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Root Unwanted apps

Is it safe to uninstall these apps?

Car Home
Email
News and Weather
Voice
Voice Dialer
Voice Search
Goggles
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Voice Dialer and Voice Search, yes. I've read on here that Email is fine too. News and Weather I don't know, but I would bet that it's safe to remove since I can't imagine any other apps relying on it. Voice and Goggles... don't know.

Make a nand and give it a try!
 
MOS95B said:
I know they are not apps, but I'd like to lose some of the stock ringers. Where do they hide??
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Found them, figured out to "un-read-only" them, and deleted them. Nothng but my own custome ringtones/notications/alarms now.... :cool:
 
Spikelangelo said:
I've been pulling out apks for awhile now on various ROMs but I just noticed today on my latest house cleaning that it doesn't seem to actually recoup any storage space. I always just assumed it did. But it frees space somewhere right? I assume its in a "system partition." So if this is the case can I push the apks I want into this "system partition" to free up my regular storage space?

*EDIT*

Never mind. I just didn't search hard enough. I found what I needed, actually at the mobile defense website. It turns out its really easy to do:

adb remount
adb pull /data/app/yourapp.apk C:\
adb shell
rm /data/app/yourapp.apk
exit
adb push C:\yourapp.apk /system/app
adb reboot

It's slightly modified from the website to fit my needs but it worked like a charm.
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I'm trying to work this out, I believe the mobile defense info is located here:

Installing Mobile Defense as a system application [OFFICIAL] (Page 1) - Tutorials - Mobile Defense I cant get it to pull the files and save to push back into the system memory, anyone have a working write up?



------update------
ok I got it all to work and pushed various items, since I ran cmd from c:\android-sdk-windows\tools, I didn't have to push to c:\ I left that empty and it pulled/pushed to my working directory which saved me key strokes :-) now I have more free memory and my apps are not removable (especially lookout).

also to check system memory type:
adb shell df
 
Does anyone know if its safe to delete the /system/app/Maps.apk original 2.1 Google Maps app) and push the latest Google maps file into the /system/app directory?? I assume this is safe since maps will be there? Or does the new version rely on the old version somehow?
 
IzelTokatl said:
Does anyone know if its safe to delete the /system/app/Maps.apk original 2.1 Google Maps app) and push the latest Google maps file into the /system/app directory?? I assume this is safe since maps will be there? Or does the new version rely on the old version somehow?
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This should be safe to do, but I would keep a copy of the original or name it .apk.bak just to be on the safe side.
 
ok, I confirmed you can remove the OEM system Maps.apk file form the system directory, and push the latest maps from the data to system app folder. =-)
 
droidkevlar said:
You need to spell the apk EXACTLY how it shows when listed. If it has com.Htc.blah.apk, you need to type that exactly how it shows when using the rm -r command



Yes, but if you have a lot of apks you remove like I do, this takes forever. Having a saved list of apk's in a txt file to remove is easier than using rootexplorer
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Not so... Root Explorer supports Multi-select, so you can select all your apps you want to delete at once and delete them with a single button press
 
RootExplorer, Astro, and ES File Explorer all support multi-select. I personally use RE, and ES to delete files out of the sysdir. You dont really have to close program (although it doesn't hurt), the deletion forces the file to close. I wold recommend a reboot after removing any sysdir files though (you may get a few Forcecloses if not).

Titanium Backup also can remove any files from the sysdir, and you dont have to mount (it automounts). unlike ES and RE where you have to manually mount at least once. but you dont get the option to multi-select. The interesting thing is you can "freeze" with TB, which is like "deleting" without deleting to see if any issues arrise. I believe this is the same function if you were to just rename the .apk extension to something like .apk.bak (which kills the file from being able to run) to test if it causes issues, then later you can delete.
 
IzelTokatl said:
RootExplorer, Astro, and ES File Explorer all support multi-select. I personally use RE, and ES to delete files out of the sysdir. You dont really have to close program (although it doesn't hurt), the deletion forces the file to close. I wold recommend a reboot after removing any sysdir files though (you may get a few Forcecloses if not).

Titanium Backup also can remove any files from the sysdir, and you dont have to mount (it automounts). unlike ES and RE where you have to manually mount at least once. but you dont get the option to multi-select. The interesting thing is you can "freeze" with TB, which is like "deleting" without deleting to see if any issues arrise. I believe this is the same function if you were to just rename the .apk extension to something like .apk.bak (which kills the file from being able to run) to test if it causes issues, then later you can delete.
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hmm... thanks! I didn't know all that stuff about TB!
 
I deleted the stock HTC message app and now I can not receive txts. I can send them though. Does anyone know of a stand alone SMS/txt message app? Or can anyone copy the HTC message apk and odex files and post them up here? I need to be able to receive my txts. :o
 
Swifty said:
I deleted the stock HTC message app and now I can not receive txts. I can send them though. Does anyone know of a stand alone SMS/txt message app? Or can anyone copy the HTC message apk and odex files and post them up here? I need to be able to receive my txts. :o
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Did you make a Nandroid backup? If so, you can make a backup of your current system, restore your previous Nandroid backup, retrieve your missing files and put them on the /sdcard, restore the current backup (i.e. the one with the missing mms.apk and mms.odex files), and put the files back.

Or, you can look at this post: http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-eris/53646-unwanted-apps-2.html#post627522 and http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-eris/53646-unwanted-apps-2.html#post627657 since they talk about using Handcent, etc.

Good luck!

edit: I also found the mms.apk already posted...see this post: http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-eris/85187-deleted-mms-apk.html (actually, on second thought...I don't really know if this .apk would/should work with your current Android version (i.e. OTA updates, etc.)...you would be better off restoring from your Nandroid)
 
scary alien said:
Did you make a Nandroid backup? If so, you can make a backup of your current system, restore your previous Nandroid backup, retrieve your missing files and put them on the /sdcard, restore the current backup (i.e. the one with the missing mms.apk and mms.odex files), and put the files back.

Or, you can look at this post: http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-eris/53646-unwanted-apps-2.html#post627522 and http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-eris/53646-unwanted-apps-2.html#post627657 since they talk about using Handcent, etc.

Good luck!
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I did make a NAND backup but I tested everything so I made a new NAND backup and deleted the old... :o Apparently I should have tested more throughly before moving on to the next item to delete or I should keep more than one NAND around... :o

Re:Edit:
Thanks for the mms.apk find.

Edit #2:
I tried installing the mms.apk and got a "! Application not installed" message... Is this because I don't have sense (rosie.apk) anymore?
 
Swifty said:
Edit #2:
I tried installing the mms.apk and got a "! Application not installed" message... Is this because I don't have sense (rosie.apk) anymore?
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It may not be an installabled apk, (some wont let you technically click to install). Just try moving the file to the System/app folder, then reboot. it should show up.

I believe the HTC MMS file isn't mms.apk. but I could be wrong.
 
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