What are you guys using to remove bloatware? And which apps are safe to remove?
Edit: So far I have removed these apps with no problems:
(via: Titanium backup)
AppPack
Monopoly
Setup
MyAccount
Stocks
Rockband
Amazon
Demo
Flickr
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I personally use root explorer but I don't delete them I just move them to a folder in my sd card just incase I would have the need for them.
Not only did I take out tmo bloat like app pack, tmo tv, demo videos, demo games but some sense ui too like tweeter(peep), stocks!
What folder are those apps in?
Moving them sounds like a good idea to me.
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mr_skot said:
What folder are those apps in?
Moving them sounds like a good idea to me.
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Their in the system/app/ folder
what demo videos, and games are you moving to your backup folder?
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crxtasi said:
I personally use root explorer but I don't delete them I just move them to a folder in my sd card just incase I would have the need for them.
Not only did I take out tmo bloat like app pack, tmo tv, demo videos, demo games but some sense ui too like tweeter(peep), stocks!
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ryan562 said:
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How do I move them?
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mftek said:
How do I move them?
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Just select the files in your file explorer and use the "move" option, or cut/paste (though I've only seen move as an option).
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crxtasi said:
Their in the system/app/ folder
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Hmm, I don't see all those in there such as Tweeter and that damn AppPack.
Where are those, or what are they named? Thanks!
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Twitter is HTC Peep ( I think). What's app pack? is that all T-mobile junk? Those are all separate apps.
borodin1 said:
Twitter is HTC Peep ( I think). What's app pack? is that all T-mobile junk? Those are all separate apps.
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Yeah, don't see it in the app drawer, but there's a widget for it.
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mftek said:
What are you guys using to remove bloatware? And which apps are safe to remove?
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dude titanium backup is by far the best for bloatware, not only is it one click to remove, but you can do backups as well just in case.
mrpanic7 said:
dude titanium backup is by far the best for bloatware, not only is it one click to remove, but you can do backups as well just in case.
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Which apps have you removed? Cause when I removed alot I started to have syncing.. My phone just kepted syncing and getting errors.......
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well you gotta be careful as to what you remove, you cant just go delete crazy, some apps are tied to the system. for instance i deleted monopoly, amazon, and the T-Mobile app pack. No problems. im curious what have you deleted? and did you do a backup via recovery before you did?
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well you gotta be careful as to what you remove, you cant just go delete crazy, some apps are tied to the system. for instance i deleted monopoly, amazon, and the T-Mobile app pack. No problems. im curious what have you deleted? and did you do a backup via recovery before you did?
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Yeah I made a few recoveries just in case I had a oops moment like this one lol.
I deleted: amazon, asfault racing, peep, demo videos, twitter widget, app pack, yahoo mail, all the themes, modes, friend stream
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mftek said:
Yeah I made a few recoveries just in case I had a oops moment like this one lol.
I deleted: amazon, asfault racing, peep, demo videos, twitter widget, app pack, yahoo mail, all the themes, modes, friend stream
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And setup, stocks, mobile tv.
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mftek said:
Yeah I made a few recoveries just in case I had a oops moment like this one lol.
I deleted: amazon, asfault racing, peep, demo videos, twitter widget, app pack, yahoo mail, all the themes, modes, friend stream
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yeah thats your problem righ there. Things like amazon, app pack those are tmobile add on apks, the things like peep, modes, friendstream are built in with the software, therefore can cause the system to not respond correctly. id say restore from a recovery and delete only simple things, nothing connected to the "My Sense"
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yeah thats your problem righ there. Things like amazon, app pack those are tmobile add on apks, the things like peep, modes, friendstream are built in with the software, therefore can cause the system to not respond correctly. id say restore from a recovery and delete only simple things, nothing connected to the "My Sense"
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Oh ok. What have you deleted?
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I've only removed amazon, T-Mobile App Pack, and Monopoly and havent had any issues at all. I would say you could get away with deleting all the games it comes with since theyre on the sdcard, like i said anything deleted thats connected with the "My Sense" (i.e. friendstream, my modes, etc) may cause trouble. hope this helps!
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I've only removed amazon, T-Mobile App Pack, and Monopoly and havent had any issues at all. I would say you could get away with deleting all the games it comes with since theyre on the sdcard, like i said anything deleted thats connected with the "My Sense" (i.e. friendstream, my modes, etc) may cause trouble. hope this helps!
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Thanks bro
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Does anyone know which tmobil or htc crap can we remove. I am on stock 2.2.1. Confirmed list would be great.
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I'd like to see this list, too.
I removed Asphalt through Titanium. But when I tried to remove the Monopoly demo, the phone froze up, needed battery pull, app remained.
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Use root explorer.
thepza said:
I'd like to see this list, too.
I removed Asphalt through Titanium. But when I tried to remove the Monopoly demo, the phone froze up, needed battery pull, app remained.
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With root explorer, I safely deleted:
Monopoly
Rock band
3 Yahoo apks
Stock app
Demo video
May remove some more in the future, but I feel better with some of those blatant pieces of bloat gone. What have you removed?
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Does anyone know what it is in a ROM, that when you sign into Gmail, it downloads all your applications that were installed on your device? Ive noticed alot of ROM's lately that are lacking this feature, and was curious as to what allows a ROM to do this.
Thanks
Your market saves all your paid apps. The rest you have to have a backup with like titanium backup
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Nicgraner said:
Your market saves all your paid apps. The rest you have to have a backup with like titanium backup
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no offense. really, but thats not true. if you use a g2, or nexus s, or cm7, when you sign into gmail ALL your apps re download back to your device
Oh right forgot bout that lol feel kinda dumb... But that is true.
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mrpanic7 said:
no offense. really, but thats not true. if you use a g2, or nexus s, or cm7, when you sign into gmail ALL your apps re download back to your device
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It also happens in the Glacier.
My theory is this. the first time you sign into your Google account via a Android phone it picks up the phone model. and the first time you sign in it figures you just got that phone so it will re-download the apps to that phone. and once you change ROMs and resign in it think "hey this phone already as the apps" so it doesn't kick it to the new ROM.
In any case the best thing to do is use Titanium Backup.
Sounds like a good theory to me.
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Check under settings /privacy /back up + auto restore. I believe that's what the initial setup access.
I don't like it, new rom = new app install, just easier to eliminate problems not related to rom.
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It is weird. I had the app and used it and now the icon is there, but it wouldn't work. Then when I looked in the app area it isn't there. I have Kings speed Rom I think. I'll have to check to make sure. It has sense 3.0. Has anyone had their market vanish. I see post where people are asking how to install it, but I've always had it for like 2 weeks.
jeffrimerman said:
It is weird. I had the app and used it and now the icon is there, but it wouldn't work. Then when I looked in the app area it isn't there. I have Kings speed Rom I think. I'll have to check to make sure. It has sense 3.0. Has anyone had their market vanish. I see post where people are asking how to install it, but I've always had it for like 2 weeks.
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Have you flashed a2sd?
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Reflash the rom without wiping data - just wipe cache and dalvik. You of course have to know what rom you're running to be able to reflash it.
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plainjane said:
You of course have to know what rom you're running to be able to reflash it.
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Epic win!
You can pull the market apk from the rom via 7zip or winzip or whatever, and push it to your /system/app/ folder
bcarter2000 said:
You can pull the market apk from the rom via 7zip or winzip or whatever, and push it to your /system/app/ folder
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Or just do a quick Google search for android market and reinstall like you would an app. I accidentally deleted my market once and did that, worked just fine
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jeffrimerman said:
It is weird. I had the app and used it and now the icon is there, but it wouldn't work. Then when I looked in the app area it isn't there. I have Kings speed Rom I think. I'll have to check to make sure. It has sense 3.0. Has anyone had their market vanish. I see post where people are asking how to install it, but I've always had it for like 2 weeks.
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Just redownload the app again. Its those random glitch happens before to me too when flashing new roms.
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ok, download app seems ideal
I signed onto android market on my pc and tried to download it and it kept saying the app is not compatible. I just realized it is an app for an android tablet. I need to figure out where to find the regular android market for a phone. I did a search on market.android.com and it keeps finding the tablet version.
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I signed onto android market on my pc and tried to download it and it kept saying the app is not compatible. I just realized it is an app for an android tablet. I need to figure out where to find the regular android market for a phone. I did a search on market.android.com and it keeps finding the tablet version.
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It's all about how you word the search. Here ya go
http://www.multiupload.com/41FQ6PQ3MS
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j_shelton1988 said:
It's all about how you word the search. Here ya go
http://www.multiupload.com/41FQ6PQ3MS
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awesome!!! thank you so much. Worked perfectly. Thanks J Shelton
Sincerely,
Jeff
Hi guys
After i updated from 2.2.2 to 2.3.4, the gallery on the version is all messed up, ie, no folders etc.
Everything is sorted via date......
Can anyone recommend a gallery viewer, or a fix, to be able to view the gallery via folders? (It does not provide that option when i go to sorting)
It makes it difficult searching for images located in different folders....
Thanks!
^^rac said:
Hi guys
After i updated from 2.2.2 to 2.3.4, the gallery on the version is all messed up, ie, no folders etc.
Everything is sorted via date......
Can anyone recommend a gallery viewer, or a fix, to be able to view the gallery via folders? (It does not provide that option when i go to sorting)
It makes it difficult searching for images located in different folders....
Thanks!
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Quickpic, it's in the market and free
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+1 for Quickpic
msd24200 said:
Quickpic, it's in the market and free
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Thanks Man, Quickpic is awesome!
Wont use anything else...... just what i wanted!
Peace
^^rac said:
Thanks Man, Quickpic is awesome!
Wont use anything else...... just what i wanted!
Peace
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The best
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The first thing I do when installing a new rom is to let it build system files and then I open market once, accept the agreement, then reboot. Second thing? Freeze stock galleries and install quickpic.
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Phalanx7621 said:
The first thing I do when installing a new rom is to let it build system files and then I open market once, accept the agreement, then reboot. Second thing? Freeze stock galleries and install quickpic.
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Same for me, Quickpic has been my gallery app of choice for a while now.
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The gb gallery is like that... kinda fail, as told to you before, youse another gallery, i use the 3d gallery in all my phones since i eclair. =p
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Is it possible to rip an .apk from the phone? Something I installed via the market?
Yup. Its in /data/app then copy and paste to tour sdcard. Or adb pull it.
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Will they always work in another device?
tinpanalley said:
Will they always work in another device?
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The apks? Probably.
Some will. Well most of your 3rd party apps from the market will. Some of the system .apk's won't. For example, I like the HTC Facebook. chat app, but when i tried to install it on Black Ice, it kept failing. Probably because it is a cyanogen based rom. Also my favorite search app is the Quick searck from TMobile with Google,Wikipedia Youtube,
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jjbadd385 said:
Some will. Well most of your 3rd party apps from the market will. Some of the system .apk's won't. For example, I like the HTC Facebook. chat app, but when i tried to install it on Black Ice, it kept failing. Probably because it is a cyanogen based rom. Also my favorite search app is the Quick searck from TMobile with Google,Wikipedia Youtube,
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MIUI has its own framework. Therefore, only those system apps will work on MIUI. Same goes for HTC. That's why it wouldn't work on Black Ice.
Also, just in case if you intend on trying to illegally distribute a paid app, some of them (I don't know how many, but probably many) have Market's legality check, and won't function when installed on a system they weren't purchased on.
Jack_R1 said:
Also, just in case if you intend on trying to illegally distribute a paid app, some of them (I don't know how many, but probably many) have Market's legality check, and won't function when installed on a system they weren't purchased on.
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I'll leave this one alone..while i dont encourage it anymore, or waste my time trying to get 2 or 3 dollar apps for free..i can tell you that there isnt an app on the net that cant be gotten for free. I didnt think it was wrong years ago, but it is. Oddly i still like some of my old buddies that havent changed yet but I am blessed and I dont do anything i cant explain to my 4 yr old.
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I was specifically thinking about an app I paid for and want to install on my tablet though I have my tablet set up under a different gmail account. That's all. I can't be bothered to try to rip games or apps to save 3 or 4 bucks.
you still should be able to add a 2nd acct to your tablet, and then dl it...
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Wait a sec... so I can add my phone's gmail account to my tablet, download the app, then switch back to the tablet's gmail account and actually see and use that app? I didn't think you could do that.
No, you won't see it downloaded. But you won't have to pay twice - if you paid for an app on your phone and you have the same account on your tablet, you will be able to download it on the tablet as well without paying again - you'll see the app as "purchased".
tinpanalley said:
Wait a sec... so I can add my phone's gmail account to my tablet, download the app, then switch back to the tablet's gmail account and actually see and use that app? I didn't think you could do that.
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you can add the acct to your tablet, dl whatever app you purchased. You can leave both accts on your tablet and choose 1 as your primary acct. You can have mor than 1 acct on your device. when you open the app store press your menu button and select "accounts" and choose which one you want to use.
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