Root Can I delete these apps?

[jhob]

I rooted at the weekend and have been deleting some unwanted apps, particularly the crap demos that orange installed on my phone!

There's a few left that I'm not sure if I can delete or not, does anyone know if these are safe to delete?

DCSImpl.apk
DCSStock.apk
DCSUtility.apk
Facebook.apk
HtcFacebook.apk
HtcFootprints.apk
IM.apk
OAS_Bravo-v4_2_1_5-20100225-2-prod.apk
OrangeImFrPlugin.apk
PCSCII.apk
PicoTts.apk
Pixota.1.5.12_20100823_WVGA_froyo.apk
Quickoffice.apk
QxdmLog.apk
Stock.apk

Re: htcfacebook and facebook - I do use facebook but wasn't sure if these were used by the system in any way?

Thanks for the help,
John

 

[GrenW]

From your list I've deleted Footprints and Quickoffice - usually from the zip before flashing a rom. Can't comment on the others as I've not got an Orange phone.

 

[shauny13]

stock, both facebooks and footprints is ok too. I've deleted these in the past when on a sense rom.

 

[SUroot]

You can delete pico if you never want to use text to speech

 

[jhob]

Thanks for those tips, will get rid of them then. Can DCSStock.apk go as well as Stock.apk?

 

[kewlbuddy]

yes

 

[Usta]

An alternative is to just use Titanium Backup Pro to freeze apps directly. If you did that by mistake, you can un-freeze an app. This seems to me a safer approach.

 

[jhob]

Thanks, successfully managed to get rid of all those mentioned. I may use text to speech so kept PicoTts.apk, didn't know what that did before.

Remaining on my potential hit list are:

DCSImpl.apk
DCSUtility.apk
IM.apk
OAS_Bravo-v4_2_1_5-20100225-2-prod.apk
OrangeImFrPlugin.apk
PCSCII.apk
Pixota.1.5.12_20100823_WVGA_froyo.apk
QxdmLog.apk

Largely because their purpose is not clear to me.

Usta - thanks for the suggestion. I took a nandroid backup before meddling and did have to use it once as I somehow managed to break my browser. Now that I have it stable without the unwanted apps I'm going to take another backup.

Cheers all for the help, appreciated.