adb shell command to make Android package uninstall dialog appear

Question

I have adb running and device is connected to my system in debugging mode   I want to uninstall app using intent launch using adb shell am start  lt INTENT gt   I don t want to uninstall using adb uninstall com company apppackage and I don t want to do it even by using adb shell pm uninstall com company apppackage  How can I send an intent with android intent action DELETE action for a specific package allowing the user to see the prompt and uninstall the program

User · Answer

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   0 is root id -this way you don t need too root your device    Here is an example how I did on my Huawei P110 lite    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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Using ADB  you can use any of the following three commands   adb shell am start -a android intent action UNINSTALL PACKAGE -d  package PACKAGE  adb shell am start -n com android packageinstaller  UninstallerActivity -d  package PACKAGE  adb shell am start -a android intent action DELETE -d  package PACKAGE    Replace PACKAGE with package name of the installed user app  The app mustn t be a device administrator for the command to work successfully  All of those commands would require user s confirmation for removal of app   Details of the said command can be known by checking am s usage using adb shell am    I got the info about those commands using Elixir 2  use any equivalent app   I used it to show the activities of Package Installer app  the GUI that you see during installation and removal of apps  as well as the related intents  There you go   The alternative way I used was  I attempted to uninstall the app using GUI until I was shown the final confirmation  I didn t confirm but execute the command  adb shell dumpsys activity recents     for Android 4 4 and above adb shell dumpsys activity activities   for Android 4 2 1   Among other things  it showed me useful details of the intent passed in the background  Example   intent  act android intent action DELETE dat package com bartat android elixir com bartat android elixir MainActivity flg 0x10800000 cmp com android packageinstaller  UninstallerActivity    Here  you can see the action  data  flag and component - enough for the goal

User · Answer

Running the  neverever415 answer I got   Failure  DELETE FAILED INTERNAL ERROR   In this case check that you wrote a right package name  maybe it is a debug version like com package name debug  adb shell pm uninstall com package name debug  Or see https   android stackexchange com questions 179575 how-to-uninstall-a-system-app-using-adb-uninstall-command-not-remove-via-rm-or

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In my case  I do an adb shell pm list packages to see first what are the packages apps installed in my Android device or emulator  then upon locating the desired package app  I do an adb shell pm uninstall -k com package name

User · Answer

You can do it from adb using this command   adb shell am start -a android intent action DELETE -d package  lt your app package gt

User · Answer

Use this command in cmd       adb shell pm uninstall -k com packagename   For example   adb shell pm uninstall -k com fedmich pagexray   The -k flag tells the package manager to keep the cache and data directories around  even though the app is removed  If you want a clean uninstall  don t specify -k

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While the above answers work but in case you have multiple devices connected to your computer then the following command can be used to remove the app from one of them   adb -s  lt device-serial gt  shell pm uninstall  lt app-package-name gt    If you want to find out the device serial then use the following command   adb devices -l   This will give you a list of devices attached  The left column shows the device serials

[android] adb shell command to make Android package uninstall dialog appear

Here is an example how I did on my Huawei P110 lite

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