I am trying to delete some of the pre installed bloatware on my vibrant. i got most of it off myself, by looking at the icon in the //res/drawable folders but i was wondering if anyone knows the APK names of some of (or all) of the apps...I just dont want to go around and delete somthing i need... Maybe we can compile a list so people wont go deleting random stuff, i dunno
What i am mostly looking for is daily breifing,lattitude, places, Visual voicemail, Allshare
Thanks
Check the sticky at the top of this forum. There is a link to a list in there.
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I installed the Palm Messaging App that threads text messages just to see how it looked and wasnt really fond of it so I wanted to remove it. Well, It was unable to be fully uninstalled for whatever reason and now the hardkey for messaging doesn't list text messages, and the today plugin is still there and launches the Palm app.
Does anyone know a way to manually uninstall this, via registry or something?
Palm Messaging App
Worst case scenario ... which is what I've done many times in the past ... is physically delete the directory and all the files in it. Go into your Today settings and remove the app. You can try searching for the app name in the Registry and remove it manually (backup your registry first).
WARNING ... this is a last case scenario. Perhaps someone else has experience with this specific application. Perhaps you can list the application's full name and version. Maybe even where you got it from, in case someone else wants to play around with it and see if they can find a better way to remove it.
Good luck!
go to the buttos settings and change it.
Folks
Can you help me with my questions below:
1. Can I modify/filter the kind of News (like technology, country specific) that has to appear on my home screen (AP news service) or change the news provider to different like google news?
2. When downloading games from market they straight away appear as icons in the applications section as separate game apps. Instead can I create a folder called 'Games' and move all the game apps into it and create a icon for this folder to look like other apps.
3. Finally, wanted to know where the installation files are stored so that I can clear them - just weary that those files/temp files may build over time (thinking in terms of a PC)
thanks for suggesting
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I don't know about question 1, but the others:
2. You can only create folders on a homescreen, not in the application drawer.
3. Don't think you need to worry about this. I expect they either get removed after installation or a cron job will clear them up sooner or later.
2. You can only create folders on a homescreen, not in the application drawer. So how can you organise the games instead of them populating and getting mixed with all the other applicaitons - I still think there must be some way of doing this!
3. Don't think you need to worry about this. I expect they either get removed after installation or a cron job will clear them up sooner or later. This is great, thanks for the confirmation
I know this is a pretty retarded question but I did some googleing and found nothing on the desire z about sideloading and I'm not sure if following the steps for another phone would be a good idea. I was also wondering about getting rid of the bloat ware, what kind of apps do I need to do that and do I need to sideload those apps?
This is my first android phone. My last phone was a palm pre and all their homebrew stuff was very simple and put into 1 app you can download and get everything from (apps, overclocking, themes and custom kernels all from 1 place) so this is kinda big step because it seems to involve a lot more then 2 or 3 taps on a screen.
Thanks for any help you can give a newbie!
if you search you will see some info about how to remove bloatware, but its not pretty (IMO) and I think you need to root your phone.
As for side loading, if you go to setting>applications>manage applications there is a check box that allow you to load apps from any source. Just be sure its checked. I downloaded an app (TN5250 emulator) from www.mochasoft.dk and it installed just fine.
After you downloaded it did you have to move it to the SD card? Or are you able to download right to the phone?
Edit: Also, does anyone know if you can install stock android? What benefits would you get from doing so? The only thing I would care about is not having 40 pre loaded useless app/shortcuts. A few of them are uno, tv & radio, tunes & apps, twitter, superuser, search people (i can just go into people and press the search button, what is the point of this undeletable sortcut?), peep, navigation, lets golf, learn more. This is an awesome phone but there are so many useless things added and it makes it hard to find the handful of apps that I would actually use. Some of these "apps" are just shortcuts to webpages, why do I need this and why can't they go away?!
Just thought I'd let you guys know that Listables works great on Xoom. I figure that most people have probably manually installed a lot of the apps on their phones using apks and since we can't nandroid yet, this would be a good way to keep a list of all the apps you currently have on your device. Just check off your apps in the list, email/dropbox/bluetooth as html file(w/ QR codes,links to market,etc.),xml, or plain text. It can do a few more things as well. Anyway, check it out!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alostpacket.listables
Edit: Hmm...maybe this should have been put in the Themes and Apps subforum. Sorry about that!!
Does anyone know what these apps are?
"GYS Inter Configuration" & ""PathTime Inter Configuration"
I am going through my phone trying to delete and disable some of my unused apps. As I come across apps I am unfamiliar with I do a quick search to find out a little more before I get rid of it.
These apps in particular I cannot find any information on... I'm assuming I can just delete them and move on, but the fact that I cannot find anything on them is puzzling me.
kevinbakon said:
Does anyone know what these apps are?
"GYS Inter Configuration" & ""PathTime Inter Configuration"
I am going through my phone trying to delete and disable some of my unused apps. As I come across apps I am unfamiliar with I do a quick search to find out a little more before I get rid of it.
These apps in particular I cannot find any information on... I'm assuming I can just delete them and move on, but the fact that I cannot find anything on them is puzzling me.
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Disable DT Ignite if you see it listed, as that will install apps that you don't want randomly as well. I've never heard of those apps, and would recommend disable/uninstalling if possible.
RMarkwald said:
Disable DT Ignite if you see it listed, as that will install apps that you don't want randomly as well. I've never heard of those apps, and would recommend disable/uninstalling if possible.
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Thanks!
I actually did see DT and immediately disabled it... I remember reading an article about DT a while back, but my old phone was rooted.... Now, with my new S7, I forgot all about it until I saw it installed... Sure enough, I had about half a dozen games and other garbage I'd never personally installed , on my phone... I'm going to delete the Inter Config apps now, especially after seeing those others installed without my permission. Still a little puzzled that I've found absolutely nothing on these apps on the web. Not even anyone else complaining or asking about them... Oh well, uninstalling and moving on with my life!