jasineri / android-bloatware

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Android Bloatware

Android phones come with lots of unwanted bloatware apps. An easy uninstall option however remains unavailable.

Fortunately it's possible to remove/deactivate the apps without root using ADB commands. The shell script android-cleanup.sh takes care of removing of presumably safe to remove apps.

If however something goes wrong, then the rollback script android-rollback.sh helps out.

Supported Platforms

The files, though are shell scripts, renaming it to batch files could make in run with Windows too

Prerequisite

  1. Platform tools added to your PATH (more on that could be Googled)

Platform Tools' binaries could be retrieved from here

Installation and usage

git clone https://github.com/jasineri/android-bloatware
cd android-bloatware
bash android-cleanup.sh

Footnotes

The whole process is pretty straightforward and safe in all ideal cases. If however something goes wrong, then the rollback script android-rollback.sh is always there to undo everything.