Hello!
Can anybody tell me which .apk files I am safe to delete? My setup:
-NookManager
-GApps
-Kindle
-Will not be using *any* B&N Apps (however removing them using NookManager stops the Market from working)
The only GApp I am really interested in is the Market - Is it possible to side load this *only*? It's just lots of other stuff is installed as part of GApp which I have no need for... But there are so many .apk files in system/app and I'm concerned removing some may cause instabilities.
Thanks.
LavaChild0809 said:
Hello!
Can anybody tell me which .apk files I am safe to delete? My setup:
-NookManager
-GApps
-Kindle
-Will not be using *any* B&N Apps (however removing them using NookManager stops the Market from working)
The only GApp I am really interested in is the Market - Is it possible to side load this *only*? It's just lots of other stuff is installed as part of GApp which I have no need for... But there are so many .apk files in system/app and I'm concerned removing some may cause instabilities.
Thanks.
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No you can't install just the Market. The Market is dependent on the Google Talk and other backend apks. There are patches to system files to get Android setup to work to activate the market. Better to install NTGAppsAttack and then delete what you don't need. After installing NTGappsAttack you can probably remove GenieWidget.apk, Calculator.apk, Calendar.apk, Gmail.apk and Talk.apk. These are all frontends so they shouldn't cause trouble. Before you do this you probably want to use Gmail to get into account and sync settings to turn off mail, calendar and contacts sync. Then you can try removing some of the backend stuff - GmailProvider.apk, CalendarProvider.apk, ContactsProvider.apk and GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk. I would start with renaming these apk's and seeing how it goes then if all is well you can delete them. Everything else I would leave alone.
Read through the NookManager and NTGAppsAttack threads. There is a discussion there somewhere about the disabling of B&N apps and the affect on the market.
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I have some friends that want me to install Phiremod onto their Nook Colors. What is the easiest way for me to install free apps in bulk without using the market? I thought it would be cool to have a bunch of free apps loaded on it for them so they don't have to install them all manually. Thanks!
Either push them with adb as a data/app folder or my preferred method....Open the rom with 7zip pre-flashing and just copy the apk's over.
hockeyfamily737 said:
Either push them with adb as a data/app folder or my preferred method....Open the rom with 7zip pre-flashing and just copy the apk's over.
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Cool. I'll try that. But where is a safe place to legally obtain the free apps as .apk files?
I'd like that info too
OK guys. There are a couple of ways I do this. You can download any rom for any device, open it up and pull the .apk's you want out of it, you can find them on your android phone and transfer them to your Nook, and you can find a lot of good ones right here on XDA. I have a whole library of apps that I've saved over the last couple of years. They're all backed up on my computer andf my dropbox account. Let me know if there is anything in particular you're looking for if I have it I'll share.
I have at last a working 2.3.5 Android on my U8800 Pro. But, I want to clean up the bundled applications that I do not need. In order to do so, I want to find out which apks as well as what other changes I need to do in order to clean up those apps. I know that this is in the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420728 thread, but I want more details for more applications.
What I want to know is:
I suppose that it is not just enough to remove the apk file from the /system/apps/<appname>.apk , is it? If not, what other actions must I perform?
Should I remove the relevant lines from the /system/filelist.lst file?
Where are the application's temporary/user data stored? In /data/data? Should I remove them too?
If I move the /system/app/<file>.apk to /data/app/<file>.apk, how can I stop the application from starting during boot-up in the first place?
Important note: I will not root the phone. Everything will be performed from the pink screen and the mounting of /dev/sd?{12,13} on my Linux box.
In my B521 setup the APKs that I need your help in order to understand what applications or services/widgets are represent, are:
OMACP.apk
ApkBatchInstall.apk
GenieWidget.apk
DeskClock.apk
DownloadProvider.apk
DownloadProviderUI.apk
HwOUC.apk
MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk
MyCalendar.apk
MyRichpad.apk
RichPad.apk
Service-MultiSNS.apk
SocialExt.apk
SmartcardService.apk
RichPad.apk
UpdaterSolutionEx.apk
What information I am looking for is something like this:
Gallery3D.apk: The image gallery application.
PicoTts.apk: Pico Text-to-Speech
Please for your help. After that list is completed, I will write a list of all applications (apks) that are bundled and how to remove them, I promise
Dear all,
Yesterday I updated my P7510 to ICS using the UK ICS release and rooted the thing properly. I managed to delete some of the preinstalled apps using RootExplorer in the \system\app folder, but for example I cannot find the apk to get rid of Pulse (what is the name of the apk in this case). Is it located somewhere else or is there another folder in which apps are stored as well? Please let me know. Thanks in advance.
Although I can help you with the location, manually deleting the apps from /system/app seems like to much "work". Just get Titanium Backup and uninstall (and probably backup first) Pulse and all the other via the app.
Thanks for your reply. In the mean time I kicked out all unwanred preinstalled apps manually, so I am only looking for the apk name of pulse
I found that some apps were just "Installed" have you tried to just uninstall them?
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Not all apps are installed to /system/apps when you ODIN flash, check /data/app for the Pulse.
After rooting and installing GAPPS, now I need to get rid of some ... like News and Weather, Google Talk, if possible the Market app (as I installed SearchMarket).
The problem is that I CANNOT. I tried with Root Uninstaller, but it cannot find any apps... it gives me SD card error. So, I need a way to uninstall them from where are installed (not from where Root Uninstaller is looking for apps and not finding any).
Please help, thanks.
You don't want to remove Market just because you installed SearchMarket as SearchMarket is just for searching and it invokes Market to show the result list and for installs. Market is dependent on Talk under the covers for communication with Google servers. I think you can uninstall Talk.apk (front end messenger) and leave TalkProvider.apk installed and everything will work OK. To uninstall Talk.apk use ADB or a root explorer like ES File Explorer to rename Talk.apk to Talk.apk.bak and verify the Market and other GApps you use still work. When you're sure you can delete Talk.apk.bak.
Hello,
I try since two days and decided to ask here.
I am installing a Cyanogen Mod 12.1 on my Samsung Galaxy S4.
After the installation of the system I only want to install the playstore, not the whole gapps-package. I did so the last time and found that it is annoying to have all the useless google-apps spread across my system.
How do I do this? Only installing the playstore.apk doesn't lead anywhere, it wont start. I separated the following apks from the gapps.zip and put them into /system/app/:
GmsCore.apk
GoogleLoginService.apk
GoogleServicesFramework.apk
Phonesky.apk
But this doesn't help either, it will only cause the phone to not start anymore.
I can not be the only one who wants to do this, given the enormous difference of usefullness of the different apps from google. So there must be an easy way to install only what one needs?
Thank you, Florian
Snomm said:
Hello,
I try since two days and decided to ask here.
I am installing a Cyanogen Mod 12.1 on my Samsung Galaxy S4.
After the installation of the system I only want to install the playstore, not the whole gapps-package. I did so the last time and found that it is annoying to have all the useless google-apps spread across my system.
How do I do this? Only installing the playstore.apk doesn't lead anywhere, it wont start. I separated the following apks from the gapps.zip and put them into /system/app/:
GmsCore.apk
GoogleLoginService.apk
GoogleServicesFramework.apk
Phonesky.apk
But this doesn't help either, it will only cause the phone to not start anymore.
I can not be the only one who wants to do this, given the enormous difference of usefullness of the different apps from google. So there must be an easy way to install only what one needs?
Thank you, Florian
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Wrong forum. Please ask in your device and/or ROM thread.
Snomm said:
Hello,
I try since two days and decided to ask here.
I am installing a Cyanogen Mod 12.1 on my Samsung Galaxy S4.
After the installation of the system I only want to install the playstore, not the whole gapps-package. I did so the last time and found that it is annoying to have all the useless google-apps spread across my system.
How do I do this? Only installing the playstore.apk doesn't lead anywhere, it wont start. I separated the following apks from the gapps.zip and put them into /system/app/:
GmsCore.apk
GoogleLoginService.apk
GoogleServicesFramework.apk
Phonesky.apk
But this doesn't help either, it will only cause the phone to not start anymore.
I can not be the only one who wants to do this, given the enormous difference of usefullness of the different apps from google. So there must be an easy way to install only what one needs?
Thank you, Florian
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try pushing it to system/app
Snomm said:
Hello,
I try since two days and decided to ask here.
I am installing a Cyanogen Mod 12.1 on my Samsung Galaxy S4.
After the installation of the system I only want to install the playstore, not the whole gapps-package. I did so the last time and found that it is annoying to have all the useless google-apps spread across my system.
How do I do this? Only installing the playstore.apk doesn't lead anywhere, it wont start. I separated the following apks from the gapps.zip and put them into /system/app/:
GmsCore.apk
GoogleLoginService.apk
GoogleServicesFramework.apk
Phonesky.apk
But this doesn't help either, it will only cause the phone to not start anymore.
I can not be the only one who wants to do this, given the enormous difference of usefullness of the different apps from google. So there must be an easy way to install only what one needs?
Thank you, Florian
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you doing it wrong. To make a Android work with Goolgle Apps there are also needed many other libs & stuff.
Even if you think you no need the function, its needed to work the other properly. If you want only Playstore & GServices, use these Gapps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/gapps-google-apps-minimal-edition-t2943330
& next time open the Gapps zip using 7zip & ONLY delete the not needed APK's from there (ONLY APPS like Maps, GMail, etc. if you dont know what this Apk is DONT delete it)
Snomm said:
Hello,
I try since two days and decided to ask here.
I am installing a Cyanogen Mod 12.1 on my Samsung Galaxy S4.
After the installation of the system I only want to install the playstore, not the whole gapps-package. I did so the last time and found that it is annoying to have all the useless google-apps spread across my system.
How do I do this? Only installing the playstore.apk doesn't lead anywhere, it wont start. I separated the following apks from the gapps.zip and put them into /system/app/:
GmsCore.apk
GoogleLoginService.apk
GoogleServicesFramework.apk
Phonesky.apk
But this doesn't help either, it will only cause the phone to not start anymore.
I can not be the only one who wants to do this, given the enormous difference of usefullness of the different apps from google. So there must be an easy way to install only what one needs?
Thank you, Florian
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Google "banks gapps". Best minimal Gapps
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Solved
It is not possible to delete a single app from the zip-file, its all just one huge package to install. However, I found out they changed the content: When you install it, only the play-store and the google-app are installed and it is possible now to avoid all the junk-apps. I should have tried it from the beginning (however I learned some other interesting stuff...)...
Thank you anyway for your help!