How do I remove a stock application

Hello,
I’d like to free up space on my S5 and I was wondering if and how it is possible to remove the applications that e ships with. For instance I’d like to remove MagicEarth because I use Comaps.
Thoughts anyone?
Many thanks

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one way (that i use as well) is to remove them for the user with ADB commands:
to find the named:

adb shell pm list packages | grep e.foundation

and then to remove them.

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 <package_name>

it does not remove it 100% but would uninstall hence saving alot of space and clutter, works very well.

other solutions could be to remove them when building up the ROM editing the manifest file, but that’s high techy, OR to remove later with the root, which i don’t prefer either. so just uninstalling gets the job done for me.

edit: some spellings

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Many thanks for your answer, I will try the simpler method.

just realized that magic earth won’t show up under:

adb shell pm list packages | grep e.foundation

because it is not an /e/ foundation app. it is: com.generalmagic.magicearth (in my case, you can go to the app info, scroll the way down and see which package is that, would be same most likely)

so to uninstall it in adb:

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.generalmagic.magicearth

It seems to have worked, thank you very much for your help! :+1:

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If you wanna install it again, then how does one proceed?

You can install it from Aurora.

as it is only uninstalled and still exist as an apk in the system.
it can also be installed via adb:

adb shell cmd package install-existing com.generalmagic.magicearth

or via the apk / aurora / etc

It is more about the behaviour to have it recovered properly for when a system update (OTA) happens not to have a screwed situation but well that goes with messing on the system with adb.

When other users read here, they will just redo the steps but not know that it means in the future :wink:.

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