Kyocera Zio M6000 - can't uninstall default games even with root [SOLVED]

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I'm trying to uninstall "Uno" and "Midnight Bowling" which came with the phone. It is rooted but Titanium backup says it "failed to locate the apk file" and shows the names in red for "system service".

I looked in /system/app/ and couldn't find it. I also did a system search with Astro for them and could find nothing.

Suggestions?


EDIT: solution
The default cricket applications are located here:
/data/FLEX/app
They can be deleted if you have root
You can use either ADB shell or some app like RootExplorer.

Originally Posted by phazei

I'm trying to uninstall "Uno" and "Midnight Bowling" which came with the phone. It is rooted but Titanium backup says it "failed to locate the apk file" and shows the names in red for "system service".

I looked in /system/app/ and couldn't find it. I also did a system search with Astro for them and could find nothing.

Suggestions?

I do not have the answer to this, but would be very interested in finding out how to uninstall it.

I'm not sure what it would take to get it off of the phone entirely but you should be able to get it to atleast go away by renaming the file with ADB. Tricky part may be finding that file name though said you don't see anything that looks related to it.

Originally Posted by phazei

I'm trying to uninstall "Uno" and "Midnight Bowling" which came with the phone. It is rooted but Titanium backup says it "failed to locate the apk file" and shows the names in red for "system service".

I looked in /system/app/ and couldn't find it. I also did a system search with Astro for them and could find nothing.

Suggestions?

When you say you looked in system/app and couldn't find it, do you mean you couldn't find the system/app folder, or that you couldn't find an APK file that looked like it was for either of those games? If you couldn't find the folder, then that's because whatever program you were using wasn't granted super-user permissions - rooting the phone doesn't automatically mean that all apps can act as the SU (thankfully!). If the app you were using didn't know how to get SU permissions, then it wouldn't be able to see the folder.

If Astro doesn't know how to get SU permissions (I stopped using that a while ago so I couldn't tell you), then EStrongs File Explorer might work but I think it depends on what ROM you're using. In the menu allowing you to get root permissions, it asks whether your ROM is based off "CyanogenMOD" or "HiAPK" - if your ROM isn't one of those, it might not work.

Another thing to try is looking through the folder via ADB. Use

adb root
adb remount
adb shell
cd system/app
ls

to see what's installed. Remember you have to run "adb remount" before you can actually modify the system folder, otherwise the folder remains read-only.

Originally Posted by Steven__

When you say you looked in system/app and couldn't find it, do you mean you couldn't find the system/app folder, or that you couldn't find an APK file that looked like it was for either of those games?

I could look in system/app, but the apk's weren't there.

The app manager says the games take a couple megs each, but I've searched for all apk's I could find, and they aren't anywhere.

Originally Posted by phazei

I'm trying to uninstall "Uno" and "Midnight Bowling" which came with the phone. It is rooted but Titanium backup says it "failed to locate the apk file" and shows the names in red for "system service".

I looked in /system/app/ and couldn't find it. I also did a system search with Astro for them and could find nothing.

Suggestions?

hi guys new here - i belive i found the 2 apk files ...both games are made by gameloft and there located at data/flex/app

.gameloft.android.GloftUNOG

Originally Posted by stucknkc

hi guys new here - i belive i found the 2 apk files ...both games are made by gameloft and there located at data/flex/app

.gameloft.android.GloftUNOG

Ahh, woohoo, thanks.

Even though I was able to access the root dir with ASTRO, it didn't show anything in that folder. I installed Root Explorer and was able to see it then. Too bad there isn't a way to give ASTRO full access, it has such a great UI.

Originally Posted by phazei

Ahh, woohoo, thanks.

Even though I was able to access the root dir with ASTRO, it didn't show anything in that folder. I installed Root Explorer and was able to see it then. Too bad there isn't a way to give ASTRO full access, it has such a great UI.

phazei, j/w were you able to delete all the cricket crap with this method? and if so can you help me do it im a little new to android. also is there a way to install apps to sdcard? thanks in advance

Originally Posted by zyrtek69

phazei, j/w were you able to delete all the cricket crap with this method? and if so can you help me do it im a little new to android. also is there a way to install apps to sdcard? thanks in advance

Confirmed, i removed bowling/uno/ with these steps:
always backup data that you want to delete
1. backup both apk files with titanium backup "saves to folder on sd card"
2. use root exployer browse to data/flex/app then hit menu multiselect
select both apk files then delete then reboot


also if you go to data/data hit menu multiselect then select both folders for gameloft and delete it will delete data for the two games to free up space.
always backup all data that you plan to delete so you can restore if something goes wrong reboot!
alternate bootup music instead of cricket oog file goes in data/flex/bootanimation

Originally Posted by stucknkc

Confirmed, i removed bowling/uno/ with these steps:
always backup data that you want to delete
1. backup both apk files with titanium backup "saves to folder on sd card"
2. use root exployer browse to data/flex/app then hit menu multiselect
select both apk files then delete then reboot


also if you go to data/data hit menu multiselect then select both folders for gameloft and delete it will delete data for the two games to free up space.
always backup all data that you plan to delete so you can restore if something goes wrong reboot!
alternate bootup music instead of cricket oog file goes in data/flex/bootanimation

thanks for the info my friend! did what you said and worked like a charm. do you happen to know how i can get rid of cricket marketplace?

by the way new startup is way better sounding, but i forgot to back-up old one do you still have it in case anything happens, i can return phone stock? thanks in advance