So I have root and have done the NAND Unlock..

[bl4ck720]

However when I go to uninstall CityID with root explorer it comes right back same with any of the apps I try and remove that come stock on the phone. I was under the impression that once we got NAND we could remove those apps using root explorer was I misinformed? Also this is my first Android phone so I am enjoying the options of rooting, waiting on the Froyo ROM to come out before I mess around to much with roms.. Any other tips would be awesome, I am pretty tech savvy I haven't messed around with Linux very much though.

Thanks.

 

[Qazme]

BE CAREFUL REMOVING THINGS!! Make sure you have a nandroid backup done before you do any removing!!

You have to be in recovery with the system partition mounted to remove them. You can't do it with the phone booted up. Plug in your usb cable.

1.Start you phone with volume down + power.
2.Partitions Menu
3.-mount /system

Once you get that far fire up cmd prompt and type 'adb shell' hit enter. The command to remove apps is:

/system/bin/rm

That is the Android remove command.

Then place a space followed by one of these.

/system/app/com.htc.TwitterWidget.*
/system/app/HtcTwitter.*
/system/app/HtcFootprintsWidget.*
/system/app/HtcFootprints.*
/system/app/Stock.*
/system/app/com.htc.StockWidget.*
/system/app/VVM.*
/system/app/Quickoffice.*
/system/app/PDFViewer.*
/system/app/Calculator.*
/system/app/Mail.*
/system/app/htcmailwidgets.*
/system/app/htcmsgwidgets.*
/system/app/HtcRingtoneTrimmer.*
/system/app/Flickr.*
/system/app/CityID.*
/system/app/FriendStream.*
/system/app/com.htc.FriendStreamWidget.*

If you want more information about the apps and widgets on your phone here is some more information:
http://bluraynetworks.com/android/

He documents his setup really good and gives you some more things you could possibly get rid of.

Once you are done go back to your phone. It should still be on the mount and unmount partitions screen.

1.Click 'umount /system'
2.Power Button
3.highlight reboot and click your optical joystick
4.Your DONE!

BE CAREFUL REMOVING THINGS!! Make sure you have a nandroid backup done before you do any removing!!

 

[bl4ck720]

Thanks for the quick response! I made a backup of sense without me removing anything and then made a backup after I had removed everything and also once I installed vanilla android via a ROM. So def trying to do a back up as much as possible. Now if I was to every change micro SD cards (running the 2gb card that came with the phone right now) could I just copy over everything from this SD card to the new one and everything should still work fine? or no?

 

[MrGixxer6]

What do we need to get the phone to allow us to delete when the phone is booted? It was nice with my Moto Droid to be able to launch root explorer and delete some stuff. Just curious.

 

[Qazme]

@MrGixxer6.....root explorer works like on the Droid, but I think that the NAND on the Incredible is only unlocked long enough to put a custom recovery on, so you will have to be in recovery mode to delete or make changes to anything. It's not so hard you just have to type in commands.

@bl4ck720....yes just copy the files from SD to SD and you will be fine. In fact it probably wouldn't hurt to have multiple copies floating around in case something happens to your SD card! So yes just copy it over and it will work fine.

 

[bigslam123]

anybody know the naming convention for skype, so that I cam remove it?