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Root [Virgin Mobile/Sprint] I rooted - no offical ROMS yet -- What apps you uninstalled?

j1232

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Feb 20, 2011
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Astoria, NY
Soo I got the Virgin Mobile F3 and I have rooted thanks to the guide at the top of the forum .. . http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2334544

My next question is what have you uninstalled? There is alot of junk in this little device.

Here is what I have removed .. .

Weather -
Qmemo
ID app ?? . .

some other stuff . . what is good screenshot app to replace my Qmemo removal.
 
Don't be scared, you won't brick your phone removing stuff as long as you are careful. Just use titanium or something similar to back stuff up before you remove it.

I removed the music app as well and pretty much all the virgin apps. Twitter, facebook etc. I removed the version of swype that comes with the phone and installed the market version.
 
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We now have a working recovery, so removing the bloat's a bit safer. Now if we could get rid of the automatic reset we can actually get started designing roms for it. XD Can hardly wait. I did remove most of the bloat the second I rooted it, though.

Already taken care of, apparently I believe the developer we have working on our phone either already posted it or has still yet to post it yet, but he found the issue that caused the factory reset and he fixed it in a boot.img that's been loki'd. We need more developers is all we need.
 
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Don't be scared, you won't brick your phone removing stuff as long as you are careful. Just use titanium or something similar to back stuff up before you remove it.

I removed the music app as well and pretty much all the virgin apps. Twitter, facebook etc. I removed the version of swype that comes with the phone and installed the market version.

ugh, swype! i love it but the one that came with this phone always has freeze up issues for me. i'm definitely doing the same as you.
 
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