Root Why can't I get rid of these STOCK APPS!!! Driving me NUTS!

[Naz927]

I have tried using the Terminal Emulator, Root Explorer and ADB Shell commands, but each time I can't get rid of the stupid System Apps! Facebook, Voice, etc. I am running CM 6.1.2 right now with the kernal that comes with that. Please help, this is driving me nuts.

 

[akazabam]

1) It's easiest to use titanium backup to just freeze stuff you don't want running. What do you not want that CM comes with? There's not a whole lot of what I would call bloatware running on it.

2) How did you attempt to remove it with Root explorer or any form of a terminal? Did you mount /system as rw, first? If you're using root explorer, there is a button on the top right that says "mount rw". If you're using a terminal emulator, you must type this first:

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system

Be careful just removing stuff out of /system/app. If you remove something you shouldn't have, it can be difficult to get everything working again. It's best to just rename apks with a .bak extension. If you must remove them, move them to the sdcard. Always make a nandroid backup first.

 

[Naz927]

Thanks again for responding to my post! Anyway, yes I did mount as rw in the Terminal Emulator and in Root Explorer. For example, after deleting the Facebook apk in RE, I reboot and there it is when I turn it on mocking me. So I try the Terminal Emulator, and yes I make sure to type in that command to rw, I type in the remove command and get no errors, reboot and there it is again! I am being careful in TRYING to delete these system apps, I know better than to delete most of the things in there but Facebook?! I don't use and/or want it, just want it off my EVO.

 

[daash]

Titanium backup will freeze the bloatware and remove if from the app drawer. Just rooted my EVO and it worked perfect....all gone

 

[akazabam]

Probably a stupid question, but you *do* have S-OFF still, right?

 

[Naz927]

Whoops...I do NOT have S-OFF...can you refresh my memory on how to do that?

 

[akazabam]

What was your original rooting method? What is your current hboot version? Do you still have a custom recovery of some sort (at least CW 2.5.0.1 and up, or RA 1.8.0 and up)? How did you get s-on again? Pending no unusual answers to those questions, you should be able to just flash unrevoked-forever from recovery. That will allow you to permanently write to /system again.

 

[Naz927]

Yea, just reflashed forever, just me being an idiot, didn't realize I had security set to on...my bad, thanks guys!

 

[akazabam]

No problem. It happens .