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Advice on removing Play Store, Play Services, and Gemini from Android (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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I have ADB, UAD, and even Shazuku with Canta. However, I tried removing Play Store and Play Services, but got my phone stuck in a boot loop. I have not tried to remove Gemini yet, but fear the same will happen. Insular (Island) will not allow me to move the services out of my persoanl profile, and Shelter will not work at all. Does anyone have a hack for this?

I do not want any Google crap on my device period. I have Samsung Galaxy 25 Ultra that I bought 6 months ago before realizing how ridiculous everything is.

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[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago

I was able to disable play services. It has not caused issues I am aware of, but I started deleting and blocking with NextDNS before I connected the phone to my provider, so maybe that helped. If you have a laptop or desktop, abd+uad might work.

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