How to uninstall an application ? How to add icon of desktop ?

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Hi,

I'm french and here in France we don't have Barnes & Nobles.
Last Week, I was in Miami and I bought a Nook Color because I saw on this forum that we can have a "full" android and I wanted a pdf reader and more if possible...

I have root my eReader tody and install some application. I installed some applications to test : how to uninstall them ?

I have an other question : how to add icons of this applications apk on the desktop ?

Think you for your job.

You need a 3rd party launcher such as ADW or LauncherPro to do either of these things. The default nook launcher doesnt support app shortcuts or uninstalling apps.

How do you use launcherpro to uninstall apps?

You need to change your launcher to a 3rd party one. I prefer Zeam. It works the best. Then while in the. App drawer, press and hold the app you want and drag it to either the desktop or the app bar.

To uninstall, you can either use an app such as TitaniumBackup or use RootExplorer to remove the. Apk in /data/app and the dir in /data/data

Originally Posted by neozen21

You need to change your launcher to a 3rd party one. I prefer Zeam. It works the best. Then while in the. App drawer, press and hold the app you want and drag it to either the desktop or the app bar.

To uninstall, you can either use an app such as TitaniumBackup or use RootExplorer to remove the. Apk in /data/app and the dir in /data/data

I have never seen zeam before but I like it so far. Thanks for the sugestion

To uninstall apps using ADB:

First get a list of packages installed on your NC:

adb shell pm list packages

Figure out what package you want to uninstall from that list. It might be helpful to pipe the output from the above command through some tool to search for you. For example let's say I want to uninstall Raging Thunder 2, I would do this:

Under Linux:

adb shell pm list packages | grep -i thunder

Under Windows:

adb shell pm list packages | find /i "thunder"

The output of which is:

package:com.polarbit.rthunder2lite

So now I know the name of the package. To uninstall that package I would enter the following:

adb uninstall com.polarbit.rthunder2lite

And that's it. That's how you uninstall an app using adb.

To add icons you need to install an alternative launcher since the stock NookColor launcher doesn't let you do this. I like Zeam. Each launcher will have its own method for then adding icons to the desktop, but typically you tap and hold down on the background and then a menu pops up with the option to add items.