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adb is the Android CLI tool with which you can interact with your android device, from your PC
You must enable developer mode (tap 7 times on the build version in parameters) and install adb on your PC.
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To get the list of your installed applications:
adb shell pm list packages -f -3
If you want to fetch all apk of your installed apps:
for APP in $(adb shell pm list packages -3 -f)
do
adb pull $( echo ${APP} | sed "s/^package://" | sed "s/base.apk=/base.apk /").apk
done
To fetch only one application, based of listed packages results:
adb pull /data/app/org.fedorahosted.freeotp-Rbf2NWw6F-SqSKD7fZ_voQ==/base.apk freeotp.apk
To backup one application, with its apk:
adb backup -apk org.fedorahosted.freeotp -f freeotp.adb
To backup all datas at once:
adb backup -f all -all -apk -nosystem
To backup all datas in separated files:
for APP in $(adb shell pm list packages -3)
do
APP=$( echo ${APP} | sed "s/^package://")
adb backup -f ${APP}.backup ${APP}
done
First, you have to install the saved apk with adb:
adb install application.apk
Then restore the datas:
adb restore application.backup
You will need the zlib-flate binary. You will able to use it by installing the qpdf package.
apt install qpdf
Then, to extract your application backup:
dd if=freeotp.adb bs=24 skip=1 | zlib-flate -uncompress | tar xf -
If you have problems using adb backup (empty files, no prompts, other oddness), you can give a try to bu backup through adb shell. Thanks to @nuttingd comment.
adb shell 'bu backup -apk -all -nosystem' > backup.adbadb shell 'bu restore' < backup.adbSometimes, you have already installed (but non wanted) apps when you buy an Android Smartphone. And you can't uninstall these apps. So Bad. And some pre-installed app are not present on PlayStore. WTF.
You can remove them with this command, and root is not needed:
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 non.wanted.app
You can first disable them, then when you are sure, you can remove them.
To list disabled apps:
adb shell pm list packages -d
Example:
# Google Chrome
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.chrome
# Gmail
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.gm
# Google Play Films et Séries
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.videos
# Youtube
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.youtube
# Google Play Music
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.music
# Google Hangouts
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.talk
# Google Keep
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.keep
# Google Drive
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.apps.docs
# Google Photos
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.apps.photos
# Google Cloud Print
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.apps.cloudprint
# Google Actualités et météos
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.apps.genie.geniewidget
# Application Google
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4032960/how-do-i-get-an-apk-file-from-an-android-device https://androidquest.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/backup-applications-on-android-phone-with-adb/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34482042/adb-backup-does-not-work https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53634246/android-get-all-installed-packages-using-adb https://www.dadall.info/article657/nettoyer-android https://etienne.depar.is/a-ecrit/Desinstaller-des-applications-systemes-d-android/index.html
@artasoftware we don't know which app you tried to install, but usually they (game?) come in multiple APK files, did you download/extract them all?