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Root **Apps you should NEVER delete from your spirit.**

Pardon my ignorance, new Spirit owner here. I'm rooted and installed the 2nd init recovery. Some of the apps that folks here mention as having uninstalled do not have the option to uninstall in the App settings menu. I can only force stop the Metro PCS Easy WiFi for instance. Uninstall is greyed out. Are you guys using ROM Toolbox, or Titanium Backup or something similar to uninstall these things? I have the licensed version of each but I hadn't used them here yet, did not think it would be necessary.

Coming from the Esteem, loving the hell out of this phone. I especially love the way it doesn't lag and freeze on me randomly just touching a button or attempting to do something simple like, oh, send an sms. :)
 
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I know that you can get the Google Calendar app off the play store and delete calendar.apk from system/app without any problems. But don't delete CalendarProvider.apk

Also, gallery2.apk is your camera and gallery app. You can replace it with the new 4.2.2 camera apk that's floating around the forums by renaming the original to gallery2.apkbk, moving the downloaded camera apk (without installing it first) into the system/app folder, renaming it to gallery.apk and changing the permissions. Works fine!

I just do this so I don't have double app icons. I hate double app icons.
 
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