adb uninstall failed

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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

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Just run ADB and use the following command   adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0  lt package name gt    And you should get this return    successful

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You have the name of the apk and not the package name  You should first know the package name  Fot this tape   adb shel 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

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I had a failure when using adb shell uninstall com package app   removed    so adb shell uninstall com package app  and it works

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I find that adb shell pm uninstall  lt package gt  works consistently  where adb uninstall  lt package gt  does not

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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

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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

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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

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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  lt app to remove gt  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

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Try disable  Instant run  from Preference  It s working for me

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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  lt package name gt   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 gmail app pm uninstall --user 0 com google android gms

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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

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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

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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  gt   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

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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

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Make sure you enter the full package name with application name   com domain app

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If You use Xiomi Device then You need to Login in MI Account   After Successful Registration you can install and Uninstall via ADB

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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  lt packageName - eg  com test app gt      If you re explicitly uninstalling you probably don t want the -k which keeps the app data and cache directories around

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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

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Mine was on samsung j7 pro  issue was simple   j7y17lte  system   pm list packages grep airtel                                                                                                                                                                                             package com samsung android airtel stubapp  j7y17lte  system   pm uninstall -k --user 0 com samsung android airtel stubapp   DO NO-NOT include the word package in the unistall command

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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

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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

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Try disable  Instant run  from settings window

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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

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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

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