Safe apps to remove while root

Who loves the Bejeweled Demo???  Not I... along with a bunch of other crap that come pre loaded and NON-Uninstallable...

Someone had asked if there is any benefit to rooting, well, i think this could qualify.

Thanks goes to glitch77 over at
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3234330
for finding this:
Edit:  I just noticed that glitch77 is on this forum too... thanks for the finds!!!







EDIT 1: 12/12/2009: i threw this table together to keep better track of the apps we know about
**hint: anyone who has microsoft excel installed on their machine, right click anywhere on the table below and click "export to microsoft excel" (it makes it easier to read)

Me	NAME	Description	Notes	Location
Keep	im.apk	instant messaging	not sure what IM this affects	/system/app/
Keep	SN21_Samsung_Q-1187-signed.apk	Sprint Navigation	untill we get 2.0 this is the best we'll have	/system/app/
Keep	Term.apk	terminal		/system/app/
Keep	Browser.apk	the internet	I tried better browser… but it didn't support calls from the search bar… bummer	/system/app/
Kill	amazonmp3_1.4+4_standard_signed.apk	Amazon Store	lets you buy music	/system/app/
Kill	Bejeweled.apk	Bejeweled Demo	an okay game that is annoying because you cant uninstall it	/system/app/
Kill	VSuiteApp.apk	NUIANCE voice recognition	after this was removed the vice button on the side takes me straight to call logs. SWEET!	/system/app/
Kill	Email.apk	other mail program	I think this is for yahoo etc…	/system/app/
Kill	MoxierMail-2.1.7.2.apk	other mail program	I think this is for echange	/system/app/
Kill	SprintTVWidget.apk	Sprint  TV	widgets suck	/system/app/
Kill	nascar09_prod.apk	Sprint nascar program	no offense… but yawn…	/system/app/
Kill	nfl_prod.apk	Sprint NFL program		/system/app/
Kill	com.handson.h2o.nfl.apk	Sprint NFL program		/data/app/
Kill	Sprint_App_Updater.apk	updates from sprint	I removed it… I don’t want sprint patching anything on the fly	/system/app/
Kill	Weather.ap	weather channel apk	there are others out there	/system/app/
Reinstall	SprintTV.apk	Sprint  TV	This is okay, but I never use it… (I reinstalled just fine from sdcard)	/system/app/
Kill	Term.odex	terminal app (disabled)	if you remove both terminal apps then you can install a working one	/system/app/

EDIT 2: Added Term odex... if you kill both Term's then you can install a working terminal


Edite 3: I think it's no big deal to kill any odex that is related to any apk that you decide to remove



also i attached a text doc you can use to quickly backup all of your apps to the sdcard... then you can just go "RM" crazy, and report back your finds

yeah, give it a shot,
we have a fail safe now...


also if your interested you can see if the "dev tools"can be installed....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=453686


I'll post my results when i can, i've got christmas tree duty tonight

Hello! First post.

First of all great work guys.

I've only had my phone for about a week but the annoying Sprint App's all auto loading all the time eventually pointed me to you guys so I have rooted it and removed the sprint apps.

I wanted to mention a few additional apps that can be safely removed.

SN21_Samsung_Q-1187-signed.apk - Sprint Navigation
Term.apk - I assume Terminal. I noticed it was there before and after I tried to install Terminal Emulator from the Market, it failed before removing Term.apk with a Improperly Signed error and after removing Term.apk it failed with a Incompatible Update error, guess its just not going to run.

NFL_prod.apk was already mentioned, however I noticed that the NFL app was still loaded randomly in the background and was still in the App tray sooo upon some snooping I found that applications are stored in another folder to "/data/app"

I noticed many apps in this folder that strangely don't appear at all in the "/system/app" folder, odd that applications would be stored in two locations, the naming convention is also very different in the /data/app folder, reminded me of Unix/Mac OS X

Anyways you can remove "com.handson.h2o.nfl.apk" to completely remove the NFL App/Widget.

Just thought I'd chime in if anyone is interested in removing Sprint Navigation/NFL Mobile Live.

Hope we see some custom ROM's soon. :)

I think that that is sprint visual voicemail application but not 100% sure.

if anyone can zip the apps from the backup process i posted and could send them to me that would be awesome... i had a "misclick" before i copied them while in ubuntu, and it would be easier tojust get a copy of the backuped apps then to have to restore my phone

thanks!

i dont know where you got the backupapps.sh

...


i basically adb'd into root mode, and then copied all the text from notepad (backupallapps.txt) and right-click-pasted it right into my adb shell...

from there it let me copy on the sdcard just fine



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side note: anyone get better terminal emulator (the 4$ version) to work? i already bought/returned it since it kept crashing... i'd buy it again, but after the second purchase android wont let you return.

i do** have a place you can upload it to me....

kindof....


upload it to your google site... (incredibly easy to make, and really usefull for sending large files to plp [including yourself])

http://www.google.com/sites
log in/click on create page/ and then make it a file cabinet...


then after uploading, all you need to do is either make your page public



Edit 1: Thanks, I just got a copy from one of you!!!

Hey guys!  guess what?!  I finally did it!  I just wanted to contribute some other things that I took off with no problems.

KeyBoardSlideUpCounter.apk and .odex
---A slider counter?  Not really sure what it is but I always kill it and it never comes back so good bye.

Brightness.apk and .odex
---Same thing.  Killed it and no differences so, boom, gone.

FileViewer.apk and .odex
---I dunno about y'all but mine didn't work/sucked so I jus "click, click..." rm it.

xms-android-1.0.42-prod.apk
---The photo places app.  rm.

SDSA.apk
---Some sprint device service app bs.  What's that?  No purpose?  rm.


I also played around with the "ImProvider" apk and odex files.  These however are not safe to rm.  I thought it dealt with "im.apk" but it has something more to do with Google Talk I think.  Either way it was giving me a force close error so I put it back.

Weee!  that was fun.  next task is persistant root.

P.S.
I tried to go into /data/app to get "com.handson.h2o.nfl.apk" but it wasn't there.
So yeah.... I dunno but I don't have any residual nfl apps or widgets.