want to remove spint preinstalled apps.....

[alpha2k]

I know the phone needs to be rooted to remove apps like weather channel, sprint tv etc.
I have an apk for quick root, I think its called somthing like instant root.
What I am wondering is:
1: if I root will the phone act as normal? I know root will be gone after an update.
2: does this root apk file work on samsung moment?
3: if I uninstall the apps, will they return/be re-installed once an update is applied(android 2.1)
4: I want to uninstall 3 things that I can think of..........bejewled, weather channel, and moxier mail. Does moxier mail affect anything else such as email?
This will be the only reason I will be rooting, is to remove the programs.

Sorry for the newby questions, and thanks for any questions and answers.

[extorian]

Rooting will give you the ability to remove these programs as rooting literally means getting super user (i.e. administrator) access to your phone.

After rooting, your phone will act exactly as normal, but you will no longer receive over the air updates, as usually when you root you replace the SPL with a custom one. I believe this is exactly what the one-click-root apps do.

So - don't worry about future updates removing your root access - you won't get any.

For this reason, most people who root also install a custom firmware. Cyanogen's custom firmware is by far the most popular, but I haven't seen a 2.0 version of this yet.

I don't know if the one-click-root works on the Samsung Moment. I'd be certain that it does before you run it or you could easily brick your phone, rendering it completely useless. Note also here, that rooting your phone will invalidate your warranty.

If you uninstall the apps, then they will return if you ever install your official firmware for that phone for that mobile network. However, once you've rooted you'd have to manually install such firmwares anyway. Most people wouldn't bother as they'd have installed Cyanogen's firmware. I don't know if Cyanogen's works on the Samsung Moment either. You should check this too. If you install any firmware that doesn't come with these apps (most won't) then they won't return.

All three of the programs you mention are Market downloads. Are they really ones you can't un-install on the Samsung Moment?

Moxier mail looks like it's for exchange support. So long as you don't uninstall the GMail and/or Mail app, you can still use those for email.

However, having said all of that, why would you want to uninstall them? If they genuinely are system apps, then they'll be on the System partition, not the other-one-that-I-forget-the-name-of partition, so you won't actually free up any user space. None of them will use up any other resources (network, cpu, etc) unless you actually set them up to run in the background and enter your email details in Moxier. In the meantime, you're risking bricking your phone, and invalidating its warranty, for very little gain. The only thing you'll gain is removing the icons from your app list.

[alpha2k]

Reason I am wanting to remove them is I have been having some slow downs so I grabbed an app to view status stuff like spu usage and it seems moxier and weather channel frequently eat up some cpu. With samsung moment I don't have the ability to remove the preinstalled apps.
I am useing gde, and it has had some updates so maybe gde is having some issue.
Is there a way to like defrag or clean up the phone some? I have been doing a lot of install and uninstall of programs figure maybe there are remnants left behind.

[alpha2k]

Reason I am wanting to remove them is I have been having some slow downs so I grabbed an app to view status stuff like spu usage and it seems moxier and weather channel frequently eat up some cpu. With samsung moment I don't have the ability to remove the preinstalled apps.
I am useing gde, and it has had some updates so maybe gde is having some issue.
Is there a way to like defrag or clean up the phone some? I have been doing a lot of install and uninstall of programs figure maybe there are remnants left behind.

[alpha2k]

Sorry for the double post, doing this on my phone somtimes it freaks out and hits the button twice.

[extorian]

Android doesn't work like Windows, so applications don't leave traces behind on the phone itself when you uninstall them. They can leave traces on your SD card, but that doesn't matter.

Similarly, defragmentation only helps disk drives (as in ones that spin round), not solid state memory like the flash memory in your phone.

[alpha2k]

Ok kewl, then its got to be a program conflict with gde and another program or a program I have I have installed issue by itself. I am currently useing the moments base home and it seems to move a lot smoother....no hiccups or burps. Would be a shame if I couldn't use gde, I loved it when it first came out, and just until the last update or two I had no issues or slowdowns.
Why samsung had to limit home screens to 3 is beyond me but it sure is a pain.

I was playing with a tmobile motorola cliq today, it seemed faster and smoother than this samsung with what is spose to be better hardware. Not sure why but I hope an os update will fix things.

[konzern]

so why cant you just uninstall the apps through application manager?

[extorian]

I know some providers ship apps with the phone as system apps. You can't uninstall them, a bit like you can't uninstall GMail, or Browser, or Messaging.

[konzern]

well gmail, browser, and messaging are different cuz they are tied into the OS

but the apps the OP was talking about seem more like the "t-mobile recommended" apps so i dont see why he/she cant just delete them thru application manager