I am a n00b but as far as I know, this only roots your phone so you'll be able to do other things to it. There are threads around here that show you how to remove bloatware... I didn't do too much after I rooted mine, I went straight to a CM6 rom. I just use Astro File Manager to install third party apps. Like I said, I'm still new and don't understand as much as I would like to.
yeah i need to find those bloatware threads then...any links?
i didnt install any roms yet (not sure if i will).
i have a 3rd party app on my sdcard, but when i browse to it with astro and try to install, it just says install blocked...yada yada.
i did see the post by xdafly below to ru nthis .cmd in the tools folder. how does running this in the sdk tools folder on my c: drive allow 3rd party apps to be installed on my aria?
i must be missing something
is the aria hooked up via usb at the time this occurs? i am not at home at the moment so i cant try it.
the noob needs a step-by-step guide starting from step #0
Originally Posted by xdafly
sideloading refers to unrestricted ability to load any .apk you wish from any source, including non-market
on a rooted Aria, it is accomplished simply by running a small batch file in the SDK tools folder, ie. assuming SDK is on c:\android\tools
cd\android\tools
adb remount
adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db settings.db
echo update secure set value = 1 where name = 'install_non_market_apps';|sqlite3 settings.db
adb push settings.db /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
pause 1
adb reboot