Like the title says. How do you uninstall stock applications on the Thrill?? For example...I want to use GO SMS or Handcent...so I want to uninstall the stock messaging application. How would I go about doing that?
You first need to acquire root. Then you have a couple options.
I personally just remove the apps I don't want from ROM zip. I heard there is some GUI that does this for you, but its not hard to delete a couple files.. Located in /data/app or /system/app
After that, sign your zip and flash away.
Or you could download a program from the market and 'freeze' the application. It basically remove it but keeps a hard copy as a backup. I don't know the name of the app, but a simple search will tell you.
Titanium backup
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There's an app called "NoBloatFree" in the market. It requires root, and will backup anything you wish to disable/delete, just in case.
If you freeze or remove the phones native messaging app you will not receive any new text messages. I tried and that's what happened.
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Certain system apps like messaging should not be frozen or removed as they may cause unwanted consequences. There's some third party launchers (I know LauncherPro does it for sure) that will allow you to hide apps from showing up in your app drawer.
SpellronHD said:
Like the title says. How do you uninstall stock applications on the Thrill?? For example...I want to use GO SMS or Handcent...so I want to uninstall the stock messaging application. How would I go about doing that?
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Follow above methods for removing system apps. For the record you CAN remove the stock mms.apk and run gosms with no problems at all. I have deleted the stock mms.apk and use gosms and it handles sms and mms just fine. Handcent however can't handle mms without the stock messaging app but it will do sms just fine without it.
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Hey, I just rooted my I896 and installed TitaniumBackup. I want to freeze the stock apps that I won't use and I was wondering if I can safely freeze them. Like, is it okay to freeze the stock music and video players, the default sms reader, and some rogers apps (urMusic, Shop, and Ringtones)?
Thanks
Just freeze them and if there's any troubles Defrost them.
It's not like you're deleting the app, it will still be there on your phone just not
being use
This doesn't belong in here.Should be posted in Q/A forum
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Hi everyone I want to remove the default phone and internet app from my phone. I know how to remove others by just deleting the apk in system/app like the gallery and FM radio, but the phone app is different you get force closes.
I'm using dialler one and opera instead but the default ones still pop up sometimes and because I've changed my dpi to 192 the phone app looks crap and annoying.
Can someone help with this please I did a search and couldn't find anything but to be honest the search in the xda app is below par.
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Hi, i use Titanium Backup for this. It can backup, freeze and uninstall any app.
First i freeze system apps i do not like, so they are still there are can not be used by user or system. If there is no side effect after using mobile and reboot i uninstall app.
Hope this helps - Cheers
You need to be rooted to remove system apps.
Yeah thanks I am rooted used titanium never even thought of trying that have done the phone app but still unsure on the android browser.
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then first freeze it with Titanium, it doesn't hurt
Im just starting this thread because its pretty obvious there are apps that are better then the stock one. Prob most people have two messaging applications on there phone, stock and maybe handcent or gosms. Well im making this thread so people can ask questions and to find out if somehow there is a way to delete the stock app and replace it with the preferred one. Im also sorry if there is a thread for this and if so I will delete this one.
BTW I prefer quickpic heavily over the stock gallery and i was wondering if somehow i could replace the stock gallery with quickpic.
Give your opinions and everything. Is it safe? W.e you wanna say.
posting fail?
i mean, we DO have a freakin themes and apps section AND a Q&A......
this thread hereby does not contain anything development related....
Sorry how do I delete this thread then
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Sorry how do I delete this thread then
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I have already requested it be moved
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Will it get moved to the themes and apps section or deleted?
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Moved to proper forum
This is something that I have wondered too. Can you delete the stock apps and make your favorites the default? I know that anyone can set preferences for which apps open (Miren browser instead of stock android), but would there be any advantages to deleting the stock app completely and replacing it with your alternative? Is it even possible, since some 3rd party apps require the stock apps to be there (messaging apps)? I know that relying on one 3rd party app and not having the stock app (ie music.apk) available could be problematic.
Use a file manager with root capabilities and delete whatever you'd like. Gallery and mms apk can be deleted safely. Obviously, if the 3rd party app requires the system app to function then you should not delete them. What problems are you having with the music app? I use poweramp and deleted the stock music app with no problem.
I just flashed the stock o version, and tried uninstalling the lg sns app, as i thought it is the one that contains Facebook and twitter. After the uninstall my home screen would no longer load and i had to reflash again. How can i remove those apps?
Also on the stock home screen bar how can i change the default messaging link?
Thanks a lot
Ps. I tried searching for these, as i thought these should be common questions, but my searching skills are just horrible.
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Is it even possible to uninstall the LG sns apps from stock rom? Are you rooted? For what I know, it is a system app and cannot be uninstalled like ordinary user apps.
Anyway, if you phone's rooted, you can just download titanium backup and either freeze it or uninstall it from there, should be no problem, I do that too, I don't like the sns apps and some other LG bloatware. I don't know about deleting it manually using apps like root explorer or es explorer will have any negative side effects, but it usually don't.
Cheers!
Yes i am rooted and I tried to remove sns and also F-Secure using Titanium Backup, but thereafter i could not get to my homescreen anymore. I will try it again. Maybe it was something else i did, and not the removal of sns that caused the problem.
While rooted, uninstalling them with Titanium Backup works fine for me.
About the default messaging app on the home screen, if you mean by the 4 icons that is always there.. I don't think you can change it,atleast not easily anyway, there is no options for that.
Actually it's very easy to change the bottom icons in the LG Launcher. Enter the apps-drawer, click menu/edit, then just drag the apps you want down to the bottom icons.
Thanks. That was exactly what i wanted. I tried just dragging without the edit part but that did not work. I was also able to remove sns without problems.
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Actually it's very easy to change the bottom icons in the LG Launcher. Enter the apps-drawer, click menu/edit, then just drag the apps you want down to the bottom icons.
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It works! I though I tried it before when the first time using stock rom 8months ago and it did'nt work! So I thought it will never work for stock rom! Thanks!
Are there any stock apps that other apps rely on to function, or cause the phone to stop working properly if you uninstall them?
For example, Handcent has an option that allows you to make it handle all MMS and SMS messages for the phone. But if you uninstall the stock texting app (Mms.apk) you won't be able to send/receive pictures even with that option enabled.
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"my files" is another one. If you uninstall that you can't upload pics with the email app even if you have another file manager.
And if you remove the task manager, holding home and selecting task manager will obviously cause a fc.
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"my files" is another one. If you uninstall that you can't upload pics with the email app even if you have another file manager.
And if you remove the task manager, holding home and selecting task manager will obviously cause a fc.
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Does that affect the Gmail app and any other email app also or just the one named "Email"?
I'm on Doc's Master ICS V12 and I liked the task manager UI from MyUI Euphoria better. Can I just steal the Task manager apk from one ROM and install it on another or will it break something? Not sure how dependent things like that are on the ROM they're packaged with.
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Does that affect the Gmail app and any other email app also or just the one named "Email"?
I'm on Doc's Master ICS V12 and I liked the task manager UI from MyUI Euphoria better. Can I just steal the Task manager apk from one ROM and install it on another or will it break something? Not sure how dependent things like that are on the ROM they're packaged with.
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That probably will not work. That task manager relies on some miui sources so you will need to do some tinkering to make it work on a non miui rom. So most likely not..
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Yes just the app named email
Also, without "my files" you can't choose your own sound as an alarm With the "clock" app, you can only use system sounds without it
And without the stock gallery you can't change the lock screen wallpaper
This all applies to touch wiz roms, not aosp