Uninstalling apps from your Android ROM

Sunday, 17 February, 2013

Sick and tired of the crap and bloatware that invades the version of Android on your phone but can’t remove they because they are built in to the ROM? this may be the ROM that shipped with your phone or one that you installed, but with budget phones shipping with budget amounts of memory every MB counts.

So I got to the point with my San FranII where I needed to free up space and didn’t use bloatware like YouTube, Mail (replaced with k9mail) and even Google Maps (MapDroyd). How to get rid of them? Well, first and foremost your phone needs to be rooted…. then it’s a case of finding an app that will do what it says on the tin. After a few false starts I stumbled across Root App Delete which just works.

Root App Delete allows you to identify all user and system installed apps…these can be disabled which moves them to the recycle bin. They are still there but inactive…..this is slightly counterintuitive, but actually very helpful because once gone…they really are and you don’t want to go removing something central to the OS (like the launcher!). If you are dead sure you want to get rid of it, uninstall from the recycle bin and “ta da”, it’s gone freeing up valuable space in memory.

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