[How-To] Removing Intex content from Aqua Fish

asked 2016-07-27 23:39:52 +0300

kat6
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updated 2016-09-16 07:20:19 +0300

I thought I would report on what I saw and did as I attempted to remove the 'Gaana' app. Some or all of the following actions may be of the 'Warranty-Void-ing' or phone-bricking kind, so proceed at your discretion.

WARNING : Read all the way to the end before you think about making any of these changes.

1) Enter 'Developer Mode' in settings.

2) Enable ssh-ing into the device & set password. Write it down somewhere.

3) Go to a computer terminal and ssh through WAN (WiFi) or USB using the username & IP address given, say ssh nemo@192.168.16.12 and type in the password when prompted.

4) type devel-su to become root and enter the same password as before.

5) Proceeding here on, I am pretty sure, constitutes a voiding of the intex warranty terms. But correct me if I'm wrong.

[root@Sailfish nemo]# pkcon remove sailfish-content-partnerspaces-intex-gaana
Removing                                                                                                             
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Removing packages                                     [=====================]        
The following packages have to be removed:
 feature-intex-0. ...                        Feature package for Intex content
 sailfish-content-partnerspaces-intex-0. ...   Partner space applications for Intex
 sailfish-content-partnerspaces-intex-gaana-0. .. Gaana partner space app for Intex
 sms-activation-intex- ...            Intex SMS activation service
 sms-activation-intex-conf- ...  Environment configuration for sms-activation-intex
Proceed with changes? [N/y] y

Removing                                                                                                             
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Removing packages

I replaces some outputs with a dot. It is funny that attempting to remove one app necessitated the removal of all of those others. That is some weird dependency structure. I hope the feature and partnerspace packages are not crucial for anything, like say, future updates.

The last two seem responsible for sending the intex activation SMS. Mine did not send it when I started up the phone. I do not know why.

6) I then disabled a repo called 'customer-intex' as follows:

[root@Sailfish nemo]# pkcon repo-disable customer-intex
Enabling repository                                                                                                  
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Querying                                                                                                             
[root@Sailfish nemo]# pkcon repo-list
Getting repositories                                                                                                 
 .                                                                                                            
 Enabled    adaptation0               adaptation0
 Enabled    adaptation1               adaptation1
 Enabled    aliendalvik               aliendalvik
 Enabled    apps                      apps
 Disabled   customer-intex            customer-intex
 Enabled    hotfixes                  hotfixes
 Enabled    jolla                     jolla
 Enabled    sailfish-eas              sailfish-eas
 Enabled    store                     store
 Enabled    xt9                       xt9

7) I then decided to check for what all packages still exist with the 'intex' name:

[nemo@Sailfish ~]$ pkcon search name intex
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Installed       all-translations-intex-pack- ...    Collection of all intex translations
Installed       sailfish-content-ambiences-intex- ...   Preloaded ambience content for Intex devices
Installed       sailfish-content-ambiences-intex-default-ambience- ...  Sets the default ambience
Installed       sailfish-content-browser-intex- ...     Sailfish Browser content for Intex devices
Installed       sailfish-content-configuration-intex- ...   Configuration keys for Intex
Installed       sailfish-content-gallery-configuration-intex- ...   Intex content configuration for downloading photos and videos
Installed       sailfish-content-graphics-intex- ...    Intex theme
Installed       sailfish-content-graphics-intex-z ...   Intex theme with zoom factor 1.25
Installed       sailfish-content-partnerspaces-intex-tutorial- ...  Intex specific content for Sailfish Tutorial
Installed       sailfish-content-profiled-settings-intex- ...   Profiled configuration for Intex
Installed       sailfish-content-tones-intex- ...   Intex Ringtones
Installed       splash-img-l500d-intex- ...     splash.img for l500d

Some of it seems to be 'intex' logos/images for the spash screen, etc.

The one with 'browser' in it, I think bookmarks an intex page in the browser.

I wish I knew what the ones with 'configuration' and 'profile' in them, exactly do. I feel like removing them, but this is enough tinkering for now.

8) Quit root and then ssh by typing exit.

9) Now back to the device, I turn off ssh login and developer mode, and exit settings. Everything looks okay. There is no 'Gaana' app. All the functions I checked are working fine. I will report if I find any problems.

EDIT-1 :

After the above changes, when I attempted to turn on Developer mode, it starts showing the broken loading bar, and it says ' Enabling developer mode', but does nothing after. It would seem I bricked that part. Everything else is working as usual.

I am contemplating a Reset device, but not sure if I should, because it might cause the whole phone to be bricked. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do? I have checked after a reboot. It was no help.

Would you guys advice resetting to factory, ans described here? : https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204709607-Jolla-Phone-How-do-I-use-the-Recovery-Mode-

EDIT-2

All is well. Used the Reset device option, and everything is factory reset now. Contemplating what to do next...

EDIT-3

All was not well. Turns out that the problem was and is that dev-mode opens only when I'm connected to the internet. I've made a separate post about this.

EDIT-4

If you haven't looked at the post linked in the previous edit, then to summarize, my inability to enable dev-mode was because of two reasons: 1. I would disable dev-mode, which uninstalled a bunch of packages needed for dev-mode. 2. Then, upon trying to enable it without internet, it would be unsuccessful.

So all in all, the actions in the How-To cause no harm. It was a lack of documentation and my actions that took me on a wild goose chase. But I learnt a few things about how sutff work, and I hope you guys did too! (i.e., if you didn't already know)

Continuing from where I left off before the EDIT saga... I assume you are at the prompt (i.e. that you've ssh-ed into your device).

Due to @g7 asking for the result of ssu lr here, I found out that the customer-intex repository that I had believed was disabled, actually wasn't. Check out the result of the command on your own device. To know what SSU is, look here, and to know all the options for the command, just type ssu.

10) Now gain root rights by typing devel-su and entering your password.

11) [root@Sailfish nemo]# ssu dr customer-intex where dr stands for disable repository

12) Quit root by typing exit, and check again by typing ssu lr.

[nemo@Sailfish ~]$ ssu lr
Enabled repositories (global): 
 - adaptation0  ... https://store-repository.jolla.com/releases/2.0.2.45/jolla-hw/adaptation-qualcomm-l500d/armv7hl/
 - adaptation1  ... https://store-repository.jolla.com/releases/2.0.2.45/jolla-hw/adaptation-qualcomm-l500d-dhd/armv7hl/
 - aliendalvik  ... https://store-repository.jolla.com/releases/2.0.2.45/aliendalvik/l500d/
 - apps         ... https://releases.jolla.com/jolla-apps/2.0.2.45/armv7hl/
 - hotfixes     ... https://releases.jolla.com/releases/2.0.2.45/hotfixes/armv7hl/
 - jolla        ... https://releases.jolla.com/releases/2.0.2.45/jolla/armv7hl/
 - sailfish-eas ... https://store-repository.jolla.com/features/2.0.2.45/sailfish-eas/armv7hl/?version=2.0.2.45
 - xt9          ... https://store-repository.jolla.com/features/2.0.2.45/xt9/armv7hl/

Enabled repositories (user): 
    .
    .
 - store                ... https://store-repository.jolla.com/l500d/armv7hl/?version=2.0.2.45

Disabled repositories (global, might be overridden by user config): 

Disabled repositories (user): 
 - home           ... https://download.jollamobile.com/home:/honeybadger/latest_armv7hl/
 - customer-intex ... https://store-repository.jolla.com/features/2.0.2.45/customers/intex/armv7hl/

And thus, customer-intex is now (hopefully) disabled for good.

16th of Sep 2016

I additionally removed the package: sailfish-content-browser-intex, because it annoyingly opens a stupid page as default, sometimes when I open the browser. This change had no ill effects.