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Root [CDMA] What do I do now?

thelonewizard

thelonewizard

Android Enthusiast
After running Revolutionary, my phone has CWM, and I've already run a backup. Now, I'm supposed to install that su-blahblahblah.zip, right? And I do that by putting it on my SD card, booting into the bootloader, then CWM, then going to install the .zip through CWM, correct? If not, please correct me.
 
thelonewizard said:
After running Revolutionary, my phone has CWM, and I've already run a backup. Now, I'm supposed to install that su-blahblahblah.zip, right? And I do that by putting it on my SD card, booting into the bootloader, then CWM, then going to install the .zip through CWM, correct? If not, please correct me.
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Yep, once you but into your recovery you can install the zip.
 
drocap2 works. thanks to EarlyMon for the tip.

I recommend you go into the superuser app and turn off notifications; otherwise drocap2 will always capture the toast message generated when it requests su permissions.
 
Or EStrong File Explorer, another freebie.

Will let you mount /system as read-write and then you can delete apps.

Or just rename by adding ".sav" after the ".apk" part of the name gives a poor man's freeze - works.

Always freeze and test your phone before deleting.

And - this is slightly important - once you delete an apk file, you may or may not have really deleted all there was to the app.

Proper tools designed to do the job correctly are calling the adb shell equivalent commands to the package manager (pm) and performing proper uninstalls.

One of us is going to post the right instructions on how to do that. I've not bothered because I saw a reference to it on XDA and thought I'd post the link (danged if I can find it now (yes, XDA, I searched :))).

Bottom line - after playing clever with deletion-removal by hand, if you didn't use a proper removal tool or proper adb method, best to go into recovery and clean cache by hand.

PS - Don't forget to nandroid before tinkering!!!!!
 
When freezing various parts of Sense that I have no plans on using (like the default calculator that will never be used because of RealCalc), I noticed that Sense liked to reset itself. A lot. But, since I stopped freezing stuff in TB, Sense has stabilized.

I also have 425mb of available RAM. I think I might as well froze the standard Android task killer. It will be inactive for quite some time.
 
So many apps are part of Sense. It's hard to know where the dependencies are. And it may take a lot of time for you to discover that something got broken, and at that time, you might not remember what it was you changed/removed. So I tend to be conservative when it comes to deleting/freezing HTC apps.

That huge spiderweb of HTC stuff all lumped as Sense is why many people end up choosing an AOSP ROM. While the UI might be nice, the bloat tags along.
 
Yeah. I definitely am thinking of trying an AOSP ROM when one becomes available. Sense does have some nice bits to it, though.
 
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