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.
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?
Yes. AFAIK all Amazon G4 Prime's are locked bootloaders. This requires no root, nothing but a simple adb shell command!
Edit, Don't works.
How does it not work?
Thank you very much...
Works perfectly !!!!!!
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
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
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
Hu
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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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
titomalanguito said:
Thanks for the guide.
---------- Post added at 10:22 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:21 AM ----------
Appreciate it! is working fine on my Moto g5
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Pura vida!
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
I've had a Motorola G4 Amazon Prime edition for sometime now and I was easily able to hide the package that displayed the lock screen ads (com.amazon.phoenix) soon after purchase. Unfortunately, when the Nougat update came rolling around, that hack no longer did the trick. So I spent a couple of hours searching through docs and trying different commands, in doing so I found a way to completely disable any and all packages installed on any Android device, system or carrier/manufacturer bloatware.
**Step by Step**
1. Install USB drivers for your Device
2. Download and Install ADB tools
3. Enable[ Developer Options](http://wccftech.com/enable-developer-options-android-nougat/) and [USB Debugging](https://technosamigos.com/enable-usb-debugging-on-android-nougat-phones/)
4. Find a good USB cable, plug it into your computer and then to your device. When the pop-up appears asking you to authorize the device, allow it.
5. Open a command prompt (cmd in windows) and type:
adb devices
6. This should return the ID of your device. If not, please go back and retrace your steps.
7. Now type:
adb shell
8. Use the following commands to find the apps you want to disable (replace 'amazon' with the manufacturer, i.e. 'samsung')
adb shell cmd package list packages | grep 'amazon
9. This should give you a new prompt, something to the effect of (device-model):/ - here type the following:
pm uninstall -k --user 0 <name of package>
This should return 'Success' at which point the package has been removed!
This has been tried on about half a dozen devices and it works on every single one, including the LG G6, Samsung S8, Google Pixel (Removed System Applications!)
Hope this helps folks out there that are looking to get as clean of an Android experience as possible, good luck!
And how to revert a single package removed with this method?
Please don't say factory reset. I mean, the package is there in the system partition. How I make it available to the user again?
Replying to my self and to the history. Xda user Vordx, found a proper way.
"adb shell cmd package install-existing <package name>"
Hi all,
I have download a apk file from Nova launcher and installed it on my shield.
On the moment I would like to make it my default launcher the app stops and I have to resart.
How can I make it my default launcher?
Do I have to do it on the underneath way?
3. Connect (unrooted or rooted) Shield TV to PC via male-to-male USB.
4. Open CMD
5. Type: adb shell
6. Type: pm uninstall -k --user 0 name of package
(where name of package is Android TV launcher package. I already uninstalled it and dont know the name but you can open Settings / Apps / and scroll to Android TV launcher and check package name. Its just below version name and starts with com.google...
7. Message "Success.." pops up.
8. Reboot.
bruce the boss said:
Hi all,
I have download a apk file from Nova launcher and installed it on my shield.
On the moment I would like to make it my default launcher the app stops and I have to resart.
How can I make it my default launcher?
Do I have to do it on the underneath way?
3. Connect (unrooted or rooted) Shield TV to PC via male-to-male USB.
4. Open CMD
5. Type: adb shell
6. Type: pm uninstall -k --user 0 name of package
(where name of package is Android TV launcher package. I already uninstalled it and dont know the name but you can open Settings / Apps / and scroll to Android TV launcher and check package name. Its just below version name and starts with com.google...
7. Message "Success.." pops up.
8. Reboot.
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You can set nova as the default home launcher in novas settings Settings --Select Default Home
Also I have a rather large thread with tons of other questions answers its been going for a while perhaps something there can help , but I use nova on my tablet and phone I know there is a place to choose default home in settings heres link to thread I made its got lots of stuff from lots of people https://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/themes-apps/alternate-launcher-root-marshmallow-t3359076
does the shield remote with google voice search/commands work if nova is installed as the default launcher? thanks!
Hi - seems instagram may have gone rogue on my Moto G5. Seems to be consuming loads of power, can't uninstall through GUI - when I do try the phone resets!
Running adb portable which connects to phone, lists packages etc but when i try and uninstall com.instagram.android the command line shell freezes on pc. periodically the phone also restarts when trying this.
tried via the adb shell com.instagram.android
and also from command line adb shell pm uninstall com.instagram.android
No joy - any suggestions aprpeciated else it's a factory reset.
cheers
Adam
Hi,
I want to reinstall a Motorola firmware app.
I uninstalled the firmware a year ago on my Moto G8+ with adb using the following command:
"pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.motorola.faceunlock"
Now when I want to install the app from the Play Store I can't. I get the following error message:
"You cannot install this app because another user has already installed an incompatible version on this device."
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I already tried a few things I found in other threads and forums but nothing really worked. I'm a single user, however the guest function allows me to find the Moto face unlock App as an installed app. In settings I can't find any option that allows me to "uninstall the app for all users" or to "reinstall" or "restore" it. Factory Reset is not an option for me.
I was thinking about maybe reinstalling the package via adb for the main user again, if that's possible? I only have little knowledge about adb.
Has somebody an idea or command I could try out?
Thanks in advance
@sokrvtxs
The ADB command you used removed the the mentioned system-app ( leaving its data untouched ) only for user 0, that's the current user, what means that the deleted app still remains available for other users of the Android device - it didn't get removed from device's storage space at all. That's basically a good thing because you can easily restore an app if you uninstall it by mistake or need it later.
This brings the system-app back:
Code:
adb devices
adb shell "cmd package install-existing com.motorola.faceunlock"
adb reboot
If your Android is rooted then you can update the system-app in question
Code:
adb devices
adb push <PATH_TO_UPDATE_APK> /data/local/temp
adb shell "pm install -r /data/local/tmp/<UPDATE_APK>"
adb shell "rm /data/local/tmp/<UPDATE_APK>"
adb reboot
Thank you so much, my phone is not rooted. The first code worked and my issue is solved completely. This helped me a lot.