Uninstall Hami apps

[#1]

Hi,

I live in India. My phone has some chinese apps such as Hami apps, hami book, kkbox etc. I am not able to find a way to uninstall these. Can anyone please let me know how to get rid of these apps.

Thanks

Sethu

[gwhispererz]

Hi, are those apps pre-installed when you bought the phone? If yes, you are not able to uninstall pre-installed apps.

[Shawhifox]

You have two options, but both will void your warranty:

1. Root the phone. With Android rooted, you have control over the OS and you can uninstall all the apps, even the apps of your carrier and Sony Ericsson apps.

2. Debranding it. That's installing a firmware of a free phone, without customization of any carrier.

Anyway, I don't understand why carriers can put uninstallable apps. If you buy a PC you can uninstall all the bloatware and have Windows clean, why you can't do te same to your phone?

[uliwooly-wooly]

1 rooting won't void your warranty, you can always unroot

2 flashing could void your warranty, it's up to the carrier

uninstalling pre-loaded apps will be possible to delete once we get Ice Cream Sandwich

and not all the bloatware can be uninstalled from a PC unless you pay $50 extra to get a clean version, it doesn't make sense

[Shawhifox]

Well, the warranty is void when you root, other thing is the possibility to unroot and hide you did it in the past :smileygrin:

What kind of bloatware are you talking? Any example of a PC brand name doing it? Just curious.

[uliwooly-wooly]

vaio is a good example of computers that come with a lot of preinstall programs that can NOT be uninstalled rooting doesn't void your warranty, it's a matter of the network where you purchase your phone

[Shawhifox]

That's sad for the Vaio, I used Acer and Asus without problems... You can stop programs to start in the boot and remove the program files manually at least?

In Spain modify the software of the phone voids the warranty if I'm not wrong.

[uliwooly-wooly]

yeah it takes some time and some computer knowledge to stop certain programs, but it shouldn't be like this at least with Android 4.0 we will be able to uninstall apps

voiding the warranty varies from country to country

[#9]

I bought my phone on ebay. So its not carrier dependent. All phones are unlocked in India. I dont want to root since it would void the warranty. Is there any other way to install a normal carrier independent version of SE software itself which would get rid of these? Would the update to 2.3.4 solve this? By the way even though theSE sit says 2.3.4 is available in India. My phone says it has the latest software. Tried using PC Companion too, still no use.

[#10]

How do i do 2?