recently I am having a strange behavior each time I uninstall an app which is installed on the Sd card: the following msg appears
The application could not be removed properly. Do you wnat to remove it from the list of installed applications?
I say yes and it simply removes the entry from the list, of course: then i have to go manually and delete app folder and link.
Any1 knows why? And if some traces will be left behind?
Thanks
If that message appears you can try this:
1. Click on "No".
2. Softreset the device.
3. Try it again.
Make sure that:
1) The SD is not write protected (check the little switch)
2) No part of the program is running / used - not today plugin, menu addon anything.
program is not running
sd is not write protected
no today plugins
and did soft reset many times but still the same problem, for all applications
I am facing the very same problem. The apps do not uninstall at all and their entries from the 'remove programs' is lost.
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well i have installed JGUI Phone Profiles Seriously .......
and when i try to uninstall from the remove programs it states the error---->uninstall unsuccessful as the program is in use, stop it first from running programs.
then i checked many times in running programs but it is never in the list, also i tried from add/remove programs from active sync.,,, same problem....
help .
uninstalling jgui phone profiles
try looking in the start up folder if the program has an entry there delete it and soft reset, then uninstall. if there is no entry in the start menu you may have to delete the entry in the registry, then reset then uninstall. if you need to use the registry method be VERY careful.
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Make sure it's unchecked in the Start/Settings/Today/Items Screen
g-archit,
I had the program on my xda II but did not like it. When I tried to uninstall it i couldn't, same problem you have. The only way I could do is through a hard reset. I know it is a pain to reconfigure the xda and re-install all the programs but the phone profiles really bugged me.
Bohs
uninstall instruction
1. uncheck the phone profiles named item from the list of start\settings\today\items\
2. do the soft-resetting
3. now you can uninstall it in the usually way: start\settings\remove
if you still get the error "cannot delete...." some file, like font, you can manually delete such a file now
sorry for any unconveniences
i tried to uninstall ms voice command and it partially uninstalled but not all of it was removed. the icon is still there and when i click on it i can adjust the settings, but they dont do anything because part of hte software is uninstalled. how do i clean this up?
i would also like to know. thanks
I do have this problem with WM% cause in WM2003SE i hadn't experienced it..but there's a solution try MEMMAID to delete the remained shortcuts and registry records of bad uninstalled app.
Also you can have spb PLus to be able to boot the device in safe mode so in that mode you can uninstall any application without any problem
How to uninstall
Some programs need uninstall twice.
1 step
standard uninstall
when uninstaler ask:
program not remove completly, do you remove from uninstaller list - answer no
2 step
soft reset
3 step
another standard uninstall
4 step
if needed repeat step 2,3
uninstall completed
re
SK Tools have great functions about this topic. Try it !
By far the easiest way i found to do it was to navigate to Windows > AppMgr folder then remove the folder inside there that matches the program your trying to uninstall. Eg VoiceCommand
as well as going to windows\appmgr you should also navigate to program files if your doing a manual uninstall\delete.
Hello,
i installed Smartskeys on my XDA neo on his SD Card and everything worked fine. Some time i couldn't start my sms program anymore and made a new start of my XDA. On startup it hanged on a few times until i removed the SD-card. Then i got a Failuremassege: couldnt start card/...Folder/SmartsKeys. I decided to uninstall the program from the card: Removed it from its location, removed in startupfolder and made a softreset. Again the message: couldnt start card/...Folder/SmartsKeys, every time i look on my device!!! I createt a new Folder SmartsKeys in system memory an started the program. It worked, but i didnt got rid of the failure massage...I uninstalled again and after that 2 masseges appeared with both folders. There must be rest of the program that must be removed before i can install it again. To diable the masseges i installed the Program into both folders again, but this couldnt be the answer.
Thanks a lot for any help
Please try:
1. Edit file smartkey.ini and set STARTONREBOOT=0.
2. Tab the smartkey.exe in the installed folder. This will close the program and remove the smartkey.lnk from the startup folder.
3. Reboot your neo and check that the program doesn't run on startup.
4. Uninstall the program.
Hope this helps. Good luck!
Thanks a lot, this solved the Problem....
When I go to Settings~Menus....I'm unable to remove several programs from my start menu that I have checked. I think the programs have been removed, and I'm guessing that my phone cannot find the shortcut they originally pointed to, so it freaks out and won't let me remove it.
I can only have 7 choices on my start menu, and several of these aren't even installed anymore. Are there any registry edits that I can do to remove these?
Start by checking to see that nothing's running. Active programs will sometimes prevent deletion of their components.
Use a file manager to remove any links from Windows\Startup folder.
Try a soft reset before deleting the stubborn links.
Download ClearTemp and set to clear everything. One of the checks it does is to remove unused shortcuts from your program menus.
If that doesn't work, I don't know what will...
I have HD2 for Tmo and im trying to delete b&n reader and mobitv, along with some other apps but i cant find them in the 'remove application' portion of settings...help please? Thanks in advance!!!
dali5 said:
I have HD2 for Tmo and im trying to delete b&n reader and mobitv, along with some other apps but i cant find them in the 'remove application' portion of settings...help please? Thanks in advance!!!
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I'm sorry to tell you this but you will not be able to remove any of those apps because they are baked as part of the ROM unless you flashed another ROM that the chef's cooked here that is the only way to remove them or if you know how to cook a ROM yourself.
This is what I did to remove the apps:
- Start up the application.
- Hopefully you are running and out-of-date version of the app. When they start up they will check for updated software.
- It will prompt you to download and install the updated software. Install the update.
- After installation is complete, close the app.
- Check the Remove Programs panel, it should now display the app(s) you just installed, allowing you to remove them.
Its a bit of work, but this method allowed me to get rid of most of the useless apps on the HD2.
I think you just have to delete the folder for the app to make it disappear. Haven't tried it myself but if you're never going to use it anyway, what's the harm?
Thanks to all...I will will try to run the program and check for updates...i updated my ROM to 2.13 hasnt made a difference tho...I will keep trying!
i deleted
you can delete them i deleted from the file explorer/totalcomander i did and i dont have the apps on my start menu anymore
jiggahj said:
you can delete them i deleted from the file explorer/totalcomander i did and i dont have the apps on my start menu anymore
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Did you just delete the links from the "start menu" folder, or did you try removing the program files themselves?
That is the first thing I did when I got my phone... and the first thing I will do after installing the new rom. Plug it into your computer, explore it as you would any other external drive, and delete the entire folders.... there goes the apps you do not want....
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This is what I did to remove the apps:
- Start up the application.
- Hopefully you are running and out-of-date version of the app. When they start up they will check for updated software.
- It will prompt you to download and install the updated software. Install the update.
- After installation is complete, close the app.
- Check the Remove Programs panel, it should now display the app(s) you just installed, allowing you to remove them.
Its a bit of work, but this method allowed me to get rid of most of the useless apps on the HD2.
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It doesn't work with Opera.
I have deleted the B&N eReader, BlockBuster and MobiTV by just deleting the directories they were in. Also went into the Start Menu folder in the Windows folder and deleted their icons there so they don't show up in the Start Menu.
I have been unable to delete the Facebook application because the files are in the Windows directory and are read only.
Paten said:
I have deleted the B&N eReader, BlockBuster and MobiTV by just deleting the directories they were in. Also went into the Start Menu folder in the Windows folder and deleted their icons there so they don't show up in the Start Menu.
I have been unable to delete the Facebook application because the files are in the Windows directory and are read only.
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But this doesn't guarantee you removed unwanted registry entries that can bog down your system.
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But this doesn't guarantee you removed unwanted registry entries that can bog down your system.
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You can do what Paten suggested and then take the final step of running memmaid, it has the ability to clean out reg entries orphaned by removed programs.