This is for if you have the ROM already installed and don't want to (or can't) do a wipe/re-install, such as your original ROM, rooted.
For custom ROMs you are about to install, just open the zip in winrar (not extract), browse to system/app and delete the .apk prior to installation.
If you are S-OFF, you can just delete the apps using root explorer in r/w mode.
For the rest of you:
Pre-requisites
• A rooted Android phone
• Custom Recovery (ClockworkMod / AmonRA)
• A current nandroid backup
• Android SDK (tools only) for windows: SDK Tools only (Ultimate Dropbox version)
If you follow the steps below to set up adb as an environment variable, you can skip Method steps 3 & 4
You can use your existing Android SDK. This guide assumes you extracted to the root of your C:\ drive. The folder structure would be C:\Android-sdk-windows\tools. If you set up adb the same as the above, you can also skip steps 3 & 4
Method:
Commands must be typed exactly. Be careful you identify spaces.
1. Connect your phone via USB and Reboot into recovery. To do this, turn off the phone. Hold vol down and press power. Use volume keys to navigate to "recovery" option and press power to select.
2. On your PC open Command prompt (Start>Run Type “cmd” [without the quotation marks] and press enter)
3. In the black window type "cd\" and press enter
4. Type "cd\android-sdk-windows\tools" and press enter
5. Type "adb shell" and press enter
6. Type "mount /system" and press enter
7. Type "cd /system/app" and press enter
8. Type "ls" (these are L’s) and press enter, this lists all the system installed Apps.
9. Type "rm AppName.apk" (where AppName.apk is the application you want to remove) and press enter. Note, this IS case sensitive. Repeat this for each app you want to delete.
10. On the phone, press back once to get back to the main menu.
11. Navigate to advanced and select it with the trackball
12. Navigate to Wipe Dalvik Cache and select it.
Once complete, in the menu, press back until the top option is reboot system now. Select it. You’re done. The reboot will take a long time as it will be creating the dalvik cache from cratch (just like when you install a new rom).
Enjoy your bloatware free ROM. It goes without saying that you shouldn’t remove anything you don’t recognise and that if you do, you risk doing harm to your phone. I can take no responsibility for damage caused.
Please note, some of the menu's in Clockworkmod recovery differ version to version. Sometimes you need to go into partitioning menu to mount system
For custom ROMs you are about to install, just open the zip in winrar (not extract), browse to system/app and delete the .apk prior to installation.
If you are S-OFF, you can just delete the apps using root explorer in r/w mode.
For the rest of you:
Pre-requisites
• A rooted Android phone
• Custom Recovery (ClockworkMod / AmonRA)
• A current nandroid backup
• Android SDK (tools only) for windows: SDK Tools only (Ultimate Dropbox version)
If you follow the steps below to set up adb as an environment variable, you can skip Method steps 3 & 4
-Open the .rar file, then drag and drop the folder "android-sdk-windows" to the C: drive
-Right click My computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables
-under system variables click "path" and click "edit"
-at the end of the line add a sem semi colon ";" and without a space put C:\android-sdk-windows\tools - It should look like ;C:\android-sdk-windows\tools then click ok.
-Right click My computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables
-under system variables click "path" and click "edit"
-at the end of the line add a sem semi colon ";" and without a space put C:\android-sdk-windows\tools - It should look like ;C:\android-sdk-windows\tools then click ok.
Method:
Commands must be typed exactly. Be careful you identify spaces.
1. Connect your phone via USB and Reboot into recovery. To do this, turn off the phone. Hold vol down and press power. Use volume keys to navigate to "recovery" option and press power to select.
2. On your PC open Command prompt (Start>Run Type “cmd” [without the quotation marks] and press enter)
3. In the black window type "cd\" and press enter
4. Type "cd\android-sdk-windows\tools" and press enter
5. Type "adb shell" and press enter
6. Type "mount /system" and press enter
7. Type "cd /system/app" and press enter
8. Type "ls" (these are L’s) and press enter, this lists all the system installed Apps.
9. Type "rm AppName.apk" (where AppName.apk is the application you want to remove) and press enter. Note, this IS case sensitive. Repeat this for each app you want to delete.
10. On the phone, press back once to get back to the main menu.
11. Navigate to advanced and select it with the trackball
12. Navigate to Wipe Dalvik Cache and select it.
Once complete, in the menu, press back until the top option is reboot system now. Select it. You’re done. The reboot will take a long time as it will be creating the dalvik cache from cratch (just like when you install a new rom).
Enjoy your bloatware free ROM. It goes without saying that you shouldn’t remove anything you don’t recognise and that if you do, you risk doing harm to your phone. I can take no responsibility for damage caused.
Please note, some of the menu's in Clockworkmod recovery differ version to version. Sometimes you need to go into partitioning menu to mount system
