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Old 12-23-2009, 11:14 PM
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Re: Howto: Root your droid
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Originally Posted by parkjam View Post
YAY!!!!! Congrats zombie! It seems a bit daunting at first, but it really isn't that hard, and your chances of bricking your phone are really low, much like flashing new spl's on WinMo. As far as getting rid of the apps your not using. Try this in a terminal:

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
cd /system/app
mv Email.apk Email.bak
mv VVMStub.apk VVMStub.bak
mv com.amazon.mp3.apk com.amazon.mp3.bak
mv CorpCal.apk CorpCal.bak
mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
sync
reboot
Forgive me as I'm not a Unix guy. Wouldn't it be more prudent to rename the files to something like Email.apk.bak ? I'd always been taught that as best practice in Windows environment and I don't see the reason for completely removing the old extension. (Just curious)
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