[Q] Q about Apps I still can't uninstall

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K, the phone is unlocked with custom recovery, rooted, ROMed (Energy/Sense) and put in the faux kernel released this month ( March 2012 ).

There are some apps I still can't remove. These are things I don't use at all. I don't Twitter, for example, so I don't need Twitter Widget. Thing is that I go to Settings | Applications | Manage Applications | Select All tab | Scroll to Twitter Widget

I don't get an enabled uninstall button.

Some other apps that are like this:

Facebook for HTC Sense (I use Google+)
Peep (twitter related)
People (I use Google Contacts)
Picasa Web Albums (I copy my photos to my phone instead of using Picasa)
...

Etc. etc. etc.

Hopefully this isn't too idiotic a question for a thread but my searches have revealed several possibilities and I am not sure what the deal is. The overall implication seems to be that I missed wiping something somewhere or that I need to remove some files manually, or that I need to get an app that uninstalls apps.

Question: Request advice or some idea on which way to jump first?


Jim C.

You cant remove them the way u are trying to because they are system apps.. easiest way to go is to use titanium backup, pro version, which u can use to uninstall or freeze any of your apps. BUT, be careful uninstalling system apps it can lead to other issues or cause ur phone to "misbehave".. this shouldnt be a problem if u remove things like twitter, but no promises... but ya, that is ur easiest way of going about it. Let me know if u have any more questions

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Purchase the app Root Explorer. Open it. Navigate to /data/app and you will have your app list. You can also navigate to /system/app and access your system apps.

Long press the apk you don't want and click uninstall or remove (whichever terminology used).

Make sure you delete the right apps though. The ROM is deodexed so you shouldn't have any issues. I removed about a dozen apps this way from Energy ROM

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Originally Posted by glacierguy

Purchase the app Root Explorer. Open it. Navigate to /data/app and you will have your app list. You can also navigate to /system/app and access your system apps.

Long press the apk you don't want and click uninstall or remove (whichever terminology used).

Make sure you delete the right apps though. The ROM is deodexed so you shouldn't have any issues. I removed about a dozen apps this way from Energy ROM

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Or for a free alternative, get Estrong's File Explorer, then go into settings and enable options for root users, then follow the directions as above.

Jcllings, check your pm's...

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What I do is remove them from the rom before I install it. I do that with a lot of the bloatware.

Originally Posted by wardfan220

What I do is remove them from the rom before I install it. I do that with a lot of the bloatware.

Really? Didn't know we could do that... That would make it so much easier.

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Originally Posted by glacierguy

Really? Didn't know we could do that... That would make it so much easier.

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Just go to the sys/app folder and delete the apk for what you want to remove, making sure you don't remove one that has a dependency. Also some roms have an app folder in the root of the zip that has "extra" apk to install, I remove a few from there as well.

Originally Posted by wardfan220

Just go to the sys/app folder and delete the apk for what you want to remove, making sure you don't remove one that has a dependency. Also some roms have an app folder in the root of the zip that has "extra" apk to install, I remove a few from there as well.

How do I navigate to sys/app without the ROM installed for me to use Root Explorer on? I get your theory if some ROMs have app folder in root of the zip (great nugget of info btw), but I don't get the sys/app part w/o ROM installed.

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Originally Posted by glacierguy

How do I navigate to sys/app without the ROM installed for me to use Root Explorer on? I get your theory if some ROMs have app folder in root of the zip (great nugget of info btw), but I don't get the sys/app part w/o ROM installed.

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Just use winzip(or something like it) and edit the zip before you flash, then in there go to the system/app. then you can reflash over what you have, with any luck you won't lose your data, or what I do is backup just my data and restore that after a rom flash. Root explorer will only work for you on the rom after it's installed, but like I said personally it's easier to remove it before flash using winzip.