Removing Apps

[skivvies]

Im running Gingerbread 2.3.3 CM7
http://modmymobile.com/forums/558-mo...d-cliq-xt.html

How do i remove apps such as b rowser and calculator, etc ?
is there an app for that or anything

[phoenixsong6]

All system applications are located in /system/app or /system/app-private
Do the following:

adb shell
su
mount -o remount, rw /dev/block/mtdblock1 /system
cd /system/app
ls

Here it will list all the .apks in the system. Find the name of the one you want to remove (case sensitive)

rm apkfile.apk
rm Calculator.apk

[GroovyG]

Or to do it with an app, use "system app remover" or "titanium backup", both work well.
Or be quick and brute and just delete them with root explorer

[DJGHOSTS3V3N]

You can also check my guides in my signature.

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[skivvies]

Or be quick and brute and just delete them with root explorer

is that safe?

[xJAYEMMx]

talking about removing apps, how come sometimes when i uninstall apps from an apps2sd partition using Titanium Backup that are like more than 1-2MBs, barely anything gets unchanged from the partition? sometimes there'd only be like a 0.10-0.99 MBs difference in change? sometimes the same even goes for 10MBs+ apps that only get a difference of only a couple MBs when uninstalled. why is this??

[skivvies]

talking about removing apps, how come sometimes when i uninstall apps from an apps2sd partition using Titanium Backup that are like more than 1-2MBs, barely anything gets unchanged from the partition? sometimes there'd only be like a 0.10-0.99 MBs difference in change? sometimes the same even goes for 10MBs+ apps that only get a difference of only a couple MBs when uninstalled. why is this??

wild guess: you removed the app from sdcard + data on phone mem , noticing only the difference in phone memory, rather than sdcard

[GroovyG]

is that safe?

It doesn't hurt anything usually (unless it's a system essential app that is haha). You may have some remains in data/data from the app then, but you can delete those manually as well if you so wish.

[xJAYEMMx]

[MENTION=3238362]skivvies[/MENTION] not at all

[skivvies]

[MENTION=3238362]skivvies[/MENTION] not at all

are you sure? coz thats the only explanation, that i can think of. try it again?

[GroovyG]

Apps2SD has always had peculiar behavior for me as well. Among that very random use of space, but also causing a whole bunch of issues from instability to very sluggish reactions of the phone. That's why I abandoned it completely and all's good.
And why the need anyway, how much stuff do you install to fill up all of the internal memory? Are all these games so big?

[xJAYEMMx]

are you sure? coz thats the only explanation, that i can think of. try it again?

im using an apps2sd ext2 partition and when i want to uninstall, say a 10-12 MBs-sized app, sometimes the ext2 partition will only decrease a couple or a few MBs instead of somewhere around 10-12 MBs itself. im installing it to EXT2(the app2sd partition), not the phones memory. my phones memory mostly contains the app's or system's app data

[MENTION=3226614]GroovyG[/MENTION] dang, that's 2 coincidences where you coincidentally posted 3 mins before me! shocking, haha! anyway, back on topic, my internal memory is only about 50ish MBs full so far out of a total 191 and apps2sd is around 390ish MBs full, so...yeah...my tops 10+MBs apps, according to my apps manager are nook for android, ninjump, angry birds v135, beats adv. rhythm game, xscope pro, and fruit ninja, with moron test and zenonia both being close to 10MBs

[phoenixsong6]

With Apps2sd, I found that even though it was supposed to install to /system/sd/app, I would find the files still existing in /data/app.
I didn't check at the time if they were symlinks, neither did I pull the files from both locations to compare them.
Possible project?

[41rw4lk]

This seems to work for me, no issues at all.

[skivvies]

ohh. im using gingerbread which has native apps2sd. woops ^^