Remove Sprint Apps

[elesbb]

Originally Posted by eric12341

elesbb pretty much nailed it......

Didnt mean to take your thunder ! lol but yes you mentioned a lot of other issues ive forgotten about sincei dont run a stock pos .

[eric12341]

Originally Posted by elesbb

Didnt mean to take your thunder ! lol but yes you mentioned a lot of other issues ive forgotten about sincei dont run a stock pos .

yea i ran stock the entire first month i had my TP2 (5/17-6/17)

[IT_Architect]

Originally Posted by eric12341

I never had any compatibility issues on vins rom. u can try that or u can also install the stock 6.1 rom, any rom is superior to the stock 6.5 rom.

I'm not sure why you guys have so many problems. I'd go with a different ROM too. I have none of those issues, and I do a ton of multi-tasking, and a ton of add-ons. It is possible for me to launch so many things that some of the apps won't respond until I close some, but one would never get close to that number in normal use. I seldom have over about 5 things open at a time. The TP2 wouldn't have sold so well, and still be current if everyone had those problems. I've evaluated 6.1 and 6.5. I definitely don't want 6.1. Every release of Windows has been slower and more resource intensive than the previous one, but always brought something with it. If little memory is the game, then turn off Sense and Touch Flo and you'll instantly be in the 40s.

Two of us guys bought this phone. Travis didn't need a phone as bad as I so he got excited and tried custom ROMs. Excited one minute, problem the next. Compatibility issues, poor battery life, the usual. The only thing that I've found is that one must be careful which apps. I figured GT2L should be pretty benign. Not so, but I have good backups. Things like Remote Tracker were developed with 6.1 and don't work right on 6.5, etc. Almost all of the tweaks software makes changes to the registry for items that don't even apply to 6.5 or are already there by default. If I wanted to use very little memory, I wouldn't use Sense/Touch Flo.

Every problem and instability that I've come across has been from an app that wasn't right, or were built for of 6.1, while I was running it on 6.5. Even with CHT 2.0, and of the pages and levels and Free Links along with WKTask, it comes in at 68%. It might get up to 74% or even 78% while I'm doing things, but it will work it's way back down overnight as Windows returns and optimizes memory.

I've done my due diligence, and judging from reading hundreds of threads and the problems people have with custom ROMs with software compatibility and their work-arounds, I've determined that the minuses outweigh the pluses. The Sprint Apps are simply worthless clutter to me, and hiding them is all I wanted to do. This is my daily driver, not some hot rod.

[mwalt2]

Originally Posted by IT_Architect

I've done my due diligence, and judging from reading hundreds of threads and the problems people have with custom ROMs with software compatibility and their work-arounds, I've determined that the minuses outweigh the pluses. The Sprint Apps are simply worthless clutter to me, and hiding them is all I wanted to do. This is my daily driver, not some hot rod.

Good for you. The stock sprint ROMs are just fine IMO. The only real bug with it that I ever ran into was it no longer plays youtube HQ videos with sound. You could fix it by installing a cab (probably). I think a lot of the problems are caused by what users do to their phones. Some people install the "tweaks" cab (ie GT2L.cab) that is floating around there or use programs like advanced config to change things. Almost all of these things are just registry edits, and it would be much better to know the specific changes and understand what they do.

Memory usage on just the stock ROM was always better for me then any of the newer ROMs with updated software (ie Sense, etc.) made for newer devices with more memory, better processor, etc. The last time I re-built my kitchen, I started off from just the Sprint 6.5 ROM and added things in, keeping the SYS the same until I was done adding in all of the OEM packages I wanted. It probably took a week or two and I did not have one SOD or any other error based on the fact I was using 21889.

I know everyone has their own opinion, and this is just mine based off of the 100's of ROMs I've built myself using 3 different development kitchens (EVK, OSKitchen, and currently the best OSBuilder ) built from the ground-up from a stock ROM.

[IT_Architect]

Originally Posted by mwalt2

Some people install the "tweaks" cab (ie GT2L.cab) that is floating around there or use programs like advanced config to change things. Almost all of these things are just registry edits, and it would be much better to know the specific changes and understand what they do.

We couldn't agree more.

Originally Posted by mwalt2

The only real bug with it that I ever ran into was it no longer plays youtube HQ videos with sound. You could fix it by installing a cab (probably).

I had problems with that too and went through lots of posted solutions that didn't work. If I remember right, installing Juggalo_X Official Flash Lite 3.1 CE-OS 20757.cab, with no other changes, fixed the problem for me.

[eric12341]

definitely disagree. the RAM issue in the stock 6.5 was real according to the test I did of it both with and without the GT2L cab there's something in it that's causing the bloat and whatever is in a custom rom removes it. the stock 6.1 rom doesn't have this issue.