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mtl171 2009-03-29 21:33

any way to uninstall mer?
 
i'm tired of Mer. is there anyway to uninstall it?

currently, its running on my n810 and is located on a 4gb micro sd.

neatojones 2009-03-29 22:13

Re: any way to uninstall mer?
 
I'm not quite sure what you mean. Mer isn't installed into Maemo, so you can simply remove or reformat the drive that Mer is on and you can use that drive for whatever you'd like after that.

You can remove the Mer installer from Maemo if you go into the Application Manager and remove it as you would any program.

You can remove the customized bootmenu by downloading the latest Maemo and flasher-3.0 utility and then flashing the original initfs to the tablet. To do this, make sure that flasher-3.0 is executable (you can type "chmod a+x flasher-3.0" from terminal) shut down your tablet and then hold down the home button while hitting the power button on the tablet until a little USB icon appears in the top right hand corner of the tablets screen. Then type this command in the terminal of linux (from the same directory that flasher-3.0 is downloaded to): sudo ./flasher-3.0 -f -F RX-44_DIABLO_5.2008.43-7_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin --flash-only=initfs -R

mtl171 2009-03-30 00:08

Re: any way to uninstall mer?
 
thank you!

NITboy 2009-04-27 13:44

Re: any way to uninstall mer?
 
ok, I think I screwed up somewhere.

I flashed my N810 which had Mer installed but now my Internal memory total size is still 196.9MB, same as when Mer was there.

How can I get back my 2Gb internal memory?

meizirkki 2009-04-27 13:51

Re: any way to uninstall mer?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by NITboy (Post 282331)
ok, I think I screwed up somewhere.

I flashed my N810 which had Mer installed but now my Internal memory total size is still 196.9MB, same as when Mer was there.

How can I get back my 2Gb internal memory?

Format your memorycard with the File Manager

NITboy 2009-04-27 14:11

Re: any way to uninstall mer?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by meizirkki (Post 282333)
Format your memorycard with the File Manager

That works!... Appreciate your time in replying, meizirkki :D

Un27Pee 2009-04-27 15:34

Re: any way to uninstall mer?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by mtl171 (Post 275602)
i'm tired of Mer. is there anyway to uninstall it?

currently, its running on my n810 and is located on a 4gb micro sd.

While you are tired of mer can you probably share your experience about using mer to help the developers to improve on one thing you like or dislike

internetpilot 2009-07-26 15:24

Re: any way to uninstall mer?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by neatojones (Post 275611)
I'm not quite sure what you mean. Mer isn't installed into Maemo, so you can simply remove or reformat the drive that Mer is on and you can use that drive for whatever you'd like after that.

You can remove the Mer installer from Maemo if you go into the Application Manager and remove it as you would any program.

You can remove the customized bootmenu by downloading the latest Maemo and flasher-3.0 utility and then flashing the original initfs to the tablet. To do this, make sure that flasher-3.0 is executable (you can type "chmod a+x flasher-3.0" from terminal) shut down your tablet and then hold down the home button while hitting the power button on the tablet until a little USB icon appears in the top right hand corner of the tablets screen. Then type this command in the terminal of linux (from the same directory that flasher-3.0 is downloaded to): sudo ./flasher-3.0 -f -F RX-44_DIABLO_5.2008.43-7_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin --flash-only=initfs -R

I'm about to try Mer for the first time with the key word being TRY. I'm not sure if I will want to keep it on my N810 or not. So before I install it, I wanted to know how to remove it in case I don't want to keep it on there at this time, which brought me to this thread via a search.

I noticed the instructions you gave for removing the customized bootmenu are for a Linux desktop. Since I have a Windows desktop, would I be able to just reflash the N810 and restore a pre-Mer backup to get my data back (without restoring the bootmenu)?

-- Chris

jperez2009 2009-07-26 16:02

Re: any way to uninstall mer?
 
Before doing a reflash, backup your data apps and things with the Backup/Restore application in the Settings Menu. Also, make sure anything you don't want being erased, like important documents, music and stuff are all saved on the external card.

Jesse~

FRZ 2009-07-26 16:33

Re: any way to uninstall mer?
 
Since I can't live without bootmenu so I never looked into uninstalling it but, if I had to I always thought I could do that from the app manager. Would it not uninstall that way? I don't remember the last time reflashed since that boot only to install mer and edit bootmenu. Otherwise, I don't mess with it.


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