Root Proper Method and Tools to Uninstall Bloat

[jabbawest]

Newly rooted, want to remove bloat but I would like to learn the most efficient/safe way to do so.
Here are the tools I have. Feel free to offer up any suggestion for others, as I am a big fan of collecting useful/needful things.
Super User
AnReBoot
Titanium Backup (Not really up to speed on this yet.) Chuck Norris?? How does that work?
Root Explorer
ATM & ATK
Also have ES File Explorer but it doesn't allow for changing permissions but it's great for connecting to my LAN.

Now, I managed to delete Boingo after changing its permissions but had to pull the battery after Boingos process kept trying to restart.
Poor thing, it didn't have application to run anymore

Thanks

 

[andyo70]

Or just install RomZero Final. You'll start out with no metro bloat at all and 185MB free on the phone.

 

[reilus]

True, True.

 

[Darnell0216]

"Chuck Norris Mode" for TBP helps it remove protected apps, usually bloatware and other system software.

I uninstalled Boingo my first go round but my fingers were quick enough to power down manually. At 264k it's barely worth the hassle. I just froze it this time around to remove it's icon from the tray.

 

[asadullah]

yourself the easiest way to do it (in my opinion ) is to use adb.
If your running romzero for 2.2 just type this into command prompt
adb remount
adb shell
cd /system/app
ls
rm whatever.*

if you are running any other or using terminal (which by the way the first couple commands you can save in the settings to run each time you open terminal)


su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/mtd/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/app
ls
rm whatever.*

replace whatever.* with the apk you choose to delete but leave the star cuz it designates apk and odex in case theirs an odex.

the ls command will show you all the files in the directory.