universal-android-debloater/CHANGELOG.md

New Version (v2.9.1)

New packages added

• AOSP : 1
• Asus : 2
• Google : 1
• Carriers : 3 (AT&T)
• OnePlus: 1
• Pending: 24
• Samsung : 9
• Xiaomi : 1

Bugfixes

• Bash version check not working as expected (#60)
• Debloating/restoring not working if the script was run from the recovery
• Package name typo (!3) (thanks @maximilian.overmeyer!)
• "pm: command not found" when disabling packages (Android 7 [Nougat] and below) (#78)

Miscellaneous

• Documentation improvement/update for many apps.
• UI/UX improvement for the recovery version of the script

New Version (v2.9)

Note: The debloat_script.sh is now in maintenance mode and won't receive any more features. The focus is on the developement of a GUI.

Magisk module and root support for Android 10+

Root users can now systemlessly debloat their device. The script will create a flashable Magisk zip you'll need to flash from TWRP or Magisk Manager (recommended). Once installed the module will, on boot, replace the APKs folders with an empty folder (only containing a .replace file).

Systemless debloat is the only solution for Android 10+ users because system can't be mounted in read-write anymore.

New packages added

• Samsung : 5 (thanks @j0taz)

Bugfixes

• Debloated packages (non root) reappear after a reboot (#48)
• Bad apks names when using root features (parsing issue)
• Connection preferences settings won't open (AOSP list, Pixel 4a / Android 11) (#49)
• Impossible to use a non-root feature after having used a root feature

Miscellaneous

• App data is now cleared (pm clear $package) before root debloat

Hotfix (v2.8.4)

• Error when remounting /system as read-only after a restore/debloat action (#46)
• Package search feature now displays APK path along with the package name
• The APK was not backed-up when you use the manual root debloat feature (1 - debloat a package)
• deleted_apks.txt not found
• Mounting error on Android 9+ (only fixed for Android 9)

IMPORTANT NOTE

Root features do currently not work for Android 10+. Android 10 has introduced a new dynamic partitioning system which, in short, prevent to easily mount system filesystem in read-write (use of EXT4 dedup filesystem, which is not writable). Fortunately, the awesome @topjohnwu (developer of Magisk) found a solution. I'll try to update my script to use the Magisk magic.

Hotfix (v2.8.3)

• Fix a bug (bad variable name) which basically broke all the non root debloat/restore features.

Hotfix (v2.8.2)

• Flashable debloat zip not removing anything (oversight on my part after debugging for the first hotfix)

Hotfix (v2.8.1)

• Flashable zip was broken. I reworked all the generation logic. It is much simpler and correctly works now.
• The script will now force a backup of the apks before generating a flashable zip.

New Version (v2.8)

Happy new year! 🌟

Notable changes

• Apps are now removed for all users (not only user 0) (see #29)
• debloated_packages.txt logfile will no longer have duplicates.
• New list added: Mediatek a chipset manufacturer (like Qualcomm) mostly providing chinese phones.
• Documentation improvement/update for many apps.
• General improvement of UI/UX and better error handling.

Root Support

If your device is rooted you can now use this script to physically remove apks. Ironically this method is actually safer because you can restore the apks from TWRP recovery in case of a bootloop.

• Root debloat: use the lists but remove the apks (rm -rf) instead of using the package manager (pm). All apks are automatically backed-up in apks_backup before being deleted.
• APKs restore: you can use the script, even when in TWRP recovery, to restore your apks
• Flashable zip: Generate a flashable zip

New packages added

• AOSP : 0
• Google : 0
• Huawei : 25
• Miscellaneous : 0
• OnePlus: 1
• Samsung : 13
• Xiaomi : 1

Pending --> Official lists

• Tcl : 2
• AOSP : 16
• Google : 16
• Nokia : 1
• Samsung : 25
• Huawei : 7
• Xiaomi : 49
• Mediatek : 13
• Miscellaneous : 0

Bugfixes

• Renamed confusing variable name (OLDER_THAN_ANDROID_7_1) to OLDER_THAN_ANDROID_8.
• Fixed broken bash version check
• Bootloop with Google debloat list on Android 11 (and higher) (#43)

New Version (v2.7)

Didn't you notice the last release never found packages to debloat/restore? Well... this works now. It seems all my changes wasn't pushed on the repo.

Altough this release contains almost exclusively bugfixes, it's is not a hotfix as there's also a new feature.

NB: I currently don't have a lot free time so the next real release will be in quite some time.

Notable changes

• New menu entry (7 - External list) which enables you to use your own debloat list (#30)

Bugfixes

• Nothing to debloat message when there is stuff to debloat.
• Compatibility issue with BSD version of sed MacOS which prevented the script to generate the debloat lists (#32)
• Backup integrity check always failing (#31)
• Script failed when Packages search feature didn't find any package

New Release (v2.6)

🍂 🍂 🍂 🍂 🍂 🍂

Notable changes

• Improved script logic. The script now uses a custom list (CUSTOM_LIST) for processing which only contains packages preinstalled on your phone.
• Added a new menu entry to quickly reboot the phone.

New packages added

• AOSP : 26
• Google : 2
• Miscellaneous : 14
• Samsung : 1
• Pending : 153
• Xiaomi : 16

Pending --> Official lists

• AOSP : 3
• Google : 2
• Samsung : 50
• Sony : 2
• Huawei : 5
• Xiaomi : 13
• Miscellaneous : 12

Bugfixes

• No sound/mic during phonecalls on some Motorola phones (#25)

Miscellaneous

• Packages list installed on your phone (remaining_packages.txt) is now generated as soon as you arrive on the main menu. This list is updated once any action is completed (and brings you back to the main menu)
• Adjusted default selection for several lists.
• Improvement and adjustment of many package's description.
• The [EXIT TRAP] (used for debug) will no longer be triggered when you ctrl^C.

New Release (v2.5.1)

• Fixed an inconsequential typing error
• A more useful error message is now displayed when the phone is not detected by ADB (#18)

New Release (v2.5)

Big thanks to @plan10, @thekgg and @zxh30b for their nice contributions! 🚀

Notable changes

• Big revamp and improvement of the LG list (@zxh30b)
• Big revamp and improvement of the Motorola list (@plan10)
• Revamp of the Samsung list with a proper distinction between default selection and advanced debloat.
• Commented out a motorola package causing a bootloop on a Moto G7 Power
• Qualcomm has now its own list (in Miscellaneous.sh) that you can choose inside the 5 - Others submenu.

New packages added

• Carriers : 2 (AT&T)
• LG : 24
• Miscellaneous : 7
• Morotola : 10
• Samsung : 9
• Pending : 18

Pending --> Official lists

• Samsung : 1
• Sony : 2
• Huawei : 6

Hotfix (v2.4.2)

• Fixed a potential bootloop on samsung phone (#20)
• Improved com.samsung.klmsagent description according to #19

Hotfix (v2.4.1)

• Fixed a mistake causing bootloop on some samsung devices (#16)

New Release (v2.4)

Big thanks to @yawnoc, @gsurrel, @vasudev_gmk & @gafarma89 ! 👍

New packages added

• AOSP : 1
• Google : 2
• Samsung : 23
• Pending : 102

Pending --> Official lists

• Samsung : 12

Miscellaneous

• Nokia list revamp (including documentation improvement and default selections change)
• Documentation improvement of several packages
• Support for Xiaomi devices with ro.product.brand=redmi instead of xiaomi

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug preventing the use of the 1 - debloat/restore a package menu entry
• Fixed a minor display bug occuring when restoring a package manually

Hotfix (v2.3.2)

• Fixed LG list not being available for LG devices (#7)
• Fixed AOSP list not being detected (#7)
• AOSP list revamp (including documentation improvement and default selections change)

Hotfix (v2.3.1)

• Changed the shebang to #!/usr/bin/env bash for better portability. MacOS users needs to use a newer bash version. (see #5)

New Release (v2.3)

Code improvement

• Refactored much of the script for a cleaner code base.
• Improved maintainability & readability
• Added an error trap

New manufacturers supported

• Oppo: 15 new packages (+ 25 from the pending list)

New packages added

• AOSP : 7
• Miscellaneous : 4
• Google : 3
• Sony : 1

Pending --> Official lists

• Samsung : 16
• Sony : 5
• Oppo : 26

Bugfixes

• Force uninstall impossible in legacy mode.
• Some old Kobo devices returned \t causing an issue when comparing SDK API version.
• Legacy debloat was broken
• Minor text bug

Miscellaneous

• Default debloat packages selection adjusted (less breakage for "normal people")
• Remaining packages list (remaining_packages.txt) now processed in background
• Improved some packages description

Hotfix (v2.2.1)

• 2 small nasty bugs fixed.
• remaining_packages.txt now only logs system packages.

New Release (v2.2)

Bugfixes

• Android version checking (fixed #2).
• Fixed empty list bug when choosing "manufacturer debloat".
• Pending list selection.
• Misc bugs nobody saw because I'm the only user of this script ! :D

New manufacturers supported

• Zte: 2 new packages. (yeah it's not great)

Pending --> Official lists

• Miscellaneous : 47 new packages (including 3 new Qualcomm packages)
• Carriers : 7 new packages (3 Sprint packages + 4 AT&T Packages)
• Samsung : 1 new package

Miscellaneous

• Code improvements and cleaning.
• Some minor UI/UX improvements.
• Improved documentation for some packages.
• Better error handling. Script should now exit with a useful error output if something went wrong.
• You can now choose separately Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft lists.

New Release (v2.1)

Alternative method for Android 8.0 and older

Older Android versions can't reinstall uninstalled packages. The script now detects this case and proposes disabling the apps and clearing data instead of uninstalling them. Concretely, the script will use : pm disable-user $package && am force-stop $package && pm clear $package. Restore will use pm enable $package.

More packages added

• AOSP : 3 new packages
• Miscellaneous : 2 new packages
• Carriers : 6 new packages (4 AT&T packages + 2 Sprint packages)
• Pending : 26 new packages (Oppo packages)

Miscellaneous

• Fixed a (dumb) bug that forced uninstall choice even if the user choosed restore.
• Fixed a (dumb again) bug that prevented the backup integrity check function to find the backup.
• Improved the debloat/restore function to avoid checking redondant if statements.
• Added a step for people who can't uninstall the Google Play services.
• Minor spelling corrections.

New Release (v2.0)

I worked hard for this release ! This is a big one ! Enjoy ! 🚀

Major overhaul of the script

• Improved UI/UX.
• Performance improvement (you will not feel it but still local variables are used and packages arrays are passed by reference to avoid useless copy).
• Miscellaneous code improvement.

New features

• You can now select (restore/debloat) several lists at once
• Debloated packages are now listed in a file called debloated_packages.txt.
• A list of all your packages (after debloat) is automatically exported in a file called remaining_packages.txt.

New manufacturers supported

• OnePlus: 32 new packages.
• Motorola : 60 new packages.

New mobiles carriers supported

• [FR] Orange/Sosh : 13 new packages.
• [FR] Bouygues : 3 new packages** (not much bloat it seems).
• [FR] SFR : 5 new packages (not much bloat neither).
• [DE] Telekom: 1 new package (idem).
• [US] Sprint : 25 new packages.
• [US] AT&T : 15 new packages.

Always more packages !

• AOSP : 8 new packages.
• Google : 5 new packages.
• Miscellaneous : 30 new packages including 13 new Qualcomm packages.
• Carriers : 14 new Verizon packages.
• Sony : 2 new packages (commented-out by default).

Pending list

New list added in the main menu (-1 - Pending list). Packages are located in lists/0 - Pending.sh file.

List packages are undocumented. This mean I did no proper search yet so it's not impossible that some packages are unsafe to delete. Currentlty this means that I either found them in debloat lists lying around on XDA forums or that I preselected them from a full packages list of a phone I had on hand.

In the future, when some nice users will help me, packages will get off the pending list faster ! ;)

Miscellaneous

• Commented out all the packages I put outside of the arrays (because you should never delete them) to remove (harmless) bash errors at the script startup.
• Documentation and official support for the 26 new Samsung packages added in v1.8.
• Improved the documentation for some packages.
• Added some worth reading stuff about US mobile carriers scandals.
• Fixed 2 bad package name.
• Fixed some spelling mistakes.
• Moved com.trustonic.tuiservice from Samsung list to Miscellaneous file.
• Moved org.codeaurora.gps.gpslogsave from Xiaomi list to Miscellaneous list.
• Deleted some leftover duplicates.
• Android 4.4 (API level 19) is now supported. --user 0 is removed when API is < 21 because it causes error (unknown option)
• Commented out some packages after testing.

New Release (v1.9)

Added :

• Full documentation for Nokia and Sony packages.
• A lot of country specific Nokia packages.

Misc

• Added 1 new package to Sony list.
• Moved com.android.simappdialog from Nokia list to AOSP list
• Moved com.quicinc.cne.CNEService from Nokia list to Miscellaneous list (it's a Qualcomm package)

New Release (v1.8)

Added :

• Full documentation for Asus & LG packages.
• 26 new samsung packages at the end of the Samsung file. They are not deleted by default because I haven't documented them yet but it should be safe to debloat.

Misc

• Removed a duplicate Samsung package.
• Minor improvements on documention for some packages (including evidences that Samsung Device Care sends data to China)
• Moved com.caf.fmradio from Samsung file and Asus file (they were duplicates) to Miscellaneous file
• Moved 5 packages from Asus file to Miscellaneous file.
• Minor spelling corrections.

New Release (v1.7)

New :

• Full documentation for :
  • Xiaomi packages
  • Huawei packages

Misc

• Fixed 2 package name (com.miui.analytics & com.huawei.hwid) that was miswritten.
• Removed a lot of Xiaomi duplicates (I think I forgot checking for duplicate after adding a list of new packages...).
• Regrouped some Xiaomi packages together because you may not want to delete it (but you should if you ask me).
• Moved com.eterno (Daily hunts News) from Xiaomi list to Miscellaneous list.
• Moved com.opera.preinstall (Opera Max Data Saving) from Xiaomi list to Miscellaneous list.
• Moved com.phonepe.app (PhonePe) from Xiaomi list to Miscellaneous list.
• Removed com.samsung.aasaservice from Xiaomi list (dafuk ? O_O).
• Reordered the Xiaomi list (alpabetic order + advanced debloat).
• Removed an extra space at the end of all package name strings in Huawei file causing the script to not find any Huawei packages (whoops :/)

New Release (v1.6)

New :

• Complete documentation for :

  • Carriers packages
  • Miscellaneous packages
  • Google packages

• Added somes new packages

Misc

• Fix 3 wrong packages names
• Moved Verizon Motorola-exclusive bloat from Motorola file to Carriers file
• Some cleaning (some packages were still not in the right file)
• Updated pre-selection for Miscellenaous packages

Happy new year (v1.5)

New :

• A bunch of new packages for Samsung devices added
• Verizon carrier bloatwares added
• Full documentation for listed packages (It takes a lot of time !) :
  • Google
  • Samsung
  • AOSP
• Merge carrier bloat into a single category (7 - Carrier) in the main menu. US carriers and EU carriers are traited separatly.
• When searching for packages, grep is now used with -i argument to be case insensitive.
• Generic android packages regrouped in the appropriate list (they were spread out among the others lists). List renamed in AOSP.
• Better categorization of packages. Somes were not in the good file.
• Each manufacturer has now its own file. This idea is to document all the packages so you can choose what you want to debloat. There will still be a preselection.

Misc

• Fixed some glitches with bold and colors
• UI/UX improved
• Full english translation (Finally !)
• Code improvement and cleaning

This is an important one (v1.4)

Added :

• Even more packages to debloat for Xiaomi, Nokia & Sony devices

Changed:

• Package com.google.android.packageinstaller removed because it causes bootloop on Xiaomi Note 5. I don't know why I added this one on the list. It's a essential core package.

Reminder is important (v1.2.1)

Added :

• Reminder for the user
  • To read the FAQ before using the script
  • To reboot the phone after debloat
  • The backup is not what you could think (refer to the FAQ)

More supported devices (v1.2)

Added :

• Asus debloat list
• LG debloat list
• Nokia debloat list

What a naughty bug (v1.1)

Added :

• Sony debloat list

Changed :

• Some changes in other debloat lists

Bugfixes :

• Package display when debloating

Here we go (v1.0)

New features :

• Restore a backup
• Brand auto-detect
  • new option "Auto debloat" added which use the debloat list adapted to your phone.

Changed :

• UI/UX adjustments
• Some improvement in the code

Beta Version (v0.9)

New features :

• Backup before debloating
  • Backup all .apk apps (system ones included)
  • Only those stored in internal memory
  • Backup is stored in current directory under "phone-DDMMYY-HHMMSS.adb"
  • Adding

Changed :

• Minor UI changes

Beta Version (v0.8)

New features :

• New debloat list :
  • Miscellaneous

Changed :

• Most of android bloat (independant from brand device) is now moved into its own list (Android bloat) in order to avoid duplicate in the others lists
• UI/UX improvement :
  • Colors added
  • New banner
• Moved the debloat lists into a another file (debloat_lists.sh)
• Removing 2 packages from the "Android debloat list" causing issue when importing contacts from a file
• Minor performances improvement

Beta Version (v0.7)

New features :

• New drand's specific debloat list :
  • Huawei
• New debloat list :
  • T-Mobile related
  • Microsoft related
  • Google related
  • "Android in general" related

Changed :

• **Most of android bloat (independant from brand device) is now moved into its own list (Android bloat) in order to avoid duplicate in the others lists
• UI/UX improvement :
  • Adding Colors
  • New banner

Beta Version (v0.6)

New features added :

• New Brand's specific debloat list :
  • Xiaomi (not complete)
• New debloat list :
  • Facebook related

Changed :

• **Improving Samsung debloat list
• UI/UX improvements

Initial Beta Version (v0.5)

Features :

• Debloat list for Samsung (Galaxy S)
• Quick search among all the packages of the phone
• Debloat specific package
• Restore specific package