O2 User Interface

[rgiblin]

Hi,

I have a sim-free XDA II which as it happens is on 02. How can I get rid of that User Interface though - I really hate it, and want to remove it?

Can anybody help please?

Thanks

Rich

[Ryanmt]

goto ad remove programs and remove anything o2 related, then soft reset. Change the dialer skin then all your left with is the boot screens and the o2 logo on the case

[andyclap]

I'd recommend chaning the dialer skin back to the default before uninstalling o2 active; there are some images stored in dlls that are difficult to find, but can be changed via the phone skinning applet in o2 active.

[Shadamehr]

The correct order (IMHO that is), is as follows...

1 - Firstly, while you still have the Active interface, use the menu item on the navigation bar, I think it might be listed as 'view' to go in and change the dialler skin to the default one.

2 - Then soft reset.

3 - Next up, now go into File Explorer on either the phone, or via ActiveSync, and go to the Windows/Startup folder, and delete the shortcut for "Active"

4 - Reboot again, to get the phone to load without Active running.

5 - Go into Settings > System > Remove Programs, and remove the Active app, the V2R stff, and O2 Xmail if you never use it. You will get warnings that some files or folders still remain - no problem, this gets resolved later...

6 - Another soft reset.

7 - Now, go into File Explorer again, to the Windows Folder itself, and delete the folder for the V2R stuff.

8 - Change your Today theme to something better looking, do a re-boot, and voila...

If I have missed anything that I think of, I will come back and editt this post, but that's it for now...

EDIT - even if you change the dialler skin back to default before removing the O2 stuff, you will find a strange quirk with the talk/end button, whereby even with the default skin, after ending a call, the old flat red O2 style button will display.

This can be resolved by downloading the XDA Phone Skin Chooser application available from DesignLab (do a google), and then setting the skin to use (even though you might already be using it) to the Default Skin, and then resetting the device. This is the only way I have encountered, other than hard fiddling with hard to find .dll's, to get ALL the buttons to use the default skin, and thus have a proper 'pressed in' appearance when touched.

[aperali]

XDA Phone Skin Chooser will work on my xda2 ?

[davidand1]

Nice one Shadamehr. Getting rid of all that speeds the system noticeably

Thanks

[Rudegar]

XDA Phone Skin Chooser will work on my xda2 ?
yes

[z0mbi3]

Nice one Shadamehr. Getting rid of all that speeds the system noticeably

Thanks

Better than just uninstalling it?

Will removing it in this way stop all o2 related programs reinstalling after a hard reset?

[davidand1]

Not sure. I've never tried to uninstall everything.

[Shadamehr]

Nice one Shadamehr. Getting rid of all that speeds the system noticeably

Thanks

Better than just uninstalling it?

Will removing it in this way stop all o2 related programs reinstalling after a hard reset?

No, not by a long shot.

As the installation files etc, are stored in 'hidden' extended rom, and all a Hard Reset does is clear your phone, and then set about running and installing any files in the extended rom.

To remove it so that it is not installed after hard reset, is kind of achievable, but only if you know what you are doing.

You would have to use the Extended Rom Unlock tool on this site, to unhide and unlock your extended ROM, then you would have to remove any of the CAB install files from this folder for the O2 stuff you don't want (and its up to you to know what's what).

And then you would need to edit the config.txt file that 'calls' all of these installation routines, so that it no longer references any that you have deleted.

Then you could lock and hide the extended rom.

Thus, on a hard reset then, only the stuff you have left gets installed.