can't get rid of Slacker Radio app ?

[usprimerbj]

Slacker ap showed up with no lock app and now I can't get rid of it??

[Backnblack]

Ope the Market>>Menu>> My Apps find it in the list and hit unistall....

[riko540]

If you did the update that Verizon put out a few months ago you won't be able to uninstall it. If that is what you talking about.

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[SwampDog35]

I tried to force stop it also... no luck. I think its part of the bloatware embedded on the rom.

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[furbearingmammal]

It was installed with the last OTA update. You have to root in order to rid yourself of it.

What's the problem with it? Just don't use it? I've found it a superior app to Pandora (and asks for fewer permissions) in almost every regard.

[chartle]

It was installed with the last OTA update. You have to root in order to rid yourself of it.

What's the problem with it? Just don't use it? I've found it a superior app to Pandora (and asks for fewer permissions) in almost every regard.

I tried slacker and I liked it at first, until....

It would lock after 3 songs every time I tried it. Once when it locked up it restarted back up at 3:0 AM as loud as can be playing some weird Boston track. When I woke up I thought there was some really annoying car alarm going off. I was about to call the police.

[furbearingmammal]

That? That's a darn good reason to want rid of it.

My problem is the crappy 3G service here and the overzealous RAM Management system in FroYo keep killing it on me.

[edstewbob]

Slacker always comes up as a running app. Kill it and back in it comes on my RAZR. It is ridiculous. I don't use it. I don't mind bloatware that can't be uninstalled as long as it doesn't run unless I want it to.

[MyDog8MyRazr]

I have never used Slacker. SEVERAL times I have noticed it was running, so I killed it. Only to have it start itself up again. Check the permissions it has been granted - it basically has COMPLETE CONTROL over my personal info and the ability to share that with WHOMEVER over the internet. For All I know, it has totally PWNED my Razr for whatever it needed a couple GHz of processor to do. So yeah, I wanted to uninstall it - but Can't. That's why I came to this thread.

In addition to Slacker, there's a couple other goodies I came across when trying to figure out who owns who:

In my downloaded apps, there is MARKET?!!! How might I have downloaded Market? What's up with THAT?

I clicked "Show Hidden Apps" and there was one hidden app: NFL Mobile. Like Slacker, it has more than a page of permissions (really??? It really needs to access my contacts list?). Like slacker, I never used it. It was HIDDEN?!!! And like slacker, it is non-uninstallable.

There are LOTS of apps in the 'market' that have 10,000,000, 100,000,000 downloads. But they ABUSE the permissions. And yet 100,000,000 (could that even be a real number?) people have said YES! to downloading.

I will be storing any photos/videos on my PC and FACTORY RESETTING my Razr Today. I'll let you know if NFL Mobile
is still there.

[brad92]

That's Bloatware. You can't uninstall it unless you root your phone...

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