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Prime85
Android Expert
NO!!!
Do not remove metroWeb many apps use this to access the internet like the android market.
MetroWeb is the stock web browser from android but metro wanted to be stupid and name it something different.
Aplus
Android Enthusiast
Actually, I've heard different recently but, I wouldn't try it until there is some sort of recovery. Better safe than sorry.
ChazzMatt
Android Enthusiast
metroWeb is the stock Android browser. In the past, if you removed it, Market and other Android functions were impaired. (just like Windows needed IE for a lot of things, even if you never used IE to browse.)
Maybe Google has separated those out in Gingerbread, but in Froyo you could not remove the Android browser and still have the phone work correctly. We learned that the hard way with the LG Optimus.
Why chance it? Just keep it on the phone, and download another browser if you don't like the stock Android browser.
Maybe Google has separated those out in Gingerbread, but in Froyo you could not remove the Android browser and still have the phone work correctly. We learned that the hard way with the LG Optimus.
Why chance it? Just keep it on the phone, and download another browser if you don't like the stock Android browser.
I made the same mistake and have the exact same results/problem. I'm guessing you cant install the apk file the easy way though. I backed up Metroweb on Titanium but it just hangs forever on "restoring".
Germaine Jackson
Lurker
I hate the MetroWeb. I hate the sales-y, market-y, cheesy way that MetroWeb is presented.
I think *I* will decide what to think about it, how to feel about it, whether or not it's good for this or that, or not. Anytime some corporation, or organization that is *NOT ME* starts telling me about how something is special, good, better, and makes your pimples disappear, I auto-reflexively start believing the exact opposite.
And that comparison between Internet Explorer and Microsoft was the kiss of death, as far as I'm concerned. Let's not forget what a stinking pile of fecal matter IE was when Microsoft had it so tightly bundled into their sub-standard Operating System that you COULDN'T separate the two without pooching the illegal monopolies' substandard product.
Who behaves this way? Heavy-handed monopolistic corporations that attempt to force their customers into sub-standard situations by disallowing any competition, that's who. So can their be a thread dedicated to the idea of running Android without this MetroWeb garbage?
I think *I* will decide what to think about it, how to feel about it, whether or not it's good for this or that, or not. Anytime some corporation, or organization that is *NOT ME* starts telling me about how something is special, good, better, and makes your pimples disappear, I auto-reflexively start believing the exact opposite.
And that comparison between Internet Explorer and Microsoft was the kiss of death, as far as I'm concerned. Let's not forget what a stinking pile of fecal matter IE was when Microsoft had it so tightly bundled into their sub-standard Operating System that you COULDN'T separate the two without pooching the illegal monopolies' substandard product.
Who behaves this way? Heavy-handed monopolistic corporations that attempt to force their customers into sub-standard situations by disallowing any competition, that's who. So can their be a thread dedicated to the idea of running Android without this MetroWeb garbage?