I have bought an Elephone A8 for my girlfriend, and she complained that she was receiving a lot of Chinese advertising. And I can confirm that even after performing a factory reset, Chinese advert appear right after launching the Google Play market application.
After some research I found that some kind of com.adups.fota spyware is indeed installed on the factory ROM of the Elephone A8 phone. I then went ahead and downloaded from your elephone.hk downloads web page and installed the Elephone_A8_20171010 ROM, which shows the same behavior.
At the end I believe the problem is with the Google Play application itself, as in two other phones is pointing to :
package:/data/app/com.android.vending-1/base.apk=com.android.vending
And in the A8 points instead to :
package:/system/priv-app/Phonesky/Phonesky.apk=com.android.vending
The solution that I apply was to remove the Phonesky.apk and install the Google play downloaded from apkmirror.com
I also removed the com.adups.fota
F:\android\platform-tools-latest-windows\platform-tools>adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.adups.fota.sysoper
Success
F:\android\platform-tools-latest-windows\platform-tools>adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.adups.fota
Success
So far it seems to be working although of course there is no guarantees that something else is still hidden in there.
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Hello,
Is there a way to uninstall the google assistant from the Xiaomi Mi A3 phone?
I hoped I will be able to do so using:
Code:
adb shell
pm uninstall --user 0 *package*
and I did try to find out what the correct *package* is using:
Code:
pm list packages
But I had no luck finding it, could someone help?
It I'm not mistaken, assistant is part of the "Google search" app now, so you can't get rid of it. You can disable pretty much all the triggers for the assistant, so you don't need to use it.
Just uninstall Google assistant app
On a fairly old non-rooted Galaxy Tab A-tablet I wanted to uninstall all the Samsung and Microsoft apps and most of the Google packages to make it faster. Using adb shell pm uninstall -k user 0 I uninstalled 106 packages but after "com.sec.android.app.music" I suddenly can't uninstall packages anymore. Instead I get a DeadObjectException and the tablet reboots:
Code:
$ adb shell pm uninstall -k user 0 flipboard.boxer.app
android.os.DeadObjectException
at android.os.BinderProxy.transactNative(Native Method)
at android.os.BinderProxy.transact(Binder.java:628)
at android.os.BinderProxy.shellCommand(Binder.java:675)
at com.android.commands.pm.Pm.runShellCommand(Pm.java:299)
at com.android.commands.pm.Pm.runUninstall(Pm.java:674)
at com.android.commands.pm.Pm.run(Pm.java:170)
at com.android.commands.pm.Pm.main(Pm.java:103)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.nativeFinishInit(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.main(RuntimeInit.java:315)
It looks to me like pm needs something that isn't there, so I might have uninstalled something that it needs. My question is, how do I find out what it was, and, assuming is wasn't the Samsung music app, why did it function correctly until after I installed that?
Thanks for any help!
I have reset the tablet to factory settings and all the apps are there again, but even now I get the same error when attempting to uninstall any of them.
I'll bump this up, since I just ran into the same issue. At least, for me, I could continue to remove apps, including the one where I made a mistake on (added a space in the middle of the package name). Now, my settings app and another communications app won't work (messages and other apps are still good).
My command prompt text, just in case it'll help fix this issue. I don't know which app was the cause.
Code:
heroqltetmo:/ $ pm uninstall -k --user 0 com. samsung.android.ststub
android.os.DeadObjectException
at android.os.BinderProxy.transactNative(Native Method)
at android.os.BinderProxy.transact(Binder.java:763)
at android.os.BinderProxy.shellCommand(Binder.java:817)
at com.android.commands.pm.Pm.runShellCommand(Pm.java:334)
at com.android.commands.pm.Pm.runUninstall(Pm.java:726)
at com.android.commands.pm.Pm.run(Pm.java:174)
at com.android.commands.pm.Pm.main(Pm.java:107)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.nativeFinishInit(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.main(RuntimeInit.java:287)
255|heroqltetmo:/ $ pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.ststub
Success
I'll keep checking to see exactly which apps I shouldn't have removed, but there were a few accidentals.
EDIT: Found a way to find the list of uninstalled apps from running the
Code:
pm list
command twice, one with and without a -u to get 2 lists of packages, all before and after the operation. I then used Excel to find and mark any duplicates. Then I took the remaining list and re-installed them (and restarting my device after a few changes). I hit a few issues, with setup wizard failing to work, missing contact names, the Contacts app and a communication app cannot open, settings fails to work, some apps produce sound despite on silent, and not being able to unlock my device (even with a swipe lock). I didn't reset the device, but restart it several times, including booting it to recovery mode.
I'll be uninstalling more apps, setup wizard was an immediate choice, when I could figure this out. In the meantime, I'll be sideloading an app to mute the device.
EDIT 2: No progress, whatsoever, but apps work fine except Settings and LINE (the previously mentioned communications app). LINE is uninstalled (I have it on computer), and apparently (for my default mesaging app), I could see my text messages, but not respond... I might get another device to use (doubting it, as it's the 4th or 5th device I've gone through).
Note: This guide helped me uninstall apps. It was something I spent a while trying to figure out, but finally found something that works (until there's a typo).
I didn't bother with resetting the device, but at least I made backups since I was prepared for a reset to flash custom ROM or just to get root. Well, I did a reset and the device is fixed now. I'll continue to uninstall apps as before.
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I didn't bother with resetting the device, but at least I made backups since I was prepared for a reset to flash custom ROM or just to get root. Well, I did a reset and the device is fixed now. I'll continue to uninstall apps as before.
EDIT: Uninstalling apps was smooth (at least i have a list now), but I hit the settings app keeps stopping issue after opening an app. Maybe because there's something missing...?
I have tried uninstalling using adb, it was successful for other apps but these two apps do not seem to want to go away.
My device is on the Latest version of the global release of realme UI ,and powershell is throwing an error 'delete_failed_internal_error'
this is the command that I used - 'pm uninstall -k --user0 com.heytap.market'. I was able to successfully delete the browser and similar apps using this command. I tried searching for device administrator but but both of those apps are not device admin either.
PLEASE HELP.
I need to try out your method. By the way do you remember which stock apps you had removed without a system error?
ap6709 said:
I need to try out your method. By the way do you remember which stock apps you had removed without a system error?
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Game space, browser, google duo, play movies, theme store and weather
Try app market and game center and do tell what happens.
I am always getting this message "Failure [DELETE_FAILED_INTERNAL_ERROR]" and hence I decided to wait for root access.
Ebebeeh said:
I have tried uninstalling using adb, it was successful for other apps but these two apps do not seem to want to go away.
My device is on the Latest version of the global release of realme UI ,and powershell is throwing an error 'delete_failed_internal_error'
this is the command that I used - 'pm uninstall -k --user0 com.heytap.market'. I was able to successfully delete the browser and similar apps using this command. I tried searching for device administrator but but both of those apps are not device admin either.
PLEASE HELP.
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Can u please describe the procedure how u uninstalled the system apps because i also want to remove them.Sorry this reply is not related to your solution.
Game center cannot be deleted. I tried too on 6 pro. Doesn't work. That and Oroaming.
You can try using this command:
pm disable-user --user 0 com.heytap.market
will not work
Sakai121 said:
You can try using this command:
pm disable-user --user 0 com.heytap.market
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it won't work
PS C:\adb> .\adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.heytap.market
Package com.heytap.market new state: default
No tap market on europea version
Using ADB to remove some bloatware apps
chinmay kumar said:
Can u please describe the procedure how u uninstalled the system apps because i also want to remove them.Sorry this reply is not related to your solution.
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@chinmay kumar you can use adb to remove apps by using adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 <package-name>. This command will likely remove all packages that you want to remove. It does give error in some cases like while uninstalling game center on realme 6. This command can be used on many devices I have tried it on redmi note 7, realme 3 and realme 6.
Here is a guide you can follow - https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/
and other one is https://fossbytes.com/delete-bloatware-from-android-preinstalled-apps/.
Here 0 represents the user id...so you may want to look on which user an app is installed. Refer to the guide for adb installation and more.
Sorry, I also couldn't uninstall app market, game center from my device.
But I uninstalled oroaming successfully.
pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.redteamobile.roaming
Use this to remove oroaming.
"delete failed user restricted" Getting this error while removing bloatware in Vivo using ADB. Help me out. Only while removing some app packages, I got this.
What device, and which app,packages?
At a guess, the packages were installed as Sysem apps, and you need to be root to removem them. Ifm you aren't rooted, simply using ADB won't help, because you won't have the required permissions.
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DMcCunney said:
What device, and which app,packages?
At a guess, the packages were installed as Sysem apps, and you need to be root to removem them. Ifm you aren't rooted, simply using ADB won't help, because you won't have the required permissions.
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I tried to remove Jovi and it gave me this, Maybe as you said as I am not rooted, it can't get in deeper and remove it.
Same problem here on my Vivo Note X. pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.vivo.abe or pm disable-user --user 0 com.vivo.abe didn't work and needs root what sucks.
Looks like they blocked it in OriginOS Ocean, because it worked on older versions.
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Hello ,
I just rooted my S23 ultra by applying the latest Magisk just released, version 26.
Everything works but I have a permanent message that appears as soon as I want to apply something. This message is as follows :
Access denied
Unuathorized chnages have been made to your phone .
To get help contact customer service .
What should I do to stop having it? Thank you for your answers .
Uninstall, freeze, or disable the "Samsung digital wallet key" app.
"adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.dkey".
thank you for your answer .