Info

• ADB Shell script to uninstall all bloated apps that comes with some Android TV's, that cannot be uninstalled using the TV UI with the remote

Download the ADB

• Make sure you have ADB in to your machine first: See here

How to run

• Clone this repo
• First you need to connect to your Android TV using the command below

adb connect <your tv local ip here>:5555

• Then, you need to list out all your Android TV installed apps via the command below

adb shell cmd package list packages "|cut -f 2 -d": >> path/to/your/desktop/packages.txt

• Copy all the app names that you want to uninstall, line by line into a bloat.txt file in the SAME directory with uninstall-bloat.sh script
• Or if you already have the list of what apps you want to uninstall, add them in the bloat.txt line by line and do the steps below
• Make sure you have enabled USB debugging located in your Developer settings on your Android TV
• Add your TV local IP in the uninstall-bloat.sh on the tv_local_ip variable
• Run this script using the command below

sh uninstall-bloat.sh

• Follow the script instructions.
• Enjoy 👌