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Help How do I remove all the bloatware & unwanted apps completly from phone ??

lunatic59 is right. That's why I highly recommended that you freeze them. Trust me, that's good enough. There is no reason to uninstall them actually. This phone has plenty of space as it is and is expandable as well.

dabig25,
So did you end up getting it rooted?
 
No not yet

Just finished working an 11 hr shift. Then again on super bowl Sunday.

Will do it either tomorrow night or Tuesday. Gonna send you PM
 
Before you start flashing ROMs like crazy, please read the hundreds of pages of comments from other users. They all start with:

DUDE!!! You are a GOD!! This is the sickest, fastest ROM I EVER tried...

and then end with:

but I've noticed a couple of things. My battery is dead in an hour and a half, I can't download any pdf files, bluetooth doesn't work, and the phone won't work on Tuesdays.

Just... beware.
 
LOL!! I've read too many of those posts man.

Personally, I don't really like to flash ROMs at all. Only done that about twice in the past few years. With this phone, the stock ROM is just fine actually (2.35). I just rooted but I did flash a Kernel only because I wanted to modify boot animation and main because I wanted to take advantage of the BLN support it offered to allow me to use the soft keys for notification rather than have the screen wake.

Anyways,

I think he's just after very simple modifications and rooting the phone will be enough for him to freeze all that junk and improve battery life significantly.



Midiman said:
Before you start flashing ROMs like crazy, please read the hundreds of pages of comments from other users. They all start with:

DUDE!!! You are a GOD!! This is the sickest, fastest ROM I EVER tried...

and then end with:

but I've noticed a couple of things. My battery is dead in an hour and a half, I can't download any pdf files, bluetooth doesn't work, and the phone won't work on Tuesdays.

Just... beware.
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i factory reset my phone in a hurry wd the bloatware freeze app working on my messagng app..nw aftr factory reset i dnt hv a mssgng app...plz help?? wht shd i do??
 
Midiman said:
Right there, you are being half informed... misinformed, depending on your phone. The one-click methods only work on Skyrockets that are still running Gingerbread version 2.3.5. If yours has been updated to 2.3.6, you will need to look at more complicated methods. Like I said... a LOT of reading to do. A "supposedly" "competent" "developer," who I happen to think is just a jackass, toasted his phone rooting and ROMing things a day or two ago.

If everything doesn't go exactly as planned... that includes the remote possibility of power outages during the sometimes lengthy procedures, you can end up "soft-bricked", which will send you scurrying around trying to find a piece of hardware called a "jig" that plugs into the phone's USB port to get it in some sort of state that you may be able to restore it... or you could end up "hard-bricked," which means you are now the proud owner of an $800 paperweight.

Read ALL the disclaimers well. They are usually written better than the instructions for doing whatever it is you may want to do.
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I couldn't find a one-click root solution when I first got my Skyrocket 2.3.5 so I used the more complicated rooting method involving CWRecover, etc. A few steps to follow, but not too difficult.

I then updated to 2.3.6 OTA (I had to restore the standard recovery first as CWRecovery will not allow OTA updates) a few days ago and it did not un-root the phone.
 
Just a thought here from the don't want to root side of the fence; I just create a folder for all of the bloatware and put all of the apps I don't want to see and scroll through in that folder. That way I only have one unnecessary icon in the app screens.

Granted this is not the same as removing (which appears to be a no-no for some apps anyway), just a quick easy way to get them out of sight:)
 
FJR1300 said:
Just a thought here from the don't want to root side of the fence; I just create a folder for all of the bloatware and put all of the apps I don't want to see and scroll through in that folder. That way I only have one unnecessary icon in the app screens.

Granted this is not the same as removing (which appears to be a no-no for some apps anyway), just a quick easy way to get them out of sight:)
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Interesting idea! However, I wanted to run Titanium Backup, both to freeze applications, and to do full backups, and that requires root.
 
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