On Sun, Apr 19, 2026 at 05:22:36AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I got a smartphone last fall, and I am sad to report that Android is
> adware. Apparently Satya Nadela has taken over "Google-slop", and I get
> the occasional "Log in to Use Gemeni" popup, that I can't dismiss
> without going back to the home screen, terminating the app I'm currently
> in. This is even with Gemini "disabled" in "Apps". My plan is to...
>
> - download+install "apk-analyzer" to my phone to get packages listing
> - "apt install adb" on my desktop
> - remove some packages from the phone
> - what's the exact syntax?


I recently got my first android tablet ( a Samsung A9+ 5B ). I selected
that model because my primary application was navigation using navit
https://navit.readthedocs.io/. The Samsung tablet was reported to have
one of the best gps chipsets. And it was the previous generation, so
affordable.

There was not too much adware, and I could remove most of the garbage
simply from the setting screen. But I already knew a little about adb
because I had an ancient Simple nook ereader which I had rooted to make
it useful. So I found it fairly easy to interact with the Samsung tablet
via adb once you have enabled developer mode.

Doesn't 
$ adb --help | less    tell you what you need?

Perhaps uninstall [-k] PACKAGE is what you need, although I would
recommend exploring your system first with adb shell command. I thin
that you can remove packages from that shell as well.

Overall android is an absolute pain :-( It blocks you from doing almost
anything useful ....

But I am a novice...

ael