How To Remove VoiceDial - Revision history

Crimsonredmk at 02:22, 13 September 2011

2011-09-13T02:22:37Z

2011-06-16T05:06:31Z

Complete Removal (Reversible): - fixed misplaced single quote

2011-05-20T18:52:50Z

Restoring: I made / ro *before* running ldconfig. /etc/ld.so.cache wouldn't be able to be updated! D'oh!

2011-05-19T15:27:05Z

2011-05-19T15:07:09Z

Complete Removal (No Way Back): Added "ldconfig" to remove the *.so files from the LD cacher.

2011-05-19T15:02:56Z

Added "p" to the tar - preserve permissions!

2011-04-23T15:20:52Z

2011-04-23T15:18:52Z

Separated No Way Back from Reverible removals.

2011-04-23T15:16:09Z

typos

2011-04-23T14:11:22Z

Added service disable as a quick option. Minor edits.

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 If you have absolutly NO desire to EVER re-install it, then you can simply:
-  <nowiki>#</nowiki> mount -oremount,rw /
+  <nowiki>#</nowiki> mount -o remount,rw /
   <nowiki>#</nowiki> for PKG in $(ipkg list_installed | grep voice | awk '{print $1}') ; do ipkg remove -force-depends "$PKG" ; done
-  <nowiki>#</nowiki> mount -oremount,ro /
+  <nowiki>#</nowiki> mount -o remount,ro /
   <nowiki>#</nowiki> ldconfig

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   echo -e \\vRemoving all VoiceDial packages\\n
-  for PKG in $(ipkg list_installed | grep voice | awk '{print $1'}) ; do ipkg remove -force-depends "$PKG" ; done
+  for PKG in $(ipkg list_installed | grep voice | awk '{print $1}') ; do ipkg remove -force-depends "$PKG" ; done
   mount -oremount,ro /
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 Enjoy!
 = Restoring =

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 ) <nowiki>root@My Pre:/#</nowiki> mount -oremount,rw /
 ) <nowiki>root@My Pre:/#</nowiki> tar -xvpf /media/internal/VoiceCommandBackup/VoiceCommandExtras.tar.gz -C /
-) <nowiki>root@My Pre:/#</nowiki> mount -oremount,ro /
+) <nowiki>root@My Pre:/#</nowiki> ldconfig
-) <nowiki>root@My Pre:/#</nowiki> ldconfig
+) <nowiki>root@My Pre:/#</nowiki> mount -oremount,ro /
 ) <nowiki>root@My Pre:/#</nowiki> luna-send -n 1 palm://com.palm.systemservice/setPreferences '{"enableVoiceCommand":false}'
 ) <nowiki>root@My Pre:/#</nowiki> reboot

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-=== Summary ===
+= Summary =
 For those plagued by the buggy and inaccurate VoiceDial that comes with webOS 2.1 (meta-doctor or otherwise), here's how to disable/remove it as cleanly as possible.
-=== Background ===
+= Background =
 All the VoiceDial packages in webOS 2.1:
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-=== Disable System Service ===
+= Disable System Service =
 The simplest and easiest way to stop VoiceDial from getting in your way and crashing the MediaServer (kills system sounds) is to simply disable the service from starting at boot-time.  This requires NO file / file system alterations:
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-=== Complete Removal (No Way Back) ===
+= Complete Removal (No Way Back) =
 If you have absolutly NO desire to EVER re-install it, then you can simply:
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 To remove it from the list of services to start at boot time.  There is no way to "re-install" VoiceDial with this method.  The next method ''can'' make it possible to "re-install" VoiceDial.
-=== Complete Removal (Reversible) ===
 If you even ''THINK'' you ''may'' want to re-install it at some future time, it gets a little tricky.  In the Doctor, we have IPKs for everything EXCEPT the codecs.  These need to be backed up BEFORE removing the packages themselves.  This handy dandy script will back up the codecs to a tarball in /media/internal/VoiceDialBackup, remove all the packages, and remove the service from boot-time:
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 Enjoy!

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   <nowiki>#</nowiki> for PKG in $(ipkg list_installed | grep voice | awk '{print $1}') ; do ipkg remove -force-depends "$PKG" ; done
   <nowiki>#</nowiki> mount -oremount,ro /
 Then:
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 To remove it from the list of services to start at boot time.  There is no way to "re-install" VoiceDial with this method.  The next method ''can'' make it possible to "re-install" VoiceDial.
 === Complete Removal (Reversible) ===

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   echo -e \\vBacking up codecs\\n
-  tar -czvf "${VCBACKUP}"/VoiceCommandExtras.tar.gz /usr/lib/libpalmvoicecodec.so /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libpalmvoicedecoder.so /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libpalmvoiceencoder.so
+  tar -czvpf "${VCBACKUP}"/VoiceCommandExtras.tar.gz /usr/lib/libpalmvoicecodec.so /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libpalmvoicedecoder.so /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libpalmvoiceencoder.so
   echo -e \\vRemoving all VoiceDial packages\\n

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 === Complete Removal (Reversible) ===
-If you even ''THINK'' you ''may'' want to re-install it at some future time, it gets a little tricky.  In the Doctor, we have IPKs for everything EXCEPT the codecs.  These need to be backed up BEFORE removing the packages themselves.  This handy dandy script will back up the codecs to your /media/internal, remove all the packages, and remove the service from boot-time:
+If you even ''THINK'' you ''may'' want to re-install it at some future time, it gets a little tricky.  In the Doctor, we have IPKs for everything EXCEPT the codecs.  These need to be backed up BEFORE removing the packages themselves.  This handy dandy script will back up the codecs to a tarball in /media/internal/VoiceDialBackup, remove all the packages, and remove the service from boot-time:
   <nowiki>#!/bin/sh</nowiki>
   VCBACKUP="/media/internal/VoiceCommandBackup"