topic Re: Uninstalled Apps Coming Back in Other/General

Uninstalled Apps Coming Back

spac3cow6oy — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:24:00 GMT

Okay, so my U is running rooted ICS and I have used Titanium Backup to remove various apps, however sometimes during a reboot of my phone I get the message "Android is updating. Optimising applications: x of x", and then, when my phone has finished booting, some of the removed apps have come back. Why is this? Is there some files I should be deleting somewhere in the system?

I really don't understand it, and I don't know why it only happens during some reboots and not others. It also only seems to be the same apps that come back each time.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Re: Uninstalled Apps Coming Back

Uliwooly — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 05:07:23 GMT

which apps are re-installed?

Re: Uninstalled Apps Coming Back

spac3cow6oy — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 07:00:34 GMT

There's 11 specific apps:

ASTRO File Manager

Earth 3.0.2 (live wallpaper)

Enchanted Forest 1.6.A.0.7 (live wallpaper)

McAfee Security 2.1.0.197

Media Remote 0.0.1

Music Unlimited 1.0.4

Office Suite 6.0.830

PlayNow 1.11.1

Top Contacts 1.11.0

TrackID 3.60.57

Wisepilot for XPERIA 1.6

At the moment I have them frozen instead of uninstalled and that seems to be stopping them from adding themselves back on reboot, however, I would like to remove them completely.

I did a search of the file system and noticed that they all had .apk files left behind AFTER uninstallation by Titanium. Most of them are in:

/system/etc/product/applications

I tried to remove them from there and it told my I required root access (which I already have!) and I tried to rename them with the suffix .bak but they don't change.

I'm at a loss. 😕

Re: Uninstalled Apps Coming Back

Uliwooly — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 07:05:36 GMT

re-root your phone

Re: Uninstalled Apps Coming Back

Rado77 — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 07:19:09 GMT

Original .APK files are in /System/App , check if OfficeSuite.APK resides also there. If yes, delete it from there, not from /System/etc/product/applications. But be carefull, you can destroy whole Android by deleting important .APKs

Re: Uninstalled Apps Coming Back

spac3cow6oy — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 07:26:11 GMT

Nope, nothing in /system/app . Anyway, I'll maybe do as uliwooly suggests and re-root.

Re: Uninstalled Apps Coming Back

spac3cow6oy — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:41:49 GMT

I found the problem. The files were mounted read only. I used Root Explorer to mount in read/write mode and they unistalled. Finally I'm free of them!

Re: Uninstalled Apps Coming Back

Rado77 — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 06:34:35 GMT

:smileyplus: