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Most of the time the disable button is greyed out and cannot be clicked. I'm not familiar with the /system partition but it seems logical that if I can delete
by bigbugbag 9y ago
Most of the time the disable button is greyed out and cannot be clicked.
I'm not familiar with the /system partition but it seems logical that if I can delete them as root, it means I can also install something else in its place or put some of my data there, which would help me a lot as my phone does not allow for an additional SD card.
- vetinari 9y agoWhether it is disabled or not, depends on the phone vendor. In the phones that I have currently available (Google, Sony, Samsung), all the Google applications can be disabled. Samsung usually prevents disabling their applications, but still allows disabling Google ones. If your vendor prevents disabling the apps, you can still try the route using adb and pm (google for adb pm disable). The point I was making about /system is, that you don't want to mess with it, even if you have root. You can break more than you think, including dm-verity, and then you are not going to boot anymore. Also, apps installed in /system are getting updates installed into /data, so it is not going to solve your problems with space anyway. You would have to repartition your phone, which on ARM platforms opens a new can of worms (partitions are defined in the secondary boot loader, which is signed too. Moreover, if you do this wrong, you get a brick, you are not going to boot without reflashing the original SPL in an external programmer).