Remove stock apps?

[smccloud]

Ok, I am looking at getting a Hero for my next phone. I am wondering though if its possible to remove the NFL & Nascar apps. I have them hidden on my Curve 8330 since I don't use them at all and I'd rather just reclaim the memory on my next phone (I should say I have the install links hidden on my Curve). Or is the Hero like the Curve in the fact that they are just install links?

 

[Darth Pooh#CB]

They are REAL programs installed to ROM, which means they are baked into the device, can't uninstall em.

 

[natrixgli]

Since they are basically advertisements, I would imagine it would be difficult if not impossible to remove them, and possibly a violation of some agreement somewhere.

There is no obvious way to remove them on a stock Hero. Combined they take up a hair over 1MB of storage. (516KB each)

I've installed a handfull of apps (pandora, taskkiller, tunewiki, album art grabber, google voice, shopsavvy, sipdroid, android-vnc-viewer, droid mini golf, amazon.com, phoneflicks, shazam, facebook, battery widget) and I'm showing about 90MB internal storage remaining so I think the gain would be negligable.

Cheers,

-n8

 

[Darth Pooh#CB]

Well, I just removed some apps and some cleared the cache out of some others... went from 47MB to 58MB. I'd love to be at 90MB

We need ROOT so we can install/run from SD card.

 

[Ukyo]

Well, I just removed some apps and some cleared the cache out of some others... went from 47MB to 58MB. I'd love to be at 90MB

We need ROOT so we can install/run from SD card.

Which apps did you remove? The ones that came stock on the phone? How'd you do that?

 

[Darth Pooh#CB]

Which apps did you remove? The ones that came stock on the phone? How'd you do that?

Nope, some stuff I went slap happy with in the Marketplace, games and whatnot. Spent 40 bucks my first 3 days of owning the phone

In order to remove those, we would need to basically create a new ROM without those apps "cooked into them". For that, we need ROOT... for that... well, we need someone brilliant at this point.