[Android General] X-weApon-X:
When you removed those, did they leave an ugly icon on the springboard? What did you use to remove them, I used Apps2SD. I really want to know how to access the icons on the "Springboard", I don't know where they are in the Filesystem.

I created a TWRP recovery for mine, it's totally upside down, really difficult to manage, but the first thing I did when I booted, was to go into recovery and close it right away to install SuperSU. From there, it's easy. I can share the recovery.img I made. It's larger than the allotted 6544kb, I'm not sure if it is causing me any problems, it might be because of the larger size.

Did you use "Resize"? - I used that, and it increases UserData from 2gb to 4gb, that's as big as it gets. My Samsung GTAB3 has 12gb of UserData, that's adequate, I can install ALL of my apps to internal. But you can't install Resizer from anywhere than Recovery. Same with the Lollipop version of xPosed.

6735 is much faster than an MT6582, but any speed is cancelled out by the inordinate partitioning system. Just not enough ROOM. My GTAB3 seems much faster, but only because I have so much more free space even after installing 100 apps.

Replacing the SDcard Should be easy, I did it to my other clone, installed my Patriot card, which is the best card I've had. Be really careful, take the SIM slot out, unscrew the two bottom screws, then use one of the Apple Suction Cup tools to pull up from the Home/Touch ring. The entire assembly should pop right out. Be very careful! Flip it over, and unscrew all of the little screws. Take the audio assembly out from the bottom, and then you can probably see where the Card goes in if you pull up on the Motherboard, on mine it is right under the Front Camera. There is a little battery taped in there, untape that and you'll see a little Ribbon Cable, carefully take that off. The Card slot is right underneath, you can reach in with Tweezers and pull it out, then reverse the process putting the new card in. Of course, on the iBaby clone, it may be more like the Sophone, once you start pulling up on the Display, you will see if it's a full assembly or if the Display comes off. If that's the case, it's much easier to get to the Card slot, but you have to carefully remove the display.

One thing I noticed, without GAPPs it hauls arse. I was running it after flashing with Format+Download, after reboot, it has a *****in Android black logo on white, with a little "Bite mark" cut out of the side. I love that. here are the codes to add the Apple logo and GAPPs:

1. *#35741#*﻿

2.*#15963#*

Choose the leftmost button on the first row.

Choose the rightmost button on the second row.

Tap on Reboot.

- That process will do a "factory reset" while Installing GAPPs, so don't install any apps before you do that.

There is no need to do it, if you install a Recovery, I can give you my image. Once you have TWRP installed, you can do everything.

I left the Camera, Calculator, "Facetime" = Skype, but I hate Skype so I removed the fook out of THAT. That damned "UC Browser" has to go, and the "Tips", "Watch" and "Stocks" are placeholders that do nothing. "Health" is Runtastic, but the Chinese version has SLife which is a better app. I backed all of the cloneapps with Titanium, but they are system apps, so I don't know if they can be restored, I'm trying to restore SLife now. Didn't go in. I'll try again later. But I, wondering if when you uninstalled the crappapps, if it left icons on your springboard.

Crap! I just tried to install Xposed, and FAILED because my 2GB System area is TOTALLY full, probably because of the GAPPS + the Crappapps. Now I have to get in there and delete the crap out of some serious stuff. The GAPPS apps are HUGE. I don't want them all, just Market/Google. Google Music was installed, I hate that and don't use it.

Oh Yah, if you find you want to block Google App updates, read down in this thread. This was about 2 months of research before I came up with this method, which worked until I flashed my device a month ago:

http://xdaforums.com/group.php?do=discuss&group=&discussionid=4064

I just followed my own instructions, so we'll see how effective this is.

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