[MOD] deSense and debloat Sense 3.6 and 4.0 (3.5 in the works) [2012/06/12] [v4]

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What this does

• Removes bloat, especially from HTC and Verizon. The full list is at https://github.com/muness/Rezound-De..._to_remove.txt . That includes all the APKs Scott Crosler removed in CleanROM Developer Edition 1.0 and everything listed in Quantumrabbit's safe to delete and safe to delete so long as other apps/services that use it also are lists and also all the APKs I identified as Sense 4.0 or bloat in Team PkmN - Venasaur Rom v3.2.0. The full list of APKs it removes is at https://github.com/muness/Rezound-De..._to_remove.txt
• Install AOSP APKs for Browser, Calendar, Calculator, Email (see stock_apks directory)
• Reboots the phone before FCs kick in
• Has no options whatsover. Just run it. If you want to customize it, after download/extract, edit apks_to_remove.txt and desense.sh on Mac and Linux or desense.bat on Windows.

Before running this script

• Make a Nandroid backup
• Install the Sense ROM of your choice (I jump around between BAMF, CleanROM and RezROM)
• Install a launcher and keyboard of your choice (I like Nova and SwiftKey X)
• Connect the device to USB

If you have not done any of these steps do not use this script!

Using this script

Windows

• Do the steps listed above (Before running this script)
• Download the .zip file https://github.com/muness/Rezound-DeSense/zipball/v4
• Expand it
• Run desense.bat

Mac/Linux

• Do the steps listed above (Before running this script)
• Get adb working on your machine. If you need help, see http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/How...he_Android_SDK.
• Download the .zip file https://github.com/muness/Rezound-DeSense/zipball/v4
• Expand it
• From the command line, go to that expanded directory
• Run ./desense.sh

Thanks!

• The awesome developers who provide the Sense ROMs that we can run this against.
• Scott Crosler who provided me a list of apps to remove.
• danutzz for the original DeSense scripts at http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1382630
• Quantumrabbit who collected and maintains a list of APKs that are safe to remove at http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1532366

Show me the code
I have the scripts hosted at github.

Known issues

• You don’t get AOSP status bar
• You don’t get AOSP dialogs
• You don’t get AOSP dialer or Phone or People app
• You need to wipe data from the Google Play Store app
• There’s still some HTC Sense stuff here. e.g. Phone, People, Camera, Gallery, Personalize setting.
• You get whatever bugs the ROM you start with has.
• Requires that the ROM you're using has a boot.img which specifies ro.secure=0 in default.prop file. This gives adb connection root privileges.

Changelog

• 2012/03/21 - V1 - first release
• 2012/04/04 - V2 - remove some more APKs that are not needed post-setup. Keep around WorldClock.apk as some report that removing it causes issues.
• 2012/05/15 - V3 - added Sense 4.0 APKs to remove. Still works with Sense 3.6, just has errors when it tries to remove APKs that aren't there.
• 2012/06/12 - V4 - Fix a bug which broke PC SD card mounting. Also some cleanup.

#2 Just in case

Tested successfully:

• (muness on 3-21) v1 - RezROM ICS v3.1 | SuperTweaks | 3.11.605.22 Base | [3/20/12]
• (muness on 3-21) v1 - BAMF Rezound ICS v1.1 Official
• (justreboot on 3-22) v1 - CleanROM
• (clemson91 on 3-25) v1- RezROM v3.2
• (muness on 3-28) v1- RezROM v3.3
• (muness on 3-30) v1 - BAMF v2.0
• (muness on 4-04) v2- BAMF v2.1
• (muness on 5-15) v3- Team PkmN - Venasaur Rom v3.2.0.
• (muness on 6-12) v3 - [CON ROM V2][4.0.3 Sense 3.6]
• (IAmTheOneTheyCallNeo on 6-14) v4 - Team PkmN - Venasaur Rom v3.2.0.
• (muness on 6-15) v4 - [CON ROM V3][4.0.3 Sense 3.6]. The ROM is mostly desensed, but running the script removes a few more things and installs some AOSP apps.

Tested and *does not work*:

• (muness on 6/11) v3 - Newts OnE XxX RLS 1 - The stock apps that this tools installs *don't work*. I get FCs on Browser, Calculator and Calendar. LiveWallpaper, Clock and Email work.

Thank you! Going to give this a go in just a little

Seems to be ok with Clean Rom as well... would be nice to get the ICS dialer tho

Originally Posted by justreboot

Seems to be ok with Clean Rom as well... would be nice to get the ICS dialer tho

For CleanROM, I suggest using CleanROM Developer Edition. It's pretty much this, but you get Scott's support!

I too would love to have the ICS dialer. I have no idea how to get that to work though. I tried the naive approach, replacing HtcDialer, HtcContacts, ContactsProvider and Phone APKs and I get FCs on boot up that make the phone unusable. If any one can point me in the right direction, I'd be happy to delve deeper.

Ok so I ran this on RezROM and phone won't boot.
Comes up to boot screen, does that and automatically shuts off.
Any ideas?

Originally Posted by I Am Marino

Ok so I ran this on RezROM and phone won't boot.
Comes up to boot screen, does that and automatically shuts off.
Any ideas?

Sorry, I only tried 3.1. Are you on RezROM 3.2?

Originally Posted by muness

Sorry, I only tried 3.1. Are you on RezROM 3.2?

Yes.
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Hi, thanks a lot for the tool, it's very helpful. I just used it on RezROM ICS 3.2 and worked perfectly.