How to uninstall an android app which is not possible via UI?
Nov 26, 2022
My dad came to me with: I messed up my android. I installed something that can’t be uninstalled now :(
As I’m a android shell ninja, I throw these commands and works:
- enable developer option, usb debug and adb
- enter to the android
adb shell
find the app package, listing all the installed
pm list packages -f | grep inst
result is something like this. Package is the final string after /base.apk=
package:/data/app/com.acme.w4b-rdxF_dg==/base.apk=com.acme.w4b
package:/system/priv-app/foo/bar.apk=com.android.foo.bar
package:/data/app/com.looney.toones-wPZ-Bi==/base.apk=com.looney.toones
exit the android session and uninstall the package:
adb uninstall com.looney.toones
That’s all