Remove Orange Apps from San Francisco

September 24, 2010

Ok figured out how to remove the orange apps via ADB. Following instructions should not be followed unless you know what you are doing, as tbh I don't, but it seems to work fine.

There seems to be no drivers available for the ZTE HSUSB Device (confirmed by Orange Support), so I used the stock android ones found in windows 7.

Rooted with the one click solution.

Install ADB into system path

Command prompt

ADB Shell

SU (and say yes on the phone)

cd System

cd app

ls (shows you what's in there)

rm OrangeWednesdays.apk (would remove the Orange Wednesday app)

Would be nice if someone would confirm I am doing the right thing :lol:

September 24, 2010

That looks right to me.

Don't have a phone to test them with, mind you :lol:

September 24, 2010

That looks right to me.

Don't have a phone to test them with, mind you :lol:

All seems to work, apps are gone and no negative effect so far B)

Need to figure out what apk file a few of them are though.

September 24, 2010

Paul already posted a guide on a previous thread!

September 24, 2010

Paul already posted a guide on a previous thread!

This is for experts only at this time, is potentially dangerous, and is done at your own risk!

# Power on with 'volume up' held to enter bootloader (green Android stays on screen)

# Flash insecure boot image using fastboot (fastboot flash boot boot.blade.insecure.img)

# Reboot (fastboot reboot)

Not saying that how I did it was completely safe, but probably safer than flashing a new image without a working recovery?

Like I say I am FAR from an android expert, just seemed a little little extreme

September 24, 2010

This is for experts only at this time, is potentially dangerous, and is done at your own risk!
# Power on with 'volume up' held to enter bootloader (green Android stays on screen)
# Flash insecure boot image using fastboot (fastboot flash boot boot.blade.insecure.img)
# Reboot (fastboot reboot)

Not saying that how I did it was completely safe, but probably safer than flashing a new image without a working recovery?

Like I say I am FAR from an android expert, just seemed a little little extreme

Your method works just fine!

I used Paul's method and now using the same method as yours!

Edited September 24, 2010 by HugoQueiriga

September 25, 2010

Help?

I have rooted the phone, downloaded the sdk... Plugged in via USB, then...?

September 25, 2010

Help?

I have rooted the phone, downloaded the sdk... Plugged in via USB, then...?

Just download a root enabled file manager from android market and then enable read/write on the system drive. Go into system -> apps, and then delete what you don't want.

I got rid of the orange maps app, backup app, RSS feed app, orange widgets and the orange TV app. The other stuff I feel might actually be useful. I used to install my orange, orange wednesday anyway, stopwatch, alarm, weather app all look good and are tiny.

Need to get rid of the orange appstore I suppose as its rubbish. Also trying to figure out which file is for the orange launcher.

edit:

OASxxxx - orange appstore

OHSxxxx - orange launcher

OHSSxxx - orange home selector

the other orange apps are obvious by the file names

Edited September 26, 2010 by blackmath

September 25, 2010

Just download a root enabled file manager from android market and then enable read/write on the system drive. Go into system -> apps, and then delete what you don't want.

I got rid of the orange maps app, backup app, RSS feed app, orange widgets and the orange TV app. The other stuff I feel might actually be useful. I used to install my orange, orange wednesday anyway, stopwatch, alarm, weather app all look good and are tiny.

Need to get rid of the orange appstore I suppose as its rubbish. Also trying to figure out which file is for the orange launcher.

Apologies for whats probably a dumb question,but where do you enable read/write on the system drive?

cheers.

September 25, 2010

Apologies for whats probably a dumb question,but where do you enable read/write on the system drive?

cheers.

You need an app that is able to do this.

"SU File Manager and Terminal" can do this. You simple open up the app, go into the directory view, press menu, and you will see 2 options to enable read/write for the system and data directories. You only need to do it for the former.

There may be others which can do this, but I paid $2.99 for this a long time ago when these apps were in short supply. However, this has been solid since.

Edited September 25, 2010 by blackmath

September 25, 2010

Apologies for whats probably a dumb question,but where do you enable read/write on the system drive?

cheers.

The way I did it was to use this:

adb shell

su

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system

If your going to use the blade.app.r1.zip package, you will also need to recreate the the /system/apps director before you push the updated directory

Edited September 25, 2010 by Sebastian404

September 25, 2010

You need an app that is able to do this.

"SU File Manager and Terminal" can do this. You simple open up the app, go into the directory view, press menu, and you will see 2 options to enable read/write for the system and data directories. You only need to do it for the former.

There may be others which can do this, but I paid $2.99 for this a long time ago when these apps were in short supply. However, this has been solid since.

Great thanks,ill take a look at those.

The way I did it was to use this:
adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system
If your going to use the blade.app.r1.zip package, you will also need to recreate the the /system/apps director before you push the updated directory

Hadnt touched an android phone until yesterday,so ill leave this sort of stuff at the moment,many thx for the reply tho.cheers

October 22, 2010

I instaled the r4 rom and its working fine

but when I look in settings/applications/manage applications I can see lots of the old "orange" apps like guitar hero, uk.co.orange.wednesday and others that cant be uninstalled

How can I get rid of ALL the old orange stuff I dont need anymore?

Ideally wipe the phone totally and start afresh with just the stuff in the r4 rom so I can build on that and install what i want afterwards?

I've got a backup of my apn settings (that was the hardest to get working) and my contacts so I'd be very happy if I could totally "wipe" the phone totally

October 22, 2010

same here loads of com.orange apps here

October 22, 2010

The old folders with 0 bytes are left in that screen due to dirty or a lack of housekeeping after removal

They are located at /data/data

Caveat ... be careful

October 22, 2010

i've deleted those but there still in manage apps and if i select one the app crashes :/ Where the fluff could they be :P

October 22, 2010

Ok... lol

The app data is in /data/dalvik-cache

But there is another place as well ... I'm looking now.

Edit...

Anyone seen my white stick

Edited October 22, 2010 by DaveyP

October 22, 2010

Thanks. Cleared dalvik-cache, but the orange apps refuse to die :P . Last i saw your white stick was on one of those damn orange apps.... they use it to mock my attempt to kill them :D

October 23, 2010

Ok... white stick found

So here is the final solution for the answer to life the universe, house keeping and everything

/data/system/packages.xml

It can also be used to find the correct file name of the application to be deleted (as I seem to remember 1 or 2 not being obvious)]

A reboot is required to reload the edited xml

:P

Edited October 23, 2010 by DaveyP

January 15, 2011

...later changing the ROM? Is it OK to do this? I'm a ROM flashing newbie, and my plan is to first stick with stock ROM but strip out all the Orange crap, see how I get on. If that doesn't satisfy I shall try a Froyo ROM (probably JJ R6 by the looks of things).

Question is - to strip out the Oraneg crap I need to root it, right? Any issues with changing the ROM at a later date having rooted the thing?

Thx ;)

January 15, 2011

I would suggest skipping removing the orange junk and go strait for the 2.2 rom

Flashing is much easier than removing the Stock orange junk (And with better results)

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...and-other-roms/

January 15, 2011

I would suggest skipping removing the orange junk and go strait for the 2.2 rom
Flashing is much easier than removing the Stock orange junk (And with better results)

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...and-other-roms/

Hehe, all righty, I'll give the 2.2 rom a go this afternoon, wish me luck ;) .

January 15, 2011

Hehe, all righty, I'll give the 2.2 rom a go this afternoon, wish me luck ;) .

GOOD LUCK!!! :)

January 15, 2011

I would suggest skipping removing the orange junk and go strait for the 2.2 rom
Flashing is much easier than removing the Stock orange junk (And with better results)

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...and-other-roms/

But you don't learn nearly as much ;)

January 15, 2011

Hehe, all righty, I'll give the 2.2 rom a go this afternoon, wish me luck ;) .

Good luck! I got my Orange SF yesterday and have already tried a few roms - a de-Orange'd one, Bladevillain and now MoDaCo 2.2 r8 which is so far the best of the bunch (the others being 2.1).

Until yesterday I had an HTC Hero running FroydVillain and there's a few things I miss from the Hero, but the Blade/SF seems much faster so glad I made the switch.

Let us know how you get on!

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