Speed Up any Android Phone or Tablet

[@ChrisTitusTech]

*Couple Things to note:* Cheatsheet - www.christitus.com/debloat-android/ It is dangerous to remove system apps that you don't see in the app drawer. It can lead to you doing a full system recovery. On Non-Rooted phones some applications are installed as root and error with " [DELETE_FAILED_INTERNAL_ERROR]" - type this to bypass: adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 This will be able to delete most of the apps that you can't do by traditional means even if you don't root your phone. I do this on every android device and clean off a lot of junk I could only disable.

[@TheGuy-tc8wm]

I removed my default launcher cause I didnt like it and now my gestures dont work lol.

[@wolf2k143]

"adb devices" is not showing anything, please respond what I should do, I have permission to the phone's folders

[@vinithp2565]

In some of the China's phone(xiaomi, mi etc) they locked bootloader, it may don't work until we unlock bootloader 🙏

[@zsigmondforis6336]

@@chitrakshbhatia You should type the real appname. e.g: youtube app real name is com.google.android.youtube So to uninstall youtube you should type: adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.youtube

[@ragilmalik]

this kinda help but if you don't root your phone, some of the apps will probably be automatically installed soon or at leqst on the next update. Root give you access to system partition which has the list of apps the system has to check after booting up. Kinda like windows. You can uninstall it sure, but if it's built into the ROM, you're fucked without rooting.

[@Jimmy_Jones]

Obviously it's Clean Master. The holy grail of all apps. Plagued with ads and requires every permission going.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Clean Master is bloatware at this point haha. It even bloats your notification drawer.

[@orestisfraSPDR]

@@ChrisTitusTech woooosh..... xD

[@ChrisTitusTech]

@@orestisfraSPDR hehe obligatory response for those that don't get it. You'd be surprised how many people think the solution is to install more apps instead of using official Android tools like this.

[@orestisfraSPDR]

@@ChrisTitusTech Yeah... that is actually sad if you think about it :/

[@hellomine2849]

@@ChrisTitusTech I used clean master in the past because my phone didn't have any apps to clean it :/

[@DegenerateQuinn]

This helped a ton on my old government smartphone. Came pre-installed with a bunch of useless or problematic apps and I was able to get rid of it all! Thanks!

[@glibberglobber9358]

This is so damn helpful. I've wanted to remove things like gmail and play movies that I don't use for the longest time, but I didn't want to have to root my phone. This is a godsend.

[@DrAdityaReddy]

Your pfp is cursed

[@corneldutta]

Hey Chris.. Big fan of your content! For tech enthusiasts who don't want to go to the lengths of rooting and flashing this is a pretty neat method to get rid of all OEM stock apps. However, the bypass mentioned by you for [DELETE_FAILED_INTERNAL_ERROR] needed a little tweak to work on Windows cmd prompt -> adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 . Thanks again.. you rock!

[@nyannaaurora]

the production value of these videos is great! i also love your voice and this chill setting

[@ronymarques8340]

This video is awesome and helped me a lot. But I need to say two thing for Windows users like me. (1) "grip" just work at Linux. Te proper command line for Windows is the following: "adb shell pm list packages | findstr ". (2) To delete some apps you need to, first, use "adb shell". Then, "adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 " as Cornel Dutta mentioned in a comment here.

[@mondskiez309]

For non-rooted phones, the adb command after shell should be: "pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.your.app.name" Where com.your.app.name is the package name of the app that you want to uninstall.. Do remember that since the phone is NOT rooted, the uninstall is merely taking the app out of view of "user 0" space or the standard non-root user..

[@TennesseeFrank]

Thank You. It worked like a charm

[@memooooo715]

I uninstalled the contact app and dialer and the whatsapp doesnt work and nothing is working regarding to the phone app How I reset or restore this package again , please ?

[@iurcic]

@@memooooo715 you have to travel back in time and tell to ur self not to do that

[@Bball2]

@@memooooo715 you could install an open source contact and dialer app, you've already fucked it up deleting those if you don't have another app that do the same

[@741Nikhil]

@@memooooo715 reset your phone

[@st2vik422]

Thanks for the useful tutorial, some of facebook packages I wasnt abble to uninstall with simple command "adb uninstall" I had to use "adb shell pm uninstall --user 0". Hope it helps to somebody with same issues.

[@TVJAY]

I just bought an Amazon fire tablet for my wife and can't wait to see your video on it. I would also love to see you install the Google play store on the Amazon Fire tablet.

[@jaybrewer6769]

Dude!! Seriously thank you for this. I had no idea you could do that without rooting. I will note that if you do it on windows, you will leave off the package: and in powershell pipe it our and replace grep with findstr -i when searching for appnames.

[@kingpretentious8427]

thank u

[@jimmaule1388]

Thank you, I am fumbling my way thru this and couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong . Are these dos commands?

[@gopikrishnanr576]

Can you make a video on installation of open source custom ROM. I know most people don't need that, but I'm using an old phone with Android 7 (still working like a beast) and would like to explore newer version of Android in it.

[@mohdsaqib4454]

which phone are u using actually I also want to use custom rom on my lg stylus 2 plus (android 7)

[@cosmicpegasis7591]

Mate I don't know if Chris will make a video or not, but search for xda they are kind of your one stop shop for everything android modding related. I'm pretty sure you can find at least a dozen videos from there to help you. Cheers!

[@gopikrishnanr576]

I use Lenovo P2.

[@prashantprem1]

@@gopikrishnanr576 XDA

[@rsseguel]

By far, Nougat is still the best version of Android. Amazing performance and speed.

[@pennakira]

thank you for the video. I tried the command on win10 "adb shell pm list packages | grep samsung" and i get 'grep' not recognized.

[@Bradley-Thomsen]

grep is a linux specific command. You can install the linux commands on windows and that should fix the issue you are running into.

[@AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Chris. Very useful.

[@aaronruiz816]

Thank you so much for this! This is just what I needed. My new S21 is nice and clean thanks to you ❤️

[@Leon_George]

Thank you, once again. You are right, the set up process is not very complicated, it's more confusing why other sources don't just describe the process straight away.

[@NEWNATURE777]

Thank you Chris for your support and dedication to all the communities! I'm a new sub to your channel... Shalom 👍

[@MartinAhlman]

Looking forward to the debloating of a Kindle Fire! Great stuff!

[@AMx4q]

Hey Chris, can you make a tutorial on Android custom ROM? Like, what ROM to use, steps to install a ROM for newbies, how to avoid brick your device, etc?

[@22stunt45]

Buddy there are solo many of these on youtube. Just search for it. Also xda developers will help you tremendously.

[@robert58]

This is exactly the video I was looking for, thanks a lot

[@adfjasjhf]

This way of removing apps doesn't uninstall the system apps. It just disables them and you can enable them again with some command. If you watch XDA Developers video they also mention this

[@731Seba]

Thanks to you and debian, now I degoogled my phone without root

[@JohnLaird7]

You're truly a live saver bud. Thank you!

[@samuelschwager]

Neat! Just bought an Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet. Might debloat it ;)

[@4x4gear33]

Thank you Chris for taking the time to do this.

[@isekaiguy69]

Thank you! I have a Samsung note 20 ultra on the way and I plan to debloat! I do have a paid app from the app store that does debloat. However I would much rather do it independently and out of the phone or tablet completely

[@Ratteler]

This was great. I have a bunch of old phones that I can probably now make use of thanks to this.. Any chance of a similar guide to rooting a phone?

[@piotrart]

Chris, please tell me what console do you use in the movie?

[@darshaim]

which desktop environment are you using?

[@davidnickel3949]

thank you for this you just helped me flash my phone to e/OS

[@AndreKochDre]

Nice! But I get Failure on the uninstall packagename command; what do I type in on the shell uninstall command?

[@MikeDragon]

Oh God, this is a God-sent thing! However, I could not get Facebook off of my Asus phone. Maybe I am doing something wrong? Maybe need to do it as Superuser? I always get the "Failure [DELETE_FAILED_INTERNAL_ERROR]" error when trying to remove anything Facebook. For that matter, also got the same thing when I tried to remove Instagram. EDIT: Nevermind, I just noticed Chris' pinned comment about this error. Problem solved! Chris, my good sir. Thank you SO much for these tips! I've finally got rid of the junk without needing to go through the hassle of rooting my phone. I'm so happy, now!

[@muhammadfahim8746]

Thank You so much Titus. It is so much helpful for every android users.

[@uryaar7216]

Thanks! Just wondering - is removing stock apps like this voids the warranty? I have a Xiaomi phone and it has so much unnecessary Xiaomi apps...

[@jathinpandit9353]

No. I have a xiaomi phone. There is a toolkit called xiaomi adb/ fastboot tools. It's a Gui. It shows which are safe to uninstall through adb. There are steps on how to pair with the phone and its easier for a beginner. Maybe try through this method if you aren't flexible nor confident with entering package names and all. That program can delete most of the Google and Xiaomi apps except the essentials. And don't try to delete the themes and the security apps. You can remove the cleaner app and even the G keyboard. Check out XDA forums or there are some YT videos on the subject if you are confused. (personal advice, try to install different drivers if one doesn't work out. You can get the official Xiaomi one in the Web and it usually works)

[@archlinus5066]

3:25 in some types of recovery (like twrp) you can use adb too

[@PS_Tube]

Hey thanks Chris. It's really informative piece.

[@sergiomc]

Hello, what Linux distribution are you using in this video?

[@MrNeuroamante]

porque no estaba suscrito antes a este canal??? que barbaridad

[@enoughmuskspam2490]

What about a custom rom install guide Chris?

[@MyMorningDose]

Hey Chris, what do you think about just completely wiping my fire tablet and installing a Linux phone distribution like plasma mobile or even Tizem? I really hate my fire tablet, it’s bloated with so much extra crap and really slow. Do you think that would work and be a good choice or should I just keep my fire tablet as is? Thanks!

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Fire Tablets have a bootloader that is very difficult to write to. In most instances it requires a hardware bypass of jumping the CLK on the mainboard to GND and then writing the boot on startup. It is not trivial and not recommended. If you are comfortable with plastic pry tools and don't mind the possibility of bricking the device, you can do it. However, for most, I'd recommend just deleting a lot of the ad packages from amazon and swaping the launcher to Nova.

[@wishusknight3009]

Simply cleaning up the services on them makes quite a difference.

[@KenDanieli]

He has a debloat Fire tablet video and ADB tool. I used it and got rid of all the Amazon bloat, reinstalled the Google Play set, and removed startup ads. So far my tablet is much much better. Before that my very new Fire HD 10 had very little installed on it, mostly empty, and it was very slow due to the bloat.

[@GardenData61371]

I tried uninstalling Chrome via root and ended up soft bricking my phone.

[@hmmm5300]

Holy shit man I wanna disable Chrome. Can you do that without root?

[@cashbonanza963]

@@hmmm5300 yes you can. But you'll need a PC with google's android SDK manager, more specifically "platform tools". The command is PM uninstall. Googlw it, there's an article about this on xda

[@hellomine2849]

@@hmmm5300 I tried disabling google chrome and uninstall all the updates but after a couple of hours it's back. If I want to disable an app it should stay disabled.

[@dunkeykung1162]

@@cashbonanza963 you don't even need the whole thing, just the adb drivers. Fastboot comes along too but it's more of a nice bonus in case you wanna load up a custom ROM.

[@Void_Dragon]

Thats cool and all but how about fixing a broken usb c port? cant root or use adb.

[@SevenPure]

New to all of this - is it possible to use ADB to do the following: Debloat, DeGoogle, install MicroG and retain full S-Pen functionality on a Samsung Note device?

[@wv1swlamatswl523]

I just purchased an Android pre-pay Orbic Wonder which will only ever be used at home on wifi. I had plugged it into my Linux Mint computer intending to just let it charge via USB, and was unexpectedly surprised that it popped up an Android icon on the screen. I can open up and transfer files between the two. Didn't expect that at all. But there are a few apps on the phone I'd certainly like to get rid of. Thanks for uploading this. Will try to see if I can make this work.

[@wv1swlamatswl523]

6 months later, I can get the phone on the laptop screen with scrcpy.. but durned if I can do anything with adb commands in the terminal. Just doesn't do anything for me.

[@vishalkaushal4311]

Would this tutorial work on redmi devices. Specifically MIUI with bootloader locked? I hate MIUI but am stuck due to 2 reasons 1. Laziness 2. Hardware is good for price and had to buy redmi device in place of other near-vanilla androids.

[@adityamadhu5085]

There is a different tool for debloating MIUI using adb, without unlocking bootloader.

[@vishalkaushal4311]

@@adityamadhu5085 could you please point me to the right direction for it. I want to get rid of the MI crap.

[@cosmicpegasis7591]

@@vishalkaushal4311 Mate I would recommend going all the way and installing a custom rom. This is because the Mi apps will always come back after you update your phone. Not updating your phone is not such a great idea considering the security patches you'll be missing

[@nitingaikwad30]

@@vishalkaushal4311 same problem here. Somebody please provide solution.

[@erriezzanslounge1380]

just throw your laziness and do a google search.be smart cause u holding a smartphone. tick usb debugging on phone. connect. open adb command type adb device type adb shell type pm uninstall -k --user (appname) done.

[@bamsemh1]

How about the phone only method? 🤔 Disabled apps doesn't run or use resources. But xiaomi needs a computer to disable/Uninstall. Samsung has 70+ bloatware, so good luck on that.

[@IntrovertedTechie]

Life saver for miui users

[@IntrovertedTechie]

@@oguzhanicelliler9167 yeah that's what I'm doing

[@andreasmaximus6116]

The grep command didn't work (not recognized). Any suggestions?

[@26CT1520]

Awesome stuff! Thank you Chris.

[@ElaineGarcia-uo8qj]

I want to use ADB to uninstall Facebook on my Samsung smartphone. I don't know if it is tricky or not. I appreciate you giving me a cheat sheet, which I will copy and print. I just wish there was more information on how to do this on print. I need to be able to follow written instructions while I am "debugging" this phone. Anything that will actually help is appreciated.

[@voiceofreason314]

Needed this! Thank you!

[@travel3437]

This was great. But do u have any idea of how to remove from honor/huwaei phones with kirin procrssors?

[@epicoddgamer2900]

It works perfectly with does I just did it on my huawei p30 like 10 minutes ago

[@ariloguecom]

is it possible to uninstall gapps and disable google services with this method? sametime is it possible to disable telemetry ?

[@hasiburrahmanjitu2734]

Please do an updated video on "How to Remove Viruses From Your Computer (2020 version)" Previous method still works well though....

[@danielcrecordme3097]

Will this work on Amazon Fire?

[@SHREDTILLDEAD]

I have a moto x2 that I like alot is there anyway to use adb tools to flash a newer build onto it?

[@gamegamesoumic]

Hello there @Chris ! I followed your tutorial to uninstall Facebook from my Samsung A6+ using my Debian 10 Testing. At first I failed, but then I saw your comment. So I tried `adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.facebook.REST_OF_THE_NAME` from your comment and viola! Worked like a charm! :D

[@fred-youtube]

Why did you censor the rest of the FB package name?

[@gamegamesoumic]

@@fred-youtube I don't remember why I did that, lol. adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.facebook.katana

[@finnk1289]

I've been told that sometimes removing apps can /*increase/* battery drain, because the system keeps trying to run the app when it's not there. Does this method prevent such things from happening? And what's the reliability and effect of disabling an app for reference?

[@LegendaryITA]

Tf 💀

[@kevinwong_2016]

​@@LegendaryITA fr💀

[@drucrue]

Chris will you do a video on flashing an android tablet? My daughter wiped everything off hers when she tried doing a factory reset. She thought she knew what she was doing but didn't. Shes 12 and her friends told her to select option to wi0e out everything instead of factory reset. Took it to a local repair shop and they charge more than I paid for the tablet to reinstall a operating system back on it.

[@usbmusiccollection]

i like your this videos , but one problem that I need to know, if you can delete or unistall system application, can you convert the update applications in internal memory to a system without root application with the adb command ?

[@angelchiriboga3904]

i need to get chocolatey first. correct? which version for windows 10 proffesional?

[@y2ksw1]

I like this already before watching it 😊

[@premier69]

since i already have it I'll continue with titanium backup, but this would have been nice to know years back

[@dalebednell]

Hi Chris, is there any way of ridding myself of google play services, google go, google assistant go,?

[@fikirsamuel1607]

Can I use ADB to flashboot my Phone to another android version?? If so please make a video about it

[@ironwolf3699]

Man this is fun. I was testing this on my old samsung 7 edge

[@joejoedot]

Great bro, its amazing all that stuff, i knew on the bottom of my heart that, there was commands like theese to do thinks like this i guess that there is a lot of much more adb commands to different purposes

[@spider_corsa]

Any backup ideas before somebody try it? What if I deleted something which is need to operation the phone?

[@Dayzjuniestarz821]

love your videos. let us know when you have one for windows 10 (Speed Up any Android Phone or Tablet)

[@gauravmitra2187]

If you are de-bloating and it shows some error as in Failed and it does not show success after typing the command adb uninstall then only you can use this command : adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 then the package name

[@tony001212]

the comand using " grep " does not work for me, it says : grep: The term 'grep' is not recognized as a cmdlet name ...what am I doing wrong ?

[@chiragwad]

same

[@mohammedraihan5205]

Hello sir..can you please tell me how did yo get your android screen on Desktop? please.. would be a great help.. Thanks

[@epicoddgamer2900]

4:02 he says what software he's using and if you still don't understand let me know

[@donttempt]

Very important question. If this is in boot loader mode won't it erase data or factory restore the device?

[@adamjensen7870]

Very cool! I'm going to have to do this!

[@wofogg2822]

you can use this install command for Google play Services on Huawei Phone ? if its work with this adb shell, is realy simple to do this wow

[@theopinion9452]

"Right,quick parole" Austin Powers

[@G0NMY]

Can adb search for the google covid19 service and remove it??? Great tutorial but I couldnt find how to search and remove services. any hints? I did get rid of a shed load of Samsung rubbish on my old galaxy s4 The next thing to do is to find out what all the Huawei apps I can remove on my P9

[@MrGrape-fd4mz]

Both operating systems, whether it be Android or iOS have pros and cons. Android has freedom and customizability and iOS has the long term reliability where it will keep getting updates.

[@TheMcMonster]

Can uninstalling any packages affect the ability to do a hard reset? I'm contemplating buying a Samsung phone and I would like to first uninstall all the Samsung bloatware. Will I still be able to hard reset and start from scratch if something breaks? Asking just in case.

[@cjchico]

What ROM are you running?

[@MK-ni6gs]

Top vid! Thank you Chris

[@tomschallschauer]

is it save to removoe all the huawei service stuff? Anything i should not touch if iam a noob?

[@unclealig]

nice vid. interessting. but didn't get why it was recommended to keep the verizon apps, when it was not the carrier he/chris uses?!

[@davidanderson2436]

What Linux are you using there?

[@rfdiego777]

thanks a lot, I also have a samsung and those things are full of bloatware, now it's a lot snappier!

[@JadenHybrid]

Please put this Fire Tablet video soon you mentionned.

[@michadybczak4862]

Awesome! I thought that we can remove those uninstallable apps only in rooted phone. It begs the question, if we uninstall something that we shouldn't, can we install it again? If so, make a video! Thanks.

[@vintageguitarz1]

Can you safely remove Google apps like their Movies, Game ,etc?

[@hyrulean_gamer5323]

yes, but if you gonna remove google play store, you better have an alternative on it, F-droid etc...

[@hyrulean_gamer5323]

and don't uninstall Google Play services. just disable it if you want to

[@athurV1]

Hi Chris , really like your channel, helpful info for debloat , really simple explain , could u pls do an apple iPhone ios debloat version if possible ? And all the best for 2021.

[@mihir.mishra]

Can we uninstall all the Google apps by this adb method??

[@betterteen]

can you make a video for android 4.4.2 or it would be hard for you to get an android kitkat. I see it doesn't work on kitkat. tried it myself

[@rotor676]

Sorry Im at a loss. Your Cheat Sheet where do I find "adb" to download and install on windows ??? Do I first install a program Chocolatey? Can u Supply Link?

[@MichaelMaxwell747]

Yes, you need to get chocolatey, chocolatey.org/install it is command line stuff. Run from powershell as administrator. Then you can use choco to install adb.

[@3dSensei952]

'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

[@3dSensei952]

I figured it out

[@3dSensei952]

You just to insert quotes before pm like, adb shell "pm list packages | grep facebook"

[@J.0.E]

Thank you ☺️

[@GarvitJain_1]

Thank you man.😎🤘🤘

[@BR7Fan71]

being i used W10 de-bloat script,is installing choc necessary,or is it a different version?

[@systemmax2000]

Does this actually remove or just disable and hide these apps? For instance, I have a NFL app as well as others that came on my phone that I need to actually need to remove for the space.

[@vishnunandan8940]

Is root access needed for removing apps?

[@Jimmy_Jones]

I'm guessing you struggled with the Fire tablet as well then. Amazon love to embed deeply.

[@JMIK1991]

Not to mention chinese connection

[@meticulouselectronics]

I was very unhappy with my fire tablet. After I uninstalled all the Amazon stuff, I liked it alot more.

[@madborne3372]

Can you make a tutorial on how to setup Rclone on android properly. There are non on youtube for android. Great vid :3

[@John-lx8iu]

8:58 I seriously lol'd thinking about removing the launcher - yeah, it's pretty integral to their system so I would imagine the chaos that would ensue...

[@JohnGuillorykf5qeo]

I'd love to use adb on my lg stylo 6, unfortunately, it shows nothing when I type adb devices. I tried installing the device driver, and there is no option for selecting charge mode / file transfer / etc.