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Uninstalling bloatware application using adb


Hello all,

I want to remove applications that were on my phone since the beginning but I don't use them. I have Sony Xperia P and one of the apps I want to get rid of is joyn, which uses about 20% of battery although I don't use it and I also tried disabling all of its parts in settings/applications (with no luck).

I rooted my phone and tried to use adb to uninstall the app but the attempt always fails.
What I did:

C:\adb -s YT9100UAAX shell
shell@android:/ $ su

The first time on the phone, I needed to allow access to super user in SuperSU application and from now on the ABD shell is in the list of elevated applications in SuperSU.

root@android:/ # pm uninstall com.rechild.advancedtaskkiller
Success

Regular application uninstallation works fine, but when I try to uninstall something else I get:

root@android:/ # pm uninstall com.orangelabs.rcs
Failure

root@android:/ # pm uninstall com.vodafone.vodafone360updates
Failure

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for the help


Solution

  • Based on corsair992's advice I downloaded Titanium Backup and I was able to uninstall everything I wanted (incl. the bloatware). Didn't know this app was so powerful!

    Thx a lot corsair992