ? is not in your list pls help
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as i mentioned earlier, i need to update the list. you can delete theme provider if your not bothered about changing theme, otherwise keep it!
the easiest way to slim it down is to remove some of the audio. eg ringtones, notifications etc. as most of them are crap and doubt you will use them. cheers

M8 brings several changes in the apps. I tested some stuff (updated M8 from M7) :
CMAccount.apk may cause problems (removed it, then added it again and going back to home was running first time assistant).
Lockclock.apk can't be removed anymore, it causes androidui error at boot (up to M7 it could be removed) because there's no way anymore to disable it. You can delete it, but at start there's at least one message box to close.
I removed lots of safe apps, but no way, I got random bugs :
Apollo, Basic Dreams, Browser, CellBroadcastReceiver, CMFileManager, CMWallpapers, DownloadProviderUI, DSPManager, Email, Exchange2, Galaxy4, LatinIME, Mms, PhaseBeam, VideoEditor, VoicePlus, WhisperPush.
I eventually went back to M7, it caused too many bugs for me (FC at start, random wallpaper errors, ...).
I think I'm going to build a M8 zip with all apks I don't want in a bak folder, add some GApps and some of my apps/data and flash from full wipe, I guess the M8 needs to regarding problems I have with...
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Oh, by the way I guess I may script a cleaner. It would be easier for me and I would share it with no problem.
Just make sure you've ADB, debugging enabled, USB cable and pop corn

Hi guys, what about CM home.apk in /system/priv-app? What is it and it's safe to remove?

ste22032 said:
Hi guys, what about CM home.apk in /system/priv-app? What is it and it's safe to remove?
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Not had cm on my device in a while, but I believe cmhome is similar to Google now and it ties in with trebuchet. Try deleting it, shouldn't cause any problems.
Cheers
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AnGrY sCoTsMaN said:
Not had cm on my device in a while, but I believe cmhome is similar to Google now and it ties in with trebuchet. Try deleting it, shouldn't cause any problems.
Cheers
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Thank you, just deleted it, everything is ok. If it's for trebuchet is completely useless for me, i use Nova launcher
Have a great day my friend!

DeskClock.Apk
LockClock.Apk
PrintSpooler.Apk
Stk.Apk
are safe to delete.

Pumpernickel1 said:
DeskClock.Apk
LockClock.Apk
PrintSpooler.Apk
Stk.Apk
are safe to delete.
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Yupp! But if you remove lockclock.Apk and deskclock.Apk you lose clock on homescreen and locksreen, I left them in as I think most folk use them. I also noticed if you replace them with 3rd party ones from play store they tend to have higher battery drain. Cheers
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Very sorry to reawaken this thread.
It states "Move preferred apk to zip before flashing the rom." What do you mean by that?
I want to replace the stock keyboard & stock file manager,
so I just have to replace the LatinIME.apk & CMFileManager.apk with respective apks?
No need for changing the new-keyboard name to "LatinIME.apk"
or
Make any changes in the code, as in change the default code which points to LatinIME as the default and instead map it to new-keyboard,
Right?
Also, can I delete WAPPushManager, UserDictionaryProvider & CellBroadcastReceiver?
Sorry for the trouble.

[Q] How to disable/uninstall preloaded NVIDIA apps?

I know you all are going to think I'm ridiculous, but I bought 2 shield tablets for my kids ages 3 and nearly 2 for educational purposes. After weighing the Nexus 9, shield tablet and Sony's Z2 tablet the shield seemed to be the best value. My kids have a restricted profile with only the educational/learning apps that I have selected available to them. My question is how do I disable or uninstall the preloaded NVIDIA apps such as SHIELD HUB, the controller one, Twitch sharing, etc.? My kids will never use them likely for the usable life of the tablets and I don't need them poking around with them so I'd like to have them removed or hidden at the least. I have the tablets stock rooted with TWRP recovery and I've used Titanium backup on previous devices to do something similar before but it doesn't seem be to able to located the APKs of these apps to uninstall them.
Thanks for the help!

Go into Settings and then Apps, you can select which you want to disable and uninstall (will not always uninstall as its part of the system i think) This is what I have done as i dont want junk running when I dont need/want it to

ady702 said:
Go into Settings and then Apps, you can select which you want to disable and uninstall (will not always uninstall as its part of the system i think) This is what I have done as i dont want junk running when I dont need/want it to
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I tried that first before resorting to Titanium Backup. The Disable button is greyed out and not available to click for these apps. These are like some super system level apps that can't be disabled or uninstalled the normal way.

tutech said:
I tried that first before resorting to Titanium Backup. The Disable button is greyed out and not available to click for these apps. These are like some super system level apps that can't be disabled or uninstalled the normal way.
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My suggestion would be to root the device. Many apps such as Titanium require root access for full functionality. Once rooted you'll be able to remove anything that you want. I personally just use Root Browser to navigate to System/App and delete what I don't want.
The drawback to rooting is that you won't have automatic OTA updates. (Not hard to get past that, download the OTA file and flash in Recovery.) But for your use you might not want to receive OTAs anyway.

koop1955 said:
My suggestion would be to root the device. Many apps such as Titanium require root access for full functionality. Once rooted you'll be able to remove anything that you want. I personally just use Root Browser to navigate to System/App and delete what I don't want.
The drawback to rooting is that you won't have automatic OTA updates. (Not hard to get past that, download the OTA file and flash in Recovery.) But for your use you might not want to receive OTAs anyway.
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My tablets are rooted, I mentioned that in the original post. However, Titanium Backup was unable to uninstall them (thus my question here) saying something about being unable to locate the APKs. I'll try Root Browser manually like you suggested when I get back home to them later.
I'm fully aware of all consequences of rooting, OTAs, etc. Every Android device I've owned since the original T-Mobile G1 has been rooted, but I do appreciate your willingness to help!

tutech said:
My tablets are rooted, I mentioned that in the original post. However, Titanium Backup was unable to uninstall them (thus my question here) saying something about being unable to locate the APKs. I'll try Root Browser manually like you suggested when I get back home to them later.
I'm fully aware of all consequences of rooting, OTAs, etc. Every Android device I've owned since the original T-Mobile G1 has been rooted, but I do appreciate your willingness to help!
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Got it, I misread the part about being rooted and your experience on previous devices.
I stopped using Titanium Backup a while ago. There are simpler means of restoring apps and restoring data is likely to cause headaches. That said, the problem seems odd. As far as I know, all apps install to either /system/app or /data/app, That being the case, can't imagine why TB wouldn't be able to find them.
Are you by any chance running Multirom?

koop1955 said:
Got it, I misread the part about being rooted and your experience on previous devices.
I stopped using Titanium Backup a while ago. There are simpler means of restoring apps and restoring data is likely to cause headaches. That said, the problem seems odd. As far as I know, all apps install to either /system/app or /data/app, That being the case, can't imagine why TB wouldn't be able to find them.
Are you by any chance running Multirom?
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Not running MultiROM, just stock with root. I thought it was odd that Titanium couldn't locate the APKs too, that's why I decided to ask here. I suspect if I go cruising around /system/app looking for these APKs to remove I won't find them there.

tutech said:
Not running MultiROM, just stock with root. I thought it was odd that Titanium couldn't locate the APKs too, that's why I decided to ask here. I suspect if I go cruising around /system/app looking for these APKs to remove I won't find them there.
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You would be correct about them not being in system. Look in /vendor/app. Should be what you want.

Themes Trial/Purchase.

Upon a Titanium backup restore tonight I had a look at the themes that were restored and I noticed that there was a 'Trial' banner that I hadn't noticed before. While I may have missed it previously, it seems new to me. When clicking further into the theme there was the option for trial or purchase. It seems to me that Samsung may be about to monetize the theme aspect of Touchwiz. While all themes were free after clicking the purchase option, it still seemed peculiar. Has anyone seen this before?

That's weird. All of the themes in my Theme Store are still for free. I'm on stock, btw. Have you flashed any custom ROM, lately? If you did, what ROM?

I'm running Stock ROM as well. I found this after rooting and doing a restore or the backed up themes I had previously. All themes that are not a restored version still show normal in the store.

If they monetize all themes.... goodbye to Sammy forever.. that's just a really scummy/low move.

BCSC said:
Upon a Titanium backup restore tonight I had a look at the themes that were restored and I noticed that there was a 'Trial' banner that I hadn't noticed before. While I may have missed it previously, it seems new to me. When clicking further into the theme there was the option for trial or purchase. It seems to me that Samsung may be about to monetize the theme aspect of Touchwiz. While all themes were free after clicking the purchase option, it still seemed peculiar. Has anyone seen this before?
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Easily fixable if you have root.
Use any root explorer, I use Root Browser.
Go to data\overlays\jsonfiles\trialjson and move the apk's out of there to data\overlays\jsonfiles\userjson
Reboot phone
Profit
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JoeFCaputo113 said:
If they monetize all themes.... goodbye to Sammy forever.. that's just a really scummy/low move.
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If they do move them to paid just follow procedure to move apk's to data\overlays\jsonfiles\userjson
Reboot
No longer a trial

Gboss01 said:
Easily fixable if you have root.
Use any root explorer, I use Root Browser.
Go to data\overlays\jsonfiles\trialjson and move the apk's out of there to data\overlays\jsonfiles\userjson
Reboot phone
Profit
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Thanks for the idea. I'm not overly concerned about it myself as this phone needs a warranty repair. That's the reason I needed to take a TiBu to begin with. It's nice to have this info in case others have issues with this down the road.

Gboss01 said:
If they do move them to paid just follow procedure to move apk's to data\overlays\jsonfiles\userjson
Reboot
No longer a trial
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Paid themes would most definitely have drm attached. I doubt you would be able to do that.

jonchliu said:
Paid themes would most definitely have drm attached. I doubt you would be able to do that.
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We'll have to wait to see when it happens.
Right now that method works on cogul_black which comes up as trial if you install it.

Gboss01 said:
We'll have to wait to see when it happens.
Right now that method works on cogul_black which comes up as trial if you install it.
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Where are you guys seeing trial themes? I only see Free ones and the above theme is unavailable.

And here it is. Time to start paying for themes.

Gboss01 said:
Easily fixable if you have root.
Use any root explorer, I use Root Browser.
Go to data\overlays\jsonfiles\trialjson and move the apk's out of there to data\overlays\jsonfiles\userjson
Reboot phone
Profit
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If they do move them to paid just follow procedure to move apk's to data\overlays\jsonfiles\userjson
Reboot
No longer a trial
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This method was working however at the moment after the move, when I click the them to load it, nothing happens on click, is this a known issue, is it because of some new theme store?
Update: it still works, had missed deleting the preferences folder....

after a restart we need to reapply theme again is there any solution for that

Pixel 2 app updates on Play Store

I have about 23 updates pending on the Play Store that I have not installed. Quite a few of these are System apps which I feel belong in the System partition and not Data. I'm rooted with Magisk but hesitant to update and move the apps manually being that once System is mounted RW it ruins your ability to receive OTA updates. Not the biggest deal considering I could just flash the updated factory images when available but it's nice to have the convenience of updating via OTA. Maybe I'm just being "OCD" about this but I just feel that System apps belong on the System ROM and having them update in DATA is an "untidy" approach to doing this not to mention it's taking up my space on my user storage. (Good thing I sprung for the 128GB). My question is, how are you guys approaching this and am I alone in feeling this way?

The apps are system apps. But they're updated through the play store. It's much better than having to wait for whole OTA's just to fix one app.
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Update them. It's not an issue.

Thanks for your reply. What happens when a new OTA comes out and the apps are in there or updated further? Will the ones in DATA remain as well? I'm assuming they just go inactive and it will be up to me to go in there and delete them. Please clarify.

DJarkIV said:
My question is, how are you guys approaching this and am I alone in feeling this way?
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Yes.
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DJarkIV said:
Thanks for your reply. What happens when a new OTA comes out and the apps are in there or updated further? Will the ones in DATA remain as well? I'm assuming they just go inactive and it will be up to me to go in there and delete them. Please clarify.
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You don't have to worry about them being installed to /data. The system knows what to do, if the version installed with an OTA is newer than the version installed from the Play store it will automatically be uninstalled and you will have the newest version. You're question is really kind of strange TBH, hopefully I've been able to help.

mikeyinid said:
You don't have to worry about them being installed to /data. The system knows what to do, if the version installed with an OTA is newer than the version installed from the Play store it will automatically be uninstalled and you will have the newest version. You're question is really kind of strange TBH, hopefully I've been able to help.
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Yes, that was helpful. I didn't know it would be automatically uninstalled when a newer version exists. I've been using Android as a power user since 2012 and haven't encountered system critical apps being updated via Play Store. I never stayed on stock ROM very long and this is my first actual Google phone. Perhaps this comes across as a strange concern to you, but when I mentioned "OCD," I wasn't using it as a figure of speech ?. I like keeping my computers and phones file structures extremely neat and organized and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Finally, I was also wondering if it could lead to any security vulnerabilities having an app like Dialer existing in Data/App. (I'm paranoid too). Nevertheless, I will install as you recommended. This thread can be closed now.