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Root Does rooting allow me to disable Verizon Location Service?

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mrootes

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I'm getting so desperate at wanting to disable many of the VZW bloatwares (location service, etc) that I'm thinking of rooting.

Is this a good enough reason to root? And will it disable specifically the Verizon Location Service?

Thanks!
 
Rooting by itself does nothing (well, initially unlocking wipes your system) except allow you to modify the system, boot, recovery and data partitions. The app you cite would be on the system partition so once you root, yes you can get rid of it. However, I would caution you that other apps may depend on location services so...

I recommend reading as many threads in this forum as you can stomach. There is a LOT of very good information that will help you in the long run.

PS - You can turn off location services in Settings > Location if that's all you want to do. Just uncheck all 3 location services. Done !
 
I'm rooted and I deleted the apk for Verizon Location services and have had no ill effects so far. If you don't use any of the other Verizon apps then you shouldn't have a problem.
 
thornev said:
Rooting by itself does nothing (well, initially unlocking wipes your system) except allow you to modify the system, boot, recovery and data partitions. The app you cite would be on the system partition so once you root, yes you can get rid of it. However, I would caution you that other apps may depend on location services so...

I recommend reading as many threads in this forum as you can stomach. There is a LOT of very good information that will help you in the long run.

PS - You can turn off location services in Settings > Location if that's all you want to do. Just uncheck all 3 location services. Done !
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I haven't dealt with this app. but wouldn't just selecting no to allowing it to run do the trick. You can't stop it from running services since it's a boot app. Even w/ Google & Standalone location services checked it shouldn't be active, just idle in your memory. Plain and simple,that VLA app is more like a suggestive, half arsed attempt at a boot shortcut to turn on VZW location services b/c alot of saavy users don't. That thing doesn't do anything that VZW location services didn't do already if the box is checked on any given phone.
 
When i tried to run it, it says this phone does not support this app. So, why is it even on there?
 
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