I am writing some sample apps.
After I debug these apps, I don't see an uninstall button in my device's application management.
When I do adb uninstall, it always says Failure without any reason.
In DDMS I saw that my apk is stored in /data/app/com.k2g.leaveDemo-1.apk.
I am not sure what am I missing.
I always have to reset my device to get rid of these apps :(
Do I need to do sign something?
Do I need to do something in debug mode?
Or does it depend on the version?
I am using Samsung S2.
I assume that you enable developer mode on your android device and you are connected to your device and you have shell access (adb shell).
Once this is done you can uninstall application with this command pm uninstall --user 0 <package.name>. Where 0 is ID of main user in Android system. This way you don't need to root your device.
Here is an example how I did on my Huawei p10 lite device.
# gain shell access
$ adb shell
# check who you are
$ whoami
shell
# obtain user id
$ id
uid=2000(shell) gid=2000(shell)
# list packages
$ pm list packages | grep google
package:com.google.android.youtube
package:com.google.android.ext.services
package:com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox
package:com.google.android.onetimeinitializer
package:com.google.android.ext.shared
package:com.google.android.apps.docs.editors.sheets
package:com.google.android.configupdater
package:com.google.android.marvin.talkback
package:com.google.android.apps.tachyon
package:com.google.android.instantapps.supervisor
package:com.google.android.setupwizard
package:com.google.android.music
package:com.google.android.apps.docs
package:com.google.android.apps.maps
package:com.google.android.webview
package:com.google.android.syncadapters.contacts
package:com.google.android.packageinstaller
package:com.google.android.gm
package:com.google.android.gms
package:com.google.android.gsf
package:com.google.android.tts
package:com.google.android.partnersetup
package:com.google.android.videos
package:com.google.android.feedback
package:com.google.android.printservice.recommendation
package:com.google.android.apps.photos
package:com.google.android.syncadapters.calendar
package:com.google.android.gsf.login
package:com.google.android.backuptransport
package:com.google.android.inputmethod.latin
# uninstall google play services (warning: take backup first!)
pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.gms
Yes, mobile device management would bring its own problems, but i bet 'Failure' is a dos2unix problem. On my Linux machines, adb is appending a DOS newline which causes 'Failure' because uninstall thinks the CR character is part of the package name. Also remove '-1.apk' from the end of the package-1.apk filename.
adb root
adb shell
pm list packages
pm uninstall com.android.chrome
In my case, i have a phone that is in permanent 'Safe mode' so only apps under /system/app/ have a chance of running. So i install them to get the .apk files copied off, then uninstall in bulk and copy to /system/app/, wipe the /cache and reboot. Now i have more apps running even though in safe mdoe.
# adb root
# pm list packages -3 > /root/bulkuninstall.txt
# vi /root/bulkuninstall.txt and check ^M characters at end of each line.
If ^M, then must run dos2unix /root/bulkuninstall.txt.
Remove '-1.apk' using vi search and replace:
:%s/-1\.apk//g
Or sed...
# cp /data/app/* /storage/sdcard1/APKs/
# for f in `cat /root/bulkuninstall.txt`; do echo $f; pm uninstall $f; done;
#
# echo Now remount system and copy the APK files to /system/app/
# mount | grep system
# mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/(use block device from previous step) /system
# cp /storage/sdcard1/APKs/* /system/app/
# reboot
wipe cache
power on.
This is not an exact answer, but if you're looking to uninstall the app because you have an updated .apk to install, you can try this:
adb install -r yourapp.apk
The -r option tells adb to reinstall the app
If it is an Android internal app you may need to:
adb shell
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
rm /system/app/your_app
rm /data/data/your_app
remove any entries in /data/system/packages.xml
remove any entries in /data/system/packages.list
edit AndroidManifest.xml and get rid of android:sharedUserId="android.uid.shared"
This is at your own risk;-|, try in emulator first...
Just run ADB and use the following command:
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 <package name>
And you should get this return:
successful
okey I was in same situation I tried all of this without result.. and the last answer was close.. I got it doing the follow:
in order to get the right name of your package do the follow:
adb shell pm list packages | grep "name of your app here"
you should see the right name of your app.. so now this one just works:
adb uninstall com.your-real-app-name
finally the command run works again:
ionic run android
Seems like you have an app that contains a hidden Device Administrator like this one here: http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2013-060411-4146-99
you can only uninstall such an app when you disable the device admin first. You can use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trendmicro.mtrt.hiddenDAcleaner to disable it or do it by your own by sending the intent to the app that invokes the receiver that will disable the device admin.
I find that adb shell pm uninstall <package> works consistently, where adb uninstall <package> does not.
Try disable "Instant run" from settings window
Open your application Manifest and check the application's package first.
After that, be sure that your device is set into debugger mode.
Check if ADB can interact with your device:
adb devices
If your device is listed, then run:
adb uninstall PACKAGE_WRITTEN_IN_MANIFEST
Maybe you're trying to uninstall an app that is a phone administrator.
To be able to uninstall it, go to Seetings > Security > Phone Administrators.
If the app is listed, uncheck it and confirm the operation.
After that, you should be able to uninstall it using the App settings area or adb.
You should have to manually delete apps. got to Setting-> Application Management -> Running application, tap on it and you can remove, stop apps from there.
This worked for me:
This is the directory where all the APKs are stored:
cd /system/app
List them:
ls
Choose one to remove.
pm install -r <app_to_remove>.apk
Example:
$ pm install -r Google-Play-services.apk
pkg: Google-Play-services.apk
Success
I noticed that I get failure if the application I'm trying to remove is running, so kill it first.
Also, I noticed you might have to run (on a rooted device):
$ su
# mount -o remount +rw /
In my case I often get this issue when I first complise a app in debug mode and later try to install the google signed app.
That is because both apps have the same package name but diffent signatures.
Since I upgraded to Android lollypop I sometimes even get this error if I uninstall the app via the settings\Apps.
If you have this problem check if the app is installed in a other User profile and uninstall it in all user accounts.
If you have problems uninstalling through adb, I can recommend the following tool:
https://github.com/patrickfav/uber-adb-tools
you can use wildcards and supports multiple devices, also has some better error handling than the vanilla ADB (but uses it in background of course). Will work on your platform.
Full disclaimer: I am the developer
Make sure you enter the full package name with application name:
com.domain.app
I had a instance of an emulator running and a device connected.
When I ran command `adb -d uninstall PACKAGE_NAME', I got an error 'DELETE_FAILED_INTERNAL_ERROR' but when I killed the Emulator instance, I got a 'success' in un-installation process.
It can be something as simple as typing the package name in the wrong case...
I had the same problem - turned out I was entering the package name in all lower case when the actual package name included upper case characters.
adb uninstall -k <packageName - eg. com.test.app>
( If you're explicitly uninstalling you probably don't want the -k which keeps the app data and cache directories around. )
You can follow below steps to uninstall the app from the device via command prompt.
execute the command : adb -s [devicename] uninstall -k [packagename].
this command will retain the data and cache in the device but will remove the app from the device.
To remove the data and cache also from the device along with the application execute the command below.
adb shell pm uninstall -k [packagename].
if it shows sucess your app is uninstalled successfully'
If You use Xiomi Device then You need to Login in MI Account.
After Successful Registration you can install and Uninstall via ADB.
You have the name of the apk and not the package name:
You should first know the package name. Fot this tape:
adb shell pm list packages
Once you have the package name (be carefull, package name is like com.intel.... and not package:com.intel...), tape:
adb shell pm uninstall -k "package_name"
and Bingo!
In my case this was happening because I was trying to uninstall the wrong APK. I didn't realize that my bundleId had appended .demo to the ID.
I had a failure when using adb shell uninstall com.package.app/
removed / (so adb shell uninstall com.package.app) and it works
Try disable "Instant run" from Preference!
It's working for me.
Related
I have a curated Android device that downloads an updated APK from a private server and will re-install the app using a shell command, "pm install -f -r "
The command works, but when the re-install happens, the device shows a popup, saying the app stopped (like it crashed).
Is there a safe way to re-install the app?
Should I be stopping the app first, re-installing then re-starting it?
I don't know is there a problem with this "force close" dialog.
You can try the following:
1) Stop app first, after that re-install it
use:
adb shell am kill [options] <PACKAGE>
or on Honeycomb:
adb shell am force-stop <PACKAGE>
where is the package name for you application.
2) I always do like that:
uninstall application:
adb uninstall <PACKAGE>
and install it again:
adb install <PATH TO APK>
The problem with second solution is that all data cached in Android/data will be removed
Hope it helps.
I've to install an android app with package name like "com.xyz.game" using adb.
I want to automate the process using shell script. The process will be like if app is already installed, uninstall it(with command adb uninstall com.xyz.game) and install using "adb install game.apk" otherwise simple "adb install game.apk".
How can I achieve this?
[Update 2]
Without using grep
adb shell pm list packages [your.package.name] as mentioned in the below answer
[Update]
According to (also) correct answer below, try grep the result from pm list packages.
adb shell pm list packages | grep com.your.app.package
[Original]
If the application is already installed and if you try to install the same app again, adb will return with an error - Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_ALREADY_EXISTS]. However, if you want to re-install the already installed app, then use -r parameter.
Ex:
adb install -r game.apk
Try grep the result from pm list packages.
adb shell pm list packages | grep com.xyz.game
You may see the result if already installed.
package:com.xyz.game
No need to use grep. Using following commands you can simply check if application is already exist or not.
Run ADB command
adb shell pm list packages [your.package.name]
If app is already installed then above command will return,
package:[your.package.name]
Else it won't return anything i.e. empty String.
Android 7.0 has introduced cmd (a new native code based) tool which allows to interact with Android services like PackageManager much faster than the old java bytecode based tools like pm. So for recent Android versions instead of adb shell pm list packages <package.name.substring> you should use
adb shell cmd package list packages <package.name.substring>
Taking into account #Joel answer, just do it in one-liner
# uninstall only if exists
adb shell pm list packages | grep com.your.app.package && adb uninstall com.your.app.package
Use First adb shell command if you are using adb otherwise you can use use root in same device by su command
Then, we can get path of installed apk files by their pkg names lets say in our case pkg name is com.tencent.ig
pm path com.tencent.ig | sed 's/package://'
If app installed : You will get the path to the apk file
If app not installed : You will get nothing
Previous answers are limited but by using above logic we can also use if statement easily like :
pkg=com.tencent.ig #Add pkg of your app only here
if [ -f $(pm path $pkg | sed 's/package://') ]
then
echo "YES, app is installed"
#further commands if app is installed
else
echo "NO, app is not installed"
#further commands if app not installed
fi
I think that will be much handy.
This works fine :
adb shell pm list packages your.package.name
Replace your.package.name with the required package name.
If app installed : You will get the path to the apk file
If app not installed : You will get nothing
I can uninstall an app on the device from my computer using adb uninstall <package_name>,
but I'd like to do the same with a script on the actual device.
I've also tried running an android.intent.action.DELETE intent using am but it prompts the user for confirmation.
Given that the device is rooted, is it possible to run a command on the device to uninstall an app without requiring user action/confirmation ?
Trying using the pm command:
pm uninstall <package_name>
or
pm uninstall -k <package_name>
The -k flag keeps the data and cache directories after the package is removed.
I haven't tested this myself, but I don't think this should show a warning message.
To forcefully uninstall the system user apps:
Use:
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 <package_name>
adb shell pm uninstall *your.package.name*
Did the trick for me.
And if you want to re-install back package removed for a user (i.e. pm uninstall --user 0), without root:
pm install --user 0 $(pm dump <package name> | awk '/path/{ print $2 }')
This will locate .apk of the uninstalled package: pm dump <package name> and search for a line starting with path: to obtain path to the .apk (note that pm path <package> won't work for an uninstalled app) and install it using pm install --user 0 (note that pm install without --user argument wont' work).
This works for any system app, this is a good alternative to pm disable-user <package> which still allows you to easily enable app back via Settings.
For example, you could uninstall Play Store (pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.vending) and have no way to enable/install any application on default non-rooted device without access to adb or pm.
Some Apps can't be uninstalled,so below command gives the error:
adb shell pm uninstall package_name
Failure [DELETE_FAILED_INTERNAL_ERROR]
Try to run disable command instead,
adb shell pm disable package_name
Package package_name new state: disabled
I had fail on uninstall some system launchers (for example NovaLauncher)
In this case I recommend to use "disable" instead "uninstall":
pm disable <package_name>
In result you hide this system launcher (sys app) from list of launchers when you have a few launchers
Simple command to remove any app from the device, try this:
pm uninstall --user 0
This command will forcefully remove that app from the device.
If you have an rooted android device then you can easily uninstall pre-installed apps from your device. My OnePlus device is rooted with Magisk manager.
Rooting an Android device gives you admin privileges towards your device and so you can easily install or uninstall any system application.
However, command line method also works most of the time. I have tested adb method on MIUI device for removing bloatware.
You can follow stackoverflow read this thread....
ADB command: pm uninstall -k <package_name>
Trying using the adb command:
adb uninstall <package-name>
make sure your device is connected
We've Android app 1.0 and make it in /system/app for the special ROM.
Now we have released upgrade version 1.1 of that app, after installation, the version is changed to 1.1 in App list in Android settings. But when I reboot the system, the updated version is missed, back in 1.0.
How resolve this problem? Any detailed introductions about it?
Thanks.
You can use this:
adb shell
su
mount -o remount, rw /system
cat ApplicationName.apk > /system/app/ApplicationName.apk
chmod 644 ApplicationName.apk
reboot
as far as I know pm install only updates user-applications.
If you are deploying the app from Eclipse or from another IDE (it is as far as I know the same thing as doing pm install) the app goes under data/app.
The app location now is /data/app/com.package.name-1.apk
After the deploying you can do
adb shell
su
mount -o remount, rw /system
cat /data/app/com.package.name-1.apk > /system/app/ApplicationName.apk
chmod 644 /system/app/ApplicationName.apk
reboot, for the changes to take effect
Cat is normally the same as copy or cp, but when you cat from the /data/app/ the original com.package.name-1.apk disappears (i guess android takes care of this automatically somehow)
You can test this by doing ls -al when under /data/app/ folder
Increase versionCode before you update your app.
In fact, the latest version of your app is installed into /data/app, when device reboot, the device will check whether the old app(v1.0) should be updated or not. However, according to scanPackageLI() in frameworks/base/services/java/com/android/server/PackageManagerService.java
if (ps != null && !ps.codePath.equals(scanFile)) {
// The path has changed from what was last scanned... check the
// version of the new path against what we have stored to determine
// what to do.
if (pkg.mVersionCode < ps.versionCode) {
// The system package has been updated and the code path does not match
// Ignore entry. Skip it.
......
} else {
......
}
......
}
You can find if versionCode is the same, old app will not update. So you need to increase versionCode in your app when you want to update old app.
PS: Replacing old app with new one using command line can meet your need but I really don't think it is good.
because the app is in System/app so,you should use push command
adb root
adb remount
adb shell rm /system/app/your.apk
adb push your.apk /system/app
to update it.
maybe you need delete it first.
Usually, if you push an app to system/app, and then install it into data/app, the app system/app only works after you reboot your device.
In case, you can check whether there is the app in data/app after you reboot your device.
adb shell ls /data/app
if you find it, you can delete it to make sure you don't have the same app：
adb shell rm /data/app/your-1.apk
Maybe you have install your application to /data/app not /system/app
try to move this app to /system/app
I'm trying to uninstall an application from shell, however this application is running as a device administrator and thus shell> adb uninstall com.example.test did not work.
How can I disable a device admin from shell?
Typically, administrative access is revoked via the Device Administrators screen, then the app is uninstalled. In the subsequent examples, I'll assume airdroid (com.sand.airdroid), has been configured as a device administrator, and is to be uninstalled. So to tailor this example, replace instances of com.sand.airdroid with your own app name.
The clean method
To access Device Administrators, navigate: Settings → Security → Device Administrators. Then, uncheck the application to un-set administrative access for.
It's also possible to open up this activity using the shell:
adb shell am start -S "com.android.settings/.Settings\$DeviceAdminSettingsActivity"
Once this is done, the activity can be uninstalled normally:
adb uninstall com.sand.airdroid
The brute-force method (requires root)
A brute-force method does exist. It involves searching for all files in the /system and /data filesystems, and deleting each found item. Disclaimer: Use with care (test on an emulator first).
adb shell
# Switch to root
su -
# Search for all installed files using the fully-qualified app name
find /system /data -name \*com.sand.airdroid\*
...a list of files (including directories) appears -- for each file, cause it to be deleted by prefixing it with a rm -f:
rm -r /data/media/0/Android/data/com.sand.airdroid
rm -r /data/data/com.sand.airdroid
rm -r /data/app-lib/com.sand.airdroid-1
rm -r /data/app/com.sand.airdroid-1.apk
rm -r /data/dalvik-cache/data#app#com.sand.airdroid-1.apk#classes.dex
# Run the find command again to ensure nothing was missed
find /system /data -name \*com.sand.airdroid\*
# exit root
exit
# exit Android shell
exit
To allow Android to clean up its files, reboot the device.
adb reboot
Once the device has restarted, the application can be uninstalled with the uninstall command to finalize clean-up.
adb uninstall com.sand.airdroid
adb shell pm disable-user (package name) will deactivate DeviceAdmin and disable the app. It will not be activated even if you enable the app again.
You can not uninstall app directly if it is set as Admin. First you have to disable the admin mode and then you will be able to uninstall app. To remove active admin first you run this command:
adb shell dpm remove-active-admin com.kiosk.example/com.kiosk.example.MyDeviceAdminReceiver
(com.kiosk.example) is package name, replace it with your own and MyDeviceAdminReceiver is receiver name. When this command give success then you can uninstall app, or run this command to uninstall:
adb uninstall com.kiosk.example