[q] help removing pre-installed bloatware after rooting

[msyang20]

my mt4g is rooted but i cant delete or move the bloatwares.

astro>system>app (it says: error deleting files)

i dont understand whats going on bcus the steps seem simple but somehow its neither deleting nor allowing it to be moved to my sd card.

any help would be most grateful. thanks in advance.


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and one last question. now that my phones rooted, s=off, may i delete visionary, the terminal emulator, and superuser???

>> i have more tasks running now that its rooted along with my inability to remove the bloatware

 

[option94]

For your first question, astro cannot delete system apps if you're not mounted r/w, which you wont be by default. Root Explorer gives you the option to mount r/w and then delete apps. alternatively, you may want to install titanium backup and use the "freeze" feature so you can easily restore them if you want in the future.

You can remove visionary, and the terminal emulator if you want, but you'll need the superuser app to grant root permission to any apps that require root in the future.

 

[XfooYen]

Don't arbitrarily delete bloat. Use Titanium to freeze apps you don't want like option94 suggested. Some of those apps are tied into the sense ui and deleting them can make things screwy. After freezing in Titanium, if everything is working well, you can delete if you want. Make a nandroid backup before you do anything permanent. I would leave the stock rom alone and flash a rom like iced glacier which is basically optimized stock with all the bloat removed. Don't forget the make backup part.

Sent from my HTC Glacier

 

[msyang20]

thanks i didnt quite understand what 'mount r/w' means or what it really does but as long as changing it to 'mount r/o' makes those unnecessary apps go away, im happy. thanks again

 

[option94]

r/w = read/write - you'll be able to make changes

r/o = read only - you wont be able to make changes.