Hot answers tagged uninstallation
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Yes, you have to be rooted. To get rooted, see this question: How do I root my device?
One of the easiest ways to uninstall system apps after rooting is to use Titanium Backup. You can just click an app and choose Uninstall.
Note: Be careful what you remove! You might want to use Titanium to back them up before you remove them, in case it makes your ...
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No, that is impossible -- as only root can make the system partition writable (which is required to delete a system app, which is stored there). However, using ICS (Android 4.0) or above, you can at least "freeze" them (make it "invisible and unusable") -- and, if you later decide otherwise, also unfreeze them again (see e.g. How to Remove / Disable the ...
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As Matthew Read noted in a comment: yes, it is. The entire data directory is simply deleted:
C:\Console2>adb shell ls /data/data/com.chessclock.android/
lib shared_prefs
C:\Console2>adb uninstall com.chessclock.android
Success
C:\Console2>adb shell ls /data/data/com.chessclock.android/
ls: /data/data/com.chessclock.android/: No such ...
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From the homescreen hit the menu button and select Settings. Then select Applications, and then Manage applications. Find the app you want to uninstall and select it, then clear the data associated with it by tapping Clear data and then tap Uninstall.
Voila!
Edit: I actually just noticed this in Amazon's official help documentation for their Appstore ...
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On an unrooted phone, apps run as distinct users, and don't have access to any files created by other users or system files, i.e. they are 'sandboxed'. Since they can't make any such changes, I would say the only thing they can leave behind is a little detritus on your SD card.
On a rooted phone, an app which has been granted root access can do pretty much ...
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You can uninstall an application from the Market or from the Manage Applications settings screen.
From Marketplace:
Start the Market app.
Hit the menu button and select Downloads.
Find the app you want to uninstall and select it.
Hit the Uninstall button at the bottom.
From Manage Applications:
From your Home screen hit the menu button and select ...
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You can't remove them without root, they're installed to a directory that cannot be accessed without root. However, you can do the next best thing, close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, and go la-la-la-la, pretending they don't exist. The way to do this is to get a launcher (such as ADW if memory serves), that allows you to hide icons. In that ...
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This is probably obvious, but... Some apps that have the permission "Modify/delete USB storage" may use the internal memory for caches etc. and may not necessarily remove the data once the app is deleted. I've seen apps to write in not so obvious directories like /sdcard/data/[package name]/, but mostly they use /sdcard/[app name]/ which is easy to spot and ...
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Start your device in SAFE MODE and then uninstall the app that's causing problems. Rebooting will exit from Safe Mode. Here's how to access SAFE MODE in a few popular devices.
HTC devices with physical buttons:
Turn off your Android phone.
Press the Menu button on your phone.
While holding down the Menu button, turn on your device and keep pressing the ...
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Though it went unmentioned during today's Google I/O keynote, the Google Play website now offers the option of updating and/or uninstalling apps from Android hardware directly in the browser. By heading to the "My Android Apps" tab of the Play portal, you'll see a list of all applications that reside on your smartphone or tablet; users with multiple ...
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Short answer
Generally, apps are cleanly uninstalled, and most if not all of their data will be removed along. Some exceptions may however apply to their data stored on sdcard, if any.
Detailed answer
Android uses a data structure which is defined by the developers API, and developers should stick to it. There are also not too many ways they could ...
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To create such malicious Launcher it will need to:
Disable Settings > Applications > Manage Applications
Disable Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging
Disable Market (to prevent you from downloading Home Switcher apps)
Prevent all other Launcher-type application from opening (otherwise you can just start the other Launcher and go to ...
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There are tons of apps that do batch uninstalling but here's a simple free one that I know works: Uninstaller Pro
A lot of the more full featured app managers also have a batch uninstall option. I like to consolidate functions into as few apps as I can. Now I use SmartBar which has a good app manager with batch uninstall.
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If your phone is on the same local Wi-Fi network as your computer then you could use Airdroid for this. If it's not, then Remote Desktop offers a terminal emulator, so you could use that to uninstall the app from the command line:
pm uninstall app.package.name
Alternatively, you could set up an SSH server and then use the above pm command. Is there some ...
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To remove any system default applications your phone must be rooted. And using this system app remover you can remove the system added applications. But you have to do this on your own risk.
I have been doing a lot of research on Android mobiles, I can tell that your system might not work properly if you remove any system added applications.
But most of ...
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The Settings application doesn't let you uninstall system apps; it's got nothing to do with root. It doesn't check for root, or anything like that.
I recommend using Titanium Backup to remove system apps, it works wonderfully. I even had a regular app yesterday that the Market just couldn't uninstall for some reason, and TB took care of it.
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Apparently the Lotus Notes Traveler app makes itself the Device Administrator on the phone. You need to disable this before uninstalling it. The following quote is from Lotus FAQ:
You should uninstall Lotus Notes Traveler by launching the Lotus®
mobile installer application, then selecting the Lotus Notes Traveler
application and choosing ...
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Once you're rooted, use Titanium Backup. It will allow you to freeze the app to see if everything still works without it. If it does you should be able to uninstall it. You can use it to back up the app in case you need to restore it as well.
As for which apps are needed, mostly it's obvious. Don't touch Android System but go ahead and remove Amazon ...
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There's nothing malicious here. A developer uploaded an app to the play store that has the same package name as a system app from your phone.
The new play store update tweaked the detection of system apps and it linked the apps. This will probably resolved soon. No need to bring the big guns.
Lookout and other "antivirus" tools don't show anything ...
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Try this program SD Maid.
Open program, go to AppControl tab and click the app you want. There is an option called, "Remove app but keep its data".
Edit:
I'm not sure but it might require root.
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I agree with Izzy's answer mostly, however technically it is possible to do so without.
Background:
System apps reside at /system/app/*
/system is a separate partition that is mounted read-only during normal use
Some phones (HTC) even lock the flash partition to disallow any write
Normally one gains root on the normal system to make /system writeable and ...
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In the Play store there is a 'installed' tab which as the name implies is of currently installed applications. The 'all' tab shows apps which have ever been installed on the device.
If you don't want a application to show up in this list, then from the phone open Play store, go into your My Apps and on the All tab you can click the circular remove icon to ...
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A quick, easy way to uninstall an application is to hold down on its icon, and then drag it to the trash can at the bottom of the screen like you would if you were removing a shortcut from your home screen. However, hold the icon over the trash can for a few seconds until "Drop to uninstall" appears.
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You may also use ADB to remove applications, but the application methods are easier. Since use of ADB does not require a market, this will work for users who are rooted but who cannot or do not wish to use Android market or similar marketplaces.
./adb remount #ROOT IS REQUIRED TO REMOUNT /system read-write
./adb shell
cd /system/app
To see what's ...
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If you're sure you can remove the apps, you need to be rooted (see How do I root my phone?) to do so. I recommend using Titanium backup to uninstall them, you just load Titanium and then click on the app name to bring up a menu where you can uninstall it.
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There are quite a few apps in the Market which will lock certain apps behind a password, a search in the Market for "applock" should find most of them.
I haven't actually used any, so can't give you a recommendation, but these should allow you to lock the Market and Settings apps behind a PIN number, to keep your kids out of them.
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If Crayon Physics was a pre-installed bloatware application then you must root to delete it. Ice Cream Sandwich lets you "freeze" the app though that may not be what you are looking for.
If you side-loaded the application then I have seen times when an application won't show under the Market application because it doesn't have a signature the Market ...
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It sounds to me like Alkido 1.1 was bundled on your device as a system app. To remove a system app, you need root.
There are two ways to address this easily, I would prefer #1 myself.
Method 1
Uninstall Alkido 2.0.
Install Titanium Backup.
Run Titanium and wait for it to load your app list.
Go to the app list and long-press on Alkido 1.1.
Choose ...
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Quickoffice is a pre-installed app that handles previews of popular file formats created with desktop office applications (e.g. word, excel, etc.) You will not be able to uninstall it because it's installed as a system app.
You will only be able to uninstall it if you root your Nexus One, thus gaining write privileges to the /system partition. You can ...
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