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Root Freeing Up Space

PoorBoy52760

PoorBoy52760

Well-Known Member
Ok so you want alittle more space for APPS you will use... here is the Drill

YOU HAVE TO HAVE ROOT...

using adb

open command prompt and cd to where u have adb on your harddrive
hitting enter after each of course
type adb shell
at the $ or # type su
at #mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/mtdblock4 /system

Ok now the File System is in Read/Write mode

Removable APKs and ODEXs

Swype.apk
Maps.apk
LiveWallpapers.apk and .odex
LiveWallpapersPicker.apk and .odex

Tired of the Straighttalk Swirl on boot in /system/media remove bootani.qmg
phone will boot a little bit faster too


ok now once them are removed it should free up about 15 megs.. i know its not much but its a start i am still messing with removing odex's (I FUBARED once already today and removed ALL odexs and phone would not boot) thanks again davew41 for the awesome odin phone was back up and running and rooted in less than 5 minutes...

if anyone else is tring this PLEASE HELP OUT and add the Removable List... thanks...
 
GREAT POST!

I would suggest one use

Android Terminal Emulator
by
Jack Palevich

HIS WEB PAGE Visual WALK THROUGH

Use of his program will enable you to export:
You could export the list of installed components to file on phone; email them to yourself, From your PC, you can import the list to excel and sort A~Z or just wade through a txt file with all the proggys in non sorted order. This will give you a benchmark and larger screen to look upon when expelling the bloat you feel like discarding.


Caveats
Please do a backup of phone w/ your fav utility prior to deletion. Once your sure your app is no longer wanted, or your phone is 100%; you can delete the SD card save point and free up some of that space.

I've confirmed:

BooksPhone.apk
Browser.apk
Browser.odex
Calculator.apk
Calculator.odex
FactoryTest.apk
FactoryTest.odex
LiveWallpapers.apk
LiveWallpapers.odex
LiveWallpapersPicker.apk
LiveWallpapersPicker.odex
MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk
MagicSmokeWallpapers.odex
Mms.apk
Mms.odex
MyFiles.apk
MyFiles.odex
Thinkfree.apk
YouTube.apk
FBAndroid-1.5.4_preload.apx


REPLACED WITH DOLPHIN HD for Browser
REPLACED WITH Docs To Go for ThinkFree
REPLACED WITH ASTRO File Manager for My Files
REPLACED WITH HANDCENT for MMS
 
woobieizer said:
GREAT POST!

I would suggest one use

Android Terminal Emulator
by
Jack Palevich

HIS WEB PAGE Visual WALK THROUGH

Use of his program will enable you to export:
You could export the list of installed components to file on phone; email them to yourself, From your PC, you can import the list to excel and sort A~Z or just wade through a txt file with all the proggys in non sorted order. This will give you a benchmark and larger screen to look upon when expelling the bloat you feel like discarding.


Caveats
Please do a backup of phone w/ your fav utility prior to deletion. Once your sure your app is no longer wanted, or your phone is 100%; you can delete the SD card save point and free up some of that space.

I've confirmed:

BooksPhone.apk
Browser.apk
Browser.odex
Calculator.apk
Calculator.odex
FactoryTest.apk
FactoryTest.odex
LiveWallpapers.apk
LiveWallpapers.odex
LiveWallpapersPicker.apk
LiveWallpapersPicker.odex
MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk
MagicSmokeWallpapers.odex
Mms.apk
Mms.odex
MyFiles.apk
MyFiles.odex
Thinkfree.apk
YouTube.apk
FBAndroid-1.5.4_preload.apx


REPLACED WITH DOLPHIN HD for Browser
REPLACED WITH Docs To Go for ThinkFree
REPLACED WITH ASTRO File Manager for My Files
REPLACED WITH HANDCENT for MMS
Click to expand...

so Handcent will take the place of the MMS system in the phone, was wondering cause someone on the prevail deleted theirs and couldn't send or receive using like Go SMS or any of them i dont know if they Tried Handcent though

will definitly have to try these out thanks for the Great Info on freeing up more space...
 
i got rid of the default sms proggy, and am using go sms pro instead, works beautifully, and i can hand write messages to people now if i want, it's wonderful...

ps i couldn't find handcent anywhere on in the market, i wanted to try it because it was suggested at the top
 
#mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/mtdblock4 /system

this wont work for mounting, if you used kms or the like to root, you should have my remount script (which you should cuz im the only one making root scripts for these batch of phones ;) )

# remount rw

is the command to remount the stuff it will do the heavy lifting for ya :)

edit: for clarification if you do adb shell mounts you get a long scroll of teh mount points. you will see /dev/stl12 is system and where its mounted. so the long command is as follows

# mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/stl9 /system

:)
 
Shabbypenguin said:
#mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/mtdblock4 /system

this wont work for mounting, if you used kms or the like to root, you should have my remount script (which you should cuz im the only one making root scripts for these batch of phones ;) )

# remount rw

is the command to remount the stuff it will do the heavy lifting for ya :)

edit: for clarification if you do adb shell mounts you get a long scroll of teh mount points. you will see /dev/stl12 is system and where its mounted. so the long command is as follows

# mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/stl9 /system

:)
Click to expand...

i use the command i listed all the time in adb on my phone and it works fine. since i used the odin to root my phone...

# mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/stl9 /system
Click to expand...
it tells me that the command is not good to type mount -h for more help
 
interesting....

since if that were the case then the prevails one click wouldnt have worked, as when it gets temp root and tries to remount system as r/w then it woulda failed and root wouldnt have worked


try this

adb shell mounts > mounts.txt

and pastebin me the txt file please

and even still, try out "remount rw" without the quotes into adb shell and that will remount it for ya :)
 
Shabbypenguin said:
interesting....

since if that were the case then the prevails one click wouldnt have worked, as when it gets temp root and tries to remount system as r/w then it woulda failed and root wouldnt have worked


try this

adb shell mounts > mounts.txt

and pastebin me the txt file please

and even still, try out "remount rw" without the quotes into adb shell and that will remount it for ya :)
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from mounts.txt mounts: permission denied

Damn Phone is a real PIECE OF WORK.. LoL i did try the remount rw and it said enabling read/write access to /system but when i try to delete it says cannot blah blah system is readonly



EDIT: went into /system/media and deleted bootani.qmg without and issue... not sure what the deal is with my phone it acts alil stupid at times. i am downloading 64 bit UBUNTU install 10.04 right now as i added a 100gig drive to my laptop so i can do the dualboot so i can start working on a better Kernel for the phones. will let you know what happens
 
outstanding lmao. ill be busy today, perhaps monday i can crank out a prerooted repack kernel and version 1 of shabbymod for yall. at that point im gunna need someone to test it tho
 
Shabbypenguin said:
outstanding lmao. ill be busy today, perhaps monday i can crank out a prerooted repack kernel and version 1 of shabbymod for yall. at that point im gunna need someone to test it tho
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I will hit you up on IRC monday afternoon around 4pm your time and see whats crackin.. i will test it cause i know i can reodin my phone back if something fowls up...
 
I used Ti Backup to back up the bloatware, but I used Total Commander (file manager) to delete the files as it can enable r/w in any folder.
 
I used the ODIN, this to me is much more preffered. ODIN removed all the running Apps that I don't use. I have more control over what I want installed on mine. At first I was looking to extended my Battery life, ODIN placed me in a position that I could do that, along with APP2SD. I have moved much of my stuff to my SD card. My phone runs pretty quick. The boot up, I don't worry about, but I never turn mine off unless I am rebooting from something I have tried. I would like like to see a Cyangenmod Rom for it. I'm sure that is soon to come
 
CherokeeBlood said:
I used the ODIN, this to me is much more preffered. ODIN removed all the running Apps that I don't use. I have more control over what I want installed on mine. At first I was looking to extended my Battery life, ODIN placed me in a position that I could do that, along with APP2SD. I have moved much of my stuff to my SD card. My phone runs pretty quick. The boot up, I don't worry about, but I never turn mine off unless I am rebooting from something I have tried. I would like like to see a Cyangenmod Rom for it. I'm sure that is soon to come
Click to expand...


the ODIN is a 100% stock rom with root, it didn't remove anything at all it added superuser, and busybox, right now i am running a test rom on my phone, with all my stuff that i use on a daily basis installed i still have 100 megs of free space to install apps without moving anything to the SDCARD
 
PoorBoy,

Thanks for this great post.

Could you please provide more details for those of us who are clueless as to what "adb" is etc?

Normally I would just google this stuff, but since I'm sure I'm not the only person who doesn't understand, I think it would help a lot of people out if you made your tutorial "noob-proof".
 
just confirmed can not remove the phone apk or odex to replace with go contacts but you can remove contacts apk and odex and replace with go contacts!
 
woobieizer said:
GREAT POST!

I would suggest one use

Android Terminal Emulator
by
Jack Palevich

HIS WEB PAGE Visual WALK THROUGH

Use of his program will enable you to export:
You could export the list of installed components to file on phone; email them to yourself, From your PC, you can import the list to excel and sort A~Z or just wade through a txt file with all the proggys in non sorted order. This will give you a benchmark and larger screen to look upon when expelling the bloat you feel like discarding.


Caveats
Please do a backup of phone w/ your fav utility prior to deletion. Once your sure your app is no longer wanted, or your phone is 100%; you can delete the SD card save point and free up some of that space.

I've confirmed:

BooksPhone.apk
Browser.apk
Browser.odex
Calculator.apk
Calculator.odex
FactoryTest.apk
FactoryTest.odex
LiveWallpapers.apk
LiveWallpapers.odex
LiveWallpapersPicker.apk
LiveWallpapersPicker.odex
MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk
MagicSmokeWallpapers.odex
Mms.apk
Mms.odex
MyFiles.apk
MyFiles.odex
Thinkfree.apk
YouTube.apk
FBAndroid-1.5.4_preload.apx


REPLACED WITH DOLPHIN HD for Browser
REPLACED WITH Docs To Go for ThinkFree
REPLACED WITH ASTRO File Manager for My Files
REPLACED WITH HANDCENT for MMS
Click to expand...

what is the factorytest.apk app for
 
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