Hi, I just rooted my G Pad 8.0 LTE with purpledrake, installed SuperSU and Titanium Backup and it seems like I have root, but I can't uninstall some system apps from my carrier Orange. Is it normal? It says "failed to locate apk file". I have titanium installed on my Galaxy S3 rooted and I can uninstall any system app I want. I also get a warning when I start Titanium: "the mount namespace separation setting in supersu might not work reliably on some platforms. If you encounter any problems please try changing it"
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Strange stuff. Just rooted my R800X via zergRush but when I try to remove stock apps, I keep getting "Uninstall not successful". The root process completed successfully and Superuser and BusyBox were installed. Not sure what I'm missing. Any ideas?
Willie_Dynamite said:
Strange stuff. Just rooted my R800X via zergRush but when I try to remove stock apps, I keep getting "Uninstall not successful". The root process completed successfully and Superuser and BusyBox were installed. Not sure what I'm missing. Any ideas?
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You still can't uninstall system apps from the stock launcher. you have to use apps like Titanium Backup or Root Uninstaller.
when i dump system apps on my evo 4g i use root explorer &
use root explorer-go to system folder then.... Switch root explorer into r/w (read/write) mode button on top right.
Sounds like your in r/o (read only) mode.
To make sure you have root,
https://market.android.com/details?...GwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5qb2V5a3JpbS5yb290Y2hlY2siXQ..
(Root check on android market, very useful app)
Try Bloat Freezer from the market. Thats what I'm using.
Edit: its the free one
I installed Kingroot on my Retail note 4. Root Checker says I have root but it dose not function as if it has root.
For Example: If I first install the app called "App Backup & Restore' on my Chainfire rooted DE note 4 on the first run the app prompts me to change the directory of the backup to my external SD Card.
But when I first install the app "App Backup & Restore" on my Kingroot rooted Retail note 4 on first run the app warns "Risk of Backup files and wont allow me to change the directory to my ext SD Card.
Most applications I have tested with Chainfires root make changes to the system after reboot. With Kingroot when you reboot you lose root.
Anybody get Kingroot to function properly as if you are really rooted?
King Root is only temporary. There is no permanent root for the Retail VZW Note 4. Supposedly they're still working on it though so don't give up.
S-0ff M9, took OTA yesterday. Installed TWRP3001, then SuperSU 2.64. Got SuperSU Pro from Play Store. Updated everything.
Everything works fine, Root Explorer and Titanium both get superuser permissions OK.
Deleting bloat apps with Titanium proceeds with no errors or issues.
Upon restart, any programs removed by Titanium return, as if never deleted.
Reset root for Titanium in SuperSU and restarted with no improvement.
Any suggestions?
michaelbsheldon said:
S-0ff M9, took OTA yesterday. Installed TWRP3001, then SuperSU 2.64. Got SuperSU Pro from Play Store. Updated everything.
Everything works fine, Root Explorer and Titanium both get superuser permissions OK.
Deleting bloat apps with Titanium proceeds with no errors or issues.
Upon restart, any programs removed by Titanium return, as if never deleted.
Reset root for Titanium in SuperSU and restarted with no improvement.
Any suggestions?
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Have you tried with root explorer, that's my go-to for deleting apps. Check in system/app+priv-app and data/app
michaelbsheldon said:
S-0ff M9, took OTA yesterday. Installed TWRP3001, then SuperSU 2.64. Got SuperSU Pro from Play Store. Updated everything.
Everything works fine, Root Explorer and Titanium both get superuser permissions OK.
Deleting bloat apps with Titanium proceeds with no errors or issues.
Upon restart, any programs removed by Titanium return, as if never deleted.
Reset root for Titanium in SuperSU and restarted with no improvement.
Any suggestions?
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I've seen this before when rooting the stock ROM. If I'm remembering correctly, for whatever reason, running the kit-kat sd fix apk (search market) to provide rw access to the sd fixes this. Run this-- then download ES Explorer, check the root access box, then add a random file (can be deleted after) to both the ext and internal sd (it puts you through a protocol that mounts both rw).
The other thing I remember doing is going into the actual apps dialogue and uninstalling "updates" on the bloatware apps (the ones that don't give you the option to simply uninstall), then returning to TiBu and uninstalling the same (underlying) apps from there-- essentially removing the ROM version of the app as well as the "*-1" version of the app.
*I'm fairly sure one of these steps fixes it, but will respond again if anything else hits me
EDIT: Make sure that you tell twrp to modify the system-image too-- should prompt you with a check box (if you haven't done this already)
Yesterday, I installed firmware V20h at my H815. It seems, that LG added some mechanism that makes it impossible to uninstall bloatware and crapware apps permanently despite of correctly installed root rights.
I uninstalled some Google apps like Music, Books... etc. successfully via Titanium Backup, but after having rebooted, they were back again.
Can anybody confirm this? Maybe, there is a solution I have not known about yet... ?
Maheshwara said:
Yesterday, I installed firmware V20h at my H815. It seems, that LG added some mechanism that makes it impossible to uninstall bloatware and crapware apps permanently despite of correctly installed root rights.
I uninstalled some Google apps like Music, Books... etc. successfully via Titanium Backup, but after having rebooted, they were back again.
Can anybody confirm this? Maybe, there is a solution I have not known about yet... ?
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did those apps got updated? maybe you just deleted them from data/apps and not from system folder.
slds,
No, Mate, unfortunately not... I am sure, because after having failed uninstalling I deactivated them. When doing that, anyway, all updates are uninstalled. Afterwards, I retried uninstalling, but after rebooting, they have still appeared as deactivated in App menu... It really seems impossible to permanently delete any preinstalled crap with this new firmware...
Have you ever heard about "DT Ignite"? This is a tool for the carriers / manufacturers to generate revenue of unwanted stuff after deinstallation. I suppose, LG inserted a similar mechanism in this new ROM version or maybe - all the system partition is mounted read-only without Root-Apps like Titanium Backup noticing this.
At first, I supposed /cust folder contents could be the culprit. There is really a folder /cust/H3G_COM/overlay/app containing many .apk files, but the Google apps are not among them. So these contents can not be the culprit or at least not only. Later on, I will make another backup and then delete all the /cust folder contents. Let's see what will happen then.
I finally managed to uninstall all the crapware I wanted to get rid of. With Titanium Backup Pro, it did not work - after reboot, all the crap was back. Then I tried with ES FileExplorer Pro. I gave Root-Explorer r/w rights for all the root file system and then used its System App Uninstall functionality. After another reboot, all the crap has definitely gone!
But I still do not understand at all, why it is such a rocket science to debloat this ROM version! I have NEVER had such problems with things like that! And I have already rooted and debloated many different ROMs for many different devices!
Why do you even bother removing them? They are installed in the system partition so you won't gain any space by removing them. Disabling them is just about the same as removing, they will be virtually ignored by your device (it's the same thing as freezing apps in titanium backup). I see no point in removing those apps manually.
Also, if you are calling this bloat you obviously never used a Samsung device. Plus, I believe that LG is obliged by Google to put those apps in the phone (remember Nokia didn't get Android back them because they wanted to have their maps platform instead of Google maps?).
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Delete the folders using Root Backup instead. I've always found Titanium Backup really temperamental with removing apps on the System partition specifically on Marshmallow. Same thing as you, said it uninstalled them but they were still there after a reboot. A swift delete using root browser got rid of them.
These days I don't even bother and just use the debloater tool (3.90).
Hi,
I have recently replaced my LG G3 stock rom with Lineage 14.1 official rom. I have also rooted my device using the 'su-addon' suggested by Lineage team.
Unfortunately, since I moved to Lineage some of Titanium Backup's features have stopped working properly. For instance, I tried to uninstall some system apps, and after reboot they were still there. I also tried to convert system apps into user apps, but Titanium Backup couldn't accomplish the proccess (I had a message telling me "Please wait" for more than 15 minutes).
However, Titanium Backup does succeed in taking backups (for both system and user apps). Another interesting fact is that I managed to uninstall system apps / convert them to user apps manually, by using a File Browser with root access. Therefore I really don't get why titanium backup stopped working....
My guess was t. backup doesn't work properly with Lineage root addon, and thus I replaced it with SuperSu (latest version). Still, titanium backup doesn't work... It looks like it fails in each action requires to change files in the system partition (maybe it doesn't have write permission?)
Any suggestions?