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Debloating Android without root — and proving it worked
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Debloating Android without root — and proving it worked

DEV Community: mobile·Ksatria Bintang Samudra·2 days ago
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Phones ship full of software nobody asked for, and the usual "fixes" are worse than the problem: rooting voids warranties and breaks banking apps, and one-tap "boosters" mostly just show you an animation. I wanted a third option — remove bloat without root , keep every change reversible , and then prove the phone actually got faster. That's adb-kit.

No root, fully reversible

adb-kit drives wireless ADB . It disables or uninstalls packages per-user , which needs no root and touches nothing in the system partition. Because the operations are per-user, every change is reversible — you can bring any package back. Nothing is permanent, so there's no "I bricked my phone" failure mode.

Measure, don't vibe

The part I care about most: adb-kit profiles the result with gfxinfo so the effect is a number, not a feeling.…

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