CM11 - Cant remove the camera app

Question

I am running CM11(Nightly) on my Galaxy Tab P1000 and I cannot remove the camera app that came with it. I have tried the following command-:

adb shell rm -f /system/app/camera2.apk

But this has absolutely no effect. Please advise on how to remove the camera app because it is not working properly.

Is /system mounted as rw (read-write)? Also check if you need root permission to delete that file. — GiantTree, Jun 21 '15 at 19:18
To mount /system RW, look here: android.stackexchange.com/q/110927/95577 — Thomas Vos, Jun 22 '15 at 8:05
@SuperThomasLab Yup it was mounted as rw. Just checked it. So what do I do now ? Nothing happens when I rm the app apk. It still stays in /system/ — Heidi, Jun 22 '15 at 18:42
@SuperThomasLab Can tell me how to set root permissions to delete that file ? — Heidi, Jun 22 '15 at 18:48

Heidi · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-26 17:41:53Z

Okay I figured out how to do this. It seems since I didn't have root permission on the app therefore I was not able to delete it.

I did the following-:

And voila I could delete the app.

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