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Can't delete Apps (A2SD)

Hi,
Ive got a problem. Yesterday i did the update from Dude 1.1 to 1.2, first without wiping, but then the G1 reboot when i want to download an app.
So i wiped it and it works fine. INternal Memory is 355MB free.
Today i wanna delete the APP SMS/MMS because i use chompSMS, but the G1 says that it cant delete. ("Uninstall not successful" "SMS/MMS could not be uninstalled")
So what could i do?
Thanx for ya help

if im not wrong in saying this, the stock sms mms program needs to be on the phone. chomp doesnt get your messages
it gets them from the stock messaging app.

Not sure what you're trying to uninstall (haven't heard of an app called SMS/MMS). However, if you're trying to remove the application "Messaging", you can't. Just disable notifications in the Messaging program and use chomp as the default.

Its the same with this Amazon Mp3 app, i cant uninstall it, what do i wrong? Or how can i get this app off my phone( dude 1.2 full)

You can't uninstall those programs..

G1StefanG1 said:
Its the same with this Amazon Mp3 app, i cant uninstall it, what do i wrong? Or how can i get this app off my phone( dude 1.2 full)
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If you are using a G1 build, its in /system/app. Remount the system partition and delete it from that directory.

Yeah great, thanx for ya help.
But now I now i'll gonna be beaten for that question, but can you explain me what you mean with 'remount the system partition"?
I've looked it up with ASTRO Filemanager and its really in /system/app, but i cant delete it from there, if i want to it says again "error deleting file".
Just searched a bit around and found the remount command that i know from a2sd, so i think i have to go to Terminal at G1,
#su
#mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
#rm com.amazon.mp3 /system/app
Is this right? So then i'm gonna eating my shoes But i think it isnt so i ask you before i delete complete G1
Or is it enough to remount with that command above and then go with ASTRO FIlemanager to that directory and delete it?

G1StefanG1 said:
Yeah great, thanx for ya help.
But now I now i'll gonna be beaten for that question, but can you explain me what you mean with 'remount the system partition"?
I've looked it up with ASTRO Filemanager and its really in /system/app, but i cant delete it from there, if i want to it says again "error deleting file".
Just searched a bit around and found the remount command that i know from a2sd, so i think i have to go to Terminal at G1,
#su
#mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
#rm com.amazon.mp3 /system/app
Is this right? So then i'm gonna eating my shoes But i think it isnt so i ask you before i delete complete G1
Or is it enough to remount with that command above and then go with ASTRO FIlemanager to that directory and delete it?
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Yes, you remount it that way (or with DroidSans) and rm the Amazon file. I would still recommend against deleting the messaging one though.

I tried it this way, but it says error "Read only file".
I think i just let it on the phone and try to ignore that app.

G1StefanG1 said:
I tried it this way, but it says error "Read only file".
I think i just let it on the phone and try to ignore that app.
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use this code to remove amazon
Code:
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
rm -r /system/app/com.amazon.mp3
that will remove amazon but removing messaging will make your system EXTREMELY unstable and most likely unusable

The problem was that i don't add the Fileending ".apk"
Thanx for ya help, tubaking182. It worked with your Command with adding .apk

Got the next problem, now i want to delete the Messenger App 'IM' but even if i do the same with 'amazon mp3' it says rm: cannot remove '/system/app/com.android.im.apk': No such file or directory
So what i am doing wrong, i tried it with "rm -r /system/app/com.android.im.apk"
"rm -r /system/app/com.android.im"
And many more but i get ever the same output -> No such file...

That means theres no such file...doesn't exist.
IT might be named IM.apk

Mh you're right!
I dont know how it tells me 'com.android.im' in ASTRO Filebrowser, and why i could delete it with IM.apk
With AmazonMP3 i have also to write: com.amazon.mp3.apk
Doesn't matter, THANK YOU for the fast help

amazon
spend a couple bucks and get root explorer, it is well worth it, and then its very easy to delete anything after that.

Wait wait let me get this right ... with root explorer i could avoid the whole going to terminal and typing all that code and just simply delete the apk from root explorer program and thats it >?
Can it really be that easy ... tell me thats the case
Also when you use the terminal code or the root explorer method ( if it can be done like that) when you go to applications in the phone menu to view list of apps you still see the amazon mp3 app in the system .. how do i remove that also

Chosen_on184 said:
Wait wait let me get this right ... with root explorer i could avoid the whole going to terminal and typing all that code and just simply delete the apk from root explorer program and thats it >?
Can it really be that easy ... tell me thats the case
Also when you use the terminal code or the root explorer method ( if it can be done like that) when you go to applications in the phone menu to view list of apps you still see the amazon mp3 app in the system .. how do i remove that also
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I'm testing right now..

How to UNINSTALL unwanted stock/preinstalled apps from G1

How to remove unwanted stock/preinstalled apps
This is not a question. This is howto
I DID search through the forum and found nothing but
Q: how to remove/uninstall preinstalled apps ?
A: no way !!!
WHAT ??? WRONG ANSWER !!!
Here is how:
First of all I’ll describe my rooted, of course, phone configuration, so if you are on the same boat you can do same trick 99% if not you’ll know where to go
- CyanogenMod 4.1.2.1 (this is latest experimental as of sept-05-09) –works very stable for me
- 4GB SD card partitioned: FAT32, ext3 (512mb), linux_swap (32mb)
(great guide how to part your sd here: http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f56/compcache-userinit-22465/index4.html#post232988 (page 4)
- CompCache with Backing Swap (here: http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f56/compcache-userinit-22465/index4.html#post232988 (page 1)
Requirements:
1) G1 rooted phone
2) Explorer with ability to explore /system folders – I use Astro (market)
3) PC/MAC
4) SDK installed on it (http://developer.android.com/sdk/download.html?v=android-sdk-windows-1.5_r3.zip)
Steps:
1) first and very important: full backup of your system.
- DO NANDROID (it’s preinstalled in Cyano, search forum for “nandroid” if you don’t have it)
- DO ext3.tar (if you use ext3)
- Make full SD copy to your PC
As described here: (yes, same tread, thanks to bdb4269) http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f56/compcache-userinit-22465/index4.html (page 4)
Now we are safe..well, almost
2) find full name for the application you want to uninstall, say for Amazon MP3 it will be com.amazon.mp3.apk
I did it like this
- open Astro explorer
- go to the very top (/)
- search “amazon”
- when search done, write down full app name
- long press trackball – chose – open containing folder – remember the path (ie /system/app)
3) Assume SDK and USB drivers are installed ( http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html )
And phone is connected to pc/mac
= below guide is from http://oneclickandroid.blogspot.com/ with my comments =
- Start emulator (don’t think it is necessary, but lets follow – emulator located in SDK folder\tools\emulator.exe in my case C:\SDK_15\tools\
CMD window pops up for a second and disappeared
- open CMD prompt (in Windows: Start > run > print: cmd , hit OK/enter)
- execute "adb shell" in on terminal from SDK_ROOT/tool folder
(if you did not register SDK folder in windows variables you need to cd to this folder first:
print: cd c:\sdk_15\tools hit enter
print: adb shell hit enter, you’ll see new prompt appeared: #
- print: mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
This will mount your system folder with read/write permission
- go to system/apps folder of your phone
(print: cd /system/apps hit enter)
*** guide says “/system/apps” but in my case it is “/system/app” ??? (remember I asked you to write down full path and name from Astro ? check your path first ***
- print: rm yourunwantedapplication.apk
i.e. rm com.amazon.mp3.apk hit enter
now, check installed apps in your phone (no reload req.) – is amazon disappeared ?
I wish to try this with app for that has a replacement from the market, like
Dialer – aTakePhone or Music – Meridian etc
Hope someone brave will do it before I do
Deleting may be unsafe if other preinstalled apps or process have links to uninstalled app
What happens in this case? wish someone knows the answer.
I dont think this trick will speedup your phone if you've moved your apps to ext2/3/4 already I just dont want to see useless apps in my phone/pc
Please reply here if you have experience of deleting preinstalled apps
sorry, english is my second languague
Good luck !

Hahahaha... all that trouble just to install a few unnecessary apps off of a ROOTED phone?! If you had searched, you'd have seen the numerous posts where we've posted instructions on uninstalling apps through Terminal. Literally 4 lines of code at most! Note that you can do this with any app you don't want. I have xROM, and one of the first things I do whenever I clean install to the latest version is replace ringtones and remove apps, including HTC Mail, Email, Amazon mp3, and Android Music. It takes me about 2 minutes to remove these apps.
Example for removing Amazon MP3:
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
rm -r /system/app/com.amazon-mp3.apk
mount -o rw,remount /data
rm -r /data/data/com.amazon.mp3
exit
exit

uansari1 said:
mount -o rw,remount /data
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/data is never mounted read-only.

zelipukin said:
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- Start emulator (don’t think it is necessary, but lets follow – emulator located in SDK folder\tools\emulator.exe in my case C:\SDK_15\tools\
CMD window pops up for a second and disappeared
...
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That's not how you start the emulator, in the window that disappears is a message telling you to start with the proper parameters, which you'd see if starting from a command line. If the emulator actually was running, then all your adb commands would then fail because it wouldn't know what device you wanted to address, you'd have to use "adb -d" to tell it to use the real device rather than the emulator.

jashsu said:
/data is never mounted read-only.
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Thanks for the info.. guess I've been doing an extra step, but this means I can do I through terminal even faster.

Easy way to remove unwanted preinstalled apps
Use Root Explorer to browse to /data/app_s and find the applications you don't want. Delete the APK and ODEX files and you are done.
Always remember to make a backup of your phone, before you start deleting.

ewaldtx said:
Use Root Explorer to browse to /data/app_s and find the applications you don't want. Delete the APK and ODEX files and you are done.
Always remember to make a backup of your phone, before you start deleting.
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The app_s folder is only used for Hero ROMs because there isn't enough space in /system, so it's placed in /system/sd (the mount point of the ext partition) if you have an ext partition for A2SD.
For regular google source builds just go to /system/app.

there is an app called rootexplorer it has a button to remove syatem apps. real easy to use. http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.sp...e.rootexplorer

saprano614 said:
there is an app called rootexplorer it has a button to remove syatem apps. real easy to use. http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.sp...e.rootexplorer
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and it works great

Sorry to kind of hijack this but cyrket.com always shows as a blank page.
anyone know why or how to fix that?

i think simply deleting the apk files and data folder will keep an entry in some kind of registry in android. if i just delete the apk files and data folder and run fix_permissions, it shows the same number of processes.

SUFBS
is a rooted file browser and it is, by far, the easiest way of uninstalling any stock apps.
Click one button to make the system folder re-writable (same thing with data folder, just a button), navigate to the apps directory and just delete. or you can search for the app and just delete it from the search window. Voila!

Ssantos6981 said:
is a rooted file browser and it is, by far, the easiest way of uninstalling any stock apps.
Click one button to make the system folder re-writable (same thing with data folder, just a button), navigate to the apps directory and just delete. or you can search for the app and just delete it from the search window. Voila!
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are you talking about rootexplorer or what? elaborate a little..
i just bought and downloaded/installed rootexplorer simply to delete stock apps. upon opening it ask me to allow it. i say yes and it says my phone isn't rooted.
weird.. i just upgraded from cyanogen v4.1.999( or something around that) to the newest 4.2whatever. so how if my phone not rooted?!

blackinches said:
are you talking about rootexplorer or what? elaborate a little..
i just bought and downloaded/installed rootexplorer simply to delete stock apps. upon opening it ask me to allow it. i say yes and it says my phone isn't rooted.
weird.. i just upgraded from cyanogen v4.1.999( or something around that) to the newest 4.2whatever. so how if my phone not rooted?!
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try it again lol. it should work
make sure your not on the stock adp recovery

Root explorer!!!

Hi,
i'm trying ro remove stock apps for quite a few days, and i'm getting desperate!
I have everything... titatium, terminal, root explorer, etc etc
with terminal I also receive "directory not empty", but with root explorer I can delete the apk's from /system/app ... I confirm after that they are not there, bus as soon as I reboot the phone they come back.
what can I do ?
I have HTC desire with stock android, rooted .. and also a couple of programs I instaled I don't really knwo what they do.. like rom manager, clockword recovery, etc
plz help!

Sleeepy2 said:
Sorry to kind of hijack this but cyrket.com always shows as a blank page.
anyone know why or how to fix that?
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It is because the full url path is not correct. Hover cursor over link and look at lower left corner to view the url path...it has those .... in it and will not work. We need the full exact url path.

just use titanum backup,rt click on application it will show (remove),be sure u didn't updated any stock app e.g gmail update

Regarding using Root Explorer on stock G Tab updated to 1.2-4349...
Trying to remove some of the apps preloaded and using Root Explorer get a statement - my phone not rooted.
I want to get the apps off. What to do now? Thanks http://media.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

Thanks for this clear procedure !

Serious unexplainable issue with my rom

Hey, i'll make this brief. Whenever I use an update
Or try and push an apk over to /system/apps
It doesn't stick.
For example I removed the browser.apk, and replaced it with my own (using root manager and adp both) rebooted my phone and I have no browser.apk anylonger cant put one in regardless of how I try...
Another example, while installing and update to HTC_IME.apk (Black theme) It sticks to the phone until i reboot it...
Any advice?

Do a search on the missing apk. Just to be sure.
Not much help huh?

Its like the missing apk completely disappeared... no traces of it.

on your phone try going to the superuser and there should be a + /system/sh push it and it should disappear then try the adb push method

XxsydenxX said:
Hey, i'll make this brief. Whenever I use an update
Or try and push an apk over to /system/apps
It doesn't stick.
For example I removed the browser.apk, and replaced it with my own (using root manager and adp both) rebooted my phone and I have no browser.apk anylonger cant put one in regardless of how I try...
Another example, while installing and update to HTC_IME.apk (Black theme) It sticks to the phone until i reboot it...
Any advice?
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If you were trying to push to /system/APPS That might be a problem. I don't know alot, but if I'm not mistaken, the correct directory for apps is /system/app/
Try this.
Code:
adb remount
adb push browser.apk /system/app/
Also, if you're using A2SD.. it would be /system/sd/app
Let me know if it worked.

Ok well, I checked for root access just to be sure, And of course, I have it lol..
But none of these methods work.
Edit: I mean ive done it before, I dont know what the hell is wrong...

Why not do a simple mount of the sdcard , no adb.
Then copy the file to the card. Use a rooted terminal emulator or even root explorer to copy/move it.
BTW I know that on some systems the ".foo" files ( beginning with a . ) can be invisible and on other systems they can be designated as temporary, I don't know the convention for linux/android.
I do know that I would push a file which has been disappearing and then do a ls -af xxxx on it in a rooted terminal emulator to see it's permissions and "real" name.

^Tried using a rooted file manager to move it..it simply doesnt show up in the tray and when i go back..it's gone like always.

XxsydenxX said:
^Tried using a rooted file manager to move it..it simply doesnt show up in the tray and when i go back..it's gone like always.
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So it's on the sdcard?
Use a terminal emulator and do a
$su
#ls -af filename.

Eh you know what, I'll just wipe and reflash a fresh rom. I'm not putting in anymore effort lol...
A mod can close this now.

i managed to pull the nandroid. now i need to push it back.

so i had a thread about getting these files pulled off of my buddies busted n4. but the adb command given wouldnt work and i didnt figure out how to make a tarball untill after i pulled the files. anyways...
i managed to pull the nandroid using this command - adb pull /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2013-08-07.23.11.28/.
what i ended up with were all of the files separately on my pc.
so if i put all of the files back into its own folder with the same name on my pc, what would be the command to push it back onto the new phone that i am about to root. using cwm.
assuming i kept the folder in platform tools. C:\androiddev\sdk\platform-tools
and do i need to create directory in the phone first? .../clockworkmod/backup/2013-08-07.23.11.28
it seems like i remember these commands, or at least i could figure it out by the commands listed, in one of the original root unlock stickies. but they seem to have been replaced with one click dealios. i need to start using adb for all of my flashing and such just so i can stop looking like an idiot for not knowing the simple stuff. in other words i would experiment and figure it out.... but i am afraid that i will just litter his phone with files and still end up coming back here.
thank you.

A quick guide to the adb pull and adb push commands:
Code:
adb pull <remote> <local>
adb push <local> <remote>
Remote being folder location on phone, local being folder location on computer.
So the correct command to pull the backup and put it into a folder under platform-tools (let's use the folder name you are using) would be this:
Code:
adb pull /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2013-08-07.23.11.28/ 2013-08-07.23.11.28
All you have to do to put it into it's own folder is put a space after the remote location and type whatever name you want the folder to be.
Now on to your current question. You said you pulled the files onto the computer, but they weren't in their own folder. I would put them into their own folder (we'll use 2013-08-07.23.11.28 for now) and push the contents of that folder to a folder on your phone, that we will also call 2013-08-07.23.11.28 under the backup location (If you want to make sure you have only the files contained in the backup, try re-pulling them using the above pull command. If you're pretty sure you know which ones it pulled, I wouldn't worry about it). Try this:
Code:
adb push 2013-08-07.23.11.28 /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup/2013-08-07.23.11.28/
That'll push the contents of folder 2013-08-07.23.11.28 under platform-tools and put them in a folder called 2013-08-07.23.11.28 under /backup/. If it doesn't exist, it'll create the folder. Now you pulled the backups by using /sdcard/, I didn't know you could just do that, so I guess you could try pushing using that too:
Code:
adb push 2013-08-07.23.11.28 /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2013-08-07.23.11.28/
I'm pretty sure those should do the trick. Let me know if that helped.

Johmama said:
A quick guide to the adb pull and adb push commands:
Code:
adb pull <remote> <local>
adb push <local> <remote>
Remote being folder location on phone, local being folder location on computer.
So the correct command to pull the backup and put it into a folder under platform-tools (let's use the folder name you are using) would be this:
Code:
adb pull /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2013-08-07.23.11.28/ 2013-08-07.23.11.28
All you have to do to put it into it's own folder is put a space after the remote location and type whatever name you want the folder to be.
Now on to your current question. You said you pulled the files onto the computer, but they weren't in their own folder. I would put them into their own folder (we'll use 2013-08-07.23.11.28 for now) and push the contents of that folder to a folder on your phone, that we will also call 2013-08-07.23.11.28 under the backup location (If you want to make sure you have only the files contained in the backup, try re-pulling them using the above pull command. If you're pretty sure you know which ones it pulled, I wouldn't worry about it). Try this:
Code:
adb push 2013-08-07.23.11.28 /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup/2013-08-07.23.11.28/
That'll push the contents of folder 2013-08-07.23.11.28 under platform-tools and put them in a folder called 2013-08-07.23.11.28 under /backup/. If it doesn't exist, it'll create the folder. Now you pulled the backups by using /sdcard/, I didn't know you could just do that, so I guess you could try pushing using that too:
Code:
adb push 2013-08-07.23.11.28 /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2013-08-07.23.11.28/
I'm pretty sure those should do the trick. Let me know if that helped.
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thanks a ton. it worked. i tried the first option. rebooted recovery. and it could not find the files. i rebooted the phone. and then went back into recovery. the files still were not there.
so then i did the second option. with the sdcard. it worked like a charm. his phone is back to aug 7th. and didnt lose a thing... other than the last four days of his new data.

phermey said:
thanks a ton. it worked. i tried the first option. rebooted recovery. and it could not find the files. i rebooted the phone. and then went back into recovery. the files still were not there.
so then i did the second option. with the sdcard. it worked like a charm. his phone is back to aug 7th. and didnt lose a thing... other than the last four days of his new data.
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Well that's odd, I'm the exact opposite, I can't see the files in /sdcard/, only the path through /mnt/. I'm not too familiar with how the Nexus 4 handles the emulated sdcard, I just never had the reason to explore it.
Actually, I think the difference between where our recoveries saw the backups is because of a version difference. CWM has changed their backup location in the past, and I'm sure you are using a version that is looking for backups in the /sdcard/ directory, while mine was looking for them through /mnt/.
EDIT:
Oh btw, you might advise your friend to download a file explorer app (I use ES File Explorer) and erase those backups that he didn't use in the /mnt/ folder. I'm sure they are still there taking up space on his phone. You may or may not need root to see the correct folder though.

Cant modify file?

I'm trying to replace one of the files in /system/usr/keylayout but i'm getting an error telling me the system is read only.
So i've gone back to the /system folder in Root Explorer and tried to remount it as rw but nothing happens.
So i've gone in and tried to use ADB. I turned on USB Debugging and connected with ADB, used "adb shell" to get in, then every variation of deleting the file and remounting the file system i can. Every method to delete the file tells me its read only, and every method to remount it tells me that the folder isnt in /proc/mounts. If i dont specify a folder and just use /, then it runs and shows a ton of folders, but i still cant delete the file. My goal is to replace it with another.
Any ideas why? I'm rooted with magisk, newest version of platform tools on the laptop, im running OOS 11.0.4.4 IN11AA, stock rom and kernel.