Ok I have seen a lot of people start asking about what is safe to remove and what does what. I usually like to have a very lean ROM and I delete anything and everything I don't use. It's easier to see a list and know what you want to delete BEFORE you flash the ROM instead of doing this AFTER you flash.
Ways to remove APKs
1. The easiest way is to download the ROM of your choice to your PC (when they start rolling in that is) and open the ROM with 7zip and manually delete them from the ROM. Then place ROM on sdcard and flash.
2. Boot into recovery, mount /system and use ADB commands to delete the APKs (Ex: rm /system/app/Aluminum.apk)
3. When we achieve S-OFF, use root explorer to manually delete APKs out of /system/app
4. Using the touch recovery, there is a built in file manager. Use that to delete the files (I have not tried this, others have mentioned doing this)
5. Use a flashable zip that removes the files. (you will need to edit the script inside to your liking) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2012388
I have put together the stock list of APKs that can be found in /system/app for the HTC Droid DNA **There are corresponding .ODEX files that you will need to delete as well. I did not list them as they go hand in hand with the APK
I will go through and add a description to the APKs to let you know what does what...
Ways to remove APKs
1. The easiest way is to download the ROM of your choice to your PC (when they start rolling in that is) and open the ROM with 7zip and manually delete them from the ROM. Then place ROM on sdcard and flash.
2. Boot into recovery, mount /system and use ADB commands to delete the APKs (Ex: rm /system/app/Aluminum.apk)
3. When we achieve S-OFF, use root explorer to manually delete APKs out of /system/app
4. Using the touch recovery, there is a built in file manager. Use that to delete the files (I have not tried this, others have mentioned doing this)
5. Use a flashable zip that removes the files. (you will need to edit the script inside to your liking) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2012388
I have put together the stock list of APKs that can be found in /system/app for the HTC Droid DNA **There are corresponding .ODEX files that you will need to delete as well. I did not list them as they go hand in hand with the APK
I will go through and add a description to the APKs to let you know what does what...
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