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Root Bloatware Removal(what can be safely removed)

Obviously some devs have helped already in removing bloatware on the Connect, but nobody has removed everything I'd like to see gone...Markolo25's tool is the most complete list of safe to remove apps I've found thus far but I'd like Rhapsody, @pp Store(metro app store), Loopt, Visual Voicemail, WiFi Cast, Weather, Gmail, Mail, and myMetro removed too.

I'd also like google+, google music store, and google video store removed but have read somewhere that you can't remove those without issue as it's part of the new google play market set.

Has anybody removed any of these yet(manually via terminal, I'd assume)?

How many of those I listed are removable without consequence?

Any thoughts to the best/easiest way to fully delete them(I mean delete, not freeze!)? I'd assume terminal but typing is lame when your lazy like me:D.
 
Root explorer is a great app for deleting system apps. I personally kept all the stock LG apps just because they came with the device and who knows if/when I might wanna use them. As far as for the metro apps I deleted all of them except the metro browser and the metro app store in case I need to reinstall them for a return. I wouldn't delete any google apps just because there's no real telling which ones are needed to run the device. Also something you might want to consider, the phone does have 2 gig of internal space so you really don't need to go all out and delete every app you don't want for space. I've got roughly 30+ downloaded apps and still have 1.4 gigs of memory available. This is just my opinion and what works for me mind you..
 
Oh I know there is plenty of memory but I hate the icons showing and if I don't use the app, ever, then i uninstall it rather than freeze it...

Thanks for the root explorer recommendation, I'll give that a shot.

Also, did you remove rhapsody, loopt, weather, or wifi cast?

And to be clear, you removed ALL metro apps accept for @metro, correct?
 
Yea I removed all the metro app minus the ones I mentioned, also I deleted rhapsody, vcard, im/social, Yahoo movies, and a couple other ones I can't recall at the moment. As far as the weather and wifi cast I kept those. I'm pretty wifi cast is safe to remove, not sure about weather though.
 
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