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Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone?

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micky wrote:
>>   Is there a way to remove Gemini from my Android phone (safely)?  This 
> 
> YOu should ask Gemini!

 Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
 Subject: Uninstalling any app, including any system app, with ADB. sans root
 Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 12:13:59 -0300
 Message-ID: <11a0erm$fv0$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>

Note that I've run this command for, oh, I don't know, hundreds of apps,
including scores of system packages, and it rarely fails, but it can fail.

For an unrooted user, pm uninstall --user 0 doesn't always guarantee that
every system app can be removed for user 0 as apps may refuse based on... 

 1. It is marked as a protected system app. 
    Android/OEM software can designate packages as non-uninstallable.

 2. It is a critical system component. 
    Some packages are protected because removing them could break
    core Android functionality.

 3. The package is required by another system component. 
    An OEM may impose restrictions on removing dependencies.

 4. Device-owner / enterprise management restrictions. 
    A managed device can prevent package removal.

 5. The OEM has special restrictions. 
    Samsung, Google, etc. can add their own package-management protections.
 
  6. The app may be part of an APEX module or another specially managed 
     component which don't behave like ordinary APK-based system apps.

However, many ordinary preinstalled system APKs can be uninstalled for the
user even though their APK remains in the read-only system partition.

Ask me how I know this.
I've debloated my USA-spec (hence unrootable) Galaxy so much that it works
perfectly, in so much as it's even incapable of showing advertisements.

Fancy that.

I install an app that *says* it has ads. 
But the ads have no way of showing. 

Every once in a while, maybe one out of a score of deletions, something
"bad" happens, so the good news is you can restore these deleted apps.

The only time I couldn't easily restore was when I used Shizuku to wipe out
Samsung TTS/SST engines, which could only be restored with a factory wipe 
(since I don't have a Samsung account so I couldn't get it from the store).

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Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Mike Copeland <mrc2323@cox.net> - 2026-10-04 21:07 -0700
  Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2026-10-04 23:50 -0500
    Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-05 04:48 -0300
      Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2026-10-05 03:32 -0500
        Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-05 12:02 -0300
          Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2026-10-05 22:10 -0500
            Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-06 14:30 -0300
      Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2026-10-05 13:45 +0200
        Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-05 12:01 -0300
          Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2026-10-06 10:59 +0200
            Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-06 14:38 -0300
              Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2026-10-08 17:57 +0200
                Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-08 15:48 -0700
      Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-06 12:18 +0200
        Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2026-10-06 12:47 +0200
          Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-06 15:31 -0300
            Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-06 20:53 +0200
              Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-06 16:28 -0300
                Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-06 21:51 +0200
                Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-07 02:41 -0300
  Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-10-05 09:49 +0300
    Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-10-05 14:53 +0200
      Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-05 12:23 -0300
        Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Old McDonald <eieio@patch.corn> - 2026-10-06 00:12 -0700
          Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-06 15:38 -0300
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        Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2026-10-06 11:00 +0200
          Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-06 15:43 -0300
            Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-06 15:49 -0300
            Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2026-10-08 18:03 +0200
              Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Philippe <p.naudin+nntp@free.fr> - 2026-10-08 20:34 +0200
              Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-08 15:41 -0700
      Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-06 23:02 +0100
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  Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2026-10-05 13:45 +0200
    Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-05 12:05 -0300
      Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2026-10-06 11:01 +0200
        Re: Eliminate Gemini from Android Phone? Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-06 15:45 -0300

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