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hi this is david from fumble calm and today i'll be doing a how-to video on how to delete a stock app for android you're gonna need two things in order to be able to do this one is root permissions on your phone and two is root explorer and now you can see the logo for root explorer is right over here i already have it on my phone you get downloaded from the android market and like i said you do need to have root in order to be able to use root explorer the app won't be deleting today is gonna be the web browser the stock samsung web browser that they load on here let me see the app it's working you know and i you could also see that I have the Dolphin Browser installed that's the one I actually use I never use this one so for me there's no point to even have it so that's why I'm going to delete it and you could do it any app you want it could be the browser like I'm doing or things like contacts or calculator if you have like aftermarket calculator and you want to use that as your only one you don't need the other one you could just delete the stock one so what that says it's going to how to do it so you're gonna open up root explorer and from roots for you want to make sure you at the root folder of your phone just going to look like that top bar just to slash that means you're at the root there's just something after it you're in a folder so you want to back out of it until you get to the very root and from here you're gonna go to this system file and a system file or folder it's not this one that's sys it's the one actually full on says system so right there and from here you're gonna find the app folder that's where all your apps are stored so mine is on the very bottom and you can see all my apks are right over here the ones that I've installed from the market are the ones that came pre-loaded on the phone and the browsers right here so you long press on it and you get the pop-up menu now you could delete it but I don't recommend deleting it because because if you delete it and something goes wrong or later you find out that you needed it the only way you'll get it back is doing a hard reset so that's definitely something you'd want to avoid so what I recommend doing is actually hitting move as long as you move the apk out of the system file out of the system app folder you'll are it'll go off your phone so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna move it to my SD card I already made a folder on my SD card I think I called it backup apps there you go and now I'm just gonna paste it right over here so you see the browser avk has been moved over here and my hit home going here and now you can see it's gone it's no longer an app installed on my phone if I ever want to replace it I could just do you know vice versa I could go to my XD card and paste it right back into the system at folder but now when I click this guy it's automatically my default because I don't have another option but you could use this process for any app like I said you can do it for the calculator the browser the alarm clock doesn't really matter same the same step-by-step process will work for you and that's it for me this is David from foam bluff calm and don't forget to check out forum bluff calm for the latest cell phone use reviews and how to's and also the full written article on how to delete the app brand