Thoughts on Removing Excel's Phone apps

[Charlie]

Hi,

This is for the EXCEL ONLY:-

A few of us started to talk about this on another thread (about rooting), I thought it would be best to start a new thread on this topic. Here is what has been talked about already:-

Hi mate.
Here is a guide that works.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-20 ... tery-life/

What I found was the Excel started throwing a wobbly, after the last app was deleted but a pin in the Reset hold fixed that.
When it booted back up it was fine and dandy.

Hope this helps.

Sent from my Scroll Excel using Tapatalk

Thanks for the link to the guide - I will be most likely renaming the phone apps too - (still waiting for an excel), When I got my 1st scroll, the way it was done was different, - I found that you had to do it like this, phone.apk, (reboot) mms.apk, telephoney.apk - Maybe its because that one was OS 2.1 and the excel is 2.3.4

Charlie

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In the feedback to the article there's some speculation that, if the device doesn't have any telephony kit in it, it doesn't expend battery (nor, presumably, processor) power on that part of the OS, thus rendering the removal of the telephony software unnecessary... what do you think?

I agree about renaming rather than removing files... it it all goes wrong, it's easier to revert the files to their original names than it is to reinstall them.

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[Charlie]

I will most likely renaming the phone apps and will post back here about it. It will not be for a while, as I have not got an excel yet and I want to test it as is (to have a base comparison) before I make any changes.

[Charlie]

In the feedback to the article there's some speculation that, if the device doesn't have any telephony kit in it, it doesn't expend battery (nor, presumably, processor) power on that part of the OS, thus rendering the removal of the telephony software unnecessary... what do you think?

I agree about renaming rather than removing files... it it all goes wrong, it's easier to revert the files to their original names than it is to reinstall them.

Excel

Yep, I do prefer to rename rather than delete (when it comes to system stuff) and keep a copy on the pc too.

That is interesting - When I renamed the phone apps on the 1st gen scroll - I never even thought about this. From what I remember (it was over a year ago now) - I decided to disable any phone related apps I could, so I renamed phone.apk, mms.apk, telephoney.apk (in that order, that was important!) - maybe all I needed to do was phone. - I am sure I had to rename the others tho' for a reason I just can not remember - might have been FC's, or phone services were still showing in the battery stats.

There was a large increase in battery life on the 1st gen scroll, when these were renamed - myself and a few other members did a thorough testing before and after.


P.S. Another (good) side affect of renaming all 3 apps - It enabled paid apps and the carousel in the market

[forrrge]

If this iscreases the battery and has no other effect on the tablet then I'm all up for it. Would need step by step instructions in one place though before attemping

I'm also assuming that a factory reset will bring everything back (except any apps we've added ourselves) if we screw up?

[Charlie]

If this iscreases the battery and has no other effect on the tablet then I'm all up for it. Would need step by step instructions in one place though before attemping

I will be doing a guide - if it's better to do it another way to the link blueeagle69 posted.

I'm also assuming that a factory reset will bring everything back (except any apps we've added ourselves) if we screw up?

NO! - A factory reset will NOT bring back any system apps or files that have been renamed/deleted/edited. - All a factory reset does is wipe user data, apps and settings.

[Astro]

NO! - A factory reset will NOT bring back any system apps or files that have been renamed/deleted/edited. - All a factory reset does is wipe user data, apps and settings

Wow Charlie, I hadn't realised that, it's a really important message for everbody to heed... mess with your files and you really do risk bricking your tablet. From my Windows background I had imagined there might be a 'factory' system image on the the hidden partition... I guess that's not the case!

Presumably, apps like MyBackup only back up user data... is there a way of backing up all of the data from all of the partitions to, say, an sd card or PC?

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[Mitre]

i was wondering if the usb simm dongle for the Archos G9 tablets would work or is there lots of missing hardware
i will wait to see what the battery advantage is as no one has said how many more hours they are getting
and even then i will probably just rename the file rather than delete them

@excel you have to make a nandroid backup to get a full image even clockworkmod recovery images have some missing files but thats for another thread viewtopic.php?f=48&t=1800

[Astro]

@excel you have to make a nandroid backup to get a full image even clockworkmod recovery images have some missing files but thats for another thread viewtopic.php?f=48&t=1800

Thanks Mitre... forgive my ignorance with Android, is a 'nandroid backup' something I can do without having to 'clockworkmod' (please forgive the terminology if it's wrong but, hopefully, you get my drift) the Excel?

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[Mitre]

short answer yes but please post about that on another thread this is the thread for the phone APKs
Thanks
Mitre

[marcknuckle]

as the excel is rooted, how about using titanium or something similer to just freeze the phone parts?