[Q] Why is port 23 open? - Droid X General

This is my first post here, so hello! I have a new Droid X, which I promptly rooted thanks to the helpful posts here. I have put Apex 1.4 on it and love it. My only question is that a quick scan of my local network (on two different machines) shows that port 23 on my phone is open. Not good.
Any ideas why this would be the case? Overlook Fing (available in the market) also shows my phone with an open port 23. Anyone else have this problem, have any ideas about what may have caused it, or how to close it? If it's a standard Linux iptables setup, can I just close it through that?
Both lsof and netstat show nothing (as a matter of fact lsof isn't even found - not part of busybox?).
UPDATE: If this is posted in the wrong spot, can someone tell me where to post it?
Stumped...

maybe a dumb question, but what is port 23?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=port+23

mattmartin77 said:
maybe a dumb question, but what is port 23?
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It's commonly used for Telnet.

That's right. And it should NOT be open. Major security risk. I'm a bit concerned. Anyone else have fing and can tell me if 23 is open on your X too, and if so what rom you're using?
Or can anyone tell me how to close it?
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A bizarre new discovery; It's only open when I'm on wifi. Completely closed when on 3g.
Even more confused...
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ApeX 1.4.1 Here... Port 23 closed.
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Wait, are you saying port 23 is knowingly left open on apex 1.4? Because if you are, ummm...that makes me never want to install Apex again (or frankly any other rom). That's essentially a blatant backdoor into my device.
Are you affiliated with Apex in any official position?
Or is all of this mere observation that you're on Apex 1.4.1, and port 23 is not open?

bpocketman said:
Wait, are you saying port 23 is knowingly left open on apex 1.4? Because if you are, ummm...that makes me never want to install Apex again (or frankly any other rom). That's essentially a blatant backdoor into my device.
Are you affiliated with Apex in any official position?
Or is all of this mere observation that you're on Apex 1.4.1, and port 23 is not open?
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Lol, sorry for the quick response. I was posting with regards to your request for any other users using ApeX to scan and report.
Using Fing, I scanned and it shows closed.
No affiliation. But... When I first read the post I immediately thought of the port being used by the ApeX Toolbox for the connection to the fabdroid server.
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Thanks. I hoped that is what you meant, and thanks for responding.
I have run the ApeX toolbox, you think that might permanently open up port 23? Have you run it on 1.4.1? Again, if that's the case, I won't be using ApeX, and neither should anyone else, as that would be a massive security breach and huge privacy violation!
Anyone know a way to get in touch with the developer of ApeX? Does he have a username on here?

Hmmm... I'm using Liberty 1.5, but this makes me wonder about port security on other ROMs.
{scurries off to install Fing from the Market}

Well, if nothing else, I hope this makes people think. Installing a custom ROM is really a sacred trust. I sort of just assume that if there were problems 'someone' would know about it. But that may not be the case. Kinda scary really, there is so much of our lives on our phones now.
Let me know what you find out.
As of right now, I am still without an answer...

I know this doesn't really help your quest for why its open much, but im running leaked 3.4.2 and port 23 is closed.

Just came across this, running liberty 1.5 on wifi used network discovery to port scan my phone IP. No open ports. That is kind of scary the amount of trust we put into the developers of these roms. That's why it's good to donate when you come across a real solid one. Liberty 1.5 is the first rom i've ever tried and coming from a stock droid x, i love it. But we kind of crowd source our security when we hope that the hive collective will find something bad and tell the rest of us. Sometimes it works great that way, sometimes it can have disastrous consequences.

@shark thanks for replying anyway. I thought there were a bunch of experts here? A little disappointed that a dev or something hasn't chimed in.
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@thejam thanks for replying. I haven't tried anything but apex. Maybe I should switch. I really don't want to blame the rom though unless I know for sure. It is scary though.
Anyone who has used apex and liberty have a good comparison or link to one?
Doesn't anyone use apex??
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Anyone?
Anyone?
Bueler?
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Sorry man Ive been on liberty since I started using custom Roms. What other ports did you find open?
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Who cares if port 23 is open? Its a phone. Get over yourself. The world is not out to steal naked pics of your girlfriend off your Droid.
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jeffnucci said:
Who cares if port 23 is open? Its a phone. Get over yourself. The world is not out to steal naked pics of your girlfriend off your Droid.
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Hey, that would depend on what the girlfriend looks like.
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[Q] TV like screen off visual

I come from the Samsung Vibrant Dev area. A friend of mine has a Droid X and all he does is flash Roms, doesn't know much about them. His phone does a TV like on/off animation when the screen goes on and off. What is that? Where is it located/ implemented. any info on it would be great. As search is down right now i cant search it. I am interested in possible porting it.
The liberty tool box has a bunch of different startup animations to choose from, I'm not sure if the one your looking for is in it but it does have the option to add ones from your SD card. Its meant to run on the x with the liberty rom but if you can port it then it might be a good place to start.
Edit:ah just reread your post you're looking for when it goes to sleep, sorry don't know that one. Sounds cool I'll have to look out for it.
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I think its part of the apex rom, might want to contact the dev
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thanks for the quick reply, ill contact the dev. and look into the Rom files as well. and get his permission of course before i kang it
No prob, good luck.
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Zudovex said:
I think its part of the apex rom, might want to contact the dev
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Unless his rom is built on 2.3 I don't think it is. Since that power off tv animation is part of 2.3 and 2.3 only good luck.
I think you might be right but I thought it was a feature he was planning on adding. I did some searching and did find that the ultimate Droid has the feature, here's the link...
http://www.theultimatedroid.com/forum/index.php?/files/file/68-the-ultimate-droid-300-beta/
Edit: and just because its a feature of 2.3 doesn't mean its impossible to port it.
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sense?

Total n00b here, but is sense at all possible on this sammy?
There was a group working to get Sense ported over to the SGS lineup of phones. They got it partially working on the GSM versions from what I know, but the project died because they couldn't get most stuff working, and I think it was abandoned.
Bummer. Thanks though 0_o
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There are different home launchers that give you the Sense previews at least? Lol. ADW has it.
The only thing that bothered me about downloading launchers is that i could never exclude them from the running program list on the task manager. Any clue on how to do this?
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Upgrades/Bugs between EC03 and EC07 :)

Things i have noticed....
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Updates:
- Updated to 2.2.2
- The timing for the full functionality of the ticker seems better xD
- New Dialog when turning off Mobile Network and when turning on GPS from the Pulldown Options..
- Browser actually works for me now lol
Bugs:
Ticker Twitter SNS Service still errors out for me when i try to log on.....
ive got backlite issues sometimes when i turn on the phones backlight will flicker rapidly until i press the menu button.
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Things i have noticed....
Feel free to add more
Updates:
- Updated to 2.2.2
- The timing for the full functionality of the ticker seems better xD
- New Dialog when turning off Mobile Network and when turning on GPS from the Pulldown Options..
- Browser actually works for me now lol
Bugs:
Ticker Twitter SNS Service still errors out for me when i try to log on.....
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Updated to 2.2.2?!?!?! Where? How? joshkoss made mention of this. Something about thanking imnuts for the update...
Okay, I'll calm down... Thanks, in advance...
(Someone have any chocolate for me? That will calm me down... Yeah right!)
EC07:
Browser based apps acutally are working now, not crashing. IE. TDbank and words with friends.
Way better memory managment. Apps not closing as much!
Better battery life by far!!!
Also EC07 can be rooted via superoneclick
So where it at? I been looking but no new posts or threads in xdaprem apo....
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Coming Soon
p3droid made it available in the Team BlackHat app over at mydroidworld.
For those who want to know.
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EC07 is from TeamBlackHat, if you feel like getting it immediately and having a stock phone, then go for it and spend the $2 for the app to download it. Otherwise, wait another day or two and we'll have deodexed, pre-rooted, and debloated versions for you to flash.
Based on the upgrade to 2.2.2, I'm thinking that this is roughly equivalent to ED05 for the Fascinate.
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EC07 is from TeamBlackHat, if you feel like getting it immediately and having a stock phone, then go for it and spend the $2 for the app to download it. Otherwise, wait another day or two and we'll have deodexed, pre-rooted, and debloated versions for you to flash.
Based on the upgrade to 2.2.2, I'm thinking that this is roughly equivalent to ED05 for the Fascinate.
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Okay, okay, okay... Sorry I became a little over excited.
In all reality, I really appreciate all that you, trailblazer, pastorbennett, and joshkoss have done for the Continuum. I will contribute where I can, however, it is you guys that have really done a bunch of work on it. Yes, I can be patient. Thank you again.
May not be tube right place for this question, but is there anyway that we get some cool roms like cm7? Or is that Technically unreasonable?
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When can we get EC07?
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AUATL said:
May not be tube right place for this question, but is there anyway that we get some cool roms like cm7? Or is that Technically unreasonable?
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whether or not the continuum ever gets aosp is one thing...but froyo leaks probably wont help much...froyo and ideally (although unlikely) gb source would
although who knows...i know imnuts took a crack at continuum mtd awhile ago
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When can we get EC07?
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When we know it works correctly. =)
Awesome. Can't wait.
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I've been runnin ec07 for about 2 days without incident, and even though its not a huge upgrade it does feel less buggy and battery seems to have improved dramatically imo....I rooted using soc and so far awsomeness.....one dumb question: what does deodexed mean?
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Deodexed is a non optimized rom meaning it can be themed and modded. Odexed is the exact opposite.
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I am not quite sure what you mean is "not optimized" There is no optimization differences, other than the fact the first boot is faster on odexed roms than deodexed roms xP
But you are right with the theming
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problems with orientation
Has anyone been able to make their home screen rotate with the froyo roms? I saw some others mentioning being able to make their's rotate when tilting the phone sideways but mine will not, any suggestions?
gingerbread theme
I also lost the gingerbread theme when i swapped roms to EC07 (joshkoss beta1) will the gingerbread theme for the ec03 beta3 release work on the ec07?
Absolutely not xP
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Inverted mms for ICS

I was using version 9.2 of passion rom and had the inverted black mms with blue icons.
I tried reapplying the zip for v10 and it wont work...
So i tried pushing the apk file, and all the mms will do now is force close if i try to open it..
I guess v10 is causing some conflict v 9.2 doesnt, but i cannot stand the blinding white mms...
Ive always been curious... why is the stock messaging app always so basic and optionless? You would think that since anyone who has an android obviously texts that you would make the messaging app cool? Instead u have to download a third party messaging app from the market.. doesnt make sense to me as i would think they would be simple changes... any feedback?
Thanks to anyone who knows about this mms deal on v10!
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anyone have a solution?
I am using an inverted mms.apk but I'm not sure if its the same one you're talking about. Mine has grey icons and all I have to do is install the apk from the phone and it replaced the system app. I got it from the I9000 apps forum. Try searching there. Its just an .apk, not a .zip.
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Will check it out, thank you gtoman
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Try this one, works great on onecosmic's build.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423638
Thats for 4.0.2 not 4.0.3 it wont work
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jwleonhart said:
Thats for 4.0.2 not 4.0.3 it wont work
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Um, it works. I've been running it for two days on 4.0.3 without an issue.
Maybe try it before you shoot it down.
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Br1cK'd said:
Um, it works. I've been running it for two days on 4.0.3 without an issue.
Maybe try it before you shoot it down.
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I can confirm it works. You have to push it as a system app
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MAYBE I DID TRY IT? It will not work, FC. Before you say something snobby, you should assume by me writing back that I HAVE TRIED IT?
Br1cK'd said:
Um, it works. I've been running it for two days on 4.0.3 without an issue.
Maybe try it before you shoot it down.
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jwleonhart said:
MAYBE I DID TRY IT? It will not work, FC. Before you say something snobby, you should assume by me writing back that I HAVE TRIED IT?
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Whatever kid, we have a confirmation it works, I was testing out the three new modded versions of it last night and they all work. Just because you can't figure it out, doesn't mean its not working for everyone else.
And I am just supposed to assume to know what you have done?? That childish to think someone will just know what you have done and assume you have tried anything at all without you relating that information.
Did you ever think it could be that dirty ass neobuddy rom you are running? As this mms has confirmation of working on ICS on multiple devices, but errors out on one I have heard of, YOURS!
But you know what, have fun kid, if you can't take advice from a dev, and want to act like a ****, then thats your perrogative, but I am officially done with you ****ing kids.
I'm not an idiot, and it just force closes on my phone. It's not that hard to push a file.
Anyways, thanks for your suggestion. I had assumed it didn't work because lof the 4.0.3 / 4.0.2 difference but maybe it's something else.
I will try a fresh install of passion and see if that possible resolves the issue.
Thank you.
Here's what I did:
1] rename original Mms.apk to mms.apk.bak
2] move the inverted mms.apk to system/app
3] make sure permissions match
4] reboot
If that doesn't work then yeah install passion fresh. That's what I'm on now and those steps above is all that I do.
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Make a WiFi only Rom

Hi the title tells it all I got a g2 but want to be WiFi only like without airplane mode on
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Why not just turn on airplane mode then turn on WiFi?
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TimeMonkey said:
Hi the title tells it all I got a g2 but want to be WiFi only like without airplane mode on
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Why on earth would you want that? And as xT4Z1N4TRx said just put on airplane mode and then switch over to wifi.
he wants a wifi tablet/iTouch lol
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he wants a wifi tablet/iTouch lol
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It's a legitimate request I've seen before. I mean, why let your old devices just waste away when your children or family members could totally use them as dirt cheap replacements for iPods and such. You don't want them making accidental emergency calls or circumventing the settings you put in place.
Should be able to completely remove the radio somehow so that the cellular stuff just won't work.
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That's what I need my friend broke his iPod and I told I got this old phone laying around but the u gotta put it into aplane mode each reboot and he ain't tech savvy
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Maybe this is a project for some of the budding devs on xda. In theory, it sounds like a simple change. Simply remove the phone aspects of a rom and repackage. I'm sure it's harder than it sounds in terms of stability and usability though (I'm not a dev) =/
Athrun88 said:
Maybe this is a project for some of the budding devs on xda. In theory, it sounds like a simple change. Simply remove the phone aspects of a rom and repackage. I'm sure it's harder than it sounds in terms of stability and usability though (I'm not a dev) =/
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Eh, some apps certainly wouldn't work, anything that needs to communicate through telephony and such. But really shouldn't be that difficult.
I'll come back when I'm not too terribly busy with some links about breaking down and customizing ROMs and such. I know that I've found a thread specifically for this kind of thing for another device, but there are a few of them I read up on so it may take a while to locate. Hell, you could just about remove the phone and contacts apps and edit your build.prop and leave an existing ROM intact. I'm no dev or anything though lol so I'll look around.
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buxtahuda said:
Eh, some apps certainly wouldn't work, anything that needs to communicate through telephony and such. But really shouldn't be that difficult.
I'll come back when I'm not too terribly busy with some links about breaking down and customizing ROMs and such. I know that I've found a thread specifically for this kind of thing for another device, but there are a few of them I read up on so it may take a while to locate. Hell, you could just about remove the phone and contacts apps and edit your build.prop and leave an existing ROM intact. I'm no dev or anything though lol so I'll look around.
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TeamDRH over in the gTablet forums have added something similar to this into their ICS ROM for gTablet. Might be a useful place to look.
Ok well.I went and remove like all telephony apk in my Rom and some app don't work like he said
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Not the OG article I had read, but after a bit of Googling I came up with a script that you should be able to set to run at boot which will disable your radio.
You may also be able to dial *#*#INFO#*#* and choose turn off radio, but that will not be persistent across reboots. I would use the script and a third-party launcher that can hide apps so that you'll keep the phone and contacts apps and such for stability, but not have them readily available.
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And a flashable zip! Thank you jellybellys!
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Just to elaborate about that flashable zip, it will actually "permanently" (until you wipe and install another ROM) disable the radio and clean out the apps that you don't want. Also installs some kind of binaries if they're currently absent from the ROM. Great find, I'm glad you asked about this!
exactly, my first thought would be just to use titanium backup and disable/freeze but not remove apps such as dialer or what you dont want/need. not sure if this will work but its worth a try. probably a few treads across xda on this (especially on older model phones) id search in those and see if there is a quick answer short of developing a whole new rom
Yeah I use that zip from jellybean but like android.process forced close alone with like sms app this is all on miui
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Yeah I use that zip from jellybean but like android.process forced close alone with like sms app this is all on miui
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So you used the zip, and once booted those processes were force closing?
I'll try it out on my phone, see if I can't replicate the issue and speak with the dev. Exactly what MIUI build are you on?
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Installed on EliteMod 120316 and upon first boot did get something about the mms process FC'ing. Upon subsequent reboots no more message though, have you tried another reboot? You had two processes FC?
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I have the miui USA one I think I'm not home well won't be till Sunday night
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Some of the experimental roms work like that
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This is a swing in the dark...
Try remove htcril.so or libhtcril.so from system/lib.... That should disable the radio and keep Wi-Fi
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I have the miui USA one I think I'm not home well won't be till Sunday night
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So that's the MIUI.us "Pure English?" I've just downloaded the last available build and will soon flash and then install jellybellys's zip. I'm hoping that will get me the same FC's as you are.
Once you've gotten home after the weekend, try rebooting it a time or two and see if it consistently gives you the FC's.
Also, just curious, but are you using MIUI just because it's the most similar Android overlay to iOS? To make it a bit easier for your friend? Because you could hook him up with some ICS goodness otherwise
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Ok, looking through his updater-script vs. my /system/app/ directory, it looks like MIUI names a couple of apk's differently. I'm currently installing a fresh MIUI so that I can see the directory before moddified by the OG jellybellys zip, then I'll update his zip to reflect those different names and try to run it again. If successful, I'll post the modified file and hopefully we can get your friend a fun little multi-tasking media player
Ok sweet umm can u send me the edit zip
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Had a good look at the flashable zip, very simple. I need to learn to code, I guess this is a good small place to start lol
All I did was unzip his file, change a few things and added a couple extra lines to remove one more app he hadn't worried with. As said above this will disable your radio, install the radiooptions binary if absent, and remove a number of apk's from the /system/app/ directory.
Removed apps:
TelephonyProvider.apk - cellular service
TelocationProvider.apk - emergency location service (I just don't see the need if you're not connecting to cellular networks)
Phone.apk - your phone app - should also get rid of dialer, I'm trying to find out why it doesn't.
Mms.apk - messaging app
All credit to jellybellys @ rootzwiki.com of course, I couldn't have written this myself or anything.
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Again, the phone app will still be on the homescreen and you actually can't remove it. It won't dial anything, and will just cause the acore process to FC if you try. It's looking like the only way to get it really removed is to modify the ROM's zip so that it never installs the app to begin with.
I'm going to restore the apps again, see if Titanium Backup can't do a better job than outright removing the app does.

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