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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] MR_XXIV:
How do I delete some of the Google apps that came with my G2 ? I rooted my phone thanks to your app but I want some info if what I want to do is even possible. Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Stryder5:
I made a script that will disable the apps you want. I'll post it later so you don't need knowledge of adb.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] apueb008:
So, what services/background apps are "safe" to disable in this list other than those OP chose?

I would personally like to disable server.vpn, as I will never use VPN on this phone.

Would someone be kind enough to post some details about these packages???

Thank you.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Mftek1:
Sweet! That would be awesome.

Thanks brotha!

Sent from my T-Mobile G2
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Stryder5:
Most of them are pretty self explanatory. Just compare the package name with the names of the apps in your drawer. If you aren't sure of something, I suppose you could either google it or ask here.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] konoplya:
That's bad ass, thanks. I did fugure out adb though, at least enough to be able to disable the apps I wanted
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] paulobrien:
note:

pm_pkg_list=$pm_pkg_list" com.google.android.apps.genie.geniewidget"

is News and Weather widget (I know some people might want this, I use it!) and

pm_pkg_list=$pm_pkg_list" com.google.android.talk"

is Google Talk, strange things can happen if you remove it, and

pm_pkg_list=$pm_pkg_list" com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox"

is the desktop search box widget.

Nice work on the script tho! :)

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tankmorph:
Does a factory reset bring everything back? I would think it would, but just asking to see if anyone has tried that.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ZeroSX:
All changes are made to /data, so yeppers, factory reset will set everything back to stock.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mgshute:
Great work!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Stryder5:
Yep, you are correct. I noted what I removed up in that post. If you remove the widgets off your home screen, then you won't run into any problems disabling these packages. Haven't had any problems disabling Talk either. I completely removed them back on my G1 when it was rooted and used it fine on a daily basis. It does definitely boil down to personal preference what you want disabled or not so feel free to change it up as needed :)

Yes, or you can follow the instructions to re-enable all the disabled packages.

Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] alexjgonzalez:
Carhome won't hide on my fone.I followed instructions and it said it was disabled.but it still appears after I force stop launcher.help wud b much appreciatedd.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Stryder5:
Looks like there are 2 packages. Did you disable both?

com.android.cardock

com.google.android.carhome
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] pak256:
Thank you, this was just what I wanted
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] JonJace24:
New User

i jus want to say say thanks Paul im new to Android, Use to be an iPhone user, and just with your tips i've learned a lot with android.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] asarousi:
So I disabled TTS because I had no idea what it was. It removed voice guidance from my navigation. so I entered pm enable com.google.tts to enable it and it appeared again on my tray...yet google navigation still is giving my chimes instead of voice turn by turn directions. What do?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] larryccf:
damn, just read your post and checked mine - i'd done the same and no voice instructions on nav - tks for the heads up, i wouldn't have noticed till i went to use it

in case, the command line is " pm enable android.tts " - i just enabled it and voice instructions returned
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] asarousi:
Yeah, I enabled it also, with no luck...does anyone know what step i'm mising? I've force stopped the launcher after enabling it again.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] paulobrien:
TTS = Text To Speech. ;)

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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Dansfloyd:
My advice: If you dont know what it is, research it, or leave it alone... especially since there is no way of doing a Nandroid Backup. Could be disabling something important.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] falco1030:
I just got my G2 couple of days ago and wanted to disabled the stock apps. I followed your how to disabled the G2 stock apps(Web2Go, Photobucket, Finance, Listen, Google Translate and Goggles) and it worked. Now, I see disabled apps' icons have changed to Android icons and they don't show up in the list of all app icons...I followed every step..did I do something wrong?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Futant:
Memory Leak?

After disabling stock apps using Titanium Backup's Freeze App" feature I have about 250mb (+-5mb) of free memory from a fresh boot. After a day or so of leaving the phone on, the free memory drops to about 150mb, give or take 5mb until I reboot and I have the full 250 back. After experiencing the drop in free memory I killed every app and every running service manually and was only about to recover about 35mb, never able to get back up to the 250mb free I have from a fresh boot.

It seems to bottom out at about 150mg at about the 12 hour mark after a fresh boot. I have had the phone on for about 48 hours sitting at 150mb free just to see if it would drop lower and it really hasn't

Anybody have any ideas as to what is happening? Is this normal?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] alexjgonzalez:
Thanx bro that's exactly what I needed to do.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gariak:
Did this ever get figured out? It drives me crazy!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Xerott:
That's exactly what disabling them does. You can just delete the icons off your home screen.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] randalla0622:
This should be normal. Linux will typically keep allocated memory mapped after it has been freed so that it can quickly provide it when requested. Basically what you should be looking at if availabe is inactive memory. Not sure if the Android UI shows inactive or free when reporting resources but this may be what you are seeing.

Also I recommend that you not be overly anal about this and let the OS do what it was designed to do. If your launcher is constantly reloading then maybe you have a bad program running that should be uninstalled. With 2.0 and above memory management has been quite good.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Neejay:
For those of you that donated for Titanium Backup (not sure if it's in the free version or not), this option is in that as well. Not sure how long it's been there, but it's there. You "freeze" the app from within Titanium Backup.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] wheeliest:
Anybody know how to disable com.google.android.deskclock? I use alarm clock plus...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] techemically:
Does anyone know the package name for quickoffice? I cannot seem to find it so I can disable that app.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Ssantos6981:
Didn't know that's what freeze did. Still this method works great right from my terminal on the phone. Nice shtuff. How can I disable latitue?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] pnjabi:
com.qo.android.oeme
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] techemically:
Thanks man! :) what about home screen tips? What's the package name for that one?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] chiguy:
I'm interested in this too. Glancing over the pm usage info, I didn't see it in there.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Akulamenuri:
Not sure if this will help anyone out but I disabled my apps via Gscript. I composed a file in Notepad++ so I can always refer back to it to see which apps I disabled so I can make changes later. This is a screenshot of my file.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] sinistersai4d4d:
Hey you should upload this script.... but only have it remove obvious bloatware. For instance, I would leave Twitter, Facebook, Google voice etc... I don't know anybody using photobucket or amazon, but they could always reinstall those from the market.

fyi, your code for Google Listen is wrong.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] weber09:
Thank You!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Akulamenuri:
Good catch :p, i'm still new to this kind of thing. These are the programs that are disabled in paulobrien's original post

pm disable com.tmobile.selfhelp
pm disable com.google.android.maps.mytracks
pm disable com.google.android.apps.unveil
pm disable com.google.android.apps.listen
pm disable com.htc.web2goshortcut
pm disable com.amazon.mp3
pm disable com.google.android.apps.googlevoice
pm disable com.photobucket.android
pm disable com.htc.android.htcsetupwizard
pm disable com.google.android.apps.finance
pm disable com.twitter.android
pm disable com.google.android.apps.translate

This is the Gscript file for the same applications

Disable Bloatware

This is the file minus Twitter and Google Voice

Diabled Bloatware Modified
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Reignzone:
So, if you don't mind me asking... how can we officially update some of these system applications such as, Google Goggles... after disabling it?

I can't seem to update that ONE APPLICATION from within the marketplace, even though an update is available.

Is there a way to update Goggles while it's disabled, because I did disable the application, and yet wasn't able to update it.

Any insights? :rolleyes:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] sinistersai4d4d:
Nobody can update Goggles. That's a known G2 issue that google has to fix with an OTA.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Reignzone:
I see.

Hmph.

Well, I wasn't aware of this... because it would seem that a few testimonies would suggest otherwise.

Some folks have told me that they were able to update Goggles, from within the marketplace without hesitation.

I'm wondering if like everything else, it's based on specific handsets. I mean, they are all different, right? :rolleyes:

Bummer.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Shambala001:
My guess would be no because all G2's have the same image, which is where the problem lies (I could be wrong)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] fryrice8850:
So if I want to run one of those apps will I be able to after disable? It just get rid of them during boot right...sry I didn't want to read through 20 pgs of stuff
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Shambala001:
Disabling a app freezes it and hides it from the launcher. Freezing means that it will not be able to run nor will it be loaded into memory. However it still does take up space on the phone because it is still installed. And yes you can enable apps once you disable them.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Stryder5:
This was answered at the beginning of the second page:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] naria01:
Anyone know which program string "latitude" is under? I don't use it, and frankly its a waste for me...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Shambala001:
Im not sure you could remove this since its part of the Maps app, I could look into it later though
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] veritasaequita:
that is correct it is part of maps and cant remove it. As long as not ran for first time its as if its never run at all. so no clicky clicky.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] naria01:
Crap, I would like to get rid of the shortcut eh'...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mike1986.:
Does anyone know how to remove icon from the launcher? I disabled com.amazon.mp3 but the icon remains. It wasn't updated. I can't even launch it because only English and German are supported. Now when I click on the icon it says that process com.amazon.mp3 was forced to close so I disabled is successfully but why the icon is still there?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] sinistersai4d4d:
With launcherpro or adw you can hide anything you want in the launcher.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mike1986.:
Actually I'm using the default launcher :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] sinistersai4d4d:
My comment still stands... I figured you were using the default.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Soniboy84:
Hi!

I'm looking for an application, that quickly kills my battery if it's low, so I can do a full charge to improve battery life.

Something, that I launch, I put my phone on the desk, have a tea meanwhile, and it's drained! Something, that turns on wifi, do some downloading, browsing, video playing, or whatever, and does it automatically without supervision. Does such app exists?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ADeadlySpoon:
I'll second this, it'd be nice to have an app do this for me and maybe even give us some interesting stats from it? :p

Sent from my mind using telepathy
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Adevem:
why would you want an application to destroy your battery?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Soniboy84:
Apparently if you do a full discharge the battery life will be longer.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Byr0x:
not really, you should avoid deep discharges...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] miketwn:
+1 If you had been reading around...you would know Lithium Ion batteries are designed to 'maximize' their efficiency within about two weeks of 'top up' charging. Cycle-charging is generally considered a less efficient method of charging. You will need to 'TopUp charge' this means charging as much and as often as possible. If your battery is at 89% for instance and you find yourself near a socket, plug your adapter in and charge it up to 100%. After a few days of doing this you will notice an improvement in the life of your battery when you are not able to charge.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] xxgg:
Actually,,,

It is not matter of running your battery down to 0%.

It is ok to run it down till phone does to power on itself.

As you know battery is a single cell Li-Ion @ 3.7v

when it is fully charged it's peak voltage is 4.2v

By the time battery mah is drained down (galaxy s has 1500mah)

battery voltage should be around 3.2~3.4v range. this will depend on condition of the battery.

Battery should never go below 3.2v personally, 3.4v is my cut off.

If your battery voltage goes below 3.2v... it's time for a new battery as this kind of voltage will damage your battery, either it will leak or puff (battery will actually get bloated.

Phone has a voltage cut off so it will not over charge over 4.2v but if it does, it will likely start to smoke and catch fire.

I am sure anyone who is into electric Radio control knows all about these batteries.

Oh btw,,, long time storage voltage should be 3.8v

You'll be asking how do I know what voltage my battery is... I personallly don't know of any apps but GPS Status actually shows the temperature & voltage of your battery.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] An Droid:
First, take into consideration the comments above regarding deep discharge of your battery...but, to answer your question, there's an app in the market place called 'Battery Refresh' which attempts to drain your battery quicker.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Soniboy84:
Well if it's all true above than its a good sign, and thanks for the info! I'm not an expert but in the old times I remember batteries had to discharged completely, maybe even if it's just a few times. Now somebody can also tell me why my battery is discharging when it's plugged in the socket with original charger? All I do is using the internet, and has. nimbuzz and a live wallpaper on. :S
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] EarlZ:
You could probably enable the GPS/BT/WIFI ( connected to a router ) and run the interactive mode on Neocore benchmark.. that should enable most of the hardware components on the phone and stress the GPU/CPU.. probably would see a 25% battery drain for every 35-40mins.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] xxgg:
I don't know what has changed with the batteries but as far as I know...

it is good to discharge new batteries 3~4 times down until phone does not power on.

Like I have said... it's about the voltage of the battery, not whether battery has any juice left in it or not.

These batteries have a protective circuitry so that it will not charge over 4.2v,

also as for discharge it is usually down to 3v but usually with a charger/discharger units that can control mah/volts/amps. With typical usage from the phone, it'll likely be discharged down to about 3.2`3.4v. Which is very safe.

You can do whatever you feel but I personally do this to every batteries I have for phone and every batteries I use with my radio controled cars.

For my RC cars, I have about 6 batteries ranging from 1cell to 3cell LiPo packs.

Each cell is 3.7volts.

But you don't have to force discharge and hurry the process.

Just use the phone normally and let it run down to nothing... than recharge to full peak.

Than again, choice is yours.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Kel Ghu:
I'm looking for the same kind of applications. It's very useful for recalibrating your battery. Wipe the battery history then do a full cycle.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] mhale71:
The old saying in RC Helicopters was that the difference between discharging 50% and 100% was the difference between getting 500 uses and 5 uses.

You should certainly avoid ever fully dischaging any lithium based battery.

Older nickel batteries (Ni-cd, Ni-MH) required full dischage cycles to get rid of memory the the metals pertained, lithium-ion and lithium-ion-polymer not only do not require this; but doing so will damage them.

And yes, the older ipods came with Nimh cells and they did reccomended full discharge cycles.

Im pretty sure the idea was to try not to let the voltage get below 3.5v/cell and never below 3.3. Dead flat is 3 or 2.85 which is when the battery simply cant produce any real current. The phone should have circuitry though to not let the voltage get above 4.25 or below ~3.5.. If the low battery warning comes on, set the brightness to dim, and stop any activities (unless its a phone call, its not THAT important but if youre playing games or watching a movie...) until yo can get to a charger.

By the way this being my first post (i meant to ages ago) Ill just mention that my galaxy S came with recovery mode and download mode Enabled, i got it just last month, Virgin network, Australia.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] baste07:
draining the battery fully was for the older battery types, new age batteries are not recommended to be drained fully
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Soniboy84:
Thanks!

One more question:

I'm using my phone as a desktop replacement, because I don't have Internet at the moment. I'm using xda, dolphin browser and listening music. It's plugged into the mains and it's not charging. It says 49%, and stuck there. Is it possible I'm using too much battery?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] xxgg:
Ok, this will be my last reply.

Fully draining or not is not the issue.

In RC, most modern electronic speed controllers have a built-in battery cut-off which will cut off power once it reaches certain voltage. Because OVER-draining battery without cut off can damage/kill/ or make it unable to hold voltage.

Also, once the battery voltage reach certain point (still within safe range) you will notice the motor being powered slow down. This would also be a recommended time to stop.

Cellular phones have built in safe cut off aswell. As I have said I have measured my battery after being full drained, voltage was around 3.55v or so. Which is very normal considering voltage of the battery is 3.7v only with peak charged voltage of 4.2.

Now, Someone mentioned that fully draining your battery repeatedly will dramatically reduce battery life.

Reducing life of the battery has more to do with the amount of AMP used to charge the battery. Faster charging is usually reduce battery life dramatically.

And without hobby grade chargers, you won't be able to control this charge rate.

Slow charge is better but charging at 1C rating is the normal. But charging at 1C means regardless of batteries mah rating, battery can be charged in about 60 minutes. As we all know, our phone batteries doesn't charge from zero to full in 60minutes, right? just like most of the portable devices it takes nearly 3~4hours to fully recharge. Last 20% usually takes longer because Amp provided to charge slowly lowers. That is why.

For example, if Galaxy S battery is 1500mah, than 1C charge rate is @ 1.5amp.

If battery is 3000Mah, 1C is 3.0Amps and so on.

So like I have said over and over before, drain your battery away if you have to by choice or not. Just use it up, I will bet you your battery will last longer than you keep your phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] shrooms90:
U should avoid draining ur battery to 0% (witch is not possible with ur phone. When it shows 0% the charge of the battery is at 10-15%). Li-ion batteries dont have a memory effect, so it would be usless discharching it completely anyhow. Best for sgs battery is charging it before it goes under 50% that will improve the lifetime of ur battery (not how long it lasts before u have to charge but how long it lasts before u have to go and buy a new one)

How do i know? Simply cause i had to learn that a few weeks ago for the job im learning.

@xxgg: yes ur right, it wont really damage the battery if u runn it till thr phone shows its empty. But using an app to drain battery as quick as possible will, since the app forces the battery to give out more Ampere than its built to give out
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] vinaytoday:
Hello seniors i m new to this forum .i have a htc p3300 arte100 when i power on its stuck on htc logo n shows

ipl 3.07.001

spl 3.07.000

gsm 02.69.90

os 3.7.0.0.

And when i perform hard reset it shows format is failed.

So i rquest all seniors to pls help me toresolve this prob as i m new to htc software
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] NeoS:
This post is an earlier post of your problem, now posted in General. I'll close this post, since this is a development forum, not a Q&A.
[General Questions and Answers] ilgaspa:
Hi,

I understand it's a annoying question.. anyway:

anyone in the forum can provide me the latest Motorola/Symbol MC7596 firmware upgrade? in italian would be better but english will fit too, thanks

Our support period has ended and Motorola refuse to provide us the update unless we pay a HUGE support fee... wich we can't afford. In other words, we are stuck...

Otherwise... we have an already updated Symbol MC75: is there a way to extract the rom and use the dump to update the other units we have?

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] ilgaspa:
No one can help me? :|
[General Questions and Answers] derekBeacroft:
Its a bit late in the day but did you get anywhere with this,

And why did you need to update the rom ?

Dez
[Streak 5 Accessories] dead101:
Just ordered one will review it soon

http://www.istyles.com/ebook-readers-tablets-dell-streak-c-506_799.html
[Streak 5 Accessories] Desibouy:
Wow that looks good. Would love to be able to design your own or go for a cherry red :)

Thanks for the Link :)

Desi
[Streak 5 Accessories] Troute:
Good quality vinyl and easy to fit according to the StreakSmart review.

I don't know who makes those but they are on offer from a few places now, Decal Girl who that site seems to use do a skin that I have on my netbooks called Zen Revisited, I wish it was available for the Streak too.
[Streak 5 Accessories] jerikthompson:
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enjoy...

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[Streak 5 Accessories] Foxhoundep3:
decalgirl has skins for the streak as well, they are really good quality, i was impressed, fit perfectly, i would post pictures later.
[Streak 5 Accessories] Troute:
They are the same skins m8.
[Streak 5 Accessories] sukicat:
They Look very nice but £5.95 for postage is a bit much !!