On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 11:10 -0500, Dan Trevino wrote: > Well, of course that is one of the great things about Android... you > *can* remove what you don't want.
Its not that easy to remove the stuff you don't want. I had wanted to remove the stuff for a while. Finally pissed me off enough I took action. Sure it was not hard, but I am familiar with all I was doing. For others, like a guy in the link I got the info from. Had no idea what they were doing, just followed instructions... > You can even bypass the initial sign-on screen and use your android > phone without a google account, albeit with degraded functionality > (for instance you may have to manually download and install apps). Yes and when I rooted my phone I did not have to install the Google stuff back on top. Sadly I did because I paid for power manager, and you have to get that via the Google Market since its not free. At least not the version I am running. Also once you buy it one time, if via the market, you can redownload, reinstall, update, and not pay again :) > Vendors like Verizon can even change the default search engine to > Bing (ugh), if they desire. So can you. I would not even dare try to switch the search provider. There are some packages for that. There are several Google packages I dare not touch because I know it will really screw up my phone. I removed all I could, but not all I wanted to in a sense :) > Go the next step and install a rooted firmware. I have cyanogenmod 6 > on an old G1, and it works great. More features and fewer defaults. > Its not a one-click install, but its easy enough. What do you think I am running? I have been running Cyanogenmod since like 4.x on my G1, presently at 6.1.0-RC1-DS ;) Likely a newer version out since then, but seems they are dropping support for the G1 not sure. Ready to get a new phone, but holding out to see if any dual core ones with number keys will be out this year. Otherwise likely going to switch to Sprint and get the Samsung Epic. But I have a feeling if I got that already or now, something twice as fast will be out in the next year or so... Moore's Law applied to cell phones now :( -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
