Root Deleting "write protected" Bookmarks?

[pm1066]

Is there a way to edit the bookmarks directly to get rid of the annoying ones in the default browser you can't long press to delete?

 

[Flying_Hellfish]

Is there a way to edit the bookmarks directly to get rid of the annoying ones in the default browser you can't long press to delete?

I believe you can just click the bookmark to go to the site, then go into bookmarks > history and click the red star to clear it then it will allow you to delete it.

 

[Airmaxx23]

Is there a way to edit the bookmarks directly to get rid of the annoying ones in the default browser you can't long press to delete?

Yes there is...

Go into the etc/motorola/com.android.browser folder and long press on the "defaults.xml" file and select "open in text editor".

You'll see something like this:

<map>
<string name="homepage">http://www .google. com/m?client=ms-android-verizon&amp;source=android-home</string>
<int name="preloaded_bookmark" value="2"/>
<boolean name="fix_picasa" value="false"/>
<boolean name="ua_has_displaysize_model" value="true"/>
</map>


All you need to do is remove the &amp (in bold) and change the 2 (in bold) to 0 (zero) and save the changes. They will not be in bold on your phone, I did it just to highlight the parts that need to be edited.

 

[pm1066]

Excellent, and thanks. I knew there was some obsucre way of getting past Verizon's annoyances.