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Root Woo Hooo!!! Rooted 2.2.1. Now what bloatware apps can I safely get rid of?

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I know we had a list around here somewhere for the old 2.1 root. But, I just want to ask first before going crazy and deleting something I shouldn't. Just want to make sure the rules of the game haven't changed. If it's the same, can someone please point me to it. Cannot wait to delete stupid MySpace. :D

(One time I deleted BackupAssistentClient.apk off of the Wife's Droid 2 and screwed it all up and had to jump through hoops to get it back on there.)
 
AlexMason said:
just experiment...
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Hahahahaha... No way, Jose. Like I said above... I was cleaning up the wife's Droid 2 apps with Titanium and I was like "Verizon Backup Assistant... what do we need that for?" Low and behold if you don't have it and a OTA comes though, it'll brick the stupid thing.
 
I removed a few things like backup assistant, myspace, live wallpapers, lg socialite, lg widgets.
 
I actually reinstalled the previous version of ThinkFree so it would have GoogleDocs support. I view enough Office documents that I need a decent viewer/editor so I like to keep ThinkFree around.
 
How the heck do I delete "3G mobile hotspot"? I don't see it anywhere in Titanium. It must be called something else in Titanium.... right?
 
Probably shouldn't delete DunServer.apk either. I did and data stopped working shortly thereafter. No 3g icon by the signal meter, no data up or down, I could place phone calls but would not receive any and when I did place a call the only way to hang up was to pull the battery. I had to go all the way back to step 1 to get it back because strangely once it was gone, it was gone. BTW that app has nothing to do with 3g hotspot because the icon was still there.
 
rjglenn said:
Probably shouldn't delete DunServer.apk either. I did and data stopped working shortly thereafter. No 3g icon by the signal meter, no data up or down, I could place phone calls but would not receive any and when I did place a call the only way to hang up was to pull the battery. I had to go all the way back to step 1 to get it back because strangely once it was gone, it was gone. BTW that app has nothing to do with 3g hotspot because the icon was still there.
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Ouch. I think you could have put it back in there with an app called root manager though. All you would have needed was another person with a rooted 2.2 Ally with root manager to copy and send you the file. Then it could have been re-inserted where it belongs. I used this method when i had to fix the wife's phone.
 
I think that if 3G Mobile Hotspot was ok to delete...it would have been in the list. It's not a matter of figuring out how to delete it.
 
Mobile Hotspot is part of Settings.apk... you could technically delete it, but I don't think you want to ;-)
 
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