yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] venumx:
copy/paste.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] imb951:
So far I've successfully removed Nascar, NFL, Peep, AmazonMP3, Stocks app, and Stocks widget from sense.

Anyone know of any others. I dont use IM but I cant find it listed in /system/app/ so I'm guessing it's got a different name like a few other apps...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] venumx:
no i think its just IM.apk / IM.odex

in the /system/app dir
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] 5tr4t4:
@FacRac: "if you did a nandroid backup after rooting, and restored through nandroid, wouldnt that keep the work you did on rooting?"

Right, it will restore you back to the moment you rooted and backed up with Nandroid. But what if you removed apps or fixed bugs (as is sure to happen now that we have root)...and then removed one wrong app that caused problems. Rather than restoring back to square one, you could just put back the problem app and continue.

I suspect the improvements and fixes will be incrememental and I suppose I'm tip-toe-ing through these updates hoping to keep a stable phone while enjoying all of the latest stuff.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] chuckhriczko:
You can also download the system dump that is on the first or second page of the forum and restore the apps that way. They are in the same folder structure.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] mopodo:
My tip

go to /system/app/

Create a new folder "ap" (mkdir ap)

Move the things you think you dont need to this folder.

Check what happend and test it.

If you think everything is fine you can remove the folder (rm -r /system/app/ap)

What I remove (move)

I have a GSM Hero so, probably some things have changed
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] chuckhriczko:
Your saying backup the files to the phone itself? That would kill the theory behind this. Many are doing this to save space and remove bloat. That would be senseless. Backing up to the sdcard is a good idea though. What I usually do is pull the entire directory to the sdcard. Then if I need to replace a backup I just fire up better terminal and replace the file. On this phone I have been getting some cross link filesystem error or something like that. regardless an adb push can always fix issues.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] chavo2005:
removing google talk causes a force close of the googleapps application upon reboot.

removing the messages app (Mms.apk) stopped my phone from storing a received SMS. (i'm using Handcent SMS) You could read it in the notification box but not in the thread.

those were the only ones i had a problem with after removing and i have removed:

rm Stock.apk
rm Stock.odex
rm Sprint_Nscar.apk
rm Sprint_NFL.apk
rm amazonmp3.apk
rm com.htc.StockWidget.apk
rm com.htc.StockWidget.odex
rm com.htc.TwitterWidget.apk
rm com.htc.TwitterWidget.odex
rm DCSStock.apk
rm DCSStock.odex
rm HtcFootprints.apk
rm HtcFootprints.odex
rm HtcFootprintsWidget.apk
rm HtcFootprintsWidget.odex
rm HtcTwitter.apk
rm HtcTwitter.odex
rm IM.apk
rm IM.odex
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[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] imb951:
+1 looking to remove this please :D
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] chuckhriczko:
I believe this is in this file: /system/etc/init.goldfish.sh. I have been looking all over trying to build my own rom and hopefully getting somewhere. But if we edit that file maybe it will work. I'll try it and let you know what happens if I get this damn thing to work :)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] 702DROID:
THANK YOU that worked now im just going to wait and pay someone to do this for me i dont know anything about this and dont wanna **** somehting up again

also just noticed that once i did the hard reset the apps i deleted (nascar amazonemp3 and peep and stocks are not there ....on a side note now that i got that fig out since i did a hard reset to i have to do the root steps again ??
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] imb951:
Funny, I think I may have found the Sprint logo boot animation as well, but in a different place. I shelled into /system/media/bootscreen

In there I found:

boot.gif

boot2.gif

boot_animation.xml

boot.mp3

boot_bg.gif

sprint.gif

EDIT: Removing Sprint.gif takes just as long to boot, and all the screens go blank. Recovered, and waiting on another solution.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Negrito:
I wonder if you can just delete it, or if you have to modify that xml file in there too... :confused:
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ajones7279:
No, he's saying create a folder, then move all the files you want to delete to that folder, then delete the entire folder at once.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Darth Pooh:
Thanks for the walkthrough...

I notice a speed boost on the device after removing a few craptacular apps, but I rebooted and I still have the same space (103mb before and after). Anyone else experience this?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] chavo2005:
as for the boot screens they are located in /system/media/bootscreen

you can edit the boot_animation.xml file to disable or change the boot up screen and sound.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] imb951:
How do you go about editing the XML file? I want to disable/remove all the boot screens so my Hero starts loading the OS as soon as possible!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] mopodo:
Just to test, when everything works remove the "ap" directory, I said that in the post ;)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Tipharet:
What are these?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Tipharet:
Well, I think removing the above some how affected the Htc People widget. It wont dial when you touch someones contact picture.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] teli:
Thanks for the help. I removed Footprints, Nascar, and Peep. I had heard that the Footprints application was causing system slowdown, but after removing it I find that I'm loading web pages and rotating the screen at essentially the EXACT same speeds as my fiancee's unmodded Hero, so I'm thinking any sensations of speed are likely placebo.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] chuckhriczko:
Not sure but I think they are service providers for the stocks app. I removed them and the system worked fine for me.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] chuckhriczko:
Placebo is a very strong drug....
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] :
Stocks, peep, nascar, tv, NFL gone. I also tried moving SocialNetworkProvider.apk to my sdcard and rebooted. I got an error once it restarted that I just hit ok to. But my Hero has been sitting pretty with 69 mb of ram with my usual apps running. I'm putting it back because I'm not sure what else it may be breaking.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] thecodemonk:
mmm...placebo...good stuff. ;)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Nanan00:
Has anyone tried killing the stock Messenger app? the battery killing one?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] thorracing1:
nice guide
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] johnsongrantr:
just installed modoco 1.1, removed all that bloat sprint crap, noticed my visual voicemail is gone

can someone adb pull the visual voicemail app post it?

I dumped sprint core as I removed all the other sprint crap I don't use, i don't know if visual voicemail requires sprint core or not but as a just in case throw that in there as well.

kinda big favor... thanks in advace.

-Grant
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] thorracing1:
ill get it for you hold on a sec
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] VoXHTC:
have a hell of a time now when I go to remove any app no matter which I remove I get that damn com.htc.provider has stopped working... ZOMFG i'm gonna go nutz.

The different apps that I've removed that no one seems to have removed for some SECRET reason -.-

Sprint_Navigation.apk

the twitter apk and odex
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] thorracing1:
here ya go ill i see is the sprint core i dont see voicemail maybe the voicemail is in the sprint core you can try let me know
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] maejrep:
This is why you should backup all the apk files first ;) Here's what I did (I'm on linux, unfortunately there's probably not an "easy" way to do the same thing on windows, but you could probably just cp -r the /system/app/ directory to /sdcard/, and then pull it that way):

madcoder ~ $ mkdir hero-apps
madcoder ~ $ cd hero-apps
madcoder ~/hero-apps $ for x in $(adb shell ls /system/app | sed -r "s/\r//g"); do adb pull /system/app/$x .; done ; echo
madcoder ~/hero-apps $ ls
AccountManager.apk
AccountManager.odex
...
madcoder ~/hero-apps $

Now I have every apk and odex file that was in /system/app/, and I can restore it any time I want. Also nice for digging into the apk/odex files to see what's in it.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] maejrep:
Note, "goldfish" is the emulator, not the Hero phone. You'll notice in that .sh files that it checks for things like kernel boot params, in order to set the "noanim" property. So that means you can pass "android.bootanim=0" on the kernel boot command line, and in the case of goldfish (emulator ONLY!), it would bypass the boot animation.

You can't modify that kernel boot command line unless you modify and re-flash the boot.img and recovery.img. You might be able to modify /system/build.prop to set one or both of those properties mentioned in the goldfish init script, but that's no guarantee that it's going to prevent the boot animation. If you want to try it, just add those properties into /system/build.prop, and reboot, to see if it removes the animation:

ro.kernel.android.bootanim=0
debug.sf.nobootanimation=1

Also for those of you planning to try modifying the boot_animation.xml file, pay attention to the XML comments (<!-- .. -->). Note that ONLY the middle "For cropped version" section is active. The other two sections at the top and bottom of the file are commented out. Might help save you some time if you try modifying it and can't figure out why it's not working :)

EDIT: One or both of these techniques does work! I added the two lines to build.prop, *and* I commented out the middle section of the boot_animation.xml file, and it rebooted without the boot animation/sound, and that sped up boot times noticeably. It actually booted so fast that by the time the android GUI was loaded, and before the HTC Lockscreen loaded, it had a generic "No service" text that moved around the screen like a screensaver. If someone tries commenting out the section of boot_animation.xml and notices that it doesn't boot any faster, try adding the two lines to build.prop and see if that speeds it up for you.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] johnsongrantr:
yea that was it... sprint_core = visual voicemail.... weird... but thx really apperciate it
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] thorracing1:
no problem man
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Bradart:
In windows cmd, how can i copy the apks i delete in case i want them back later? (I work in phone sales and that nfl app may come in handy down the line as a demo)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] thecodemonk:
"adb pull /system/app/filename.apk filename.apk" should pull it to the directory you are in on windows. :)

If all else fails, go into "adb shell" and into root, then copy it to the sdcard:

"mv /system/app/filename.apk /sdcard/filename.apk"
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ElAguila:
Would it be possible to create a list on the first page of the crapware apps that are safe to be nuked so that we have them all in one place instead of scattered?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] thecodemonk:
It looks like someone else already started a thread about this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=581976
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] stealthpaws:
ok...what we have here gentlemen (& ladies?) is someone who knows N O T H I N G about commands, backing up operating systems on phones.... or even what "rooting" means. I was just trying to find a way to rid my Hero of those stupid apps mentioned in this thread...because the freebie un-installer tells me it is unable to do it. I'm terrified to even attempt trying to go through the processes shown here. Is there ANY way to get rid of said apps without ... um...well, for me, probably destroying my new phone? I'm familiar with a lot of computer stuff..even good at some of it...but this is WAY beyond my current ability. Help? or is it hopeless? Thanks for having patience with super-noob.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] thecodemonk:
There is hope for you, fear not!

First step first: you do need root for your phone to get rid of the apps.

Follow the steps at this link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=581577

Stop before the part that reads "adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /sdcard/" (unless you want to flash that on there...it's not a bad idea as it has one of the best backup and recovery methods available to us, nandroid).

Next, this thread is for you for the actual removal of the apps: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=581635

Most of the names are pretty self explanatory...if you're in doubt, leave it alone (or ask or search other threads around here)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] noXn:
So, I managed to figure out how to properly root my phone...

Now, in the sense of removing programs, I don't know where to go in command prompt, or where to even begin to start it from. I literally need this step by step, in depth explanations if possible. I've been trying everything. Any info would be greatly appreciated!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] theraginasian:
*Update: I decided to remove Sprint Navigation as well. So far, so good!

Excellent post thank you. Just to let everyone know what I removed:

# rm Sprint_Nscar.apk

# rm Sprint_Nscar.odex

# rm Sprint_NFL.apk

# rm Sprint_NFL.odex

# rm Stock.apk

# rm Stock.odex

# rm com.htc.StockWidget.apk

# rm com.htc.StockWidget.odex

# rm HtcTwitter.apk

# rm HtcTwitter.odex

# rm com.htc.TwitterWidget.apk

# rm com.htc.TwitterWidget.odex

# rm HtcFootprints.apk

# rm HtcFootprints.odex

# rm HtcFootprintsWidget.apk

# rm HtcFootprintsWidget.odex

# rm Sprint_Navigator.apk

# rm Sprint_Navigator.odex

PLEASE NOTE: You may receive an error similar to this during deletion:

rm: cannot remove 'Sprint_Nscar.odex': No such file or directory

This simply means that the app was never opened to allow creation of an odex file. No worries, this is actually ideal, as it means you had less you had to delete in the first place. Good to be safe and remove both the apk and odex files, for either one left behind can respawn each other!

MoDaCo 1.1 ROM FTW! Internal phone storage is up to 102MB (I haven't tried apps2sd yet!)!

Rebooted, no force closes! Definitely seems faster!

Oh, and for anyone who needs, I backed up every app before I deleted it on my phone (adb pull /system/app/NAME_OF_APP.apk ~/).

Happy rooting!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] herzzreh:
Could you tar them and send them to me or attach here please?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] noonanjs:
major issue after rm some of the files I did not want my phone keeps saying " the process com.htc.provider has stopped unexpectedly. please try agian" and then it make me force close, and it just keeps doing this over and over PLEASE HELP!!!!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] tstack77:
You gotta restore your backup then keep a log of the items you deleted in the future. So far this is all pretty much trial/error, you just found an error :rolleyes:
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] noonanjs:
I ****ed up the back up procedure, and I do not have one can anyone please supply a virgin back up, or will moving to the a new rom fix this
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] tstack77:
A new rom will fix it.

Side for everyone else, deleting IMPlugins.apk will cause a 'com.htc.provider' error cycle.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] thecodemonk:
Can't get more virgin than these:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=559622

Last link is ours. :)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] gqukyo:
Really? I deleted that just fine... Not sure if my Gtalk client works as it's always trying to connect but I don't even use gtalk anyway so no lost for me although I do want to know if Talk.apk is actually gtalk so I can remove it... :rolleyes:
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] tstack77:
That's very odd that you can delete that without issue. I broke up my delete list into parts and worked from there. When I got the 'com.htc.provider' error I then deleted item by item until I could completely rule others out. Each time I deleted only IMPlugins.apk it threw the error.

I wonder if there is another dependency that either you or I missed somehow.

hmm
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Negrito:
Im not getting a 'cycle'... Just two errors then everything is fine for a while. then just two errors and everything is fine for a while...

Also, if i 'push' that file back to my Hero and restart i should be fixed, right? (In theory)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] jtmercutio:
# rm Stock.apk

rm Stock.apk

rm failed for Stock.apk, Read-only file system

# rm stock.odex

rm stock.odex

rm failed for stock.odex, Read-only file system

# rm Sprint_TV.apk

rm Sprint_TV.apk

rm failed for Sprint_TV.apk, Read-only file system

#

Anyone know what I am doing wrong?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] theraginasian:
Either you are not root, or you forgot to...

You either don't have root access, or you forgot to use this line before performing any remove operations:

# mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

You need to use this line every time you decide to make changes to the filesystem (like removing unwanted apps! Don't forget to su before trying to run the command!). Good luck!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] jtmercutio:
got it. I typed the above line (# mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system) and then did the rm Stock.apk and it removed it

Thanks!!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] brock1909:
i removed a bunch of apps, but i dont have any exttra space on the phone....confused.

the apps are not in the list of installed apps anymore, so that means i had done it right, right?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] johnsongrantr:
reboot and all shall be revealed
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] brock1909:
i did that i even went back in and took more out, and still only 70mb free
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] johnsongrantr:
are you using "df" linux command?

how exactly are you checking free space?

are you refering to hdd(nand) space or ram utilization?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] brock1909:
wow, i feel stupid not know what you are talking abuot.

i check free space on the phone by going to settings, sd card and phone storage and look at Internal Phone Storage available space, it says 69mb

HTCCamera.odex

HTCNew.apk

CertificateService.apk

GoogleSubscribedFeedsProvider.

Mail.apk

# rm HtcRingtoneTrimmer.apk

rm HtcRingtoneTrimmer.apk

# rm HtcRingtoneTrimmer.odex

rm HtcRingtoneTrimmer.odex

#

is that right in terms of things being removed correctly? ( jsut a small snippet of the bottom of the cmd window)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] johnsongrantr:
nand space is what you are checking when you go to internal storage

removing those 2 apps should free up space but it also depends on how much space those 2 apps take... note each apk is probally 500k-1.5mb each some smaller some larger... every little bit helps though

rebooting should show the new free space after changes are made with the procedure you mentioned
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] brock1909:
it doesnt though. i removed a whole list of applications, and only to have 69mb free. something isnt right.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] johnsongrantr:
in adb shell

change to root by issueing the "su" command

then issue the "df" command

it should show you exact numbers as far as disk utilization... see if it matches the 69MB you were mentioning

may be a bug in that area of settings... i have never checked it that way so I cannot confirm or deny that utility to work correctly
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] brock1909:
C:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell

$ su

su

# df

df

/dev: 98412K total, 0K used, 98412K available (block size 4096)

/sqlite_stmt_journals: 4096K total, 4K used, 4092K available (block size 4096)

/system: 174080K total, 145236K used, 28844K available (block size 4096)

/data: 163328K total, 91852K used, 71476K available (block size 4096)

/cache: 133120K total, 4476K used, 128644K available (block size 4096)

/sdcard: 7901184K total, 2100192K used, 5800992K available (block size 32768)

#

did i do that correctly?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] johnsongrantr:
that is correct if too confusing do "df -h" give you a more plesent readout of size/used/available/% used/and what partition

your main areas of concern are /system and /data and /sdcard if you want... don't worry about the rest

/data is your user space... the areas you can touch and install market crap to

/system is android's alloted space... where you remove built in apps from

/sdcard is your sd card.... well duh...

hopefully this doesn't confuse you but it is extremely accurate and useful if you know how to read it
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] redram38:
I removed Nascar, Stocks, and amazonmp3, when I reboot I get HTC process error. I had to restore back to just get the phone to boot back up. What did I do wrong
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ajones7279:
You must've removed something else too right? I've removed all those and more without problems.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] redram38:
I didn't think I did but you never know. This is my first time doing something like this. I will try again.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] DiNoise:
Can somebody please help me with removing some apps from MoDaCo rom?

I've removed apps on stock rom with > rm *appname*.apk < and it worked fine,

now when i list all apps installed on Modaco rom i get bunch of them displayed differently, here are some of them:

C:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
# cd /system/app
cd /system/app
# ls
ls
←[0;0mAccountManager.apk←[0m ←[0;0mHtcTwitter.apk←[0m
←[0;0mAccountManager.odex←[0m ←[0;0mHtcTwitter.odex←[0m
←[0;0mAndroidNotes.apk←[0m ←[0;0mIM.apk←[0m
←[0;0mBrowser.apk←[0m ←[0;0mIM.odex←[0m
←[0;0mBrowser.odex←[0m ←[0;0mIMPlugins.apk←[0m
←[0;0mCalculator.apk←[0m ←[0;0mIMPlugins.odex←[0m
←[0;0mCalculator.odex←[0m ←[0;0mIQRD.apk←[0m
←[0;0mCalendar.apk←[0m ←[0;0mIQRD.odex←[0m

so if i wanna remove AndroidNotes.apk for example, and it shows:

←[0;0mAndroidNotes.apk←[0m

which command do i enter?

thanks in advance

EDITED:

NEVERMIND, it seems to be working with regular rm appname.apk command, for some reason it didnt work for me before
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] thecodemonk:
The funky commands are due to the windows shell not interpretting color correctly. If you want to see it normally again use the following command:

ls --color=none
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] DiNoise:
thanks, ill try that next time
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] LeftonJackman:
I second that! :D
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Askym:
Is anyone having their awake time at 100%??? i rooted just fine and unfortunatly i did not notice anything about nandroid backup till the 3rd page of thread. i removed the bloatapps that i wanted gone like sprint tv and nfl and stocks. after those were removed i noticed my awake time at 100% and have since done a hard reset. as some of you are finding out the bloat apps dont come back after a hard reset. is there someplace i can get all the apps added to the phone for sprint?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Aridon:
Anyone remove Sprint navigation?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Negrito:
Do you realize you removed your camera? Which program is GoogleSubscribedFeedsProvider? I see you removed the mail app, do you get any force close, or errors?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] doojer:
Awesome! I removed NASCAR, NFL, Stocks and Amazon MP3. I think I'm going back for more.... ;)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] N0J:
Anyone know a cmd I can use to copy a file into a locked 'read-only' folder?

ex: /system/media

Right now I'm running mocado for cdma hero
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] BigBallin:
i keep getting this

rm failed for stock.apk, No such file or directory
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ajones7279:
It's case-sensitive. Stock.apk, not stock.apk.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] BigBallin:
doh!! you are my hero..just keep following me around and answering my question mmmkay? lol
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ELIMINATED:
I go in through Terminal Emulator and input adb shell and get permission denied. What step did I miss? Forgot to add, I am rooted.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Thann:
If you using the emulator on the phone then you don't need to adb shell. Just start with su and go from there.

adb shell is how you make a link from your computer to the device you want to enter commands on. Android Debug Bridge = adb