ADB Package Blocker

Disable unwanted apps on your Android phone in 30 secs using .bat file executing ADB commands.

How to use

Install ADB

1. Enable USB debugging in phone settings:

   • Launch the Settings application on your phone.
   • Tap the About Phone option generally near the bottom of the list (this is hidden behind the “System” option in Google’s latest Android Oreo version).
   • Then tap the Build Number option 7 times to enable Developer Mode. You will see a toast message when it is done.
   • Now go back to the main Settings screen and you should see a new Developer Options menu you can access.
   • Go in there and enable the USB Debugging mode option.

2. Download ADB for Windows.

3. Download your phone drivers if not automatically installed.

4. Connect phone to computer via USB.

5. Grant access on your phone when prompted.

Script

1. Go to ADB location from cmd:

   cd C:\[path]\ADB Tools
   

2. Run:

   adb shell pm list packages > dump-packages_all.txt
   

3. In search.py change what are you looking for, eg Bixby or Samsung, so it looks like this:

   reg = re.compile(r'bixby')
   

4. Run the script.
5. Copy over the packages' names from search-output.txt to disable.bat replacing package: in every line with adb shell pm disable-user so the file looks like this:

   cd C:\...\ADB Tools
   adb shell pm disable-user com.samsung.android.bixby.es.globalaction
   adb shell pm disable-user ...
   ...
   pause
   

6. Profit. Packages disabled!

Usage

Actual adb commands so you can check installed apps and disable them (including those "unremovable" built-in ones):

• To show all packages: adb shell pm list packages
• To show all disabled packages: adb shell pm list packages -d
• To show all enabled packages: adb shell pm list packages -e
• To disable a package: adb shell pm disable-user <PACKAGE_NAME>
• To enable disabled package: adb shell pm enable <PACKAGE_NAME>
• To dump all packages' names to a file: adb shell pm list packages > "c:\users\USER\dump-packages_all.txt"

App showing installed packages' names might be useful, eg Package List.

Versioning

Using SemVer.

License

MIT License, see LICENSE.md.