[TUT] Remove Some of the Bloatware

joenilan

Senior Member
Feb 4, 2011
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Hello again everybody.
Here is a little tutorial to get rid of the crap thats shipped with the phone
and get it on a sweet diet of slimfast.

If you think to yourself "HEY! that shouldn't be removed!"
I most likely removed it because there is a Market alternative.

*Always be careful when modifying /system*

First we need to remount our phone and make /system/app - R/w
adb remount

then type:
adb shell

*In Shell ($)

su (IMPORTANT)
cd /system/app/
ls

Now you can start removing the bloat.

rm Launcher.* (ONLY IF YOU HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE LAUNCHER INSTALLED!)
rm Maps.*
rm SystemTutorial.*
rm LatinIME.* (MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ANOTHER KEYBOARD INSTALLED)
rm Email.*
rm Calculator.*
rm EmotionWeather.*
rm EmotionPhotoWidget.*
rm EmotionCalendar.*
rm EmotionPhotoAlbumWidget.*
rm EmotionBookmarksWidget.*
rm EmotionEvents.*
rm Twidroid.*
rm EmotionMemo.*
rm EmotionRSSReader.*
rm EmotionVideoWidget.*
rm EmotionClockWidget.*
rm HwIME.*

as always, reboot.

and, as with most things in the filesystem, this can also be done
with Root Explorer

If you messed something up, it probably wasn't meant to be
removed and most likely wasn't listed above. Start over from scratch...
unless you made back-up of course :)


If i missed anything, shoot me a message!
 

joenilan

Senior Member
Feb 4, 2011
208
60
Why remove the Maps app? Is there something better?

you can just get the most recent version in the market and this removes it from your /system/ internal memory, when you install from the market it installs to your current setup. say if you use a2sd then it installs there.
 

elf310

Member
Jan 10, 2011
42
2
facebook app can also be removed this way from system apps.

rm Facebook.*

it can be reinstalled from market as regular app
 

Music

Senior Member
Feb 5, 2011
571
7
Ok, I've gotten some of the useless (to me) things off, like Facebook, Yahoo, & Twitter.

What things would you say should "never be removed?" Probably the keyboard, the launcher, and the LatinIME?

That is, of course, that you definitely know what you're doing, or know someone who does...
 
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Music

Senior Member
Feb 5, 2011
571
7
I was having trouble trying to (remount?) the internal card. I used the System App Remover to remove stuff instead.

entering adb remount, it appeared to be successful (no message followed) but when I tried to remove a file, it said things were still read-only. Does that mean I didn't root correctly?
 

frankbo168

Member
Mar 1, 2011
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I accidentally deleted gtalkservices.apk,:( I thought it was the google talk app. I can't download apps from the market after that, had to reflash the rom.
 

pvella

Senior Member
Dec 20, 2010
392
38
@music: try to manually remount system to read/write. adb remount never works for me either. The commands are:

Code:
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock1 /system

@frankbo168: you do need to be very careful about what you delete. You could just back them all up to your sdcard first.
 

JDubTrey

Member
Feb 20, 2011
67
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I had to put the original Maps back in. The one from the market would not search provide directions. It also forced closed when adding layers.
 

pvella

Senior Member
Dec 20, 2010
392
38
It is easy enough to just do a

busybox cp -a /system/app /sdcard/backup

that would give you the ability to individually bring stuff back. If you delete the wrong thing totally, you may brick your S7, in which case a Nandroid backup would be useful.
 

50cals

Member
Jan 5, 2011
250
18
OK so i had to do fresh reload of 2.2.2 due to the fact i removed the Huawei home app......... because it kept rebooting into H home and not my launcher pro that was set as default.

So i would advise not to remove Huawei home app as i believe that was the culprit of my boot loop..........was just stuck on IDEOS boot up screen after i uninstalled Huawei home app and rebooted.

Can we get confirmation on all bloatware that can be removed with the new 2.2.2 , can we get rid of all the Emotion stuff still and not cause any boot loops ?

thx
 
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