Root Remove Bloatware, Improve BattryLife

[Ronc01]

Not a dumb question at all.

As you'll probably discover the Desire is crippled by poor internal memory issues. . You can get around it by rooting the phone, repartitioning the internal memory to move some space across for apps and then installing a custom rom. In the end I went with Mildwild V5.
It is a bit quicker, although TBH my Desire wasn't slow after I put an AOSP rom on it and got rid of HTC sense bloatware.

Hi, My Desire S is stuck on Android 2.3.3 (unable to Update as OTA's state 'Modified System Software' after I meddled around not really knowing what I was doing.
Would love to get rid of bloated Software and innumerable apps constantly logging themselves in an killing the battery.

Can you tell me (very simply) How you achieved the above, I really would Appreciate it.
Cheers (About to tear what little hair I have left out)

 

[Hadron]

Moved to Desire S All Things Root.

Anyone able to help?

 

[Guru82]

Hi. I created this guide http://androidforums.com/desire-s-all-things-root/606770-guide-root-desire-s-hboot-2-0-s.html
If you follow the steps you can gain superuser access which allows removal of system apps with a system app uninstaller (Root App Delete or Titanium etc).

I personally use Root App Delete to freeze (recycle). The option in Root App Delete is actually called Recycle. What it does is kills the process and renames the application APK file to a backup so that it wont start or be visible through your app draw. It essentially disables it. You can then completely Uninstall the APK file from the program also.

For me, I'm using HTC Ice Cream Sandwich WWE found at HTCdev.com
The HTC ICS is RUU (Rom Update Utility). It can flash your ROM through USB.
I removed a few system apps by gaining Superuser access. That is steps 1 through 5 in my guide to gain Superuser (SU).

Totally up to you whether you wish to use official HTC or custom ROM. Either way, we can remove system apps after unlocking the bootloader, flashing a custom recovery and installing superuser.

Let me know if you have any concerns.

 

[Guru82]

And now I've added that you should probably create a GoldCard (http://androidforums.com/desire-s-all-things-root/500543-guide-how-create-goldcard.html).

If you have a spare android device floating around, apparently you can create a GoldCard on one and use it in another.

What's it do? A Micro SD Card which has been GoldCard modified allows running a RUU (Rom Update Utility) that is specified for another region and/or carrier to whats on the phone currently, be it factory or otherwise. If you need to downgrade, you can use misc_version which can be combined with a GoldCard to basically use whatever RUU you wish.