Root Removing Stock apps

[rsabr]

Hello,

I have rooted my phone and am using adb to try and delete stock apps.

When I run
adb shell pm uninstall amazonmp3.apk or com.amazon.mp3
I get
Failure

So, I tried

rm -r /system/app/com.amazon.mp3

and it works but all it does is delete the icon from the "All apps"

I can still see com.amazon.mp3 in the list of running processes even after reboot.

My question is, where is the boot time script that initiates the applications, so I can remove it from it

 

[rsabr]

I just found the answer

you need to remount the rootfs with rw, like this:

mount -o rw,remount rootfs /

then

you can

# pm uninstall com.amazon.mp3
pm uninstall com.amazon.mp3
Success

 

[MDtoka]

or just get bloatfreezer or tit. backup

 

[Ryjabo]

Titanium Backup is your friend.

 

[akazabam]

It's a better idea to just remount /system by doing:

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/mtd/mtdblock4 /system

Once you do that, I'd recommend you use mv to rename apks with a .bak extension rather than using rm to remove them. If you need them back, renaming is easy, while rm is permanent.

EDIT: Oh, and if you like the idea of "freezing" apps like what titanium backup does, and still would rather use the the terminal emulator (it's free ), another safer thing to do (than uninstalling or using rm) is:

pm disable com.whatever

That's basically what tb does when it freezes apps.