I have removed the News, Weather and Social Networking apps from my phone in hope of improving battery function. Even though I uninstalled the app (or maybe it was just a shortcut?) for these, every time I reboot my Droid, the services are still under running services. I am unable to remove them. Is it possible to remove the following: Social Networking, Weather, News Retrieval Service, and Skype? If these are not removable, and they run every time I restart, why wouldn't I use a task killer to stop these services. I know the X is supposed to manage itself, but these have to be using up my battery when they are constantly running?
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Help How to uninstall News, Social Networking, Skype etc...
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nycebo
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You cannot uninstall them in stock mode. You have to root your phone and then rename the apps from .apk to .bak using Root Explorer or a terminal emulator. Before you do any of this, I suggest reading up on root IN DETAIL to familiarize yourself with it. It's not hard, but you can ruin/brick your phone if you are not careful.