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Yet another OTA question

I can't complete the ota update to gingerbread because I temprooted with visionary+ and used titanium to uninstall some pre-loaded apps. So, I figured if I reinstalled those apps the update should work, right?
I reinstalled the apps I got rid of except web2go. I found the web2goshortcut.apk and tried to reinstall it but it needs the odex as well. I've searched google for the odex and I can't find it anywhere.
My questions are, will what I'm doing even work and if so does anyone have the web2goshortcut.odex I could snag?
I know I could just factory reset but I'd like to avoid that if I can.
Thanks in advance.

Don't think it has anything to do with the apps you uninstalled. Might have something to do with being temp rooted. Have you tried to uninstall visionary, reboot, and then run update?
Please use the Q&A forum for question as the Q=Question and A=Answers
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Sorry about putting this in the wrong forum.
My phone isn't currently temprooted, I only did that when uninstalling the apps and then I unrooted.
The reason the ota is failing is because I'm getting a status 7 when it tries to update web2go because the app isn't there.

You'll have to put back stock Froyo to get past the error due to removed app and apply the OTA update.
However, if you had used temproot to disable apps only instead of removing them, the OTA updated would've succeeded AND the disabled apps would remain disabled, the setting is retained. So oddly, there's no advantage to removal vs disable except a small space savings, but a real disadvantage to full removal.
From HTC G2 with xda premium.

In retrospect I realize that removing the apps was a bad idea.
So it sounds like you guys are saying reinstalling the apps I removed won't work? If so I'll probably just root my phone instead of getting it back to stock.

Shouldn't matter whether you reinstall missing apps generating errors or the entire OEM ROM. I'd just do whichever is easier. Well, if you replace apps the OTA update will leave all settings, apps etc. as is so there's that to consider.
Thing is for the OTA update to 'think' you have stock Froyo. How you do that is up to you.
From HTC G2 with xda premium.

Wouldn't you have to install those apps back to the system folder? If you delete them, then install from the market, you are turning system apps into user apps... right guys?
He could use the update from the store sd cards, but that would lose all data. Double check that, sorry but I forgot how to fix stock problems a long time ago.
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Sprint LG G2 bloatware

Hello,
I own a Sprint LG G2 stock rooted. Is there a way i can remove the bloatware by flashing a file or an app list that shows which apps are safe to be removed?
Thanks in advance.

Titanium Backup is your friend for disabling bloatware. There are threads here that go over what is safe to remove. If nothing else, you can always try freezing things, using the phone for a while to make sure it's still stable, then uninstalling them later.

[Q] Note 3 AT&T: 2-5 second lag after towelroot?

Hey all,
This is my first time rooting a phone, and I have just one minor issue. I did try searching before posting this, but i'm unsure what specifically to search under. Last night, i rooted my AT&T Note 3 via towelroot, and installed a couple of apk's after rooting based on some recommendations I found online:
SuperSU
BootManager
BusyBox
RootChecker
Greenify
Titanium Backup Pro
Xposed Installer with the following modules
Burnt Toast
Disable Battery Full Alert
Disable Samsung Galaxy Gear manager Notification
GravityBox KK
Instagram Downloader
S5 SystemUI Theme for Note 3
SwypeTweaks
Wanam Xposed
XuiMod
YouTube AdAway
My issue is that, based off of something I installed in the above list, my phone now has a 2-5 second lag across the whole system. It's totally random when it happens, but it particularly will happen when i'm unlocking via widgetlocker, or scrolling on any list or feed (facebook, instagram, etc.) - it never did it before, so i'm just looking for a way to diagnose specifically what I installed above that could cause it to do this? What's the best way to go about this without un-installing each of the modules, apks, etc. to find out which one is causing the problem? I've done a full backup right after rooting using Titanium Backup Pro, but i'm yet to restore using it, flash a ROM, or any of the more advanced things like that. just looking to get this squared away before I dive deeper. Any reocmmendations?
Thanks!

[Q] Note 3, will rooting do what I want?

Hi guys,
I have always been contempt with my factory Note 3 image, but there were always a few things that I didn't like, like a bunch of bloatware apps that I could not uninstall. I have simply disabled them. I tried one of these uninstall apps and it said I need root access to remove some apps, would root access actually allow me to remove these apps?
If I root the device and get rid of these apps, and then remove the root, would they re-appear after a lollipop update if it ever comes?
I am planning on using Towelroot to do the rooting on the phone as I believe my software version is old enough.

eblend said:
Hi guys,
I have always been contempt with my factory Note 3 image, but there were always a few things that I didn't like, like a bunch of bloatware apps that I could not uninstall. I have simply disabled them. I tried one of these uninstall apps and it said I need root access to remove some apps, would root access actually allow me to remove these apps?
If I root the device and get rid of these apps, and then remove the root, would they re-appear after a lollipop update if it ever comes?
I am planning on using Towelroot to do the rooting on the phone as I believe my software version is old enough.
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1. Yes, root access give you perms to delete the bloatware that bother you. (Ex: HERE).
2. The bloatware will re-appear when you flash a new firmware ofc.
3. Towelroot works perfectly for what you need :highfive:.

Removing safe apps brick the phone

Hello.
I've just rooted the phone and I wanted to uninstall upps I don't use. It's something I always did with my previous phone but now I'm having troubles at doing it with this one.
I have a galaxy a3 2016, SM-A310F, android 7.
Firstly I had tried with system app remover as I always did, but even though the app seemed to work good, bloatwares were neither frozen nor removed. So I tried with titanium backup and it worked pretty good.
First time: I had removed some safe apk (microsoft, vodafone, some samsung, some google apps), but at boot the phone was soft bricked. Strange.
Second time: I removed only microsoft apps, vodafone apps and s health. Soft bricked. Stranger.
Third time: I removed ONLY microsoft apps and s health, gain bricked.
Not being able to remove unwanted apps is just something I hate. I deactived some of them via standard app manager, but samsung and vodafone apps cannot me deactivated...
There is definetely something wrong. Even when I was younger I removed apps and never got a brick. Why now? I don't think microsoft apps are vital to the phone. May it be a titanium backup problem?
Thanks
EDIT: Oh, all of this happened when I upgrade from android 6 to 7. Before I had removed many apps with no problem

We all had that problem when N came. I tried everything without succes , on pure stock.
Then I tried to make rom with assayyed kitcken to make it deodexed. Thought maybe that was the problem...Same problem still.
Then I found a way to update smalis in assayyed to make it compatible with N, deodexed, deknoxed, edited both build.prop and kernel ramdisk to remove knox related stuff.
All good. Seems like pure stock can't be tampered with withput softbrick.

Thank you for the answer. Now I know it wasn't my fault