Uninstall software in custom rom

[Millz-Mal91]

Ok at this point Im tired of reflashing so ill ask.....is there anyway for me to uninstall a software that I cooked in with the 6.1 rom? its pretty much the youtube player, i t keeps saying it can't retrieve the youtube cookie and when I went to install the external cab for the software it works fine, however now I have two youtube player icons in my program list, one for the prebuilt and one for the external. how do i get rid of the prebuilt one

[jabu]

Install the exact same version, then un-install it. The best way to ensure identical versions is to extract the .cab file from the kitchen.

[Hypocritus]

Originally Posted by jabu

Install the exact same version, then un-install it. The best way to ensure identical versions is to extract the .cab file from the kitchen.

Ummm..., does this really work? I though the sofware put in as the ROM was read-only/not-individually-deleteable-without-reflashing?

[cowboy66]

I would say if you don't want to reflash your device just delete the shortcut of the one you don't want out of the programs folder.

[jabu]

Originally Posted by Hypocritus

Ummm..., does this really work? I though the sofware put in as the ROM was read-only/not-individually-deleteable-without-reflashing?

If you hard reset, it will all be back. But when the software on ROM is installed, no un-install info is registered. So if you install the same version, it basically puts the un-install info in the registry. Then when you tell it to uninstall it removes the files from the Windows system AND removes the registry entries. You COULD do it all manually, but who wants to dig all the entries outta their registry? It DOES work, I use it all the time to remove SkyFire beta 6 so I can add beta 8. I also use it on HTC Audio Manager because my rom installs it wrong. So I install the .cab, remove it all together, then install it again so that it goes in properly.

[Hypocritus]

Originally Posted by jabu

If you hard reset, it will all be back. But when the software on ROM is installed, no un-install info is registered. So if you install the same version, it basically puts the un-install info in the registry. Then when you tell it to uninstall it removes the files from the Windows system AND removes the registry entries. You COULD do it all manually, but who wants to dig all the entries outta their registry? It DOES work, I use it all the time to remove SkyFire beta 6 so I can add beta 8. I also use it on HTC Audio Manager because my rom installs it wrong. So I install the .cab, remove it all together, then install it again so that it goes in properly.

Well, it's possibly because I do not fully inderstand the process, but, whenever I overwrote a rom file, and then deleted the new file, the old rom file was back, without me hard resetting. What I concluded was that the OS allows you to "overwrite" a rom file, by marking it "inactive", and when the "new" file was deleted, the old rom file is marked "active" again. So what I concluded was happening was that, in effect, the old file is just being "covered up", so you are not gaining any new space when you install software that "overwrites" rom files, and uninstalling it. I thought the only real way to gain that space, is not to install the program in rom in the first place (i.e. not adding it into the kitchen process). Otherwise, I thought, it appears that you are overwriting the file and deleting it, but you are actually adding files -- increasing storage use, then decreasing it right back to where it was, the rom file still being there, inactive or not.

Can someone else confirm this? Or do I have it wrong, on WM6 or both?

[Millz-Mal91]

thanks, but I tried to install the same version n it didn't work. What I did do was search google (lol) and I jus removed the icon from the programs list. It's funny how you forget simple stuff you know. But after like a day I got bored and just reflashed my phone. I'm trying to achieve the perfect Apache balance but for some reason my phone just goes so slow sometimes, even with the overlocker on.