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Root Help for a noob

Asterdroid

Asterdroid

Android Expert
So I successfully rooted the phone. My main reason (initially) is so I can delete some of the bloatware that came with it.

I've looked through some of the threads that talk about how to uninstall some of this stuff, and I'm at a loss.

Is there any way someone can explain how to uninstall bloatware applications in noobtard terms?

I'm at a loss. Thanks in advance from your friendly neighborhood noob.

Edit: For the record, I'm technically savvy, I've just never done this before and don't really know where to begin.
 
At this point, bloatware items should have been removed when you were in recovery mode during the rooting process. We have to wait for further root access in order to do it elsewhere.
 
abe01 said:
At this point, bloatware items should have been removed when you were in recovery mode during the rooting process. We have to wait for further root access in order to do it elsewhere.
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Can you go through the same steps it took to get rooted to access recovery again?

If so, once there how do you remove applications?
 
Asterdroid said:
Can you go through the same steps it took to get rooted to access recovery again?

If so, once there how do you remove applications?
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Yes, use the same method to get into recovery. Once there:

to get rid unwanted apps do this

Do not type the /* TITLE */ Part... just whats underneath it to remove that particular app

***********Disclaimer**************
I have not personally removed all these apps - Remove at your own risk
********************************

Code:
/* City ID */
/system/bin/rm /system/app/CityID.apk

/* Friend Stream & Widget */
/system/bin/rm /system/app/com.htc.FriendSteamWidget.apk
/system/bin/rm /system/app/FriendStream.apk

/* HTC Facebook */ <------------*****REPORTED TO CAUSE FC's if removed******
/system/bin/rm /system/app/HtcFacebook.apk

/* HTC Twitter & Widget*/
/system/bin/rm /system/app/HtcTwitter.apk
/system/bin/rm /system/app/com.htc.TwitterWidget.apk

/* Teeter */
/system/bin/rm /system/app/teeter.apk

/* Stock Facebook */
/system/bin/rm /system/app/Facebook.apk

/* Verizon Visual Voice Mail */
/system/bin/rm /system/app/VVM.apk


/* HTC Footprints and widget */
/system/bin/rm /system/app/HtcFootprintsWidget.apk
/system/bin/rm /system/app/HtcFootprints.apk
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After you have removed what you want to, reboot.
 
Asterdroid said:
My god I love you.
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It may be best to perform a "mv" command as opposed to "rm" and move the files to your sd card. I created a /sdcard/.backup folder (mkdir /sdcard/.backup) and moved all of my files there. This way if something screwy happens you can always restore the files.

Note: If mv doesn't work and complains of a cross link error, then you want to do something like this instead for each file

cat /system/app/CityID.apk > /sdcard/.backup/CityID.apk
 
Ok so I'm having a tough time figuring this out. At what point during the root process (assuming I used the 10 minute root video above) do I stop the process because I'm at recovery?
 
Wow I must be a moron. Somehow I managed to lose root access. I still have the super user icon but can't access anything that requires root....
 
After you push
adb push payload-update.zip /sdcard/update.zip
and than enter SU you want to follow what lgldrgdlr put.

As soon as you have SU privileges you can add and remove programs.


You can try to add programs also, do at your own risk.
 
llystra2008 said:
After you push
adb push payload-update.zip /sdcard/update.zip
and than enter SU you want to follow what lgldrgdlr put.

As soon as you have SU privileges you can add and remove programs.


You can try to add programs also, do at your own risk.
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Now I'm assuming you have to delete the files from the SD card before you push them again, right? I'm guessing that's why i was having issues.
 
Cool. My timing must have been off. Stupid green bar.

What would a command line look like if I want to move a file?

Something like this?

/system/bin/mv /system/app/HtcTwitter.apk > /sdcard/backups
 
It would actually just be

/system/bin/mv /system/app/HtcTwitter.apk /sdcard/backups

(mv [source] [dest])

you can try that, but chances are that it wont work and you will get a "cross-link" error. Instead you can try the following

/system/bin/cat /system/app/HtcTwitter.apk > /sdcard/backups/HtcTwitter.apk
/system/bin/rm /system/app/HtcTwitter.apk
(cat [source] > [dest])
(rm [file_to_remove])

The above will just stream the file over from one section to another, and android actually supports this wihtout issue, the second command will remove the file from the original location
 
ok so now I'm having issues restoring a backup file. I want to put facebook back on the phone.

I'm in c:/sdk/tools
Type adb shell
and at the # prompt I typed:

cat /sdcard/backups/Facebook.apk > /system/app/Facebook.apk

And I get a Nonexistent Directory error. Any advice?
 
i think you should type: adb push facebook.apk /system/app then adb reboot with the apk in the tools folder unless you are trying to htcfacebook in which case it would be htcfacebook.apk. is there a reason you can't download it from the market?
 
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