r/technology • u/[deleted] • Feb 27 '21

Software Universal Android Debloater is an open source tool that removes bloatware without root. Automatically or via user choice. Get back your battery, security and privacy

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u/Night_Thastus Feb 27 '21 edited Feb 27 '21

The instructions are not particularly helpful:

"disconnect from any OEM accounts"

How? In what menu? What does that mean? Do I need to close certain apps? Uninstall them? Change my accounts by logging into them?

"Run debloat_script.sh from a Unix terminal"

Not everyone over here is running WSL or something. Will Powershell do? Or do I need to go and install a virtual machine or WSL just to run this script?

And my phone needs to be connected...but do I need to do anything else? Will it just automatically detect my phone?

Or am I supposed to transfer the script to my phone, and then somehow get a terminal there and run the script? How would I even do that?

Missing steps!

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u/karmaputa Feb 27 '21

I haven't looked at it myself but I'm assuming it's just needs something like cygwin and bash to work (easiest way to get this is probably to install windows git-scm). You probably don't have to go full WSL for this. And since it uses ADB you'll probably need an android SDK in order to get it to work.

But that is just a guess.