How-To : Removing sprint bloatware (with root)

[Somatic]

Could it be that not being able to use it in recovery mode due to a directory not found error is the issue?

 

[KSmithInNY]

Could it be that not being able to use it in recovery mode due to a directory not found error is the issue?

EDIT - Sorry, I think i misread your other posts before replying. Heres a different reply ...

Your phone is in recovery mode correct? Also, while its in recovery mode you need to keep the DOS window (assuming you using windows) open that recovery-windows opens. Dont close that window. When you leave recovery mode the window will close automatically.

I've flashed a new ROM (doing some testing) so unfortunately i dont have the same setup as you but it worked perfectly for me earlier.

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

OHHHHH, got it.

 

[Somatic]

Haha,
I wasn't in recovery mode using the batch file.
I noticed you listed a twitter.apk
There is also a htc.facebook.apk

Thanks Guys!

 

[xbox4414]

Looks like I'm having an issue...

c:\android\tools>adb reboot recovery
c:\android\tools>adb shell
- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -

c:\android\tools>

 

[KSmithInNY]

Looks like I'm having an issue...

try this

C:\Android_stuff\android-sdk-windows\tools (insert your own path, this is an example)
C:\Android_stuff\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell (this will be your path, as stated above this is an example)
# reboot recovery

 

[MisterEd]

This is update and works as of 6/5

With all the new android owners, this one is bound to come up a million times so here we go.


WARNING. USING THIS ROOT METHOD WILL PREVENT PROTECTED APPS FROM SHOWING IN THE MARKET AND AS OF 6/5 THE ONLY FIX IS TO FLASH A CUSTOM ROM THAT BREAKS 4G BUT ALSO RE-ADD'S ALL THE APK'S YOU'RE TRYING TO REMOVE. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

What do you mean by "protected apps" in the market? Are you referring to any apps you have to pay for or is that something different?

 

[KSmithInNY]

What do you mean by "protected apps" in the market? Are you referring to any apps you have to pay for or is that something different?

Correct, apps that cost money are called "protected apps". Haven't gotten to his thread to find out if this has changed or not because i have an 8-5 job (don't tell my boss)

 

[antianalog]

says my file system is read only. tried mount -o remount,rw / but to no avail
anyone?

 

[MisterEd]

Correct, apps that cost money are called "protected apps". Haven't gotten to his thread to find out if this has changed or not because i have an 8-5 job (don't tell my boss)

Thanks. That's what I figured. I thought they were called "PAID APPS" or "AIN'T FREE APPS." Never heard that term before.

 

[KSmithInNY]

Looks like I'm having an issue...

This user is fixed. If you see the same message as he was seeing you have rebooted to recovery but did not launch (and leave open) the Windows-Recovery.bat

 

[KSmithInNY]

says my file system is read only. tried mount -o remount,rw / but to no avail
anyone?

Are you in recovery when trying to delete the apps? The only time the system is write-able is in recovery

1) reboot to recovery
2) launch windows-recovery.bat (leave the windows-recovery.bat CMD window open)
3) Now try removing the apps using the SDK CMD window

 

[dbpaddler]

so in going the root route, I'm pretty much giving up editing documents via DTG, correct? That'll suck. Took forever with 2.1 on the Moment to get protected apps back. Do you think that app issue will be addressed any time soon? The whole reason I'm coming back to Android from webOS is to get my document editing back.

 

[KSmithInNY]

so in going the root route, I'm pretty much giving up editing documents via DTG, correct? That'll suck. Took forever with 2.1 on the Moment to get protected apps back. Do you think that app issue will be addressed any time soon? The whole reason I'm coming back to Android from webOS is to get my document editing back.

It almost sounds like your going to do this just to do it, in the meantime losing a function you really want. If you want to edit documents, keep the phone on the stock rom so you can use DTG, run unrEVOked (too allow you to run root apps if you want), and wait. This phone is really young, give these guys some time, I promise all will get worked out soon.

Regarding the moment comment ... most the Hero dev's have switched over to EVO (Jerry, Keith, Damage, Toast, Flipz on and on and on and on). These are the best of the best of the best, period.

 

[Bradlo]

its Sprint_Nscar.apk
Thats the only one thats named differently. if you do it right, there is no message, just continues to the next #

for a complete list of apps in the /system/app directory, fire up the shell and type:
ls /system/app/

you can then verify the spelling of everything you want to remove as everything is case sensitive

For me, it was Sprint_NASCAR.apk

 

[KSmithInNY]

For me, it was Sprint_NASCAR.apk

Rufflez was referring to the APK from the Hero, it was named differently back then I believe. Despite not having gotten his EVO yet, he still is kind enough to grace the EVO forums with his endless knowledge.

 

[DomSim]

k, you posted in the
RvU thread to bring discussiong here, i am trying to add friend stream back with little success. i reboot to recovery and run the bat file and get into recovery, adb shell, then do as follows;
# mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mount -r -w /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mount: mounting /dev/block/mtdblock4 on /system failed: Device or resource busy
# push c:\android\tools\FriendStream.apk /system/app/
push c:\android\tools\FriendStream.apk /system/app/
push: not found
recovery.bat cmd window is still open, this is in a new cmd window.

 

[Saepak]

DomSim, exit out of shell, in cmd window do

adb push filename.apk //system/app/
adb push filename.odex //system/app/

that is what worked for me. I am in the process of writing it all up for everyone. also you must have the recovery up and running.

 

[KSmithInNY]

DomSim, exit out of shell, in cmd window do

adb push filename.apk //system/app/
adb push filename.odex //system/app/

that is what worked for me. I am in the process of writing it all up for everyone. also you must have the recovery up and running.

@Sae,

If you're going to write it up, also write the steps for adb pull and I'll get it up on the main posting and toss you the cred. The reason I mention adb pull is so people aren't flocking in here looking for the apk's they deleted and this thread can stay relatively clean.

EDIT - Or you could make a zip of all the stock APK's and odex (sorry, im at my day job and im stuck till 11pm tonight) from system/app, zip it, have someone host it for you and I'll post the link on the main page so people can download all the APK's at once. This would be contingent of the size of the file once it's compressed of course.

 

[Saepak]

Will do. I'm not going to be able to pull what all of the stock stuff since I am running the RvU1.3.1. It is pretty striped. I wish I would of done that before I custom rom'ed this thing. Oh well, but I will get the write up done here in a little while. Sorry for miss understanding you last night on the posts over in the RvU thread. It was a long day, and I was missing things. That is why I didn't work on the write up last night since I know it would of had to been edited more than it was worth.