Monday, January 7, 2008

Delete Sis Uninstall List on Application Manager in S60 1st and 2nd Edition Phone

App. Manager

Well, let me explain this first, when you installed symbian software (sis extension) on our S60 1st and 2nd Edition Phones, the phone would also make the uninstall application file in the [!]:\system\install (change [!] with where you did install the application). Then, when you open the application manager, the phone will checked this directory (in phone and memory card) to find the uninstall list of all application in the phone (that's why it's loading at the first time).

Now, how can you delete an application uninstall program on application manager? simply find the appropriate file on that directory that you want to exclude on the application manager list and move it to other folder that you choose to contain it or renamed it (or delete it, but I don't recommend it, the reason you'll see later). You can use file manager application that I used file manager application that I used to do it, since the built-in file manager application don't give us grant to access that folder. The appropriate file has the same name like the file that you were using to install the application in the phone.

Usually, I just rename the file extension to *.si, so when I need to uninstall it, I just rename it back to *.sis. If you choose to move it to another folder, you can move it back if you want to uninstall it. But, if you delete it, you can't uninstall the application via application manager, you must uninstall it manually through your file exproler application (by delete all the file that install the application).