Every time we buy a new phone, it is advisable to clean each and every one of the applications that we will not use and that the manufacturer has pre-installed in the device, after reaching an economic agreement that means extra income.
The problem of bloatware (software that is included in the device) has gone from being made up of utilities from our telephone operator to applications that pay to be there. Within these applications, we shouldn't consider google apps, since many of them we end up using them.
Uninstall pre-installed apps on Android
When the space on our terminal begins to show signs of exhaustion, it is likely that you believe that the time has come to clean up all apps that you do not use in your terminal or have never used it.
Once we have eliminated all the applications that we have installed from the Play Store, it is the turn of the applications that were included natively in our terminal, either from Google or those incorporated by other manufacturers such as Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi ...
These applications, being included natively in the system, we cannot completely uninstall from our device, we can only disable them. In the case of Google applications it makes all the sense in the world since most of them are interconnected and if we remove it, it can affect the integrity of the system.
However, this does not happen with applications that include manufacturers, applications that they are not necessary for normal use of the device, but they are integrated into the operating system, so we can't uninstall them either, just disable them.
When disabling the applications, they stop showing you in the application drawer, but they are still there, in a hidden way we could say. For disable apps on Android, we must perform the following steps:
- We access the Settings of our device and click on Applications.
- In this section, we must click on the native application that we want to disable.
- In the next window, click on Disable.
Uninstall pre-installed apps without root
A few years ago, the only method to delete pre-installed apps on a smartphone it was by using root, installing rooms without the manufacturer's or operator's applications. However, as the years have passed, manufacturers have closed this door so that it is no longer possible to root to eliminate applications on the most modern devices.
Fortunately, They are not necessary root permissions in order to eliminate each and every one of the applications that the manufacturer includes in our device. Of course, the process is not easy since we must make use of the ADB application, an application for developers that allows us to access the command line of our terminal to delete the applications we want.
The process for uninstall apps without a trace We explain it in the next section. Before carrying out this process, you must bear in mind that if you restore the device from scratch, all the applications that you had deleted will be available again, since this process restores a backup of the terminal leaving it as fresh out of the box.
Uninstall Android apps without a trace
The process to remove without trace factory applications with which we release our terminal, it is not a simple problem. Uninstall an application that won't let me It is one of the queries we receive most often in Androidsis and that we solve in this article.
To remove applications without leaving a trace on Android, we must make use of the ADB tool (as I explained in the previous section), a tool that you can download from this link. Unzip the file in the root of the system C: \ and we carry out the steps detailed below:
- The first thing we must do is activate the developer options (by pressing the build number several times)
- Next, we activate the mode USB debugging.
- We connect our smartphone to the computer. In our device a window will be displayed that invites us to accept an RSA key to carry out the duration through the computer. This mechanism serves to guarantee that we have access to unlock the device (come on, to make sure it is ours).
- Then we access the command prompt through Cortana's search box by typing CMD.
- Next, we go to directory where the files we have downloaded are located and copied to the root of our team through the commands «cd ..» to go to the previous directory and «cd directoryname» to access the directory. To list the directories we write "dir". Those commands must be written without quotes.
- Once we are in the directory we write "adb devices" (without the quotes) and the connected device.
- Next we write "adb shell pm list packages" without the quotes so that all applications are displayed installed on the computer.
- Once we have located the application name We want to eliminate we must write "adb shell pm uninstall -k –user 0 package-name" (without the quotes) being the package name the application we want to uninstall from our device.
In this case, we have removed the Flipboard app (adb shell pm uninstall -k –user 0 flipboard.boxer.app) that Samsung includes in its terminals and that does not offer us the option to eliminate it, just disable it.
Uninstall Google Play applications
From the home screen
Uninstalling an application installed from the home screen and coming from the Play Store is as simple as:
- Press and hold the application icon for a few seconds.
- In the contextual menu that appears, click on Application information.
- Finally, click on uninstall.
Through Settings
Another option to remove applications from our smartphone from the Google Play Store is through the Settings of our terminal.
- Within Settings from our terminal, click on Applications.
- Next, we must click on the application that we want to delete.
- Finally, we click on uninstall to remove it from our team.
With Google Files
We can also make use of Google files to remove the apps from the official Google app store.
- Once we have opened Google Files, we look for the section Applications.
- From the list of applications, we look for the one that we want to delete and click on the three points located vertically.
- Finally, we just have to click on uninstall from the options menu that is displayed.
How to uninstall apps on Samsung
The process to uninstall applications in a Samsung terminal is exactly the same as the previous one, so we can use any of the three methods that I have indicated in the previous section.
Uninstall Huawei applications
The process to uninstall applications installed on a Huawei smartphone It is the same as in Samsung and in the entire Android ecosystem.
