Great info! This was very helpful in getting me re-rooted. I ended up using a newer tutorial, but I wanted to post about a different method for manually removing programs using the adb shell prompt.

Open Notepad
Make lines (copied and pasted from above) like this:

mkdir /system/app.disabled
mv /system/app/VzNav.apk /system/app.disabled/
mv /system/app/CityID.apk /system/app.disabled/

After typing adb shell and mounting the system directory as per the instructions above, do this:

select the lines of text you meticulously edited in notepad
right-click and copy them
go to your cmd window that has the adb shell open
right-click and paste

adb shell treats line breaks like enter commands, so when you paste it will automatically create the backup directory and perform every other task you asked it to. Pretty slick!

I hadn’t seen this mentioned so I thought I’d share 🙂