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Root Rooted and having trouble removing stock apps

nobletype

Newbie
I was able to remove some, but

Downloads
Places
Poynt
SCVNGR
Twidroyd
WHERE

Even when I move these app's respective apk files to my sdcard, the apps still somehow linger and not get removed from my app list. I use the same exact method that I use for the other apps I successfully removed, yet these refuse to leave.

Anyone know why? Or can provide some help?
 
If you describe your method a little more that would be helpful. But what I do since I'm running a custom rom and have adb installed is:
open a command prompt either by hitting the flag+r combo and typing cmd or by opening start and type cmd.
then in command prompt I type
Code:
adb remount 
adb shell 
cd /system/app
ls
rm whatever.*

to explain that more adb remount gives you all the permissions you need
adb shell takes you into shell
cd /system/app switches your directory to the system/app directory on the phone
ls shows you everything in the current directory
rm whatever.* removes the apk and odex in the system/app directory

now if you really want to do it right cd into data/data and pm uninstall the app to get rid of everything else

pm uninstall com.android.whatever

I have a batchfile that will do it for you but I gotta go through my uploads and find it
 
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