Found a way to remove Amazon ads on Moto G4 running Android Nougat! (xt1625) - Moto G4 Guides, News, & Discussion

Before being updated to Nougat on my Amazon Moto G4, I was happy to run the command:
Code:
pm disable com.amazon.phoenix
To remove those annoying lockscreen ads. Since the update hit, that no longer was a choice, as now I received an error about user permissions. Being that the ads really do annoy me, I set out to find a way to disable or altogether remove the package from the system. It only took a couple of hours digging through pm commands and XDA forums to find a way to completely remove the application that displays those ads once and for all.
So without further adue:
Either open an ADB shell or run a terminal command on the phone itself. At the shell prompt (athene:/) type the following:
Code:
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.amazon.phoenix
And that's it. A reboot should remove any remnants but it seems to work right away in most cases.
I'll go ahead and assume that this trick works for other Amazon Ad Enabled devices unless I hear otherwise.

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dosangst said:
Before being updated to Nougat on my Amazon Moto G4, I was happy to run the command:
To remove those annoying lockscreen ads. Since the update hit, that no longer was a choice, as now I received an error about user permissions. Being that the ads really do annoy me, I set out to find a way to disable or altogether remove the package from the system. It only took a couple of hours digging through pm commands and XDA forums to find a way to completely remove the application that displays those ads once and for all.
So without further adue:
Either open an ADB shell or run a terminal command on the phone itself. At the shell prompt (athene:/) type the following:
And that's it. A reboot should remove any remnants but it seems to work right away in most cases.
I'll go ahead and assume that this trick works for other Amazon Ad Enabled devices unless I hear otherwise.
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Does it work on locked bootloaders?

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Yes. AFAIK all Amazon G4 Prime's are locked bootloaders. This requires no root, nothing but a simple adb shell command!

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Edit, Don't works.

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How does it not work?

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Thank you very much...
Works perfectly !!!!!!

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I used this in my Moto G4 Prime version(XT1625)(locked bootloader, no root) after reboot i notice that is working this method.
1. Open cmd, and put my phone in debug mode. Plug my phone through usb to my computer.
2. In cmd put adb shell
3. put
Code:
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.amazon.phoenix
4. Reboot
5. Be Happy!
Waiting to see if the apps install again

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It works! I was doing it wrong, thanks for this friend! Now only root is missing! xD
Could someone give the command to uninstall the amazon widget app and the amazon photos app? Thank you

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lerg96 said:
I used this in my Moto G4 Prime version(XT1625)(locked bootloader, no root) after reboot i notice that is working this method.
1. Open cmd, and put my phone in debug mode. Plug my phone through usb to my computer.
2. In cmd put adb shell
3. put
Code:
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.amazon.phoenix
4. Reboot
5. Be Happy!
Waiting to see if the apps install again
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Hi,Can you tell me more details step by step because I am new to android?., I am using windows laptop

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canhmeo said:
I used this in my Moto G4 Prime version(XT1625)(locked bootloader, no root) after reboot i notice that is working this method.
1. Open cmd, and put my phone in debug mode. Plug my phone through usb to my computer.
2. In cmd put adb shell
3. put
Hi,Can you tell me more details step by step because I am new to android?., I am using windows laptop
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1. Put your phone in debugging mode(settings => developer options => USB debugging if you don't see developer options go to about phone and tap 7 times or more in build number)
2. Install adb and Motorola drivers in your PC (search a little ?)
3. Connect your phone through USB to your PC
4. Open CMD (windows + r and type CMD and hit enter )
5. Type adb shell in CMD (the black window that appears after you hit enter) and hit enter
6. Type the magic command provide in this thread and hit enter
7. Reboot
8. Maybe you can make some friends after it, Google can be your friend
9. Install Google allo and talk about weather with Google Assistant
10. Joking, be happy
11. Don't forget to say thanks, not to me. To the owner of this thread

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Thanks -- worked fine for me
Went into phone Settings then Apps -- forced stopped all running apps that I wanted to remove, cleared data for each, removed any updates and disabled whatever I could
Ran the adb uninstall command multiple times once for each app:
com.amazon.phoenix
com.amazon.widgets
com.amazon.clouddrive.photos
com.amazon.kindle
com.amazon.dee.app
com.amazon.drive
com.imdb.mobile
com.goodreads
com.audible.application
com.google.android.music
com.google.android.videos
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Hi, all. Just wanted to say that this worked perfectly on my G4. My build number is NPJS25.93-14-4 (running Nougat) and the device is at the March 1, 2017 Security patch level.
I used Minimal ADB and Fastboot on a Windows 10 box. Enabled debugging on the phone, connected it, ran adb shell and entered the command as above. Big thanks to Jatan1986 as well for the additional commands which also worked great (I didn't uninstall everything but that list is terrific). Rebooted and the apps I uninstalled were gone. No more ads.
Oh, I did not do the force stop on the apps first. I performed just the steps above.
Much thanks for this method and post.

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lerg96 said:
Hu
1. Put your phone in debugging mode(settings => developer options => USB debugging if you don't see developer options go to about phone and tap 7 times or more in build number)
2. Install adb and Motorola drivers in your PC (search a little )
3. Connect your phone through USB to your PC
4. Open CMD (windows + r and type CMD and hit enter )
5. Type adb shell in CMD (the black window that appears after you hit enter) and hit enter
6. Type the magic command provide in this thread and hit enter
7. Reboot
8. Maybe you can make some friends after it, Google can be your friend
9. Install Google allo and talk about weather with Google Assistant
10. Joking, be happy
11. Don't forget to say thanks, not to me. To the owner of this thread
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First of all I would like to thank the owner of this post.
On the other hand it still not working for me,I am trying to use google to know how to do

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canhmeo said:
First of all I would like to thank the owner of this post.
On the other hand it still not working for me,I am trying to use google to know how to do
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Happy to try and help - please list step-by-step what you have done and what messages you have received.

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canhmeo said:
First of all I would like to thank the owner of this post.
On the other hand it still not working for me,I am trying to use google to know how to do
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Make sure your computer can see your phone by typing
adb devices

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dosangst said:
Before being updated to Nougat on my Amazon Moto G4, I was happy to run the command:
Code:
pm disable com.amazon.phoenix
To remove those annoying lockscreen ads. Since the update hit, that no longer was a choice, as now I received an error about user permissions. Being that the ads really do annoy me, I set out to find a way to disable or altogether remove the package from the system. It only took a couple of hours digging through pm commands and XDA forums to find a way to completely remove the application that displays those ads once and for all.
So without further adue:
Either open an ADB shell or run a terminal command on the phone itself. At the shell prompt (athene:/) type the following:
Code:
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.amazon.phoenix
And that's it. A reboot should remove any remnants but it seems to work right away in most cases.
I'll go ahead and assume that this trick works for other Amazon Ad Enabled devices unless I hear otherwise.
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I have seen the response to this method and it seems quite good.
I would like to know if this can affect any future update of Android from Amazon. I am looking to get Android 7.1.1 or Android O in the future and do not know if this change may cause any issue.
Thanks in advance.

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titomalanguito said:
I I would like to know if this can affect any future update of Android from Amazon./QUOTE]
There's no way to know for sure.
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lerg96 said:
Hu
1. Put your phone in debugging mode(settings => developer options => USB debugging if you don't see developer options go to about phone and tap 7 times or more in build number)
2. Install adb and Motorola drivers in your PC (search a little )
3. Connect your phone through USB to your PC
4. Open CMD (windows + r and type CMD and hit enter )
5. Type adb shell in CMD (the black window that appears after you hit enter) and hit enter
6. Type the magic command provide in this thread and hit enter
7. Reboot
8. Maybe you can make some friends after it, Google can be your friend
9. Install Google allo and talk about weather with Google Assistant
10. Joking, be happy
11. Don't forget to say thanks, not to me. To the owner of this thread
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the guide.
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dosangst said:
Before being updated to Nougat on my Amazon Moto G4, I was happy to run the command:
Code:
pm disable com.amazon.phoenix
To remove those annoying lockscreen ads. Since the update hit, that no longer was a choice, as now I received an error about user permissions. Being that the ads really do annoy me, I set out to find a way to disable or altogether remove the package from the system. It only took a couple of hours digging through pm commands and XDA forums to find a way to completely remove the application that displays those ads once and for all.
So without further adue:
Either open an ADB shell or run a terminal command on the phone itself. At the shell prompt (athene:/) type the following:
Code:
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.amazon.phoenix
And that's it. A reboot should remove any remnants but it seems to work right away in most cases.
I'll go ahead and assume that this trick works for other Amazon Ad Enabled devices unless I hear otherwise.
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Appreciate it! is working fine on my Moto g5

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titomalanguito said:
Thanks for the guide.
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Appreciate it! is working fine on my Moto g5
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Pura vida!

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I had a bit of trouble getting it to work on my Moto G4, just updated to Nougat. When I run the following code in an android terminal, it does not return an error, but pulls up a new line almost instantly.
Code:
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.amazon.phoenix
The ads were still there, even after restarting
When I run the following while connected with adb, it returns "Success"
Code:
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.amazon.phoenix
The ads were still there, but after restarting they were gone (Whoo!!)
I would really like to bypass the lockscreen entirely as I don't like to have a password, but they disabled that since that would bypass the ads. Pretty annoying