bobnagga

Hey, my name's Andrew! I've been on this thing in the past and this place has been a great help to me. Anyway, I fried my phone last night and had to restore it. I came across a neat little thing in adb that might seem self explanatory to you's linux buffs, but I was completely blown away. If you delete the wrong apps you normally have to NAND restore it, right? So I was tinkering around with it and decided that it takes too long to do it that way. So what you do is

"adb pull /system c:\...."

That's it. Then you can copy it to a second location on your pc (In case you need to put it back the way it was) and use a pc's gui to delete all that crap you don't want.

When you're done, you go to

"adb remount"
"adb shell"
"cd /system/app"
"rm *"
"exit"
"adb push (c:\......\system\app) /system/app"

You'll probably have to restart the phone because it has problems reloading some of that after it's been deleted and re-copied on there.

There you go. It may or may not seem intuitive, but if you're having issues with how long it takes to do a nand restore after taking out the wrong thing... Here you go.

Anyways, thanks again for all the help this place has been! I've got a quick question while I'm here: Does anyone know what .jar's and .odex's can be deleted from the .../lib(?) folder? Maybe it's /bin.