Launcher Pro - How to remove Launcher2 from the system?

[EnJoY]

Hey guys,

I'm using Launcher Pro and one of the recommendations people give when using alternative launchers to improve performance is to uninstall any other launchers. I tried deleting the Launcher2 apk in Astro as others have suggested, but it doesn't seem to want to delete.

Is there a set of scripts I can run to remove Launcher2 from Sapphire 1.0?

Thanks for the help guys.

 

[YankInDaSouth]

No sure about a script, but I purchase Root Explorer from the market - very easy to remove apps.

 

[pdroid]

Hey guys,

I'm using Launcher Pro and one of the recommendations people give when using alternative launchers to improve performance is to uninstall any other launchers. I tried deleting the Launcher2 apk in Astro as others have suggested, but it doesn't seem to want to delete.

Is there a set of scripts I can run to remove Launcher2 from Sapphire 1.0?

Thanks for the help guys.

su
sysrw
rm /system/app/Launcher2.apk
sysro

 

[carlz28]

You can't do it from Astro. It won't recognize root access. Do you have Root Explorer? That would work.

However, I wouldn't recommend uninstalling the default launcher. Mainly because if there is ever a a problem with Launcher Pro and somehow its gets uninstalled, you'll be up the creek without a paddle.
Removing other launchers may help, but the stock launcher has never caused any ill-effects on performance. If it's not being used, it's not sitting in memory. The only benefit of deleting the stock launcher would be to save room in /system/app folder.

Somone else please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[RW-1]

Whether or not you want to, I believe you can do it thru dev tools, terminal with rmapk ...

 

[EnJoY]

su
sysrw
rm /system/app/Launcher2.apk
sysro

Thanks.

You can't do it from Astro. It won't recognize root access. Do you have Root Explorer? That would work.

However, I wouldn't recommend uninstalling the default launcher. Mainly because if there is ever a a problem with Launcher Pro and somehow its gets uninstalled, you'll be up the creek without a paddle.
Removing other launchers may help, but the stock launcher has never caused any ill-effects on performance. If it's not being used, it's not sitting in memory. The only benefit of deleting the stock launcher would be to save room in /system/app folder.

Somone else please correct me if I'm wrong.

According to info from Chevyno1, even when the stock launcher isn't being used, it still uses some memory.

 

[carlz28]

You can't do it from Astro. It won't recognize root access. Do you have Root Explorer? That would work.

However, I wouldn't recommend uninstalling the default launcher. Mainly because if there is ever a a problem with Launcher Pro and somehow its gets uninstalled, you'll be up the creek without a paddle.
Removing other launchers may help, but the stock launcher has never caused any ill-effects on performance. If it's not being used, it's not sitting in memory. The only benefit of deleting the stock launcher would be to save room in /system/app folder.

Somone else please correct me if I'm wrong.

According to info from Chevyno1, even when the stock launcher isn't being used, it still uses some memory.[/QUOTE]
I won't debate that because I really don't know, but I highly doubt it would affect performance on a notcieable level.
But it's your call!

 

[pdroid]

You can't do it from Astro. It won't recognize root access. Do you have Root Explorer? That would work.

However, I wouldn't recommend uninstalling the default launcher. Mainly because if there is ever a a problem with Launcher Pro and somehow its gets uninstalled, you'll be up the creek without a paddle.
Removing other launchers may help, but the stock launcher has never caused any ill-effects on performance. If it's not being used, it's not sitting in memory. The only benefit of deleting the stock launcher would be to save room in /system/app folder.

Somone else please correct me if I'm wrong.

I would think the threat of "accidentally" deleting LP would be pretty much nil.

 

[EnJoY]

I deleted it, every bit of memory or performance helps.

Worse case LP ever screws up beyond repair I'll happily just wipe and reflash.

 

[brochaos]

You can't do it from Astro. It won't recognize root access. Do you have Root Explorer? That would work.

However, I wouldn't recommend uninstalling the default launcher. Mainly because if there is ever a a problem with Launcher Pro and somehow its gets uninstalled, you'll be up the creek without a paddle.
Removing other launchers may help, but the stock launcher has never caused any ill-effects on performance. If it's not being used, it's not sitting in memory. The only benefit of deleting the stock launcher would be to save room in /system/app folder.

Somone else please correct me if I'm wrong.

According to info from Chevyno1, even when the stock launcher isn't being used, it still uses some memory.

I won't debate that because I really don't know, but I highly doubt it would affect performance on a notcieable level.
But it's your call!

i agree with you as well. not sure what chevy said exactly, but launcher2 definitely does not seem to running anywhere that i can tell. unless you just switched between the two.

 

[tcyree2202]

I was also interested in deleting the stock launcher2, but I have one more question. Is it necessary to move LauncherPro to /system/app, or will it still function properly if left in /data/app? Thanks in advance for the help.

 

[captdroid]

I was also interested in deleting the stock launcher2, but I have one more question. Is it necessary to move LauncherPro to /system/app, or will it still function properly if left in /data/app? Thanks in advance for the help.

You can leave Launcher Pro in /data/app and delete launcher2 in /system/app and LP will work fine. I moved Launcher Pro to /system/app to save user application storage space for other programs. But when an update comes along in the market for LP I have to move it again to /system/app after the update install and delete the old one or I end up with two LP apk's the one in /data/app taking precedence.

 

[imagecolour]

take a backup with Titanium backup, and remove the app from titanium backup.next reset the ROM to factory setting and restore with titanium backup. I did the same for Launcher pro and it is worked wonders dancedroid