Saturday, May 3, 2025

Removing bloatware in Android

It is common, every non AOSP android may come with ton of partner's application. The applications are known as bloatware.

Some bloatwares can be uninstall. Or some can only be disable. However, bloatware with disable can still running on background.  

Those bloatwares are used your mobile phone resource. These are steps to remove/uninstall from your mobile using PC, any operation system that can run adb (Android Debugging Bridge). I Assume, you done this.

You must enable development mode and USB Debugging your mobile phone.

Development mode
USB Debugging

Afteer you connect your mobile phone to your PC using USB, from your mobile, you need to trust your PC to make connection and run debugging, include running script via adb.

AllowUSB Debugging

Open your terminal and go to directory where your ADB tool install or placed, e.q. D:\android\sdk\platform-tools. Follow this command

1. detect your android phone

>adb devices
List of devices attached
1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx        device

2. connect to your device

>adb shell
TECNO-KJ6:/ $

3. run pm to remove bloatware

$ pm uninstall --user 0 com.transsnet.store
Success

4. exit

$ exit
>

To View packages

$ pm list packages | grep store
package:com.google.android.apps.restore
package:com.transsnet.store

This is screen shoot status of application after deletion.

Getting package name
After removing/deletion

You need to know the package name you want to remove. Pick any application you wish in play store with key search "Application Inspector"

Bloatware Table

Application Package Name Tecno Spark 20 Pro KJ6 Infinix note 12 x670
AHA Games net.bat.store n y
Folax com.transsion.aivoiceassistant n y
Hola Browser com.talpa.hibrowser y y
Palm Store com.transsnet.store y y
Visha Player com.transsion.magicshow n y
WeZone com.transsion.wezone n y


NOTE:

  1. The bloatware status uninstall after restart your android
  2. The bloatware still exist in rom, every time you reset your android, the bloatware will come up. You need to re do all steps to remove it.

Reference: https://www.phoneworld.com.pk/the-truth-about-xos-how-infinixs-ui-is-burdened-by-excessive-bloatware/