Smartphones have become a fundamental business tool for many people. It shortens times, it increasingly facilitates communication and the exchange of multimedia files.
It is the ally when it comes to maintaining contact with friends or family who are far away, but sometimes problems may arise on your device. Not all have sufficient internal storage. Which is why they should free up your phone storage space.
Surely you have reached the point that you cannot open applications or download them, download images, videos. As a result, the device system throws an error, closes a certain application automatically or tells you that there is not enough space, even when you have already deleted everything.
System applications
Most of the time, system applications produce such awkward situations. These are the pre-installed programs on the mobile device, you can only discard the updates but you cannot uninstall the application, or it was believed.
These system applications are generally not essential and are not widely used either.
Before going fully into this variant to try to optimize the operation or memory of your mobile device, you should take into consideration that there are programs or applications that are there because, precisely, they are part of the system that keeps the computer software alive.
So it is recommended that you try to know which system applications are truly indispensable.
Uninstalling system apps without root
This procedure to uninstall an application from the system is somewhat complex. In cases of not being able to obtain superuser or root permissions on the mobile device, you should go to this alternative.
For this, it is important that you have a computer, the USB cable belonging to the mobile device and its drivers saved on the computer.
- The first thing you should do is connect the mobile device to your computer through a USB cable. Activate the recovery mode of your computer.
- Open the command window on your computer (For Windows systems: Windows key + R).
- Enter the ADB devices command in the window and press enter. If your device’s drivers are correctly installed, a number should appear that identifies your Android device.
- Go back to the command window and run the adb shell command.
- Once the window opens, enter commands to uninstall system applications.
- To uninstall specific system applications, enter the following command: pm uninstall -k – -user 0 packagename. This “packagename” can be: calculator, weather, wallpaper, photos, among others.
Uninstalling system apps with root
Another simpler way is to uninstall the system applications with root, making use of the best applications to take care of your phone with root. Once the superuser or root permission is obtained, it is a matter of looking for applications that allow you to achieve this goal.
This permission can be obtained when installing a root application. When you open it, a window should appear on your device requesting this permission.
If the superuser or root permission does not appear with that, then you must go to one of the many programs available on the web to obtain this permission and proceed to the installation of the application that will help you remove the applications from the system.
The ideal application
Titanium Backup is one of the most popular applications for this type of work. With a simple and intuitive interface, you can get rid of system applications.
- The moment you open the application, it will automatically search for system applications.
- Go to the Copy/Restore tab in which a list with the name of the applications will be displayed.
- If you get applications with a blank name, it is because they belong to the user, if there are applications whose name is in red or green, they are system applications.
- Select the system application you want to convert to a user application, swipe left.
- When you have swiped, you will get a list of options, among which you will see: Convert to user application.
- The application that you have converted to a user will appear in the list with a blank name, which means that the process has been carried out successfully.
- You can now uninstall it from your mobile device.