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[Motorola Droid 3] SyCoREAPER:
I would have thought the official leak would have worked. Oh well, will wait and see. I found out a lot of bloatware can be frozen without root now.
[Motorola Droid 3] vbhokiefan:
There hasn't been, nor will there ever be, an "official leak" of ICS for the D3.
[Motorola Droid 3] Yonnor:
Are you using a D3? O_o
[Motorola Droid 3] vbhokiefan:
I just looked at the majority of his posts. Bionic.

Sigh.
[Motorola Droid 3] SyCoREAPER:
Well captain assumption that is true but someone adapted it for bionic in another thread. 1 or 2 s Differences only. So i figured id ask if this worked for anyone else on ics as it sits to see if it was an ics issue. and if there were any diff on ics vs gb and what those were so i can compare and contrast your findings. I am flattered that you had enough time to look at my posts.
[Motorola Droid 3] Yonnor:
Sometimes you just gotta look to find information that isn't presented to you (also you can find your posts with about 2 clicks :p ).

1. On topic, unfortunately since the D3 isn't getting "official" ICS like the Bionic someone will have to adapt the script again since the D3's ICS is a custom ROM and already debloated.

2. You'd be best off finding the person who adapted it in the 1st place in the Bionic Dev section.

3. That or just use a custom Bionic ROM which is debloated 99% of the time OR use the provided list and freeze with TiBu.
[Motorola Droid 3] SyCoREAPER:
A productive post. Thank you for letting me know. Was not aware D3 was not getting ICS thereby leaving my question fully answered. Again thanks.
[Motorola Droid 3] AragornPE:
Sorry for asking that, but does this script works on MavROM 4.0?
[Motorola Droid 3] Yonnor:
MAV Rom really doesn't need this (unless your doing a dirty flash from a stock system). Its already pretty debloated.

Morse-Coded from my D3
[Motorola Droid 3] nedfunnell:
Any love for 5.7.906.XT862.Verizon.en.US ?
[Motorola Droid 3] 5318008:
I'm running your setup, and what I ended up doing was just going down the list with Titanium Backup and uninstalling the stuff I didn't want.

EDIT: I should clarify that I didn't know whether the script would work on 906, but since I wanted a certain combination of keep/remove that didn't seem to be available with the script, I just used the list of programs as a reference to manually remove individual apps and components.
[Motorola Droid 3] doogald:
I ran the script on 906 and it worked just fine...
[Motorola Droid 3] lewrydiboys:
Can't find these apk to download. But thank's anyway. Try to find gingerblur but no luck.:(
[Motorola Droid 3] Seirÿu:
Hehe awesome. Sry guess I shouldda checked that first! Haven't had a chance to test it out yet! :) thanks!
[Motorola Droid 3] magicelf:
I realize this question may sound dumb but we have to be rooted to use script?
[Motorola Droid 3] pyro6128:
yes you need to be rooted
[Motorola Droid 3] wootizzle:
I'm still new to all of this but I'm having an issue with running the script. It says ScriptManager has super user access.. But once I go through the optional services to save or kill I get:
[Motorola Droid 3] reaverclan:
I believe thats because you ddint check run script as root in the app.
[Motorola Droid 3] somemadcaaant:
Nice work mate.

-smc
[Motorola Droid 3] BatterseaPS:
I'm freezing these manually using Titanium Backup Pro, but some of them have a different display name from their filename. Can I look at filenames somehow using Titanium?
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Kind of. Select one of the apps and choose to uninstall it. Since it's a system app, it'll prompt you to confirm. The confirmation window shows the package filename. Click 'no' to not uninstall the app. Be careful doing this so you don't accidentally uninstall something. Most of the system apps don't included a classes.dex and just use an .odex instead. Titanium backup can't restore these kinds of packages.
[Motorola Droid 3] BatterseaPS:
Thanks! I actually had to do a backup of each app before I was able to get that yes/no option. I'm still having trouble finding these:

BlurHome2.apk

BlurSNMessagingEngine.apk

Conversations.apk

FriendFeed.apk

IndexingService.apk

Preloaded.apk

VSuiteApp.apk (I have all the other Verizon ones)

If anyone knows how they show up in Titanium, let me know.

Thanks again for all the work.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
BlurHome2.apk: Homescreen 1.0.0.106

BlurSNMessagingEngine.apk: Social Messaging Service 2.3.4

Conversations.apk: Text Messaging 2.3.4

FriendFeed.apk: Social Networking 2.3.4

IndexingSerivce.apk: MOTOBLUR Indexing Service 2.3.4

Preloaded.apk: Preset 1.0

VSuiteApp.apk: Voice Commands
[Motorola Droid 3] wootizzle:
Yep. Apparently I'm blind.. Tho once I did enable it to run as root it said bad number 3 times and then my phone rebooted. Sooo? lol
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Did you edit the script at all? If so, you probably killed the unix-style line endings (Notepad will do this, use Notepad++ or edit the script on the device directly using the long-press option in Root Explorer).
[Motorola Droid 3] wootizzle:
No sir. I did not edit it. I don't know this type of development. I downloaded to pc and transferred to my phone and ran it.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
It apparently doesn't like the redirection to /dev/null for some reason on your phone when mounting your /system as rw.

If you have Root Explorer on your phone, launch it, navigate to /system, and click the 'RW' button at the top to mount your /system as 'RW'. Then try the script.
[Motorola Droid 3] wootizzle:
Im going to do that now... I just noticed my app draw is different some how now. Right now root explorer is mia from the draw..
[Motorola Droid 3] androidphan88:
So i seem to be experiancing the same bad number issue

I tried the using root explorer to mount /system as read write but same issue, it says badnumber and reboots there is something after the bad number but the phone reboots so fast i cant read it before it shuts off
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Try editing the script (on the device using Root Explorer and long-press to edit). Delete all occurrences of "2>/dev/null" which is supposed to suppress the results of a command, but is apparently causing issues on some devices. Perhaps you have a different version of busybox installed.

Once you fix and save the script, try it again. If you do this under Windows, make sure you use Notepad++ or it'll destroy the unix-style line endings and won't run properly.
[Motorola Droid 3] wootizzle:
I think it worked but didn't think it did. Under titanium a bunch of apps are crossed out (I created a full back up b4 doing this) including city id which I have a subscription for and I know I didn't disable it. So I'm not sure. I got root explorer uncrossed but didn't rerun it.
[Motorola Droid 3] androidphan88:
so i removed all of the dev/null and then it just failed out on all of the actions

even made sure to mount /system as RW. Is there anything i can add to the end of the script to pause before it reboots.

So i then took the reboot out of the end of the scipt. It is saying there is no such file or directory on all actions
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
You are running this script ON YOUR DEVICE, correct? You're not trying to run this from a bash shell on your computer, are you? It was written for the phone itself, such as using Script Manager or another app to launch it.

Could you attach your version of the script post-edits?
[Motorola Droid 3] androidphan88:
Yes i only ran the script in script manager. And all editing was done with root explorer or script manager editor.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
I missed this.

You've removed the bloat, then. Check your app drawer and/or Titanium Backup. Success. :)
[Motorola Droid 3] androidphan88:
no its all still in my app drawer
[Motorola Droid 3] volcanomike:
Did you run the script as root
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
I'll need more output from you then. If the files weren't found, then they must have been moved successfully -- right? So yeah, will need to see all the output.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Thanks! Can you tell me what version of BusyBox you have installed? Use 'BusyBox Installer' from the market to find out. Also, try installing 1.182 and see if that helps.
[Motorola Droid 3] androidphan88:
i have busy box version 1.19.0.git.adrynalyne

how would i go about removing that version and installing 1.182
[Motorola Droid 3] wootizzle:
The plot thickens.	I tried the system r/w thing too same message and reboot. I'm assuming myself and that other guy have the same issue.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Just use the app I mentioned: BusyBox Installer. You can select prior versions of BusyBox to install. I'm wondering if a newer version has different syntax (I know the supercharger scripts have the same issue).
[Motorola Droid 3] androidphan88:
i installed that version of busy box with the same error. With the busybox installer i did not see a way to remove busy box, so i wonder if the new version really didnt get removed. How would i go about removing busybox all together then trying the install the older version
[Motorola Droid 3] eww245:
Maybe the busybox symlinks are not set up? Type mount --help in adb or an emulator, you should see there if it executes from busybox or not.
[Motorola Droid 3] androidphan88:
the busybox installer app says the symlinks are setup. i will double check though
[Motorola Droid 3] androidphan88:
just a thought

what if i modified the scripts to use absolute paths instead of relative paths. Think that might make a difference?
[Motorola Droid 3] ctheory83:
Another interesting issue I have run into is that I can't seem to use my SD card. All of my music is there if I hook it to the PC and mount, but otherwise it just says "scanning sd card for audio" to no avail. When I first did the bloat removal, I did it through ADB myself - do I need to remount this SD card a certain way?
[Motorola Droid 3] despich:
Went through the root procedure with no problems at all (easiest root I have ever done to any device).

Went through the script to remove the bloatware and although I got a couple of the Bad Number errors before it rebooted the script seemed to work just fine. I had BusyBox v1.18.4 installed at the time.

The main reason I did it so I could update my Slacker app to the latest version and be able to run Titanium backup. One note for others with slacker.. I had to install the new app from the market, then clear out my data, then uninstall and re install from the market again before it would let me login. It WOULD NOT let me login (kept saying bad password) until I had done that, I had even reset my password from the website and changed the password, did the reset account and it still needed the uninstall/reinstall.

My quadrant score seemed to be unaffected by removing the bloatware. (Still around 2250). Can't wait for a overclocked Kernel and custom rom to get it back to more "standard" Android.
[Motorola Droid 3] deyna:
Very nice! Did just what it said it would.

Just removing those apps frees up a good few MBs of RAM.
[Motorola Droid 3] Anthrax79:
This broke all of my Go widgets, and the sense clock widget. Was excited about one stop shopping to turn the bloat off, but I have to revert.
[Motorola Droid 3] ctheory83:
Anyone else running into issues with music playback?
[Motorola Droid 3] btonetbone:
I am no longer able to use the builtin calendar widget; I get force close whenever I try to add it. I ran the restore script and it worked great. I reran the remove script and got the FC again. Other than that, this is brilliant! Thanks.
[Motorola Droid 3] rushless:
Though scripts for automating are appreciated, seems safer to freeze the apps with Titanium, since the total size of the 50ish apps is small and the risks are greater than the space gained from removing them.

Freezing does the same function and provides a simple path for backtracking. It just takes a few minutes to freeze them.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Two problems with that: (a) nothing is being removed (just renamed to .bak, permissions and ownership remain the same, it's easy enough to rename back and nothing is lost) and (b) freezing an app does not guarantee that another package with execute permission can't dynamically load it and execute the package -- World Clock, DLNA, and others will continue to run even when frozen (and even after a reboot).
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
When you disable the Motorola home launcher, it removes the Motorola calendar widget's ability to function. I'll make a note in the script -- but for now, just re-run the script and choose not to remove the Motorola home screen/launcher.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Hmm, mine are working. Everything completely disabled.

Which ones are you using?
[Motorola Droid 3] blkwlf:
It broke all of my widgets that I had running in Launcher Pro also... but I just deleted them and re-added them. Now all is good :-)
[Motorola Droid 3] androidphan88:
so i am still having issues with this script and i think i might know why.

When i adb to my device i cant get root access. It appears i have root access on my phone and superuser seems to be giving script manager su access.

Could this have anything to do with it not working for me?
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
When you type SU in ADB, you can't achieve root?
[Motorola Droid 3] androidphan88:
so the symlinks are not setup, i cannout use the mount command and when i run this command

find /system/xbin -type l

nothing returns. How would i go about getting the symlinks setup
[Motorola Droid 3] androidphan88:
no i think its something with my adb, because if i do su in a terminal emulator on the phone it gets root no problem. If i type su in adp it never takes me back to a shell. almost like if you where to run ftp in unix it is just waiting for commands there is no

root@something.cdma. it is just blank space.

I think my issue is that the symlinks are not getting setup when i run busybox installer
[Motorola Droid 3] mwmeyer:
Thanks & questions

The script worked great for me. I no longer need to leave it plugged in in order to play music all day.

But why use a script runner? I just fed it to sh, and let that do the work. Or maybe it's just my comfort levels - an order of magnitude more time with Unix in general than Android might make a difference.

Looking over the running services, I still see the News service running. That looks like verizon bloatware to me - can't delete it, always running, and not something I'm used to seeing on google developer phones. I Froze it with TB, and haven't found any problems yet.

Maybe this could be be added to the script?
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
News is part of the AOSP and Google experience, which is why it's not considered 'bloat'. It's not Verizon's or Motorola's. :)

I recommend Script Manager for the folks that don't know how to get to a terminal emulator or ADB to run the .sh. Chances are if they want a safe script like this, they're not looking to get adventurous in a bash environment, they just want something that works.
[Motorola Droid 3] wootizzle:
Could the things I tell it to keep while choosing not to keep others be my issue with it not working?
[Motorola Droid 3] deyna:
I did the same but that's because I've been using Slackware and, more recently, Archlinux. The average user is not likely to even run Linux much less a distribution that has gotten them familiar with the Linux comand line.
[Motorola Droid 3] tombarr:
Dude thanks for the script, D3 is running better now! Just wish I could get rid of Blur altogether but doubt I am the only one with this in mind.
[Motorola Droid 3] remoteshoppe:
for some reason I could not download the script direct to my phone so I decided to use RootExplorer to just manually go through the list in the first post and rename the apks to baks one by one. When I did that to DLNA I got ForceClose message that kept popping up and then the phone rebooted. Now I cannot get past the start-up animation. Please help.
[Motorola Droid 3] DoubleYouPee:
...But you do have to install a new launcher ??
[Motorola Droid 3] eww245:
DLNA shouldn't be the problem, also got a FC on DLNA, rebooted it and went away.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
That's why you use the script and not try to do it manually.

An ADB Logcat would be helpful. Did you enable USB debugging before all of this?
[Motorola Droid 3] remoteshoppe:
I reset data and the phone rebooted fine. For those that need help with that part this is what I did:

1) Press X + Power to start up

2) When triange exclamation point droid appeared hit Vol - and Vol + at same time

3) Wipe data, system reset
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Be careful, you can get stuck in a sort of boot loop (FC back to setup) here due to a bug in the Moto Blur launcher. Make sure you have a custom launcher installed... if not, you may need to SMS yourself a market link to a custom launcher, like ADW Launcher or Go Launcher, run the launcher, and then use it to get into settings and re-enable USB Debugging to re-activate ADB.
[Motorola Droid 3] mwmeyer:
Along the same lines: I can't find swype in the market (it seems to come and go at random, depending on how the developer is feeling).

The voice command suite is a lovely car app. While there are some possible replacements in the market, they are all beta or cost money for full functionality.

Maybe these two should be optional as well?

On the other hand, the comments in the script make it clear what's what, so possibly pointing out that it can be edited before pushing is enough.

Thanks,

<mike
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Added -- I will update the script a little later today!
[Motorola Droid 3] nuguy:
Love the script! But swype? What's up with removing swype, it's not bloat, and not in market???
[Motorola Droid 3] krazykrivda:
I have a few new ideas for this script. And I'm hoping to make it into an app as well which should not be difficult. Psouza and I will work on this.. stay tuned.
[Motorola Droid 3] VerizonKoolaid:
spy not upon me

What is the name/apk of the service verizon uses to monitor phone for changes to settings/software?

I would like to break it.
[Motorola Droid 3] blkwlf:
I just noticed that since running this script, my phone defaults to speaker phone when I answer it. It also does this when I dial from my contacts. Direct dialed numbers appear to work fine.

Has anyone else experienced this?
[Motorola Droid 3] iomthd:
Wow I thought it was just me!
[Motorola Droid 3] magicelf:
Not sure if this is due to root or using this script, but my phone will not connect to my tv through hdmi. Any ideas why or how to fix?
[Motorola Droid 3] Androidsims:
Sorry if this has already been asked as I have not read the entire thread. Is there any reason why the various vcast apps weren't removed? Also, nfl and zumocast are still present. Can I freeze all these? A little weary since I just received my replacement for my softbrick. Thanks for info.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Updated the scripts, guys, give that a go.
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Removing Apps can break the dock service, though you can freeze it if you like. NFL and Zumocast should remove too, but if you were on v.5.6.890 (late August OTA update), the packages were renamed. I updated this thread today to handle those packages.
[Motorola Droid 3] Androidsims:
Ah, that's why. I updated to the ota when I got my new phone. Thanks. :)
[Motorola Droid 3] magicelf:
After using the restore script, I am getting a Gmail Sign-In error (orange triangle in corner). Did I do something wrong? How do I fix?
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
You have to add your account back after restoring the /system/app files because one of them contains your accounts data.
[Motorola Droid 3] magicelf:
Any reason Amazon Kindle is still there after running script? Also, HDMI still not working. I kept MotoBlur installed...
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Kindle is now a user app in 5.6.890, uninstall it if you want. ;)

I haven't looked into HDMI yet, but I do have the dock and cable so I will soon.
[Motorola Droid 3] jchenny:
Does anyone has problem receiving text messages after the default Text Message App is removed? I can send with no problem, but can never receive any text message by running Chomp Message App.
[Motorola Droid 3] wootizzle:
Still no explanation as to why I can't get this to work? :(
[Motorola Droid 3] brandonmangan:
Likewise, but it's been intermittent and I've only frozen apps as I've been a bit apprehensive to run this script due to my lack of knowledge and fear of not having the abilities to quickly recover if I boot loop/soft brick my phone. Either way I commend you psouza, thanks for all your efforts they're definitely aiding my learning process here.
[Motorola Droid 3] danilos2k:
Can I know the name of the "Car Dock Voice Commands" application?

is it in system/app right?

I would like to remove the ".bak" extention

thank you, Danilo
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
What's your problem, exactly?
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
VSuiteApp.apk -- you could have just read my script, I have comments throughout the entire thing labeling it all ;)
[Motorola Droid 3] danilos2k:
I used the first version of the sccript, I didn't rember it was written :-(
[Motorola Droid 3] wootizzle:
Script doesn't work, lol.. gave script. Manager root access. I select the things to keep n to go. Once I run it says no permissions I believe and reboots. I thought it worked at first cuz city id was disabled (which I wouldn't disable cuz I pay for) but I don't believe its worked for me.
[Motorola Droid 3] wuwtk:
I just wanted to thank psouza4 for all of this awesome work and easy utilities. My Droid 3 is a much better phone than it was a few weeks ago.
[Motorola Droid 3] colbyb25:
How much faster does the D3 run after removing all of this?
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Considerably, depending on your particular situation and version.
[Motorola Droid 3] NyghtGT:
I've never really been sold on the stock launchers, especially coming from the Sense

drained Evo, the only way to make my phone tolerable with the stock battery was

to use a kernel that implemented the SBC mod.

IMHO, you can achieve similar aesthetic results without raping your battery using

other launchers, widgets, etc...i'm bout to post some screens of the setup I ran

all day, and the usage statistics, as soon as I find a decent screen capture app.
[Motorola Droid 3] magicelf:
I installed the script and kept the motoblur home, but the Calendar app still disappeared. Can you add that to optional too?
[Motorola Droid 3] NyghtGT:
I kept the home/launcher as well, BUT, my Calendar app remained.

I'm pretty sure anyway...

Even though it may be tedious, the next version, if any, should have in depth explanations of the different things disabled.
[Motorola Droid 3] danilos2k:
Hi

Can I know the apk for video "advance editing"?

Thank you, Danilo

Inviato dal mio DROID3 usando Tapatalk
[Motorola Droid 3] jab476:
stuck on eye now

I went straight from the one click root to running this script. I ran the one that matched my build number. No after rebooting, it just sits on the turning red eye forever... PLEASE HELP!!!!! WHAT DO I DO!
[Motorola Droid 3] MinionOfEckerd:
Unfroze all my apps, installed script manager, downloaded scripts, executed script and good bye bloat! :D
[Motorola Droid 3] psouza4:
Will need you to connect ADB (use boot menu BP Tools by holding down M+Power on a fresh boot up). You can find out what went wrong and/or restore stuff this way. There's a whole entire thread dedicated to this.
[Motorola Droid 3] Trigonous:
Anyone experiencing an issue where the phone always thinks it's charging even when unplugged? The battery meter goes down as normal, but my circle battery widget and the notification bar state it is still plugged in and charging. I do not believe this happened with the original script, just the update. The only changes I made were to unfreeze the calendar.

Edit: To clarify, the original release (without a version number) did nor cause this issue, the one with a version number (matching my phone) did.

Sent from my DROID3
[Motorola Droid 3] suavebrotha:
Awesome work. Thanks!
[Motorola Droid 3] volcanomike:
Can't receive picture messages....
[Motorola Droid 3] volcanomike:
Something with the built in text messaging causes picture messages to not be received when disabled with your script