Removing the pre-installed crap

Is there ANY way to remove all the preinstalled crap that comes loaded on the eXpo? I tried to delete the java apps installed, but they are protected files. I can't even delete them using my file browser across active sync. I want to get rid of all this crap I'm not going to use. They are all trials and when the trial is over you're stuck with useless programs taking up space.

I am not convinced this works, though it appears to.

DO you know that demo movie that plays when you first start up or after a hard reset, well its 17mb in size.

On the Canadian IQ version, we have a second copy in french... so 35mb between them.
That really annoys me to no end, so i tried alot of things, though the one that seemed to make them disappear was this..

Make a note pad file, Enter a word or something in it, close it, name it in our case for the IQ, TELUS.wmv and TELUS_FR.wmv,(Maybe At&t.wmv for expo) then use total commander to copy them files back into windows, it will not ask you to overwrite them or warn you, now if you look for them they should be both under a mb each.

Now for the AT&T version, i don't know how they'd name it exactly, and this process should work for any file in the windows directory.


Try it, tell me if it works for you, did it give you your storage space back?


WR

I'm not sure if there's a tutorial video for At&t. at least it doesn't start up after hard reset.
there's a tutorial video for LG S-class UI (LGTutorial.exe), but it's in the ROM.

I tried this again with another file, It doesn't work.

I convinced myself i seen it prior where some storage space came back on this phone.
Been doing that since my ipaq for petes sake. 

Egg on me lol, My bad.



WR

Sorry gang, Thought this worked an was sure i seen it release storage back before, but it didn't with the start up animation removed, and where i seen it, or i thought was the movies/tutorials.

Must let old habits go




WR

I think I may have found a solution to our woes. You know how you can't remove a system file in windows from within windows because it's set with a "system" file attribute right...well in windows you can remove the s attribute using the command prompt. I just installed PocketConsole and PocketCmd and I'm going to try it out. I'll post results once I do.

I'm hoping it's just a compatibility issue, but every time I try to even VIEW the attributes of a file, device.exe and PocketCMD.exe crash. I'm going to look into it more and see what I can find. For those interested I'll attach both pocket console and pocket cmd. They seem to run fine other than the attrib issue.

UPDATE:
I almost forgot, you have to use active sync for the installs. I noticed that when active sync transfers them to the phone, they run from \windows\AppMgr\Install but when you go to that folder there's nothing there. I was going to try copying the cab files out of there, but it looks like it won't work that way.

UPDATE:
Ok so I found the .cab files and replaced the attachments. Just an FYI to anyone that was curious, when you install a file from an exe to your phone through activesync, it places the cab in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft ActiveSync folder inside it's own folder.

Hi Platnm6309,

Have you looked in our ROM forums?

Can't remove stuff from the Expo as I thought up above, though you can now replace the ROM and have a lot more storage space..

rom-development

WR