ummmmmm depends on what you want to remove. Some applications will have consequences associated with them. An example is, if you remove friendstream, but don't remove HTCFacebook.apk, then try to sync a facebook account, youll burn your battery out quickly. Same goes for peep, and flicker. another example is deleting all the weather files will cause your phone not to receive location assistance from cell towers. Deleting the HTCLockScreen will cause your phone to not be able to dismiss alarms. I could go on and on for days.
Many files have many dependences on other files and unless you know and understand these files and how they are associated, you could do something that you may not like.
After reading that you still think you want to give it a go, 7zip is the tool to use but i caution you that changing and manipulating any files would result in us not being able to provide assistance other than "wipe and flash full ROM". We cannot support the potential 1000's of variations of this ROM that people could create as that circumvents our testing procedures.
Shoot me a PM with what you want to remove and I'll see if I can spot any potential problems.
hey thanks for the info, i went ahead and wiped my phone, and loaded this rom.
i removed all sprint crap besides qik, then i removed tweeter,peep,stock, most widgets then the widget settings file,amazonmp3, and thats about it.
i read the bloat.txt and knew that removing certain things would cause problems.
i did remove the lock screen to see the other one, which is cool, but i saved the old lock apk to put it back if need be.
but other then that, im enjoying this update, ill let you know if i have any problems down the road, but the only thing that i removed that was suggested not to was Stock, so i dont know what might happen...
i restored apps with titanium backup donated vrs.
also are these the most up to date google apps?
i didnt flash radio or anything, speed tests seem a little better then usual.
newest radio,177 pri and 671 prl.