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Root Unusable pre-installed apps?

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thetingster

Android Enthusiast
Okay, so I'm now rooted and have been freezing or deleting apps that annoy me or that I know I will NEVER use with TBU. But in going through TBU I have found a whole bunch of apps that are pre-installed but do not show up in the app drawer and it does not appear I am able to run them. These apps include such things as sound recorder, terminal emulator, car dock etc. Can some explain this to me?
 
These are apps that the system may use to support other apps and/or features of the Bionic. You can try freezing them and see what suffers from that. You just have to remember what you froze (take notes!). If you don't have a car dock, and will never have one, it's safe to freeze or delete "car dock" as that's the builtin car dock app. I use a third party app so I have that one frozen now as well.

Just some food for thought. There's no real need to freeze and/or delete every little piece of s/w that's residing on your Bionic that you don't use. Most of those reside in /system/app anyway ... which aren't hogging up precious memory. I think sometimes we becomes such control freaks, we drive ourselves nuts with this stuff. ;)
 
My guess is that some of these apps are mode specific

As in the apps may only be available in Webtop mode, or when taking videos, etc.
 
Video editor lite has been around on previous phones. You can edit your video under edit advanced in the gallery.
 
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