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Apps safe to remove

Has anyone frozen 'social location'? I want to freeze this app as it's chewing up my battery even tho my phone says its not running. This is also the only reason I want to root my phone. I've never done it before.
 
I have along with a list of other social apps, but only just recently. I have not experienced any adverse effects.

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samj732 said:
Has anyone frozen 'social location'? I want to freeze this app as it's chewing up my battery even tho my phone says its not running. This is also the only reason I want to root my phone. I've never done it before.
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Your location trigger for smart actions won't work anymore. Other than that, it won't mess with anything.

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I don't use any location triggers. I should be good then. This app is giving me nightmares... using up to 30% battery for nothing.
 
DroidXJoel said:
I delete text messaging on every phone and use handcent and never have an issue with receiving texts or pictures

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I just tried freezing it again to make sure.Like I stayed it prevented me from receiving a picture message through handcent. I sent two from my secondary line. One with just my phone number the other with area code and phone number. Zero pictures received. Feel freer to try for yourselves though. Problem exists with Droid x, bionic and now razr.

Only picture messages standard texts work just fine.

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I just renamed a few with Root Explorer, finally took the dive and rooted even without the SBF safety net (hopefully it will come out soon). I took off....

Books
NFL
DLNA
Im Precence
Kindle
Moto Active
My Verizon
Slacker
Vcast Tones
Vcast Video
Video Surf
VzNaviagtor
Yahoo Contacts

And just doing those seemed to speed the system up some, just really wanted to get the ones that run with out me telling them to. We have plenty of space on this thing no need to go crazy and kill everything. That way when software update hits just have to rename a few things and unroot and be good to go.
 
Ah yeah I can take that one off as well, I don't use any smart actions except one for when my screen is off and I obviously don't need a location for that.
 
Can you not just rename the .apk to .bak to keep the phone from seeing it as an app? I just realized all the apps I renamed are still loading fine.
 
I want to remove the flash player settings icon but there is no apk for it. If you click on the icon it takes you to a website so it must be a browser link. I can't find the file to remove the icon could somebody help me? Btw removing adobe flash player doesn't do anything :-(

Also is device setup safe to remove?

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alexp1289 said:
I want to remove the flash player settings icon but there is no apk for it. If you click on the icon it takes you to a website so it must be a browser link. I can't find the file to remove the icon could somebody help me? Btw removing adobe flash player doesn't do anything :-(

Also is device setup safe to remove?

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Long press the icon and press hide.

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Don't want to hide it I want to get rid of it for good. Hate all the crap Verizon puts on the phones.

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