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Factory reset without restoring carrier bloatware

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teddyearp said:
Wouldn't the installation of a custom recovery (if available for this device) fix the problem?
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Yeah, probably...I'd like to see the source code for that "stock" recovery that's doing that (just making fun of "stock" since they're bound to be different from device to device I supposed, especially if a carrier gets a hold of them).

ALFoR could probably just use the Settings -> Backup & reset -> Factory data reset function in lieu of doing it from the stock recovery (now that we're pretty sure what the mechanism is that messing with his device).

Very interesting thread :).
 
scary alien said:
Yeah, probably...I'd like to see the source code for that "stock" recovery that's doing that (just making fun of "stock" since they're bound to be different from device to device I supposed, especially if a carrier gets a hold of them).
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Not sure a custom recovery would fix this. CSC needs to be applied at some point. In addition to the crapware it installs, it also sets up important stuff like APN, etc. Just a guess that the CSC will be "applied" at some point regardless of recovery used.... Now a custom ROM that implements the BMC CSC without the crapware would work :)

scary alien said:
ALFoR could probably just use the Settings -> Backup & reset -> Factory data reset function in lieu of doing it from the stock recovery (now that we're pretty sure what the mechanism is that messing with his device).
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Doubt it will help. I *think* Settings -> Backup & reset -> Factory data reset function is just a convenient way to boot the phone into recovery and wipe data and cache. If you look very carefully at the screen after you press this button you see the little blue text "Entering recovery..."

I just deleted all the apks from /system/csc.... no harm done :)
 
ALFoR said:
Not sure a custom recovery would fix this. CSC needs to be applied at some point. In addition to the crapware it installs, it also sets up important stuff like APN, etc. Just a guess that the CSC will be "applied" at some point regardless of recovery used.... Now a custom ROM that implements the BMC CSC without the crapware would work :)



Doubt it will help. I *think* Settings -> Backup & reset -> Factory data reset function is just a convenient way to boot the phone into recovery and wipe data and cache. If you look very carefully at the screen after you press this button you see the little blue text "Entering recovery..."

I just deleted all the apks from /system/csc.... no harm done :)
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A bit of a late reply, but I just stumbled upon this thread. After clearing out the /system/csc/BMC/system/app directory, did you do a factory reset? If so, did this solve the reinstallation issue?
 
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