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This type of control is still possible on android devices?!

I had given up on buying new devices because of how restrictive and abusive phone manufacturers have become towards their customers. If adb can really do what you say it can, maybe I can finally upgrade my phone after all these years. Can you recommend an online article that goes over using `adb` like this? (especially for disabling locked apps)

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See e.g. https://github.com/jaredsburrows/android-bloatware/blob/mast... the "non-root" section. Some tutorials suggest slightly different commands, viz. `pm hide` rather than `pm disable`, and that in order to 'uninstall' apps without root the command `pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.bloatware.app` should be used. Either way, do backup your data before doing any of this stuff (if stuff gets screwed up, you might need to perform a factory reset from recovery mode in order to revert to a sensible state), and do not expect this to always work; it might not, depending on the specific "rom" you're running.

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