Best way to get rid of bloatware on D2G?

[ben7337]

Okay so I got a Droid 2 Global today and have been playing around with it, the first thing I noticed is a ton of bloatware. I have read a few guides, and though this is my 3rd android phone, I am still somewhat clueless at this stuff. After a bit of searching I managed to root with z4root, and got boostrap recovery and made a backup. Now I am seeing guides that say to freeze the apps with titanium backup, or move them somewhere else or this that or something else. However since I made a backup, does that mean I can just delete the files I don't like, and when an update comes out for my phone, use the backup to put them all back? This seems like the easiest solution to me, but I just want to make sure that would work as I don't know much about recovery things. Thanks for any help

 

[newk8600]

. However since I made a backup, does that mean I can just delete the files I don't like, and when an update comes out for my phone, use the backup to put them all back? This seems like the easiest solution to me, but I just want to make sure that would work as I don't know much about recovery things. Thanks for any help

Yeah you can do that. The reason people were just freezing apps was due to the lack of an SBF for the D2G so if you delete and app and Verizon pushes an update you want you can't do it if you didn't back up your phone so now that there is an SBF you can delete them if you don't like them just don't delete until you know how to restore your phone with said SBF. That way if/when something goes south you are ahead of the learning curve instead of having to learn it all real quick so you can use your phone again.

 

[ben7337]

Yeah you can do that. The reason people were just freezing apps was due to the lack of an SBF for the D2G so if you delete and app and Verizon pushes an update you want you can't do it if you didn't back up your phone so now that there is an SBF you can delete them if you don't like them just don't delete until you know how to restore your phone with said SBF. That way if/when something goes south you are ahead of the learning curve instead of having to learn it all real quick so you can use your phone again.

I don't think I'm following you. I made a backup with bootstrap, but bootstrap was out before the SBF was released, so are you saying that deleting the apps are fine, but my current boostrap backup will NOT restore the apps and I would need to restore with a old SBF that just came out? Also would it make a different that I am on the new 2.4.330 or something software version, but the SBF seems to be for the old 2.4.29 version?

 

[leobg]

If you mess up the phone bootstrap can't start. And you can't restore anything from it. It is not like the standard recovery which is independent from system image - it just hijacks normal boot to give you recovery where you can flash unsigned files. Or if you mess up and phone sits at M logo, custom recovery isn't going to help you. SBF is the only salvation.

It is fine to flash 2.4.29 over 2.4.330 updated phone. It has been confirmed multiple times to work fine. There is also word going about new SBF based on 2.4.330 that will be released in the following few days.