How to remove O2 active UI from XDA2i??

[abohsali]

Hello,

I have an XDA2i and I need to remove the O2 ative user interface (UI). Anyway I can disable it in order to be able to remove it?
Thank you.

Amro

[DareDevil]

erm

1) How does this constitute news?

2) Search the forums!

[master_guapo]

Hello,

I have an XDA2i and I need to remove the O2 ative user interface (UI). Anyway I can disable it in order to be able to remove it?
Thank you.

Amro

Go to add/remove programs and check if you see an O2 active installation. if there is then uninstall it. But if you hard reset your device then it will install again so you need to uninstall it.

master g.

[abohsali]

master_guapo,

I tried to do that but the program (Active UI) is always running in the background so the uninstall is always unsuccessful. Anyway I can stop it from running and then uninstall it from the "remove programs"?

Thanks,

[Planet]

They way I got rid of it was by:

1) Remove the "connections" shortcut in the windows/startup folder. You don't need that icon in the tray anyway.

2) Soft reset

4) Unistall - which will fail, but it gets rid of some bits

5) From your PC, using activesync go into the windows folder and delete everything you can in the "Mobile Solutions" folder. (It's under windows)

6) Soft reset. You're clean.

O2 seems to have been trying to make it more difficult to remove it this time, but once you get it cleared out the unit operates a lot faster on the today screen. The XdaIIi is in my experience really what the XDA II should have been. The Wifi connectivity is brilliant.

[a18041967]

The reason why the installation fails is because the Today items are still active, go into settings & Today, and remove ticks from the o2 items including the battery monitor.

You may need to do a soft reset afterwards, but then you should be able to use the remove programs item.

[cojones]

Ah, but do you know where I can get a copy of the o2 active cab to put back on my xda?

[abohsali]

Thanks guys,

I was able to remove by doing the following:

1) Remove "Windows/startup/connection.exe

2) Remove" Windows/fonts/xpdr_02...

3) soft reset

4) use the uninstall from the setting to uninstall the O2 Active UI...

5) Soft reset and there you are.

This will show the clock on the top right corner and make the XDAIIi faster at startup and more stable overall as I noticed.

Thanks,

[a18041967]

Having logged a call with o2 regarding GPRS problems, they emailed me with a way to remove the customisation, its so easy. Carry out a hard reset and select the the corporate install option, all customisation is removed, you do have to configure the GPRS settings manually.

[cgrillo]

I was really sceptical when I read in these foruns that the lockups on my XDAIIs were down to O2 software. I was gettign 2-3 lockups a day and especially if I was using TOM TOM navigator 3, it would run fine if left alone, but if I wanted to do somewthign such as update traffic info any time after 30 mins, it would freeze, the I would have to do a soft reset. Quite awkward when driving...
I had reloaded tom tom twice already (after already doing a hard reset) and didn't want to do it again.. so I tried the removal instructions...

To say I was looking at taking the unit back to O2 for a repalcement... now I'm over the moon as it is very stable.

[zohaer21]

hi
is there an ext rom unlocker for xda2i ...the one from pda2k doesnt work
thanks

[Robbruce]

Can these instructions be applied to the above as well

[wg100]

Can anyone tell me the settings for 02 GPRS after doing a corporate install?

Also, am I able to install certain parts of 02 active, sucha s the battery meter?

[Jugular]

I'd also really like to get rid of the Active UI thing but I like some of it's features. I would like to see the clock return to the top right and the big buggy o2 symbol removed. I'm using Magic Button and the o2 symbol really gets in the way.

[Conor]

Great to have the clock back where God meant it to be! :-)

[BoSJo]

Post moved to Blue Angel forum

[CANADABAT]

This is an Alpine not a Blue Angel!

[BoSJo]

Ha ha ha, my bad :oops:
8)

[jim galbally]

if you hard reset your phone and let it reinstall all the stuff

then when the O2 selection thing comes up select CORPORATE and enter the code 0506 (if memory servers correctly

this will then skip all the 02 cusrtomisation stuff...

i did this earlier thismorning and my god its SOOO much nicer to use and crashes less often!

before i just removed it manauylly but it kept crashing n stuff afterwards :(

[Chop!]

Yee Hah!
Got rid of that nasty active stuff! Using a combination of Planet, a18041967 & abohsali's instructions & no need to do a hard re-set. You do also have to untick the clockinfo in startup items by the way! Thanks again guys! Top Banana!!!!! :lol:

[xopetz]

hi there.. i am using xda2i and i sucessfull uuninstall the O2 thing at the top of the mobile. the thing is wh the clock still cant be displayed on the screen. anyone can help ? appreciate it.

cheers

[xopetz]

hi there.. i am using xda2i and i sucessfull uuninstall the O2 thing at the top of the mobile. the thing is wh the clock still cant be displayed on the screen. anyone can help ? appreciate it.

cheers

[Anton.Valleyman]

Does anyone bother searching for ANYTHING these days???

[sunpat]

Does anyone know a way of getting rid of the o2 branding on the xdaiis phone? The thing that comes up when you select phone from the start menu.

thanks

sorry - found it - i needed to search on "dialer skin" which was not obvious to me :?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=7394&highlight=dialler

[sunpat]

hi there.. i am using xda2i and i sucessfull uuninstall the O2 thing at the top of the mobile. the thing is wh the clock still cant be displayed on the screen. anyone can help ? appreciate it.

cheers

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