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with a rooted phone I was able to delete such a system app using pm uninstall, was this doing a remount,rw on the system partition to remove it under the hood,
by zorkw4rg 9y ago
with a rooted phone I was able to delete such a system app using pm uninstall, was this doing a remount,rw on the system partition to remove it under the hood, or how does this work then?
Because I thought that was more of a "you pay us to make your app unremovable preinstalled on all of our phones"-thing rather than anything technical.
- Klathmon 9y agoIt works by actually deleting the data from the system partition, that's not a big deal. But what happens is that there isn't any way using just the device to reset it back to factory defaults, and that's a problem now. If your average joe can uninstall the play store by accident, they then can't get it reinstalled again without a PC and some technical knowhow. By making it so you can only "disable" preinstalled apps, you limit the damage that can be done, and because of partitions you don't really harm the user at all (because that space wouldn't be reclaimed if fully deleted anyway). It's also why most "preinstalled" apps are now just a 4kb placeholder that makes google play go and download the latest version of the app the second it's connected, so if you "disable" it you are only left with a 4kb "skeleton" of an app there.
- zorkw4rg 9y agoYep which makes sense for play store etc., except samsung pre-installs the facebook app in this way. I would be surprised if facebook does pay samsung nothing for this. Similar how google pays mozilla to keep google as the default search engine.