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[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
Thanks for your feedback!

I can do that but, our backup method is much faster and I never heard anyone "complain" about apps backup-part... I mean it works just as good as Titanium Backup except for app data.

I use My Backup Pro to backup user app data and then our "Backup Tool" for the rest, and it works perfect and fast every time ;)

Maybe you should do the same and see if it works better even for you?

No matter what I will look in to this ;)
[HTC Sensation] Talebs:
Yes, you are right... I had that idea in mind to backup data separately maybe in tb or keep my app and data backed up by tb and restore app via rc and data by tb.

Well, anyway just needed one option separate i.e for Apps backup and rest five could be combined. Its just my idea rest is yours what you feel could be implemented and beneficial in the long run.:p
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
I will see what I can do ;)

All ideas are welcome!

It's not easy for us to think outside the box more then what we already did in this release :)
[HTC Sensation] PaulGiz:
Just used 5.0r2 for the first time upgrading ARHD to 1.2.2.

"How to" tutorial in Aroma was clear.

Everything worked.

Using it was a snap.

Thank you.

P.
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
:)

Happy to hear that!

And it's really nice to see some activities (even if the downloads didn't stop) in this old thread ;)

I guess a "major" update did the trick! :D
[HTC Sensation] malybru:
Hi,

Just updated to arhd 6.7.2 using your new toy.

How simple and easy it is now.

Thank you for such a great tool.

:)

Sent telepathically from my pyramid
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
Yeah you can call it toy because I played with this thingy like a toy haha...

Damn I spend way too much time here :p

But it seems like you all like it! :D

BTW, Thank you so much for the donation!! Very much appreciated! ;)

(I guess you got my mail as well...)
[HTC Sensation] Pjay12:
Hey Patrics! Been using ROM Cleaner for ages now.. Pretty much on every ROM I flash. Last major update for me was when you added wild cards :) Anyways I played around with this and while the Aroma is convenient, I couldn't get it to restore my apps from Firstboot/data/app. I superwiped, reflashed ROM and flashed RomCleaner 3.5 and it cleaned up and restored apps from both system/app and data/app. (Im only talking about the Firstboot folder here) Aroma RomCleaner restored apps from system app but not from data/app. I then carefully studied both updater scripts and I couldn't find the lines that set permissions for data/app either.. I'm not a crazy skills dev so forgive of this is just a noob mistake :) just thought I should post and let you know if you wanna look into it. I won't be able to give logs and such atm cos I have exams starting today. took 5 mins to post here... I'll help out as soon as its done. Thanks again for the great script. Prolly the most useful utility available here.
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
LOL damn!! You are right man! Thanks for the report :)

I will fix it as soon as I can... This is what happens when you change to many things at the same time :D and I guess no one really used FirstBoot/data/app :p

Lucky me haha
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
New version in OP ;)

ROM Cleaner v5.0 r3 - 2012-08-06

Corrected missing code for app restore from ../FirstBoot/data/app

Thanks Pjay12 for the heads up

And some other minor changes to the updater-script
[HTC Sensation] MarckX:
LOL, nice to see users look into it themselves and not just-flash all that is provided. Thanks Pjay12 for the nice and good feedback!!!!! We really love this kind of feedback!!!! :D:D:D

WOW! Very fast ondemand support! :cool:
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
Yeah it's fu#?%+g awesome! And also needed for this development to continue.

As most of us in RC Team have moved on to the One X forums it's hard to keep track of ROM updates for other devices. So if the users here helps us to test and give us ideas and maybe even new apps that should be in the app list we will never stop! :)

Sent from my HTC One X
[HTC Sensation] Pjay12:
DAMN that was a fast update! Tested r3 release and can confirm everything in Firstboot, Secondboot and SetupRemover all working perfectly :D Thank you very much again. I didn't think it could improve from what it was but Aroma integration just made it so much easier.

On another note, please don't stop developing this! I know most users don't post here but that's probably cos there's really nothing wrong to report.. Pretty sure 75% of the people on the Sensation forums use this.. Please check here from time to time and give us any new cookies as and when you come up with them :D RomCleaner does in less than 30 seconds what I'd take an hour or 2 to manually do. As far as ideas go, the only thing I can think of is giving users the option of what to restore. As previously requested, to restore only WiFi keys or only accounts, etc OR to also give users the options to choose whether to restore ALL apps in First/Secondboot or whether to select a few. All upto you. I'm more than satisfied with this release.. Heck I love it. Thanks again Patrics and the rest of the team very much and PLEASE keep RomCleaner for the Sensation alive. Cheers!
[HTC Sensation] PaulGiz:
Ha ha! I had nothing in First Boot folder, never noticed. Nice save and upgrade, you guys are great!

P.
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
Haha yeah I was surprised myself :p

But it was an easy fix so why not make the life easy for everyone ;)

Regarding Backup/Restore we will look in to this... AROMA can be made very complex but some stuff isn't possible at the moment and this is why you don't have the option to select what to backup or restore.

Select apps from specific folders mmmh no thanks but I like the idea for sure :)

Thanks for your feedback! :D

Hehe, now since Backup Tool is copying all apps to Backup folder, FirstBoot folder is empty unless you add stuff there manually ;)

Thanks :D
[HTC Sensation] el7145:
Absolutely fantastic program, as ive said many times before, and thanks to you guys for your great program and great support!

quick question about the new RC aroma...so you get a choice to use either sense 3.5 or 4.0 cleaning script, so should you have 2 Romcleaner user txts in the Romcleaner folder for the program to pick either the sense 3 or sense 4 script?

how i did it before, is depending on what rom i was installing, i would just copy/pasted the correct RC user txt in the rom cleaner folder

I hope my question is clear
[HTC Sensation] Pjay12:
Yup that's what I do. Unless you merge the 2 scripts, that's your best bet.
[HTC Sensation] el7145:
hmmm, i never thought about merging the scripts, is that even possible?

If that is possible that would be great, as it would eliminate the step of copy/paste depending on the sense version rom im installing
[HTC Sensation] Pjay12:
It's possible but you'll have to edit the script carefully adding the Sense 4 apks not in 3.6. I'm planning on getting down to it sometime in September/October. if the devs here haven't already done it by then ill share it :)
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
Thanks!

It's more or less an option for "new" users or if you want to use a correct default app removal list.

So really nothing has changed from before.

If you have a user.txt in ROMCleaner folder that file will be used, no matter what option you pick...

I know this can be tricky. And I was thinking about a solution like this:

../ROMCleaner/Sense4.0/ROMCleaner_user.txt

../ROMCleaner/Sense3.0-3.6/ROMCleaner_user.txt

When you pick Sense 3.0-3.6 option in aroma it will first check if there is a ROMCleaner_user.txt in the folder and if it is, then just copy the file to ../ROMCleaner folder and use it during the operation. When done the script will remove the user.txt.

All of this will happen within in a second so not a time wasting method...

The only thing you have to think about is to put the user.txt in those specific folders. And no merging would be needed :)

Does it sound good? (you got more details then necessary now... Call it brainstorming :) )

Sent from my HTC One X
[HTC Sensation] moonjak:
Imo, it would be more convenient to have two different named .txt files even just for editing purposes and so they dont mix so easily. example ROMCleaner_sense4.txt and ROMCleaner_sense3.txt

that way it would be easy to edit allways the proper .txt if needed... and they wouldnt mix so easily... even if future versions need own its easy to manage and add. like ROMCleaner_sense567.txt

but there is hardly no need to edit once its done and kicking.

cheers guys thanks for updates!
[HTC Sensation] rawrfische:
First time RC user here. All I have to say is WOW!

I use to run 220 installed apps, just de-sensing with TI Backup and calling it a day. Now I'm running an identical setup, except I used RC in conjunction with TI Backup and I'm down to 180 installed apps. Not to mention my backup size in 4ext dropped from 1.25 GB to 1.07 GB. That's a crazy amount of stuff that's not installed on my phone anymore!

I can't believe I went this long without actually using RC. Many, many thanks to Patrics83 and the rest of the RC team.
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
I get the idea, question is... How often do you jump between Sense 3.x and 4.x?

Thanks for sharing your ideas :)

Sent from my HTC One X
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
Coool! :)

Haha I guess the aroma caught many users attention :p

And I'm very happy you liked it this much, now spread the word "ROM Cleaner" and not to forget rate the thread :)

Side note: If you go to /sdcard/ROMCleaner/Logs and open ROMCleaner_AROMA.log you will se exactly how much space you saved ;)

Sent from my HTC One X
[HTC Sensation] rawrfische:
Haha guilty as charged. Aroma is what brought me back in to try this out. Thread rated and definitely recommending ROM Cleaner every chance I can get.

I checked into the log and damn! Between /system and /data, ROM Cleaner shaved off 272.5 MB of crap. That's even before I removed the extra TMOUS bloat I had in there.
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
Thanks! :D

Give me all TMOUS-bloat app names and we can add it for next update if you want to ;)
[HTC Sensation] Ashkerlon:
Is this ok to run even after rom has been on for a bit, or is it better on fresh install?
[HTC Sensation] malybru:
Hi,

It is best after a fresh install,but you can run it anytime after as well.

:)
[HTC Sensation] Talebs:
#SDCardWizard.apk

Pls uncheck this from the rom cleaner text as in my previous flash this was deleted and I was not able to remount my sd card from the Storage menu. By removing this wizard the options for Mount and Unmount storage card is also removed.
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
SDCardWizard is a wizard for freeing up space on your sdcard.

PCSCII is the menu for mounting sdcard with PC

Sent from my GT-P7510
[HTC Sensation] Talebs:
Well, in last flash sdwizard was removed by the rc and I didn't have sd mount option but this time I kept it and I have the mount option.

I am on Virtuous Infinity v1.33.0 Alpha3 my device is Inspire 4G.
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
It's not related mate... I'm sure...

Reboot your pc try a new USB port.

If you Google this issue you will find many similar problems like this.

Sent from my HTC One X
[HTC Sensation] chrisw99:
I just used ROM Cleaner for the first time, and although it's cleaned what it's supposed to do it's left my Sensation in a funny state.

After reboot, or whenever the screen is woken up, it is all black apart from the notification bar. All I can do is drag down the notification bar. Once I've done that, if I select any app or setting then exit that, it is back to the proper home screens with all my widgets. But as soon as the screen sleeps and I wake it, it's back to black with just the notification bar.

Any ideas?

EDIT: just been browsing the log to see what was removed. I use a custom lock ring to wake up, which is a modified version of one of the themes, Burgundy.apk I think.

I'll restore the nandroid and try again with this commented out in the txt file.
[HTC Sensation] rawrfische:
Thanks! Whenever I decide to flash clean with stock ROM again, I'll be sure to track down those apks for you. It may be a while though since I'm very happy with how my phone is running right now. There probably isn't much demand to clean them anyway, since almost nobody uses a TMOUS-based ROM around here.
[HTC Sensation] chrisw99:
EDIT to the EDIT: Success. Keeping the theme kept my lock ring and it hasn't gone black this time. I've now gone down from 255 to 178 applications, and so far can't tell anything is missing!
[HTC Sensation] MarckX:
Thanks for the update mate and glad you found out what caused it. I really love it when ppl try to solve problems themselves and succeed at it! Nice going there mate! :cool:

---------- Post added at 05:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:49 PM ----------

Thanks mate! No rush here. If you're ready to go, just let us know and we'll take some necessary action here to make it fully compatible..... :D
[HTC Sensation] Talebs:
No need to Google etc.... I just kept the sdwizard and I have the unmount option.:rolleyes:

Sent from my HTC Desire HD
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
What ever, I know this is a common issue... And don't you find it strange that you are the only one ever reported this?

SDCardWizard.apk Wizard to free up space on your sdcard

I have a better description for the apk in One X version and One X users only reported problems with the settings menu and the wizard itself...

But if you are fine now that's good...
[HTC Sensation] iverson3-1:
Nice. I use this.

"I wanna be the apex of predators in my backyard"

Joe Rogan
[HTC Sensation] mandeep294:
works nicely..thanks
[HTC Sensation] Prinz069:
I used v5.0r3 on sunday for the first time and I have to say that I really enjoy the new GUI...Keep up the good job, guys!! :good:
[HTC Sensation] MarckX:
Nice to hear that you're enjoying it. Thanks mate! :D

Sent from my whatever, but surely ROMCleaned device
[HTC Sensation] santiagodm:
hello i just run the clener and it sayd that cant find the /sdcard/ROMCleaner/ROMCleaner.txt so dosent cleen anything? were can i find it to download?
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
Run Log Collection in aroma and upload the file here and I have a look
[HTC Sensation] chrisw99:
I noticed this too, just flashing the rom cleaner zip doesn't seem to run with the defaults. Once I downloaded the ROMCleaner_user.txt file from the 1st page and put it in the directory, then it all started working.

You probably want to do this anyway, as there's almost certainly something you may want to comment out depending on your phone usage.
[HTC Sensation] Prinz069:
I have three apps I need to uninstall manually cause I can't find them in system/app in the rom root.

-Sound Search for Google Play

Didn't installed sound related apps during aroma

-Set Up Media Link HD

- Streamin Media Player

But I also deleted/uninstalled DLNA and stuff.

Any Clue?

Also, If I run an update and use RC, in the specific folder will be my personal user_txt and the standart txt file. How do I make sure that my file will be used when running RC AND, maybe you guys can make that we can see the process with, for example, a process bar. The percentage counter in the bottom right corner switches from 0% immediatly to 100% and I don't know if my script ran.
[HTC Sensation] MarckX:
Hi there Prinz069,

- Sound Search for Google Play = GoogleEars.apk (in the ROM)

- Set Up Media Link HD = Not found in the ROM imho

- Streamin Media Player = Not found in the ROM imho

Are you sure both last files have been put there by the ROM, or did you restore them with ROMCleaner/TB/Google account? :confused:

ROMCleaner script will search for the _user.txt first and used that one if it's found at the right spot. If it isn't there, it will use the provided (standard) one.

For the progressbar, we will have a look at it for next releases. We have been discussing this, but as the scripts are moving in a few seconds, you would have to watch very closely to see it moving from 0 to 100% ;p

---------- Post added at 02:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:35 PM ----------

You are very true about that, and surely it's nice to see you got it working properly, but if you have the LOGfiles of the flash you did without the user.txt, pls upload them so we can check it. Thanks in advance :D
[HTC Sensation] Prinz069:
Thanks, MarckX,

so, if I understand right, I can leave both text files in RC folder - first script will look for the user_txt and if not found for the standart one, right? I can leave the RC folder as it is after a flash and do not need to delete standart file for using RC again when updating.

For the two apps, they must be related to some other apps, like mirror is related to camera.

It's not a big one cause I can delete them manually later. But thx for the hint with ears.apk :good:

ps.// I don't restore data by nandroid, Google or other tools. My device is set up very quick after using RomCleaner script
[HTC Sensation] Pjay12:
Hey Prinz. Firstly thanks for all your help in the Elegancia thread. Got my answers without even posting. Secondly, yea you understood right. I have both Romcleaner txts in the Romcleaner folder and it runs fine. Progress bar goes from 0 to 100 very fast after the cleaning process. And I didn't really get your question regarding the media links and stuff. If you're wondering what apks you need to get MHL cable streaming or whatever to work try this thread-

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1532366

All credit to that OP. Google sound search is the googleears apk as said by Markx and its a stand alone apk. Nothing else needed. Any more questions ill be glad to help finally after all your help :)
[HTC Sensation] Prinz069:
Yo Pjay,

thx for credit :) and thx for the link. I found there a perfect list of apps here but I think it needs to get updated to Sense 4 :)

Will edit my txt_file later and add GoogleEars.apk
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
Can anyone try to reproduce this?

I would like to have a Log Collection file from when this happens.

Thank you.
[HTC Sensation] Pjay12:
Hey RomCleaner team!

Just a suggestion/question- Does it make sense to swap the order of the cleaning process when using romcleaner and restore from firstboot? What I wanna do is completely replace certain apks.

Example - I have a modded maps apk and a modded market apk. What the script does is push my modded Maps and Vending apks to System/app and then the cleaning process happens, deleting my modded Maps and Vending so when the ROM boots I have neither. If you swap the 2 around it would first delete all apks I dont want and then it will "install from FirstBoot folder" and all my modded apk will be there.

Suggestion - Is it possible to modify the script to first execute the Rom cleaning part (deleting unwanted apks) and then Restore from FirstBoot folder?

Question - does it sound practical to you guys?

Edit - my current workaround is to add Maps.apk, Phonesky.apk and Vending.apk to the RomCleaner_user.txt and rename the modded apks to MapsMod.apk and VendingMod.apk. It gets what I want to do done so I have no issues/complaints. Just a suggestion.
[HTC Sensation] MarckX:
Nice thinking there mate, we really appreciate that! Your workaround looks good. If you're not completely satisfied with this, you can do this:

Make sure ROMCleaner removes all apps you want to replace. Then copy your modded apk's to the /romcleaner/secondboot/system/app folder. Go to recovery and follow the menu:

--- Main Menu >> Additional Scripts >> Apps and Mods installer

With these options you can restore the apps you want after your first boot. But make sure you delete the old (not used) ones with the cleaning script before first boot.

There are only a few ppl that use this (secondboot) feature, but I can tell you that it works like a charm...

Just give it a try and - if you want - provide us with a little feedback.
[HTC Sensation] johnson8cyl:
If I already have folders created everything will go as normal using Rom cleaner aroma version correct?
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
Yep

Sent from my HTC One X
[HTC Sensation] axetilen:
Hi ROMCleaner Team,

I also noticed that ROMcleaner 5.0rc3 didnt work correctly. I chose sense 3.0-3.5 for my ARHD 6.7.2, tried to reflash 3 times but... still not work I used version 3.5 and it worked perfectly. With v5.0r3, it said:

couldn't open: /sdcard/ROMCleaner/no-sense/no-sense.txt
trying: /sdcard/ROMCleaner/ROMCleaner_user.txt
couldn't open: /sdcard/ROMCleaner/ROMCleaner_user.txt
trying: /sdcard/ROMCleaner/ROMCleaner.txt
couldn't open: /sdcard/ROMCleaner/ROMCleaner.txt

These are some logs
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
Thx for the log. Found the problem...

Will try to fix it when I get back home from work.

For now, download ROMCleaner_user.txt for v3.5 and copy it to your ROMCleaner folder and flash ROM Cleaner again.

Next time please use log collection option in aroma main menu ;)

Sent from my HTC One X
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
ROM Cleaner v5.0r3 is updated

ROM Cleaner v5.0r3 is corrected. Just a typo in the zip ;)

Please redownload and try it... ROM Cleaner Sense 3.0-3.6 default ROMCleaner.txt was affected by this typo...
[HTC Sensation] SsBloodY:
Hi this script is great. I wan't to achieve maximum AOSP feel on ARHD rom. ARHD is a great ROM for me it can't be compared to CM9. But I like AOSP I want to remove Sense launcher and all HTC and Sense stuff. Is it possible? After removing Sense the AOSP launcher will work by default I mean it's installed but replaced by Sense right? How can I get a list of Bloatware/Sense/HTC apps that I can remove? Also I have a few question about the ROMcleaner_user.txt file. So to split it all into three questions:

1) Can I remove sense and will it be replaced by default by AOSP launcher? Also from where I can download AOSP .apk's to install after removing Sense stuff?

2) How can I view a list of apps that I can remove?

3) About the ROMcleaner_user.txt under "Applications" there are many apps listed. If I run the script those apps will be removed right? And can I install apps from ROMcleaner?
[HTC Sensation] MarckX:
Nice one (again) :) I will give it a go this weekend and surely enjoy it :D

Great job again guys! Much appreciated.
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
Thank you mate!

Sent from my HTC Desire HD
[HTC Sensation] PaulGiz:
After circling around this script for a while, I finally decided to give it a whack.

I was unsure of exactly what parts of file system needed to be copied for Mod Installer, so I skipped that part. As soon as I'm comfortable I will try that too.

Ran over ARHD 3.1.0, with my own user.txt file. Procedure was incredibly fast, foolproof and worked perfectly. The first time I killed a few things I wanted to keep, but went back and edited user.txt file more carefully and everything went perfect on the second try.

I pretty much doubled my free RAM, and watching a catlog shows how much less crap is going on in the background.

Thanks for this. Thanks to Mike1986 for an amazing ROM, thanks to Faux 123 for being a damn genius with kernels, and thanks to you guys for a fantastic method of optimizing it all.

P.
[HTC Sensation] teshxx:
i am on clockwork 5.0.2.0. I tried to run this script and all i got was "file does not exist" for all of them when i check the log. Obviously none of the files were deleted. Any ideas/Suggestions?
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
Thanks for your feedback :D

I like the last part very very much!!! ;)
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
Please upload all files that is in Root of your ROMCleaner folder.

*ROMCleaner_log.log

*ROMCleaner_Recovery.log

*ROMCleaner_user.txt

And I will have a look at it ;)
[HTC Sensation] teshxx:
Here you go. Thanx for your help dude. Appreciate it.

renamed .log files to .txt so i could upload.
[HTC Sensation] Patrics83:
Ok as I see it you edited ROMCleaner.txt in the zip... Right?

What happend when you edited it is that you now have Dos/Windows code.

This wont work.

Also it's better to download ROMCleaner_user.txt from download section.

Edit it with notepad++ very

important

Then move the file to you sdcard.

/sdccard/ROMCleaner/

I made a try to convert your user list now. Please test it and report back.

If it didn't work, you must redo your list. And it must be called ROMCleaner_user.txt
[HTC Sensation] teshxx:
worked perfectly. superb script. thanx dude